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Show Initials on Linens Stamp You as Chic! It's smart to "be personal: when marking linens, for towels, pillow slips, sheets and even permake known! sonal "dainties your ownership when embroidered1 with your very own initials. These are quickly worked in single stitch and French knots, either in a Corn- Washington. Authorities general- ly agree that good administration can make even a better in its results and bad administration can definitely ruin it. The same is true, of course, of any law. A bad law's effect can be doubled or trebled by irresponsible administration of its provisions. Of this, I believe there can be no doubt. Certainly, we have fresh evidence on the point over which we can ponder and the truth of the above statements seems inescapable. I have been among those who have criticized the national labor relations act, and the national labor relations board created by it. It has always impressed me as being a d statute. That it has many weaknesses, there is no doubt. That it has worked out in biased form and that it has done grave damage to the feeling of the general public toward labor organization, there certainly can be no doubt. Or, to summarize the situation, it has been made painfully evident that Senator Wagner, New York Democrat, who sponsored the law, took prejudiced advice when he drafted the measure. He was given only one side of the picture. But I suspect the law can be made workable and I entertain no thought at all that it should be abandoned entirely. We need a national labor policy expressed in statute form. Changes in its provisions ought to he made, but to my way of thinking there is a more urgent circumstance. The urgent need is improvement in administration of the law in order that the benefits of even a weak and biased law will not be denied to the countrys economic life. It is the recent administrative acts under the law that have brought it into the spotlight again. These acts should be reviewed to bring the whole situation into proper focus for examination, and I shall refer to two of them in this connection. They will substantiate my earlier criticisms. Early in December, we learned of how the national labor relations board subpoenaed the editor of a magazine. It called for the editor to supply all of the background of information upon which he based an article that was critical of the board. Since the article was critical of the board and its methods, officials of the board regarded the background information as "essential. The article in question had been reprinted and circulated among workers in several mills, according to the board, and this fact was used by the board as a basis for bringing the editor under the boards jurisdiction. Ten days after the first unusual exercise of power by the board, it took another unprecedented step. Bather, one of its attorneys took the unprecedented step, but since the attorney was an employee of the board, it seems clear the action is chargeable to the board because g it is the responsible, head of the agency. Workable Labor Law good law half-bake- policy-makin- The second case resulted from the refusal of an editor of a small daily newspaper to tell Editor trial examiner Standa Pat for the board who wrote an editorial in his newspaper, the St. Marys (Pa.) Daily Press. Harry T. O'Brien, the editor, declined to answer the question put to him by a board attorney in a public hearing. He stood pat and the trial examiner, Charles H. Bayly, and the attorney, Jerome I. Macht, called his attention to provisions of the Wagner act requiring him to answer. The question of freedom of the press as guaranteed by the Constitution was mentioned, but according to the stenographic record of the hearing, the trial examiner and the attorney each held to the provision of the law as being superior to the other guarantee. Or at least, that is my Impression of the proceedings. As far as I am informed, the board has taken no further action in the OBrien case. It has moved, however, to enforce its subpoena In the case of Hartley W. Barclay, the magazine editor. A federal court has been asked by the board to enforce the subpoena which Mr. Barclay ignored. He probably will be compelled to appear. At least, he should be compelled to appear in response to the subpoena. No one can ignore a subpoena. As for supplying the information that is a different matter. His refusal to supply confidential information and imperil the freedom of the press is, indeed, quite a different matter. As one writer, I hope Mr. Barclay and Mr. O'Brien stick by their guns. I hope, too, that the board will not imperil its existence and the good points in the law by attempting to assert power which I do not believe it possesses. There is no excuse, legally or morally, for a crew of officious individuals to undertake the sort of things disclosed in these two instances. They abuse confidence and besmirch the titles which they bear. Iirther, they have forced an is i sue that ought never to be raised. It is a sad day in our country when government oflicials, great or minor, try to break through the guarantees which the Constitution gives you and me. It portends more evil things. Consider, for example, my own personal situation. If the board's attorneys get away with the sort of thing represented in these two instances, how long, I ask, will I be permitted to write as I am now doing, freely, frankly? And if they get away with it, how long will it be until you, who do me the honor to read my reports, will find yourselves without any honest expressions in anything you read? It is not blackjacking the press yet, but if it goes further, that will be the proper term to apply. Returning, now, to the original premise, namely, that a good law may be destroyed or the effects of a bad law may be made worse by bad administration, it appears to me the conditions related demonstrate the theory as a fact. I have noted some comment on the floors of congress that the board was not aware of what was happening in these two cases; that it had issued no such orders, etc. Such observations require no answer. Anything that is done by any employee of a government agency is done by that agency because it is to that agency, not to any particular person who may be on its payroll, that congress gave authority to act. I am beginning to doubt that the American farmer, is going to have his problem Farm solved, or even Problem partially bettered, by the present tactics. The word "tactics is used advisedly. Congress has not acted with the full freedom that ought to obtain insofar as the current crop control legislation is concerned. It is suffering from an overdose of some strange medicine, currently called "Wallaces formula. There is real doubt whether the ailment from which agriculture suffers is as bad as the Wallace prescription of medicine for its cure. Use of the word "tactics can be further justified if the legislation is considered from the angle at which the problem is approached. I refer in this to the projected limitation on production. That is to say, I believe in processes that will allow all of the production that is possible and that there are ways for handling the surplus without turning over a great industry, like agriculture, to have its fate decided by one man or group of men. The fact is that while Secretary Wallace and his advisers are learned men, they are still human beings. I hold to belief that even the those learned men are not equipped to tell farmers how much they ought to plant and what they ought to plant. It stretches my credulity too far for someone to ask me to believe any government official or anybody else can forecast next month what the demand is going to be next year. And that is almost an accurate statement of what is proposed by the current model of farm relief. The reason I called the influence "Wallaces formula goes back several months. It is my recollection without checking up the dates that I reported some goings-o- n by Mr Wallace last summer. At that time, I said the agriculture secretary and numerous of his subordinates were traipsing about the country, telling the farmers what was good for them. It was quite evident then, as facts have since proved, the Department of Agriculture was staging a gigantic propaganda for Mr. Wallaces type of farm legislation. He persuaded a couple of senators to go into the interior and hold hearings and it was from these hearings that Senators McGill of Kansas, and Pope of Idaho, both Democrats, obtained their ideas for the bill that the senate considered. Unless the usual signs at the Capitol fail me, the vast majority of the farmers of this country do not want to have their production limited. Probably, the best general statement that can be made on that phase of the legislation was made by Senator Borah of Idaho, who attacked the theory of compulsion vehemently in a speech. Aroused to use of his full oratorical powers. Senator Borah declared to the sen- Pattern 1553. bination of colors or the same color throughout. Pattern 1553 contains a transfer pattern of an alphabet 2 inches high, two 1ft pail of water he noticed something like a card tacked on Joe Hath-wa- ys mn&gm door. He saw no smoke from the chimney. Taking in the water, cautiously he approached Joe's cabin door, and read the note which said: "Dear Jim: was not to be any tree at the little at the head of Smoke Creek that year; and of the several families who lived there, not more than half were expecting Santa Claus. The dark days had left the dismal little valley or hollow even more gloomy than it had been in better years, when the mines across the ridge in the next hollow gave some employment to the heads of the families of Smoke Creek. Jim Knox, who lived at the very head of the stream, was perhaps THERE e, "This bill, if enacted, will accomplish two things. First, it will place the farmer under complete bureaucratic control. Second, it will bring about a reduction of crops when millions are hungry and in need." That thought will be echoed more after the country has tasted of the fruits of the bill than now according to my way of thinking. Therefore, it seems to me that rather than face economic suicide as. Senator Borah predicted, congre could very well lay plans to permit unrestricted growth of crops and couple with that the means of taking the surplus off the hands of the farmer. C Western Newspaper Union first weekday after ChristTHE mas, Boxing day, is a legal and the most unhappy of all in the His wife and little settlement. I . i only child, a son of seven, had died, and his nearest neighbor was Joe Hathway, a bitter enemy with whom he had had many difficulties. So that lonely night of Christmas eve as Jim sat before the open wood fire, with the light of blazing hickory logs his only company, he was not without fear for his own safety he knew Joe Hathway had threatened his life. As he sat dreaming his eyes happened to rest upon his rifle standing in the corner of the log room. "That gun or Joe Hathways will some day tell the tale," he said to himself. He meant that one day, like so many others down the lonesome go stream, either he or Joe w'ould exand using a common mountain He pression, "with his boots on. did not care life had come to mean but little for him. While Jim was thus dreaming, Joe Hathway sat in another log cabin but a few yards down the stream. By chance Joes attention was called to a book on a shelf. The school teacher had given it to his daughter who had died from the epidemic on the creek. The title The Christmas appealed tc him lie took the book and beCarol. gan to read. Page after page and read on. chapter after chapter, he had ever It was the first book Joe read. It filled him with new visions and new ways of thinking. lie read on till midnight ar.d had been so impressed that he decided to read a chapter from the Bible before going to bed. By mere accident the chapter was one on the birth at Bethlehem. Its teaching overpowered him he had found the more abundant liie. On Christmas ni rning when Jim Knox went out to the spring for a Preventing Rust In Oven. After using the oven, leave the oven door wide open, to allow it to cool down thoroughly. This allows all moisture to escape and prevents rust. I read that verse that told of peace and good will to man. Said to myself, My family is qll gone the last was Mary. She left the book to get me on the right track. Theres nothing in this hollow for me any more. Maybe I can find work by New Years over on Cedar Creek You and I never could get along. So to make things better for us both hereafter I am leaving at daybreak. And Jim as I say 1 also wish to say, Good-byPeace on earth good will to men. And as another result of "The Christmas Carol two mountaineers were better men, and though they had no Christmas cards or presents, and no holiday programs, the pines on the hillsides seemed a bit greener and the music of the streams seemed sweeter. S Western Newspaper Onion. Boxing Day Is Time for Making Christmas Gifts He Noticed Something Like a Card Tacked on Hathways Door. QUESTIONS V. You will find me gone. I was reading some last night in The Christmas Carol and in the Bible. ThomasfTaijIoj' HOUSEHOLD , ed ate: inches high and one ft inch high; information for placing initials and monograms; illustrations of all stitches used. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to fhe Sewing Circle, Needle-cra- ft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New1 York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. bank holiday in Englahd, Wales and Northern Ireland but not in Scotland. This is the day on which "Christmas boxes or gifts are expected by, and given to, errand boys, servants, letter carriers, etc., observes a writer in the Detroit News. The name "Christmas box is often applied there to the ordinary gift at this season of the year, apart from this usage. References to the "apprentices box and "biitlers box as far back as the Sixteenth century indicate that these gratuities were at one time placed in an earthenware box, which could be opened on Boxing day only by breaking it. It appears also that s the early church had which were opened only on that sat beside the and gazed moodily at blazing logs, as the sparks spiraled upward. Outside flakes of snow beat against the window pane to the chime of the church bells ringing peace and good will to all the earth. Was "Peace, Tom muttered. there such a thing on earth? Not He had staked for him, anyway. everything on his boy. Eeen both father and mother to him given him the advantage of the best schools, with a law partnership waiting for him in his own office; and what did he get? "Sorry to disappoint you, Dad, but I dont seem to be cut out for law. Sally and I want to find happiness in our own way. I mean to buy the old Wormley farm and Sally and I will be married there, in our own home, Dad, on Christmas eve. Young Tom had choked a bit as he saw the look on his fathers face Im sorry. Dad; I do appreciate all youve done for me, but the hand writes and moves on, and its all settled. Be a good sport. Dad, TOM MADSEN Sliding Dresser Drawers. Rubbing a candle stub or wax along the sliding edges of dresser drawers will make them move in and out much more easily, even when heavily loaded. . Baking Esealloped Mixtures. Time and fuel will be saved if esealloped mixtures are baked in shallow, wide dishes or pans. Lining a Coat. When lining a coat, put the coat on inside out. Have the lining all ready stitched up, and slip it over the coat. It will fall into position naturally. Pin it in place, and finish in the usual way. Split Pea Soup. Six quarts walf ter, one and pounds beef one-ha- shank, one pound pig knuckle, one pound split peas, two onions, sliced. Crack the bones and cover with cold water. Add the peas and bring slowly to a boil. Boil steadily for about four hours, removing the scum as it rises. As the soup begins to thicken, cook slowly in order not to scorch. Add the onions about one hour before the soup is done. GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES alms-boxe- date. Chambers Book of Days states that the institution of "Christmas 1 Da Appreciate boxes evidently is akin to that of "ImAUSorry, Dad; Done for Me. New Years gifts and, like it, has descended from the times of the ancient Romans who at the season of the Saturnalia, practiced universally the custom of giving and receiving presents. N0W...DENT0N,S FACIAL MAGNESIA MADE HER PLENTY OF DATES Youve and come to our wedding and give But he had us your blessing. he turned on his boy. "Never! See my son married to a cried. Young cheap dancer; a common Toms face was white. Stop, Dad, or I might forget you are my father and he had rushed out of the house. That had been three long months An eternity for him. He had been too hasty; had been governed One couldnt by his prejudices. measure the present generation by the ore of his day. Tom, Jr., was r.o fool: he should have trusted him to do the right thing; what right had he to interfere: to say how any life should be lived? Suddenly he wanted to have a share in the joyfulness. He reached for his hat, but remembered it was too late for shopping, but there was his check book. What if Tom refused his tardy offering? The eager look died. There was a loud ringing of the door bell and the sound of rushing feet the door was flung open. There was Tom, looking just like he used to when he came to him for comfort. Dad, we just have to have you. Sally sent me to bring you. Its Christmas." Tom, Sr., held out his onus. "We wont disappomt Sally, eon. SKIN FRESH, YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL Romanes han't a chance whan big ugly Man love the porea cpoil amoothnaaa oi a freah young complexion. 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