Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.•ON THE Ltd DEMANDS CIO St##l fe Sifln Contract* ... And S« TWn'i • Deadlock . . . Leek to U. S. fof Strike Settlement Monroe (Mich.) Women Defended Their Husbands’ Right to Strike. ~^£zLvTUtd. U/. fthckatul * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK T HERE Is no issue of wofes. hours or other materiel de mands In the strife between the independent steel corporations and John L. Lewis’ Committee for In dustrial Organization. The corpora tions have agreed to all of the demands of the unions—verbally. ••Verbally"—that Is the word which has for weeks kept thousands of eight or tan o their )oba L o p ef a that the tf Ow orally to ter General Farley to deliver parcel post packages to steel plants In Ohio which local postmasters have re fused to deliver. The petition charged that the local postmaster at Niles, Ohio, was re fusing to deliver packages contain ing food and clothing and addressed to the loyal workers who were be ing housed inside the Republic plant. It charged that this refusal was mode after the Mr OS IS ITftmfcd about CANTA MONICA, CALIF.—In *3 this favored Und we are now starting to celebrate the custom ary seasonal rite of having our summer influenza. Summer influenza is distinguished from winter influenza by the fact that the former does not set in until Sep tember, thereby ■providing intervals for spring and fall ( to slip in between. The symptoms re main practically the same. The eyes wa ter copiously, but the nose runs sec ond. The head stops up thoroughly, thus providing proof of the fallacy of the old adage—all sinus fail in dry weather. The patient barks like s trained seal, but the difference here is that the seal stops barking if you toss him a hunk of raw fish. One could go on at length, but It'a difficult to continue a writing job when you’re using a nasal in halant to punctuate with and have • taste in your mouth like moth balls smothered in creosote dress ing. Irvin 8. Cobb The Art ef T OLD chum Burgei ooce an editor but r did any i lam si Mi s coL that Mark Washington.—As it becomes mors painfully apparent that there is no c , basis upon which Seek /Veto to expect present Fox Sources returns of federal taxation to pro duce sufficient funds to maintain the administration's rate of spending, the President and the Treasury are peeping into every corner for new sources of money. They have al ready recommended to congress that the present nuisance taxes be re-enacted to bring in some five hundred million a year and they are casting their eyes elsewhere for other tax receipts. In addition, and as a part of the general pinch that the Treasury now feels, Mr. Roosevelt has asked con gress to revise certain provisions of income tax law to close up loop holes and prevent escape from taxa tion. The President’s message to congress on this point was quite bit ter and, many observers thought, rather unfair but, nevertheless, he told congress that it was up to the legislative branch to see that there was no tax avoidance. The President’s message dealt with an alleged moral phase of tax avoidance and that pert of his mes sage has provoked much criticism of the Chief Executive's attitude. He sought in his statement to the congress to make it appear that many wealthy persona had avoided taxes end that, by so doing, they Now. the President's ef a to regulations of the bureau of in ternal revenue which prescribed that a person must count as income anything taken in payment of serv ices, whether that thing be money or some other thing of value. It cited the fact that the President oc cupies the White House without pay ment of rent and that he has avail able a large staff of servants who man that institution; that he is pro vided with automobiles and yachts and various other services and cir cumstances without cost. Editorial ly, the newspaper then goes on: "Has the President of the United States, unwittingly, failed to include in his income tax the value to him of the Asidence provided by the gov ernment which pays him his sal ary? Under these regulations it would appear that even the auto mobiles and the yachts provided by the government should be con sidered in making out an income tax return. There is no publication of income taxes and therefore the pub lic is not informed as to whether the high officials of the government who are provided with residences, as some are, or with automobiles, as many of them are, take these things into consideration in reporting their income taxes. It would scarcely be an argument to aay that residence provided for a public official is not part of his pay. Cabinet officers, for example, are not provided with by the government. They la erv of a la a It la that a ■Way Back When QBETRUDR STRIN DROVE AN ambulance P ERHAPS your brother or your father went over to Franca with the A. E. F. and taw a rattling old French ambulance jolting over the •hell-torn road* with two woman on the driver’s seat One, a husky, healthy woman with hair clipped short and heavy masculine shoes, was Gertrude Stein; the other, tall and angular and more feminine, was her secretary, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude Stein was born in Alle gheny, Pa., in 1872. Much of her childhood, until she was five years old, was spent in Europe. Then her family moved to California, and she was raised in San Francisco and Oakland. After attending Rad- cliffe college, she went to medical school at Johns Hopkins. She set tled in Paris in 1903, and the world may have lost a great surgeon as she abandoned the scalpel to carve out a career as an author. She paid to have her first book printed, because no publisher would accept it. Wide recognition came to her with the publication of her book, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," in which she uses Tea by m is • m % T**. m «V1 sags me mmarnmm ~TW f+mmm CIO eeaes • SHgeea Maere«t • S— sees • Mearevt e*«*at %m me brat •tee mee#e me •MaeS aSae eerf me «ae*a -A 'Vtale* me •maed mew e*eey wev%M Sea m teae^ te a weae^ •eaea me MPW**ve* aaS me aeaea • we kespa m leave e*ery aaaparyee wea me aevaa OaSea me «*e«a«M me cee^eey URaee me C I O caessact yae serve am«e*r a. peece* N 4aae net. V T WAfl virtual)? certain that there 1 vouM be aonve federal action ta tha aieei atxikev. with Gov. Martin L Dave? of Otuo and Mayor Daniel J Shield* of Johnstown. Pa , ap pealing desperately to the President for aid Governor Dave?, in a long telegram detailing the arguments on both aides, declared that the situa tion had gone far beyond the powers of one state to control. When a worker in the Johnstown steel mills was abducted by six strikers and stripped of his clothing in their auto mobile (he was later released), fol lowing weeks of rioting and blood shed, the mayor decided that kid naping was the last straw and ap pealed to Mr. Roosevelt. Secretary of Labor Frances E. Perkins named a mediation board of three to meet in Cleveland and hear the cases of the union and the companies. On the board were Charles P. Taft, son of the former President and chief justice, a Re publican and lawyer from Cincin nati; Lloyd K. Garrison, who served as the first president of the National Labor Relations board in 1934, and Edward F. McGrady, first assist ant secretary of labor, and a known enemy of company unions, spy sys tems and the tear gat method of quelling strike riots. In Monroe, Mich., where the C. I. 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The breathing spell would give the administration an opportunity to align ita majority more solidly behind the President’s desired legislation to improve the lot of the underprivileged. —a— Harry Loses 1st Round QESPITE the pleas of Harry ^ L. Hopkins, works progress ad ministrator, the full senate appro priation committee approved the Byrnes amendment to the relief bill, 13 to 10. The amend ment to the $1,500,- 000,000 bill requires local governments to pay at least 40 per cent of the cost of all WPA projects, or else sign a kind of civic "pauper’s oath.” The South Carolina senator’s amendment was seen as further evi dence of the break between the ad ministration and the conservative Democrats. In the senate debate on the bin it quickly became apparent that M per cent Sea J T. fteluaeon offered a f on me KILE M*e Harry Hopkins only •f •one. Florida having two i on either aide, besides a area In the middle known as Everglades. Still, In a way. California's silvery strand continues to excel. Within easy speeding distance we have at least one beach resort where, when Palm Springs folds up on account of the heat, many of our artistic colony go to relax. So wholeheart edly do some go in for this that oft en you may stand off a quarter of a mile and hear them relaxing. Occasionally a relaxationist re laxes so completely that it takes weeks for him to get over it. His friends leave him at the seaside only to gather at the bedside. • » » The Changing World. I T WAS Susan B. Anthony who dedicated her life to the cause of emancipation for her sex. But it was her grandniece who lately at tained the headlines by suggesting that, with the addition of a buckle here and a ribbon there, a nightie would make a suitable evening gown for almost any occasion. Thus do we see how from one gen eration on to another is handed down the flame of genius and ice to womankind. But, although the Inspired Don is already weeks old, there still are ae signs that R Is •stag • muee may maana** available to hhn te 4s- tax which he must pay then that Mr Rooas rather 111 cho- aen and ill edviaed language when. In dealing with questiuns of tax avoidance, he aought to maka It ap- I pear that It waa wrong for a citizen ; to try to save his own money. • D D It has been rather interesting to note the type of outbursts, editorial and verbal, that Message has come as a re- Causes Stir suit of Mr. Roose velt's tax mes sage. These outbursts have contin ued partly because the President asked congress to make an investi gation of tax avoidance where some very large taxpayers are involved. Of course, congress is going to do that because it will give congress, or at least certain individual mem bers, an opportunity for publicity. And they do not overlook opportu nities for publicity. Since the discussion of tax ques tions has continued on the basis of the projected investigation, it has given plenty of writers an opportu nity to express their opinion in de tail. Many of these critics have be come quite personal in their assault upon Mr. Roosevelt and their biting observations are doing him no good politically at all. In fact, I have heard some rumblings beneath the surface to the effect that his tax has hurt him as much po le his proposal to add six new justices ef I of the «•! Of -wave. a* A* ee * cUiiJ whe e-4 I mentioned that the si committee is dealing only with "tug names M The resoon for this la plain. It would do no good at aO in a publicity way for the congres sional groupa to call In some small taxpayer who, by availing himself of the privileges of ths law, had been able to reduce his total tax to a comparatively few dollars. On ths other hand, if a big business man. an economic royalist, claims all of the exemptions and deductions that the law specifies and thereby cuts down his tax, he becomes the sub ject or the target for much bally hoo about tax avoidance. I do not see the difference. • • • Since the President finds himself in a deadlock with congress on his n-» ii/ z Proposal to add /'lies Work s i x justices of his on Congress own choosing to the Supreme court of the United States, he has turned to a new approach in dealing with the legislative situation. He has suddenly loaded congress down with work. This is to be distinguished from the course he has followed in his earlier ytars of his tenure when he submitted only one legislative suggestion at a time. Now, in addition to the court re organization proposal, there is be fore congress the far-reaching gov ernmental reorganization plan, the billion dollar slum clearance and house building, farm tenancy bill and a highly controversial piece of leglalatloo proposing to establish In the mooting while e student st Vnshtngum university, came te New York In Columbia university, and for rears wrote without having a single story accepted From the Saturday Evening Post, alone, she received 36 rejection slips. Her first encouragement came from R. H. Davis, editor of Mun- sey’s and success followed swiftly. Her first book, a collection of short stories, was published ir 1914, and her works appeared regularly there after, including "Mannequin" in 1926, which was awarded a prize of $00,000 by a moving picture cor poration. Fannie Hurst now lives in luxury In New York city. A handsome she lovee fine furs, fare