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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over 0. Cain Recognition From Steel Industry and Plan to Tackle Textiles Neutrality Measure Adopted hy Senate. Lewis and C. I. LJ A Touch of Spring' Upon Your Linen, the minimum wage and maximum hour provisions of the outlawed NRA can be was pointed out to congress in a report from the President's committee on industrial analysis. In my opinion," the President said of the report in a special message, "it will point the way to the 1 OW Could you ask for a Springlike wreath? a bit of embroidery fogly lovely, and doi-Pa- ttem 5570, which an old or new bedspread solution of many vexing problems of legislation and administration in one of the most vital subjects of treatment. national concern." If controls of the NRA type are to be tried again," the report said, experience indicates that the atPICKARD By EDWARD W. L'uion. Western Newspaper tempt should be limited to a few of the more important industries in YOUVE got to hand it to John L. Writing Paper company clauses giv- order that proper standards of inleadLewis. The ing it the privilege of demanding ligation and adequate supervier of the C. I. O. is going places and from the latter payment in gold coin sion may be maintained, and should doing things, despite several set- or bar gold. Now the Holyoke com- be guided from the start by more backs in his plans pany must be content to accept pay- definite principles and policies, such ment in present depreciated dollars. as NRA experience indicates would to unionize all i n The courts decision was regarded be likely to stand the test of apdustry. The steel magnates are yield- as removing the last barrier to the plication. ing to a great ex- free exercise of authority over moneUnder the type of policy finally tent, and the threat tary matters by the administrat- adopted by NRA, if strongly adof a general strike ion. hered to, there is little chance that in that industry is codes would be proposed in such UESTS at victory dinners" all large numbers as to create serious fading out. With the over the country heard Presi- difficulties, but even that chance Carnegie-- 1 1 1 i n o i s corporation, largest dent Roosevelt deliver, at the feast might be guarded against. subsidiary of United in Washington a preliminary appeal Statea Steel, leading to his party and the nation to sup- RESIDENT ROOSEVELT told the way, the biggest port his plan to pack the Supreme the press correspondents that he said that a crisis exists was planning another fishing trip concerns in that industry are grant- court. 40 demanding immediate social and and hoped to get away late in April. ing increases in wages and the hour week, and agreeing to deal economic legislation to improve the This time he is going after tarpon with the unions affiliated with the lot of the common man and that in the Gulf of Mexico, and he inC. I. O. This is the first time in there is no time to lose, lest a great tends to go to New Orleans and forty-fiv- e years that Big Steel" calamity, such as a revolution or there board the Presidential yacht has recognized union labor as a the advent of a dictatorship, be vis- Potomac for a cruise along the bargaining agency for its em- ited upon the country in the two or Texas coast. three years that might be necessary ployees. Lewis and Philip Murray, chair- to remove the obstruction of the only four votes in the man of the steel workers organiz- New Deal in the manner prescribed WITH the senate passed ' but ing committee, were jubilant, by existing law. the Sumners house bill for voluntary isthe Carnegie-Illinoi- s corporation Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt let his retirement of Supreme court sued an official statement that toned hearers understand that he has no justices at the age intention of seeking a third term in them down a bit. of seventy on full The company will recognize any the White House. pay. The four who individual, group, or organization as the measopposed the spokesmen for those employees UR War department has finally ure to the last were it represents," the statement said, decided that the autogyro is a Bridges of New "but it will not recognize any single good thing long after European naHampshire, Bulow tions reached the same conclusion. organization or group as the excluof South Dakota, sive bargaining agency for all em- Secretary Woodring announced that Johnson of Calsix autogyros had been purchased ployees. ifornia and Moore of Under this policy the status of for military purposes at a cost of New Jersey. During the employee representation plan is $238,482. They are the Kellett KDL the debate Senator likewise unchanged. It will continue wingless planes, which have a top declared Johnson as the spokesman for those of the speed of 125 miles, a minimum of that "a Supreme employees who prefer that method 16 miles, a cruising speed of 103 court justice who would retire at of collective bargaining, which has miles, and a cruising range of 314 this particular time, by virtue of proved so mutually satisfactory hours, or 361 miles. The plane is the bait that was held out to him, throughout its existence." powered with a Jacobs 4 engine, would not be the sort of individual The General Electric company de- which develops 225 b. h. p. at 2,000 for whom I would have the greatest clared its willingness to discuss a r. p. m. respect. The army air command for years The retirement bill was favored national collective bargaining agreement with the United Electric- resisted suggestions for tests of the by the President but, as Senator al Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate; and autogyro but for the last year it has Pat McCarren said, was not a part the indications were that Lewis and been tried out by all branches of the of Mr. Roosevelts bill for enlargethe Appalachian coal operators army and the report was that it was ment of the court The controversy would be able to negotiate a new essential to the modernization of the over the latter measure grew more bitter day by day and to the sur-wage and hour agreement in time to army. avert a coal miners strike. prise of the administration, it was 'PREEDOM of the seas" as an found that it was likely to be deThe C. I. O. announced the formaAmerican policy was aban-- ! feated in the house. Therefore the tion of the United Shoe Workers of America with a nucleus of 20,000 doned by the senate when it passed, majority leaders decided to let the members and went after New Eng- by a vote of 62 to 6, the resolution senate act first. In that body the submitted by Sena- decision rested with some twenty-fiv- e lands shoe industry. Still more imtor Key Pittman on senators who had not yet anportant, Lewis and his aids let it behalf of the foreign nounced their position. be known that the next target of the affairs committee Mr. Roosevelt stood firm in his C. I. O. drive would be the textile continuing the Pres- determination to force the bill industry. ident's present pow- through congress, and announced Secretary of Commerce Roper er to declare an em- he would deliver a radio speech in and Secretary of Labor Perkins exreover bargo upon the ship- its defense on March 9, the day much gratification pressed ments of arms, am- before the one set for the start cent developments. munition and imple- of senate judiciary committee hearThat the public, as usual, will ments of war to have to pay for what the worker ings on the bill. The President denations. nied a report that he would make gains in all these negotiations was The measure also a tour of the country in behalf of evidenced by the action of the steel provides that the his plan. companies which announced price increases of $3 to $8 a ton for semi- President may declare it unlawful Senator George of Georgia, Demfinished and finished steel products. for any American vessel or air- ocrat, stepped into the fight with strike policy was craft to carry to warring nations an assertion that the Supreme court The tried at Sarnia, Ont., and promptly any articles whatsoever he may enlargement proposal is a repudiawas given a black eye. Fifty em- enumerate. However, foreign na- tion of the partys 1936 platform ployees of the Holmes foundry there tions may purchase such articles, pledge that it would seek a clarifytook possession of the plant, but arms and munitions not included, ing constitutional amendment if it 300 nonstriking workers battled and transport them to their own could not attain its them for two hours, threw them all countries at their own risk. And welfare program by legislation. out and sent nine to the hospital the act will not apply to an AmeriIn defense of the measure various The police did not interfere with can republic, such as a South Amer- members of the cabinet and heads the fight. Shortly after negotiations ican country, engaged in war of federal agencies began a speakcountry ing campaign. opened between the Chrysler motor against a corporation and the United Auto- provided that the American republic not with a mobile Workers of America, the is PUGENE VIDAL has resigned as state in such a war. union presented resignations of 103 director of the comSenators Borah and Johnson merce bureau and federalheair of the 120 employee representatives will resays on work councils in Chrysler plants fought valiantly against adoption of enter aviation. His conduct in the Detroit area. The resignations the resolution but when it came to of the private bureau has been subjected all said "the great majority of our a vote only four others supported to much criticism at times and a constituents are heartily in favor of them. These were Austin, Bridges, committee headed by Senator Copethe U. A. W. A. as the sole bargain- Gerry and Lodge. land of New York has recom- ing agency to represent them." . mended the reorganization of the strikers in the plant burcau,vyr Rt,cent'y the bureau and the Fansteel Metallurgical corporaof the air transport representatives tion at North Chicago, 111., who de- York and Reichsfuehrer Hitler of differed sharply over have industry fied court eviction orders, were Germany. The mayor, addressing causes of the series of major air routed by a force of deputies and a gathering of Jewish women, pro- crashes. police armed with tear gas guns, and posed that a Ilall of Horrors" be Vidal's successor is Prof. Fred D. were arrested for tempt of court. erected for the city's 1939 world fair Fagg of Northwestern university law Also taken into custody was the which would include a figure of school. He became with that etrike leader. Max Adclman, who fanatic who is aviation during the associated war when he had fled to Wisconsin. The strikers menacing the peace of the world. served as a second 'ieutenant with Hitler himself made no retort but the and their friends insisted they would cero squadron in Ambassador was Luther to of directed the the plant reopening prevent France. After the war he returned to the State department. The to the United States and by strong picket lines and die cor- protest specialized poration obtained an injunction Berlin press raged against La Guar-dia- , I., air law. His assistant in the buone of mildest the names The such sheriff approcedure. against reau will be Maj. R. W. Schroeder, " said he was prepared to deal with plied to him being scoundrel also of Chicago. any act of violence. This is another C. I. O. strike, and Governor Horner of Illinois gained no glory in his of commons indorsed Great Howard efforts to settle it Hughes, the wealthy AmerAmong the many strikes in the Britains huge rearmament pro- ican speed flier, and Miss Jean Detroit district was one of 150 em- gram by a vote of 243 to 134. For- Batten of New Zealand had been ployees, mostly girls, of the largest eign Secretary Anthony Eden, who awarded the Harmon trophies as Woolworth store in Detroit. They outlined the principles of the Brit- the outstanding man and woman planned to extend the strike to all ish foreign policy, repudiated the in aviation for 1938. Hughes e of of comthe universal units other company there, policy military records in flights across the meanwhile keeping the big store mitments for Europe as unworkUnited States won the honor for method. closed by the able" with Germany and other him, and Miss Batten was rewarded powers absent from the League of for her spectacular solo flight across the south Atlantic. BUSINESS men and economists Nations. Next day the navy announced that talking about the Louise Thaden was voted the outprospects of inflation after the de- its share of the rearmament pro- standing woman flier in America. cision of the Supreme court upholdgram would cost $525,323,000, this ing the New Deals gold clause abro- including the construction of 80 I N IDENTICAL letters to the gov-Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord gation act for the second time. The ernors of the 48 states Presiruling was made in the case of the of the admiralty, said only dent lloosevell called on the state of the cost will be borne by legislatures to enact soil conservaHolyoke Water company, whichL moved by a desire to protect it- Britains new $2,000,000,000 defense tion laws which would supplement self against loss in the event that loan, forcing the nations tax payers the federal measures designed to the dollar should be debased, had to dip into their pockets for the ad- lessen the ravages of floods and dust ditional $390,325,000. written into leases to the American alarms. colored Washington. Many times in these columns, I have called attention to the confusion that More has come to be so Confution much a part of the federal governments general administration. I have talked about the bluster and the ballyhoo and the cross purposes at which so many pieces of the New Deal program have operated, and another outstanding example of this condition now appears. Two governmental agencies, one a strictly New Deal agency, the other with a beginning in the Hoover administration, find themselves working directly in opposition to each other and in the end taxpay-H- e ers will pay. It is not the fault of the Home Owners Loan corporation that it finds itself in a position where it is going to be landlord to something like 160,000 pieces of real estate largely homes. When the government went into the business of loaning money on private residence it had experience upon which to base its program. Many years ago the farm loan system wras organized with none too happy results. In the late days of the Hoover administration, however, three or four politicians were able to drive through the legislation creating a system of government loans on residences as distinguished beetle-browe- d -- p . 1-- bel-igere-nt sit-do- social-econom- ic an TiniDV Sit-do- ,rtren k!. - brown-shirte- d ninety-secon- d super-Jew,- land-plan- sit-do- war-ship- s. $135,-000,0- 1 j ; people encouraged to place themselves in debt. I cannot criticize the housing administration policy any more than can criticize the program of the HOLC. The point is that there is in governsimply no ment policies as they concern these two agencies, and consequently, one group is building new homes and another is taking over old homes for which the buyers have been unable to pay. In my humble opinion, it does not make good sense. I have heard considerable talk & S VS J52 You CanTk floss both for SJ Pattern 5570 among influential New Dealers to lilac clusters and their dainty the effect that new homes will sell low, and just the easiest rf more easily than the old ones and stitches blanket, single, outline, therefore the housing administration and French knots lazy daisy held are to be justified. Yet, plans 5570 you will find In Pattern it does seem to be a perfectly nat- transfer pattern of one lares ural and logical thing that new 15 20 inches; one bow. homes become old homes as time spray 4 by 12 knot by inches; two elapses and there are many who sprays 3 by 5 inches and two believe that the government, be3 by 3 inches; color cause it has guaranteed the loans sprays on new homes, will have to take suggestions; illustrations of an used; material requirover a large percentage of them as stitches ements. well. That is, it will have to take Tp obtain this pattern send 1$ over at least a normal percentage or coins (coins because whether the loans are made cents in stamps to The Sewing Circle preferred) or by private financing companies Household Arts Dept., 253 W. by the government, a considerable Fourteenth St., New York, N. y! number of buyers are unable to fulWrite plainly your name, adfill their obligations. It is not al- dress and pattern number. ways the fault of the buyers. Sickness, loss of jobs or a thousand and one other circumstances may de- Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription (i tonic which has been helping women velop that prevents the buyer of a of all from farms. ages for nearly 70 years, idr. through his I predicted in these columns some home from carrying own roof of cherished dream the the that governthree years ago Trifles Blake Perfection ment, through the HOLC, was going over his head. It is the way of life Trifles make perfection, but per. to be the proud possessor of lot of that a certain percentage will, and fectlon is no trifle. Michelangelo, real estate. My statements at that of necessity must, fall by the way-sid- e. I had what time were based upon seen happen in the case of the loans TAKE NO CHANCES I never have been able to agree on farms. The article brought me direct criticism from two or three that the federal government has any USE ONLY GENUINE business in the places in the government but at POLISH. field of financing Wrong this time I can report that the homes or extend RESTORES LUSTRE HOLC, before another year passes, Principle will own something like 160,000 ing credit to indiQUlCKiy AND EASILY viduals. I have always criticized homes. ITS BEEN PROTECTING It is always difficult for a mort- the Hoover administration for creFURNITURE AND gage or bank institution, privately ating the Reconstruction Finance owned, to dispose of property which corporation and the Roosevelt adFLOORS FOR 28 YEARS It has been forced to repossess ministration for expanding its operDOlfr ACCEPT through default of the borrowers. It ations. The principle is wrong beis much more difficult for the fed- - cause it uses money either borrowed SUBSTITUTES erai government to dispose of that by the government or paid into the type of property, try as it m?y to Treasury by the taxpayers to finance, to build up, personal funds of get rid of the parcels. individuals or corporations. So, we find one governmental agency serving as a landlord on a It seems quite clear to me that wholesale scale and with signs por- the HOLC, following the experiences tending moves by politicians that of the farm loan system, justifies will in the end cost the taxpayers the conclusion that the federal govhundreds of millions of dollars, ernment cannot successfully engage These politicians are proposing leg- in that field. In the first instance, islation in congress to cut the in- I think it is bad business for govterest rate on the loans now in ernment to go beyond the protection default and other loans as well; of life, liberty and property, with Inspired Accomplishment Art makes a rock garden; an the principal of the loans on the all the implications carried in those defaulted mortgages and they are three words as a governmental pol- uninspired taste, a pile of rocks. seeking means by which those in icy. Further, and with much more default may have unlimited time in emphasis, I am sure that any time which to make the payments in a government engages in that field it way that, superficially at least, opens the way for politicians to be makes the proposals appear aAu-all-y tempted, to be forced, to do things No matter how many medidnm as an outright gift to those in a legislative way that cannot be you have tried for your cough, chest who have bought homes under the justified ss economically sound. cold or bronchial irritation, you can government loan plan, get relief now with Crcomuldon. in this article, I suggested Earlier There is no way to tell now what the Serious trouble may be brewing ana difficulty always surrounding a chance will happen to these various proyou cannot afford to take Creomul-ion, the sale of property that has been less than with anything of most them posals. Undoubtedly, to the seat back taken from which the goes purright original will fall by the wayside and reof the trouble to aid nature to ceive no consideration in congress. chasers. Officials of private mortsoothe and heal the Inflamed mean and other financial gage companies phlegm branes ss the germ-ladYet, on the basis of observation of institutions have grown many is loosened and expelled. many such movements, it does not gray hair in their efforts to recover Even If other remedies bars seem far wrong to guess that the failed, dont be discouraged, your money loaned in cases where the in accomwill congress politicians druggist Is authorized to guarantee borrowers have met with unfortuCreomulslan and to refund your plish something in the way of re- nate circumstances. The governduction of these debts where the money if you are not satisfied with results ftom the very first bom defaulters bring pressure to bear ment, finding itself in the position Get CreomulsUm right now. (AdvJ on the home town political ma- of the private lender insofar as reof is possession property concerned, chines. has about one-ha- lf the chance of liquidation that the private lender Now, concerning the other govern- would have. And beyond that, there mental agency involved in the game is too much chance for favoritism, of cross purposes scheming and even crookedness Croat j mentioned, when the government attempts to I refer to the fed- do a Purpotea like the HOLC now is faceral housing ad- ing. job I say that regardless of the ministration. Like the Home Own' honest purpose that I know charFINANCIAL ers Loan corporation, it is not the acterizes the HOLC present fault of the housing administration MINING that it finds itself in a tough snot. Good mining and milling propnrllri winsow ed. .Will nogotiale atle or Arntncins. It is commanded by the President VOr.El.AAR. It PETER not iimira have planed. may to occurred some CUT. and by congress to proceed with but the fact that the federal govern-- .. Mclaylra Balldlag, lH Laka gigantic housing program, to loan ment through the 16-- 37 money on new homes wherever it U. S. a HOLC will own all WNU W can persuade contractors to build of these houses Taxpayer and individuals to buy. It is to be True Leisure which had to be remembered also that loans on Leisure is time for doing some taken means back, that the federal these properties are guaranteed Dr. N. Howe. the legislation calls them insured government becomes a taxpayer in thing useful. loans and that makes the federal every city, county and state where it owns these homes. At the rate housing administration liable in case the new home buyers fail to things are going and assuming that the ratio of delinquencies and demeet their commitments. faults The housing administration an- vate continue as they do for prilending agencies, another four nounced its program to encourage demise fjho W00 will see the HOLC in possesIldpofThem wholesale hone building throughout yearsof Harmful Body sion s minimum of 250,000 parthe nation only recently and it was cels of real Yaw kidnjn estate. Of I the course, Mi matter by coincidence, I am sure, that the imagine, the local tax s housing program wns announced al be glad to see the collectors will federal governmost simultaneously with the determent mination by the HOLC to start fore- cause taking over the property be. body maehlaify. t,,,. will then collect their closure proceedings in order to taxes. they But where does that money maintain its own solvency. come from? Sooner or later, diThus, to bring the picture to PP "ijJuJf i1 rectly or indirectly, it cornea from ansMy and M focus, we find one governmental MwWjJ Otter aigiw of kidnry the taxpayers of the nation. It burming. te erdar mar loaned that has hundreds agency of not a pleasant outlook. millions of dollars on residences beAnd who knows but what there trfatiamt la wtar than j"miii ing forced to foreclose in order to may be more decisions like Daaai Mh. Dont taw that of protect the money it has spent, at the Florida judge who refused to least in part, and a second governmental agency entering the field si- grant the foreclosure pica of the LJtorncy on a twelve hunmultaneously with a gigantic pro- dred dollar mortgage on the home gram in which more hundreds of of a carncntcr. niUiona will be expended and more 4 Wanton . Still Coughing? en trarsMSS-sa'rssu'SiWSM sysstsv;bsrSSE Niviwin Urnaa, |