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News Review of Current Events the World Over JVrridmt SdD Inaitts on Supreme Coart Bill, Which JUymond Mo ley Scores—Diiturbing Derelopments in the Field of Organixed Labor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD • Nrw^iwf Vwiam. ■'Mi Raymond Moley V ALIDATION of the oocial aocu- rlty act by the Supremo court waa moot plrasinf to Prooidont Roooerelt, but he did not agree with the general opinion that this would put a atop to hia pro gram for enlarge ment of the highest tribunal. He more than intimated in a p r e a a conference thit the fight for hia court bill would be fought to a finish and that he waa not aat- isfied with the ap parently alender "liberal'’ majority in the court, since a number of im portant administration policies are still to be passed upon by the Su preme court He cited four issues raised by the new wages and hours bill, namely, child labor, minimum wages, maximum hours, and .the question whether goods produced un der unfair practices can be regulat ed by the government. He also men tioned TV A, the problems of flood control on the Ohio watershed, the right of municipalities to borrow federal funds to construct electric light plants, and whether the gov ernment can condemn property for a housing program. One of those who believe the President's court plan is doomed Is defeat is Raymond Moley, for- head of the "brain trust."' Ad- the Illinois Bankers* coo ks Chicago, Dr. attacked the at the dangers at a at mam. Well, there Is the union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, as sole bargaining agency. PORD employees at the Rouge 1 plant, Detroit, took matters into their own hands and severely pum- meled a number of U. A. W. A. men who undertook to distribute at the plant gates handbills designed to offset the "Fordisms" card that had been given Henry’s workers. Among the union men beaten up were Wal ter Reuther, R. T. Frankensteen, J. J. Kennedy and Robert Canter. Frankensteen telegraphed John Bro- phy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organization, at Washing ton, asking: "Will the C. I. O. co-operate in simultaneous nationwide demonstra tion before Ford salesrooms to pro test brutality at Ford’s today and establish the right to organize?" At the same time a strike of C. I. O. men closed the Ford assembly plant at Richmond, Calif., forcing 1,800 workers into idleness. The lo cal union head there predicted strikes might spread rapidly from that beginning, possibly to all the Ford plants. LJ EADS of unions affiliated with ** the A. F. of L., meeting in Cincinnati with President William Green and the executive council, went ahead with the to combat Lewis and the C. I. O. One of their first it was Is to be of the Unit ed Mine Workers of Irvin Cobb S ANTA MOSICA, CALIF.— DmjiM. Um blnatafi of civilization which we have be stowed upon them, including diseases, whisky, soda pop, and $2 overalls, the American In dians are increasing. This should give our red brothers cause for worry. Suppose they got so numerous that we gave this coun try back to them? Already we are in debted to these orig inal inhabitants for quinine, cocaine, cotton, chocolate, tobacco, corn, beans, squashes pumpkins, grape fruit, huckleberries and hundreds of oth er remedial drugs or foodstuffs. More over, an eminent authority says the curative methods of the old medi cine man had values which in many respects excelled what the white man has produced and suggests our scientists might well adopt certain aspects of the aborigine’s plan. What if we did that very thing and then, by the way of exchange, invit ed the tribesmen to take over such trifling problems as an unbalanced budget, our European debts, sit- down strikes and the younger gen eration? • e e Cleanlax bd the Stare. LJAVING lost their licenses, four * * teen burlesque houses in New York won't ever get them beck if the officials keep their word about tL With this example to go by, au thorities might next try the idea of I the legitimate stage there — the spawning - place and of filthy lines and filthier scenes are freely offered to pop-eyed we cell ew Was Uiaes SchooILmsoi Washington.—I have frequently mentioned in these columns t h • problems that have confronted Problem* and continue t o confront the com merce and industry of the United States. However one may regard the ethics of the business interests of the nation, I think everyone must admit that business has its prob lems that are just as serious as the job of earning a living is to you or me. This has been especially true during the period of the depression and it is equally true at this stage of economic recovery. Business, moreover, is affected to a greater extent than you or me by any governmental policy that is pur sued or any legislation that is en acted by congress or by state legislative bodies. In consequence, it seems to be a fair statement to say that business lives by the will and the whim of the elected rep resentatives whether those repre sentatives be local, state or na tional. Those observations should dem onstrate fully the importance of one piece of legislation now pending in congress. I refer to the so called permanent sugar bill. Seldom in history, I believe, has a single unit of industry found itself in a position where it is so utterly dependent upoq federal policy for its existence as i4"the case now with those eight een or twenty plants that refine about seventy-five per cent of all the sugar we use on our tablet and otherwise in this nation. The situation, succinctly. Is that President Roosevelt has recom- that It adopt legislation at a permanent character "to protect the Fair to All Interest* natural result was that our own workers were thrown out of jobs and the refining industry was run ning at barely two-thirds of its capacity. To show by figures what has hap pened: Imports of sugar, ready for table use came from Cuba to the amount of about one thousand tons in 1925. In 1933, more than five hundred thousand tons of refined sugar was imported. It has grown some since and for every ton im ported, naturally the refining plants of this country have had their vol ume reduced. • • • The President wants legislation that is fair to all interests but it seems that some of those interests are desirous of us ing cheap foreign labor in preference to American labor and they are fighting the Pres ident’s bill. It is too early to fore cast what is going to happen but there is every evidence that Ameri can owned sugar companies in some of these foreign areas are doing their utmost to kill the legislation which would substantially reduce the importations of this refined sugar. 0 Now there is a question of foreign policy that is involved and that part of the situation in congress con cerns the State department. The home industry, of course, concerns the Department of Agriculture but there is the Department of the In terior also to be considered because at the insular territories over which it has supervision. On the surface. II Is winds In appear that the sec retaries of departments are at whet shall be dene and ee Car paying much at the refining neon Is who have Lesson foe June '13 brotherly love JUDAH LESSON TEXT—Gtn**i* 44:IS-S4. COlSeN TEXT—lat broUwrty tov* eon- Unue Hebrew* 11:1. , . . PRIMARY TOPIC — Benjamin • Bt* Junior TOPIC—Bis Brother*. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC—LovinS S* S ^'young people and adult topic Self-Sacrifice In the Family. The fundamental unit of society is the family. It is of more im portance than the state, » and the social order of which it is a part. The breakdown of the home and the sacred relationships sus tained between parents and chil dren, or brothers and sisters, pomts to the destruction of society itself. God established the family in the garden of Eden. His plan and pur pose have never been changed, nor have his laws for the protecUon of the home, for the sanctity of mar riage, for brotherly love, been set aside. Men and nations may de- vis€ other plans and follow the die- tates of the flesh, but that road al ways leads to ruin. The continuation of our story or the life of Joseph and his brethren brings before us today the filial and paternal love of Judah, and affords us an opportunity to stress true brotherly devotion. No one should fail to review the connection be tween the chapter before us and the lesson of last week. Joseph had been dealing with his brethren who had f *n as the one tl r ^Y- I but defi nitely pentance h f**- ctouM * he hod broug happi with team bod Iff bookg Authority to um rural sections for profit and ©o • operative utility group* Unskilled and agricultural work ers who refuse private jobs will be Ineligible for work-relief as long as a private job u available. /CONTINUING its vigorous cam- paign to organize the steel in dustry, the C. I. O. called out on strike the employees of the inde pendent companies that refused to sign contracts for collective bar gaining. These companies were In land Steel, Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. More than 20 plants employing about 85,- 000 men were involved. Philip Mur ray, chairman of the organizing committee, said it was the purpose of the committee to conduct the strike peacefully. In the Chicago district police arrested a number of men for violating the rule against mass picketing and for other of fenses, and there was some trouble io Buffalo Employees of the Sharon Steel corporation followed the example of fiiose at the Jones A Laughhn con cern and voted in favor of the & W. O. C. by a Urge majority, ao the C I. O. gets contracts from thoee agreed upon Mi conference* at the White House and waa promptly re ferred to committees with prospect of quick action. It had been ap proved by John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., but since laws setting minimum wages for men have al ways been opposed by leaders of the American Federation of Labor, it was considered probable that orga nization would not like the bilL The twin bills originally had pro posed a forty hour maximum week and a 40 cents an hour minimum wage. But, at the last moment, these limits were eliminated and' spaces in the measures left blank for congress to fill. CTANLEY BALDWIN, prime min- ° ister of Great Britain, enter tained the king and queen at dinner and then retired from his high of fice. He is succeeded as head of the government by Neville Chamberlain, who has been chancellor of the ex chequer, and a few other changes in the cabinet were made. If another war comes, the British empire will not be caught unpre pared. The imperial conference in London turned its attention to this matter and a special committee was formed to organize all the empire’s resources for an instant shift to war footing U that A ~ this matter lists the debts last. And. verily I say unto you. that's exactly when and where they srill come—last. I seem to see the big three gath ered at the council table for the final session and La Belle France moving that, everything else having been arranged to the satisfaction of the majority present and the hour being late, the detail of those debts be put over to some future date. John Bull seconds the motion. Mo- tion carried by a vote of 2 to 1, Uncle Sam being feebly recorded in the negative. • • • A Sense of Humor. FkAMON RUNYON, who, being wise, should know better, re opens the issue of whether many people have a sense of humor. This provokes soipebody to inquire what is humor, anyhow? I stand by this definition: Humor is tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Lots of folks think a sense of hu mor is predicated on the ability to laugh at other folks, which is wrong. A real sense of humor Is based on our ability to laugh at ourselves. You hove to soy. not as Puck did. ba." but. the mamtonanc# at our chief source of sugar supply In a nation for which our government yet feels somewhat responsible. That summary indicates the com plexity of the general problem to be dealt with in the current legisla tion but the picture omits s most important unit in the industry. I re fer again to those plants who must refine the sugar and must make It ready for home use or other consumption. To make the picture complete, it ought to be recalled that for sev eral years we have had a tempo rary law which fixed the amount of sugar that could be imported. It was managed through what is called a quota system; that is, the law provided authority for the secretary of agriculture to prescribe how much sugar could come in from each of the regions that I have described. This had the effect of stabilizing sugar prices and guar anteeing to the cane and beet grow ers of the United States a depend able market. But it had another ef fect which was shown by the opera tion of the law,, an effect not so painfully evideflHdrhen the law was enacted. Hus effect was to encour age the refining of sugar in the outride of the United States the bulk of II waa grown, la | You and I feel tt. directly la whet we pey kings are buy shoes or clothing, food, furniture, and ee- aentials for the household. The situation is a bit disturbing for several reasons. For one thing, if prices continue to skyrocket, soon er or Ister we are going to be con fronted with another condition like that of 1929 and no one can doubt that if prices get too high, a tail- spin will follow. If there is another tailspin like that of 1929,1 am afraid that this nation as such is likely to go to pieces. Numerous factors are at work to cause the price increases. New Deal policies were formulated, first of all, with the idea of raising prices to bring us out of the depression. President Roosevelt contended it had to be that way. His program to force prices high er has been eminently successful. In fact, it has been too successful and in that lies one of the grave dangers. Effective means of control are lacking and there is every pos sibility that the upward movement may reach the stage where it Brill fall of its own weight. Another cause of the price infla tion has been the labor movement Throughout the.nation, organized la bor has been demanding higher sad higher wsgee I think there can be ao doubt but that labor Is Is higher tut I that dent) Hed wouk er^s for turmelf. tor another? himself to but evt- m guilty, it Cain he ny broth- n answer Why should he suffer Why should he allow be imprisoned In a strange land to rave his father from sorrow and his brother from what seemed to be the just reward for his deeds? Thus reasons the man of the world, but such is not the language of love. "Let thy servant abide in stead of the lad as a bondsman"— so speaks the true brother. And this is but a faint prefiguring of the One “who sticketh closer than a brother," who “though he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich" (Prov. 18:24; II Cor. 8:9). Let us improve the opportunity to review our relations with our own family, to determine whether there is aught that we in intelligent and courageous self-sacrifice should do for our own. An Aim in Life We want an aim that can never grow vile, and which cannot dis appoint our hope There is but one such on earth, and R is that ot being like God. He who strives after anion with perfect love eul ef se! •• 1 I fSi I