Show GENERAL HUGH S JOHNSON 1 ki TRIBUTE TO NEW NE W YORK this is pretty late tor for a piece about tile the passing of speaker bankhead Dank head but it if it were even later I 1 lot tho the going of a great man pass without at least tho the tribute of a sigh these Bank hoods have been southern public men in tho the very finest of american traditions father and three cons tho the father of the lato late speaker and present senator bankhead also was a senator A third brother was a cadet at west point in my time and became an able rind and beloved officer in our army they were nil all much alike in appearance pe arance and more alike in character c courteous considerate brave loyal gentle and kind those are a 0 lot of adjectives but I 1 considered every ono one before I 1 wrote it and I 1 fairly or accurately have omitted any I 1 never met anybody associate or opponent in public life or out who have about that opinion of those these men which is a remarkable circumstance indeed tho the lato late speaker was noted for all these qualities and notwithstanding intense party loyalty for loaning leaning over backward bric hward to be fair to the opposition minority RED CAPS M mayor a laguardia ardla wants to mobilize bli iz e the pullman porters for tho the new deal third term I 1 dont know about the pullman porters they are railroad employees neither nor its successor labor laws could help them much certainly the mayor would have harder sledding with tile the station porters both the red cops caps and the public are regimented by the wages and hours administration and they dont like it before tho the more abundant life came to them while there was nobody to guarantee their maximum hours and minimum weekly wage and no compulsion on the passengers to pay them 10 cents tor for every package toted they found the traveling pu public bile reasonably generous A two bit tip was usual for a real load sometimes tt it was only a dime and sometimes nothing but these cases were exceptions usually old ladles ladies and country bankers of the david type A compulsory dime for every package carried was an untried experiment peri ment now the red caps wish it had never been tried even if when the public collectively pay their minimum wages in full their employers the terminal or railroad companies com parties have to make up the difference the boys variously estimate to tile me that it has reduced their incomes on the average 10 to 23 25 per cent they would prefer adam smiths doctrine of laissez faire to the henry wallace thesis of regulate everything they want their rugged individualism restored formerly and because lie he have to the average passenger with one man sized grip willingly gave a quarter for carrying it now uncle sam tells him film that 10 cents is enough and that the porter must take it sometimes as in a recent experience of our cur first lady who left a train with seven parcels what with the hurry and bustle and this and that the passenger forgets the now new rule and as in that experience hands out half a buck and thinks it generous it used to be but now the tariff should be 70 cents tile the carrier for hire relationship has not yc yet t been sufficiently established for these small enterprise rs to demand the extra dimes just the same they get debited by the company exactly a as 9 though they had been collected this also may be imagination but some of the red caps think they see a tendency to fewer but larger pieces of luggage 0 DRAFT LAW the conscription bill is a law and it Is high time but because of the last minute rush and the sheer politics and demagoguery of part of the debate a perfectly unworkable unconstitutional and almost unintelligible provision was jimmied into it the provision relating to compulsory orders and in the alternative or in addition the condemnation of plants it provides that either the secretary of war or the secretary of the navy may place an order with a manufacturer tit at a price fixed by the secretary it if the manufacturer proceed to nil fill it at that price and give it priority over all other orders onders it shall be deemed a felony punishable by three th ree years imprisonment and a fine up to also in case of a failure not only to tako take but to fill the order the plant may be seized and operated by the government As this column has repeatedly urged the government must have power to commandeer not only manufacturing plants but also supplies warehouses wharves roads docks ships and even railroads the present provision applies only to compulsory orders for manufacture and to manufacturing plants I 1 am aware of no experienced authority who contests the granting of such a power to the president when properly defined for the reason of its almost total insufficiency as just explained the provision is not properly defined |