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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMJCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937 what about: IN REVIEW by frUm/ui ID. Pi Q Wcitern Newspaper Union. Chief Justice Hughes Wagner Act Upheld by the Supreme Court F IVE history - making decisions were handed down by the Su preme court, all upholding the va lidity of the Wagner labor relations act and iriferentially broadening the in terstate commerce clause of the Consti tution. The most im portant ruling .m^de by five of the nine justices and read by ‘ Chief'' Justice Hughes* was-in the case of the Jones & Laughlin Steel com pany and directed the reinstatement of ten- discharged em ployees. The de cision supported the constitutional basis of the Wagner act, finding it a legal “scheme” to protect com merce from injury resulting from the denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and “from the refusal of employees to accept the procedure of collective bargain- mg. Thfe broad constitutionality of the act, was strongly noted py the chief Justice. He declared that: “We think it clear that the na tional labor relations act may be construed so as to operate within the spirit of constitutional author ity.” ■“ ! ' ' Hughes defined the aright- of em ployees to self-orgauization and ; to select their representatives, for col lective bargaining as “a fundamen tal right.” ’ _ Regarding the vital point of the application of the interstate com merce clause of the Constitution, Hughes declared: “The congressional authority to protect interstate commerce from 1 burdens and obstructions is not limited to transactions which can be deemed to be an essential part of a ‘flow’ of interstate or foreign commerce. Burdens or obstructions may be due to ..injurious action springing from other sources.” In the case Of the Assboiated Press, concerning the dismissal of Morris Watson, a New Y’Ork Odi- torial employee, the court was split, 5 to 4. The majority opinion, read by Justice Roberts, held, that the act does not “abridge tji^ freedom of speech or Of the press sa’fe-guard- ed by the first amendment” to the Constitution. The court took*the view that Watson was dismissed not be cause his work was unsatisfactory but because of his activities in the Newspaper Guild, • pnd, <onc^red his reinstatement. Dissenting conservatives, com prising Justices Willis Van Devan- ter, George Sutherland, James C. McReynolds and Pierce Butler, con tended that the act’ Should hot be applied to the Associated Press be cause its provision?': violated^ the “freedom of the press”, clause of the Constitution. They found that if the act interfered with^the Ability of the Associated PreSi to maintain a policy of impartial news- reporting, it must fall under the freedom of the press guaranty. , The three other cases, in each of which the Wagner act was upheld, involved dismissal of 18 employees by an interstate bus-Company; a dispute between the Fruehauf Trailer Company of Detroit, Mich., and the United Automobile Workers Union; and a dispute between the Friedmann - Harry Marks Cloth ing Company of Richmond Va., and Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In the bus case the decision was unani mous; in the others the division was 5 to 4. Canada Motors Str ke on Verge of Settlement X/f ITCH ELL HEPBURN, pre- mier of Ontario, reiterating his determination not to pfexmit C. I. O. representatives'-fi-om’ the United States to take part in negotiations for settlement of the strike in the General Motors of Canada plant at OshaWa*' promised to “call-* out an army if nec. essary” to protect , the property of the . corporation. flu&h Thompson, U. A. W. A. organizer, barred by Hepburn, threat-, ened that every Gen eral Motors plant in America would be closed unless the Oshawa strike were settled soon with recoghitiOn of the union demands. Homer Mar tin, president of the U. A. W. A., called Hepburn a number of un pleasant names. The Toronto Trades and Labor Council pledged the sup port of its 40,000 members to the union's strike against General Mo tors. Notwithstanding all this, it ap peared likely at this writing thit the trouble at Oshawa would be brought to an end very soon by the agree’ T, ent of General Motors of Canada to recognize the United Automob'lo vVorkers and to increase the wages of its employees. To some unbiased observers it seemed Premier Hepburn that Premier Hepburn had inter vened in the affair unnecessarily or at least prematurely, and that his blustery language was not war ranted, since the strike was being conducted in a fairly orderly man ner with no threat of a sitdown. C. I. O. Men Shoot Several Foes in Galena, Kan. O RGANIZERS of the Internation al Union of Mill, Mine and Smelter Workers, an affiliate of the C. I. O., invaded the lead and zinc field of Kansas, Oklahoma and Mis souri and were forcibly resisted by the “blue carders” .of the Tri- State Metal Mine and Smelter Work ers’ union, which the C. I. O. says is a company union. The latter dis mantled the C. I. O. offices at Picher and Treece and then moved into Galena, Kan., where they paraded. As they reached the C. I. O. head quarters one of the marchers smashed a window. There was a burst of gunfire from the building and at least eight men and one lad fell wounded. Leaders' of the blue card union say nearly every miner in the region belongs to it, that they are draw ing higher pay than ever before and are interested only in keeping conditions as they are and in an opportunity to work. The C. I. O. has smarted a cam paign to organize the 270,000 em ployees of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, the largest corporation in the United States. Local unions are to be chartered by the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America. Promotional literature is being distributed. Irvin S. Cobb Prime Minister Baldwin Will Soon Quit Office C* REQUENT reports that Stanley 4 Baldwin would soon retire from the post of prime minister of Great Britain were confirmed by him in a speech to the members of his con stituency at Wor cester. It is expect ed he will quit office almost immediately after the coronation of King George VI on May 12, and there seems little doubt that his suc cessor will be Ne ville Chamberlain, now chancellor of the exchequer. In his Worcester address Mr. Baldwin said: “It is far better to go when people may still think of you as perhaps not incompetent in your work than to stay until they know before you do that you are be coming incompetent. “In a democratic country the prime minister is not only the head of a government, but he is the lead er of a party and the leader of the house of commons. To ;carry on that tripartite task for many years beyond the age I have now reached is, in my belief, beyond the strength of human nature.” The prime minister’s long service to his country will be .rewarded by elevation to the peerage. Neville Chamberlain British Navy Ordered to Protect Merchant Ships /^JREAT BRITAIN will respect the blockade of the northern Spanish port of Bilbao established by General Franco, Fascist leader. Cut her navy has been given or ders by the cabinet to project to the fullest extent all British ship ping outside the three mile limit. The huge battle cruiser Hood and other warships were sent in a hurry to the Bay of Biscay, and orders were given to open fire on any Spanish vessel interfering with British cargo ships on the high seas. The cabinet, it was said, decided to continue to withhold the granting of belligerent rights to Franco but regarded the blockade of Bilbao as a special case since Franco’s forces surround the town by sea and land. Six British ships had been waiting at St. Jean de Luz and one at Bayonne, unable to land food car goes at Bilbao because of the pres ence of Franco’s warships. Farmers Must Pay More to Raise 1937 Crops A CCORDING to the Department of Agriculture American farm ers will have to pay more to raise their crops in 1937 than they did last year. Farm labor will cost more. Seed prices already have ad vanced sharply, and feed prices will be materially higher than in 1936. The department said farm wage rates will continue the “slow rise 1 of the last three years" due to an increase in both the nonagricultural and agricultural demand for labor. The department forecast that “production and sales of farm ma chinery during 1937 probably will exceed those of 1936—which were the highest since 1930—and equal the 1925-29 average, especially if crop conditions are more nearly normal.” Fertilizer sales and prices, it was said, probably will average “some what higher” than in 1936. California Condors. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Local naturalists are all agog over the discovery that the California condor is coming back in numbers to his former haunts just up country from here. In fact, they are going out of one violent gog right into another. Because the condor, the mightiest winged creature in all North America, was supposed to be practically extinct, along with such van ished species of native wild life as the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the lightning rod agent. So now we have set up a new mark for envious Florida to shoot at. For while they may have croupiers at Bradley’s in Palm Beach, with eyes as keen and bleak as the con dor’s are, and real- estate dealers in Miami as greedy as he is, our frustrated rivals will be put to it to dig up a bird with a wing spread of from nine to elev en feet. • • • Communism’s Gallant Foe. LJ ARDLY a day passes but we ■ 4 4 read in the paper of an ac count of individual heroism, of sac rifice, of devotion to duty—some thing which renews our faith in hu man beings and makes us realize that scattered through the world are splendid souls of whom we never heard before and probably shall never hear again. When the emer gency came he rose to it—and that’s enough. Hut because, in the last few months, we’ve learned to expect it of him, I’m thinking many of us fail to appreciate a recurrent act of gallant service by one venerable, enfeebled man whose name is fa miliar to all Christendom. From time to time, triumphing by sheer will power, by sheer singleness of purpose above his own suffering, Pope Pius XI, speaking from what soon must be his deathbed, sends forth a clarion call for a united front against the growing menace of nnimmunism. • • • Waning Merchant Marines. A FTER we’ve spent billions in government subsidies trying to build up a proper merchant fleet of our own, it’s just a trifle discon certing to read that, among the six rations leading in maritime ship ping, the United States still ranks third in gross tonnage, fifth in ships having a speed of twelve knots or better, and last in ships built within the last ten years. But, although Los Angeles is a great port, we have no time right row to pester about a comparatively trivial thing such as the threatened vanishment of the American flag from the seven seas—not while we’re still so uncertain about who will have the leading parts in “Gone With the Wind.” To date, nearly every lady in the movie colony has been suggested for Scarlett O’Hara except Mae West and Jane Withers, and as for Rhet* Butler—well, it may yet be necessary to cast that role as a whole minstrel first part, with an interlocutor and six end men. • • • Italians in Spain. I T MUST be slightly annoying to those Italian soldiers who were flung headlong upon Spain to fight in a war in which they had no per sonal interest, when, through mis take, they are mown down in hun dreds by their own troops, and then the bewildered remnants find them selves in the hands of the oppos ing government forces, who have a reputation for sometimes being a trifle rough with prisoners whom they capture Still, it must be a great com fort to the con-fused captives—and to the relatives of the fallen back home as well—to have assurance from Mussolini that they are win ning the way for fascist doctrines, j Until they heard that cheering mes sage, those battered survivors prob- a-ily thought that the> had been heked • • • The Height of Gall. A S J. CAESAR remarked at the time, all Gaul was once divid- ei in three parts, but it is obvious t/ at subsequently there was a com plete re-consolidation. When France, already in default to us on one little four-billion debt, starts scheming to peddle her new est issue of government securities o\er here, that must indeed be re garded as the height of gailishness or Gaulishness—spell it either way, reader, it’ll come out the same. Moreover, to evade the Johnson act, she would have American investors serd the money to Paris and buy these French bonds there. This sort of smacks of inviting Br’r Rabbit to come into camp to be massacred, instead of hunting him down with the dogs IRVIN S. COBB. @—WNU Service. Adventurers’ Club « The Iron Mouth 99 By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter N OW here’s a yarn that just goes to show what an age of progress we live in. You know, thousands of years ago, when the cave men roamed the primeval forests the boys who made the Adventure club were the ones that came running back to the family campfire and told Ma Stonehatchet and the kids about how one of them just missed being gobbled by a dinosaur with a mouth big enough to take him all in one bite. Well, the dinosaurs died off and you don’t see them any more, except stuffed ones in museums, but you can still have the adventure of being gobbled by a mouth as big as a prehistoric monster’s because nowadays we manufacture them—make them out of iron, and put rows of sharp teeth in them, attach them to great mechanical animals and send them out lo bite people like David J. Hanlon of Belmar, N. J. Dave bad his run-in with one of those steam-powered man- eaters at three o’clock on a cold October morning in the year 1927. Dave was just out of high school then, and working at his first real full-time job. It was the job of laborer on the state highway bridge over Shark river between Belmar and Avon, and Dave was working on the night shift. Most Dangerous Job to the Youngest. Dave says it was an adventure all in itself to be staying up all night, working with a crew of grown men. He was the youngest one in the crew and also the smallest. As a result, the foreman had given him the easiest job on the bridge. That foreman might have thought he was doing Dave a favor, but it so happened it was the most dangerous job on the bridge as well. The crew had run a temporary trestle out over the water and out on that trestle they had rolled a big crane with which they were ex cavating holes for the big concrete piers which were to form the bridge’s foundation. The crane was equipped with a clamshell scoop—two great jaws with sharp teeth set alon^ the edges, hinged at the upper end. The crane dropped that scoop deep in the mud and silt of the excavation. The jaws closed on a mouthful of the muck, and the scoop was hauled up and dumped on the other side of the trestle. There was a caisson of heavy planking built around the edge of the excavation to keep the sides from caving in, and down near the bottom of the hole carpenters had built a wooden ledge that a man could stand on. It was Dave’s job to stand on that ledge, wait for the clamshell to come down, and push it to a spot where it could get a good big bite of the mud they were dredging. How the Huge Scoop Worked. It took three men to work that job properly. Jerry, operator of the crane, would drop the big scoop down to within a few feet of the slimy mud, and then stop it. Then, to make sure it got a good mouthful, Dave would push it to the desired spot. When he got it there he’d yell, “Oke.” That was a signal to Sam Smith, the boss, standing directly above him on the edge of the caisson. Sam would relay that signal to Jerry with a motion of his hand, and Jerry would let the big scoop fall and gobble its mouthful of mud. “Time and again,” says Dave, “Jerry would drop those half-ton jaws and they’d eat up more mud. We soon attained a certain rhythm at it, and all night long it was ‘Oke—splash! Oke—splash!’ so steady and monotonous that we could have done it in our sleep.” And the whole trouble was that those three birds almost did do it in their sleep, and a big iron monster is something a man ought not to fool with UN LESS HE’S WIDE AWAKE.. The planking Dave was standing on was narrow, and time and again he almost lost his balance and fell in. And then, somehow, Dave did slip and fall. “I’m not sure how it happened,” he says, “but all of a sudden I was falling, and the next minute I was on my back in the mud, right under the gaping, six-foot jaws of that half-ton clamshell scoop. It was probably only a couple of seconds that I lay there, trying to get my wits together, but I remember thinking of what would hap pen if that scoop should fall and the teeth close on me.” Steel Jaws Closing on Him. And then, suddenly it began to look as if Dave was going to find out. Up above he heard Sam give the signal. Oke! It was purely mechanical on Sam’s part. He had been giving that signal at a certain interval for so long that now he was doing it with out thinking. Then—SPLASH! Down came the scoop right across Dave’s body! The jaws landed on either side of him and sank deep into the mud. They hadn’t hurt him because his body lay in the triangle up at the top where the two parts were hinged together. But in another second or so those two parts would begin to come together! “There wasn’t much use in trying to yell,” says Dave, “for down there in the muck, under that great steel shell, my voice would be smoth ered and drowned by the clatter of the machinery and the noise of the pumps. Beside that, there wasn’t time. I could see, to my horror, that they were going to close over my head and my feet which stuck out at either side!” Those jaws were almost on Dave now. He gritted his teeth and shut his eyes. In another moment it would be all over. He drew in a deep breath—and thought to himself that it would prob ably be his last. And then— And then, all of a sudden, the great jaws stopped closing. Up on the caisson, Sam Smith had looked for Dave and hadn’t been able to see him. He knew something was wrong and gave a signal that stopped the closing of the scoop. “He did it calmly and easily,” Dave says, “but I’ve often wondered what would have happened to me if Sam had been one of those excitable fellows. If he had lost his head then, I am pretty sure I would have lost mine, too.” ©—WNU Service. “White Woman’s Creek” Is Indian Name for a River Mary Harris, a heroine of the Deerfield (Mass.) massacre in 1704. is responsible for the origin of the name of the Walhonding river which winds through a part of central Ohio before joining the Muskingum. When she was ten she was captured, carried into the valley of the Wal honding, into what is now Coshoc ton county, and later was married to a French Mohawk. She is be lieved to have been the first white woman to live in this section so the Delaware Indians termed the stream Walhonding, which in their language, according to a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, meant “White Woman’s Creek.” There are three popular theories concerning the derivation of the name Cuyahoga. Some claim the name can be traced back to the In dian Cuyahogan-uk meaning “Lake River.” Others insist it was de rived from Carrihoga, or “News Carrier.” A third group contends the name was taken from Caya- haga, signifying crooked. The lat ter is probably correct as anyone can see by looking down at its winding course. Some authorities consider it the most crooked navi gable waterway in the state. Poison in Berries and Leaves of Some Garden Plants According to a Home Gardening expert, many common plants con tain dangerous poisons, warns a writer in Pearson’s London Weekly. There is deadly prussic acid in leaves and roots of arum lilies, in hawthorn terries, and in the leaves of the cherry laurel. Another acidic poison, oxalic acid, is contained in the berries of the barberry species. The poisonous cytistine is found in butcher’s broom berries, and in laburnum seeds, while Christmas roses are dangerous on account of the helleborin in them. Every part of the common daisy, and the sticky juice of the dandelion stem, are also poisonous. Digitalin, a deadly drug, is con tained in foxglove leaves, while hol ly berries hold several poisons. Peo ple are also warned against the ivy berries, which are full of heder- ine. Lupin seeds contain lupinine, and the berries of Daphne, daph- nine. The entire monkshood plant is impregnated with aconitine, and poppy heads are full of morphine, the chief narcotic agent in opium. Finally, the yew is dangerous on account of its taxine content. Tax- ine is a poison which causes suffoca tion. AIi/ Tarotite /2ecijae _ h | ele " / Twelvetrees Creamed Eggs With Chili and Rice To two cupfuls of well-seasoned medium white sauce add one tea>- spoonful chili powder and six hard-cooked eggs, cut in quarters. Meanwhile, cook one cupful of rice, season it to suit the taste and arrange in a border around a platter. Pour the egg mixture into the centei. Serves six. Copyright. — WNU Servieo. Foreign Words ^ and Phrases ^ Etourderie. (F.) Giddy conduct, an imprudent caprice. / Ricordo. (It.) A souvenir, a keepsake. A centre coeur. (F.) Unwilling ly. Calembour. (F.) A pun. Pas seul. (F ) A dance per formed by one person. Sans culottes. (F.) Ragged men, the lower classes during the French revolution. Si non e vero, e ben trovato. (It.) If it is not true, it is very ingenious. A la lettre. (B.) To the letter, literally. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of May Apple are effective in removing accumalated body waste.—Adv. 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