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It Seems to Me HEW# BROUN WHILE wailing for the final word from Washington I would like to set down a few notes about TVA. I hope they will be In a helpful spirit because I made a promise. One of the officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority said to me when I was in Knoxville, “You seem to be friendly to what we are trying to do, but some of the things which have hurt us most have been said by people who were friendly. “I think that maybe Norman Thomas hurt us the most. Norman Thomas came

down to see the Norris Dam, and he was very much thrilled by it and went away and wrote, ‘Norris is the first and brightest flower of American socialism,’ or words to that effect. Believe me, that has come home to roost. It has furnished a text for every Tory." Asa matter of fact, the TVA is not an experiment in socialism, but it does illustrate how effective man can be when he co-operates on an intelligent and a large scale enterprise. I was talking to a construction

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man, and I asked him how the dam compared to Dnicpcrstroy. He said that the Russian dam was bigger, but that the work on Norris had proceeded at a much faster pace. a * u The Strangest Accident "HOW about fatal accidents?’’ I inquired. Jrl “Our record is much better,’’ he replied, “but it isn't a fair comparison because our men are much more used to work of this kind. We’ve had six deaths since the construction of the dam began. Two were killed over in the quarry, “But it always seems tragic that anybody should be killed. We ve used every safety device known to man. “Nobody is allowed to work on the side of the dam until an inspector has made sure his safety belt is fastened, but one worker decided to readjust his in midair and fell 60 feet. “The strangest accident we ever had was right over there where those little cars with concrete come along that track. We’ve always had a man on guard at that stop, where they dump their load, and his entire job has been to see that nobody got in the way of the car. “And then orre morning he got in the way himself and was knocked down into the gorge. We couldn’t account for that. an ft Security Is Lost "you know," said the construction man, “there’s Jl one thing I’ve noticed on jobs of this kind. You get more accidents toward the end than at the beginning. Os course, people can say that after a while men get careless and forget to take the precautions which they did at first. “I’m not sure that’s true. I’ve got another theory. I’ve watched this at several places, and I think workmen begin to get hurt or knocked off toward the end of a job more frequently than at the start because they've begun to worry, ‘Where is my next job coming from? Where do I go from here?’ “They begin to get scared. They’ve lost a sense of security, and when anybody loses that he isn't secure in his home or on that catwalk down there over the river. It’s a funny thing.” And so, as you see, Norris Dam and the TVA project aren’t really socialism at all, because the best they can provide in the matter of reasonable hours and good wages is a temporary security. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.).

Forgotten Law May Save New Dealers BY RAYMOND CLAPPER TT7ASHINGTON, Jan. 17 The last-minute ’ * abandonment of anew general agricultural substitute for AAA was due to a combination of circumstances. A newspaper correspondent discovered an in-nocuous-appearing soil conservation law which seemed to be so broad that with slight remodeling you could drive the AAA through in disguise He called this forgotten law to the attention of AAA c fficials. They were especially grateful for the

idea because farm organizations, Jealous of each other, have split up into fragments over the previouly proposed AAA substitute. Furthermore, Senator Norris and others have said bluntly the substitute would be as unconstitutional as AAA. Someone must have reminded the Administration that he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day. President Roosevelt, for the time being at least, has decided to let the Supreme Court have its horse and buggy. He’s going

to try to pass on the left. So a showdown over the situation created by the court's veto of AAA wdll be deferred. ■ That is the real meaning behind the Administration decision to try to get around the AAA veto by amending the almost forgotten conservation legislation. * # THE picture is this: Some have urged Mr. Roosevelt to throw up his hands, say that the court has put him in a strait-jacket, and do nothing until the Constitution is broadened or the Court’s power curbed, The theory is that a do-nothing course would aggravate public demand for fundamental action of some kind to place in the government’s hands power to deal with agriculture as a national problem. Others are not so anxious to face the issue—yet. They believe the government should exhaust every possibility of action under the recent decision before admitting helplessness, expecting that if the situation is allowed to simmer, subsequent hostile decisions will increase public pressure for forcing the issue. Also in their minds 'is the thought that in time there will be vacancies on the court. These persons have won Mr. Roosevelt over. He says he must view agriculture as a national problem and he is going about his business pending another crackdown by the oracles. # # POLITICAL parade: War veterans are being circularized by friends of Col. Knox with the argument that his nomination would give voters of the present generation their first chance to support a veteran of the last two w r ars —Spanish and World . . . Senator Couzcns, Independent Republican, is still running away from Michigan Democrats who want to give him their senatorial nomination this year. They revived the idea when an Administration Democrat visited the state a few days ago. But Senator Couzens wants to run as a Republican. If the Democrats also nominate him. he will, under the Michigan law, be compelled formally to decline. He doesn’t want to do that either . . . Democratic Rep. Young of Ohio says he won't run for Governor because Speaker Byrns has written that he is badly needed in the House. If Young thought he had a chance to bump Governor Davey out of the nomination, he probably could persuade Byrns to release him ... Administration leaders feel better since the tip went around that A1 Smith will go easy on President Roosevelt at the Liberty League dinner next week and will concentrate on New Deal policies rather than personalities. They feel they can answer his arguments. But they don’t want him to ridicule Franklin Roosevelt as he did cousin Teddy in New York a few years ago . . . mam An Administration says: “It isn’t the

BY JOE COLLIER gjTANDINp bolt upright in the Egyptian room at the Herron Art Institute is a mummy, and it’s no wonder! When they buried him lots of years ago they buried also, in the same tomb, a cat, a falcon, some jewelry, a statue of Osiris and a crocodile named Sebek. He’s never learned to relax since then! Moreover, they put in the tomb a book of the dead, containing so many instructions as to what the deceased should do to come out all right, that it was considered highly improbable that he could remember them all. Apparently they did not realize that it would be awkward for the mummy to read the instructions and stuffy for him to eat the wheat and drink the wines they also included in the tomb. They wanted him to be amply provided for, and in order that he might have counsel in that, his hour of greatest need, they sometimes included a statue of a court official. Court officials themselves generally were too busy to go in person. u u n CO there is the mummy, standing at attention, and around him in the display cases are the hawk and crocodile mummies, the statue of the court official, the costume jewelry, and the statue of Osiris. The court official is taken from a tomb near the great pyramids and we might as well imagine the other items are too. If they weren’t in his tomb, they were in some other Egyptian’s, and one of them would feel about the same way about the matter as another. What probably happened, as you can find out in the reference books in the museum’s library, was that an important Egyptian died, and his family got busy. They called the family cat, with their tongue ir their cheek, and killed it. The cat’s spirit was supposed to be a very important factor in the well-being of the man’s spirit. Then the family called the hawk and killed it. Most hawks were named Horus. The hawk, and if there was a crocodile named Sebek around, were mumified. Generally the cat was not. n n n THESE and the wheat and the wine and the stat le of the court official and the statue of Osiris were put in the tomb, together with papa Egyptian, and the tomb was closed and every one hoped for the best. There’s no way of knowing for sure, but it is the belief of the explorers who dug up the things the Herron Museum now exhibits that the mummies and the statues were in approximately the same places when they found them as when they were put there. Some of them are missing, to be sure. The most important kings built pyramids for themselves. Or rather they had their subjects toil all their lives to put the huge things together. The great pyramid, for instance is named Cheops and is 750 feet long to the side, 450 feet high, covers 13 acres and weighs about 7,000,000 tons. an THIS was supposed to seal the body of a Great king from his enemies who had seemed to have an uncontrollable desire to throw it into the Nile. They did, anyway. Be that as it may, the story of Osiris has it an entirely different way, and it’s well to have two sides to the thing. In fact, this is why Osiris was put there in the first place. It seems that Osiris was the son of the god Geb, who was the earth, and the goddess Nouit, who was the Heaven. He succeeded his father on the throne of the Two Egypts because Geb and his two antecedents, Ra, creator of the world, and Shou, were tired of the ways of man and retired to Heaven. Ra and Shou and Geb couldn’t get over the wickedness of men who, knowing nothing of vegetables. cereals or wines, ate each other. They became so distressed

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By Scrippg-Hotcurd Newspaper Alliance Washington, Jan. 17.—Another young professor joins the Roosevelt Administration with appointment of William O. Douglas to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Asa matter of fact, Mr. Douglas has been working for the SEC for more than a year. He ha~ been in charge of the commission’s investigation of protective committees. Former Chairman Kennedy, whose uncompleted term Mr. Douglas will fill out,

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• • . ■ • >• . • • • * ' ' ' f" ' ' ''' *' > ' + , s ' S ' Rescued from a tomb in which it was placed many years ago with „ lmm' : •< ' the family pets is an Egyptian mummy which since then never has learned to relax and today stands at attention in the John Herron Art f|T~- • . Institute. With it in the pictures above are some of the things his f am- & fey- •' X: :' ‘ ily included in the tomb as a means of making everything come out all ***' '^* c to which they believed his spirit had been introX | moonlight and cut it into 14 in the book and in the exhibits at pieces which he scattered every- the museum. All except what the I where. By diligent search Isis cat’s about. The cat had some- - ~ - - ''■■■ found 13 of the pieces. thing special to do with it, and Thprooffor cVto hlirioW fVinm nnrl J a

about it that they decided Osiris should rule. And he did. non WHEN Osiris was born, Plutarch says, “A voice proclaimed that the Lord of all things had come to earth.” Osiris married Isis, who was beautiful and helped him keep house. She grew, reaped and ground grains and kneaded the flour into dough and baked bread. He grew grapes and made wine, and, where grapes were not available, showed the mortals how to make a fermented barley drink that in these days we’d call beer. The mortals learned how to eat other things than themselves and they gave up cannibalism with such alacrity that over nearly the whole surface of the earth there since has been a decided prejudice against people eating other people. Everything went well, except that Seth-Typhori, Osiris’ brother, who was evil, was jealous, not to mention impious, and he made a chest out of wood the exact dimensions of Osiris. Then he took this to the palace and made a game of it. Whoever fit the box exactly, could have it. v u u OSIRIS finally got into it, and Seth pounced on it, and he and his followers sealed it shut with moulten lead. Then they threw it in the Nile. In these days, if this had happened, the first news of it to get in writing to the outside world would have been in the form of a police report that would have read something like this: “Dqar Sergeant: “We were called to the Royal Palace last night and found that some men locked the king in a wooden box and threw the same in the river. The men would not give their names and said they would get us fired if we arrested them." But no such thing happened then. Isis, the wife, didn’t even know what had hapepned until it was past time for his arrival home. When she was told she cut off all her hair and, according to Plutarch, ran hither and thither. Then she learned that the box

says in a current magazine article that he considers the inquiry among the most important undertakings of government in recent years. Mr. Douglas is a Yale law professor. He began his own study of protective committees at Yale, and his work along these lines was responsible for his selection by the SEC to head its own study. He is given credit for many recent developments in corporate law. He is a Democrat.

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and the body of her husband had floated down as far as Byblos, where she went and got it and brought it back. n a x BUT she left it around again, and Seth found it one night while he was hunting in the

Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

TY7ASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Con- * ’ fidential reports received by the State Department from Italy indicate a much more desperate condition than has leaked out through censored press dispatches. Not only have Italian troops in East Africa been defeated, but there has been increasing restlessness at home. Strikes, have occurred in several Italian munitions plants. There has been disaffection among the Alpine 'troops, pride of the Italian army, with the result that some of them are being transferred to the Ethiopian front. Finally, an underground Communist organization is reported to be gaining ground throughout Italy. All of these situations have contributed to a secret Franco-Brit-ish plan to intervene with anew peace plan to save Italy. While they dislike and distrust Mussolini, the French and British can not afford to have him crack up. This especially is the view of the French. Mussolini; as a checkmate against Hitler’s Austrian ambitions, is worth far more to the French than any altruism in Ethiopia. The new peace plan will not go as far as the Hoare-Laval agreement. Also the French and British, this time, will try first to get the official stamp of the League. It will be put forward as a League plan. What the British frankly fear is that Mussolini, facing defeat in Ease Africa, will try to save face by persuading his people that they are being attacked by Europe* and become the mad dog of the Mediterranean. This would precipitate general war. # # * White House Guests TWO reddish brown Irish setters named Jack and Jill frequently compete with Mrs. Roosevelt at her weekly press conferences. Explaining their presence, Mrs. Roosevelt says: “Strictly speaking they belong to Anna (Boettiger). But since her apartment in New York is not conducive to exercising two large Irish setters, they are spending the winter with me. “They are house guests. They seem quite contented. They are very contented with me when nobody else is around, but whenever

Rescued from a tomb in which it was placed many years ago with the family pets is an Egyptian mummy which since then never has learned to relax and today stands at attention in the John Herron Art Institute. With it in the pictures above are some of the things his family included in the tomb as a means of making everything come out all right in the half-world to which they believed his spirit had been introduced at death.

moonlight and cut it into 14 pieces which he scattered everywhere. By diligent search Isis found 13 of the pieces. Thereafter she buried them and created the funeral rite —the magic funeral rite—that brought life back to Osiris and he lived happily with her ever after, while his brother and some others waged war against Seth and made his life miserable. That’s the origin of the curious funeral rites. It’s all told

the children come, they immediately return to their first loves. “Jack and Jill are brother and sister. They are very friendly, but they do not get much exercise. They bark a lot, but when they are exercised they are too tired to bark.” # tt Wallace Pleased NOW that the plan of revamping the AAA is completed, Henry Wallace is almost of the opinion that the overhauling may have done some good after all. Reason is that when Mr. Wallace first became Secretary of Agriculture, one thing he wanted to accomplish was an all-embrac-ing system of soil conservation, whereby the government could help rebuild the land on every man’s farm. However, even in the days of the Brain Trust, this was considered too idealistic and visionary. It was marked down as something to aim at within the next few years. But now, under the revamped AAA, this goal virtually has been attained. Its provision whereby a farmer sets aside a certain acreage each year also gives the government the right to tell him how it shall be planted—in legumes, grass, etc., according to chemical analysis of the soil. This is virtually what Mr. Wallace originally wanted. tt tt tt Playful Attitude SENATE Democratic Floor Leader Joe Robinson was holding a press conference in his office and during the course of the discussion rested his hands before his face. He might have been in an attitude of prayer. As he did so a photographer clicked his camera. Joe bolted upright, snapped: “Here, you! Destroy that plate. I don’t want my picture appearing in the papers of the country in a prayerful attitude.” * tt m He’s Just Hopin’ "TTERNER W. MAIN hopes he V won’t die in office, but he is ready for anything fate has in store for him. He is the new congressman from Michigan’s third district. The last five ((congressmen representing that district have died in office.

in the book and in the exhibits at the museum. All except what the cat’s about. The cat had something special to do with it, and went meowing around the tomb through all eternity. An old pyramid cat probably never got close enough to the Nile to dip its front paw daintily into the water and flick it dry again, else there would have been paw tracks all over the cases of mummied kings, whom they guarded!

“I’m not superstitious,” says Main, “but I’m something of a fatalist. If fate has ordained that I must die before my time, why worry about it? ‘There is a destiny that shapes qur ends, rough hew them though we may.’ ” But Main is not disturbed. He says it helps to be a fatalist. He smiles from a round, dimpled face, and exudes the optimism of a man who has been a Presbyterian elder, a Kiwanis president, and a leader of the Boy Scouts of America. The fact is, however, that Main took out extra life insurance before stepping into the shoes-of five dead men. tt Baby Meets Baby TTTHEN Wallace summoned ’ ’ farm leaders to Washington to formulate anew AAA, cotton share-croppers asked to be represented through their Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. Wallace declined. ... Asa WPA project, white collar relief workers are plodding from one movie house to another through the country taking a census of the film business. . . . The Senate’s baby, Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota, has struck up a friendship with the Senate’s other baby, Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia. . . . When “Puddler Jim” Davis of Pennsylvania delivered a mining discourse in the Senate recently, his only listener was colleague Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania. . . . The bonus is a bewhiskered issue to bewhiskered Rep. Tinkham of Massachusetts. Sixteen times it has 1 been presented during his term of office. Sixteen times he has voted “No,” . . . Abolition of New Deal emergency agencies would not lighten the burden of McCarl’s general accounting office, which is three to five years behind in its general routine. This in spite of taking on 1700 temporary employes to help in emergency accounting. . . . Probing for valuable papers to be stored in the new Archives Building, examiners have found War Trade Board records stored in the White House garage. . . . The 1935 bill for congressional printing and binding was more than $2,500,000. Biggest item of the bill is the Capitol’s daily, The Congressional Record. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.).

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Fair Enough nmim PARIS,. Jan. 17.—There is great anxiety regarding the speech to be delivered today by Anthony Edtn, young and beautiful foreign secretary of His Majesty’s government. Mr. Eden is a firm believer in the League of Nations, where he has been a dashing figure among the somewhat paunchy politicians of the old type and one of the most bloodthirsty pacifists in the world. Being only 38, he belongs to the generation which lost its soul and which was going to see to it that the

mistakes of the elders never again were visited upon the youth of the world. Mr. Eden is also extremely sensitive, and he was terribly, terribly vexed with Signor Mussolini a few months ago when II Duce refused to regard him as a diplomatic equal and treated him as a messenger boy. Mr. Eden was Britain’s second string foreign secretary at the time, in charge of Britain’s business with the League of Nations, but Mussolini, who may have been jealous of his fatal beauty, intimated that his majesty would have to send down a grownup man if he wanted to do

business with Italy. The handsome British statesman offered to show Myssolini his birth certificate, his diploma and a letter of recommendation from his bishop proving that he was over 21 and uncommonly bright for his age, but still Mussolini declined to take him seriously. Finally Mr. Eden jerked a handkerchief out of his sleeve and, wiping his mustache with a haughty gesture, said: “Very well, then; the British fleet will come down to Naples and make a demonstration.” n n n Black Shirts Enjoyed It TO that Signor Mussolini replied that if the British fleet came down to Naples it would never ■ get back to England, and Mr. Eden returned to Geneva determined to loose against Italy all the conspirators in the Palace of Peace. II Duce seems to be a bit of a gossip in his spare time and somewhat given to telling his Black Shirt yes men” what he did. Thus in a very short time j the story of his interview with “Pretty Boy’’ Eden was bei lg told in every bar and night club in Rome. The Black Shirts are quite juvenile in some ways and they were very proud of the way II Duce talked to Mr. Eden. The British government then decided that Mussolini was a wild-eyed nut who just might be crazy enough to do exactly as he threatened, and from that time on strove to enlist allies among the nations of the League. There were plenty of allies to be had, but all they were willing to do was to hold Britain’s coat. And then the British government, thinking it over, decided that in that case Britain might lose not only her fleet, but her coat as well. So the naval demonstration was indefinitely postponed. n a Promoted to Varsity TUST before Christmas the League scattered for the holidays. The man who is called by the Black Shirts the English “charm boy" was promoted to the varsity in place of Sir Samuel Hoare the celebrated fancy skater. Sir Samuel had fallen on his face while skating in Switzerland and was compelled to wear his nose in a sling. While in this crippled condition he was removed from office. Mr. Eden is the first member of the generation which lost its soul who has had the chance to make this world a place fit for heroes. Since then, however, Mr. Eden has had nothing to say, and this silence has raised the menace of peace over Europe. The French, tentatively selected for the honor of doing most of the body punching against Italy m a war to suppress war, forgot all about Italy and Abyssinia. And in England a few cheery dispatches reporting that the Italians were having their own trouble in Abyssinia imparted an entirely new meanmg to the sacred duty imposed by the League covenant. The rains have started, the Italian campaign in Abyssinia is beginning to flop and it will be strictly necessary to avenge the feelings of the foreign secretary by force of arms. That is, of course, unless Mr. Eaen in his speech insists on proving that he isn t a mere boy but a grown man with full legal rights to carry matches, buy beer and stay out as late as he wants.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Just as the munitions committee is uncovering some of the official correspondence of the anxious months when America tried to stay neutral with almost the whole world at war, the fifth of Ray Stannard Baker’s volumes on Woodrow Wilson reaches the book counters/ Its title is “Neutrality.” Intimations in the book are like intimations in the committee—that we were engineered into war. Mr. Baker had a monopoly of access to the papers of the War President. He is very free with comment, and the impression I get from his asides is like thisThat Wilson was, at heart, pro-British; that he was unconsciously dramatizing himself in the role of prince of anew era of perpetual peace; that the pressure, first, of big interests who wanted to make money in the munitions trade and, later, of big financiers who wanted to save their investments in the Allied cause, coupled with Wilson’s private bias, eventually drew this country into the tragedy of the World War. The only suggestion I can find of how it might have been avoided is that we could have cracked down on England for the freedom of the seas. Maybe we could, but we would have been in the war just the same—on the other side and with possible results quite as terrible as all we have suffered. What earthly good is served by this conjectural search for malign motives? It was a glorious period in which men of all parties, and faiths, for a little while forgot themselves and gave their efforts to the common gooa. All who lived closely to those leaders know that, however some may have been mistaken, none was pursuing a private purpose. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.).

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JAMES HANLEY discusses the tangled heart affairs of a little group from the Liverpool slums in his new novel, “Stoker Bush;” and he tells his story with the same vivid and passionate earnestness that made “The Furys" such a deservedly popular book last year. In telling his story, Mr. Hanley has done a rather remarkable thing. He has taken a theme which modem novelists have worn absolutely threadbare—the good old triangle, on which authors have been ringing the changes for a whole literary generation—and made it sound new and fresh. You see the figures in this triangle, not as thoughtless folk who have willfully got themselves into a mess, but as earnest and intense human beings who are the victims of emotions which they can not control and which compel them against their will to hurt themselves and one another. Whatever the reason. “Stoker Bush” is a moving and tragic story which is well worth reading. Published by MacMillan, it sells for $2.50. (By Bruce Catton.) Asia Magazine is appearing in anew format with the January issue. The page size is slightly smaller, but the number of pages has been increased. Anew type style, which makes the columns of printed matter easier to read, has been adopted ami two kinds of paper are now used—a coated stock lor illustrations at# antique book paper

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