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Show THE PAGE TWO Thursday. October 21, NEP1II. UTAH TIMES-NEW-S. Acirs Jtericw of Current Event CONGRESS CALLED BACK about: few.. t . Washington. I 'Si. A.wr-v,- doubt that there if ny phase or function of govern- ment that i less ; t - , mined largely by the other fellow. Or, to state the proposition in an- other way. the lengths to which the Our Foreign understood by the United States will go in punitive acpeople at large tion against Japan Is likely to be Policy than questions or determined, first, by the reaction of actions relating to foreign policy. It is easy to understand why this Is so. American foreign policy, like the foreign policy of every other nation, is closely akin to patchwork. It cannot be otherwise because of the very nature of the matters to be dealt with officially. Foreign policy, indeed. Is one thing to which Presistatedent Roosevelt's ment about his decisions resembling those of a football quarterback can be most properly applied. It is a day-to-da- y treatment with new de- cisions as changes come in the international play. This brings us to the Pres'dent's Chicago speech and the announcement by the State depart ent of American conclusions that Japan is the aggressor in China. Of course, all persons who have read anything about the war knew long ago that the Japs were conducting a raid on China. Officials of the government knew it also, but there is a difference and must be a difference in the methods employed by individuals as distinct from those employed by a nation which represents all of its individual citizens. Time had to elapse, therefore, before our government or any other could say definitely and publicly that Japan was seeking to acquire new territory by theft and seizure. Many observers and many individuals have indicated their surprise at the President's speech which, by the way, was the most distinct pronouncement of any that he has ever made. There was likewise surprise when the secretary of state, Mr. Hull, gave the press his statement condemning Japanese aggression even though the statement should have been anticipated after Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago speech and after word had come from Geneva that the League of Nations appeared unanimous in the same conclusion. The reason that I say there should have teen no surprise concerning the finO position which our government has taken traces back to the administration of President Hoover and Henry L. Stimson, then secretary of state. It was at that time that a fundamental change took place in our foreign policy but it was not a change that appeared to be sensational at the moment. In other words, the position which Mr. Hoover and Mr. Stimson took at that time was overlooked because there was no real crisis to attract attention to American policy. What that change in policy did is plain now. It was the beginning of the end of the isolationist program which followed the bitter controversy over President Wilson's proposal that the United States affiliate with the League of Nations and adhere to all phases of the program embodied in the league covenant. The reaction against Mr. Wilson's plan was violent and carried us to the other extreme so much so that for a number of years we were a lone wolf among nations in fact as well as in name. The one thing that really represents an important change of policy that Mr. Roosevelt enunciated at Chicago is his view of neutrality. Without making any particular reference to the neutrality statute enacted last winter under the sponsorship of Senator Pittman of Nevada, Mr. Roosevelt announced without equivocation that the United States will do everything it can, short of the Japanese military force, to curb ' course in China. That is to say, and I believe it is accurate, we will not invoke the neutrality laws if such a course will do harm to the Chinese. Rather, the American policy for the time being at least involves working hand in hand with other nations that may be striving to maintain international order and morality in matters in which directly concerned. Sino-Japane- wc.-ar- I have been asked several times recently concerning the possibility that the United Keep Out of states may East War gage in actual war in the Far East. I think that eventuality is very 'far removed. Possibilities always exist for a nation to get tangled up internationally under conditions such as obtain throughout the world today, yet I do not believe that the United States ever will do more in the Far East than exert moral pressure upon the Japs. It must not be overlooked, however, that the bulk of American sympathy is with the Chinese. One cannot tell how far that may lead us as a nation. Nor is it possible to forecast the weight of this sympathy in an economic way. I mean by that, no one can foretell what such a thing as a boycott of Japanese goods may mean eventually. From all of this it must be plain that our national course in the next lew months will have to be deter en-F- : our own citizens to Japanese barbarism and, second, the moves by other dominant nations of the world. Mr. Roosevelt was returning from e an trip when he delivered his Chicago speech. That trip was announced in advance us being tor the purpose of an inspection to see how Xhe country was taking the New Deal. That, however, was not the whole truth. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to feel the public pulse politically on the Supreme court packing proposition and its related questions; be wanted to find out how the country felt concerning those Democrats who had opposed the court packing; he needed information about the demand for an extra session of congress to enact crop control legislation and, in addition, he wanted to see what the general feeling was war. about the The trip was timed admirably. It took Mr. Roosevelt away from Washington and, further, away from the red-ho- t cauldron resulting from the fact that Associate Justice Hugo L. Black of Alabama was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The information that filters back from observers aboard the President's train presents something of a paradox. Almost unanimously, the observers found that Mr. Roosevelt was still immensely popular personally. Concerning his various programs, including crop control legislation, the observers report that they found conditions ranging from violent opposition to plain apathy or complete lack of interest. It is a most confusing situation from a political standpoint I have found few individuals able or willing to attempt an analysis of it Generally speaking, lack of enthusiasm for a program sooner or later will kill off politically the individual who sponsors the program. Yet no one will say, at this time at least that such a result can be expected in Mr. Roosevelt's case. But the political effect of his Chicago speech must not be minimized. Whether Mr. Roosevelt so intended or not his speech demanding that Japan respect treaties and observe the rights of other nations and his pointed criticism of policies such as those employed by Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, have the effect of rallying the people behind him. B.OOO-mil- Sino-Japane- Some persons who are opposed to the New Deal have been mean enough to say that Black Mr. Roosevelt took Klan Affair his tr'P West in or- der to get away from Washington until the incident involving Associate Justice Black had blown over. I do not know whether the exposure that Mr. Justice Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan alone prompted Mr. Roosevelt to leave. I repeat only what is being said. ' Mr. Justice Black has now taken his seat as a member of the court. He told the country in a radio speech before assuming the robes of office that he had resigned from the Klan and that, as far as he was concerned, the incident was closed. He stooped somewhat I think, when he tried to dodge the issue by charging that those who had exposed his Klan connections were trying to discredit Mr. Roosevelt But Mr. Black is now a member of the court anc I do not see what anybody can do in the way of unseating him. The reason for adverting again to the Black Klan affair is to make a prediction. That prediction is: as long as Mr. Black sits as a member of the Supreme court of the United States, he will receive repercussions of the case. I will wager now that regardless of what position Mr. Black takes in deciding any future litigation, there will be those who will point and remark that "he was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan." Likewise, regardless of the views or arguments he advances in any decisions rendered by the court, Mr. Black will be referred to continuously as "the Klan member" or as "the Roosevelt libto-hi- eral." Take it any way you like the ap pointment and the confirmation of Hugo Black as a member of the Supreme ' court under the circumstances now known and affirmed by Mr. Black himself constitutes one of the worst situations yet recorded on the appointive power of the President and the power of the senate to approve presidential nominations. But laying aside all of these things, there is a real tragedy reIf sulting from the circumstance. there is one branch or agency of our government in which it is necessary for the people as a whole to have faith, it is in the judiciary. I think I can foresee that the Black appointment and its attendant features will shake the faith of many individuals in courts. It ought never to have happened. C Western Newspaper I'nlon. President Calls for Crop Control Measure and the Regulation of Labor's Wages and Hours The Place of Kdio. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Aylesworth says radio can never displace newspapers. "Deke" is with Roy Howard's newspapers now and naturally wouldn't care to have his job shot out from under him by a loudspeaker. Most of us feel that way about our jobs, unless we happen to be working in some state institution, such as a penitentiary. newsnever can . 7 w i 1 newspaper Y'jf'Z reader chooses what f jp' he pleases from the w coverage aay s jt&, gratifying obituary r" of notices people he didn't like; convincing statements from financial wizards explaining why his investments turned sour after he'd IIuII, Davis ind Welles Goto to Confer With President. bought them on ad Irvin S. Cobb vice of aforesaid wizards; and, about once in so exciting special articles about the Hope diamond or the William SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Desmond Taylor case or the lure Western Newspaper Union. of Mr. Robert Taylor. But, the listener-in on radio must accept what C.I.O. Upholds Contracts Special Session Called somebody else already has predi-gestesession at Atlantic IN A tumultuous which puts him in the same pONGRESS was called In 150 leaders of the C. I. O. City Noto start session class with tapeworms. and immediately after- routed a "left wing" movement and So long as you can't wrap up a vember 15, Roosevelt explained went on record in favor of a policy ward President picnic lunch in a radio or use short in a "fireside chat" condemning "quickie" strikes, supmm wave sets to line pantry shelves over the radio the porting the sanctity of collective with, we'll have newspapers. necessity for this as bargaining contracts and pledging in safeguarding the opThanks, "Deke," I'm working for he sees it Report-eration of these agreements. string of newspapers myself. ' 11 western trip, her out- - The delegates also condemned re1oai.1-.tit4W cent decisions by the national labor f The League's New Head. which he board as being contrary to the proTAKE back all I ever said about program I the League of Nations being as act declared the Amer- visions of the Wagner-Connerican people need to by which the board was created and futile as a fly swatter in a saloon federal legisnrnmotp rtrnsneritv. approved a four-poibrawl. Ef 'rhese are the flve lative program. This program called The league has a new president for a bill, licensing the Aga Khan, who has the largest President shouid be passed of all industries operating in interprivate income on earth because Roosevelt state commerce, appropriation of wiulout delay: 40,000,000 Mohammedans regard him as divine and pay for the privCrop production control to "build sufficient WPA and PWA funds to farm program so provide jobs for every American ilege, often going hungry In order an to do so. And he certainly is quali- that in the long run prices will be worker, and expansion of the social security act. fied to head a society dedicated to more stable." Wage and hour standards to peace he never parted from any of his wives except with the utmost "make millions of our lowest paid No Peace for Labor workers actual buyers of billions of harmony. between the rival factions WARAmerican Well, to celebrate his election, the dollars of industrial and farm prodorganized labor is ucts." Aga Khan gave the most gorgeous not going to cease in the near future. natto conserve Regional planning banquet ever staged in Geneva The C L O. leaders gathered in 1,500 bottles of champagne and 300 ural resources, prevent floods and 3 numiuu lur produce electric power for general pounds of caviar. their war first Thus did the league justify its use. council," and John Government reorganization to proL. right to existence. There were but Lewis. their machinvide "Twentieth century few flies in the ointment. Ethiopia's 1 revealed iSfc to "democratic make the procdelegates were either deceased or ery" i plans for setting up missing, the league having drawn ess work more efficiently." a permanent dual the color line, so to speak, which Stronger antitrust laws in furHe organization. was more than Mussolini did when therance of "a low price policy condemned the sushe wiped out their country last year. which encourages the widest pospension of the C. L O. unions from the Spain's delegates likewise were ab- sible consumption." sent, being mostly dead or else American FederatChairman O'Connor of the house ion of I.ahnr sin fighting one another. rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first John L. Lewis "cowardly" and week of the session and then take "contemptible" and said those Sick Calls De Luxe. the actor, tells this up the wage and hour measure. unions considered themselves now PAT O'BRIEN, about an Irish cop at the Some Democratic leaders said the out of the federation and awaited labor bill, which was passed by the any further action by the federacrossing who waved a car containing three priests to proceed after senate in the last session but held tion with complete indifference. the stop signal had gone up and up in the house rules committee, then, with harsh words, checked an- would probably be the only one of Big Battle at Shanghai other driver who sought to follow the five measures to get through congress in the special session. CHANGHAI was witnessing the along, too. fiercest battle of the "But you let that other car with Even that is strongly opposed by war. Land and air forces of those three clergymen in it go southern Democrats and has been through," protested the halted one. condemned by the American Fed- both sides were fighting furiously and the casualties were piling up "They was on their way to a sick eration of Labor. hour by hour. The Chinese were call," stated the officer. for making a great counter-offensiv- e "Now wait a minute," said the Labor Hits Labor Board which they had massed men and citizen. "I happen to be a Catholic guns about the city. The Japanese myself and I know about those S5VERE condemnation of the relations board was were ready for the attack, and desthings. Who ever heard of three voiced in a resolution adopted by perately battled to turn back their priests going on one sick call?" d American Federation of Labor foes. Observers described the For a moment only the policeman the in the Denver convention. It was of as that fighting madmen, hesitated. Then he snapped: presented by John P. Frey, head of especially in the Chinese quarter. "Say, young feller, tell me this, the metal trades department and A big fleet of Chinese airplanes so much did you charged that the board was act- .was sent down the you that knows Yangtse and never hear of a solemn high sick ing "without a warrant or authorbombs were showered on the Japcall?" beanese warships along the Japanese-occupie- d ity" in interfering in disputes tween the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. shore of the Whangpoo, French Slickers. An American navy radio man, J. and was violating "the spirit and to still are round specific intent of the labor relations P. McMichael of Connorsville, Ind., POLICE slickers trying who, in one day. act, with decided advantage" to the was up slightly wounded by Japanese banks scattered C. I. O. affiliates and raided twenty-nin- e to shrapnel as he stood on the signal nil over France. This reminds a the A. F. of L. ; that the damage board has deck of the United States cruiser fellow of 1931, when the bank ex sought to "destroy the validity of Augusta between Admiral Harry E. aminers were coroners simultane- contracts" between bona fide trade Yarnell, commander-in-chief- , and ously sitting on the mortal remains unions and employers and that such R. F. McConnell, chief of Capt of an even larger number of Ameractions were taken "in some instaff. American navy authorities ican banks, the main difference be- stances with full knowledge of the immediately entered a protest and ing that these French banks were facts involved"; that the board, in the Japanese commander expressed looted by outside parties. direct contravention of the meanhis regret to According dispatches, this job ing of the law, has repeatedly "dewas accomplished through fraudu( nied employees the right of desigOut lent credentials for strangers prethe bargaining unit and the Brady Gang Wiped nating senting forged drafts. But I beg right of selecting representatives of LAST of the big "mobs" of bank leave to doubt that part, rememand murderers, the their own choosing with full free I when turned at up bering various dom." gang was wiped out in a gun Brady over there with outlying points propFrey in his speech asked that Ed- battle with federal agents at Bangor, er identifications and a perfectly win F. Smith be removed from the Maine. Al Brady, the leader, and of credit. What excite- board good letter and that three regional direc- Clarence Shaffer, Jr., his lieutenant ment then on the part of the cashier tors be dismissed. were killed; and James Dalhovar (spade beard) and what deep disThe convention adopted a resoluwas wounded and captured. The tress for the president (trellis tion opposing the pending wage and outlaws were recognized by a clerk stifled moans and what whiskers) hours bill, and one calling for a boyin a sporting goods store and the from the board of directors (assortcott on all Japanese products. ware summoned. Dalhover ed beavers) when, finally, they had was voted the executive was to be taken to Indiana to stand Authority to fork over. Why you can wreck board to expel finally the ten C. I. O. trial for the murder of a state poa perfectly good bank here in less unions under suspension, and Presiliceman', one of four killings attribtime than it takes to get a certified dent Green announced plans for the uted to the gang. He made a full check for $9.75, less exchange. attack on the rival organization in confession, and search began for cashed in a French provincial bank. several great fields. The first vig- persons who had been aiding them. But should it develop that any of orous blow will be struck on the The gangsters' capture was these recently stolen francs were Pacific coast in a drive to organize to have nipped a potential earmarked for payment to us on ac workers in the cannery and agri- New England crime wave. Floor count of that war debt brethren, cultural field. The second battle plans of two banks were found in that would indeed be news. ground will be among the white Dalhover' s possession with maps of IRVIV S. COBB. collar workers generally. nearby roads. - oft-te- -- I treaty signatories to be r Secretary of State Hull. Undersecretary Sumner Welles and Norman Davis, his roving ambassador, was as being strongly represented averse to taking a solitary lead In the action to check the Japanese. Apparently he preferred that the "quarantining" of nations guilty of "international lawlessness" which he proposed in his Chicago speech should be limited to a united inter- national moral stand. In his radio talk the President alluded to the conflict in China rather vaguely, reiterating that "America hates war" and stating that the United States is going to with the other signatories to the treaty in an effort to find a "solution of the present situation He did not tell just in China." what he proposes to do, but assured his listeners that he could be trusted to do the right thing. The National Council for Prevention of War, representing a part of the extreme peace sentiment in the United States, announced that its annual meeting had declared for Immediate invocation of the neutrality law which the President has not seen fit to put in operation. nine-pow- Italy Supports Japanese doubt THERE was considerable Italy would take part in the Pacific treaty conference, but it was assumed that if it did. it would defend the course pursued by Japan in China and would do what it could to frustrate the designs of the y iSr'lJ chief, Sino-Japane- hand-to-han- Flit from pantry to parlor in this "hostess" apron, so gayly with poppies, and guests are sure to ask how it's made! Choose bright contrast for yoke, border, poppies. One poppy forms the pocket. Pattern 14D5 contains" a transfer pattern of the apron and a motif 6'4 by inches; a motif 6Vi by 9 ft inches and the applique patches; illustrations of ed all stitches used; material quirements. Send 15 cents fc3L Z ! Horinouchi, Japanese vice foreign minister, that "Italy will never spare general support to Japan." Japan Denies Violations IN formal reply to the charges treaty violation the Tokyo foreign office flatly denied responsibility for the conflict and asserted that China, not Japan, had violated the treaties. The attitude and the mobilizing of Chinese troops, said the statement forced Japan to take military action, entirely in Japan disclaimed any desire to annex of Chinese parts territory, and declared the accusing nations misunderstand the situation. A of Sino-Japane- se anti-Japane- se Court Upholds Black present at any rate, FOR the L. Black's seat on the Supreme court bench is secure. The court refused to permit Albert Levitt former federal judge in the Virgin Islands, and Patrick Henry Kelly of Boston to contest the legality of Black's appointment The ruling was announced by Chief Justice Hughes, who said the two men did not have sufficient interest in the litigation. coins keep food watte soft and moving, many doctors recomTo mend Nujol because of its gentle, lubricating action. Cow. amhassarinr tn Jn. t0 Pa,L Acc0rdilI a japanese news agency, Auriti promised Kensuke stamps or mm H M'LNi' WST, This was assured by the message conveyed to the Tokyo government by Gia- cinto Auriti, Italian GiaCM in re- (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Department, 82 Eighth Avenue, New York City. other conferees. wages-and-hou- 1 Service. I'r 2ks held In Washington. This latter suggestion is definitely opposed in our capital, and so it was beUeved Brussels might be selected as the meeting place. 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