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Washington.—Many times, I have
written in these columns about the
* Bi* Shota”
confused state of
affairs in the fed-
Consuftmf er*l government
and the Roosevelt
administration. I wish I were pos-
sessed of sufficient wisdom to un-
dertake an analysis of them, as they
exist now, for it probably would be
helpful to all. But having no such
vast wisdom, I shall have to con-
tent myself with the service of re-
porting on several circumstances of
recent development and let it go at
that.
For several weeks now, we have
witnessed a steady stream of call-
ers at the White House. There have
been some labor leaders but mostly
the list of callers whom the Presi-
dent invited were the greatest of
American industrialists, the “eco-
nomic royalists” whom Mr. Roose-
velt has so roundly denounced from
time to time, or whenever it served
political purposes to attack them
publicly. The purposes of having
these men visit the President, as
announced at the White House, were
to consult and try to find ways and
means of checking the current de-
pression.
As I said, these White House vis-
itors were the very “economic roy-
alists” whom Mr. Roosevelt has at-
tacked with such apparent satisfac-
tion throughout the last five years.
Indeed, among their number w'ere
some of the “sixty families” upon
whom Secretary Ickes of the Inte-
rior department, and Robert H.
Jackson, trust busting assistant at-
torney general, have been heaping
abuse as the folks who “control”
America. Anyone who will take the
trouble to review the President’s
speeches and the more recent bar-
rage of attacks by Messrs. Ickes
and Jackson cannot help wondering
if those men are crooks and if they
crush the “common pee-pul,” as
charged, why their advice can be
any good now.
Nextly, it is hard to understand
why or how anything is to be gained
by consulting with men of that type
in a serious effort to solve the prob-
lems of the current depression and
set off dynamite under them at the
same time. That is what happened.
Mr. Roosevelt announced with ve-
hemence at a press interview that
all holding companies “must go."
They must be eliminated from
American economic life and at
once; there can be no toleration of
corporations that are organized to
hold the stock of other corporations,
etc., etc. lie has taken a definite
position on that before as regards
power companies and drove a bill
through congress to eliminate them.
This time, he wants to go much
further. Which is proper, if that be
his policy. But here is the peculiar
thing. Two hours after he made
his announcement, he had a dozen
men in conference who represented
the very thing he was denouncing
and was seeking their advice. It
seems paradoxical, to say the least.
On top of these conferences that
have brought scores of prominent
industrial captains to Washington at
the President’s invitation, there is
to be noted an entire absence of any
administration action looking to re-
lease of business to do its part in
taking on unemployed workers. I
have talked to men in congress of
every shade of opinion and they are
all awaiting some word as to the
President’s views. Their position is
that the President wants to take the
lead in mapping a program and
most of them, I believe, will help
him carry it out. They feel also
that for them to start development
of a program of their own makes
them subject to White House criti-
cism if the legislation fails to meet
New Deal specifications. So they
simply wait!
In the meantime, the depression
has sunk deeper and deeper. I
frankly believe that in some locali-
ties it is right now as bad as any-
thing we saw in 1932. Business men
are frightened to death and will not
expand their businesses because of
the danger that they will lose every-
thing they have, and individuals are
frightened and will not spend more
money than is absolutely necessary.
In other words, there is again a
lack of confidence that is appalling.
It seems to center on Mr. Roose-
velt as it centered on Mr. Hoover
in 1930 and 1931.
I can judge the whole situation
only by attempting to compose the
observations that I gather from
countless conversations. If this con-
sensus be accurate, then it would
appear that current fears result
from an inability of anyone to know
what Mr. Roosevelt will do next.
That is to say, the expressions
stressed statements that his poli-
cies “lack continuity;” that he
changes “overnight;” that he "at-
tacks business with one hand and
kicks it in the pants with one foot
and asks it to take the load off of
the government at the same time;”
that he takes advice “of a lot of
nincompoops on finances who can’t
even balance their own household
budgets;” that he “won’t let pri-
vate initiative do anything without
having a flock of government spies
on our trails,” and so on. 1 could
supply fifty more from my notes,
but they would be of the same ten-
or. And tytind you! a large per-
centage of these came from repre-
sentatives and senators in congress,
Democrats and Republicans alike.
• • •
Another phase of the general situ-
ation:
There has been a tremendous
drive against monopoly. This was
. lead largely by
Drive on Assistant Attorney
Monopoly General Jackson,
but Mr. Ickes and
lesser lights have helped carry the
ball. The attacks have been gen-
eral. There has been no distinc-
tion between good business and bad
business. The result has been that
every man who has some money
tied up in business is wondering
whether he is going to have to de-
fend himself in some way, how-
ever careful he has been about
complying with the federal laws.
The fact was called to my atten-
tion also that many of the busi-
nesses charged with monopoly are
doing just what the government
forced them to do. The unlamented
NRA can be recalled without ef-
fort. Under the NRA, every unit
or every line of business was told
what to do and how to do it Codes
of business practice were laid down
for them, bearing the approval of
the President. Since NRA was rele-
gated to the ashcan, we find a dozen
suits being prosecuted against busi-
nesses for continuing to do the
things they were forced to do when
NRA was the law of the land.
Then, I would like to ask what is
wrong that real trusts are not being
broken up. The Department of Jus-
tice has some able lawyers who
have been assisting Attorney Gen-
eral Cummings since the inception
of the New Deal. It appears to a
layman like me that five years ought
to be ample time in which to make
some headway against trusts and
monopolies. I am moved to ask,
therefore, can this new outburst
against monoply be a bit of poli-
tics?
• • •
But the turning of the New Deal
wheel has brought one magnificent
appointment t o
Praise the Supreme court
for Reed of the United
States. I refer to
the nomination of Stanley Reed to
succeed the retiring Justice Suther-
land. Mr. Reed has been solicitor
general of the United States and as
such has directed the nation's legal
affairs under Attorney General
Cummings. His service there, and
before that with the reconstruction
finance corporation, has been meri-
torious. There has been nothing but
praise of his ability and of his char-
acter. He stands out as a great
lawyer and fine personality.
The appointment is worthy of con-
sidering from two standpoints. Jus-
tice Sutherland's resignation and
the subsequent appointment gives
the present President control of the
court. That is to say, the known
division of the court between con-
servative and liberal thought has
been switched from the conserva-
tive side to the liberal side by the
appointment of two men. Actu-
ally, it accomplishes for Mr. Roose-
velt the very purpose he sought to
accomplish by demanding of con-
gress that it pass the so-called court
reform bill a year ago, a piece of
legislation on which the President
received the worst licking of his
political career.
The second important considera-
tion in the appointment is the high
type of man named by the Presi-
dent. Mr. Reed is progressive in
thought. The New Dealers always
have counted him as one of their
number, but I find many people who
contend that Stanley Reed believes
first in the law of the land and in
obeying it, rather than indulge in
wishful thinking on a lot of silly,
untried schemes. The country is for-
tunate, indeed, to have a man like
Mr. Reed on the court.
And, continuing the theme of un-
usual circumstances, I think refer-
ence ought to be
Take a made to the ter-
Beating rifle beating that
is being handed
the southern Democratic members
of the senate. They have been mak-
ing a brave fight against passage of
a piece of utterly assinine legisla-
tion—the so-called anti-lynching bill.
Men like Harrison of Mississippi,
Byrnes of South Carolina, Connally
of Texas, and others, have been
holding the fort against this vicious
legislation. They ought to win, but
they probably won’t.
I have seen something of the race
problem in the South, and I can un-
derstand what the basis of south-
ern objection is. On the other hand,
there is only one basis for the pres-
sure which Senator Wagner, New
York Democrat, is putting on the
bill and the reason why the senate
was tied up in a deadlock of the
filibuster type for days. That rea-
son is that Senator Wagner is try-
ing to get control of the negro votes
in New York city’s Harlem area.
• Woofers Nowopopor Union.
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* Movie • Radio *
★ ★
★★★By VIRGINIA VALE***
JAMES CAGNEY has patched
up his quarrel with Warner
Brothers and Margaret Sulla-
van has made peace with the
Universal company, which is
good news to all the admirers
who have missed them. Cagney
will be rewarded with the very
best story Warners own, the
great New York stage hit “Boy
Meets Girl.”
It is a rollicking story about two
loony Hollywood scenario writers,
and if all of Cag-
ney’s requests are
granted, he will
have Pat O’Brien
playing his partner
in foolish antics.
Miss SuUavan will
play in “The Road
to Reno.” That
leaves Jean Arthur
the only major at-
traction who is still
feuding with her
___ company, Columbia,
Sullavan' and stay>n8 off the
screen in revolt.
However, Ann Sothern has parted
company with R K O and Barbara
Stanwyck is suspended from the pay
roll because they refused to play in
a picture called “Distant Fields.”
Felix Knight, who sang recently
on the Metropolitan auditions, is be-
ing hailed as the greatest discovery
of the year, but Hollywood claims
that they discovered him some two
years ago. He sang the juvenile
lead in “Babes in Toyland,” the
Hal Roach film, and has sung in
opera in the Hollywood Bowl. Mo-
tion picture fans will be interested
to know that this thrilling young ten-
or was recently married to the
daughter of Alice Joyce.
“It’s All Yours,” the new Colum-
bia film starring Madeleine Carroll
and Francis Lederer, turns out to
be all Mischa Auer’s. Beauty and
romantic interest just cannot com-
pete with the utter nonsense that
this tragic-faced Russian puts over
so hilariously. Off screen Mischa
Auer is entertaining too, but what
most impresses one on meeting him
is his deep gratitude to the United
States of which he is now a natural-
ized citizen.
Any one of a dozen voices that
you hear on “Grand Central,”
"The Goldbergs” or “True Story”
or innumerable other radio hours is
apt to be a youth named Lawson
Zerbe who comes from the Univer-
sity of California. He is known af-
fectionately as radio’s one - man
stock company. Recently when he
was scheduled to play six roles on
one dramatic hour, he was delayed
at another studio and when he final-
ly arrived just in the nick of time,
the frantic director had sent out for
six well - known actors to replace
him.
John Barrymore had great fun on
his vacation in New York. Know-
ing that he was going to portray an
elderly and somewhat acid society
reporter in his next Paramount pic-
ture, “Cafe Society,” he did the
fashionable night clubs and watched
the jewelled set at play.
Joe Penner is the radio favorite
of 22,416 boys and girls between the
ages of six and six-
teen. Every year a
survey is conducted
by the Boys Athletic
league among chil-
dren in playgrounds,
vacation camps, and
work agencies to
learn their prefer-
ences in sports,
books, movies, ra-
dio programs, foods
and hobbies which is
used as a guide for Joe Penner
educators in plan-
ning their diversions. Eddie Can-
tor, The Lone Ranger, and Jack
Benny were runners - up in the
youngsters' election of radio favor-
ites. Buck Jones proved to be the
boys’ favorite motion picture star,
while Shirley Temple led in the
girls' division.
ODDS AND ENDS—Clark GahleuiU
portray a newsreel cameraman in "Too
Hot to Handle" ... Fibber McGee and
Molly have been engaged lor another
Paramount picture . . . Janet Gaynor in
“The Star Wagon" will play the role that
l.illian Gish ii playing on the stage. Lil-
lian was Janet's favorite motion-picture
star when she was a youngster . .. Arlene
Whelan, who was a manicurist before a
20th Century-Fox talent trout found her,
will play the lead in "Kidnapped." A
long period of training at the audio came
between the two careen ... A practical
jeker put a sign on Kay Francis' lawn
that read “Open for Inspection—Public
Welcome." Kay claims that this drew her
biggeit audience to date . , . Ginger Rog-
en awards prises at her partial for the
belt concoctions turned out al the ‘oda
fountain recently installed in her home
... Joe E. Brown was the first Hollywood
film ilar to pul in a soda fountain al
home, but Joe hat flocks of children in
hit family to play toda jerker every day,
La -A ----—Bma-m tea int<ile tUOMl
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I No Such Thing tu Good I
Husband for Any Girl; I
Must Be Suited.
pt EAR MISS DENE: I should Uke
to know what you consider is
a good husband for any girl. My
daughter has a chance to marry a
fine young man, and so far as her
father and I can see, he is about as
good a typo for marriage as any
she is likely to meet. But she says
that he would not make her a good
husband, and she treats him so bad-
ly, I wonder that he stays around.
1 want to help her but 1 need an
outsider’s opinion to help me first.
—W. Va.
ANSWER—There is no such thing
as a good husband for ANY girl.
There are plenty of good husbands
in the world but their efficiency is
founded on the fact that they found
the women best suited to them and
that their wives’ love and adoration
help to make them good husbands.
But a man can be honorable and
fine and a good provider and a ten-
der loving companion—yet bore his
wife to death and make her rest-
less and dissatisfied for the remain-
der of her life. It's not that he
does anything wrong. It’s just that
he can’t possibly do anything right
for the woman who doesn’t love
him. If he is generous and sweet
and kind, she despises him for be-
ing an easy mark—and longs for the
primitive caveman type.
A man may be thrillingly romantic,
passionate and possessive enough to satis-
fy any maiden’s dream but if he doesn't
find the right woman, he will be a leu
on the matrimonial market. For the wife
who doesn't love Mm will yawn in the
face of his most dramatic outbursts and
will yearn for a quiet, placid existence
with a nice, calm life-partner. Mothers
and fathers of course look over their
possible son-in-law with a practical eye.
If he's a good provider and an honest.
Heady worker, they are al least relieved
of any worry about their daughter's fu-
ture and it is quite natural that they
should OK the courtship.
But they must not forget that
Mary will manage to make herself
desperately unhappy even in a ten-
room house with a garage and a
smart car and two new frocks a
week—if the man she marries isn't
her idea of a good husband. True
she will not know the suffering and
despair of utter poverty but if she
has an imagination and the will to
use it in the wrong direction she
will arrange to have a special sort
of suffering which will cast a blight
on her marriage.
Very often we see a young man
pointed out as a splendid candidate
for marriage because he neither
smokes nor drinks nor fools around
with women. Yet letters come to
me from girls who have married
these exemplary characters—letters
which complain bitterly: “He
doesn't seem to be human. I wish
he had a few faults so that he'd
be more like other people. He nev-
er wants to go out and frowns at
the slightest suggestion of frivolity.
I feel that I am getting to be an
old woman, without ever having had
any fun.”
And that other perfect candidate
for marriage. "The good steady
worker,” can be just as unsuccess-
ful as his shiftless brother if he
chooses the wrong mate. For his
industry and his untiring energy
and his preoccupation with his job
will get on the nerves of the woman
who has no ambition for him, and
who would rather live simply on
very little money than be a busi-
ness widow.
TAEAR MISS DENE: I have been
going with a boy for a year now
and while he says he likes me. he
has never shown any signs of love.
I however have fallen very much in
love and want to do anything I
can to win him. You have helped
others—will you help me?—Bobbie.
ANSWER—I’m afraid I can’t work
any magic, Bobbie, which will make
your lukewarm suitor a helpless vic-
tim of love. And unfortunately there
are no active steps you can take,
without upsetting the romance en-
tirely.
It is certainly tough to be a mere
woman under circumstances of this
sort, since it has always been wom-
an's lot to wait patiently and meek-
ly until some great brute has made
up his mind that she will do. No
use kicking against the facts. Bet-
ter to face them.
However, woman is a more com-
plex creature than man and for
that reason the tricks she plays on
him are apt to work. Whereas few
men are quick and clever enough to
fool any woman with their artful
dodges.
Therefore. Bobbie, you might give your
hero something to think about by invent-
ing another beau. Stop being the steady,
trade girl friend and begin to show signs
of being elusive. Don't be so almighty
easy to date. Talk vaguely about other
plans. Keep a memo book around in
which to jot down dates—instead of being
eagerly ready to say “yes,” whenever
your true love suggests an evening.
It's just possible that this year's
friendship has been too easy and
matter-of-fact to strike a romantic
note with the man in the case.
Throw a little glamor around your-
self and build up a few illusions to
convince the boy friend that his
dear old pal is after all an ex-
tremely attractive and rather mys-
terious feminine being.
A very little judicious feminine
deception can work wonders with
the tempo of a man's heart-beat
• BoU Srndltofe—WNU Sorvlco
CALL RECRUITS
IN SYPHILIS WAR
Call for “recruits” in the “War
Against Syphilia” by Gen. John J.
Pershing and Dr. Ray Lyman Wil-
bur will be heard throughout the
country. General Pershing is chair-
Gen. John J. Pershing.
man and. Doctor Wilbur is vice
chairman of the National Anti-
Syphilis Committee of the American
Social Hygiene association. “Aided
by state and city committees in
many sectors, we expect to enlist
Ray Lyman Wilbur.
broader interest in the fight on
syphilis and the conditions which
favor its spread with a war fund
of $500,000 contributed by volun-
teers,” says Doctor Wilbur, who is
also president of the association.
Several Colleges Join
War to Check Syphilis
Stimulated by the national cam-
paign to control venereal disease, a
few colleges and universities are
making syphilis tests a part of the
routine examinations required of in-
coming students. Judging from a
survey made by the Chicago Trib-
une, serological diagnosis for syph-
ilis is not a common regulation
among student health services, how-
ever.
Instruction on the sexual and so-
cial hazards of the disease is far
more common. Many universities,
in fact, require their freshman men
and women to take courses in health
or hygiene revealing the character
of the disease. Others confine this
instruction to medical and socio-
logical courses beyond the reach of
most students.
University presidents, deans, and
health directors questioned were
unanimous in declaring that syph-
ilis does not constitute a major
health problem on American cam-
puses.
Most of them agreed that students
found to have syphilis and gonor-
rhea should be kept in school where
they could have adequate treat-
ment. Prep school leaders, dealing
with younger boys, were just as cer-
tain that all syphilitics should be
barred.
The University of Chicago, Uni-
versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth col-
lege are schools which have elected
to give Wasserman or Kahn tests
to all newcomers. New York univer-
sity offers free tests to all students,
but does not require them.
Testing began on the Midway with
the winter quarter this month, tak-
ing advantage of the Chicago board
of health's program of free and
secret examinations, since the uni-
versity health service lacked funds
for this purpose.
Dartmouth college began routine
Wassermans last fall and found one
cas? of congenital syphilis among
650 incoming students.
The University of Iowa started
serological testing of freshmen in
1924 and continued until 1930, re-
ported Dr. M. E. Barnes, head of
the department of hygiene. It
ceased, he said, because of many
objections. The university then con-
fined its testing to food handlers,
employees, and others.
“Fid. Def.” on British Coins
The title “Fidei Defensor” (De-
fender of the Faith) was conferred
on the English King Henry VIII by
Pope Leo X, in 1521. It was his rec-
ognition of Henry's reply to Martin
Luther. When Henry quarreled with
Rome, in 1538, the Pope then in
power, Paul III, deprived him of
this title. But in 1544 it was con-
firmed by the English parliament,
and has ever since been borne by
all British sovereigns. Now it refers
to the Protestant faith, and not, as at
first, to the Catholic religion.
Flower Cutwork
For Buffet Set
This striking cutwork design is
equally smart for buffet set or as
separate doilies; it is done mainly
in simple buttonhole stitch, and is
equally lovely in thread to match
the linen or in a variety of colors.
Pattern 5961.
The beginner need feel no hesita-
tion in tackling cutwork when she
has so simple a pattern to work
on as this one without bars. In
pattern 5961 you will find a trans-
fer pattern of a doily 11 by 17W
inches and one and one reverse
doily 6 by 814 inches; material
requirements; illustrations of all
-stitches used; color suggestions.
To obtain this pattern send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th
Street, New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.—Adv.
For Betterment
A man should choose a friend
who is better than himself.—Chi-
nese Proverb.
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