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Tfct Baniwll P<opl«-8gatl—l Baniwell 8. G. Thmday, Jasaary 28» 19S7 p • • 1 , t . . News Review of Current Events the World Over Truce Is Called in the General Motors Strike—President^ Reorganization Program Criticized—Kidnaped * Tacoma Boy Is Found Murdered. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , C Western Newspaper Union. William S. Knndsen '■THROUGH the efforts of Gover- -*■ nor Murphy of Michigan a truce in the General Motors strike was arranged, and the prospects for peaceful settlement of the trouble were bright. The gover nor persuaded Ex ecutive Vice Presi- d e n t William S. Knudsen of the cor poration and Presi dent Homer Martin of the United Auto mobile Workers un ion to meet in his office in Lansing. The conference last ed more than 15 hours and at its conclusion the truce was announced. The essence of the agreement was that the union would at once with draw the sit-down strikers from the General Motors plants in Flint, De troit and Anderson, Ind., and that the corporation would not remove from the plant any machinery or dies and would not attempt to re sume production in those plants for at least 15 days from the date of commencement of negotiations. The joint conferences for a final settlement of the points at issue were to begin in Detroit January 18. Mr. Knudsen said “Negotiations will be conducted frankly and every effort will be made to bring about a speedy settlement.” Mr. Martin asserted “The union will in good faith endeavor to ar rive at a speedy settlement.” Governor Murphy announced that National Guardsmen now in Flint, following an outbreak of rioting at a General Motors plant there, would remain temporarily “but 1 don’t consider this necessary.” The agreement on the armistice came as good news to thousands of idle automotive workers, and other thousands threatened with tem porary loss of jobs. At least 115,- 000 men are now idle, and that many more faced the same situa tion. S OME 400 representatives of the five railroad brotherhoods gath ered in Chicago to discuss plans for obtaining increases of wages. A committee recommended that form al demands for higher pay be made, but said it had not yet decided on the procedure or the amount of in crease to be asked. J. A. Phillips, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, said that while the committee had agreed that a wage increase should be sought, there had been no con sideration of hours of work, pen sions or any other matter. The other four unions represented at the meeting were the Brother hoods of Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Switchmen’s Union of North Ameri ca. The five groups, which repre sent the train service classifications of railway employees, are acting in dependently of the other 16 stand ard railroad brotherhoods. Louis Brownlow P LANS for reorganizing the ad ministrative branch of the gov ernment were laid before congress by President Roosevelt, and many Democrats as well as the few Republi can members were quick to express their disapproval of parts of the scheme. It would greatly en hance the power of the executive, would abolish no federal agencies and would not result in any considerable econo my of expenditures. Special committees •f both houses were to begin draft ing a bill to carry out the Presi dent’s desires, but it was freely pre dicted that not ail of them would get through. Louis Brownlow, Prof. Luther Gulick and Prof. Charles Merriam constituted the committee that evolved the reorganization plan for the President. The major changes they recommended are: Creation of two new departments headed by cabinet members—a de partment of social welfare and a de partment of public works—and dele gation to the President of author ity to “overhaul the 100 independent agencies, administrations, authori ties, boards, and commissions and place them by executive order” in the ten existing and two proposed additional departments. Expansion of the White House staff, chiefly by the creation of six “assistants to the President,” who would relieve him of much of the routine executive work. Abolition of the office of controller general with his power to disallow administrative expenditures in ad vance as violative of law, and crea tion instead of an auditor general with power limited to reporting an nually to congress illegal and waste ful expenditures by the executive branch. Extension of the merit system te "cover practically all non-policy de termining posts,” replacement of the civil service commission by a civil service administrator with a “citizen board to serve as the watch dog of the merit system,” and in crease of salaries to key positions to attract superior ability to a ca reer service. Development of the "managerial agencies of the government,” par ticularly the budget bureau and agencies engaged in efficiency re search, personnel questions, and long range planning of the use of land, water, and other natural re sources. Opposition to the first, third and fourth of these sections was pro nounced and it seems certain that introduction of the bill wiU start a long and stubborn fight in congress. 'T'EN-year-old Charles Mattson, kidnaped from his home in Ta coma, Wash., Dec. 27 and held for ransom, was found beaten to death in snow covered woods near Ev erett. The body was nude and cru elly battered. State and city police and department of justice agents, who had been held back to give the lad’s father a chance to pay the ransom and save his son, immedi ately began an intensive manhunt. One suspect was arrested in San Francisco and others were being traced. A car in which it was be lieved the lad’s body was carried was found. President Roosevelt expressed the horror of the nation over this brutal crime and authorized a reward of $1Q,000 for the capture of the kidnaper and murderer. Ber- nar McFadden added $1,000 to this amount. Gen. Goering 'T HE latest general European J- war scare has subsided. It was caused by France’s announced de termination to stop, by force if necessary, the al leged infiltration of German troops into Spanish Morocco, and Great Britain was ready to sup port the French with its fleet. But Hitler and his am bassador to France were able to con vince the nations that the stories were false and that Germany has no in tention of trying to grab any Span ish territory. Paris cooled down at once, and to add to the peace atmosphere, negotiations were started for a trade treaty between France and Germany. Then, too. Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, resplendent first minister of the German reich, went on an official visit to Rome and was informed by Mussolini that the recently signed Italo-British Mediterranean agreement does not change Italy’s friendship for Ger many or its collaboration with the reich on the major problems of Europe. Goering and Mussolini were supposed to get together on the future course of their govern ments concerning the Spanish civil war. f OSING the radio beam in foggy ^ weather. Pilot W. W. Lewis pan caked his Western Air Express plane with a crash on a hill near Burbank, Calif., and two of his passengers were killed. Everyone else on the plane, eleven in num ber, was injured. • The dead are Martin Johnson, famous explorer, and James A. Braden of Cleveland. Mrs. Osa Johnson, who accompan ied her husband on his adventurous expeditions in Africa and Borneo, was among those most seriously hurt. There will be searching inquiries into this and other recent air dis asters. Senator Copeland of New York blames the Department of Commerce. Airline operators have long complained that certain radio beam stations in the Far West are inadequate. Officials of the bureau of air navigation deny this, asserting: “Radio beams some times play queer pranks in cer tain areas and in certain moun tainous territories. Every pilot knows these peculiarities.” Down in Mexico there were three airplane crashes within a week, and it was believed eleven persons had lost their lives. ¥T IS pleasant to turn from poli- A tics, strikes and war and record the fact that Charles Hayden, New York banker who died recently, left about $45,600,000 to establish a foundation for the education of needy boys and young men, “es pecially in the advancement of their moral, mental and physical well being.” „ Mr. Hayden, who was a bachelor, also gave $1,000,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ugy, $2,000,000 in trust to his broth er and nearly $2,000,000 to friends and employees. WjMgv. 4 : abotit International Foorflashing. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— When the German troops marched into the Rhineland, France was going to fight about it, but didn't. When the Italians moved against Ethiopia, Britain was going to in- ▼ o k e force, but didn’t. When Russia poked her snoot into the Spanish mess, there was going to be armed action by oth er powers, but wasn’t. When Japan began to nibble again at China, there was go ing to be interven tion but all that hap- Irvin S. Cobb ened was that the League of Nations chirped despair ingly and then put its head back under its wing. Somehow, I’m thinking of the two fellows who started fighting and, when bystanders rushed in to sep arate them, the one who was get ting the worst of it yelled: “Five or six of you hang on to that big brute. Anybody can hold me!” • • • Caring Temperament. A JUDGE back east rules that this so-called artistic temper ament is not sufficient excuse for a so-called genius to beat up his bride. I tried the stuff once—just once— but the presiding judge in my case was a lady. For years I’d been trudging as steadily as a milkman’s horse, whereas being a practitioner of a creative profession, I said to myself I really ought to stage some temperament just to make the fam ily appreciate me. So I rehearsed my act and went downstairs one morning and put it on. So my wife looked at me across the breakfast table, and said: “I know what the trouble with you is. You’re bilious. You’ll take some calomel.” Well, what are you going to do when a beautifully staged emotion al outburst is diagnosed, not as the promptings of a tortured soul, but as liver complaint? You guessed it. I took the calo mel, and, I pledge you my word, haven’t had an attack since. • • • The Law’s Delays. O NCE a Massachusetts Supreme court reversed a felony convic tion because the prosecution, in filing the record, stated that the crime was committed “on the fifteenth day of June, 1855” but failed to state whether the year was 1855 A. D. or 1855 B. C. And ever since then on quibbles almost equally foolish—such as a misplaced comma or an upside down period—other high courts have been defeating the end’s of justice and setting at naught the de cisions of honest juries. Science has gone ahead, medicine has taken enormous steps forward, but law still rides in a stage coach and hunts with a flintlock musket. Has it ever occurred to anyone that one reason for the law’s delays is a lack of the thing called common sense? % % % Dinosaar Footprints. r> ACK in 1858, a college professor discovered on a sandstone ledge in Massachusetts a whole batch of imbedded tracks of the dinosaur— familiarly knqwn to geologists as dinah, just as among its scientific friends the great winged lizard is frequently referred to as big liz. At the time, the discovery created no excitement—merely a slight shock of surprise to the old families upon learning there was something historic in Massachusetts antedat ing the Mayflower. For the natur alists figured those tracks had been left more than 150,000,000 years ago. And they were suffered to remain nearly eighty years more. But here recently it develops that parties unknown have been chisel ing Dinah’s footprints out and toting them off. This would seem to in dicate either that America is get ting dinosaur-conscious or that dino- saurleggers are operating, or both. So' if a slinky gentleman should come to the side door, offering a prime specimen for the parlor whatnot, don’t trade with him, read er—call the police. Next time he may come back with a dornick off of Plymouth Rock or the corner stone of Harvard college or the name plate from Cotton Mather’s coffin. IRVIN S. COBB ©—WNU Service. Meaning of “H. M. S.” on Ship “H. M. S.” preceding the name of a vessel stands for His (or Her) Majesty’s ship. The letters are used in connection only with vessels in the British service. Popularly “H. M. S.” is supposed to be the abbre viation of His Majesty’s steamer, but the letters were used in the names of British ships long before the commercial development of the steamboat. “H. M. S.” is also the abbreviation of His Majesty's Serv* Ice. Washington Digest a if uigesr /«, National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART ■ :u j H ‘ : - <AT IONA Washington.—If the first legisla tive act of the new congress is to p. measure its effl- riane ciency and its Embargo value as the poli cy making branch of our government, there is no other conclusion than that our legislative body has sunk to a new low in its history. Of course, congress should not be judged by the mess it made in rushing through a resolution barring further shipment of air planes and engines to Spain but on every side I hear criticism of the laek of common sense used in that instance. To recall some of the details, when congress convened there was a wild and surging wave demanding that the United States remain neu tral and avoid entanglement in the Spanish crisis. Everywhere and on a million tongues was heard the cry that the United States should take no chances; it should take all of the stitches in time that are necessary to make certain that we will not get involved in a circum stance on European soil that threat ens to become another 1914. It has been and is quite evident that the people of the United States are committed to a policy of peace, a policy of neutrality. European developments have proceeded so slowly that even the merest tyro has foreseen the ultimate clash be tween communism and fascism about which I wrote in these col umns some weeks ago. In other words, the European situation has developed after a manner that would enable preventative plans to be laid on this side of the Atlantic ocean. But congress, in attempting to in sure our neutrality, did probably the most unneutral thing it could have done. In so doing, I believe the consensus is that both house and senate demonstrated again the in ability characterizing congresses of the last few years to appraise a complete picture. It yielded to what it believed to be the public demand giving thought to the future. Let us analyze briefly what hap pened. The congress convened, as I have said, with an almost unani mous demand* from the country for a definite and workable neutrality policy. It convened with two or three individual business units seeking to deliver shipments of airplanes and engines to the so-called loyalist troops in Spain. The exporters of these war material sensed quick action by congress that would de stroy their contracts. Naturally, they put on all speed to get the planes and engines out of this coun try ahead of an embargo. Congress, like so many boys in a college foot ball match, fell into the spirit of competition, a race. • • • Well, the answer is that Robert Cuse succeeded in getting his planes and engines on Beat» Em board ship and to It away from New York and beat in the race by twelve hours, a fact which congressional leaders knew when they enacted the resolution of embargo. So, it appears to be almost inex cusable that men of brains should have rushed a piece of legislation on through its channels containing an entire absence of neutrality in its very language. The resolution that was to pre vent Mr. Cuse and several others from shipping airplanes and engines to Spain not only laid down the em bargo which was its purpose but it laid down that embargo specifically against Spain. Now, to those not versed in inter national law, it may not be im mediately evident how dangerous such a precedent is. International law requires (and it is accepted everywhere among all nations) that there shall be no discrimination among nations unless those nations are declared to be belligerents. Spain has not been so declared. The war in Spain is a civil war insofar as it relates to any other nation officially. Of course, it is a well known fact that troops from com munist Russia and nearly-com- munist France are helping the so- called loyalist government in Spain. It is equally well known that fascist troops from Nazi Germany and fas cist Italy are supporting the rebel liberal General Franco in Spain. There facts would seem to make the war in Spain something more than a civil war, which, indeed, it is, but as far as the United States is officially concerned, the war in Spain remains civil strife. And yet our congress in the worst display of low grade intelligence witnessed in a long time, specifically places Spain in the category of a nation at war with another nation and says in a statute that certain commodi ties may not be shipped to that nation. To state this problem another way, it would have been exceed ingly simple to have made the leg islation apply to all nations and thereby to avoid embarrassment JAMliTi TagvoelV* Last Act an executive There was time after the race with Mr. Cuse was lost to have made the correction of a mistake which should never have been made in the first place. But congressional leaders were swept overboard by the big wave and as far as I am concerned have demonstrated again their lack of ability to keep their feet on the ground. I do not know what it presages in the way of future legislation. It may be that after the excitement has died down, congress will again debate legislation and work out proper laws but the start certainly has been inauspicious. • • • Attention ought to be called just hera to the differences that have _ arisen and prom- Soma i« e to cause diffl- Differencet culties between the execut i v e branch of the government and some of the legislators. Mr. Roosevelt, as President, seems to feel that he should have plenty of power to deal with problems like the Spanish situ ation and export of arms without consulting congress. A good many New Deal Leaders in congress feel the same way. But there are many who disagree with that idea. There is pronounced sentiment at the Capitol in fa vor of legislation that would definitely prohibit the exporting of arms and munitions of war but in cluding definitions and guide lines for those in the executive branch of the government to enforce. It is too early yet to tell what form the permanent legislation will take because of the circumstances just outlined. With the top heavy New Deal majority in congress, it would seem the better guess to pre dict that Mr. Roosevelt will have his way but on the other hand, until such an issue becomes clear cut one cannot tell very far in advance how the two schools of thought will solve their problem and whether the Unit ed States will be committed further to the one man control that would necessarily result from granting additional descretionary power to the President in a matter of this kind. There seems to be no doubt any where that sooner or later one of the nations whose troops is partici pating in the Spanish civil strife will commit an overact, an act of war. Some hot-headed individual in command of a ship or an airplane or troops guarding a border will take a pot shot that will wipe out a life or two and wipe out peace at the same time just as occurred when the comparatively insignifi : cant Austrian Archduke was shot in 1914. There can be no question that the United States must follow an international policy under these cir cumstances that is most cautious. • • • Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, the fa mous dreaming brain truster No. 1 of the Roosevelt a dministration, has returned to private life — to position with a molasses firm. Before he left his post as Undersecretary of Agricul ture, however, the famous professor signed an order that is designed to curb lobbying by former employ ees of the Department in whose ad ministration he had a hand. The aim of this order was an obviously worthy one because it was designed to prevent former offi cials or employees of the Depart ment of Agriculture from using new connections with commercial groups from obtaining information or us ing influence not of the best sort from a public standpoint. With that order, there can be no quarrel. I find among astute observers in Washington, however, no serious supposition that the order would operate to deprive Dr. Tugwell him self or any other former official of high standing from access to mem bers of the Department’s staff. It just does not work out that way. It never has and jt never will, de spite the wholesome character of the good professor’s plans. The truth is that while such an order may make lesser officials more cautious and thus put a few obstacles in the way of petty lobby ing, it is thoroughly ineffectual in preventing the use of influence or the obtaining of information from that Department or any other in the government, The difficulty with this situatior is that government offices are beint used as a stepping stone to mort lucrative jobs. The government doe? not offer ambitious and able me:, a security pf tenure. Men who dem onstrate ability in governmental po sitions sooner or later are offered jobs with great big salary checks attapjtied and they would be less than human if they did not con sider such proposition when they know that in the course of human events a great turnover will take place ia Iheir own department and they are swept aside by reversal at public political action. • Westers Newapeoer Crullers 1 cupful of sugar 2 eggs i 2 tablespoonfuls of cream 1 cupful of sweet milk Vi teaspoonful of nutmeg 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder Flour enough to make the dough stiff enough to roll. Cut out an<j fry in deep fat. Copyright.—WNU Service. Neglect of Self The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.— Froude. Don't Let His Cold be Worse ^ . TONIGHT waw-Sr iwtth At night. Sonny is tired out; resist ance is lowered; circulation slows up; congestion seems worse. 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