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NUARY 7, 1937 Arthur Brisbane, Editor, Dies at 72 Work Known to MiHxons; Column Popular in This Newspaper. New York, N. Y.—With the death of Arthur Brisbane Christ- mas monring, the world lost its most widely known and most widely read newspaper writer and editor. The veteran com mentator, whose column “This Week” appeared regularly in this newspaper, died of heart disease while he slept. He was seventy-two. True to the Brisbane tradition, he kept up the terrific pace of his work to the last. When he was stricken late in the afternoon of Christmas eve he had almost finished his col umn, “Today,” which appeared in many large daily newspapers, prin cipally those of William Randolph Hearst’s string. He was forced to call upon his son, Seward, 22, to complete ft. It was the first time in his life Arthur Brisbane had not finished what he had set out to write. Millions of Readers. It was only a few hours afterward Mr. Brisbane fell asleep in his Fifth avenue apartment. At his bedside were his physicians, Dr. Leopold Stieglitz and Dr. Frederick Zeman, and a nurse. In the apartment his entire family had gathered—his 'wife, Mrs. Phoebe Brisbane, whom he had married in 1912; his son, Seward, and his four daughters, Mrs. ARTHUR BRISBANE J. R. K. McCrary, 23; Emily, 18; Alice, 14, and Elinor, 12. The great editor never awakened. Probably no one knows how many millions of persons read Mr. Bris bane’s verse, analytical comments upon the news of the day. It is esti mated that 25 millions read his daily column. Additional millions followed with satisfaction the weekly column syndicated by Western Newspaper Union to this and many other lead ing weekly newspapers. Mr. Brisbane was wealthy. It is reported that his yearly salary at the time of his death was $260,000. In addition, there was the return on his extensive real estate holdings. Arthur Brisbane was bom in Buf falo, N. Y., in 1864. He attended the public schools and then, forsaking a college education, he became a re porter on the old New York Sun at 19. Yet his rise to the position he held in the world of journalism at the last was not the Horatio Alger type of success story, with glory crowning the hero after countless tear-jerking tribulations. He was good and he was successful from the start. It was not long before he was the Sun’s London correspondent. After five years, there was a shake-up on the paper and the management cabled him to return. He said he would if they made him managing editor. Managing editor! He was just 23. They made him managing editor. And so well did he execute his job, Joseph Pulitzer took him over to the New York World, which, under the Brisbane directorship, soon became the most influential organ of public opinion in America. “Greatest Journalist of Day.” When William Randolph Hearst came from California and bought the New York Journal he hired Mr. Brisbane—at a reduction in salary of almost 50 per cent. But there was an agreement that as the circulation increased, so would his compensa tion. His earnings on the World were multiplied in almost no time. The association with Hearst be came a life-long friendship, and Mr. Brisbane soon became regarded as next to Mr. Hearst in importance in the chain of newspapers. When he died, Mr. Hearst said: 'T know that Arthur Brisbane was the greatest journalist of his day.” it was Arthur Brisbane who was credited with bringing the trend of newspaper style “down to earth.” He believed that newspapers should he written for the ordinary man, not the intelligentsia. He wrote that way —and Ms oohxmns appealed to col lege professors as well as te mer- chaates and farmers. He dictated his 1,090 te 1,200 orisp, unwasted words daHy in half an hour to an hour. There was a dictaphone beside him wherever he wont. He would even wake np in Pullman berths and begin dictation at two ox throe in the morning. News Review of Current Events the World Over Cuban Congress Ousts President Gomez—Another Arch bishop Attacks Edward, Duke of Windsor— Treasury Plan to Curb Credit Inflation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Q Western Newspaper Union. V/TIGUEL MARIANO GOMEZ, president of Cuba, was on his way out because he defied Col. Ful- gencio Batista, the real ruler of the republic, by vetoing the sugar tax bill to raise funds for the building of schools that would be con ducted by army of ficers. Despite plen ty of warnings, Go mez persisted in his opposition to the measure which, he said, would lead to . rLnmm’w fascism. So the M guel Gomez j louse D f representa tives, dominated by Batista, im peached him and he went to trial before the senate with the certain ty that the decision would be against him. He was accused of attempting to coerce the congress unconstitutionally to defeat the tax bill, and of mal-administration. It was the first bill of impeachment ever voted in the history of the Cuban republic. Gomez defended himself vigor ously but was resigned to his fate. The prosecution was conducted by three members of the house—Car los Palma, veteran Republican lead er; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, Na tionalist, and Felipe Jay, Demo crat. Vice President Federico Laredo feru was ready to succeed Gomez automatically. He is a lawyer, sixty- one years old and was a colonel in the Cuban war of independence. A RCHBISHOPS of the Church of England just can’t let the duke of Windsor and his love affair alone. The Most Rev. Dr. William Temple, archibshop of York and second only to the archbishop of Canterbury, took his turn in lambasting the ab dicated king, in a Christmas dioces an letter that displayed little of the Christian spirit. Said the archbish op: “It has happened to many a man before now to find himself beginning to fall in love with another man's wife. That is a moment of critical decision and the right decision is that they should cease to meet be fore the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict be tween love and duty. “This decision often has been tak en by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is re inforced by the glamor of the throne the moral obligation is the more urgent for that reason. “Let us remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not the love of which the gospel speaks.” The British press and a great many of the English people are dis gusted with these repeated attacks on Edward by the prelates and there is a growing danger of a split in the Church of England. Dispatches from Edward’s haven in Enzesfeld, Austria, say that he is planning to make Mrs. Simpson the duchess of Windsor in May next, immediately after her divorce be comes absolute. Meanwhile he prob ably will remain at the castle of Baron Eugene de Rothschild with out seeing Mrs. Simpson. There were reports that the duke might take legal action against the archbishop of York, presumably for slander. CIMEON D. FESS, former sena- ^ tor from Ohio and for years a leader in the “Old Guard” of the Republican party, died suddenly in the Carlton hotel, Washington. He had been in retirement from na tional politics since 1932 when he was defeated for re-election to the senate. A CCORDING to a decision of the United States court of appeals in New Orleans, the national labor relations board has authority to compel employers to bargain collec tively with their employees. The tribunal upheld the board’s cease and desist orders against Agwil- ines, Inc., which operates the Clyde Mallory Steamship lines, in con nection with the dismissal of seven employees for alleged union action. T HE Supreme Court having up held, in the Chaco arms em bargo case, the neutrality powers of the President, Mr. Roosevelt let it be known that he would ask con gress to revise the present neutral ity law to give him broader dis cretion in his relations with foreign governments. In other words, the “teeth” which he and the State de partment have always thought the statute lacked. Just what the Pres ident would ask was not told to the press, but there were indications that he wants authority to: 1. Declare an arms embargo “up on the ©utbreak or during progress of” a war, and forbid the passage of American citizens or transport of American goods on belligerent ships, except at the traveler’s or shipper’s own risk. 2. Determine the actual volume to which commodity shipments would be limited and enumerate the items becoming contraband beyond those limits. Government officials looked upon the Supreme Court’s decision as the most sweeping approval of a New Deal law the tribunal has yet given. They read in it an inferen tial approval of the reciprocal trade treaty program, still untested, and a broader inference that the Presi dent should be given more latitude in negotiations of all kinds with for eign governments. TYELEGATES to the inter-Amer- ican peace conference in Bue nos Aires signed the 69 accords ap proved during the sessions and the conference came to an end. Fare well congratulatory speeches were made by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas and the head of the Peruvian delegation, Carlos Concha. They all urged that the peace efforts be continued in the next Pan-American conference, which will ’be held in Lima, Peru, in 1938. CECRETARY ° URY OF THE TREAS- MORGENTHAU and Chairman Marriner Eccles of the federal reserve board announced a new program for curbing credit in flation, and it is likely to involve $1,- 000,000,000 of bor rowings in 1937. About a billion dol lars worth of gold is flowing into the country annually, and if this continues next year, it was said by officials, the treasury will take that amount out of the money mar ket, to offset the effects of the gold influx on domestic credit. The plan, which probably was de vised by Mr. Eccles, is intended to hold the excess reserves, which are the reserves that member banks de posit with the federal reserve sys tem in excess of legal requirements, on the same plateau where they are now. Previously gold flowing into the country was chalked up as ex cess reserves upon which an infla tionary credit boom could be built. M. S. Eccles T HREE new indictments against major oil companies, oil trade publications and individuals were re turned by a federal grand jury in Madison, Wis., in order to avoid de lay in the trial of the anti-trust cases. With few changes the new true bills are similar to those returned previ ously by the 1935 grand jury and con tested as invalid on grounds that the grand jury was illegally impaneled. It is understood that the govern ment plans to bring the cases to trial in March. John L. Lewis T T NDER the general leadership of John L. Lewis the war for unionizing the steel industry and destroying the company unions is now under way. Some 250 company union representa tives from the Pitts burgh, the Cleve land - Youngstown and the eastern dis tricts met in Pitts burgh and were told by Philip Murray, chief aide of Lewis and chairman of the committee for in dustrial union, that a strike in the $5,000,000,000 indus try might result “if the industry continues to employ its dog-in-the- manger ‘ attitude,” in dealing with trade unions. Thereupon the delegates adopted resolutions unanimously condemn ing the company union plan as a “farce,” and establishing a new or ganization called the “CIO repre sentatives council,” with this “dec laration of principles:” 1. All steel workers be organized into a national industrial union. 2. Employee representatives use their influence to enroll the steel workers into the steel workers or ganizing committee’s campaign. 3. All steel workers be thorough ly informed by employee represen tatives who know from experience that the company union is a device of the management and totally un able to win any major concessions for the steel workers. 4. CIO employee representatives remain inside the company union for reasons obvious to all. The wage demands are: A $1.24 a day increase for all em ployees receiving over $5 a day. A 30 hour, five day week. Paid vacations of one week for employees of two years’ service and two weeks for employees of five or more years’ service. Time and one-half pay for over time within the regular working week. Double time for Sundays and hol idays. thinks about: UNCOMMON AMERICANS Irvin S. Cobb Hie Social Register. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Those who warm their aris tocratic hands at the social reg ister, take comfort from the latest issue of that priceless volume. It seems that, if a well born lady weds a night club playboy vith a head suitable for a handle on a dollar um brella, she stays put. But if she is married to a gen uine gentleman, such as Gene Tun- ney is, or a gifted orchestra leader, such as Eddie Duch- in, out she goes. The charming granddaughter of a poor Irish immi grant qualifies as an entry, which is as it should be, in any language. But when she takes for a hus band the son of a poor Jewish immi grant, whose blem ish is that he’s a professional song writer—and one of the greatest song writers alive — her name is scratched off the sacred scroll. Yet what’s an old family but a family that advertises that it’s old? And what is society except a lot of people who keep proclaiming that they are society until the rest of us believe them? • * * Protecting Human Game. Tj' OR the preservation of the less- * ening wild fowl, the govern ment stands pat by its ruling that ducks may no longer be lured to hunting grounds which have been baited for them and then bagged. But one shudders what would hap pen to Wall street if practically the same system now in vogue for gar nering in the human game was ew abolished on the stock exchange. Still, why not leave well enough alone? If there was no margin gambling available for cleaning the poor things, they’d bet their money on horse racing or the old Span ish prisoner game or something. • • • Liberty League Marriages. T HE rotogravure sections reveal that they’ve just opened a fresh crate of du Ponts, too late to qual ify for membership in the Liberty League, because the Liberty League, alas, is dead of overnour ishment, but in ample time to fill up the background at the approach ing marriage of the President’s fine son, Franklin Delano, Jr., and a charming daughter of the royal family of Delaware. That’s one wedding where the ushers will do well to see that the families are seated in separate pews during the ceremony, because somebody might tactlessly be re minded of little things that came up during the heat of the late cam paign. Otherwise, in the customary re galia of shad-bellied coats and striped trousers, it will be difficult to distinguish a champion of the rights of the great common people from an entrenched wretch of the ruggedly individualistic group. High hats and neat spats make all men equal—and make some of them homelier-looking. • • • Playing the Ponies. T) AGING starts soon out in Holly- wood, and the stars and star- ines may have to make their pic tures between events at Santa Ani ta because they’ll have absolutely no time for fiddling around studios. To risk my modest wagers on, I’m looking for a horse named Vir ginia Creeper or else Trailing Arbu tus. Then when I lose, as I always do, I can’t say my choice wasn’t appropriately named. If I had a bet on Paul Revere’s nag, Paul never would have made that famous ride of his. Somewhere between Concord and Lexington, a constable would have pinched him for blocking the highway. I often wonder where the foot-sore plugs I get tips on really hail from. It can’t be a racing stable. Maybe — yes, I’m sure that’s right — they’re exhausted refugees from a bide-a-wee-home. • • • Future Inventions. C ELEBRATING the hundredth anniversary of the American patent system, the assembled re search sharps declare that among the boons to mankind promised us in the near future by our native inventive geniuses are the follow ing: Clothes made out of glass (with curtains, I hope, for those of us who are more than six years old). Whisky aged instantly by power ful sound waves. (But who has thought of suitable relief for those who also will be aged instantly by drinking said whisky?) Rats grown as big as cows by powerful sound waves. (I can hard ly wait for the happy day when we may afford a family rat the size of a Jersey cow.) IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. By Elmo Scott Watson © Western Newspaper Union Worse Than Termites Lumber experts call termites a minor factor of deterioration in building materials, compared with such factors as rust, decay and oth er physical and chemical changes. H “Magnificent Failure” ALL the history of missionary work in America, there is no more remarkable record than that of David Zeisberger. For 63 years he labored among the Indians and during that time he traveled many thousands of danger • filled miles through the wilderness on foot and by canoe. He built no iess than 13 Indian towns as centers of Chris tianity in a heathen land and he lived to see all but one of them wiped out of existence. He had failed but truly his was a “mag nificent failure.” Zeisberger was born in Moravia in 1721 and in 1740 came to Geor gia where his church was organiz ing a mission among the Creeks. Next he was sent to Pennsylvania where he aided Count Zinzendorf in building the Moravian towns of Naz areth and Bethlehem. Beginning his work among the Delawares at Shamokin, Pa., he was adopted by the Munsty tribe of that nation. Then he went to New York where the Six Nations made him a sachem and keeper of their records, an unusual honor for a white man. When the French and Indian war began he was compelled to return to Bethlehem because both French and English were suspicious that his changes were partisans. After Pontiac’s conspiracy had been crushed in 1763 the Moravian led his flock to Wyalusing, Pa., and established two more missions on the Allegheny and the Beaver. Then the call for service beyond the Ohio came to him and in 1772 he founded Schoenbrunn (“Beautiful Spring”), the first white settlement in the fu ture Buckeye state. Next the town of Gnadenhutten was established and an era of peace began. But trouble was brewing for him. Although Zeisberger restrained the Delawares from taking part in the Revolutionary conflict, he soon found that he was under suspicion by both the British and the Ameri cans. The British stirred up the Wyandots to break up the mission at Schoenbrunn and its teachers were tried as American spies. Fi nally in 1782 came the crowning blow, when a party of brutal Amer icans committed the hideous mas sacre of 96 Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten. The broken-hearted Zeisberger started with the rem nants of his flock o~ a journey which took them first to Michigan, then back to Ohio and finally to Canada where he founded Fairfield on the Thames river. In 1798 the Moravian Indians and their leader came back to the Tus carawas river in Ohio where Zeis berger founded his last town—Gosh en. There his “long life of amazing fortitude, faith and patience” came to an end in 1808. v Real Estate Promoter T HOUGH you may regard real estate promoters as products of modem times, the fact is one of the greatest “put over his deal” early in the history of the republic. His name was Joel Barlow and he was a lawyer, a diplomat and a poet, which may account for the fact that once “his siren voice persuaded a group of French emigrants to seek a Garden of Eden in Ohio.” Back in 1787 two groups of land speculators, known as the Ohio As sociates and the,Scioto Associates, secured the right from congress to purchase land in the Northwest ter ritory with the almost-worthless Continental currency with which it had paid off soldiers of the Revolu tion. Then the Scioto Associates sent Barlow to France to dispose of these lands. They had nothing but an option on the lands but that didn't stop Barlow. He sold a tract of 3,00C,000 acres to a French Scioto company which in turn retailed farms to peasants and artisans who were willing to emigrate to America. In the spring of 1790 some 600 of them arrived in Alexandria, Va. William Duer, head of the Scioto Associates, was filled with dismay for there were neither a 0 ents to meet them nor lands ready for them. Foreseeing the trouble that was ahead when hundreds more land- hungry Frenchmen arrived, Duer hastily arranged to take over lands of the Ohio Associates, who owed him money. For this debt he got nearly 200,000 acres on the Ohio riv er opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha. There he brought the Frenchmen and in October, 1790, the town of Gallipolia was founded. Rufus Put nam was engaged to build their huts for them but Duer soon found that it would be impossible to ful fill all the glowing promises which Barlow had made—to provide good homes and profitable occupation for the skilled artisans among them. By 1792 Duer had gone bankrupt, land titles were still in a bad tangle and the settlement of Gallipolis be gan to dwindle. For years there after congress had to listen to many a tale of woe from the victims before their claims ware settled. Crochet Tot Snug and Warm Three-Piece Set i Pattern 1097 Miss Five-to-Twelve will be snug, warm and proud in a hand-crocheted cap, scarf, and muff-set of plain crochet, with picot-stitch trim. Pattern 1097 contains directions for making the set in 5 through 12 year size (all given in one pattern); il lustrations of it and of all stitches used; material require ments. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly your name, ad dress and pattern number. Still Coughing? NO matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulston. 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