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Show Xvirn 1 Iterieit of Current Kuvnls JAPS SINK U. S. SHIP American Gunboat Panay Bombed by Japanese on the Yangtse . . . Stern Protest by Roosevelt Natidrul Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Bulldlnv Washington. Authorities generally agree that good administration can make even a Workable Labor Law Thursday. December 23, 1937 THE TIMES.NEWS. NE1MII. UTAH PAGr, TWO good law better In ita results and bad administration can definitely ruin it. The same la true, of course, of any law. A bad law's effect can be doubled or trebled by Irresponsible administration of its Of this, I believe there provisions. can be no doubt. Certainly, we have fresh evidence on the point over which we can ponder and the truth of the above statements seems Inescapable. I have been among those who have criticized the national labor relations act. and the national labor relations board created by It It has always impressed me as being a Wmhlnflon, D. C fimm sue that ought never to be raised. It is a sad day in our country when government officials, great or minor, try to break through the guarantees which the Constitution gives you and me. It portends more evil things. Consider, for example, my own personal situation. If the board's attorneys get away with the sort of thing represented in these two Instances, how long. I ask. will I be permitted to write as I am now doing, freely, frankly? And if they get away with it, how long will it be until you, who do me the honor to read my reports, will find yourselves without any honest expressions in anything you read? It is not blackjacking the press yet, but if it goes further, that will be the proper term to apply. Returning, now, to the original premise, namely, that a good law may be destroyed or the effects of a bad law may be made worse by bad administration, it appears to me the conditions related demonstrate the theory as a fact. I have noted some comment on the floors of congress that the board was not aware of what was happening in these two cases; that it had issued no such orders, etc. Such observations require no answer. Anything that is done by any employee of a government agency is done by that agency because it is to that agency, not to any particular person who may be on its payroll, that congress gave authority to act. statute. That it has many weaknesses, there is no doubt. That It has worked out in biased form and that it has done grave damage to the feeling of the general public toward labor organization, there certainly can be no doubt. Or, to summarize the situation, it has been made painfully evident that Senator Wagner, New York Democrat, who sponsored the law, took prejudiced advice when he drafted the measure. He was given only one side of the picture. But I suspect the law can be made workable and I entertain no thought at all that it should be abandoned entirely. We need a national labor policy expressed In statute form. Changes in its provisions ought to be made, but to my way of thinking there is a more urgent circumI am beginning to doubt that the stance. The urgent need is imAmerican farmer is going to in the administration of provement have his problem law in order that the benefits of Farm solved, or even even a weak and biased law will partially bettered. Problem not be denied to the country's ecoby the present tacnomic life. tics. The word "tactics" is used is recent administrative the It, advisedly. Congress has not acted acts under the law that have with the full freedom that ought to brought it into the spotlight again. obtain insofar as the current crop These acts should be reviewed to control legislation is concerned. It bring the whole situation into prop- is suffering from an .overdose of er focus for examination, and I some medicine, currently shall refer to two of them in this called strange "Wallace's formula." There will connection. substantiate They is real doubt whether the ailment my earlier criticisms. from which agriculture suffers is Early in December, we learned of as bad as the Wallace prescription how the national labor relations of medicine for its cure. board subpoenaed the editor of a Use of the word "tactics" can be magazine. It called for the editor further justified if the legislation is to supply all of the background of from the angle at which information upon which he based considered is approached. I rean article that was critical of the the problem fer in this to the projected limitaboard. Since the article was crition production. That is to say, cal of the board and its methods, tion I in processes that will alofficials of the board regarded the lowbelieve all of the production that is as information "essenbackground that there are ways for tial." The article in question had possible and the surplus without turnhandling been and circulated reprinted ing over a great industry, like agriamong workers in several mills, acto its decided by culture, to the board, and this fact one man or have of fate cording men. The fact group was used by the board as a basis is that while Secretary Wallace and for bringing the editor under the his advisers are learned men, they board's jurisdiction. are still human beings. I hold to Ten days after the first unusual the belief that even exercise of power by the board, it those learned men are not equipped took another unprecedented step. to tell farmers how much they ought Rather, one of its attorneys took to plant and what they ought to the unprecedented step, but since plant. It stretches my credulity too the attorney was an employee of far for someone to ask me to bethe board, it seems clear the action lieve any government official or is chargeable to the board because anybody else can forecast next g it is the responsible, month what the demand is going tc head of the agency. be next year. And that is almost an accurate statement of what is prothe current model of farm The second case resulted from the posed by relief. of an editor of a small daily refusal The reason 1 called the influence newspaper to tell "Wallace's formula" goes back sevEditor a trial examiner months. It is my recollection Stands Pat for the board who eral wrote an editorial without checking up the dates that' by Mr. in his newspaper, the St. Mary's I reported some goings-olast summer. At that time, (Pa.) Daily Press. Harry T. O'Bri- Wallace I said the agriculture secretary and en, the editor, declined to answer the question put to him by a board numerous of his subordinates were attorney in a public hearing. He traipsing about the country, telling the farmers what was good for stood pat and the trial examiner, them. It was quite evident then, as Charles H. Bayly, and the attorney, Jerome I. Macht, called his atten- facts have since proved, the Departtion to provisions of the Wagner ment of Agriculture was staging a act requiring him to answer. The gigantic propaganda for Mr. Walquestion of freedom of the press as lace's type of farm legislation. He guaranteed by the Constitution was persuaded a couple of senators to mentioned, but according to the go into the interior and hold hearstenographic record of the hearing, ings and it was from these hearthe trial examiner and the attorney ings that Senators McGill of Kaneach held to the provision of the sas, and Pope of Idaho, both Demolaw as being superior to the other crats, obtained their. ideas for the guarantee. Or at least, that is my bill that the senate considered. impression of the proceedings. Unless the usual signs at the cap As far as I am informed, the itol fail me. the vast majority of board has taken no further action in the farmers of this country do not the O'Brien case. It has moved, want to have their production limhowever, to enforce its subpoena ited. Probably, the best general in the case of Hartley W. Barclay, statement that can be made on the magazine editor. A federal that phase of the legislation was court has been asked by the board made by Senator Borah of Idaho, who to enforce the subpoena which Mr. attacked the theory of compulsion Barclay ignored. He probably will vehemently in a speech. Aroused to be compelled to appear. At least, use of his full oratorical powers. he should be compelled to appear in Senator Borah declared to the senresponse to the subpoena. No one ate: can ignore a subpoena. As for sup"This bill, if enacted, will acthat is a complish two things. First, it will plying the information different matter. His refusal to sup- place the farmer under complete ply confidential information and imbureaucratic control. Second, it will of the freedom the is, peril press bring about a reduction of crops indeed, quite a different matter. when millions are hungry and in As one writer, I hope Mr. Barneed." clay and Mr. O'Brien stick by their That thought will be echoed more guns. I hope, too, that the board after the country has tasted of the will not imperil its existence and fruits of the bill than now according the good points in the law by at- to my way of thinking. Therefore, tempting to assert power which I it seems to me that rather than do not believe it possesses. There face economic suicide as Senator is no excuse, legally or morally, for Borah predicted, congress could a crew of officious individuals to very well unlay plans to undertake the sort of things dis- restricted growth of cropspermit and couclosed in these two instances. They ple with that the means of taking abuse confidence and besmirch the the surplus off the hands of the bear. which titles they fanner. Further, they have forced an Is Western Newspaper Union. half-bake- policy-makin- n SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Unloa. London MURDOCH, Washington that he had assurances from President Roosevelt that the present silver policy would be continued as long as it was deemed necessary. Murdock asked the chief executive's views when he transmitted a resolution drafted by western congressmen urging no change be made in the silver program. terest lodged "J t outrages. No responsible person t. hinted that the United States or f f Great Britain should go to war with V Japan on their account: but the man in the street felt there should i be some way, short of war, by U r t which the Japanese could be forced 'a'SiS mri newM art to cease their murderous attacks. Apologies may satisfy the diplomats Hugh R. Wilson (pictured above), but they do not restore lives. a veteran of the American diploPresident Roosevelt's protest was matic service and now assistant secdirected through Secretary Hull to retary of state, is to be our new amAmbassador Hirosl Saito with the bassador to Berlin, succeeding Wilrequest that it be sent to the Em- liam E. Dodd, whose resignation peror Hirohito of Japan. It de- was submitted to the President. manded apologies, full compensation and guaranties against repetiwere asked by Chairman Philip tion of similar attacks. The Britto give their officials full ish foreign office was in touch with Murray to negotiate wage agreeWashington by cable but Foreign powers ments to replace those expiring Minister Eden denied that the BritFebruary 28 with 445 firms. ish would take the lead in interMurray said he had "every reanational action. to believe 100,000 steel workers son" the was stunned by Even Tokyo attacks on American vessels, and out of 125,000 now working in sheet, the planned celebration over the bar, plate, sheets and black plate will be displaced by machincapture of Nanking was called off. mills ery. American the Before protest reached Tokyo the Japanese ofSloan's Great Gift ficials and commanders began apologizing and explaining. To prove its ALFRED P. SLOAN. JR.. General Motors corporasincerity the government promptly recalled Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, tion, announced he was donating sein charge of naval aviation and recurities worth approximately $10,- lieved him of his post. He imme- 000,000 to the Alfred P. Sloan foundation diately resigned. Survivors of the bombing, most of with the hope of prowider them wounded, told how the Panay moting a went down with colors flying and knowledge of "basic its gunners firing to the last at the economic truths." In his announceJapanese airplanes. They agreed ment Mr. Sloan said that the attacking planes were flying so low that it was impossible he deemed it proper for their pilots not to know they to turn back part of were bombing foreign ships. They the proceeds of his industrial activity to said the Japanese excuse that was poor over the Yangtse aiH in brineintT about Jr-a- s "a broader as well that day was false. a better understanding of the economic principles and national Early Tax Revision policies which have characterized CUMMONING house ways and American enterprise down through means committee members and the years, and as a result of which treasury economists to a confer- its truly marvelous development has ence in the White House, President been made possible." Once the proper understanding is Roosevelt directed that revision of the achieved, he said, the people may taxes that oppress promote "the objectives that all business be carried have so much in mind." These he listed as: through as soon as More things for more people, possible. Those called were Robert everywhere. An opportunity for achievement. L. of Doughton security and stability. North Carolina, Greater Mr. Sloan established the foundaof the chairman it house committee; tion on July 6, 1936, incorporating memFred Vinson of Ken- in Delaware as a tucky, chairman of a bership corporation. R. L. Doughton on subcommjUee taxes: Secretary of the Treasury Hungary Pays A Little Morgenthau and Undersecretary nations defaulted on Roswell MagilL ONLY eleven war debt payments to the On leaving the White House Mr. United States due on December 15. Doughton gave out the cheering aslined up with Finland in surance that the best possible tax Hungary honest list and sent to the treasbill would be formulated quickly and the a check for $9,828 as partial that the taxpayer would be given ury The installment due from payment consideration. every was $51,240; her total debt If the contemplated measure can Hungary 33 be rushed through congress it is more than itsmillions. Finland made customary semimay be made effective on January annual payment to the treasury. A 1, starting out what business and incheck for $232,142 was turned over dustry hope will be a Happy New to this government by the Baltic Year for them and for all the narepublic. tion. In his press conference the same day the President gave business ad- Pope Pius Anxious ditional encouragement, asserting T A secret in which that the interstate commerce com- I A he created consistory five new cardinals. mission should take action to prePope Pius read an allocution exserve the solvency of the railroads his "grave anxieties" bepressing He declared himself in favor of priof the wars in Spain and Chicause vate ownership and operation of the na, and his fears for the future "berailroads, but said receiverships of cause of are the lines cannot continue without the naturalthe upheavals which concomitants of armed financial adjustment conflicts." Shortly after this the commerce The new cardinals are: Archcommission put in a sour note by Vatican Pizzardo, bishop Guiseppe the carriers' petition for overruling undersecretary of state; Archbishop 15 per cent immediate increase in Ermengildo Pellegrinetti, papal freight rates. nuncio to Jugoslavia; Archbishop Giovanni Piazzi, patriarch of VenFirst Flight Celebrated ice; Archbishop Pierre Gerlier of CRIDAY, December 17. was the Lyons, France, and Archbishop Arthirty-fourtanniversary of the thur Hinsley, Catholic primate of epochal air flight of the Wright England. brothers at Kitty Hawk. N. C. and the day was fittingly observed by Italy Leaves League all aviation interests in the country. finally made up its mind to Under orders from the army gener- ITALY the League of Nations. No al staff every military flying post one was surprised when Mussolini sent up all its available aircraft at announced this decision of his Fasthe exact hour when the two invencist council, and no other nation extors first made their plane fly About pressed any regret over the action. one thousand fighting planes were in The Duce in a characteristically the air at the same time. bombastic speech told the people about it, and delighted cheers greeted his defiance of the opponents of Steel Workers Meet fascism. For some time Italy has MEMBERS of the Steel Workers taken no part in the doings of the affiliatcommittee, league, and her resignation really ed with the C. I. O., opened their is not of much immediate first convention in Pittsburgh and -- 1 1 In vis-bili- non-prof- A bonds that were Chief Justice Hughes. The litigation was started by Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati, son of the late President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft; the estate of James J. Ransom of Des Moines, and Arthur Machen of Baltimore. stern protests in Tokyo. r'JJ gold called for redemption in advance of the maturity date. The decision, written by Justice Cardozo, was unanimous, although Justices Stone and B'.zck bad separate concurring opinions. Cardozo is 111 and his opinion was read by Thawte Tukyo apologized with expressions of deep regret. In America and Britain there was intense indignation over the latest on New Men for SEC on the securities TWO vacancies commission were exchange filled by the President by the appointment of John Wesley Hanes, partner of a New York stock brokerage firm, and Jerome N. Frank, radical New York attorney, now serving as an attorney for the Reconstruction Finance corporation and formerly chief counsel of the defunct AAA. Frank fills the position vacated by James M. Landis. who retired last September to become dean of the Harvard law school. Hanes fills the post of J. D. Ross of Seattle, recentof the ly named administrator Bonneville dam. House Passes Farm Bill return to NARROWLY escaping the administration farm bill was passed by the house by a vote of 268 to 129. It was believed the senate measure also would be put through successfully at once. Then it would be up to conferees from both houses to iron out the differences. There was doubt that final enactment could be obtained before adjournment of the extraordinary session. More WPA Spending HOPKINS, WiA announced that HARRY in- creased unemployment' was compelling the WPA to increase its expenditures by $23,000,000 a month. He said its employment rolis, now totaling 1,575.000 persons, would be enlarged to provide work for an additional 350,000 persons. The expansion, he said, could be handled within his budget at least for some time. Won't Landon Run Again M. LANDON definitely himself from the prescampaign picture of 1940 by ALFRED idential announcing in Washington that he would not be a candidate for nomination by the Republican party and would not accept the honor if it were offered him. He added that he was not retiring from politics, but would continue active in his party. While in the capital Mr. Landon was invited to the White House and had a pleasant chat with the President, politics and business not being discussed. Atlantic Planes Wanted EVIDENCE that passenger plane -- J service across the Atlantic would be started within two years was seen in the request of Pan American Airways for bids on 12 planes capable of carrying 100 passengers each. Performance demands call for a speed of 274 miles an hour at 20,000 feet and indicate the type of craft required would cost one million dollars each. Brave Scouts Honored Boy Scouts who risked their lives to save others were cited for heroism by Daniel Carter Beard, national scout commissioner and chairman of the national court CMGHT of honor. Three scouts who received gold honor medals are J. P. Fraley of Hitchins, Ky.; Guy Groff, Jr., of Marengo, Iowa, and Kenneth Simon-soof Redridge, Mich., each of whom rescued a drowning person. Five others who received certificates for heroism are John Mentha, New York; John Ruggl, Yonkers. N. Y.; Philip Beaney, Bath, Me.; William Benham, Napoleon, Ohio, and Eldon Shaffer, Berrien Center, n Mich. I iner Aground; All Saved Dollar liner President aground on a small island off Formosa when en route from Kobe to Manila. Her passengers, about 600 in number, were put ashore on two rocky islets, and there were picked up by the President of the same line and taken to Manila. T.IE ran y Wally Lowest Duchess edition of Burke's THE new authoritative book on British nobility, reveals that the duchess of Windsor has been placed in the or last place among twenty-nintduchesses. Her husband, the duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIII. is placed as No. 4 man in the empire, behind his brothers. King George VI and the dukes of Gloucester and Kent. h uJk O REAL ESTATE UJfwnkd rancfc TOU csn sell, or trade your farm fur uuuie or apartment In Salt Writ or wire La. about l Vanishing Wild Life. Government Wins Supreme court decided that THE government need not pay Latest Jap Outrages and REPRESENTATIVE in- JAPANESE aviators, strafing bombed and sank the United States gunboat Panay on the Yangtse river above Nanking. The boat's storekeeper and an Italian journalist were killed. At the same time and place the Japanese attacked and sank three Standard Oil steamers. Several British gunboats speeding to the aid of the Panay ware shelled, one enlisted man being killed and a number wounded. Washington Silver Policy Stands Wast VARNER PLANTATION, to wise leg- islation, the wild fowl are coming back to this gulf country. True, the flocks may never again be what they were; yet, with continued conservation, there'll again be gunning for one and all. WE half-siste- folk. those times How seem today when every dancing exhibit and evfloor Is a strip-teas- e ery bathing beach a nudist show; and a debutante, posing for snapshots, feels she's cheating her public unless she proves both knees still isi-de- had? has the United States 2. What does the abbreviation "non sec" stand for? d 3. How does dog correspond to age in a human being? 4. What is wind? 5. Who was the Greek cynic philosopher who lived in a tub? 6. What is the procedure when a bank certifies a check? 7. What was the last federal territory to be admitted into the twelve-year-ol- Union as a 8. What state? states have women as secretaries of state? 9. In what year did the first financial panic in the United States occur? 10. What proportion of the adult population of the United States has gone to college? Answers 1. Two James Buchanan and Grovcr Cleveland, but Cleveland was married while he was in the Presidential office. 2. Non sequitur (it does not follow). 3. A dog twelve years old is as old as a man at eighty-fou4. Air naturally and horizontally in motion with a certain degree of velocity. g Grandma's Togs. LAUGH at our who believed that, for a lady to be properly dressed, she should have a little something on anyway. ladies Maybe those sort of overdid the thing bustles that made them look like to the dromedary, skirts so tight they hobbled like refugees from a chain gang, corsets laced in until breathing was almost a lost art, boned collars so high they seemed to be peeping over an alley fence. Still, wearing five or six starched petticoats, the little woman was safe from Jack the Pincher unless he borrowed some steamfit-ter'- s pliers. And later when, for a season, blessed simplicity ruled the styles, her figure expressed the queenly grace that comes from long, chaste lines. Probably the dears never figured It out Just the natural cunning of their sex told them 'twas the flowing robes which gave majesty and dignity to kings on the throne and judges on the bench and prelates at the altar and shapely women-- many bathelor P 1. How P Becoming a Head Man. unshorn dandruff fancier LET an he's divine and, if nobody else agrees with his diagnosis, the police will jug him as a common nuisance and the jail warden will forcibly trim his whiskers for him or anyhow have them searched. But If enough folks, who've tried all the old religions and are looking for a new one, decide he is the genuine article, then pretty soon we have a multitude testifying to the omnipotence of their idoL Let another man think he is a reincarnation of Julius Caesar or Alexander the. Great, and if few or none feel the same way about it he's headed for the insane asylum. But If a majority, which is a large body of persons entirely surrounded by delusions, agrees with bim that he is what he says he is he becomes a dictator and rules over the land until common sense is restored, if at all. Let the writer of a daily column begin to think his judgments are perfect and his utterances are infallible but hold on, what's the use of getting personal? e Sail Lake City " Se. "always as Represented" Jisk Me Another 0 A General Quiz But when I think back on the ducks I saw down here 10 years ago in countless hosts I'm reminded of what Charley Russell, the cowboy artist laid to the lady tourist who him asked whether the exaggerated when they described the size of the vanished buffalo herds. said "Wellum," Charley, "I didn't get up to this Mon.f lrvjn g Co5b tana country until after the buffaloes started thinning out But I remember once I was when the fall drift got between me and camp and I sat by and watched 'em pass. Not having anything else to do, I started counting 'em. Including calves, I counted up to 3,009,065,294, and right then was when I got discouraged and quit Because I happened to look over the ridge and here came the main drove." night-herdin- Bert C. Palmer r. 5. Diogenes. 6. It withdraws j the amount of the check from the drawer's account, and holds it for the purpose of paying the check which it guarantees. 7. Arizona. 8. There are two women who are secretaries of state, the Hon. Goldie Wells of South Dakota and the Hon. Elizabeth F. Gonzales of New Mexico. 9. In 1791, following the boom in business after the close of the Revolutionary war. 10. Three per cent of the country's adult population has graduated from college, and four per cent more has attended some college. Path of Virtue The path of virtue is closed to no one, it lies open to all; it admits and invites all, whether men, slaves or they be free-bor- n kings or exiles; it requalifications of family or property, it is satisfied with a mere man. Seneca. freed-me- quires no How One Woman Lost 20 lbs of Fat Lost Her Prominent Hips-Dou- ble Chin Sluggishness Gained Physical Vigor A Shapely Figure. If you're fat first remove the cause 1 Get on the scales today and see how much you weigh then get a 4 oz. bottle of Kruschen Salts which will last you 4 weeks. Take teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot water in the morning modify your diet and get a little regular gentle exercise in 3 weeks get on the scales and note how many pounds of fat have vanished. Notice also that you have gained in energy your skin is clearer you feel younger In body Kruscheri will give any fat person a joyous surprise. But be sure it's Kruschen your health comes first. You can get Kruschen Salts from any leading druggist anywhere in America (lasts 4 weeks) and the :ost is but little. If this first bottle doesn't convince you this is the easiest, SAFEST and surest way to htlp you lose ugly fat your money gladly returned. one-ha- rt WNU 5137 W are there. Reading Dickens. been reading Dickens again. I'VE means again and again. I take "Pickwick Papers" once a year just as some folks take hay fever. Only I enjoy my attack. Dickens may have done caricatures, but he had human models to go by. He drew grotesques, but his grotesques had less duplicates in real life. And readers recognized them and reas-ure- d them as symbols of authentic types. The list is almost endless Sam Weller, Sairy Gamp, Daniel Quilp. Uriah Heap, Mrs. Nickleby, Mr. Micawber, Mr. Pecksniff oh, a dozen more. What writer since Dickens has so been able to perpetuate n many characters? There is with his Penrod and his Alice Adams; there was Mark Twain with his Huck Finn and Colonel Mulberry Sellers. There lately has been Sinclair Lewis with two picturesque creations to wit: Babbitt and Sinclair Lewis. IKVIN 8. COBB SALf LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY Our lobby la delightfully air cooled during the summer months Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Bath i highly-colore- one-teirt- h HOTEL Temple Square Wales fl.SOto$3.QO Tark-ingto- Copyright. WNU Service. The Hotel Temple Sqnar has a hjsbl desirablo, frifndly atmoa-pht.re.Y- on will alwayeflnd Itlramu. ulate, supremol? comfortable, and thoroughly aarceahle. 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