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Show BUSINESS: Chamber Complains S.730, lin A1U All-Summ- r er U4( their Itt fGRESs! ICoou Months H Pie'll to Go f ecnirtonl ieiloo eoja ErTTlM think ox, etui band- - their help etop an from tlcUn Prciident ftt pie. Europe' Ml Into Bankhead of-- , hji', SOL John contro-- j solution wrapping initiation to guarantee June lounment there were enough to constitute a very vocal Sen. Jfbloc." Retorted Texae to QjgniDj: "Congress ought all until . danger . . rifUhere String the United State In No one his disappeared war jdennine the question of know and I but congress, see do not want war.M nr u only one of several rissues confronting a congress first four b did little during ft ba sad which cannot hope to n with anything like e good nt ... td I 1 a Prob-m- before Me. are ioa. d $1,750,-000,00- known. Railroads. Though it is a major economic problem which almost caused a national crisis last fall until legislative reform promises tilled an employer-employe- e squabble, rail rehabilitation is well buried in committee.. Appeasement Again Neutrality and arma- No. 1 issues of the No. 1 After weeks of testimony, Moons may come and go before file world knows exactly why Rusff sian Foreign Minister Maxim Lit-vino- retired" at the crucial mo meat of solidarity conversations. But there la every reason to believe French-Brltls- h treachery ia responsible. Tha argument: Russia sought an military alliance with flic two democracies, meaning all three must march if Adolf Hitler carried out his threat to occupy Danzig In defiance of the Poles. But Britain and Franca have never opposed German occupation of Danzig; indeed a growing appeasement bloc (allegedly including Prime Minister Chamberlain) has hoped the Reich would atisfy its thirst by taking Danzig. Thus the broadest pact France and Britain would offer Russia was a series of unilateral guarantee! to Poland and Rumania, the Soviet to aid only if the other two powers had already gone to tha assistance of those countries. Maxim Litvinofri release was the nearer. Lltvinoff is part Jew, hated by Germany for his anti-Naof Nations beliefs. and Premier His successor, Vyacheslaff Molotoff, ia a military-minde- d No. 1 aide to Joseph Stalin. Thus, tha development Paris and London fear most becomes significantly possible: A alliance which would dominate all Europe. Since Dictator Stalin recently charged capitalistic powers ara trying to force Germany and Russia into a needless war, and since Hitlers latest speech lacked its usual strong attack on tha Soviet, this possibility is the more important. Adding to democratic woe is tha Reich's notable succei in neutraliz- - 'e n, pro-Leag- IEU8' TOM CONN ALLY "F" oar fa May right hart." itc sad house Investigators seem Vaaised on the admintetra-f- s cash and carry" neutrality malt arms sales to warring na-- 1 Probable modifications: (1) button of a clause forcing the ufeat to Invoke neutrality with er insertion of a clause shipping to tots of a belligerent's terri-- r 1 outside the danger cone. England and France would M the Atlantic in wartime, thus I Babied to pay cash and car- u. 8. arms, the bin would w answer Roichsfuehrer Hitler's Resident Roosevelt. sattenUon focuses on avia- bays; (2) Btttog continued II Ps sad Rusio-Ger-m- uUa congress army's to expand the bolster Panama canal Meanwhile. Coi ?? dbergh has urged im-2- " ?Pansion of avUtion focHihci, in which the U. S. iyStGcrmany' BrIttIn' Ital3r MrfiwBrl,5r' !'nuse 1 concern ia to create divisions between groups, to incite discord between management and worker, an'Haves' and tagonism between Followed Hugh S. Magill of Chicago, president of the American Federation of Investors: "I am convinced that the great body of prumen end womdent, en for whom I would speak are refusing to put their dollars to work because they know from experience that when debts are incurred they must be paid if credit is to be maintained. A good sample of several "programs" which chambermen will offer direct to congress, stepping over the President, wee the plan of Chairman John W. OLeary of the executive committee: (1) remove uncertainties" caused by superfluous government control; (3) revise dissension creating labor laws; (3) revise tax laws to follow tha nils of revenue purpose! rather than reform; (4) stop needless spending to bring approach" to a balanced budget; (5) modify restrictive laws to loosen credit. Chambermen presented their plans to congress over the banquet table. Announced as the convention opened was a aeries of SS dinners in which representative! of various branches of industry laid their comconplaints directly before well-fe- d gressmen and senators. hard-worki- five-poi- -- POLITICS: Farley Forecast Verified A master politician. Jim Farley called tha turn in 1936 when hope lees Republicans carried but two statee in tha presidential election. Recently tha master spoke again, warning his Democratic colleagues that 1940 will bring a hard fight and that no landslide may be expected. Verification of tha Farley forecast came but a few days later when fiie American Institute of Pub-R-e Opinion, heeded by Dr. George Gallup, polled the nation to discover that 53 per cent expect Republicans to win in 1940. 'a S-- - aid creating a W 2iS1nriSrit5r0,IUdent, Wlt of P organizations. nmentb 0 u n 4 dUoTl!. .B,rUcy Predicts tax on j?Jitnece,,,tt w Particular ,bSitwT2L!.b0,lt tt good Thai simply extend "hut. KtikML and he undivided Plring this 1 baa wm ? Fielding ' retort "iS rNoblem, - A 111 whfa .bout tnm and not aba revision, President Roosevelt ha A waya churning of commerce, surface and enciries, like threads of gold, the whole fabric of ing in Scandinavia and tha Baltic states. Though Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will probably pacts as surefuse perfluous, these countries have given neutrality assurances and thus crack the "encirclement ring which Britain and Franca thought they had thrown around tha Reich. In tha Balkans, collapse of Russlan-Englls- h negotiations would Rumania, Greece leave anti-Naand Turkey insecure, probably forcing hnm into tha German sphere of iwihu-nee- . Observers believe tha outcome may now bt German occupation of Danzig In return for Integrity guarantees to all the Belch's neighbors. zi world and it would be but a barbarous wild-I- t is not easy to conceive how even the love of God can surpass the pure, unselfish and undying love of a good mother. er loveout Telephoning her love. The Unpardonable Sin of the - System of Perdition great soul has written a book which should be to this generation what Lea Miserables was to France, Oliver Twist to England and Uncle Toms Cabin to war America. It is titled, VThe Grapes of Wrath. It tells what the depression has done to countless human beings, especially the dispossessed cotton growers and the social group they represent, tracing a family from their southern plantation to the Pacific coast, broke, discouraged, starved and degraded by an outmoded social system. The writer pictures children actually starving to death in sight of great piles of kerosine sprayed golden oranges, and right well does he conclude, The spring is beautiful in California, but the smell of rotting bodies and perishing souls fills the country a crime beyond denunciation, a sorrow weeping cannot symbolise, a failure that topples A it blowing . . - The duty of the hour for Christians is to bring the church back to religion. Thats the crying need in the world tohay. If youd serve God do something every day for your fellow men that will add to the sum of human joy. This is the kind of religion that pleases the infinite. One writer says that the He is nearonly way one can come to God is through man. Banish hate and ill will. est to God who is nearest to man. Reactionaries Rob the Poor Wherever reactionaries, either Republicans or Democrats, have come into power since 1936 they have been, heartless and cruel to those on relief or pensions. Old sge has been brutally treated, relief has been drastically cut, farmers have been given no assistance and labor has been treated with contempt. Voters should beware of the reactionaries. May and June ara commencement months on ovary U. S. college campus, a period when alumni return to their former stamping and endeared ground traditions are revived. One typical tradition is illustrated at the right, where Helen Deer and Maxine Laughlin smoke the pipe of peace" at the University of Kansas commencement. Every member of the gradu-- 3 clats sdoes it, ng up in smoke all grievances students may have nurtured during college days. Above: Supra me Court Justice Stanley Reed (third from left) joins Yale alumni in singing Boola Books" at the annual barn party where, each commence ment time, a distinguished alumni is pre seated with the Montclair Yale bowl sym- bolic of outstanding achievement. Left: lesley colleges cap and gown procession be- -, tween rows of alumni, perhaps tha most universally observed American commencement trr dition. The Purpose of Existence To live the purest, the largThis is the purpose of living: useful most and the most spiritual life postha the faireit, est, best here and now, with be To our for very sible, just today. some other being, but simply to be all no desire to that we are in divine being now. To fill the present moment with all the spiritual sunshine that we can possibly radiate through the crystal walls of Love, Peace and Joy; and to live so near to the Supreme that we can touch the hem of his garment whenever we eo desire. This is life and he who lives with such a purpose forever in view, shall never know an undesired momcht. out-shi- ne There Is a Remedy and a Cure There is a remedy a cure for all of the nations ills. It is as close to the people as are their hands and feet. It is all to be found in a Book with which this generation is unaquainted. If the lawmakers would turn to that Book and adopt its laws a change for the better could be made over nighf,and a permanent peace, a perfect social order and a permament prosperinot even the ty instituted as if by magic. Butis no one, in the Book when it open and its principles ready to be put into practise. Law makers are the dumbest oi al. I At many colleges returning alumni turn youngsters once more to participate in mass fights or engage students in athletic contests, : Typical is tha above scene at the University of Pennsylvania, where graduates of the class of 1923 last year had a pants fight as ' part of the alumni day observance. SPEAK FOR THEM I speak foe the masses whose lips are dumb But whose souls ay out in their need; For the millions for whom o New Day must come From out of this jungle of greed. I say in the name of the Master of 1,500,000. S m i t h a, 418, 000 NAME 8 etrong, head "first 50 families" on social security rolls, followed by Johnsons, Browns, Williamses, Millers and Jonaes in order. DRINK V. S. eoftee consumption is gaining at expense of eo coa and tea, 1938 imports reach1,987,137,-01- 9 ing record volume of pounds white cocoa dropped from 619,050,789 pounds in 1937 to 453,096,547 pounds in 1938. Tea Import for 1937: 95,000,000 pounds; for 1938: 11,372,434 pound. U. S. Colleges Revive Traditions As Alumni Return to Campus il our success. Yes, it is all too true that the system has permitted people to starve in the midst of abundance eo much abundance that it has been ordered destroyed in sight of famishing children! This is the crime of the ages, the unpardonable sin, a reflection on the intelligence of man an insult and a blasphemy against GodI The system that practises it was born out of Babylonia perdition and will go down in chaos to another perdition, unwept, unhonored and unsung. MONEY Income payment to U. S. Individuate during 1930s first quarter totaled $18,105,000,-00an increase of 3 per cent over 19381 comparable period aggregate of $15,788,000,000. RELIEF WPA plana to cut 900,000 from relief rolls this summer to compensate for next fiscal years reduced budget Total expected clientele on June SO, 1940: ex- istence, mellowing and hallowing all that it touches. Taka moth- 0, VYACHESLAFF MOLOTOFF A change o policy, through the woeful worry and waste of a world gone mad, it rise to the prearh-er.belsv- es Trend Bow the wind - SSSj?-,!?- ' Have-Not- s.' sub-V2yr- W i If GEORGE H. DAVIS Divuioat . . . discord . , . antagonism." wys and means by North Caro-- i ?ubert L-- Doughton: . f 3.0 wages contributions for (3) re-Per cent unemployment ta atatea which JI?Cq,Uale bcaecvu fund: tfftaMi!!. oU ,w nnltleB ir tk Sueommenda-anw8- out of die warp and woof of this gross world. Through the bustle of business and the pre-civ- EUROPE: their status: 0. woven 0, et fuel Mother love is still the purest, lenderest dung that has ever been Adjournment Fought Peace Bloc; j Congressional Session Forecast id-Ju- ne A Early this spring President Boos, velt declined a bid to address tha U. & Qiamber of Commerce convention, knowing full well his New Deal would be hung in effigy. Tha Jweidenfi idea was right; after five days of speech-makin- g which New Yorks New Deafishduring Rep. Sol Bloom was booed from the dinner table because ha said business men should be glad to pay taxes for tha privilege of living in a free country, tha schism between White end hie cohorts have agreed not to House and Big Business was wider shift the load from large shoulders than ever. to small ones, also that federal revKeynoted Chamber President enues cannot be reduced. Relief. Rebel Democrats and all George H. Davie, Kansas City grain Republicans are fighting the Presl-den- fi loan: "It eeema that tha greatest 1040 relief budget of partly for economy's sake and pertly because the White Home insists on keeping WPA intact Labor Act Modifications in the Wagner act to pacify business were promised before the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce by Nebraska's Sen. Edmund Burke. By early May, almost a month of committee hearings had netted nothing not already men That His Liberation is due; That out of die long dark night that has been Must dawn n Great Day that is New! Chrifiie Lund Coles When gold shall be less than die good it candot And Love shaU erase all the shame; When the dreams of the ages shall all come true With the saving of Man as their aim! At Annapolis, graduates of tha U. S. naval academy toss away their midshipmens hats after receiving diplomas, symbolic of embarkation on a new life. |