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Show French Express Train Wreck Costs 27 Lives fi V- ydf'-'----"--- vs'Ktygf&W JiT. 7 Japs a;; v . v .$ ' Some years Washington. d when New Englands ago, sharp-tongue- Moses George sat in the presid- in 5 officers chair H. as president pro tempore of the senate, I used to marvel at the speed with which he got rid of legislation. The Republicans were in control of the senate. The late Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas was the Republican leader. Between the astute Curtis and the nimble-witteMoses, the senate many times really ran in high gear. To me, it was reminiscent of the old days, therefore, when I watched Vice President Jack Garner operate in the senate the other day to get the judiciary reform bill through that body without permitting a deluge of debate. I think Mr. Garner performed on that occasion with even greater finesse than did Senator Moses because Mr. Garner did not wait for cues from the floor of the senate; he simply took charge and, knowing what the job was, saw to it that things were accomplished in record time. But the significance of this incident should not be overlooked. It was noteworthy, of course, that the senate should pass the court bill and send it to the house in a total of six hours. It was noteworthy that the Vice President established a precedent by granting permission to senators to include in the Congressional Record speeches they would have made if the debate had been prolonged. And yet it was the implication of the senate action that seems to me to be the most important phase of that situation. The way I see the picture is this: The ease with which that bill was put through demonstrates that those who opposed the original bill to add six new justices to the Supreme court were objecting only to the court packing and not to the reforms in procedure. The bill as it becomes law provides for a number of changes in court procedure to the end that adjudication of controversy can be accomplished much more quickly than has been the case in the past It does not include any addition to the membership of the Supreme court and it does not include any provision for sending judges into the various circuits and districts as the White House and the Department of Justice may decide. In other words, the new law leaves the judiciary system independent and again establishes it as a coordinate branch of the government, equal in all respects to the legislative, which is congress, and the executive, which is the President and the executive departments. There can be no doubt that this piece of legislation is worthwhile although to the layman the benefits may, not immediately appear. It must be regarded, however, simply as a piece of legislation that cuts much legal red tape and those who must avail themselves of the courts or those who are forced under jurisdiction of courts will come more nearly obtaining justice than heretofore. I have said in these columns before that when the senate refused to accept the Presidents orders and pass legislation that would permit him to appoint six new justices to the Supreme court at one time, the President suffered one of the worst political defeats he has ever encountered. He probably will never meet with another such disastrous setback. It was obvious to the vast majority of senators and representatives and to observers here within six weeks after Mr. Roosevelt submitted the court packing bill that he could not force it through. He refused nevertheless to admit defeat. In consequence, it took nearly six months of bitter and futile wrangling in the senate to convince the President that he was on the wrong side of the question as far as public sentiment was concerned. So, congress has wasted nearly all of the 1937 session on a proposition for .which it was not responsible. It may be said that congress should remain in session under those circumstances and give all of the time that is necessary to deliberation of measures before it. Yet, facts must be faced. One of these facts is that through all of the months prior to adjournment scores of members were wearing themselves down fighting against a proposition with which they could not agree. In the meantime, Washingtons summer settled down. Washingtons summer is a completely hot and humid summer. Most of the members of the senate and house are no longer boys of college age. They cannot withstand the physical rigors of heavy work under weather conditions that prevail in a WashThus it is not ington summer. strange at all that as July passed and August wore cm, most of the members wanted to go to places more comfortable than the Capital city and that constituted a terrific urge to get rid of whatever legislation was before them with the very d hand-picke- d minimum of effort. In consequence, there has been some very bad legislation and congress is now wholly to blame for it. 4 f . nothing 1 it i 1 v 3 tv' ' -- , i jf fsf -- ; I - ' r ...... .486 jfeNut fees V. , . a .4 h '5- ds .... vxn v - K p'V, f ' ;? 5 r- V - $. z M- Roosevelt Newlyweds Like the Sun My doctor friend observed that which is true, namely, that the mayor of New York is only mayor of that city and has no jurisdiction or power anywhere else; he observed as well that New York City is simply a subdivision of the state of New York and that New York state is only one state out of forty-eigh- t in our nation. Further, he suggested that he, and he believed millions of others, could not possibly have any interest in whether Tammany or the New Deal faction of Democrats in New York City should win the nomination and their i 3 JTp se?f r-nlfV- A 1 firfi: .,. ' ' S: rfrr; - Zionist Opposes Palestine Split-U- 1 : XjthtZu, iff j :f ,! I "iff S'" 4. 'T f S N fiv ' - i v x ,4 if ' ' r i f -- A f j i - 11 it S 1 4- 7Uv ; r An outstanding British plan to partition Palestine, Menachem M. Ussishkm (above), world president of the Jewish Na- - 'rv' , A''"- . v '..y - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and his bride, the former Ethel Du Pont, pictured as they enjoyed the sun on the Italian Riviera as they honeymooned in Europe. The young couple expect to return to the United States in the fall. When the newlyweds take up housekeeping, young Roosevelt Is expected to complete a law course that will fit him for his business career later on. The honeymooners have traveled extensivly In Europe since they sailed from America some weeks ago following their wedding at Owls Nest, the DuPont estate in Delaware. The wadding, was attended by President and Mrs. Roosevelt. tional fund, was elected chairman of the World Zionist congress at Geneva, Switzerland recently. Election of Ussishkin foreshadows an adverse vote on the partition plan, observers believe. Seeks Bride on 121st Birthday 50,000 HOURS ALOFT s."' WVSKXM.'tVi'jC X y ;sv V c 3 ' i .. i ' 4y, ... r ...... 5 - 50,-00- y Cutting a birthday cake decorated with 121 candles, Abraham is pictured, as he began his one hundred twenty-seconyear of life, at the home of the Daughters of Jacob in the Bronx, New York. In a birthday interview, Patriarch Wishkovsky, who is Polish by birth, announced that he is ready to marry again for the sixth ting, however, that his bride must be young and pretty. Wish-kovsk- d time-stipula- Even This Didnt Make the Chinese War Official N f rr - I r '4: Camera NAPSHOOTING Sniping-- L'ere ohas1 ere ;,v;as tst irhaf ;:'b junbaled a hi i into htower 1 tioub e tte ki oul pay his way through ot: worked as a hotel c!e: 01 lalls. ond and then entered Sir at Indianola, Iowa, whenf i wa his tuition by doing od; knees b( Three years later, fc. the i dg' ington Carver went ont the udd graduating university, 1 ( come gree in agriculture. H an years be won his Mass:? ,, , r degree, and was madei a the faculty, so impress L accomplishments in to; chemistry. In 1897, he i'.is the agricultural d me Tuskegee institute, itip? leading negro univers:: The contributions G: o pmsei raised ington Carver has of the South are cotton He was among the firs: wt pile crop rotation for wor. ays w; he has developed hur.i: like fc where mercially useful artici ewb ate principal agricultural Southern states. Fro: was hi alone Carver made 2ffi; on I wa from the sweet potato ii iayed tl A. Edison once invited l! I la with him, but he pre!::fit itir centrate t Leo on problems luscle. agriculture. In addition to his p: science, George Wash is an accomplished mu is wrigg eft stuff ring him lays he: te mill of famous folks one-piec- he ner bjiB o WAS k were PICKER from ambush may be upsetting to the victims of the sniping, but the subscribing public certainly gets an illuminating eyeful every time one of the photographic magazines appears. Ive just laid aside the current copy of a periodical w'hich could be called either The Weekly Expose or Stop, Look and Laugh. Among other fascinating, not to say illusion-ing- , illustrations, I note the following: A reigning movie queen with her mouth so wide open that her face looked like a gates ajar design. If I had tonsils like hers. Id have em right out. A political Idol taken in a brief e bathing suit Next time they snap him, he would be welj advised to wear more than a mere A Mother Hubbard would be better. Or, anyhow, a toga. A statesman is greatly handicapped when he suggests a barrel of leaf-larwith the staves knocked off. A close-uof Mr. John L. Lewis with the lips pouting out and a congested expression. Would not this tend to confirm the impression that lately Mr. Lewis bit off more than he could chew? This candid camera stuff is translating into the pictorial fact the nightmare all of us have had that horrid dream of being caught outdoors with practically nothing on. f'rei e ood,1. STAR PITCHER . Field Days for Reds. I TNDER the warming suns of tol-'-- z erance and indifference and even tacit encouragement in certain quarters, many of our hothouse Communists are changing from the pallid, timorous flowerlets of discontent Into advocates of the glad new age when Lenin will take pver Lincolns niche in the gallery of the immortals and government everywhere will be of the Trotskys, by the Trotskys, for the Trotskys. True, there still remain some wavering souls who are so pink theyd be red if they werent so yel- VT A.. $ V- ' xz::n . : t "V. , of the White House t lit is the; th ee fflvse! HERMAN JEROME was born Son of a poo: er, he was forced fc when he reached the! because the family wa: the 50 cents a day he t the cotton fields was a all tiy y best irnei day and uneducated, as h Dean always had Perhaps that exp was able to develop vantages circumstance lowed him, and deve championship quality, and a strong right arc he S:e i tas h.ak coni-self- . dace t JI wa :ath 'our p Under-nourishe- ime of in'-i- 1911. I and up b Then hit scci eichod tadied tl jucoiscii if ot of 'Sie i;g rp-rst- f' p told. estern Newspaper Union. - d strangling, crushing arms of an oc, topus. In other words, the conservatives who are supporting Copeland will not let the charge of Interference by the President become of less consequence any time it is re- W Through long suffering, Ive become hardened to this, but today over the wire came a winning voice saying the speaker desired to give me, as he put it, a checking over for white termites. I admit to a touch of dandruff and there have been times when I suspected fleas we excel in fleas on this coast but I resent the idea of also being infested with white termites. Ive about decided that, to modern civilization, telephones are what cooties are to a war nobody likes em, but everybody has em. C Yf can be counted upon as to broaden the charge so that Mr. Farleys tentacles in New York City politics where he has long been active will be made to appear like the appearing. ous. J ' Captain Robert II. Fatt, the new chief pilot of Pan American Airways eastern division of Miami, Fla. Captain Fatt has spent more than five years of working days at 0 the controls of a clipper ship, or hours in the air. He has flown more than a million and a half miles since he started, in 1918. Captain Fatt who learned aviation in the world war has a flying record unusually free of accidents. Keeping Undercover. Is the land where, in selfprotection, you hide your place of residence and have your telephone privately listed. The result Is, if your aged grandmother happens along and doesnt know your address, she can never reach you, but any smart stranger may approach the right party let us call him a phone-leggand, by payment of a small fee, get the number Instantly. So, in about two calls out of three, you answer the ring to find at the other end of the line somebody writh a neat little scheme, because here In movieland neat little schemes grow on every bush and gentlemen promoting them are equally numer- j J 9 - er ; . speller I; opponent of the ! r ? - t worn-ou- education available fc I I was ten years old, a small school la Neq tTOU slept in a barn there' P. , 3Ct 8 to earn a Uvint jobs a c0 ing. The young negrfor knowledge grew, . fact, j on to finish his eleise-- lives education in Fort Scott New B he worked as a hotel aocks aw washer, and a honsekeJ-- collec he bent over wash tub i kid won night doing laundry (( AH the vrhe-- as to gobble more Chinese territory let us look at some records closer home. Since the republic was formed we have deliberately broken 264 separate treaties with the original Red owners of this land. 1 v From these viola- tlons of our solemn promises border wars frequently ensued. When the Indians started fighting we called it an uprising. When we sent troops forth to slaughter the Indians it was a punitive expedition to restore law and order. If the white soldiers wiped out the Indians, that was a battle. If the Indians wiped out the soldiers, that was a massacre. Those who make history rarely get a square deal from those who write history. p paign. The bitterness that is going to prevail from here on has been given something of a preview by the charge by Senator Copeland, the True, Secretary Marvin McIntyre staff denied that the President had talked politics with the Mahoney leaders. But the denial was not accepted by Copeland as being sincere, for he added: I am not afraid of Mr. Roosc velt's reprisals. The President enjoys a great personal popularity, but his political popularity is swiftly dii A But before we get too busy deploring Japans little way of disregarding pledges so - of thfFr Made shortly after the tragic accident, this photo shows the telescoped carriages Villeneuve . near rails the train the 27 when killed were jumped which in express persons road officials attributed the accident to faulty setting of a switch. in New York. Tammany candidate, that President Roosevelt was interfering in a purely local fight. Senator Copelands activities in the senate have been almost wholly antagonistic to the President and the New Deal generally. Where the President has been sound, as the conservatives recognize sound policies, Senator Copeland has fought alongside of the New Dealers. Otherwise, he has not concealed his opposition to radical New Deal proposals. Thus, when Senator Copeland broke openly and accused the President of stooping to local politics, he opened the way for conservatives everywhere to strike back at the political machine managed by Postmaster General Jim Farley in As one Mr. Roosevelt's behalf. Senator house member suggested: Copeland has put fire into the fight. The selection of Senator Copeland by the famous Tammany organization in New York City was the signal for the New Deal faction of the great city to take off their coats. They promptly announced selection of New York Supreme Court Justice Mahoney as their candidate against Copeland. There are four burrough behind Mahoney. organizations There is only the Tammany group On the face of behind Copeland. it, it would seem that the senator cannot win. The fact seems to be, however, that there will be a rather close race for the reason that some of the four organizations behind Mahoney may not be able to control the Democratic votes in their bailiwicks as entirely as Tammany Hall will control Democrats so tong affiliated with that organization. Certainly. according to the best advices 1 can get, the Copeland charge against Mr. Roosevelt is likely to swing a good many Democrats to the Copeland ticket. This will be so because New York City always has resented outside influences in its political battles. Senator Copeland , A7 about man, mayoralty candidate. Superficially, the doctor was right. His thoughts, however, do not touch the root of that situation. Fundamentally, the battle between Tammany and the Democrats in New york is a battle between the old line, conservative Democrats throughout the nation and the New Deal faction of the party which is headed by President Roosevelt. It is vitally important also to the Republicans for the reason that the Presidential election of 1940 is almost certain to be a campaign in which we will find conservatives from whatever party aligned on one hand and radicals from whatever party aligned on the other side. To that extent, the New York primary and mayoralty election is the beginning of the 1940 presidential cam- '0 CALIF. Chinaman kills Chinaman. a Jap. Thats a war. 4 t well-know- n politics a in short, who minds his own business and tries to do the best job of which he is capable, asked me a question the other day that precipitated this discussion. He asked me why the newspapers throughout the country were giving so much space, front page space at that, to the political fight over the Democratic nomination for mayor U A A friend of mine, a doctor, who is not a politician, knows slave, SANTA formula still holds good. A Jap kills a Chinaman. Thats another dead 4...tor T' IS master traded A DU a race horse, worth L for George WashjA P when he was a l; just before the Civil he is the pride of the Killing Chinamen. MONICA, 5 scientisThVE 'JMmhi fins' - -1 By JEANN: yuoM) about f - Like Old Times irpmim uP 'rrrrrrrrr 'WayBacki I low! a When this photograph, showing a transport loaded with steel helmetod Japanese soldiers Taingt.tu W.S ln.uie, Japan and China were lechmcally at peace. Many of these men and many died, slain by each other, but still there was no war. The undeclared war endangered Americans in Shanghai and other leading cities in the area and caused the creation can emergency committee on evacuation. war-ridde- 406.-- jjg arriving at Chinese the safety of of nil Ameri. aol-die- But these quivering aspens shrink in number as their bolder comrades openly profess the blessed doctrine which is doing so much for the undertaking business in Russia. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright. W.NU Srvlc. - rt;de , ii" 6! r or id bgr a L? 1 a Nprlnjcnt sot I'l-- E the cotton fields wereC ment for facing learned to thro with amazing spee( In 1929, he was sijw- b1' Curtiss, scout for sab Texas league. The but paratively small, formet, to the a fortune to er. After training was shipped to St where his confidence Ing won 17 games. Houston, he develop soon became star p;' St. Louis Cardinals- t brother Paul, or a pitching berth on t tr.e Dizzy was always life-li- tacular, tlie higlicr j P more widely de many adver-maa motion and spokcC dio. 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