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Show TIIE BULLETIN IKkviev Weekly International Rail Reorganisation Predicted Folloicing Denial of Wage Cut Ily lKe)li WLa IEin- - At best, Germany, Italy and Japan are unnatural bedfellows with nothing in common except totalitarianism and a grudge against the world. Flushed by her imperialistic victory at Munich, there is every reason to think Germany might abandon Italian and Japanese alliances if they stood in the way of her march to world power. Already Gen. Franz Ritter von Epp has pointed out that Germany demands return of every pre-wcolony without exception. First step in this direction has been taken by Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in presenting African colonial demands to Great Britain and France. What Hitler wants and probably will get is return of Togo-lanCameroons, Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, held under League of Nations mandate by Britain and France since the Versailles treaty. If they pay this price for peace, Britain and France will also agree to German arms equality. British-Frenc- h gain through such a transaction would be German friendship and an understanding that Italy had better confine her imperialism to the Mediterranean area on pain of combined opposition. Moreover, II Duce would be forced to withdraw from Spain. Next Der Fuehrer may turn his eyes to Japan, which now controls e German islands forfeited after the World war.. Since Hitlers aggressive imperialism makes one conquest merely an appetizer for the next, moreover since Germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large territories and resources, Japan may find her Chinese conquest threatened. Nor do observers overlook the chance of a German-Italia- n breach over Hungarys Czechoslovakian THINGS TO EAT An odorless onion is cultivated by the Chinese. In some parts of Mexico fried redbud flowers are eaten as a delicacy. German-Franco-Briti- COMMITTEEMEN LANDIS, STACY AND MILLIS A cut would bo ineffective, detrimental. (Sea TRASSIHJRTATIOS). one-tim- tion T ransportation In the opinion of three experts, American railroads have no right to cut 15 per cent from pay checks of 930,000 employees because: (1) it would be a stop-ga- p measure at best, only reducing the standard of living at a time when business in general is coming back; (2) the railroads financial problem is still of short term aspect, having been critical less than a year; (3) although railway wages have not fluctuated so badly as wages in other industries, they have not been advancing proportionately so fast as in other industries; (4) a flat 15 per cent wage cut would not be equitable, since smaller roads which are in worse shape would derive less benefit than the larger, more prosperous lines. d This was the gist of a opinion handed down by President Roosevelts emergency commission after three weeks of deliberation. Board members: Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme court; Dean James M. Landis of Harvard law school, once chairman of the securities and exchange commission; Professor Harry A. Millis, University of Chicago economist and former member of the national labor relations board. Though offering a opinion, the commission gave no help to sorely pressed railroads. Only tangible result is that some solution of Americas entire rail problem will probably be speeded. Possibilities: Kl) Wholesale reorganizations, combines and abandonment of lines to avoid duplicated service, a program which the interstate commerce commission must approve, and which would probably decrease railroad labor employment; (2) agreement with labor for a temporary, smaller pay cut; (3) federal financial assistance, which would only pile higher the already high interest charges and would offer only temporary relief. Reorganization is the most likely solution. Already pending before the I. C. C. when the commission reported were proposals for such plans. In the Northwest, stockholders of Chicago & North Western railroad wanted merger with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific line. In the Southwest, an I. C. C. examiner recommended reorganization of the Missouri Pacific and consolidation of all properties now operated as the Missouri Pacific system: In the deep South, the Gulf, Mobile & Northern line wanted merger with the Mobile & Ohio road. 40,000-wor- fact-findi- ed which he denied France would never again capitulate. But Premier Daladier's promise is not borne out in fact. At the Marseille convention of his Radical-Socialis- t party he outlawed communists from pro-Naz- i, Utilities New Deal dams and power plants have offered public utilities serious competition, forcing down their prices and creating an unfriendly breach between electricity executives and the administration. One government power project not yet started is the St. Lawrence waterway, which President Roosevelt praised during September when the war scare first began. At that time, partly because he feared a lack of power reserve, partly because such fc SECRETARY JOHNSON The war department made peace. a shortcoming might be good .advertising fora St.1 Lawrence project, the President appointed ar commis-.sip- n under .Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war. When the commission reported rer contlyit failed to mention St. Lawrence waterway plans. But it made bigger and more puzzling news by drawing executives of 14 large utilities to ' Washington and getting their promise to start expanding.- If this was a peace gesture, 'it was overshadowed by explanations that utility expansion is an important step in the government's defense program and a healthy move toward business recovery. The program: In 15 areas (all east of the Mississippi) utilities will spend an immediate $350,000,000, boosting it to $2,000,000,000 if power consumption increases normally the next two years. Only government function will be Reconstruction Finance corporation aid in refinancworld. ing securities. Though generally regarded as an Foreign optimistic sign of recovery, utility After the peace of Munich, expansion has been minimized in France's Premier Edouard Dala-di- some quarters. The 1,000,000 new went to great lengths justifying kilowatts in generating capacity is his position before the senate and only a 3 per cent boost in U. S. power chamber of deputies. He won confi- potentiality, considerably below the dence by inuring Frenchmen that average increase in good business if Munichs . treaty was a capitula years. er To administer the wages and hours law, which re- TEW YORK. cently went into effect, Elmer F. Andrews left a job which gave him shorter hours . F. Andre wb and more wages. As New York HatTakenon state industrial Full-Tim- e Job commissioner, his salary was $12,000, and he could get by nicely with a seven or eight-hoday. This job pays $10,000, and, considering its volume of detail, its complications, its novelty and its controversial entanglements, shift for Mr. it looks like a Andrews. ne is a professional engineer, born in New York, earnest and diligent, a glutton for detail, living moderately In Flushing with his wife and three children until his removal to Washington. In addition to his five years as state industrial commissioner, having succeeded his former chief, Miss Francos Perkins, in that office, his experience in wage and hour adjustments has been with industrial concerns and chambers of commerce. After his graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, he was pilot in the U. S. army air service in the World war. He built railroads and factories in Cuba and engaged in construction work in New York City, planning civic improvements for the Queens boro Chamber of Commerce, among other large-scal- e In these years enterprises. he engaged in compensation studies for various industrial groups. He was labor adviser for the National Labor board in the coal mining regions of Kentucky, Alabama and Pennsylvania. Never .belligerent, Mr. Andrews has been more of an arbiter than a fighter, although he did take on certain employment agencies for a battle when he was industrial commissioner. He swings no nightstick, and tells the employers this isnt going to hurt them in the least. He is a New Dealer, but goes to Washington with perhaps more political detachment than any similarly placed official down there. Mr. Andrews is 48 years old. ur 24-ho- ur 'T'HE late Newton D. Baker liked to discourse on the importance intellectually liquid," and free from embarrassing alliances and com- . H. Amen mitments. John of "keeping Distinguished Non-Join-er Harlan Amen, runner - up for Thomas E. Dewg ey in the national Defense tournament, is that way, too. AsKnotted inseparably in recent signed to the sensational crime and news have been Japans conquest of graft clean-u- p in Brooklyn, he alChina and world democracies at- lows the reporters to drag out of tempts to strengthen their military-econom- him the admission that he "nevea positions against German-Italo-Ja- p belonged to anything." aggression. Though EngAs an assistant United States land and the U. S. have been rubhe has been netting attorney, bing noses in their trade pact neracketeers steadily since the gotiations, autumn of 1938 will be United States put teeth in the remembered primarily as the period Sherman act in 1934. In view when America first stood up and of J. Edgar Hoovers revelations barked at modern imperialism. as to the overlapping of crime Within 24 hours two barks came and venal politics, Mr. Amen's from Washington. First was Presipolitical detachment is interestdent Roosevelts precedent-shatterin- g ing. It is also interesting in our condemnation of nations employnew realization that federalizaing force (Japan), exile (Germany) tion of our government has been and repression (Italy) as instruin part due to the failure of the ments of national policy. Next day, states really to govern. Mr. on the heels of Japans conquest of Amen, like Mr. Dewey, has Hankow, the state department made made his name in this overlappublic a protest to Tokyo ping zone of state and federal against violation of Chinas "open authority. door policy. He is a grave, aloof aristocrat, This was but percussion in the with an academic background of new American overture of. prepared- Phillips-ExetePrinceton and Harness. Chiming in are plans to vard. He is a of Presistrengthen military and naval forces dent Cleveland, with a residence in so that "the Western hemisphere Park avenue, great intellectual and may work out its own interrelated' social .reserve. salvation." Thus, if Britain and France .deny-i- t, fhe U. S. admits Japan.has be- npHIS writer happened to be in Italy when the "fascist ' regime come the Far East's No.' f power was emerging dnda saw underpriviand bids fair to dominate the Pdcific leged- youth joyously engaged in unless stopped. Although Generalisbeating .up hold-k simo Chiang will continue Jas. Marshall outs and lagfoe in the his hope battling Japan gards and slash-- . will eventually commit military and Alarmed Over ing up the lieconomic' suicide, there' id little likeJobless Youth brary of an old lihood that Chinas door Will be reopened to Western nations unless professor who had indiscreetly affirmed his faith in democracy. Japan wants it. James Marshall, president of the New York board of education, is alarmed about our jobless youth, aged from 18 to 24. He says it was this condition which made fascism in other countries and we had better Jl'LEAN ARNOLD, U. 8. 'comwatch our step. He proposes a drasmercial attach at Shanghai: tic national solution. "Unless Americans awaken to what is taking place in the Mr. Marshall is a lawyer by Orient, this nation will lose profession, the son of the late its place as a Pacific power Louis Marshall, one of the most and also it will lose its lucraeminent lawyers in New Yorks tive trade with China. history. He was appointed to 17. S. SEN. EDWARD R. BURKE the board of education in 1935 and became president of the on the 1910 election: "Garner board last June. He is a genial, has just what the country will an need in 1940, lots of common philosophical alumnus of the Columbia school sense. And sentiment to put of Journalism, and the author of him in the White House is a novel, "Ordeal by Glory." and bounds." growing by leaps News Futures, S Consollrf-itWNU Servlcs. r, - . Kai-she- Quotes pipe-smoke- trimnd rnlaronMnu. pilau. or jour e holer of U prisia wilhuul nlumMSenia.MpriDiikifc NOMTNWMT mono SmVICB NjfcK - Witb PbCi Tmrsm Free-Han- d Only five per cent of Britain is forest today. Shanghai, China, has become a city of skyscrapers, largely built by Americans. The west coast of Greenland Is reported to be sinking and the east coast rising. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, has a population of a million and a quarter. Europe finds it difficult to understand the strength of what is called "isolationism here. Argentina's electoral law, little enforced, prescribes a fine for citizens failing to vote. Embroidery Design Is Fun to Do ' By RUTH WYETH SPEARS I T IS not often that a mere mat-ter of atitchery strikes a national note with Americans, but here is something from a school teacher that may touch your pride; a bit. She says, "Your Book 2 on; Gifts and Embroidery interests! me because it is the only thing have seen on, this subject than shows simply and clearly how toj use a little originality in hand; work. The women of all national but ours find pleasure in express--j ing their own ideas in embroidery; and needle crafts. emd Here is another broidery design that should be as 1 I free-han- A protection against snake bite, forestry workers of Australia wear half an automobile inner tube. Sparrows have been marked down as state enemies in Germany, due to their eating rye and wheat seed. Mussoorie, India, has ruled that pack animals must not be worked more than eight hours a day and their load must not exceed 250 pounds. MILADYS AFFAIRS In France more men than women foil in the driving tests. In Russia, one out of every three is a woman. wage-earne- rs The average United States mar- riage age for women is The twenty-tw- o. average Japanese woman hours weekly, earns $1.33. works 62 Face powder is used by of every 100 ninety-fiv- e women in England. The Lu matrons of China wear Mack headdresses; maidens wear white. Miss M. Maurice of Sheffield, England, is the only woman mine lamp expert in the world. According to a recent survey h of the automobile drivers in the United States are women. one-fourt- son-jn-la- w U."5.-bwne- kid-glo- claims, now handed to the Rome-Berli-n axis for settlement Mussolini, Hungaors friend, wants Czechoslovakia dissolved, moreover wants Hungary to get the common border with Poland which she desires. But Hitler, temporarily angry with Hungary and anxious to preserve a path to the east through Czechoslovakia, will fight partition. By LEMUEL F. PARTON ic set-tie- (. Great Britain has minor interest in both. British South Africa (5) holds mandate for. Southwest Africa (3), and Britain a mandate for Tanganyika (4). Angola (6) is held by Portugal. ROLLS DEVELOPED S ACROSS THE SEA racket-bustin- Domestic is self-pityi- the government, plainly a move to curry favor with communist-hatin- g Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini. Many observers believe this decision shows Premier Daladier is frantically grasping for a straw, since by repudiating the communist party be throws away a large part of his Popular Front support. Not only will the premier lose his next election, but France will probably break off her treaty with communistic Russia and thereby become isolated prey for Italy and Germany. Rumanias complete shift to Nazification marks another step in Germanys economic invasion of southeastern Europe. Acting under orders from King Carol, the Rumanian government has proclaimed 10Q per cent totalitarian principles in the ' hope that Germany will respect its territorial integrity in Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitlers "drive to the east. Since Czechoslovakia GERMANY IN AFRICA and Hungary are already Of onetime German possessions (shown Gevmanys economic orbit is ex- in black ) France holds mandates for tending itself with little difficulty. Togoland (I) end the Cameroons (2); fact-findi- Opponents of the administrations foreign policy have long criticized Secretary of State Cordell Hull for censuring Japanese encroachment jpii U. S. affairs in the Orient, meanwhile 'allowing Mexico to expropri-'atc- r J1 d oil lands. Secretary "Hull's answet has been that V Mexico's psoMem may best be .by-, arbitration, not .through a hostile attitude that,. may destroy' Western hemisphere peace.. The step has been seizure of a headquarters building occupied by Standard Oil subsidiaries, an act which brought only feeble protest from.. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels. (VI made representations . . But if" the U. S. hopes to stalls mate' Fascism in the Western hemisphere by its policy toward Mexico, it may be doomed to disappointment. Although President Lazaro Cardenas once said his country would sell oil only to democratic nations, he has just announced consummation of a contract to sell several million dollars' worth in Rome. This, marking the birth of friendly trade relations between Italy and Mexico, gives Fascism another wedge into the New sh PHOTOGRAPHY There are 137 kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables available in the course of the year. ar d, ? The hand that rocks th cradle rules Friendly, W. Va. Women won every office in a municipal election recently by an average vote of 40 to 15l FROM FAR AND NEAR much fun as those in the book. This attractive border is suggested here for a bed jacket. You will have no difficulty in finding a pattern for a jacket as they are quite the thing to wear over sleeveless nighties. Your freehand border will dress it up for a Christmas gift. If the jacket is pale pink, the rows of running stitches might be in several tones of rose. The cross stitches could be in deep rose and turquoise blue to simulate flowers. The long and short stitches, shown at A and B, should then be done in apple green. Lines may be drawn with a ruler as a guide to keep the rows straight, and evenly spaced dots may be made to indicate the cross stitches beginning the spacing at tee corners of the design. Are you ready for Christmas; birthdays; and the next church bazaar? Do you turn time into money with things to sell? Mrs. Spears Sewing Book 2 has helped thousands of women. If your home is your hobby you will also want Book 1 SEWING for the Home Decorator. Order by number, enclosing 25 cents for each book. If you order both books, a leaflet on quilts with 36 authentic stitches will be included free. Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, Dl. n mice idjfs True joy is a serious matter. Seneca. Bees will fly eight miles from the hive in search of food. Talkie equipment has been placed in 5,000 churches in England. Australia expects its mapping of the island to require 30 years. The United States consumed 157 gallons of gasoline per person in 1936. Toklos busiest district is the Ginza, where 237,790 pedestrians were counted in one day. According to the religious census 399 churches of all denominations in Washington. there are half dozen different languages ar spoken in China, each as distinct from another as English and German. 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