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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD ews Scenes and Persons in the Current 0 WHOS NEWS. THIS WEEK... . Ffnt By Lemuel F. Parton TTTVTVVt f V Y YT TTTf TTT VTT V Gallant Crusader Against the Marijuana Weed National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart' Waahlngton, D. C. National Pr mi .Bulldln ades of service to the government. I happened to have had the privilege of close contact with Mr. Baldwin when he headed his countrys debt refunding commission to the United States more than fifteen years ago. From that association I learned to respect his mental capacity and his ability to foresee coming events. When he says, therefore, that labor and capital must be honest with each other, I cannot help feeling that Mr. Baldwin foresees the possibility of bloody clashes and unsound results in the offing, conditions that will flow from the abuse The nation is contin- Washington. uing to witness labor disturbances of an exceedingly More Labor serious character. Troubles Many persons thought when the strikes in the automobig n bile industry were settled without serious bloodshed that we were on the way out of labor trouble in this country. The feeling in this regard had some confirmation when the great United States Steel corporation reached an agreement by which John L. Lewis and his faction of organized labor was recognized as the sole bargaining agency on wages for the greatest single unit of steel. Unhappily, those circumstances were not indicative of an end. They did not presage peace between labor and employers. The conflict is continuing and, I believe, holds the elements of much more danger than we have yet experienced. Because of the conditions that are now apparent and those which happen to lie ahead, the recent speech by Edward McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, becomes both interesting and significant. Mr. McGrady, it will be remembered, made a speech at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in which he said boldly to the members of the garment workers union that if labor and capital both are to survive, there must be a sincere effort on the part of each group to understand the problems of the other. He reduced the differences between employer and employee to the simple formula, namely, that representatives of each side, if they expect to do justice by their own people, must sit down at a table and talk things over honestly. Now, the Assistant Secretarys interest in labor cannot be questioned. He is a former official of organized labor. During his term as Assistant Secretary he has been exceedingly active and earnest in his of power. Mr. Baldwin told the house of commons, that: You will find in our modern civilization, that just as war has changed from being a struggle between professional armies with civilians comparatively uninterested in it, so the weapons of industrial warfare have changed from arms that affected comparatively small localized business into weapons that affected directly those who have no concern whatever with the issue except perhaps natural sympathy with their own class. The British prime minister added that, under such circumstances, the one thing we must pray for, not only in our statesmen, but also in trade union leaders and masters, is wisdom. It seems to me that Mr. Baldwins admonition can be uttered from high places in our American government with a value just as important as he gave to his words. The fact that Assistant Secretary McGrady has been the only public official to speak so frankly and so honestly is comforting, but it is to be deplored that he alone has spoken. Since attempts sit-dow- n shut-dow- McGradys exposition of his conception of relations between em- e and ployer ployee comes as something of a ray of hope to the em-Se- Ray of Hope in a class struggle that unfortunately to solve labor problems and bring about industrial peace. His efforts at conciliation cover the range from the bitter maritime strike on the west coast to the more or less instrike of a consequential hundred employees in a hotel here in Washington. So, it seems thoroughly fair to assume that any advice given by Mr. McGrady must include absolute justice for the workers. Mr. McGrady beheves that the irresponsible practices which lead employers to treat labor representatives as agitators are due to ignorance. On the other hand, you cannot help reading between the lines of his recent speech an inference at least that he regards some labor representatives as quite as irresponsible as some employers. His view in this regard is indicated by the stress, the emphasis, which he laid upon the importance of discipline among union members together with his assertion that labor must recognize the sanctity of its contract with the employers just as much as the employers must recognize the validity of their contract with labor Mr. McGrady pointed out what or losses result from strikes and declared that the efficiency in production, which the country has a right to expect from industry, cannot be achieved unless labor and capital work together. Further, the Assistant Secretary observed that responsible labor must place efficiency leadership and elimination of waste and loss among its objectives if organized labor is to achieve a worthwhile goal Mr. there are ominous signs great masses of American citizens who are neither employers of labor nor members of labor unions. I have said in these columns before and I repeat that the tragedy of conflict between employer and employee, organized capital versus organized labor, lies in the fact that there are millions of people in the role of innocent bystanders. They are the individuals who suffer most. It is inevitable that they must suffer because in a nation whose commerce and industry is as complex os ours, every time capital or labor abuses the powers entrusted into its hands, those who are not members of either group pay a penally which is not possible of measurement. This characteristic of life obtains not alone in the United States. It exists in every civilized country to the extent that that country is industrialized. There is no better evidence of the truth of the statements 1 have just mnde than an Incident which occurred a few days ago in the house of commons in London. Stanley Baldwin, rrime minister of England, and one of the most powufut men among foreign statesmen today called attention to a dark cloud which he saw on the economic hotl-zoof tunc. Mr. Baldwin was speaking to Ids colleagues in the house of commons something in Hie nature of a valedictory because he Is soon to retire from public office after thiee dec n has been promoted in this country, it seems to me the attention of the people ought to be directed somewhat more to conditions in congress. Some months ago I wrote in these columns my fear that the current session of congress was going to leave a rather dull record for having done nothing. Thus far, my fears have been justified to the fullest. Congress went into session in the first week of January. To date, therefore, it has been in session five months. Its record of accomplishments includes passage of four appropriation bills, providing money for federal government departlittle NRA ments; the Guffey-Vmsocoal law and the cash and carry neutrality law. I do not see how anybody can be enthusiastic about those accomplishments. Passage of appropriation bills is mere routine usually because in most cases they involve no controversial question at all. Passage of the neutrality act likewise was an action about which there could be little dispute even though there may have been plenty of grounds for disagreement over the type of law enacted. That leaves, therefore, only the Guffey-Vmsocoal bill over which there could have been much delay in house or senate debate. All of this makes the picture look even worse for congressional leadership. There is talk already about adjournment of congress as soon as hot weather strikes Washington and the temperatures can get very high and unpleasant While this undercurrent of talk is not yet in an important volume, it emphasizes the fact that there is a growing body of legislators who see no possibility of accomplishing anything worthwhile in the current session. But what are the reasons? Having gone rather thoroughly into this situation, I think there are two factors to be considered. One is the lack of capacity of the leadership among both Democrats and Republicans and the other is traceable to the White House. President Roosevelt for four years has told congress what to do and to that extent has destroyed the initiative of the legislators as a body and now that some members want to ' reassert the power of congress, the Presidents organized spokesmen appear not to know what to do. Nothing Doing n n It may be said that the immediate cause of the failure of congressional leadership to get Leadership much of the legis-Fatl- s lative program out of the way in , five months is the controversy resulting from Mr. Roosevelt's proposal to add six justices of his own choosing to ttie United States Supreme court. That statement, in my opinion, is only partia'ly true. There are many senators and representatives. otherwise loyal to the President, who now feel that the court plan cannot be put through. But those spokesmen thus far have not advised the President frankly of their views and m consequence the court bill Is still in the way. To that extent, then, the legislative le ulership lias lacked courage and Mr Roosevelt has re roamed adamant winch pnsvbly charges him with some ty in the legislative stalemate. Western Newspaper Union, NEW YORK. ' JMAmkb al)( The Gabble The good do isnt necessarily QRAND canyohIs. interred with their bones if to stand on on your ner the nm of wives. they have scenic wonder and hear ej The late Hamilton Wrights successive tourist i world war on narcotics has if artist any it painted jus been shoved on down through it is nobody would believe 19 years of tireless fighting by After I heard 174 separa his widow. At Richmond, Va., recently, Mrs. Wright pleaded to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers for united and effective action against the marijuana weed, murderous Mexican narcotic smoked by school children. She calls it the most pernicious of drugs. In New Mexico, twelve years ago, the state narcotics commission found growers and cigarette manufacturers pressing a campaign to quell a rebellion t in the state of among children, and they found the 1 President Cetuliio Vargas of Brazil, who has mobilized 40,000 troops shown winning the recent Kentucky derby. children smoking marijuana. They War Admiral son of Rio Grande. tomb of the Unknown Soldier passed a law. The use of the weed of the national chapter of the War Mothers of America, placing wreaths on the crept on to New York, Rhode Island, in Arlington National cemetery. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas and several southern states. GRANDMA GETS M. A. At the Richmond congress, Mrs. Wright represented the federal bureau of narcotics. In 1921, she began her service as one of three international members of the opium advisory committee of the League of Nations, and has since waged her fight against the drug traffic in every country where it originates. She the was Elizabeth Washburn, daughter of the late Senator William Drew Washburn, who had been minister to France. i Man-o-Wa- 2-- r, New Twins Ready to Join Navy Family Hamilton Wright traveled, agitated, organized, wrote and lectured for years against narcotics. When, in 1918, he went to Paris as a member of the peace conference, he was killed in a street accident. Mrs. Wright, highly placed socially in Washington, left her pleasant home and her four children and picked up her husbands gage where it had fallen. In China, Turkey and Persia, she fought against the world tide of poison. She traced the green capsule Mrs. Rose A. Cahan, known to her of the poppy, from the fields of Yunfellow students at Teachers college nan and Shensi provinces to the Uncle Sams two newest twin destroyers, the Patterson and Jarvis, of Columbia university as the col- slums and stews of world capitals. are shown floating serenely in the drydock at Bremerton, Wash., before lege grandmother, who has re- She rounded up the story of the forof arts degree. She eign wars waged against China to they joined their big family of sisters on the bounding mam. The launch- ceived a master studies. continue will her she Patterson. Miss Elizabeth says was of make her admit Indian opium. With the twins by sponsored ing Ellen La Motte, who wrote The Backwash of War, she pieced toExpert on Weather gether a narrative as unlovely as any chaplet of horror which ever to Study Arctic rested on the brow of the nations. There are so many things to be Clifford J. McGregor, meteoroloagainst these days, it is hard to gist of the weather bureau at Newpick your opponent Why not just ark, N. J., airport, who will head take marijuana weed? This writer an expedition of scientists into the speaks with feeling on this subject, schooner Arctic in the having observed one citizen chewing anothers ear off in a mountain hamlet in southern Mexico, quite a few years before the weed became an interest in American high schools. I had Joined in singing the quaint La Cucaracha the song about cockroach that got so full of marijuana weed that he couldnt walk home. There was nothing in the song about the drugs peculiar incitement to mayhem. The song will become distasteful to anyone who has seen marijuana at work also near Mazatlan, my experience where a peon was shooting up the town and lunging-a- t passersby with a machete. It was about eleven years ago that the Brooklyn police arrested Andrew Huerta, a Mexican sailor, who was selling marijuana cigarettes. In a backyard in Queens, he showed them a knee-hig- h a crop of r marijuana. This led to the arrest of racketeers, growing the weed and selling cigarettes to soldiers. A unique rental plan of old master reproductions has been inauguGeneral A. W. Greeley," named for the famous Arctic explorer. rated by the Chicago Art institute to encourage art appreciation. FourEvery year or so there is an arLeaving the end of June, the expedi- teen reproductions of famous paintings are available for rent to members rest. The cigarettes are made cents a month. Miss Adele Law-so- from the dried leaves and the flowtion will remain in the Far North of the institute at seven and one-haers of the weedwhich is known as for 16 months, studying and recordleft, institute employee, offers Miss Betty Humphreys, a member, wild tobacco and looks like a toher choice of two masterpieces. ing weather data. mato vine. It is a tough growth and so is the habit. If somebody bites you on the subway, you will know what is the matter. All states, as Mrs. Wright reports, have laws against its growth or use, except South Carolina, Kentucky and .V Tennessee. But, so far as this writer can learn, there has been no unified or vigorous action, there is ' t meager information and there is ac1 cumulating evidence that, with rer peal, some of the more resourceful ,. fI W V Hi liquor racketeers became Art Museum Starts Rental Library three-maste- d distinct tourists repeat got on my nerves and I sought surcease far from round-trippe- lf n, Speaker Bankhead Umpires Baseball .Game i v ', , hf 7 t :: ft jI 1 1 c t I I i , Legislative business was called off when Speaker of the House William B Bankhead acted as master ol ceremonies and umpire during the annual baseball game between the pages of the senate and the house of representatives in Washington recently. The speaker is shown calling a close one at the plate as Duane Dediicks of Utah, outfielder of the senate, slides home safely. Dan Ellis of Alabama is the catcher. Lost Atlantis Again. For more than thirty years, Pro fessor Leo Frobenius has been taking the shine off our modern civilization by demonstrating that a lot of it is old stuff. The famous German archaeologist, lecturing in the United States, is one of the leading defenders of the lost continent of Atlantis theory. Now sixty four years old, he delves tirelessly in In dia, Africa, Egypt, Tripoli and Tur key. The son of a German army officer, also an author and scholar, he made his first expedition in 1901. Of all savants, he has turned up the most convincing evidence that s many strata of great buried undcrly our house of life. civili-zation- Connoliti itr d Npws Features. WMJ birvice. r, to the common- babbling of hoping A escape Lt place eastern sight-seer- s and revel In the salty humor of the unspoiled West. And I ran into a native who said, with the cute air of having just thought it up, Yes, sir, I never had less. r And I encountered a gentle ai' who in parting called out, Say a dont take in any wooden wck ij And then, speaking of someone If I never see remarked, guy again itll be too soon." ! Renaming Hors !' Oeuvres j THE controversy over gmr American name to d oeuvres which some cannot pr nounce and none can dig s) rages up and down the land. VI Sam Blythe, that sterling e jj calls these alleged appetizers couldnt print in a famJy r paper, Sams idea of a before! ner nicknack being a baked id A Texas congressman sturdy : them But if I were living abroad a I know what Id call them. you behold the array oi this that, as served at the begum1 luncheon in the average table c doo-dab- s. restaurant over there, and esply in France, you are gazmg aj 1 -i . what discriminating customer-otheir plates at supper the before. Scrambled Cooking. below Flagstaff, Am DOWN to the eastward city which saddles picturesque international boundary, I foul unique condition. The best American food ava i is across the Mexican line 3 restaurant owned by a tleman with a Chinese Greek cook ir kitchen. But the best Mexican the A ery is done well over on w German a can side by whose husband is an Italian. cit So our own native-borc typical the when hungry for of New England or Dixie, jc beyond the border patrols, M n on way many of neighbors their extra-curricul- 4" the abo Ti miles perior their ifl bound I c northward for a bit me the tamales and brands of chJi. flammatory Dueling a la Europe a the Dr. Franz Sarga, UNTIL serves chette, ! of Budapest one of his enemies as it were, instead trimming hangnails 8 I decline to ge Do remember the off whiskers, up. 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