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By Edward W. Pickard
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Secretary
Morgenthaa
Reserve Board Supports
Government Issues
D RICES of government bonds
* have been declining in a disturb
ing manner, and the administration
decided to do something to check
the slump. The open
market committee
of the federal re
serve system dis
cussed the matter
all one day, and
next day President
Roosevelt, Secretary
of the Treasury
Morgenthau and
Chairman Eccles of
the reserve board
held a long confer
ence. The result was
this announcement:
“With a view (1) to exerting its
influence toward orderly conditions
in the money market and (2) to
facilitating the orderly adjustment
of member banks to the increased
reserve requirements effective May
1, 1937, the open market committee
of the federal reserve system is pre
pared to make open market pur
chases of government securities for
the account of federal reserve banks
in such amounts and at such times
as may be desirable.”
Purchase of government securi
ties in the open market by the fed
eral reserve banks—they now own
$2,430,000,000 of government bills,
notes and bonds—will create re
serves for the member banks, and
thus make it easier for them to
meet the May 1 banking reserve in
crease, without reducing their hold
ing of government securities. This
should make money easier.
The security and commodity
markets were given a rather severe
jolt by the President when he told
the correspondents that prices of
durable goods, especially steel and
copper, were too high and that it
was time for a shift in federal ex
penditure from them so as to spread
the national income more evenly.
He said that instead of spending fed
eral funds on steel bridges, huge
cement dams and similar perma
nent projects, government rel’ef
spending should be diverted as far
as possible to dredging, construc
tion of earth dams, and other proj
ects which do not draw on durable
goods.
chairman of the operators’ delega
tion at the conference, said the cost
of bituminous coal at the mine
would go up at least 25 cents a ton.
The miners won a raise of 50 cents
a day, but lost their demand for a
30-hour week. The 35-hour week, or
7 hours a day and 5 days a week,
which was in effect under the old
contract, will remain. Also the men
failed to get two weeks’ vacation
with pay and a guaranty of 200
days of work a year.
The strike in the Ford plant in
Kansas City came to an end and
the members of the United Auto
mobile Workers were boasting of
gaining a victory over the imper
turbable Henry. But the advantage
they won was slight and temporary,
and the battle with Ford is yet to
be fought.
Three Cornered Contest
Coming in Oil Fields
'T' HERE is going to be a lively
-*• three-cornered struggle in the
southwestern oil fields. The C. I. O.,
whose plans in that direction were
mentioned in this column not long
ago, has begun the campaign to or
ganize the workers in the Texas
field. Harvey C. Fremming of
Washington, president of the Inter
national Assocyation olf Oil Field,
Gas Well and Refinery Workers and
close friend of John Lewis, is in
charge of the operations. A rival
movement for members and pres
tige will be started in a few days
by the A. F. of L.
Gov. James V. Allred of Texas
has given notice that he will use
‘every resource” against sit-down
strikes, which he declares are un
lawful and un-American. He added:
“My investigation convinces me
that sit-down strike organizers have
invaded Texas. Sit-down methods
do not represent the desires of an
overwhelming majority of organized
labor in this state.”
Irvin S. Cobb
Florida Ship Canal
Bobs Up Again
'T'HAT Florida ship canal project,
which would cut the state in
two, has come to the fore again
and probably will have to be fought
out once more in
congress. Two re
ports on the matter
have just been filed.
One, from Maj. Gen.
Edward M. Mark
ham, chief of engi
neers of the army,
says the federal
government would
be justified in com
pleting the project
at a cost of $197,-
921,000. The other,
from the river and
harbor board, says the canal is eco
nomically unsound.
Neither report was made public
at once, but the War department
said General Markham recommend
ed an Atlantic-Gulf waterway 33
feet deep and 400 feet wide.
The canal was started once by
President Roosevelt, but in 1936 con
gress failed to appropriate addi
tional money and work was stopped.
The fight in congress against the
funds was led by Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg who contended the gi
ant seaway was unjustified econom
ically.
Radicals Stage Sit-Down
in Minnesota Senate
EARLY 1,000 Farmer-Labor
zealots, apparently inspired by
pointed remarks of Gov. Elmer A.
Benson, began a sit-down siege in
the Minnesota state house in an
effort to force the state legislators
to enact Gov. Benson’s program to
soak the rich and petition congress
to pack the Supreme court of the
United States.
They chose the senate chamber
for their legislative demonstration.
They chose this chamber because
the senate, conservative in its eco
nomic and political makeup, suc
cessfully has balked the governor’s
radical program. The house has
been more pliant.
In their sitdown siege the lobby
ists had the apparent blessing, if
not the indirect encouragement, of
Governor Benson.
Maj. Gen.
Markham
Trial Without Jury
Upheld by High Court
I N A decision denying the right
of trial by jury in criminal cases
where the maximum punishment is
not more than three months in pris
on, the Supreme court divided 7 to 2,
with two justices whom the New
Dealers most frequently denounce
by name coming to the defense of
human liberties.
Justice James Clark McReynolds,
who has held against the New Deal
in all except tWo important cases,
wrote the dissenting 'opinion in the
jury trial case, and. Justice Pierce
Butler, author of fhe opinion in
validating New York ,state’s mini
mum wage act last year, concurred
with him. The dissenting opinion de
clared that ‘.‘constitutional guaran
tees ought not to be subordinated
to convenience,; hdr* denied j upon
questionable precedents or uncer
tain reasoning.” b; ; *
Miners’ Strike Endp and (
Wage Scale Is Signed .
B ITUMINOUS co^l miners were
on strike only one day, for the
new wage scale, providing an $35,-
000,000 increase of pay for the 400,-
000 men, was signed by representa
tives of the operators and the United
Mine Workers of America. Of
course the consumer will have to
pay for this wage boost. Charles
O’Neill, president bf the United
Eastern Coal Sales corporation and
Army Day Marks America’s
Entry Into the War
D ROCLAIMED by the President,
* congress and all governors,
Army day was celebrated through
out the nation on April 6, the twen
tieth anniversary of America’s en
trance into the World war.
The keynote of Army day, ac
cording to Rear Admiral Reginald
R. Belknap, U. S. N. retired, gen
eral c> , '- : rman of the day, is “Peace
through preparedness.”
“We who have seen the terrible
destruction wrought by war want to
do all in our power to avoid another
war,” he said. “The best way to do
this, we believe, is by having a
strong, well-trained, well-equipped
army and navy. So strengthened,
an aggressor nation will think twice
before trying to draw us into war.”
The best way to achieve this pre
paredness, he added, is by carry
ing out the provisions of the Nation
al Defense act of 1920, in appropri
ations, personnel, material and
training. He also urged continuing
the navy at full treaty strength,
fully manned, actively trained and
with an adequate trained reserve.
Norris Still Plans for
National Power Authority
CENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of
v ^. Nebraska is intent on his plan
for the creation of a national power
authority similar to the Tennessee
V a 11 e y authority,
and he intends to in
troduce a bill for
this during the pres
ent session of con
gress. This he pn-.
noun^ed after con-
ferrjjig with the
President, and he
intimated the idea
was approved by
Mr. Roosevelt. He
has experts at work
investigating its fea
sibility and mapping
out the details.
“All rivers of the United States
should be controlled by the natior if
their nature is Subject to it by na
tional flood control policy,” the sen
ator said. “Whenever the river will
develop power, we should take ad
vantage of it. I’ve always regarded
power ns a subsidiary or by-product
of flood control.”
Sen. Norris
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The Origin of Sitdowns.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —
With the Barnum show there
once was an elderly lady ele
phant named Helen. Now, Helen
had wearied of traipsing to and
fro in the land.
Probably she figured she’d seen
everything anyhow. So each fall,
when the season
ended, she went
rejoicing back
home to Bridgeport,
Conn.
Nobody ever knew
the date of depar
ture the next spring.
There was no more
bustle about winter-
quarters on that
morning than for
weeks past.
But always, when
the handlers en
tered the “bull barn” to lead forth
the herd, they found Helen hun
kered down on her voluminous
haunches, which, under that vast
weight, spread out like cake batter
on a hot griddle. She would be
uttering shrill sobs of defiance. And
neither prodding nor honeyed words
could budge her.
So they’d wrap chains around her
and two of her mates would hitch
on and drag her bodily, she still on
her rubbery flanks, aboard a wait
ing car. She’d quit weeping then
and wipe her snout and accept what
fate sent her.
So please don’t come telling me
that the sit-down strike is a new
notion or that somebody in Europe
first thought it up. Thirty years ago
I saw my lady elephant friend, Hel
en, putting on one, all by her four-
ton self.
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Taxes and More Taxes.
J UST when everybody is taking
comfort from the yodelled prom
ises of that happy optimist. Chair
man Harrison of the senate finance
committee, that the government
will be able to get by for 1937 with
out asking this congress to boost
taxes, what happens?
Why, in a most annoying way,
Governor Eccles of the federal re
serve board keeps proclaiming that,
to make treasury receipts come
anywhere near meeting treasury
disbursements throughout the year,
he’s afraid it’s going to be neces
sary to raise the rates on incomes
and profits higher than ever.
And meanwhile state governors
and civic authorities scream with
agony at the bare prospect of any
reductions in Uncle Sam’s allot
ments for local projects.
A balanced budget would seem to
be like Santa Claus, something
everybody talks about but nobody
ever expects to see.
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Self-Determination.
tpORMERLY the states jealously
* guarded their sovereign per
quisites. Once—but that was so
long ago many have almost forgot
ten it—they fought among them
selves one of the bloodiest civil wars
in history over the issue of states’
rights.
Now we see them complacently
surrendering to federal bureaus
those ancient privileges—and may
be, after all, that’s the proper thing
to do, if in centralized authority lies
the hope of preserving a republican
form of government.
Still, one wonders what English
men would do under like circum
stances, since Englishmen are fussy
about their inheritance of self-de
termination. Perhaps the distinc
tion is this:
In democracies there exists the
false theory that all men are born
free and equal. So the Englishman
insists on having his freedom, which
is a concrete thing, and laughs at
the idea cf equality. Whereas, the
American abandons his individual
freedom provided he may cling to
the fetish of equality.
Yankee tweedledee and British
tweedledum may be brothers under
the skin, but they have different
skin diseases.
The Parole Racket.
I T IS astonishing but seemingly
true that, of five young gang
sters recently caught red-handed in
a criminal operation, not a single
one was a convict out on parole. Is
there no way to bar rank amateurs
from a profession calling for prior
experience and proper background?
And can it be that the various pa
role boards over the union are not
turning loose qualified practitioners
fast enough to keep up with the de
mand? Maybe we nCed self-open
ing jails.
Those sentimentalists who abhor
the idea that a chronic offender be
required to serve out his latest sen
tence should take steps right away
to correct this thing before it goes
too far. Our parole system must
be vindicated if it costs the lives
and property of ten times as many
innocent citizens a? at present.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
Festival Bills Elephant Fight
Elephant tug-of-wars, in which
the beasts locked tusks and some
times struggled for hours, were a
feature of a festival recently held
near Calcutta, India.
“Man With the Knife" 9
By FLOYD GIBBONS
TTERE is a story sent to me by Eva Halm of Chicago—the
A story of a little girl whose impulsive act saved her from
one danger, only to throw her into another one.
Eva has grown up in the meantime, but back in 1907, when she was
just a kid, her dad was superintendent of the trolley car lines over a
large area in Chicago. He spent the day going from one station or car
barn to another, and at night, after dinner, he usually drove down to
the biggest station and checked over the others by telephone.
Those were the horse and buggy days. Eva’s dad drove a
spirited horse hitched to a light rubber-tired runabout, and usually
when he went to the main station in the evening someone in
the family rode with him.
On this particular night it was Eva who was to go driving with him.
There had been some labor trouble on the line and /some of the men
were out to “get” the superintendent. As a result, he carried a loaded
’38 revolver in a leather holster in his hip pocket.
Dad Took His Gun Along.
He slipped the gun in his pocket that night as he was starting out—
and then buttoned his coat and overcoat over it.’
Eva noticed that. She knew, too, that there were a couple of
pretty tough customers among the men who were “after” her
dad, and she asked him why he didn’t keep that gun in his over
coat pocket where he could get at it more easily.
But dad just laughed at her.
They got into the carriage and drove along. The station he was
heading for was quite a distance away and about three miles from home
Eva Used the Whip and the Horse Plunged.
they had to cross the Belmont avenue bridge over the north branch of
the Chicago river.
The bridge was darkest in the middle, for only the arc lamps at
either end gave it light. They had just about reached that darkest
point when a roughly dressed man stepped out from behind one of the
bridge uprights.
Eva’s dad had to pull up the horse. Often, when he couldn’t be
reached by phone, a pitman was sent from a nearby station to give him
a message at this point.
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Polisson. (F.) A rascal.
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There Were Two of Them.
He brought the horse to a stop as he approached the man and said.
“Well, what is it?”
But at that same moment another roughly dressed figure
stepped from the other side of the bridge and caught hold of the
horse’s head.
For a minute no one spoke. Then, suddenly it dawned on Eva that
these couldn’t be men from the station. If they were, why didn’t they
answer? And if they weren’t—well—then they must be a couple of those
fellows who were trying to “get” her dad.
And then Eva saw something else. The fellow up front by the
horse’s head had something in his hand which gleamed dully in the
dim light.
Eva Had an Inspiration.
A knife! Right then was when Eva acted on impulse. She jumped
to her feet, reached over the reins in her dad’s hands and snatched
the whip from its socket. As she grabbed that whip she thought of the
gun in her dad’s pocket, buried under those buttoned-up coats where he
couldn’t get at it. Then she raised the whip and brought it down on the
horse’s back with all her strength.
The horse reared and plunged. The man at his head jumped
aside, cursing. The carriage moved back and forth, and Eva fell
sideways. Just in time her dad reached out and caught her.
“But for his quick action,” she says, “I would have been thrown to
the bridge and probably knifed to death.”
But that move of her dad’s was disastrous. In reaching out for her
he had slacked up on the reins and lost control of the horse.
The horse got the bit in its teeth and away it went.
But at last dad pulled the horse up and turned it into the street lead
ing to the station. When it was all over he turned to her and said: “You
must never do that again. You might have been killed.”
But Eva still wonders what would have happened if she hadn’t done it
©—WNU Service.
Love of Card Games Is
Noted in Briton’s Talk
The Briton’s love of card games is
reflected in his speech, says a
writer in London Tit-Bits Magazine.
“That’s the card,” we say when
a person does the correct thing, i. e.,
he has played the right card. We
call a sharp fellow “a knowing
card”; a man of personality “a
great card.” “A queer ca’-d” de
scribes someone we don’t quite un
derstand, or don’t quite trust.
“When in doubt play trumps” is
advice to play the bold game in
life—to go all out for a win.
We say of a successful man ihat
he “played his cards well.” T o
“throw up the cards” is to cease to
struggle. When the other fellow ap
pears to hold every advantage, we
complain that he “holds all the
cards.”
A queer thing about u pack of
cards is that it is like a calendar.
There are 52 cards in a pack, and
52 weeks in a year. There are four
suits in a pack and four seasons in
a year. There are thirteen cards in
each suit, and thirteen weeks in
each quarter. Counting the Aces as
1, the Knaves as 11, the Queens
as 12, and the Kings as 13, the pips
in a pack total 364. Add 1 for the
Joker and we get 365 pips in a pack.
Different countries use different
symbols to represent the four suits.
Germany used to use Leaves,
Hearts, Bells and Acorns. In Spain,
Columbine, Roses, Pinks and Rab
bits have now changed to Espados
(swords), Copas (chalices), Dineros
(money), Bastos (cudgels or clubs).
French cards have a Pique (pike-
man), Choeur ( choir-man), Car-
riaux (tiles or artisans), Trefle
(clover or farmer).
Our English “Spades” are a mix
ture of the French symbol, a pike,
and the Spanish name, espados;
“Clubs” picture the French trefoil,
but adopt the Spanish name;
“Hearts” is a corruption of the
French Choeur into Coeur.
Unique Islamic Custom
For about 1,200 years, & unique
Islamic custom has been practiced
in Muna, Arabia. As enjoined in
the Koran, every Mohammedan
passing through the town on his way
to Mecca, has stopped at the rock
pile and thrown 49 stones at Satan.
“Satan’s Abode,” indicated by a
sign, says Collier’s Weekly, is the
official target and gentlemen who
playfully hurl rocks in other direc
tions are arrested.
Ale-Wives in England
Centuries ago, we read of Alreck,
of Hordoland, choosing Geirhild as
his wife on account of her skill in
brewing “noppy” ale. Ale-wives
held a monopoly in the Peer trade
in England 509 ypars ago, says
Pearson’s London Weekly Magazine,
and so brisk was their trade that
they were forbidden to sell ale on
London bridge because they ob
structed the traffic.
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