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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Jane Atldams of Hull House What Is .Reality? Ludendorff Said No A Woodpecker Sermon Miss Jane Addams "of Hull House" to dead. She set an admirable exam-

pie before men and women. She devoted her life and her fortune, all of her time, effort and money, to the welfare of unfortunate Women and children. She was one of those that make It difficult not to believe in heaven. If there were no future rewards for such goodness the entire universe, with Ita relativities, quantums, electrons

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and light-years, would be one ghastly Joke. Learned Professor Einstein, with the ' also learned Professors B. Podolsky and N. Ro*n. all of Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, makes a deep announcement that will Interest those that can understand It. This la It. condensed: ' “A scientific theory can be devised which will completely describe reality." It seems the present scientific theory, supposed to ghe a description of physical reality by the “quantum-me-chanical" method, does not work out j satisfactorily, and you are aorry you learned It. It Is pleasant to see scientists on the shore of the ocean of knowledge, playing with one or two .little pebbles. Science Is far from any "scientific theory that will comi'-c'cly re ality." for science cannot tell what “reality" I* In a universe without limits of time or space, fnade up of particles of’tiectridty variously grouped, in electrons, atoms and molecules, no man-microbe can hope “completely to describe reality." Chancellor Hitler of Germany conferred upon the fighting German General Ludendorff the title "field marshal geiwral," highest rank In Germany’s army. General Ludendorff, greatest, after Von Hindenburg, in the big war, declined with thank*, announced his retirement to a small hunting lodge In the Bavarian mountains. It Is suggested that Germany's most distinguished living general did not feel that bis glory could be Increased by Chancellor Hitler, who was a corporal in the army of Austria. "Sermons tn stoned, and good In •verythlng.* There must he a sermon In the Chicago woodpecker that every morning woke Ma neighborhood drumming on a copper drainpipe. The tapper resisted, but the woodpecker drummed on until a boy with a slingshot stopped him forever. What Is the sermon? Does It deal with modern efforts to Ignore the nature of man. stand old "Supply and Demand” on his head, and prove that super-intelligence can make the world over In ten minutes? Professor Kemmerer, financial expert. of Princeton, worrying about inflation, "too much money in circulation." says the government la spending money twice ns fast as it comes in. This, he says. Is done by “pumping the banks full of artificial credit." Having done that, the government borrows its own money from the banks and pays them interest, which seems mildly amusing. j 4 President Roosevelt may be right about prdfewsors. An eight-year-old girl missing in New York; all police detective*, plus 00 policemen, especially assigned, and troops, of Boy Scouts searched the neighborhood i vainly for 81 hour*. Prof. Taylor Putney, Jr„ of New York university, said to the police: “I saw boys and girls digging a cave j In rhe sand late on the day of the girl s disappearance; look there," and pointed. There at the foot of the concrete wall the girl was found, apparently smothered by sand t.hat had csved In. There is much in knowing bow to look for what you want to find. In New York city racketeers collect <10,699,600 a year from poultry dhealerx, having, byway of persuasion, killed a few of them. To discourage the racketeering. Police Commissioner Valentine tells merchants to “slug racketeers" at sight and offers to help them get revolvers for shooting. An old poker player when be “raised" used to say: “The best way to discourage vice to to make it expensive,* Very old to the story of the fish in wpich was found a precious ring that the tyrant of Samos had dropped into the sea. And new to the story from Sydney about a captured shark that disgorged the tattooed arm of a man. The man bad been murdered, his body dismembered, the parts thrown into the sea. The shark swallowed one arm, returned it as evidence and the murderer may bang. Invent something more Improbable than that. WN’V Servto*. gk Kta* FvMarw nd lest*, las. ... "I has my said Untie' Kben, “data tool to.nsO 1 dangerous dan a rascal fob de reason dat dar is a chance data rascal may have •ease enough to reform sometime fob Ms own perfection." Reaßy **Bl*e Mowday** The home laundry of the Eighties was often a washtub on a bench in the Men or ne oacs yarn. rs m iße kitebea cto&dt at staaia rose from ■■ Jr aras” aMI’ Mtw Slaiwiay 1

News Review of Current Events the World Over Roosevelt’s Veto of Bonus Bill Overridden by House, Upheld by Senate—Ford Boosts Wages— Hitler’s Peace Program. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union.

SETTING a new precedent, President Roosevelt “acted as his own messenger" and personally returned to Speaker Byrne the Patman bonus

measure with his disapproval. Before a Joint session of the house and senate and crowded galleries the Chief Executive read his veto message, an able and well ordered document In which he set forth his conviction that “the welfare of the nation as well as the future welfare of the veterans wholly justifies my disapprov-

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al of this measure." Asserting that aw able-bodied citizen, even though he wore a uniform, should not be accorded treatment different from that of other citizens, he said: “The veteran who Is disabled owes his condition to the war. The healthy veteran who is unemployed owes his troubles to the depression. Any attempt to mingle the two problems is to confuse our efforts." Mr. Roosevelt's stern warning against the dangers of inflation inherent In the measure was listened to in silence, though there was mild aplause at other times. All his argument was in far as the house chamber (here were <Au<k demands for the White House the representatives had overridden his veto and again passed the bill by a vote of 322 to 98. Ln the affirmative were 248 Democrats, 64 Republicans, 7 Progressives and 3 Farmer-Laborites. Those voting to sustain the veto were GO Democrats and 38 Republicans, The re-passed hill was laid before the senate by Vice President Garner, and Senator*Thomas Insisted on the reading of the veto message in that body. Action was postponed for one day because a lot of the senators wanted to make speeches. The debate in the senate was long and perfervid, and quite unnecessary because the result of the vote had been a certainty for several days. Fiftyfour senators voted to override the veto; 40 supported the President and only 32 were needed to kill the mea sure. Three members had switched over from their stand when the bill was first passed. They were Pittman of Nevada. Pope of Idaho and Coolidge of Massachusetts, all Democrats. The only absentee was Norbeck of South Dakota. Dennis Chavez, the new senator from New Mexico, caused a surprise by voting to uphold the veto, DONUS advocate* and inflationists *“* were prepared for further action In various ways. One plan was the introduction of a bill to draw’ $2,000,000,000 to pay the bonus from the workrelief appropriation, out of which the President has already approved the allocation of about $1,060,000,000 for Immediate work projects. Other measures, as riders to navy or legislative appropriation bills, were being drafted. So there was a prospect of a great tangle in the administrations legislative program. TN ITS annual statement the Ford * Motor company discloses that it made a gain of $3,759,311 in 1934 over tlte previous year, to a total of $580,276.391. Just before these figures were made public, the company announced that the minimum daily wage of Its employees would be raised from $5 a day to $6, adding $2,000,000 a month to the pay roll. The Ford and Lincoln plants In Detroit and all other titles share In this revision of the wage scale. Henry Ford began boosting the wage , scale back In 1914, and in answer to adverse criticism of economists, he mad® the pay Increases a policy of his company. He put the minimum wage at $6 In 1919 and ten years later raised It to $7. where It remained until the end of 193 L With the depression It fell back to $4, but in March, 1934. a raise to s.*» was made. The company’s announcement says: "The Ford Motor company has paid Its workmen a total of $823,000,000 over and above what the company need to have paid had It followed the general wage scale." MISS JANE ADDAMS, “first citizen of Chicago,” Internationaly famed as a social worker and peace advocate, has gone to her reward, and her passing to deeply mourned by the many thousands of poor and unfortunate persons for whom she had made life more endurable. She started her real life work In 1889 among the Italians and other foreigners on Chicago's West side, founding Hull House, which grew into the most famous social settlement In America. Later her activities were extended to the amelioration <tf sweatshop conditions, the child labor problem. and then to the matter of international peace. During the war she was made president of the women’s international peace conference at The Hague, and she interviewed the officials of virtually every one of the belligerent nations. Threetimes she presided at the sessions of the International Congress of Women, and she was prominent in many humanitarian movements. But it is as the head of Hull ; House and the tteetow friend of the poor and underprivileged that her mem- < ory will Uve longest. <

sponsors profess to believe that such a fusion nomination would attract great numbers of conservatives and offer the best chance to defeat Mr. Roosevelt Other Republicans are talking about making Lewis Douglas of Arizona, former director of the budget their candidate; he also Is a Democrat ‘ Charles Q Helllnger of New York to chairman of a Smitb-for-President committee, a non-partisan organization, and he reports that the bmith boom to gaining headway and that national headquarters will be opened this summer. Membership In the committee. he asserts, has more than doubled in the last month, much of the enrollment being voluntary. X>OV. MARTIN L. DAVEY of*Ohio VJ withdrew the warrant charging Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, so the administrator was able to visit Cleveland and make a speech without being arrested. The governor said that “all the objectives which were sought have been accomplished and no good purpose can be served by carrying on guerilla warfare." Besides that, he didn’t want to embarrass the Democratic party. _______ ■ * FIRST of the list of projects to be undertaken under the works relief program Is the Passamaqnoddy tidal power scheme, and there is a lot of

grumbling because it was placed at the head of the line by the President himself. This project was once turned down as un economic by Secretary Ickes, the assertion being that it would cost too much in comparison with the returns that might be expected, would take too long for comple-

tion and was in a region where so much work relief was not needed. But Mr. Roosevelt, whose Campobello summer cottage to near the location of the proposed dam site. Is said to be personally interested in the project, believing It will bring new industries to the area. Another argument in Its favor to that the old question of the practicability of harnessing the ocean tides may be settled by it Anyhow, this big Maine project is to go ahead, and Maj. Philip B. Fleming of the army engineers corps has been chosen to take charge of the construction. Major Fleming has been serving in the PWA for some time but has been released for this Eastport work. IN ADDITION to the Passamaquoddy project, calling for $10,(X)0,000, about a billion dollars In work-relief allotments were given verbal approval by the President, these having been favorably passed by on by the allotment board. Included in this program are extensive rivers and harbor works throughout the country, and a SIOO,000.000 integrated works program for WisconsiriL The latter was planned by Senator La Follette and his brother. Governor La Follette, and approved by the administration. These Initial allotments will put a lot of meh to work in a short time, for the plans for many of the projects already are complete. Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that 25 to 30 per cent of the work-relief funds to be spent in the various states would go out through mandatory allotments to such units as | the CCC, highway construction and grade-crossing elimination. Funds for these expenditures were earmarked in the bill IN AN executive order the President established pay rates under tbe $4.SBO.OUO.OUU work-relief measure,dividing the country Into four sections in setting regional wages. Pay will range from sl9 a month for unskilled laborers in the South to $94 a month for professional and technical workers In the East. Tbe wages will be from 20 to 30 per cent below the prevailing wage rate structure throughout tbe country. O EICHSFUEHRER HITLER, appe&ring before the reichstag, outlined a 13 point program for disarmament and the improvement of international relations, and did it so well It cannot well be ignored by the other nations of Europe. He again rejected tbe resolution of the League of Nations council condemning him for the rearming of Germany, but said Gertaany might return to the league if that body divorced itself from the principles of the Versailles treaty and from the “psychology of victors and vanquished” and “after Germany to granted full equality rights, extending to all functions and privileges in international Use." To the great satisfaction of Great Britain. Hitler promised to respect the territorial clauses of the Versailles, treaty, which, he said, could not be modified by unilateral action. He declared Germany was willing to sign non aggression pacts with all her neighbors except Lithuania, and to agree to an arm* embargo if others would tfo the same. Also the relch to ready to sign an air convention supplementing the Locarno pact. Maj. Gen. Walter von Reichenau, director of the ministry of defense, announced that under the new conscription decrees the etosses at 1914 and 1915— Gennany’s “war babies”—would be called up for medical examinations starting June L Tbe able men of the class of 1914 will be called to tbe colors November 1 for the army and air force. Tbe etoas of 1915 to to be conscripted for the labor service at the

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UTHIOPIA, in a note to, the League of ■*"*' Nations council, defied the Italian war preparations and gave warning that she “would yield neither to intimi dation nor to violence." Capt Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval tried in vain to persuade Baron Alois!, Italian delegate to accept a gift of exclusive economic privileges in Ethiopia in exchange for saving the league’s face and keeping a united front in Europe. The statesmen in Geneva began to believe there was no way of stopping Mussolini's African adventure. The Rome governntent is decidedly exasperated against Great Britain, charging that the British are promoting the shipment of war materials to Ethiopia through British Somaliland. Emperor Haile Selassie has just bought a large fleet of bombing planes from Turkey, some of which were sold to the Turks by British firms. ■ - K/fANEUVERS of the Pacific fleet IVI were marred by another fatal airplane accident. A seaplane plunged into • the ocean 40 miles south of Midway island and the six members of its crew ! were lost. The victims were: Lieut. Harry Brandenburger, Lieut. Charles ’ J. Kelly, Aviation Chief Machinist’s J Mate P. C. Litts. Chief Radioman C. M. Derry, First Machinist’s Mate P. J. j Proteau and Third Machinist's Mate Q. ! A. Sharpe. OENATOR WAGNER of New York '-’and Representative Crosser of Ohio offered in the senate and house identical railroad labor pension bills ( drafted in away to meet the objecj tions of the Supreme court to the law it declared unconstitutional / As re-drafted, the Wagner-Crosser bill seeks to meet specifically the ruling of the majority of the Supreme court that congress had exceeded Its * authority by legislating for the wel- > fare of the workers; by invading the I field of intrastate commerce, and by j imposing drastic pensions provisions i The new act is based upon providing | additional safety and efficiency for the | carriers, attempts to exempt rail workers in intrastate commerce and modl- ' ties the controversial pension clauses. WHEN Dennis Chavez was brought into the senate to be sworn in as successor to the late Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, six “liberal” members silently walked out of the chamber in protest against the efforts that had been made to unseat Mr. Cutting. Those who participated in this unprecedented action were: Senators Hiram Johnson, California; E. Borah, Idaho; George Norris, Nebraska; and Gerald P. Nye. North Dakota, Republican Independents; and Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin Progressive; and Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite. O USSIA’S immense airplane, the Maxim Gofky. largest land plane in the world, was destroyed when it collided with a small training plane over a Moscow suburb, collapsed at a height of 2.000 feet and fell in ruins. AU on board, 48 in number, were killed, as was the pilot of the small plane. Tli& victims were mostly engineers and nArkers of the Central Aerodynamic institute and members of their families who were being taken, for a pleasure ride. SECRET hearings were opened .by the house military affairs committee to investigate charges that the Tennessee Valley authority already

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The charges are contained in an audit of the TVA made by Comptroller General J. R. McCarL Some of the irregularities he claims to have uncovered are: The awarding without competitive bidding of a contract which obligated the government for an indefinite sum of money, estimated at $615,000. Overpayments of an original contract by as much as 120 per cent. Awarding of contracts, in contravention of law, to firms which were not the low bidders, with one contract going to a bidder who was seventh from low. Failure to require one large contractor to post performance bond and at the same time the payment of fees to this contractor in advance, despite a legal prohibition against advance payments. Solicitation of bids by telephone or circulars among a certain group of private business bouses, or tn other irregular ways. The TVA directors were said to be prepared to disprove the worst of the charges, and to be ready to make some disclosures of their own, especially concerning the submission of uniform bids by nine munitions companies ' The inquiry came as the administration was trying to get the house committee to report favorably the bill, recently passed by the senate, providing more money for the TVA and enlarging It* scope of operations. LTOVSE leaders were hurrying to1 • ward passage the administration’s amendments to the AAA act, enlarging the powers of that organization, toe demand of opponents for long debate being denied. It was certain this measure would arouse controversy In the senate Jobbers and retailers of foodstuffs, of whom there are about 911,000 in the country, are much disturbed by these proposed amendments tor the measure extends to them toe processing taxes now Imposed on food manufacturers, makes them subject to regulations not yet specified and requires that each one be licensed by the AAA. pROWN Prince Frederik of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden were married in Stockholm In the presence of a brilliant asaemMage- A week of activities preceded the ceremony, attracting great throngs to the Swedish capital

has squandered $1,000,000 of government money in questionable awards of contracts for dynamite and powder and through other irregularities. Arthur E. Morgan, head of the TVA. and his two fellow directors, David Lllienthai and Harcourt A. Morgan, were summoned before tbe committee.

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D, Member of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. ©. Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for June 2 OUR DAY OF WORSHIP LESSON TEXT—Psalm 100; John 4.20-24: Colossians 3:15-17. GOLDEN TEXT—God Is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and tn truth. —John 4:24. PRIMARY! TOPIC—The Lord's Day. JUNIOR TjOPIC—Our Lord’s Day. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—What Should We Do on Sunday? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—What We Dp When We Really Worship. I. The Origin of the Sabbath (Gen. 2:2. 3). When God had completed the heavens and tli® earth he desisted from creative action. Since his creative work was finished In six days, he ceased from action on the seventh day, which was, therefore, called the Sabbath or resit day. The Sabbath was I not a Mosai® but an Edenic institution. J It is older by centuries than the Sabbath given to Israel at Sinai. 11. The Sabbath Given to Israel (Exod. 20:8411). It was made a peculiar sign of covenant relation between the chosen people and God (Deut. 5:11-15). It enjoins a twofold obligation: 1. Work through six days (v. 9). Work was God’s primary thought for man (Gen. 2:15). It expresses man’s normal condition. The command to work six days is just as binding as the command to rest on the seventh day. 2. Rest on the seventh day (v. 10). There must be cessation from work on the Sabbath. Since God gave the example and then sanctified the day, it should be k®pt holy. It was not only to give relief to the body, but to be ' a time when man’s thoughts would be turned to God. It was designed to keep fresh in man's mind the conscjousness of God and his mercies. It was thus made fbr man’s well-being (Mark 2:27). 111. The First Day of the Week (Acts 20:7). The early Christians met on the first day of the week to break the bread of fellowship and to worship God. Paul used this assembly as an occasion to preach the gospel. Doubtless this became the day of rest and worship in honor of the Lord’s resurrection. IV. True Worship Taught (John 4:20-24). 1. True worship is not confined to a particular place (vv. 21, 22). The place s unimportant. The all-impor-tant thing Is to have the right conception of God as revealed through the Jews. Since God is omnipresent, the true worshiper can hold intercourse with him anywhere and everywhere. 2. It must be spiritual (vv. 23, 24). God is Spirit Therefore, only those who through regeneration have a spiritual nature can truly worship God. V. A Psalm of Worship (Ps. 100). 1. Whom to worship (v. 1). Worship should be rendered to God, for be alone Is worthy. ,• 2. The spirit of worship (v. 2). Worship should be joyful. This joy should be manifest in the singing of praises to God. 3. Who should worship (v. 1). All the world should worship, not merely the Jews, but all nations. The peculiar mission of the Jews was to call all nations to the worship of the true God. 4. Reasons for worship (vv. 3-5), God should be worshiped because he is God. Being God, he is our Creator, Preserver, and Savior. VI. Th* Soul Poise of the True Worshiper (CoL 3:15-17). 1. Peace rules the life (v. 15). The one joined to Christ by faith and resting in his finished work is at peace with God and should be at peace with all members of the body whose head is Christ 2. Gives thanks to God (v. 15), In spite of all troubles which beset the Christian, they should all be drowned in his constant giving of thanks to God. 3. Christ's Word to dwell in the heart (v. 16). It is pot enough to know the truth; the very word*., of Christ must be made real in experience. They must be made to dwell, tnat to, be at home In the heart. 4. The definite function of the Christian (v. 16). It to to teach and warn others. Christ’s words dwelling in the believer will result in blessing to others. The Christian should always maintain a joyous attitude. 5. The supreme motive (v. 17). AU that the Christian does and says should be for the glory of Christ Hie enthronement of Christ as the Lord of life means that all the Christian's duties are performed with the consciousness of union with Christ He knows that bis life belongs to Christ who died that he might live. Others We may. if we choose, make the worst of one another. Everyone has his weak points; everyone has his faults; we may make the worst of these. But we may also make the best of one another. By loving whatever to lovable in those around us, love will flow back from them to us, and life will become a, pleasure instead of a pain; and earth will become like heaven; and we shall become not unworthy followers of Him, Whose name Is Love.—Dean Stanley. Humility Blessed to the calamity that makes us humble; though so repugnant thereto to our nature. In our present state, that after a while it to to be feared a second and sharper calamity would be wanted to cure us of our pride in having become so humble. There to not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It to accompanied with such an Inward satisfaction that the duty to sufficiently rewarded by the performance.—Ad ttoon.

National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart . National Press Building Washington, D, C. JV

Washington.4-The senate has again indulged In its favorite pastime of

straining at the gnats and swallowing the camels. Its latest camel that was swal-

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lowed at one gnlp and with the same ease as the man on the flying trapeze was passage of-tly l so-called Wagner labor disputed bill. The consensus seems to be reformers in the senate reached the highwater mark when they capitulated to the labor lobby and put further insurmountable difficulties In th® way of recovery for business. / Os course, Wagner bill still must run the gajrtitlet of house passage. It appears, tiowever, that the labor lobby will drive it through there substantially in its present form unless smaller communities in the United States awaken to the dangers of such legislation. The probabilities are that house members will not hear from home in time to influence their votes and prevent passage of the legislation. The bill, drafted by the German-born Senator Wagner (Dem.. N. Y.) creates a national labor, relations board. This body will have almost judicial powers in settling labor disputes and in connection with those powers the board can actually say to an employer of workers that he must not promote an organization among them other than of the type of their own choosing. In other words, a labor agitator representing the American Federation of will be permitted to enter anybody’s shop and organize the workers and the employer will be powerless to prevent it. If. however, he sought to have his workers organize themselves Into a union not affiliated with organized labor, the proposed lahor relations board can order it stopped. Actually, and there seems to oe little dispute bf this potentiality in the legislation, it is designed to establish the American Federation of Labor in this country as a class strong enough to control the management of commerce and industry. Although the senate action In passage of the bill was overwhelming, it was not accomplished until the Democratic Senator Tydings of Maryland shouted over the din the warning that the measure would ruin chances of business recovery. The Maryland senator sought to amend the bill with a provision prohibiting coercion and intimidation of employees by “anyone whatsoever.” Then Senator Tydings told the senate: “If you do not accept this amendment. talk of freedom for labor is a farce." Senator Hastings (Rep., Del.) was another opponent of the measure who fought vigorously until the bill was called for a vote. He declared it made him feel that the senate was passing legislation “to force every man in America to Join a particular union whether he wants to or not" The amendment was killed. • • • The Wagner bill is an outgrowth of attempts to develop through the na-

tional Industrial recovery act a policy compelling employers to bargain collective-

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ly with their employees. That is, the famed section 7-A was intended to make it impossible for employers to enter into an agreement with their employers except by dealing with a committee selected by a majority of the workers. It was the assumption when this provision was written two years ago that the American Federation of Labor would have a majority in all of the important Industries. It developed, however, that company unions, not affiliated with any other organization, constituted a majority in scores of factories and plants. Thus, the A. F. of L. encountered an unexpected obstacle. Now Senator Wagner, whose radical tendencies are well known, has attempted to give the Blue Eagle some claws by enactment of the labor disputes bill and the creation of a separate labor relations board. The measure as it passed the senate makes it “unfair” for employers to do any of the following things: 1. To interfere with, or to coerce employees, In the exercise of collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing. 2. To dominate or to Interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or to contribute financially or aid in the support of it 3. To encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization by discrimination. 4. To discriminate against any employee for filing charges or giving testimony under the proposed act A To refuse to bargain collectively with representatives of their employees. No prohibitions against labor agitators are to be found in the legislation. From all of the debate and committee hearings which I aeve examined, it appeared that business interests were fighting the legislation not only because of the handicaps it places upon them but as much for the reason that it represents an entering wedge for labor agitators in all commercial lines. There seems to be no doubt that when an employer is prohibited from driving labor agitators away, he is handicapped in attempting to maintain Industrial peace with his own workers on whatever terms they deem proper. This view appears to find support In the exclamation by William Green, president of the American Federation ofLabor, immediately after senate passage of the bill: “It is a great achievement for organized labor,” he said. “We will now concentrate on efforts toward bringing about adoption of the measure by the house and its approval by the Presi- • « * If the legislation creating the labor ■

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relations board is bad for big em-

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employers of a small number of workers constitute the majority of industrial Tines. I mean by that there is usually more skilled labor available in. larger industrial communities than im small towns or rural areas. That being true, .the employer in a larger community has an opportunity to replaceworkers who are dissatisfied or whohave yielded to the influence of labor agitators, whereas the small town employer of labor cannot always replace workers who would rather be idle than accept terms which paid labor leaders tell the workers are not proper. Further, the legislation will put organized labor deeper into politics than it has ever. been. It will make elections depend largely instead of just partially on the attitude of a congressman or a senator toward labor questions. In addition, tie discussion I hear indicates definite fear on the part of some political leaders that the pajd organizers in labor circles will themselves become political as well as economic dictators. In some quarters, there Is doubt that the bill xYill do for organized labor all of the things the paid leaders claim. The belief Is predicated upon the 1 thought that unless an individual is willing to make monthly contributions to the maintenance of paid labor leaders ami the organizations that the promote, he becomes virtually an outlaw and cannot gain employment in Indus- v tries where the majority of the workers aje members of organized labor. Only time will tell how the thing will work out. s It may be that organized labor has gone too strong in its efforts to further its own interests. They did that in helping the NRA fight the code battles and the reaction was unfavorable Insofar as organized labor was concerned. • • It begins to appear that the farmers' march on Washington may bring a

Ugly Rumor Spreads

not going to let President Roosevelt. Secretary Wallace, and Agricultural Administrator Davis forget very soon their feeling that the march was not of the spontaneous sort. No Sooner had the farmers arrived here than an ugly rumor was spread around; that the visit of the forty-five hundred was financed by the Agricultural Adjustment administration. The rumor spread so fast that it broke out In senate and house debate and demands were made for an investigation. In fact, a resolution to that effect was Introduced In the senate. The Department of Agriculture and the Adjustment administration paid no attention to the rumor until the resolution was offered on the floor of the senate, whereupon a vigorous denial was forthcoming from Mr. Davis. He said that the farmers had expressed the desire to come to Washington as a demonstration of their aprrovm of AAA policies and frankly stated that his organization was happy to see such an endorsement. But as to expenses. Mr. Davis said and repeated that none of the funds used for the trip came from the federal treasury. On the other hand, observers and writers In Washington noted that the farmers were equipped with highly decorative badges; they were provided with a meeting place, a great auditorium which rents for considerable money, and when they went to the . White House the President spoke from a preparer! speech. They stopped at good hotels and the majority of them had traveled to Washington in pull- r man sleeping cars. I do not assume that It is of world wide Importance what the total cost was. I am reporting only the reaction which Washington had. Thus it can be mentioned that all of the badges worn by the delegates bore the large letters “AAA” arid the names of the respective states represented. ‘ The hall, as I have said, rents for a substantial amount and the hotel bills are never small. Railroad fare from distant points costs enough that the depression conditions have cut down passenger traffic and the march on Washington was concluded with a banquet So, naturally, those who were curious concerning the expenses of the trip freely stated that there are at least four thousand, five hundred farmers in the country who are not as destitute as professional friends of agriculture have been claiming. • • * Secretary Hull 6t the Department of State is being heaped with praises

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time vigorous criticism on the basis of results thus far accomplished on his reciprocal tariff policies. With regard to the Secretary's diplomacy, J believe it can be said he has established better relations with South Sierica than any secretary of state recent years. As regards the rerocal tariff policy which Mr. Hull fostered, the country is witnessing a sharp exodus of dollar capital into new investments in lines made profitable by tariff changes complete or pending. The information I gather respecting the reciprocal tariff policies indicates, however, that the movement of capital into South American investments results partially from Agricultural Adjustment administration activities. But it seems that the agricultural crop reduction plans would not of themselves cause as large an outgo of sollars for industrial investment in South America as has taken place if-they were operative alone. • Western Newepeper Union.

ployers of labor, it seems likely to be worse in the smaller communities where.

flareback on the administration. Certainly. opponents of the administration are

these days on his diplomatic accomplishments and is receiving at the same