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: THE LEWIS SPEECH ONTROVERSIES between capital and labor are seldom if ever won by the efforts alone of either side in the contest. The final influence is public sentiment representing the great mass of people not directly involved, but very much involved indirectly. In event of violence and disruption and the vast economic loss which disruption brings, placing of responsibility is always a major factor in determining which side public sympathy shall take. Those facts make the following paragraph the most important in all of the powerful argumentation presented by John L. Lewis, speaking for the Committee for Industrial Organization: “In this connection, I wish to add with all earnestness at my command, that if any strike, violence or bloodshed occurs as the result of the present effort of our committee to organize the steel workers, it will not arise from our organizers or their activity. We shall pursue our purpose relentlessly but legally and peacefully.” If the leaders of labor hold to that, their chances of victory will be immeasurably increased in a cause, the justice of which is defended in these other words
from the Lewis speech:
“This is an issue between an industry clearly organized on its management side and the 500,000 men upon whose toil the whole structure depends. The question is whether these men shall have freedom of
organization for the purposes of protecting their
interests in this colossal economic organism.” 2 ” s i declaring as he does his firm resolve as the
N I leader of those 500,000 inen to avoid responsibility for violence or disruption, Lewis puts himself “one up” to date in the strategy of presenting the case to the public. As compared with steel’s lead-off, which bristled with predictions of strife, intimidation and coercion, the Lewis avowal neatly passes the burden of proof over to the shoulders of his opponent. On the face of the situation, it seems incon-
ceivable that the steel workers, many of whom for :
the first time in years are back on the pay roll, should want a strike that would throw them again into the hard times from which they are emerging. It is also inconceivable that the organizers, who are seeking to unionize the lahor side of the steel industry up to some degree comparable with the highly unionized management, should be looking for trouble just for the fun of it. Therefore, it would seem to one looking from the sidelines as though steel will have some difficulty in relieving itself of that burden of proof, if trouble does start. +" The whole effect of the Lewis speech, in terms of dignity restraint, logic, and strategy, points to the conclusion that steel, in 1936 is up against an entirely
different and much more formidable labor leadership
than was steel in 1919. John L. Lewis is no William Z. Foster.
TAKE IT EASY
HOSE who live in the tropics say that if they sat around talking abolit the heat they'd go crazy. The suggestion is just as good for Indianapolis. To help get your mind off the weather and your
~ eye off the thermometer, it won't hurt to try a few
sensible ideas for summer living:
Eat reasonably and eat less; more fruit and fresh
vegetables and less fat. Make use of the swimming pools and parks. Avoid [too much direct sunshine. Dress comfortably. This is no time for male vanity in the matter of coats. Move a cot to the back yard and just dare it to rain. Above all, take it easy. exercise of any kind is bad.
Don’t hurry. Over-
MURPHY: MICHIGAN OR THE P. 1.?
HE inhabitants of our territorial possessions frequently say we have no business trying to govern other peoples. The Washington mentality, they say, can't forget our own party Politics. And they are made to suffer. There is more to this charge than we like to admit. Far more appointments are made to these overseas posts because “deserving” Democrats or Republicans “have to be taken care of” than because of their peculiar fitness for the job. Notwithstanding, once in a while, by accident or design, we do manage to put exactly the right man in the right place. So when this rare thing does happen, we are all the more strongly tempted to say: “For heaven's sake, keep him there.” Such & man is Frank Murphy, high commissioner to the Philippines. Detroit's 40-year-old, red-haired mayorgvas sent out to the Philippines as Governor=General in 1933. So correct was his conception of Uncle Sam's role in the islands, and so well did he adapt himself to it, that today Filipinos and: Americans alike out there swear by him.
r] HERE i talk in this eoantey of bringing him back—of appointing somebody else to take his place at Manila. This is a presidential election year.
' Michigan iis an important state. The situation there
is muddled, uncertain. A strong candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket might make all the difference. And Murphy looks as though he might
. be the man. : But what about the Philippines? Out there are 14,000,000 people who want him to stay. The present
status of the island is brand new. They became a commonwealth less than a year ago. The post of high commissioner, by the same token, is also new and of exceptional importance; the transition pe-
riod, from commonwealth to republic, inevitably will
give rise to many grave problems. So much depends upon the character of the American who is to cooperate with $. Manuel Quezon: during the
* mext few years.
In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the very future of the islands is in’ doubt. : Whether he stays or returns is something which
HE people of Indianapolis are . emtitied to all’ the information they can get on the question of getting natural gas. Many questions have been left unaswered, parlicularly by officials of the city utilities district. Fur-
her questions are raised as more information on |
atural gas becomes available. And since the Fedral Trade Commission, which recently investigated natural gas industry, concluded its report by tellng of the difficulties of cities in obtaining natural gas, we quote from the report (Senate document 92, Part 84-A, P. 502):
» 8 ® largest consuming markets were in possession of the manufactured gas industry when natural gas began its spectacular development. “That put the former in a position to fix the terms on which it would permit natural gas to share those markets. Thus, the Insull interests controlling the Chicago market became a large participant in the Chicago line. Cities Service Co., controlling the Denver market, became a part: owner of the Colorado Interstate Gas Co. Again, the Laclede Co. of St. Louis controls the distribution system in that city, but takes natural gas only in relatively small quantities for mixing purposes. | As a result, St. Louis pays two and one-half times as much for its gas as some small towns in Missouri. ... . “Involved in these situations is the effect of cheap natural gas with higher heating value on the rate base and financial structure of companies distributing higher-priced manufactured gas. “It is claimed that natural gas from Texas and Kansas can be produced, transported and wholesaled at city gates in Illinois and Indiana for*30 cents or less, as against frequent domestic rates for manufactured gas (having approximately but half the heating value of natural gas) of 75 cents to $1, or even higher... “Inability to work out the problem of protecting the revenue and the rate base of the local manufactured gas utility has been an important element in the frustration of efforts to obtain natural gas on the part of cities like Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis.” 2 ” » [= on the report states (p. 600): “Monopolistic control permits the curtailment of production of a better product at lower prices and protection of an inferior product at higher prices.”
Here are some points that need answering. Is
‘ the Federal Trade Commission wrong about the In-
dianapolis situation? If so, then what is.the answer?
PEACEFUL PICKETING : E believe the business men of Terre. Haute will only be compounding their labor difficulties if they talk their City Council into passing a proposed ordinance to outlaw peaceful picketing. Apparently, neither side is blameless in the industrial strife that has been a blight on Terre Haute. But experience demonstrates that labor disputes can
. not be solved by extralegal measures or by violence
on either side. Enlightened leaders of both industry and labor have developed more intelligent methods of meeting these problems. All of which reminds us that our own City Council has dallied long over the proposal to repeal the Indianapolis anti-picketing ordinance. The right of peaceful picketing has been upheld by the highest courts in the land: The Council should wipe this unconstitutional measure from the city statutes.
ANARCHY Qr in Nice, Alexander Berkman, an elderly,
near-sighted, sick little man, committed his"
first successful act of terrorism by shooting himselt to: death. Neighbors, with whom he had lived for years, were shocked to learn that he once was famous as America’s No. 1 anarchist. : Berkman’s life and death hold a text for Ameri-: can workers and their bosses, particularly right now. As a youth of 21 he hurled himself into the bloody Homestead steel strike of 44 years ago seeking to terrorize the owners by the nihilist methods of his native Czarist Russia. His intended victim was Henry C. Frick, head of Carnegie Steel that operated the Homestead plant. Shouldering his way past a guard he entered Frick’s Pittsburgh office and shot and stabbed the steel man twice before he was over= powered. ¥Frick recovered, and Berkman was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Those years turned him from a terrorist into: a philosophical anarchist, but he continued to preach his religion of hate against all government. Deported after the war, he became a man without a country, hating Red Russia as violently as Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Berkman, futile anarchist, is dead. But anarchy in America is not. Read the storiés of armed labor spies and provocateurs, of the Black Legion's terrorist beatings and killings. of Southern mob lynchings, of California vigilantism, of Carolina floggings and other nihilistic outbreaks in this country today. But these, like Berkman, will pass away. For ours is a civilization of law. And he who takes the sword must, in the end, perish thereby.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson UITE by chance the other day we stumbled into a Chamber of Commerce dining room where a luncheon was in progress and listened to one of the finest tributes to a self-made man we've ever heard. He was raised on a farm, worked his way through college, and finally struck oil. The perfect build-up. He was a good fellow, far above the average we'd say, but. happening to know the women in his family the thought cccurred that he had plenty of help in his job of self-creation. In the first place, his mother was a fine pioneer type who had plenty of horse sense and who never forgot to count her change. When her child fell down, she did not run to pick him up but let him
howl it out and manage his own rescue. A thump .
on the head with a thimble was his reward for whining. None of this mushy mother stuff for her. She was a busy woman; he was her man-chiid and a man he had to be. At 18, when he was ripe for college, an older sister who was a country teacher helped him with the tuition. She is unmarried to this day because she was so concerned with him during her youth that if the right man ever came along she had no time to run him down. After college, our self-made man married a girl who had a savings account, a suave/social manner, and a driving ambition to get on in the world, She
began on him where the big sister left off, and she
is still at the job. And did these three women turn’ out this specimen of Big Shot by the simple device of dosing him with the soothing syrup of their admiration? They did not. His mother wrestled with him in boyhood as Jacob wrestled with the angel; his sister camped on his trail during his early manhood, and
* he has been his wife's major interest and only child
for years. And discovery of ofl on bis Mid wens
‘exactly a handicap to him.
We were pretty hungry by that time shd don
Our
Town - By : ' ANTON SCHERRER
KNOW something more about the Tree of the. Golden Rain mentioned in yesterday's column and it may be worth telling now because, goodness knows, if we have another winter the last one, there won’t be en trees left to talk about. The tree, it many names. poetic people call it the “gate, tree.” And then there are those Whom we always have with us who|call it “koelreu~ teria paniculat.” Peeple who call it the “varnish tree” arg beneath my
probably came to Indianapolis by way of New Harmony, Ind. At any rate, it was there, in 1828, that Thomas Say received some seeds of koelreuteria from William McClure, who then was in the East. These he planted near the gate of the McClure home in New Harmony. Thus, it isn't hard to figure out how they got the name of “gate trees.” ® 8 2 R. SAY, if you're still interested, also brought the Osage orange to New Harmony, from
where it spread. In some way it's
also tied up with the activities of Mr. McClure because when the botanist Nutthall got around to it he called the Osage orange “maclura aurantiaca.” Mr. Nutthall’s notion never met with general approval, however. There aren’t many gate trees left outside of the Orient and New Harmony. The Central Hospital garden out on W. Washington-st has a couple of nice ones and Evansville has a few. Pilgrims returning from Hot Springs, Ark, seen one on the hotel grounds down there and, of course, Shaw’s Garden in St. Louis has a few good specimens. The most famous specimen, however, is the one planted by Li Hung Chang near Grant's tomb in New York. Li Hung Chang chose it because he thought it the most beautiful trée that was a native ‘of China which would grow in the New York climate. Which was all right at the time because Li Hung Chang, smart as he was, couldn't possibly imagine the kind of winter we had last year. : 2 2 8 : T pleased this department mightily to note . that the H. Lieber people celebrated the Fourth of July by putting a good reproduction of Gilbert Stuart's .“Athenaeum” portrait. of George Wash-
ington in their show window. Like most people, confounded by the number of portraits in existence, I had always believed that Gilbert Stuart spent his whole life" painting portraits of George Washington. know better now. Stuart, it appears, didn't get around to painting Washington until he was 39 years old. Washington then was 63 years old and lived only four years more. After that, Stuart painted two ‘more portraits, the last in Germantown in the late summer of 1796. These three portraits drawn from life are the Stuart “originals.” All the rest are replicas painted to order ‘after Washington’s death in 1799. So great was the demand for Washington portraits after 1799 that practically every painter who had drawn him from life received commissions
‘| for copies. Otherwise. it would be
impossible to account for the more than 500 authentic portraits on record. Stuart, it appears, got his share of the business. .
# 2 ® HE first man to execute a portrait of Washington was Charles Wilson Peale, who painted him in 1772, at the age of 40. The last was George M. Miller, who painted him when he was 66, one year Before his death. In the 26 years between the first and last portraits, Washington was painted by no fewer than 26 artists, including the whole Peale family—James (1788), Raphaelle (1795) and Rembrandt (1795). John Trumbull came along in 1789. Shrewd observers looking at the determined, tight lips of the portrait exhibited in the Lieber show window last: Saturday might well have suspected that Stuart had more than his share of trouble painting Washington's mouth. He did. Washington, when Stuart painted him, wore a set of false teeth and a plate whittled out of wood by Jack-of-all trades Charles Wilson Peale— the same Peale who did his first portrait. Mr. Peale’s contraption never did work.
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JEREEHOLD, NJ. J. ls T.—Thers was a time when Verne Treat rode nightly with death. He was dean of all the mail pilots on wha$~
is now the vast system of Bastern Air Lines. He flew the first load of mail: the night the line opened, way back in the 1920s, and he cracked up bee foré he got to his destination. Pha wag the start of four aud a half spectacular years. Twice Treat had to jump: for his life. Twenty times he - wrecked airplanes in night forced landings. That sounds as if he wasn't a good pilet. But it wasn’t his fault the engines quit, and it takes superb skill to land just any old place at night and not kill yourself. Four years ago Treat retired. He quit partly because he had a chance to go into business and partly bee cause the strain of flying was get= ting him in the stomach. He came to Freehold and went into the auto business. ® 8 n- 4 Se I came past Freehold today te see Treat for the first time since he quit. We were old friends and I wanted to say hello. I also wanf= ed to see if ‘a man can really ged flying out of his blood. 1 still don'g know. : I asked Treat if he got homesicld for the night mail. He said no. 1 asked him if he ever intended ta go back on the airlines. He said: “No. I'm 42 now, and if I went back I'd only have three or four more years of flying, and
‘| then where would I be?”
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CALDWELL’S BOOK By a Reformed Republican
There has been so much hogwash written about regimentation of the worker, economic slavery to the Democratic Party and ad nauseum, that I think it about time to quote a man who has just returned from a swing around the country, incognito, He has seen conditions as they exist, has mixed
" Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (eran diseases can be prevented in most instances by inoculations. These are smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, and chickenpox. Even though smallpox is rare, every child should be vaccinated against it by the family doctor. The best time for this is usually from the third to the sixth month. For delicate children, vaccination against smallpox may be postponed until the child is better developed. If a child happens to be suffering from a skin disease of any sort, vaccination also may be temporarily postponed. The best place for vaccination is that portion of the body which is most easily protected and which may be kept a‘ rest. For small babies, who have not begun to crawl on the floor, the leg is preferred, particularly in girls. Modern physicians must be farsighted in regard to matters of dress, and must look forward to the time when the young lady will be wearing an evening gown. For boys, the arm is just as satisfactory as the leg When vaccination is done on the
legs of older children, they should
not be allowed to walk while the vaccination is sore or painful. If a vaccination does not succeed, this does not necessarily indicate that the child is immune to smallpox. It is rather to be taken as an indication ‘that' vaccination will again be necessary in two or three weeks. : Vaccination against smallpox may be repeated at intervals of seven to 10 years. It should also be repeated at any time that smallpox is prevalent in the community. 8.8 = E know now that vaccination eradicates smallpox. It is, however, impossible to secure uni-
versal vaccination and, because of
danger of occasional outbreaks, children must be vaccinated regularly.
available a highly useful inoculation with toxoid. It is so mild in its reactions and so certain in its effects that physicians in general have discontinued preliminary tests of the skin to see whether the child is immune to diphtheria, and instead recommend universal application of the toxoid inoculation.
It is best given to children be-|
fore the time of their entrance to school. In children who live in cites, toxoid inoculation - is best given
in “The Return of Jimmy de Pryor?
Against diphtheria we now have |
and talked with hundreds of gentlemen who are enjoying the much ballyhooed ‘ rugged individualism,
stitutional Bill of Rights, etc., etc. I refer to Erskine Caldwell’s latest book; titled. "Some.American People.” I recommend the chapters on Where America Died, School of ‘Prostitution, Picking the Omaha Dump, Saturday Night in Marysville, the Kingdom of Henry I, and the New Slavery.
. o : CAMPAIGN SONG REVISED BY G. O. P. READER By Mrs. M. N. McCarty.
The revised G. O. P. campaign song sent in by some one who didn't have nerve enough to sign their name, does not express the condition of the present time. Permit me to give them the new words for the song.
Three long years! Three leng years! Full of grief and tears Full of grief and tears Roosevelt gave us to understand If we would lend a helping hand He'd lead us'all to the promised land For the next four years!
Three long years! Three long years! Full of grief and tears Full of grief and tears He fooled the farmer to get his vote He wrote and spoke and spoke and wrote But all we got was promises For three long years!
Three long years! Three long years! Full of grief and tears Full of grief and tears
day. For the Grand Old Party points the way To a really prosperous U. S. A. | Through all the Years!
SAYS NEW DEAL 1s
WAY TO BETTER LIFE By Hiram Lackey Democracy is a religion. It is based on faith in that which man may become. Looking far beyond what a man is, it concerns itself with his infinife possibilities. Well-informed men know that democracy. is not an American inven-
wallowing in the joy of their con-
But the end has come to the evil
tion. Al Smith should know enough about our Bible and history to recognize democracy, the twin of the scientific attitude, as an imported ideal. True, there were glimmerings of the light of the democratic ideal in ancient Egypt and Greece. But the full light of the democratic ideal, declaring the worth, sacredness and infinite possibilities of the most unlikely individual, first appeared in the doctrine of the abundant life. Therefore, the socialistic tenden-
cies of the New Deal are not op-]
posed to democracy. They are the practical means to a beautiful end. Rugged individualists, reactionary Democrats—especially those with sore toes, Liberty League members and others are opposed to the civilizing influence of the New Deal. Al Smith and his Tory friends would have us return to the prosperity of Grover Cleveland. Thomas Jefferson spent his whole life fighting ‘reactionaries like Al Smith, James Reed, Colby, Cohalan and
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DRAMA BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY She started at the age of 4 With ‘Grandma’s skirt and some- ‘ thing more; And then with the air of a strange | © young saint, She helped herself to powder and : paint.
We watched her trip down the big front stairs With tossing head and haughty airs, And let her go, for we thought of the day When she’d be too big to enjoy such play.
But now she has just turned 28 And she’s still at these tricks, both early and late. Shall she ever recover?—Ah, here is the rub— I. think not, for she’s joined the dramatic club.
rm ——— DAILY THOUGHT
‘But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.—James 4:5.
ELF-LAUDATION abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more
sharply as ill-bred ~—Charles Buxton. :
SIDE GLANCES
By vGerae Clark
Treat likes the auto business. Ha has 15 people working for him, and sells a lot of cars, and the competi= tion keeps him on his toes . And Treat like§ being his own boss, and he's crazy about this east Jersey country. We talked along ‘for quite a while, and it seemed to me that aviation was pretty well gone from Verne Treat. I started to. pay for my lunch and head on for New! York. 2d then somehow we got to, talke g about that awful snowy night 8 at Treat had.to jump just north Washington. It was five years ka, I guess. I remember I got up at 3 a. m. and went out ‘there. “Cee, I was lucky to come out alive that night,” he said. “I jumped at 300 feet. If I'd known I was that low I believe I'd have ridden it on down. THe chute opened. fash as I hit the ground.” 2
2 ” ” ; ' VIATION started coming: back to life in Verne Treat. We remembered other incidents. We rambled on to the night: his motor blew to pieces and caught fire ovér the Potomac. - He couldn't jump, or he’d have been drowned. He set the burning ship down on a. farm along the river, and the only part of it left intact was right where Treat was sitting. And then on to the night he ran out. of gas and had to come dowh, and dropped a flare and it set the grass afire, and the report was all over the country that he had crashed in flames and burned to death. He didn’t even scratch the paint that night. And .the night he was “pinched off” and couldn’t find a beacon or a hole in the fog, and kept floating around till his gas was about gone, and then pulled up to 11,000 feet A and jumped out backwards into the night when the motor died. We talked for another hour, I guess, and Verne said: “I'm sure glad you came past, and I'm not kiddin’ either,” and he looked younger and gayer than I had ever seen him, but I don’t know yet whether that is because he stopped flying, or started thinking . about i again.
Today’ S Science
BY SCIENCE SERVICE N these opening weeks of a politie cal campaign and in-an atmdsphere of platform-making, one of America’s leading biologists, Dr. Ede win G. Conklin of Prigcéton Uni=versity, has considered present-day vital conflicts between science and the social order. Dr. Conklin’ listed some of the appalling contrasts be=~ tween scientific progress and social stagnation: Over-production contra under consumption; improved transporta« tion contra - unimproved distribue tion; vast prospertey contra appalling poverty: mult AER La contra ap unem triumphant, medicine . contra wide« spread disease; prolonged tk con. tra useless .and- dependent old age; scientific internationalism ‘gontra economic Hationglism; Fd maments contra less 8 ws social units Toate less social unity; elimination of unfit and sui the fit contra protection of fit and and elimination of the fif..
and Tn society is seen Dr, Conklin as the most fundamental
fa . The profit motive is probably table and Hou wholly undesir-