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News Review of Current Events the World Over .Van Devanter Quits Supreme Court and Robinson May Get Place—Cardinal Mundelein Enrages the Nazis—Windsor Marriage June 3. By EDWARD W. PICKARD a Wr»»em Ncwtpap«r Union. mm Senator Robinson A ssociate justice willis VAN DEVANTER notified President Roosevelt that he would retire from the Supreme court bench immediately after the summer adjournment of the court on June 1, and there were rumors in Washington that his example would be followed by Chief Justice Hughes and associate Justices Sutherland and Brandeis when the contest over th4 President’s court enlargement pro gram is settled. Speculation as to Justice Van De- vanter’s successor began at onaa^. and it was generally agrees that Joseph Robinson, Democratic lead er of the senate, had the best chance for the appointment. It was be lieved he had been promised the place at the first opportunity some time ago, and his many friends in both parties were quick to ex tend their best wishes. Of course there was talk of his ineligibility be cause of the recently enacted statute permitting Supreme court justices te retire oa full pay for life The Con stitution pnmdee that "no senator or representative ahall. during the time tor which he was elected, be ctril office under the United St a lee ganda, charged the cardinal "spoke in a tone heretofore reserved for the lowest brand of agitator*." The official news agency of the government alleged that "Mundelein defended the crimes of Catholic priests and laymen" on trial in Ger man courts and called on Catholic bishops in Germany to make a re ply. In Vatican City prominent church men said Cardinal Mundelein had every right to speak his mind and that the Vatican would not concern itself with the speech, either to de fend or' to repudiate it. The car dinal’s attack seemed to meet with general approval of Catholics, Prot estants and Jews in th* United States. Under instructions from Berlin, the counselor of the German em bassy in Washington lodged with the United States government an in formal protest against Cardinal Mundelein’s speech. LI ITLER returned to Berlin from * 1 his summer house in Bavaria and heard from industrialists gath ered in extraordinary meeting that many of them would be unable to continue production satisfactorily because of the shortage of raw ma terials and skilled labor and the general financial situation. The bad conditions affect especially factories with rubber, metals and in W ILLS WARFIELD wfB ame the fiitcheaa of •he U married to he on Juno 3 el tho at citlsans also watched the imposing procession of vessels. For these greet commercial steamers formed a grandstand. Seventeen nations were represented by one warship each. Th* battleship New York was in line for the United States. At night every vessel was bril liantly illuminated and their search lights crisscrossed the sky as the guests dined and danced. Before going to Portsmouth the king and queen attended the tradi tional luncheon at the guildhall in tha city of London. 'T*HE tenth anniversary of Charles A A. Lindbergh’s famous flight from New York to Paris was ob served in both those cities, but the hero of the event paid no attention to it. To a questioning friend ha said: "I did it. Why should I cele brate it?" The colonel spent the day with Mrs. Lindbergh and young Jon in seclusion at their country home in Kent. Even the telephone was disconnected. QEORGE L. BERRY, the new senator from Tennessee, has undertaken a difficult job. He an nounced that he would try to restore peace between the American Fed eration of Labor and the Committee for industrial Organization, and that he would ask the President to sup port his endeavors. Mr. Berry wants an impartial arbitration body to re allocate organizing territory of the two groups, allotting certain mass producing industries to the C. I. O. While the rival unions in the Jones h Laughlin Steel corporation were voting to see which should be th* sole bargaining agesit. Philip Mur ray, chairman of the C L O. steel organizing committee, changed hia tactics and told rvpresenuttves of the Crucible Steel Company of fee would agree to a cm Wy 1» Nttfcxul Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Natleaal Press BeiUla* WMfclaftM. IX C. Washington.—The nation is contin uing to witness labor disturbances of an exceedingly More Labor serious character. TroabUa Many persons thought when the big sit-down strikes in the automo bile industry were settled without serious bloodshed that we were on the way out of labor trouble in this country. The feeling in this regard had some confirmation when the great United States Steel corpora tion reached an agreement by which John L. Lewis and his faction of organized labor was recognized as the sole bargaining agency on wages for the greatest single unit of steel. Unhappily, those, circumstances were not indicative of an end. They did not~presage peace between labor and employers. The conflict is con tinuing and, I believe, holds the elements of much more danger than we have yet experienced. Because of the conditions that are now ap parent and those which happen to lie ahead, the recent speech by Ed ward McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, becomes both interesting and significant. Mr. McGrady, it will be remembered, made a speech at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in which ha said boldly to the members of the garment workers union that if labor and capital both ara to survive, there must be a sincere effort on "ihVpart of each group to under stand the problems of the other. He reduced the differences between employer and employee to the sim ple formula, namely, that represent atives of each aide, if they exp«ct to do justice by their own people, must sit down at a table and talk ** He Is a Assistant Secretary's ta bor cannot be questioned official of organised hia term aa ades of service to his government. 1 happened to have had the privi lege of close contact with Mr. Bald win when he headed his country’s debt refunding commission to the United States more than fifteen years ago. From that association I learned to respect his mental capa city and his ability to foresee com ing events. When he says, therefore, that labor and capital must be hon est with each other, I cannot help feeling that Mr. Baldwin foresees the possibility of bloody clashes and unsound results in the offing, con ditions that will flow from the abuse of power. Mr. Baldwin told the house of commons that: "You will find in our modern civilization, that just as war has changed from being a struggle between professional armies with civilians comparatively uninterested in it, so the weapons of industrial warfare have changed from arms that affected compara tively small localized business into weapons that affected directly those who have np concern whatever with the issue except perhaps natural sympathy with their own class." The British prime minister added that, under such circumstances, "the one thing we must pray for, not only in our statesmen, but also in trade union leaders and masters, is wisdom." It seems to me that Mr. Baldwin’s admonition can be ut tered from high places in our Ameri can government with a value just as important as he gave to his words. Tha fact that Assistant Secretary McGrady has been the only public official to speak so frankly and so honestly Is comforting, but H is U be deplored that ha alone has Jlwnkaabout The Gabble ef Tenlists G rand canyon, ariz.— It get* on your nerve* to stand on the rim of this sceniq wonder and hear each succes sive tourist say, “Well, if any artist painted it just as it is no body would believe it! M After I heard 174 separate and distinct tourists repeat the above it got on my nerves and I sought sur cease far from the maddififng round- tripper, hoping to escape the common place babbling of eastern sight-seers and revel in the salty humor of the unspoiled West. And I ran into a native who said, with the cuts air of having just thought it up, "Yes, sir, I never had less." And I encountered a gentleman who in parting called out, “Say, kid, don’t take in any wooden nickels.” And then, speaking of someone else, remarked, “If I never see that guy again it’ll be too soon.” • • • Renaming Hors d’Oewres. T HE controversy over giving a mors American name to bora d’oeuvres—which some cannot pro nounce and none can digest— rages up and down tha land. What Sam Blythe, that sterling eater, calls these alleged appetizers you couldn't print in a family news paper. Sam's idea of a ner me knack being a I A sturdy T« Irvin S. Cobb felt better or Since there are ami a class struggle that aigns la | if I beth that, aa m th* aught la be •f IS «a • Mi ei ef mw TV* •f I Aswan* gn ana ease sari ef eahiM* aad <»gSu ea efi aa ! 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(>*^11—. — sf N l*l tl here pARDINAL MUNDELEIN of Chl- cego. sddreeeing five hundred prieeti of the archdiocese, hotly at tacked the German government, its highest leaders and its propagan da methods which h e said were directed against the Roman Catholic church and designee to "take the children away from us.” He called Reichsfuehrer Hitler "an Austrian paper- hanger and a poor one at that,” and charged the r e i c h with breaking the concordat with the Holy See. He opened the speech by recall ing that after the World war the German government complained of “atrocity propaganda” aimed a t German troops by the allied na tions. He continued: “Now, the present German government is Tnaking use of this same kind of propaganda against the Catholic church. "Through its crooked minister of propaganda it is giving out stor ies of wholesale immorality in reli gious institutions, ta comparison to which the wartime propaganda A for chO- Y , * - Cardinal Mundelein fir Ms world s fair, a that Aw money by tha fair ram- vetoed the measure. and A hie mes sage h* rebuked congress for "aa unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive” In setting up a commission to direct the ex penditure. When the message was read In the house the Republicans roared with laughter and the Democrats, or some of them, raged. Sam Mo- Reynolds of Tennessee and John J. O'Connor of New York especially voiced their resentment, and open threats were made to cut down the relief appropriation demanded by Mr. Roosevelt. The house killed a $1,250,000 ap propriation for a naval air base on the Columbia river in Oregon; and the appropriation of $5,000,000 for the construction of a national high way through the Blue Ridge moun tains in Virginia and North Caro lina was attacked. But the latter was saved when Chairman Dough- ton of the ways and means commit tee said: "I have it on the highest authority that the President favors it.” Incidentally, the highway will run near a large farm Mr. Dough- ton owns in North Carolina. D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to 1 th* senate a number of State department appointments Assistant of State Sumner Welles are left out of the government. Negrin promptly abolished the super ior war council that . had been conducting J»aa Negrin the defense afain , t Franco’s forces and turned over direct command of the Spanish gov ernment armies to his “win the war” cabinet. He announced his govern ment would maintain "inflexible or der” within loyalist Spain. Gen. Emilio Mola continued his fierce attacks on Bilbao, threaten ing to destroy utterly the capital of the semi-autonomous Basque gov ernment unless it surrendered. He was so near to success that the British government warned British ships in the harbor to leave as soon as possible. IT WAS officially announced in * Russia that forty-four persons, convicted of carrying out espionage and sabotage plots "according to the orders of the Japanese secret service,” were executed at Svobod- ny in the far east. The victims were alleged to be Trotskyists and to have wrecked railroads. C HRISTIAN X. king of Denmsrk, and all HA subjects celebrated As etn fie laid 'Mil W af aa as essfirweefiAf af Aa aas as saAA mM be fiMfea fiefs AAA fisvs set w vsfidAy • Mm typo af Iswi sf. 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It is inevitable that they must suffer because in a nation whose com merce and industry is as complex as ours, every time capital or labor abuses the powers entrusted into its hands, those who are not members of either group pay a penalty which ik not possible of measurement. This characteristic of life obtains not alone in the United States. It exists in every civilized country to the extent that that country is in dustrialized. Thera is no better evidence of the truth of the statements I have just made than an incident which • few days ago A the ii There A >aA jeur—wt ef fist weather aad Ae Aiperaturee can get very high and unpleasant. While AA un dercurrent of talk A eat yet A aa important volume, M fact Aat there A a of legislators who see no possibility of accomplishing anything worth while in th* current session. But what are th* reasons? Having gone rather thoroughly into this situ ation, I think there are two factors to be considered. One A th* lack of capacity of the leadership among both Democrats and Republicans and the other is traceable to Aa White House. President Roosevelt for four years has told congress what to do and to Aat extent has destroyed the initiative of Ae legisla tors as a body and now Aat some members want to reassert Ae power of congress, Ae President’s organized spokesmen appear not to know what to do. • • e It may be said that Ae immediate cause of Ae failure of congressional leadership to get Leadership much of the legis- Fails lative program out of Ae way in five months A Ae controversy re sulting from Mr. Roosevelt's pro posal to add six justices of his own choosing to Ae United States Su preme court. That statement, in my opinion, A only partially true. There are many senators and reyraaantu- live*, otherwise loyal to Aa Prcsl* feel that tha a* A* Dec* )A svanfisdi A Bun wdfi as far ha Once, ta Paris. I a duel I couldn't go. having a pric engagement to attend the Worl war, which was going on at the time, so 1 sent a substitute. He reported Aat after Ae prii cipaA exchanged shots without pei U. except to some sparrows passin overhead, all hands rushed togetl er, entwining in a sort of true-lov knot. • • • The Forgotten Man. 'T'HOSE whose memories stretc that far back into political ar tiquity may recall Ae ancient day that seem so whimsically old-fasl ioned now, when our present Pres dent was running the first time o a platform which, by general cor sent, was laughed off immediate! following election. He promise Aen to do something for Ae forgoi ten man. Remarks were als passed about balancing Ae budge right away. We needn’t go fat that. But Ae forgotten man figured ei tanaively fa Ae campaign. Thej for awhile, popular interest fa hir seemed to Anguish. So many nm issues came up suddenly, some, lik dyspepeA symptoms, being but tern porary annoyances, and some whic ‘ on and abide wiA as yd Mr. John L. Lewis A