Show THE GARLAND o IVctvs Review SENATE ironim TIMES T UST between re- Votes 70 to 20 to Recommit Elect Barkley New Spanish War Enters Second Year Majority Leader ahouL Whence arises the present-da- y going about dressed enchances ? de- at the attractiveness of the average adultT Our forbears of the Victorian era wore too much for health ©r happiness o r cleanliness But isn’t It worse to offend the eye all through the lingering summer by not wearing enough to cover up the blotches the blemishes the bulges and the bloats that come with maturity? Sun baths should be taken on a doctor’s prescription not at the comer of First and Main Women old enough to know better are the worst offenders seerris like If only they’d stop to that the snail which is naked would lose in any beauty contest gainst the butterfly which wears the regalia the traffic will stand! But even though it’s for their own can’t tell ’em If Eood you started the fad of going at the game while practically nude Inside of two weeks mumblepeg would be the national pastime— until somebody else thought up a game to be played by folks without a ttitch on Or anyhow Just a stitch here and there j t i t Ilarrison (right) Congratulates Senator ZMiiraJzA IV ftidcaJcd Senator Barkley SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK G Western to Godl’ YrNG for weeks the scheme to add to the number of justices of the Supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world On vote the United States a senate voted to recommit the Robinson substitute for the President’s bill to the judiciary comoriginal The vote was 70 to 20 the mittee most crushing defeat the President’s legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress Doctoring Movie Scripts In an agreement made at a sesUSUALLY they lay these yarns who Sam sion of the judiciary committee earGoldwyn thrives upon them and goes right lier it had been decided to let the cn turning out successes his motto opposition senators write their own as bebill an innocuous measure for “jubeing “What’s grammar tween friends so long as the box dicial reform” not dealing in any office shows results?” But for a way with the Supreme court Senator Barkley the new majority leadchange this one is ascribed to another producer who proudly deer attempted to save the Presiman scribes himself as a dent’s face by having the bill left to is his critics on the calendar but he never had a which according When the came chance relieving the Creator of a considerable responsibility and putting the even Senators Ashurst of Arizona blame where the blame belongs and Minton of Indiana two of the man no court also chief bill’s supportsay They Supreme should stop with the Job only partly ers voted to recommit finished But then Hollywood is full “Glory be to God!” said Sen Hiof parties trying to push Humpty ram Johnson (Rep Calif) when the results of the roll call were Dumpty off the wall As the tale runs this gentleman made known The applause that entered the conference chamber at bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that his studio and as with a kingly the veteran from California had gesture he laid down a fat sheaf of typewritten pages said to the voiced the sentiments of the great majority assembled intellects of his staff: “Jumpmen in all my experience Low Interest for Farmers In the picture business this is what abis call Here unique you might Y A vote of 71 to 19 the senate solutely posstiffiy the only poifect overrode the President’s veto of Iscript I have ever read in my ontire a bill extending for a year low interlife I tell you that before we start est rates on loans to farmers It it” altering was a defeat even more crushing than the recommission of the court Strikes Versus Wars bill and made the bill a law withnotice how like for out the President’s signature DID youis ever t strike? the house had previously passed it The operator and his operatives by a over Mr majority are the shock troops that suffer the Roosevelt’s veto heaviest casualties The owner risks made a halfSenator Barkley bis profits and perhaps his market hearted attempt to stave of? the and sometimes his plant The work- overwhelming vote and the defeat er gives up his wages frequently was accepted by many observers as bis Job occasionally his life an expression of resentment over Stockholders see dividends vanBarkley’s having been elected maishing and investments shrinking jority leader instead of Sen Pat Citizens see their communities disHarrison of Mississippi rupted Women and children go on Short rations many a time go ac37 Barkley 38 Harrison tually hungry For as in a war the innocent bear SEN WILLIAM H DIETERIC1I Illinois changed his mind at most grievous burdens Those who really garner in the the last minute and today Alben W blustering senBarkley spoils— professional agitators finanator from Kentucky cial buzzards eager to seize on is the majority leadbankrupted industries lawyers with er of the United and their writs their injunctions States senate sucfor imported thugs masquerading ceeding the late Josone side or the other as honest eph T Robinson of mechanics— these might be likened Arkansas The vote to diplomats and profiwas 38 for Barkley hired mercenaries who teers and to 37 for Sen Pat induce friendly nations to turn enIlarrison of Missisemies so they may gain their own sippi selfish ends The conservative After it’s over we realize that Democrats in the almost any strike might have been senate had been asaverted had common sense and sured of 38 votes common justice ruled rather than enough to elect Harrison on the greed and entrenched stubbornness and fomented hate And the same is eve of the secret election But that Dieterich true of almost any war For every night apparently under teal benefit to humanity came out pressure fromin the Democratic party Illinois begged Harof peace and arbitration not out 6f organization rison to release his pledged vote in battle and destruction And here’s the final parallel: U- order that the President’s choice ltimately the supposed victor finds might head the party in the senate The slim victory by no means himself the actual loser Tell me patched the obvious party rift Even which army won any great strike— or any great war— and I’ll tell you the administration admitted that the President’s San Supreme court bill was Francisco fire and who won the virtually dead even then Vice Presthe Galveston flood ident Garner visited Sen Burton K IRVIN S COBB WNU Service Wheeler of Montana leader o( the opposition forces and invited the opCrater Lake in Oregon position which it was believed had Crater Lake in Oregon has the enough votes to recommit the sub'most romantic geologic history of stitute court bill to the judiciary any lake in the United States Its committee to draft a new bill rim wa3 once the base of a volcanic President Roosevelt then told Senmountain which collapsed and sank ators Barkley and Harrison at the Later it cooled into the earth White House that four measures out of snow sides the springs came “must” be passed before the Janucollected and it filled with water It ary session: The minimum wage is 6 miles in diameter and con- maximum hours and child labor tains the bluest water known to ex- bill the new AAA and ist naturally today There is no out- granary bill the Wagner housing let and no streams running into it bill and legislation to plug loopholes land yet the water is always fresh’ 'Glory r Be UTAH Crisis of Current Events after a verbal agreement Chinese and Japanese “ commanders had appeared KILLS COURT BILL tomilitary have prevented an impending Fashions MONICA CALIF SANTA may not make the man but leaving them off certainly makes him foolish And that goes double for the women lusion that GARLAND Newspaper Union in the federal tax laws Congress was all for quick adjournment the President was told The possibility of adjourning congress then recalling it in special session in the late fall with committees continuing to function in the interim was then discussed but what agreement had been reached was not announced newal of the war the Japanese government officially announced that heavy concentration of Chinese troops had been made at Peiping constituting a direct act of aggression against Japan At the same time the Nankirig government claimed that 17 Japanese troop trains carrying 30000 soldiers were en route to North China from Corea and Manchukuo 12000 Japanese troops Earlier were said to have arrived in North China to supplement the regular garrison of 7000 At Tientsin Gen Sung chairman of the political council and commander of the Chinese forces in North China had complied verbally with the Japanese ultimatum for peace although he refused to sign anything In a talk with Kiyoshi Katsuki the Japanese commander he apologised for the clash between Japanese troops and the Chinese Twenty-nintarmy at Lukowkiao July 7 the incident which perpetrated the new crisis and expressed r the regrets of the council He said that he would dismiss several of his officers as a punishment Gen Sung assured the Japanese he would evacuate the area west of Peiping and would do his utmost to suppress communism and activities Part of the' agreement was that both Chinese and Japanese troops should be withdrawn from the walled city of Wanpingshien suburb of Peiping But Chinese troops refused to withdraw when they alleged it became certain the Japanese had no intention of withdrawing either In the midst of many conflicting and confusing reports the outcome of any truce was problematical to say the least Europe Short on Grain C A Citizen Takes His Pen ''’RUSHING blow to the court program delivered at the time it hurt most was a letter written by Gov Herbert H Lehman of New York to Sen Robert F Wagner of that state The letter made public revealed Governor Lehman’s opinion "as a citizen of the state of New York” that the bill would be “contrary” to the “interests” of the people of the state "Its enactment” the governor wrote “would create a greatly dangerous precedent which could be availed of by adminless future istrations for the purpose of oppression or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citi- zens UROPE began to worry about the possibilities of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated a serious grain shortage Germany’s shortage was estimated at 3000000 tons The deficit will be met partly with increased consumption of potatoes and sugar beets and partly with cheap plentiful corn from southeastern Europe It is expedtM even so that Germany will have to buy 1500000 to 2000000 tons from other foreign countries Experts estimated that the German harvest for 1937 would be 10 to 20 per cent below the averfor the age years Poland from which Germany has been able to buy grain in the past will not be able to sell any this year while Hungarian Rumanian and Jugoslavian crops will be smaller than last year because of drouth It was believed that if the current drouth continued the farmers of Great Britain would likewise suffer rainfall in the past month has been about normal Of the Baltic countries only Lithuania it is believed will have a crop to her needs equal Crops suffered badly in Latvia Esthonia and Finland Only Spain in all Europe with an increase of 15 per cent over last year’s grain harvest appears likely to enjoy a bread basket Bloody Anniversary 'T' HE Spanish civil war entered its second year For the populations of rebel cities the occasion was one for joyous celebration with fiestas bull fights and concerts the Gen Francisco order of the day Franco commander of the insurDe Valera Is gent forces publicly proclaimed it TF HIS party Fianna Fail can a "year of triumph" He ordered 1 keep in power that long Eamon that all communications and public de Valera will be president of the documents for the next twelve executive council of the Irish Free months be dated as of "the second State for another five years He year of triumph” was elected to the nation’s highest In the first “year of triumph” office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the more than a million persons includdail eireann (parliament) De Vaand children were ing women in favor of severing all ties killed The insurgents claim to have lera with Great Britain won even the taken 34 of the 50 provincial capiof the labor group which does vote tals of the country and all of its not endorse his party colonies They have captured six It was believed that De Valera of the eleven cities of more than would go ahead with legislation nec100000 inhabitants: Seville Malaga to implement the new con-Bilbao Saragossa Cordoba and essary stitution approved in the plebiscite Granada of July He would in that case The rebels lost little time in atset up a senate and elect a president tempting to regain their losses by popular vote as the constitution around Madrid Franco unleashed If De Valera is elected the full power of his main army of provides president to serve seven years po160000 in a drive to recapture litical experts say he will virtually and other suburbs of the loyalist stronghold they were met by disappear from politics and his party will break up at least 250000 defending government troops Every weapon of war Static Wrecked Hindenburg except gas was used There was fighting in the trenches HE spectacular crash of the T' and the greatest use of artillery A Zeppelin Hindenburg killing 36 since the World war as the fiercest Lakehurst N J last May 6 was at battle of the Spanish conflict raged caused an unseen spark by probably The battle was opened by as spec- of static electricity which jumped tacular an aerial fight as the world from the atmosphere to the frame of has seen in years insurgents were the dirigible At least this is the reported to have lost 27 planes theory of the board of inquiry which against only four for the loyalists investigated the accident and reIf there were any definite gains to Secretary of Commerce made in a week's fighting they were ported C Daniel Roper probably on the side of the insurThe experts considered every othgents observers reported although er cause— fire sabotage the government estimated the reb- brushpossible of electricity from discharge els had lost 10000 men sharp points on the ship broken propeller blade radio transmitter spark lightning and structural failJaps Maul U S Women ure— and decided that their theory A SSAULT upon two American most nearly fitted the circumwomen by sentries in the Japstances attending the disaster anese embassy in Peiping brought vigorous protests both orally and Inventor of Wireless Dies in writing from the United States The two women Mrs UGLIELMO MARCONI embassy who Helen R Jones of Detroit and Mis3 the lives of all of us Carol Lathrop of Washington D C when he invented the wireless died were walking through the embassy suddenly of a heart attack at his when sentries charged them from home in Rome He was behind sandbag barricades While years old had been in good health one sentry kicked Miss Lathrop m and was planning the construction the side another held of! Mrs Jones of a new radio station in the Vatican with the flat of his bayonet When at the time of his death Premier the women were released they were Mussolini paid homage to the great roughly shoved Mrs Jones being inventor kissing the dead man’s forcefully kicked from behind forehead in reverence Washington— Many times in these them Mr Roosevelt then came forcolumns I have had occasion to ward with a second set of reasons wTite in praise of namely that the Supreme court aa Great Leader Senator Joe e at present constituted could not and would not hold some of his social inson of Arkansas On Democratic legislation constitutional That set of the reasons was knocked into a cocked His magnifileader in the senate cent qualities his capacity as hat when the Supreme court upheld statesman and the regard with the Washington state minimum which he was held by Republicans wage law the Wagner labor relaand Democrats alike were such that tions act and the social security further praise from this pen would taxes Then came the resignation be of little value Suffice it to say of Justice Van Devanter Justice that in Joe Robinson’s death the na- Van Devanter was one of the men tion is the loser because “he fought whom Mr Roosevelt had in mind as unwilling and unlikely to see sothe good fight" But Senator Robinson’s sudden cial legislation through the same death a few days ago has precipiglasses as Mr Roosevelt saw the tated a political condition of gravest situation in the country importance Although none of us The Van Devanter resignation who knew him nor those with whom gave the President an opportunity to he was associated in an official appoint a new member to the court capacity could have foreseen his It also gave the senate an opportusudden death I think it is proper to nity to burst forth with expressions say that the passing of Joe Robinof its own ideas concerning the type son may have more in of man who should succeed JusticO fluence upon his country's history Van Devanter and the senators were than all of his long and distinnot backward in promoting the name guished career in public life That of the Democratic leader Senator is to say fate possibly has turned Robinson But Mr Roosevelt thus in this instance to the role it somefar has failed to fill the vacancy times plays — the role of master and this failure has been interpretstrategist ed by the opposition among the The question may be asked: Why President’s own party as an unwillidoes the death of one man become ngness to select anyone but a radiso Important? cal for the highest court In any The answer is simple Joe Robin event those opposed to the court son was the field marshal for the bill contend that the President’s deRoosevelt administration Particu- lay constitutes only another reason larly he was the field marshal in why he should accept “the inevithe greatest legislative battle to table defeat” of the court revision reach the floors of congress since program the days of slavery and this coinWhen it became apparent that the cided with the daring adventure of original bill for six new justices an epochal administration could not be passed because the President Roosevelt leaned upon senate judiSenator Robinson to put through the ciary committee reported the bill senate a bill that would permit the with a scathing denunciation the Chief Executive to appoint additionoflate Senator Robinson al justices of his own choosing to fered a substitute bill in astutely the nature membership in the Supreme court of a compromise This substitute of the United States He leaned bore the authorship of Senators Loupon the Arkansas senator for many gan of Kentucky and Hatch of New other things as well but it seems Mexico Even the substitute which to be the consensus of opinion that provided for one additional judge a Mr Roosevelt’s administration may year until the Supreme court numwell stand or fall by the success or bered eleven members has received failure of his program to reorganize the same bitter criticism that charthe judiciary of the United States acterized the first measure Many It seems further that if the Presimembers of the senate say they will dent fails to obtain congressional fight it as long as they would have approval for this plan which would fought the original because it will give the President domination over give the Chief Executive control of the court system of the country he the Supreme court just as the earwill have lost control of the legislalier one would have done tive branch of the government for the remainder of his term Few President Roosevelt vetoed a little Presidents have been able to carry known and little discussed bill the on successfully without the other day It was of the legislative branch otar Koute known as “H R It is too early of course to say 4408 An Act Bill Vetoed to whether the death of Senator RobinProvide for the son means defeat for the court packRenewal of Contracts at Nevertheless most Four ing program The title of Year Intervals” of the astute political observers in course will mean little to most of indeed Washington— many of the But President’s own party in the senate those who read these lines bill intended to do justice a was this —believe that the passing of the underprivileged classes Democratic leader was a fatal blow to those about which Mr Roosevelt has often to the President’s power in conThis results from the fact spoken in his fireside chats over gress that Joe Robinson was able to mold the radio The men who would have benefited this piece of legisltogether many groups and cliques ation werebythe star route carriers of and hold them by the sheer power the mails—the service that dates of his lovable personality in a coto back the stagecoach days of hesive workable unit America service and the from The country never will know how well and faithfully Joe Robinson which originated the Postal department’s famous phrase "the mails fought for the President and his must go The star route through” I have colsaid policies umns heretofore and I repeat that is the only means by which a good I do not believe Senator Robinson many thousand persons are able to favored all of the New Deal poli- receive mails on anything like a cies in his heart He was progres- - modern basis because this service inland sive but he had sound ideas he reaches the stood by the President and the New towns where railroads are not yet Deal with courage and capacity but and possibly never will be in operation on many occasions I have reason I watched this legislation to believe he fought for those pringo ciples because he believed he through the house without dissentishould either fight as a member of ng vote I saw Senator McKellar his party or retire Further he Democrat of Tennessee attack the knew that if he would retire he bill in vicious language and then I would not have the opportunity nor saw the senate pass it by a vote of influence to the persuade the radi- - nearly two to one cal wing of the New Dealers to proIn addition I know that the reprIn other esentatives of these little known pose reasonable policies words the late Democratic leader carriers (little known except to was attempting to be a leader in those whom they directly serve) fact as well as in name and many had tried for a number of years to are the indications where he was obtain a basis of pay that wiU let able to pull the theorists and the them live They finally were able radical New Dealers back from the to convince Postmaster General brink of political destruction Farley that unless they were paid more money the number that would In view of the facts I have re- go broke in carrying out their conported and the observations I have tracts would be amazingly large I made above it behave not the slightest doubt that this comes perfectly group ought to be paid more money Doomed for the work they do because their plain that President is in a present basis of compensation is position where he can lose the presshamefully low — so low that if they ent court battle with ease In fact were members of a labor union there are many observers who bethey would all go on strike lieve the court legislation will have No has been made in the to be abandoned and that congress basis change of or in the will be quickly overwhelmed by that method of compensationfor this servannual desire of representatives and ice since itcontracting was organized in 1845 to senators conclude their work and except in minor ways Three quaradjourn ters of a century or more is a long Let us review the situation as relong time The President’s action The in gards the court legislation this therefore President got off to a very bad is vetoingdifficultlegislation to understand His very start when the original bill to add action is made the more inconsissix new justices to the Supreme tent many persons believe court was presented The original the additional cost to the because reasons he gave for demanding the ment would be insufficient togovernmaintnew power he sought were shatain the Smallest unit of the huntered within a few days after the dred New Deal agencies which the draft of the bill reached the CapiPresident has created He was forced to abandon ' tol Wectcra Ncwipapcr Union the 0 & |