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Show .cmrprr PRFAS. LEHI. UTAH investigation of chain broadcasting. What that will reveal only the guilty parties, if any, can foretell. Meanwhile they have plenty of time and fair warning to clean bouse. That domain composed of ether- space and the natural phenomenon of wave lengths is a public property and resource, as Mr. McNinch sees it. That property is loaned to pn- vate industry, first to render a serv- ice to the public, and second to earn a reasonable profit. The fran- chise is granted with the under- standing that it will be revoked un- less the company serves and behaves as the government thinks it around the NATIONAL JCAPITAL V fiy Carter Field THIS THING CALLED "swing i j should. Hearings on the proStates Kingdom-Unitereciprocal trade agreement are set to begin here March 14. Battle between business and the State department will grow hotter as the hearings go on. It will center around the old, old question of free trade or tariff restrictions. This is the argument: "Is it better to protect farmers, manufacturers, and labor against competition of products from foreign countries or let the goods in for the benefit of the public? Who is most important: producers or the public? Any economist can show that the American public pays annually many billions of dollars more for the goods it buys now than it would pay if prices were lowered by foreign goods brought in free of duty. But the same economist, if he were eo minded, could show that free imports would soon drive agriculture, manufacturing and labor to bankruptcy. First would come general chaos, and next would come an American standard of living as low as the world average. These opposing forces are vast and complicated. Every tariff student has a theory. But Secretary of State Cordell Hull happens to be for low tariffs, and he happens to have a reciprocal trade agreement act passed by congress, and the Will of President Roosevelt to back him up. So his opinion is .what counts right now. He has made 16 reciprocal agreements with other countries already, and he's going to make one with England. This is the gist of the Hull policy: Nearly all war is caused by economic war. After the World war, the United States helped increase economic war by raising tariff walls around itself. It must now tear them down to promote trade and peace. This country and England together transact about of all the world's business. An agreement between the two to increase that huge volume of business will have a marked effect on world trade and world peace. We cannot remain prosperous in a world. Washington. posed United d low-co- st low-price- d one-four- th poverty- -stricken How the Plan Worka naHere's how the tion" plan works. The United States picks out the country that supplies the most of any given import. In the case of woolen goods, it's England. We cut our import duty on woolens in return for a cut by England on something we sell her, say lumber, wheat, or automobiles. Then the new lower tariffs apply to all other countries supplying less amounts of the same commodities or products. It makes business move fast, say the men. But American farmers and manufacturers and labor leaders howl with pain. While they struggle for volume and prices to keep going, the government opens the flood gate and foreign goods rush in to lower both. The government says we are opening up the foreign market in which you can sell, more farm and factory products, with resulting benefits to labor. We'll have worldwide prosperity in place of precarious isolated prosperity. And we'll have peace instead of taxes for armaments. Reciprocal trade treaties are engineered by the State department, but the work of preparing statistics and holding hearings is done by, the tariff commission and its reciprocity committee. The commission's shabby old building is humming. Bright young men from London lug bales of records from room to room. Woolen manufacturers arrive from New England to make sure their protests will, be heard when hearings begin. Meanwhile off to England goes the astute Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy to make sure the foxy British don't trade us any "most-favore- d low-tari- ff back-breaki- wooden nickels. Up to Broadcasters Two obligations are now placed squarely on the shoulders of radio broadcasting, which has been anxiously waiting a definite statement of policy by the recently reorganized federal communications commission. The law was laid down by Frank R. McNinch, newly appointed chairman of the commission, in his address before the sixteenth annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Radio must steer clear of monopolistic practices, and it must provide good entertainment free of moral olTense. Mr. McNinch is an administration man, loaned to the communications commission by the federal power commission, where his attitude toward public utilities was well Radio men feared trouble known. when he came over to the communications commission. Many of them are therefore agreeably surprised to hear from him what sounded like stern but friendly advice. But if any of them are involved in even the beginnings of monopoly, they are tossing in their sleep tonight, because the chairman announced that he will soon begin an Radio on the Spot Railroads and power were mentioned by Mr. McNinch as having gotten into trouble with the public by combining for their own interest instead of for the best public interest. He said, in effect, that the trusts had depended on political pull and the use of propaganda to get by. But it didn't work in the long run. The radio industry is more intimately related to the public than any of the older utilities, and its behavior will be more quickly noticed. Mr. McNinch said that a member of the industry told him, "Radio could not survive an Insull." But while warning of monopoly, which would consist of certain types of chain broadcasting, of management contracts, and of pressure methods in dealing with local stations, the chairman at the same time condoned and even praised the national hookups that produce the fine programs. It is only through the commercial support of huge audiences that the world's best talent can be brought into millions of homes. Regarding advertising sales talks on the air, Mr. McNinch warned broadcasters that the public will revolt against too much talk or bad taste. Some legitimate products and services, he said, simply cannot be talked about on the air. These matters the industry must govern. The Mae West broadcast was only an incident, but doubtless it did influence the big radio boss in his conclusions on radio ethics. He made it very clear that all creeds, religions, races, ideals and ages must be respected. This is in accord with the democratic rights of minorities. Radio men say that this constitutes a drastic limitation on what may be snid and discussed over the air. But none of them argue it is unfair. In the field of music and the other arts of sound there is no limit. Japanese Boycott While the boycott on Japanese silk still makes news, latest figures from the Department of Commerce show that it has had very little effect. Actual imports of raw silk from Japan are only 2 per cent below normal. But the organized protest against invasion of China, chiefly evident in women's refusal to buy silk stockings, has brought about some serious consequences. The State department, of course, is deeply concerned. This country buys about 56 per cent of Nippon's total raw silk production. Our silk bill, therefore is an important item in Japan's war chest. If the boycott should become fully effective, Japan would be no little provoked. That, plus a possible clash with Japanese salmon poachers off Alaska, plus another incident like the Panay sinking in the Orient, might cause real trouble. Conversely, too, another incident might put the boycott under way in earnest. But there would be little the State department could do about it. Any protests from Japan would have to be answered with a shrug. For a boycott is simply a form of free speech and free press. Any action by the government to the contrary would be a departure from the democratic principle. The Mikado would get the same answer that Hitler got when he complained about Mayor LaGuardia's utterances. American silk manufacturers are being seriously damaged by the boycott. Fear that another incident will intensify feeling so that women will really decide to do without silk has caused store managers to issue hold orders on stockings and other silk goods. Silk mills and raw silk importers are getting stuck with supplies on hand. It is estimated that $25,000,000 of American capital invested in silk and allied industry has been frozen. Jobs in Jeopardy The jobs of more than 200,000 people engaged in the throwing and weaving of silk and in the manufacture and distribution of silk products are jeopardized. When the boycott first started the public supposed that finished stockings and other silk goods came directly from Japan. People did not know that American labor and industry produced the goods from Japanese raw material. This misunderstanding had the instant and remarkable effect of uniting silk capital and labor in a common front to tell the country the facts. William Green himself, president of the American Federation of Labor, had a voice in the telling. Of course the drive appeared, to many suspicious persons, to be in collusion with the Japanese. The textile industry is centered in New York city, and because Japan happens to have a Chamber of Commerce in that city, some critics were inspired to talk treason. But labor and employers succeeded in making their cause clear, and undoubtedly their efforts were mainly responsible for modifying the boycott. anti-boyco- tt Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. 1 Goes America Primitive Tunes of Rhythmic the 'Cats' By JOSEPH W. LaBlXE A bunch of the cats were lickin' their chops and frisk.:.' their whiskers, just aching fur 8 jam session. Up on the stage a long underwear gang was handing out sweet and sticky while a mot KeV cfhmaltz waved his baton. Tr.e all: tors didn't like it either. No, Genevieve, this is n description of open house at zoo it's just a picturesque nf savins that an audit nee dissatisfied patrons in a NV., York niht spot are hungry f..r that indefinable, primitive a1, i captivating type of alles'id music called "swim;." The "cats" are swing musiboys who. cians, rhythm-maar-their "lickin' chops" by ind"friskin' their whiskers," icate a desire for an impromptu gathering of their ilk to play for the fun of it, otherwise known as a "jam session." The "1 underwear gang" they despise might be Guy Lombardo's orchestra, famous fur i'.s smn:ii : ' l ' " -- icy 11 I I v ' ' ( T1 r;v4 vV,.Otf 5 -- ril SCHOOL & .. 535,000.00 STEAMSHIP r f Tjqggg d i . s the king of swing, OF TiilM ALL lienin Goodman, and brought with the "axony st itk" that helped discredit "sweet" jazz America a new era uf l ot music. Or is it music' ou go along. Any selection from a .teir.an were at and Paul tunes (otherwise, restful and (;.!, sonata to "Bei Mir Bist Beethoven as t of Lombardo himself, tie i.eiuht popularity "schmaltz"). is presumably swing-abl- e Schoen" Du q' symphonic the director, might be the "mon- t Ni:oi:enls of th but we'd just as soon they'd let key." ' y.ii and "schmaltz." alone. Beethoven with milwars e Goodman pla J for The "alligators" are several lion Americansmostly younger other bands, lushapp.v because lie n.d forced to restrain h:msei SPREADING THE IAM generation who play no instrument v, but have been bitten by the swing pivJuee 'commercial" r.utsie. sweet pop-- I bug. And what a bug it is, sting- and restrained tur.es that were Though critics scorn swing as an ing white man and black man alike, ular with the customers but sicken-- ! beer-scend ing to musicians. In 1031 he tried "art," the musicians themselves invading Chicago's have demonstrated a positively arit flopped because but band own York's swankiest his New and joints tistic regard for their profession. inef the supper clubs! Swing, unlike Gershwin jazz, will fluence. In 10;i4. nauseated, he orthrive without glamor. Some of was that outfit another ganized A BIT FAMILIAR are tired from Biliy Hose's Music Hall America's most able "cats" nick of tim a found in such small and in New York. In places as Chicago's "Three To youth it is a new delight but large commercial radio show picked Americans it has a him up. Next cair.e a Manhattan Deuces" night club. to middle-ageThe "Three Deuces," like other strangely familiar beat, reminiscent hotel engagement which closed be of something they heard 15 or 20 cause the customers weren t preswing spots, was once famous for years ago, before what is known as pared for hot music. The skies were its "jarn sessions." Nightly, after attained respectability. again dark until Fate intervened other clubs had closed their doors, "jazz" Those were the days when jazz was one night at the Paioniar ballroom musicians from world famous or"hot," when polite society frowned in Los Angeles and swing began an chestras made this dark basement on it as primitive and uncivilized. their rendezvous, treating the cusovernight stampede to popularity! It was before George Gershwin tomers to impromptu swing conwrote "Rhapsody in Blue," before certs that made the welkin ring. DEFINED SWING The Chicago musician's union put a jazz symphonized itself and fell under such artistic control that it was stop to this delightful custom, but it no longer free and natural. When We'll guess with you what is the still prevails in many a Harlem that day arrived it ceased to be mystic clement of swing that makes night club. But it remains true that some of jazz, ranking as something unreal some people stamp their feet and and unprecedented, something that shout, that makes other people sit America's ablest musicians are had no reason to exist and therefore tensely listening for every note as swing enthusiasts. Seldom does one if life itself depended on it? soon expired. find faster or more talented hands Gene Krupa, popular drummer than those of Teddy Wilson, GoodSwing took its place. And swing is nothing more than the original with Goodman's band, says swing man's pianist, nor can many trumDixieland jazz, a second wave of is "complete and inspired freedom pet men Roy Eldridge's the throbbing, carefree rhythm of rhythmic interpretation." Which crystal-clea- r approach notes without ushigh which New Orleans' shanties and means that you don't follow music; ing a mute. honky-tonk- s 20 discovered venrs instead you create and as What will happen to swing? As the "alligators" become more nutffyri-.'v.'vrnM vtv'wmwimmi 'wwwwwy-igwmerous and historians announce -that this primitive music is only a V V""--. i, second edition of the early jazz, it becomes increasingly possible that swing may also try to get respectable and thereby kill itself. Swing is already tremendously successful. 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Rest AND 1 BLDG. 4)3 W0RIDWS ii raft & " ""Jjj - - IT STAGNATE? Soon I may come the Nnrth Rule Sunny Side. that usually seizes arts stagnation hnUK a .f HI :.i patronized mc ine sunny New by the It will be spon- north Zealand. side in sored and supported. Swingmen Sea will, without realizing, develop a Saltier Than North Atlantic ocean .... codified technique and a set of rules mt.. , i.Il North to which all music must conform altierthan that of the well-to-d- 'if fit. -- 111 Mi before it can be called swing. Ice Cream in mt True exponents of produced swing will not cream ice be frightened by this prediction. m i&Mvx.'L m.mimn 1ihm r mercially in Baltimore When they gather 'round tonight and "go out of the world," This second wave seems HOW SWING AFtKCTS XHl ago. watching hundreds of the to determined the vengeful, punish Benny Goodman's band ap- tentive ear to faithful cock an atP the music, all fears faithless first wave which went peared at New York's Paramount the -i Ui. J..Ofcl astray and made itself respect- theater recently the customers were will be cast aside. In Japan. Even though the current able. In the last two years it has so carried away by the swing swin!; music craze does traveled by river boat up the Mis- that some of them danced in give way to the respectthe sissippi to St. Louis, squirmed its aisles. A few, still more intoxicated able jazz of future George Gersh-vnn- s and Ferde Grofes, it will way into Chicago night life and by the rhythm, swarmed no on the probspread throughout America like a stage where the orchestra tjave im- ably return at a later date. For the ciation in England. .now urieans honky-tonk- s flood. promptu exhibitions of the "sha-will al- Usefulness of Soap nJ oe loyal and the tom-toRiding the crest of this wave has and other swing tempo dances. n wajs , l useiulness The I'll,. flnatiS M U. mat Deats within a been a bespectacled young man to iNnuic me conductor is in the breast must negro's fact that particles of dirt 1 1 emulsw" find semi-sacreleft an d whom swing is a backsround while Gene Kruni expression. Then in what is called Cause, e come wi a third wave, and the an orchestra leader who tossed it kin ot the drummers, nlies his tririo themselves, the cnei'-ar-cleaners. alligators" will be happy again! not very effective right in the laps of. New York's so- behind his "suitcase. Wostprn Newspaper Union. cial elect by staging a concert at :a First Silver ai iiiiiii i.i iimimipi nm hi. minim n, sophisticated Carnegie hall a few r"""" . were inin weeks ago! . Greek island of Aepi th VHis name is Bonny Goodman, and th Seventh century although the Carnegie hall conceit Man T7Tnf : . .aat. Cnilcn in prompted one critic to change the ( cM name from Manhattan to "Madhat-tan,- " Manx, an anc.ent ox t i he will continue to play hot Is spoken to some ntv - a mean ht ""i music until the Cause is won or the niin,,v' ui tho ui . . . M-- When lot SlJS .. ... om ' ' ill win in w." c:ir. Great Britain. battle lost. Artillery SUCCESS STORY Though still youthful. Goodman is a jazz man of the old school. He got his start in Chicago with the late Leon Bismarck (Bix) Bciderbecke. great trumpet and piano man of the early days who played with such outfits as Frankie Trumbaucr and Jean Goldkettc. Beiderbecke's re cordings are still coveted by patrons of the hot music school. He died in 1931 when George Gershwin, Ferde A ( ' 'ii fL Dili v C., when the founded. Famous H ' '1, point-blan- The Japanese, era jar-"-w- most widely in the world. W is f as I?' 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