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Show v 6. r, Juiv I$3i MACNA Howe About: s TE1E3 MACKA. UTA1I PAG3TH23 Scenes and Persons in the Current News Poverty K VUSto. torjtht 5n read In the paout In front of the camera. been making lot of face 1 nao rt I C?Uf; bl ti q bol4t t hern hT f noil lately; bare need np toii all expression two or three time. Tod know actors jast got certain little my j lfl u lOpr tttorj1 grimaces we make tttpqj that for bate, fear, merr- P iment, exalts jjjt and merriment are tka game). Scorn Is ona wrlpa .!9sm. We can t Jut laloep, that w label a mme iltuatlou coma jut ictare.iolU really jcU't speech. If ha Is audl-a- t potions from the generally ths same tha jj town, and ha stand that tha way wa w h a fellow that Just sort monkey In him jot that can't act, cater has learned te do ender moat etr- that come up with him, ku j Jut i t ibout the the tame looks picturee were sl--u with the look we got Ton cant i tt with It.could in the ad u yon inceee, that le out loud, M hjs these folke that can i Spa used to get morp opt jiUu most people. Ai seems to be making a sns sowadays, course not 4 to give the folks work There la soma m actors that are oat of jstoow some of the small-sr "bits that yon see W to picturee nowadays, mui ItIfmight be some it, that yon looked np ims work. A Iron would find, that ha i star one time, or that lid played leads In noma a, or stage plays, fsirvelous tha grace, and ramsnshlp they taka it. whine, never alabL If know em personally or laic known them In bet-nwould never know' a M It 1 defy tba world to i spunk, and hold a stiff .better than yon will find lore that thtnga are not 0 well with. mention names for that fair to auch courage, but set, (what we mean by cene where there is a it of people need, thats $1 set) there Is a, great 7 call It, "comraderla (real ones who each knew i In those happy days. I le over by a bunch of em, talk, and the talk Is ."vasent so and ao great ifr Nevef K vltrollirnotef great bunch the other ford, one of Hollywood's, "or, and one of tha 1 m It? whtj shad d that s fint nd si.' IrtKt, re, Oe it ILL rerertri hen Cj BU ByadlMla ill I ffLLS.-W- eIl , kt fcBi, easte tl A Sordid Tale A Popular Rogue WNU . Sr-r1-c. By ED HOWE little while 1 encounter tha statement In Amhii print that 73 per cent of dtizeu die, pauper; If not In the poor house, r- then ae helpless burden on grumbling relative. It la n disgraceful charge to make la a country ta good as this. Bow near true is UT And how much of the blame attache ta tha unhappy 73 per cent! The other day I attended the funeral of n man I had known some year. For nig month ha had . been n charity patient tt n public Institution (and a very unpopular one, as be had an ugly temper). For 30 years ha had n salary never beMA . ' low 40 n week, and light and pleasant work, yet wu never a week j ahead of the bounds, within year ef bin death ha took a long trip on borrowed money, In an automobile the mortgage took after the t fu neraL Mortgages also emptied his A AM house of all the furniture worth anything, I have known him ta ' 2fr give parties" on money ha should i and might hava uved to pay his funeral expenses. 1 Senorltas at the annual fiesta of the San Joan Bautista mission In California, riding In one of the He Jassed hla music, hla Job, hla original carets used by the old padres. 2-- Unveiling n tablet at Norway, lit, memorializing the one hunUfa. H might have owned a shop dredth anniversary of the founding of the first 'permanent Norwegian settlement In the United States. of hla own 30 yearn ago, bat wu military plane flying In formation over the Tigris river at Bagdad. always expecting n raise when n reduction wu steadily more probable. It la not an unusual case; tha disturbing figures Quoted may not be too high. h ' 'v i ? I I know an old fellow who, die vi : posed to do hla duty to tho unemA T t . . 1 1 ployed the put winter, hired an automobile driver ha did not need, because tho fellow had a wlfo and t F A two children. M V f In one night the mu stole a car, J held up a filling station, and mar 4 rled a street walker, ud is now In I Jail at tho expense of overburdened 9 g? I taxpayers,. Before tho state la through with him trial, rehearing, deputies to take him to prison, off4 i icers to guard ud feed him, chaplains to pray for him hla cost to h I tho public will bo several thousud dollars more. It la a sordid tale, but true. What wu In that mans brain cavity! Did . J- i K his parents spoil him, or was It the 4 7 'L ; ' , ,.V. V; help howling In publications and - conventions, ud everybody saying that civilization Is a failure! In keeping with the back to the farm movement being advocated In the Saar region, which la now under e tba control of the League vt Nations, womn are her ehown working the soil. Next year the citizen of this 1 know a stout young man with tho league. region will vote on whether Jey wish to be ruled by Germany or Franco or etay under tho wing of excellent natural intellectual equipment who for 20 years has been n -QUEEN" contemptible scoundrel In all hie relations with hla mother. He reduced her to poverty, and she went to work, but ho refused to ; bo lives off her work, and la mean to her. He ta n disreputable loafer, yet the women say there Is nothing vicious about the boy," and ratber like him. They even severely criticize his mother for spoiling him, although she has done nothing except lore him, and coax him with tears In u Washington. Armed with more back congress must override the power than nay President of tho veto. To override a veto It Is necesUnited States, or sary nnder tb terms of tb Conof each OnMan tho' head of any stitution that two-thirdemocratic gov- - house shall have voted la the afControl ernment, ever hen firmative, I am making no assertion that any had. President Roosevelt baa started what he bopea will be the final drive such attitude will be taken by the for economic recovery. He bee nil President Non can make It for of the weapons In hla own banda non knowa a bat the President's There can be no mistake that he la attitude will be when tb time comes for a decision on the point j preparing to net them. When the second aeaslon of tho It Is worthy of thought In any epla- - j Seventy-thircongress adjourned, Ion, however, that her ta n condl-- j tho work It bad don together with tlon a her the system of checks tho enactments of tho first session, and balances between the legists-- , completed the transfer to the Chief tlve. Judicial and executive branches Executive ef more authority than of the government have placed a I any congress ever before had dele- powerful whip tn the bands of the gated to the head of the govern- Executive. Students ef . the Con-- 1 ment In fact a survey of the acta stitutlon tell me that It la a very j unusual condition. seem to Indicate that congress delegated to Mr. Roosevelt at least 00 When Mr. RooseveK came Into per cent of tho power ordinarily ree erred to tho legislative branch office March 4, 1033, the congress. according to tho 1 alone. Some- - of tho granta were Legality Constitution, hold of n temporary character, of course, but nevertheless the President has QuettioneJ and Pcollect laTr taxes, them gnd they cannot bo taken away until after tho first of January, 1033, to borrow money, to reguUto for- Irrespective of their nature, unless elgn end domestic commerce, te 1 value exigencies should arise under which coin money and regulate Its for- President Roosevelt will call the and to govern Its relation to elgn coin, to combat counterfeiting, ' congress back for an extraordinary session. Those exigencies do not to net up Inferior courts, to declare war and grant letter of marquo ' now appear on tho borUon. The above paragraphs are a nec- and reprisal, to rateo and support tho army and tho navy and control essary prelude to tho further statef ment that, for tha coming alx calls for tho militia, to define and punish piracy, guard tho copyright months, at least, the country will of creative work, and to make all have a distinctive one-ma-n control laws for carrying out necessary w considart prone to Ordinarily, these various powera er this government of ours la n litof What tle different manner because, Ut n these vasthas congress retained It the by powers, given period when congress Is in session, Constitution because It represents the restrictions which Its enact- the is a divergence There people! ments embody serve to Circumscribe of Surely, however, there tbs powers of the executive branch hasopinion. beea delegated to the President In tb forthof the government some of the most Important of tboeo coming six months, however, the powers, and some authorities Uki executive branch may operate with Senator Borah of and some1 all of the freedom discretionary au of the DemocraticIdaho, conservatives thority carries In the New Deal leg claimed the delegation has been U- lslation, legal Whether that contention ta Because of the great speed which true, of course, Is a matter for the characterized passage of tha New courts. Deal legislation for which the Presg To examine just a few of ident asked, Its full meaning was don by congress will Illusoverlooked temporarily . In many trate the extent to which It went cases. Now that congress has In granting authority to tho President Take the laws creating the gone, however, appraisals are possible In the light of the relationship Agricultural Adjustment admlnte- existing between varions Items. ef tratlon and It will be seen that the1 tb New Deal, and this baa occa authority to levy and collect taxes' loned more than tb usual amount was granted and at the same tlmo of discussion In Washington. big bandful of control over to-- , One line of discussion frequently teratate and foreign commerce wa heard le that Mr. Roosevelt has given to tho Executive. Production Bank-- 1 pieced hlmeelf In a spot where be control under the can claim full personal credit for head cotton control law Is just, the success of hla program. By that An Important control over the seme token, and since success Interstate and foreign commerce Is not yet assured, he Is on the spot was given the President also under the national recovery act General where he must accept fall respoa slblllty tor failure of any part of the Johnson, administrator, exercises program to accomplish the Job that authority, of course, but ' he which be has outlined. From what does so under executive direction. While the power Is circumscribed-t- o I bear around Washington, there an extent, congress gave the seem no disposition anywhere to take away any of the credit. The President authority to change the politicians on the Presidents aide value of the dollar. He cannot vary dare not seek any of the credR,-- en their records show them to have sixty cents, a w used to measure been wholly subservient to hie will cents, but the power to coin money lth politicians are and regulate Its value rests extent. Mr to The Roosevelt that to for their play dead, continuing strategy la apparently one of allow- Implications go much further. Tho an Immense fund of ing the calf all of the rope. If treasury has gold which It can ose in maintainfailure attends any units of the probetween our gram, they will make great capital ing the relationship coins. and dollar foreign Is success of It If complete, they can do nothing about It anyway, Under the present set up, conthus they ere In a blind alley for gress gave away temporarily the the time being. right to make This position, I am told, does not U . S. in laws, or a part Many mean that the Republicans and other f that authority. Businesses group will not In nearly all of earin fight back. I have explained acts of the New Deal congress, lier lettera that they are going to the much discretionary power to draft Three of the ten women recently designated by artlata ss the mot foment trouble by attacks on vari- regulation and rules for adminisbeautiful women In America met In Hollywood not long ago. left to ous of the policies to show vulnertration of tbe new laws was accordNorma able points. right: Mra. A. Compton Billcke,'Los Angelea society woman; ed tbe Executive. Shearer, brilliant star of the motion pictures; and Dolorea Del Rio, fiery leaders contend that In using two other to the hostesa the Aa I tald at the outset, story this discretionary power, the exMexican screen luminary. Tllsa Shearer played of the Seventy-thircongress Is the ecutive branch has put government beauties. of tbs story countless businesses. Through Jutt a Loan broadest loan of lato the Reconstruction Finance corporof Power power ever given. ation, for example, the government It must be de- owns or baa Influence In, through scribed as a loan of power, because the medium of loans, such busicongress can take It back at any nesses as banking, dairying, cotton time by mustering sufficient votes and wheat and other grain stock. for repeal of the laws It enacted. In the mortgage field, railroading But It must be remembered that, and In the various fields of comNorris amend under tbe merce and Industry such ss those ment to the federal Constitution, the touched by the Tennessee Valle recently adjourned session of con- experiment gress was the last session. In other In the field, the governwas ment has charitya when adjournment words, long way. It 1 gone voted, it was an adjournment sine In numerous ways. work providing die. It was finished. It cannot be Varions are being experiments reconvened without a call by the worked out with these funds, voted President and that, as I reported by congress for distribution under above, Is hardly within the realm of the Presidents direction. Some of AH of which is by possibilities. the money la being used, for examway of saying that Mr. Roosevelt ple, for the building of whole towns will hava the use of these loaned In conjunction with a government-owne- d powera completely and unequivomanufacturing plant cally certain until next January. Through NRA, It Is to be menbe will It might be added that tioned also, the antitrust laws have most of them for much longer were virtually. If not wholly, susbecause, although congress can ex pended. The recovery act made'the erclse Its right to take them back, anti trust laws Inapplicable where recovery of the grants of power corporations signed the codes and la not as easy as It may seem. For complied with the bine eagle reUnder that Mm set example, normally, repeal of a law quirements. la accomplished by a majority vote of laws, too, the government vircollected But one must stop tw a partner In all busiHeirlooms of many prominent Louisiana families are being to carry on In congress.here that Mr. Boosevelt tually became committee Women Louisiana tb of member It exercise authority since consider for al by nesses, active In the their fight to oust Senator Long and Overton. Member Hilda may not want to give np tbe au over their, manufacturing practice Mr. Phelps thority vested In him. Ha has the and policies aa well m their methWeetfeldt; Mr. to Georg left right: are, project Lyona and od! of production and distribution. Hammond, chairman of the Women committee; Mr. George authority' to veto an act of t kr WMtm KwtpMV Sslo. Mra. Joseph Friend.' Then, to get those powers ir jnt d J ur. rf (3) -- 1 Women Are Working the Farms in the Saar I - :-i- 1 4 -- 'V. Xf i 'i ! Wi w J I Ilk-Ms- i Making a tour of the railways of Canada and tb United States la Mlaa Grade Jones, Holyhead, Wales, who recently was selected as rail way queen by the railroad work or of the United Kingdom. Around her neck la her chain of office. MONKEY MOUNTAIN Heirlooms to Fight Two Senators rv J see ... v d ? -- v - Three of Our Most Beautiful Women railway 1 have bad In my possession some montbs a book called Bystander, . . by Maxim Gorky. Although Gorky f Is a famous writer, and he says this book of more than seven hundred pages ts bis final message to the world, I have taken It np and put It down, without complete rending a hundred times. I do not know what his final and most Important message to the world Is; I do not know what he la "driving at Occasionally, when 1 pick the book np, I find a good thing the beat so far on page 483. One of the male characters devotee eleven lines to a criticism of women; and, at the reall hla old cow conclusion of hla condemnatory Mi, 1 had known most of marks a woman present asks: But more specifically, what la It many yearn too, and are trying to sayT you food to sea em again.. J In nearly everything I rend I fMuy a good band on that rhn. To name all of 'am wonder what writers are tryingcon-to say. The people are gabbling : hout all tha old timers but half the time I wonibre. Many of them rode stantly, whaf der they ere trying to uy; fd Griffith In the charges do not talk less, and they regret NafiiLTh. Birth of a more Intelligently, nlmply and efjlhare been to Europe Ch rb Bill. yred Burns was fectively. Half the stuff one sees the papers Is ridlcnlous; the r good bucking korae In, la larger In books and percentage ib f TT roper, and tome old conversation, as any Intelligent eot (SB boys, and lots of 101 reader or listener can testify. Pegg- i Rlckson, Duke R. i C Jones, and Neal Hart. It seema to me managers of the t6 real cowboy. He did W professional charities should Issue L111 Westeni8 not eo long ruplJ a card of thanks to those Ameri. ftrt . cans who have kept out of the jtler I another Foi direc-t-. bread lines, and helped n little In latest picture Handy relieving the misfortunes of othera. Mso Connecticut Yankee During an exceptionally hard winrthnr Court Data la a ter a man who maintains hla fans-ll- y and be helps the 7an, and does not bother respectably, "tore that are going his neighbors for assistance; 1 an by using them In all j V especially good citizen. He should can- - 11 a,nt nnythlng receive an occasional kind word of k v. ! of big gorillas In appreciation. Instead of dally In0p and grab you and sults from professional ff IJ charity , w nd It will be tha workers that he la a stingy brut t- - the great University who does not Do His Duty, I8 CaI- - line, and hack-,- 7 8re plenty rough, 'and I saw an estimate the other day 01 boys. i . 7 that Jhe average mana world con" story In sist! of eight or ten miles of 2D 0,1 a scenery, and that be knows possibly nes tsie n,en' Professors. a hundred people, only a dozen or 5 jgsttK L Person tn tha world. two of them Intimately concerning broken heart, him. ,ttany let with what awesome 10 see one of em show whispers we apeak of the unknown of f and mysterious world about which m. we know absolutely nothing 1 the-thin- That adult and children alike enjoy watching the antic of mon 1 demonstrated by the key min-latthrong that gather around this mountain In Frank Bock fair Animal exhibit at the World la Chicago. Tb mountain I Inhabited by nearly 230 rhesus moo ur kya con-gros- s. |