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Show Thursday, May 31, News Review of Current Events the World Over House Committee Votes to Impeach Judge Woodward; Troops Suppress Labor Kiots in Two States; Chicago's Fair Reopened. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C fry Wwtr of FIFTEEN of twenty member on Judi- committee ciary voted for Impeachment action gainst Federal Judge Charles E. Woodward of Chicago, and It was announced that for-dicharge against him would be drawn up and presented on the flour of the bouse within a few duys. The bouse must then decide the matter of impeachment and If It finds the charge Judge C. E. substantiated the Woodward jurist will be tried at the bar of the senate. According to reports In Washington, flagrant bepotistn was to be the major charge against Judge Woodward, this being based on evidence showing be appointed the law firm of Loucks, Eckert & I'eterson to many lucrative attorneyships In bankruptcy and equity receivership cases; that bis bob, Harold, was employed by this Crm, and that Harold's compensation was raised from $2,000 to 113,000 a year soon after Judge Woodward began muklng those appointments. The vote In the committee was Three members were nonpartisan. absent. Eleven Democrats and four Republicans voted for Impeachment. Of the five casting their ballots against Impeachment four were Republicans, one was a Demal ocrat T ABOR troubles became so se-rlo- that state troops were mobilized In Minneapolis and In Toledo, Ohio, and despite the presence of soldiers there was a great ileal of rioting and violence. In Minneapolis the striking teamsters and building tradesmen rejected an order of the regional labor board to end the strike Immediately, and Insisted on fighting to a finish. The employers had accepted the labor board's terms. Governor Olson had brought 3,700 men of the National Guard to the city. In the midst of the disorder on the streets. Congressman Francis II. Shoemaker was arrested for Inciting violence and was found guilty, being given the choice of ten days In the work-bousor a $50 fine, Toledo's battle centered about the complant of the Electric Auto-Litpany in which 1,800 employees had been besieged for fifteen hours by a great mob of riotous strikers and frequently fired upon by snipers on the roofs of nearby buildings. The windows of the plant were all broken by stones, and torches thrown through them started many fires. The police used tear gas bombs but were roughly bandied by the mobs, so six companies of state troops were called out and they, marching with fixed bayonets, scattered the strikers and released the Imprisoned employees. Later the strikers and their friends gathered again and fought furiously with the troops, showering them with bricks and paving stones. Dozens of soldiers were Injured and finally the exasperated guardsmen fired on the mobs, two rioters being killed and many wounded. Tear gas and the more powerful "knockout" gas were freely used by both sides. Charles P. Taft, son of the late President, was sent from Washington to Toledo as special mediator for the national labor board of the e e g NRA. CENATOR ROBINSON, majority leader, heard rumors that some senators were planning a filibuster for the purpose of killing the ad ministration's tariff bargaining bill. He said he was ready 41 to squelch any such scheme by prolonging the daily sessions of the senate. "If that Is the I- ntention we will rr meet at 10 a. m., rand stay until 8 p. m.," he said. "And If that doesn't Sen. Robinson work, we'll come bere at 9 a. m. and stay till the same hour In the evening." Minority Leader McNary said "none of the fellows" on the Republican side was Involved In the embryonic filibuster. He declared they were ready to vote as soon as general debate ended. The house, after two days of work, passed the administration's Industry loan bill and sent It back to the eDate. The senate has ap proved a bill fixing the maximum total RFC five-yeloans at $250, 000,000 and limiting the amount the twelve federal reserve banks could advance to $280,000,000, But the house discarded the sen ate provisions and Inserted Its own which Increased the RFC total to - BAItROW, claused as ths pLYDB worn of the "bad men" of ths Southwest, aod hli woman companion, Bonnie Parker, were trailed to Ctbsland, La., by Texas rangers, led Into ambush near that village and shot to death by the Texans and a puisne as they sought to fli-- In their automobile. Tho two had a machine gun and a shotgun In their bands as they died, and their car was loaded with weapons and ammunition. Harrow, who had been In the police news for eight years. was charged with the death of 12 men and with many robberies. ft Nwlpr Union. $3o0.0uo,000 and cut the reserve bunk mail in u in to $140,000,000. The differences were to be adjusted In conference. pl.ARENCK DAKROW'S report ou the NRA, submitted some time ago to President Roosevelt, has been made public, and In the main it was Just what was expected from the Chicago lawyer and bis It analyzed eight of colleagues. government lir another European nation. In a bloodless coup u etat the Bulgarian army took control of that country under a dictator-Ship- . military King Boris 1 b e r sponsored the movement or 1 quietly yielded to It. He promptly signed about thirty decrees that were f CONSTITUTIONAL By ELMO SCOTT WATSON JUNE 14 thousands of Americans will, as a part of the annual celebration of Flag y,1 day, repeat this sen)(rtrri tratrto ft tence: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which It stands, one nation. Indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all." It has been said that "The Pledge to the Flag" has been repeated more than any other quotation from modern literature. For that reason the man who wrote It and the circumstances under which It was written deserve to be remembered.. It Is srngularly appropriate that this pledge, which has been repeated so many times by so many thousands of school children, should have been written by a member of the editorial staff of the publication which for so many years was Young America's favorite magazine the Youth's Companion. Francis M Bellamy was his name, and at the time of his death on August 28, 1931, tho memory of his greatest claim to distinction was revived by his widow who gave an Interest lng account of the origin of the pledge. A little group of men, who In 1S91 believed the flame of patriotism was dying out because of momentous developments In industrial and political circles, sought to "fan the spark Into new life," she explained. This effort resulted In President Benjamin Harrison proclaiming October 12, 1S'J2, as the first nations,' holiday In honor of the discovery of America. Delegated to write a proclamation as part of the original ceremony, Bellamy produced a pledge that stood the test of time. "Chief among the leaders of the movement," said Mrs. Bellamy, "were President Harrison, James B. Upham, publisher; William T. Harris, federal commissioner of education; and Mr. Bellamy, a member of the editorial staff of the Youth's Compauion. "Mr. Upham conceived the Idea of a revival of patriotism at a time when material things occupied the attention of most people. His first plan was to place an American flag over every schoolhouse. As a result, 25,000 flags waved on as many school buildings. "Then the suggestion was adoptComed for a national holiday. mittees were formed, public men were Interviewed. This handful of men their virtually consecrated lives to the task of obtaining governmental recognition of Columbus N 1 lisl the more Important codes and found prepared In ad- that seven of them foster monopom tK?i'ance, dissolving lies, help big business and do a the parliament and lot toward putting small concerns King Boris putting the new out of business. These seven codes In power, with Khnon government are: Electrical manufacturing, footOueroguletT as premier. Members wear division, rubber manufacof the former government and sev retail motion turing, pictures, eral other persons were arrested. solid fuel, steel, Ice, and bituNot only In Sofia, the capital, but minous coaL The report found no the country the military throughout monopolistic features In the cleanleaders were In control of the sit ers and dyers' code. uation and no disturbances were Administrator Johnson and bis reported except from that part of chief counsel, Donald It. Itlchherg, Macedonia thut now belongs to Bulbad been given the report previousgaria. For years the Macedonians ly for the purpose of composing a have been demanding their inde This they did, to the pendence, and they do not approve reply to It. extent of 50,000 vigorous words. of the Fascist government set up They answered all the Darrow by the army. charges and assertet. the report was The program of the new govern "superficial," "Intemperate," "Inacment was set forth In a long mani curate," "prejudiced," festo calling for the creation of a "Inconsistent," "nonsensical," "In- disciplined, orderly state. The prinsupportable," "false," and "anar- cipal alterations In the structure chistic" of the government Include a sharpDarrow came back with a causly reduced membership In the leg tic answer that drew further vio- islature, which Is to be under firm lent language from the NRA chiefs, control of the administration, a reand the battle then became general. duction In number of the country's Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, political subdivisions, a general of North Dakota, a supporter of weeding out of municipal and proDarrow's views, spoke for hours In vincial authorities, and an Intensifithe senate, demanding that concation of attention upon the Intergress stay In session until the ex- ests of villages and rural regions. isting "abuses" are corrected. The new premier Is a veteran Next came a bitter attack from soldier and politician whose mild organized labor, asserting that the appearance belles his firmness and Darrow board's report was "a dis- activity. service to the nation and Its citizens In a time of great economic told PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT stress." kind of silver bill congress A row broke out In the Darrow he was willing to accept the comgroup that left several members not promise explained In this column reon speaking terms with one another. cently and such a measure was William O. Thompson, a member of promptly Introduced by Senator the board, accused Lowell Mason, Key Pittman. Some members of the the board's counsel, of tampering silver bloc were far from satisfied with the records. with the bill, but there was every Indication that It would be passed DAT HURLEY, former secretary before the end of the session, the of war, appeared before the sen- senators from the silver states acate civil service committee in a cepting It In lieu of anything betwarlike mood and angrily demand ter from their point of view. If ed that there be they sought to defeat It the proba full examination able result would be a long fight of charges that be and no silver bill whatever. The was party to a pa- bill really leaves to the discretion tronage plot hatched of the President the making of silby Republicans at ver a part of the monetary system his home In Virand the stabilization of Its price. ginia. "He declared thai It should F. ZOOK has DR. GEORGE be determined as United States com whether the De- missioner of education, effective partment of Justice July 1, and President Roosevelt Is out to smear all has designated John Ward Stude-bakPatrick J. members of the preof Des Moines, Iowa, to sucHurley administra ceding ceed him. Doctor Zook, who for day. "Mr. Bellamy saw congressmen, tion or whether A. V. Dalrymple, was president of the Univer the special assistant attorney gen- merlyof Akron, will become director senators and others In the public He Interviewed President eral who made the charges, Is "Just sity of the American Council of Educa- eye. and Grover Cleveland Harrison an Irresponsible falsifier In charge tion In the fall. among others. of the wooden pistol section of the "Afterwards he aroused Interest Department of Justice." the among congressmen by Inducing Mr. Hurley bitterly criticized the FOR more than thirty years to give interviews endorsing La Folletteltes of Wisdepartment for permitting one of consin have been as Reoperating Its officials, Webster Spates, to read to the committee an anonymous, publicans and under that label have hitherto confidential report entitled competed, often "the New Deal with the same old Willi OUVta, ivi dealers." The report declared "the control of the state. same old gang of standpat Repub Now this Is to be licans are gatekeepers to the pa changed. With the E aid of dele gates 1 tronage pastures." from labo. and farm Mr. Dalrymple read to the com tne organizations, mittee the letters from C. W. Broom followers of Senaand Lee Shannon, who told the Jus tor La Follette, astice department assistant that per- sembled In convensons whom they declined to name tion In Fond du r i had Informed them of the meeting Lac, formed a new Senator at Hurley's home, where prominent jt Aw and named It La Follette were to have party alleged Republicans the Progressive planned how they could hold on to party. No statement of principles patronage Jobs despite the change was made, all attempts to bring one in administration. Dalrymple de forth being squelched. nied that he had made the charges Senator La Follette kept In the 3 'fit. -- s , , himself. background until question of orthe were settled. WI A Century ganization name decided, the senator CHICAGO'S exposition, WOODROW WILSON was reopened for party came into the picture with a preanother summer with a big mili pared speech. II the project, to newspapers. tary parade and much ceremony. before and senate wasn't long called The Republican period The fair has been reconstructed passed a Joint resolution givhe said, had culminated and redecorated and Is a bigger and prosperity, ing the President authority to proecoof the In the country's collapse better exposition this year than the nomic life. "The disaster of 1029 claim the holiday, with standard one that called forth 60 much en acute distress and suffering exeiclses In public schools. thuslastic praise In 1933. The best and the American "At last everything was com of the people that folof the former exhibits and feamade the were except the opening proclamaby lowed possible pletej tures have been retained, but many The tion. trust the of secretary of state asked by people's betrayal new ones have been added and Mr. BellMr. Bellamy to do that controlled both men In parties, everything has been brought up to through their party organizations amy nominated Mr. Upham, but the date. There are 12 new foreign vil latter refused. After many long by privileged Intere-.lages for the edification and amuse weary hours over the draft, my husof tha J. John secretary nandley, ment of visitors; the Chicago and band produced the pledge that has told of Federation Labor, Detroit symphony orchestras will Wisconsin the delegates he was disappointed remained unchanged since then. give long series of fine concerts; "And that's all," she concluded. the scientific and manufacturers In the character of tho conference, "All except that Mr. Bellamy's exhibits have been vastly Improved Speaking deliberately aod carefully for organized labor he said he had health was Imperiled in his work and enlarged; the "Midway," bet to rediscover America 400 years afttered In various ways, has been hoped and expected the conference er Columbus landed." was to bring together all of th moved to the lake front of the is It doe If liberal of forces Is thought. and the entire land; exposition resplendent with new colors and not, he said organized lnbor wlii Although the United States U one not go along. new lighting. of the ytungest members in the sis - "one-sided- 1931 ," J er f-e- 1 0- ho-is- e terhood of nations of the world, Mr. Flag tor" Is Benjamin Althelmer of New her flag Is one of the oldest In the I give you greeting, York. Under the title of "Flag Day Maker." world. Aside from the swallow-tailed- . I was about to pass on, when the Man," the New Yorker magazine la Savoy colors of Denmark, me with these words: Its Issue of June 14, 1930, told his adopted In 1219, and the flag of flag stopped as follows: "Yesterday the President spoke story Switzerland, which dates from the If the me lady on your left tires of word made that happier Seventeenth century, history reof 10,000,000 peons In Mexico; your more ponderous dinner topics, cords no national flag with a longer but that act looms no larger on the you might tell her about Benjamin continuous life than ours. than the struggle which the Althelmer. "Benjamin Altheimer." When the Second Continental flag In Georgia Is making to win you might say, "Is responsible for congress on June 14, 1777, adopted boy summer. Flag day; did you know that?" To a resolution which read: "Resolved, the corn club prize this that you are not Just trying prove new law a we made "Yesterday That the flag of the United States be funny, you can give her the to and yesfinancial to panics, prevent be thirteen stripes, alternate red facts about Mr. Althelmer, and how and white, that the nnlon be thir- terday, maybe, a school teacher In he thought up Flag day. Here they teen stars, white In a blue field, Ohio taught his first letters to a He Is a real person, alive, and are: representing a new constellation," and lives right In old New well, the French had not yet York. Although eighty, he can still come Into existence. The present get about spryly. No one In the British flag dates only from 1S01. world gets a greater thrill out of the Germany changed Its flag after walking op Fifth avenue on June fall of the empire In 1913, but even 14 than he does. After all, he put the flag used during the World war tb se flags out there yours and was less than 50 years old. mine and Lord & Taylor's and everyIt fct M a fta body else's. Mr. Althelmer thought of setting The American flag has three aside a special day for the Spangled symbolic names the Stars and Banner, back In 1910. He was on Banner Stripes, the a visit to San Antonio, and he and Old Glory. watched with sparkling eyes the The name Stars and Stripes ceremony at Fort Sam dates, of course, from its very be one It ImHouston afternoon. deIs the and based upon ginning, was him He In of the mightily. banner pressed the flag scription about sixty then, and a great paresolution of June 14, 1777. triot In a quiet way, a lover of d The Banner dates the flag of the Betsy Ross tradifrom the War of 1812. Orators may tion, of the United States of Amerhave called our flag by that name ica generally (oddly enough, he was before that time, but It remained born In Germany.) for Francis Scott Key, a young lie came to America as a young was who detained Maryland lawyer FRANCIS SCOTT KEY on a British .warship during the man, plunged Into banking and out In St. Louis and. In bombardment of Fort McHenry on who will one day write a song brokerage no time, made millions of dollars. the night of September 12, 1814, and boy that will give cheer to the millions His for the quick success who saw "by the dawn's early of our race. We are all making that gratitude 13 our he, a foreign-bor- n Jew, had In "that light" of September the flag." a strange country, took the form of flag was still there," to express his "But," I said impatiently, "these philanthropy and patriotism. He Joy in a poem which was later set people were only working!" to hospitals, founded libraries, to music and which took the counThen came a great shout from gave aided government projects, financed try by storm. the flag: charities, led off campaigns for the The name Old Glory dates from "The work that we do la the mak- relief of victims of fire, flood, war, 1831. On August 10 of that year of the flag. and unemployment Always In his a crowd had gathered at the ing"I am not the flag ; not at all. I mind, however, there lurked a dewharves of Salem, Mass., to wit- am but its shadow. sire to do something for America ness the departure of the brig, "I am whatever you make me; In a big way. The Incident at San Charles Daggett, which was about nothing more. Antonio was his Inspiration. A to set out on a "I am your belief In yourself, great reader of our history, he cruise. Master of the Charles Dagyour dream of what a people may knew (or If he didn't, he looked It gett was Capt. William Driver, become. , that June 14 was the day on noted for his sturdy Americanism "Sometimes I am strong with up) which congress accepted Betsy and his deep love for his country's pride, when men do an honest work, Ross' flag. Then, with the same flag. So his neighbors had brought the rails together truly. him a fine American flag to be fitting spirit and gusto that had put over "Sometimes I droop, for then pur- charitable campaigns, be started hoisted to the masthead of the has gone from me, and cyni- his drive to Interest the nation In When the new banner had pose I brig. the coward. play Its flag. He began on St. Louis. been run up In its place and rip- cally "Sometimes I am loud, garish, pled In the breeze In all its beauty and full of that ego that blasts He promised to give a fine flag to any Institution which would forof red and white and blue, Capobserve Flag day on the fourmally tain Driver, looking aloft, had a Judgment "But always I am all that you teenth. The Second Presbyterian sudden Inspiration. "I'll call her be to and have the hope courage church of St. Louis was the first to Old Glory, boys, Old Glory!" And to try for. in 1911. Other churches, thus was another symbolical name "I am the Constitution and the respond and schools fell, in synagogues, for our flag born. ' courts, statutes and the statute-maker- s, soldier and Rl t) t) 14 dreadnaught, )4 drayman and street sweep, cook, Flag day has been the Inspiration counselor and cleck. for a number of memorable tributes "I am the battle of yesterday and to our national banner. In a Flag the mistake of tomorrow. day address during the World war "I am President Wilson said: "This flag who do the mystery of the men without knowing why. which we honor and under which "I am the clutch of an Idea and we serve is the emblem of our the reasoned purpose of resolution. unity, our power, our thought and "I am no more than what you bea as . . nation. , purpose it Is lieve me to be and I am all that you fitting that we celebrate the day believe that I can be. of Its birth; and from Its birth un"I am what you make me; nothtil now It has witnessed a great more. history, has floated on high the ing"1 swing before your eyes as a symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion people." On Flag day In 1914, Franklin of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes K. Lane, secretary of the Interior in President Wilson's cabinet, are your dream and your labors. speaking before employees of his They are bright with cheer, brildelivered a eulogy liant with courage, firm with faith, department, which has become something of a because you have made them so classic in the literature of the flag. out of your hearts; for you are the makers of the flag, and It Is well It is the following : that you glory In the making." THE MAKERS OF THE FLAG FRANCIS M. BELLAMY fcj RS fcj This morning, as I passed Into Mr. Altheimer soon had to go We owe our official celebration of line. the land office, the flag dropped me Into the a most cordial salutation, and from Flag day to President Woodrow and business on a big scale, with Its rippling folds I heard It say: Wilson. On Slay 13, 1913, he Is"Good morning, Mr. Flag Maker." sued a proclamation designating secretaries and others helping him June 14 of each year as Flag day, to meet the demand. Since he was "I beg your pardon. Old Glory,' I said, "aren't you mistaken? I am and it has been so observed since retired from banking, he could give all of his time to it. In 1912 St. not the President of the United that time. As for the honor of being the Louis, as a municipality, celebrated States, nor a member of congress, L.r even general In the army. I "originator" of Flag day, It would Flag day. Flags were everywhere. be difficult to award that title to All traffic stopped for a full minam only a government clerk." ute at a given time. Mr. Althelmer I greet vou again, Mr. Flag any one person, since several Amerwas happy. He was happier yet icans contributed to the Idea. Maker," replie4 the gay voice; One of them Is a woman, Mrs. when. In 1917, he got to President know you wefi. You are the than Laura B. Prisk, widely known as Wilson In person, and Flag day was who worked in the swelter of yes made a national occasion. In 1927, terday straightening out the tangle the "Mother of Flag day." During the anniof that farmer s homestead In President Wilson's administration of the adoption of the flag, versary was she editor or of Inthe Patriotic Idaho, perhaps you found the mistake in that Indian contract In structor In New York and In that the United States Flag association Mr. Altheimer, along with Oklahoma, or helped to clear that publication suggested setting aside Invited to attend Its celebration patent for the hopeful Inventor In June 14 as Flag day. Her sugges- Lindbergh, In Washington. He couldn't go, New York, or pushed the opening tion was forwarded by the Daughof that new ditch In Colorado, or ters of the American Revolution In because of illness, but the associamade that mine In Illinois more New York to the President, and his tion sent him a cross of honor and a citation, signed by Coolidge, "for safe, or brought relief to the old proclamation of May 13, 1910, folhaving planted the true apprecialowed soon afterwards. No matter soldier in Wyoming. whichever one of these beneficent Another who seems to have a tion of the flag In the hearts of th American people." Individuals you may happen to be, Just claim to the title cf "origina O i7 WHtirn Nmpp4f Unloa. . trl-col- Star-Spangl- flag-retre- Star-Spangle- v WW 'round-the-worl- - d pre-senti- |