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Conversation
On Quitting Work
The Country
©. Busll Bymdleate.—'WNU Sorvlo*
By ED HOWE
IHAVR met some opposition In
my contention that a man may
learn much from conversation going
on around him; that he may thus ac-
quire education as unconsciously as
lie eats his meals, attends to his work,
or otherwise meets life's Incidents.
I have known a telegraph operator
to sic idly for hours In a room full of
clattering instruments, and suddenly
grasp a key when his call came out
of the confusion. So a man constantly
In the babble of conversation may pay
little attention to It until something of
interest attracts him; a bit of wisdom,
news, or a jest he has not heard.
Oscar Wilde left in books as great
a number of bright sayings as any
Englishman. All of them were sug-
gested from mingling with men, first
used in conversation, and the best of
them later transferred to print Men
acquire education laboriously from
books they are compelled to study as
a duty, but easily out in the world,
where everyone has a little, and is
busy distributing it
• • •
"Because a man loses his Job," I
read somewhere, "it does not follow
be should quit work."
That is good sense. I know a man
who lost his Job as a maker of radio
parts. This morning I bought vege-
tables of him; he continued work on
some land a neighbor let him use, and
he has not suffered the humiliation of
calling on the Salvation army, the Red
Cross, the county commissioners, or
congress.
I have another neighbor who lost
his job in a machine shop. He did not
quit work, either; he is now operating
a laundry In his home. In case I am
able to change shirts this week, I
shall certainly arrange with this man
to wash my old one.
Some of my other neighbors are get-
ting $15 a month from the county, and
regularly their names appear 4n the
papers, under the heading of "Dis-
bursements to the County Poor." I
shall make a hard struggle to keep
my name out of the list I know most
of the people read it, and make ugly
commenta
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U the people are starving, what is
to be done about it, since nature lias
no more to give? I once lived on a
farm, and while I am able to recall
some discomforts, I always had
enough to eat. Frequently, we used
parched rye for coffee, and sorghum
molasses for sweetening. The other
day I found sorghum molasses on the
table, bought from an old-fashioned
farmer, and thought It still very good.
We grated corn meal for bread, and
always down In the feed lot were pigs
coming on to supply meat when the
smoke house began to show signs of
emptiness. We had cattle for plowing,
and to supply milk. Chickens almost
took care of themselves about the
place, and supplied eggs in addition to
a surplus of old roosters which, when
boiled long enough, made fairly good
eating. We had wild plums, blackber-
ries, and preserved them for winter
use. There was plenty of fuel In the
woods, and one man in the neighbor-
hood tanned beef hides, from which
another made shoes. In almost every
house there was a loom, for the manu-
facture of a cloth called linsey wool-
sev, and this supplied clothing.
It was a poor start, but we wore
never hungry or naked while waiting
for times to get better. And times
never did get much better; Indeed, I
think they are harder now than I ever
knew them to be on Big Creek.
The big-headed town people should
remember there Is a place where they
can at least always get enough to eat,
and move out Into the country. Pretty
much all the land will Boon be owned
by the government through tax sales
and almost anyone free to file on It.
• • •
In one of the periods of depression
in Home, Silerlus called the poor to-
gether. "In your meetings," he said,
"you make very severe charges against
those who are feeding you. It Is not
usual to criticize the poor, but many
of yon have very had habits, and are
not doing your part. In an emergency
fill should help. Rome of the rioting
you have Indulged In has only resulted
in destroying such food supplies as
we have. I give you frank notice this
•will not be submitted to again. If any
of you have not hoard of It, I an-
nounce I am bead of the army, and
will not Join you in unnecessary de-
struction."
• • •
On a certain day in history the Rus-
sians were fighting against Frederick
the Great The next day the Russian
armies were ordered by their chief Big
Man to fight for Frederick. . . .
As a subject I have often rebelled
against the orders given me by rulers,
believing they frequently order big
things done for petty reasons.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Speaker Rainey's Death Starts Race for His Position-
Prominent Men Organize Liberty League
to Combat Radicalism.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© by Western Newspaper Union.
Henry T.
Rainey
HENRY T. RAINEY, veteran con-
gressman from Illinois and speak-
er of the house, died unexpectedly In a
St Louis hospital where he was be-
lieved to be recover-
ing from an attack of
bronchial pneumonia.
The Immediate cause
of his death was an-
gina pectoris. Mr.
Rainey, who was with-
in a day of being seven-
ty-four years old, was
first elected to con-
gress in 11)02, and he
served continuously
with the exception of
one term, being de-
feated In the Harding
landslide of 1920. He was elected to
the speakership when John Nance
Garner became Vice President. His
control over the house during the ses-
sions of last year and this year, while
the President's program was being
put through, was gentle but so firm
that the legislators were kept well In
line.
Mr. Rainey devoted much of his
service In Washington to efforts to Im-
prove the condition of the farmers,
for he held that farm prosperity was
essential In any program for national
well being. He also was a student of
tariff and fiscal subjects. As a Demo-
crat he was always a "regular." He
was the author of the tariff commis-
sion law and of much other Impor-
tant legislation.
Mrs. Rainey acted as her husband's
secretary for years and is so well ac-
quainted with congressional work that
the Democrats may select her as the
candidate to complete his term as rep-
resentative from the Twentieth Illinois
district.
Mr. Rainey was buried In his home
town, Carrollton, after services which
were attended by President Roosevelt
and many other notable persons.
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Joseph W.
Byrns
SPEAKER RAINEY'S death will re-
sult in a spirited contest among a
number of men who are ambitious to
succeed him. First In the line of suc-
cession. so to speak,
Is Representative Jos-
eph W. IS.vrns of Ten-
nessee, who has been
serving as majority
floor leader and who
Is head of the Demo-
cratic national con-
gressional committee.
President Roosevelt is
going to take no part
in the race, but the
more liberal of the
New Dealers are
known to favor Sam
Itavhum of Texas. Well informed ob-
servers believe Byrns will he elected
speaker and Rayburn floor leader.
Other aspirants for the speakership
are John IC. Rankin of Mississippi,
who has announced his candidacy;
William B. Hankhead of Alabama, and
John J. O'Connor of New York.
Mr. Byrns has been a member of the
house continuously since his election
to the Sixty-first congress. Ilis work
as tloor leader, in conjunction with
llalney's rule as speaker, was not es-
pecially pleasing to the New Dealers
for some months during the last ses-
sion, but before adjournment most of
the misunderstandings were cleared
up. In any case, the administration
seldom Interferes In the selection of
the leaders of congress, not wishing
to Incur the enmity of powerful mem-
bers of the party.
Returning from his swift trip to
attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey,
the President went directly back to
Washington Instead of going to his
Hyde Park home. This change in plan
was due, it was said, to the develop-
ment of a hitter dispute between (Jen.
Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Don-
ald Richberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief in-
dustrial adviser, and Secretary of La-
bor Perkins on the other, over the new
structure to be given the nba.
The issue, It was disclosed, is wheth-
er there shall he a board of control
In authoritative management of the
NBA or a board which shall he more
advisory in power, leaving the real
control still In the hands of the ad-
ministrator and his deputies. It was
expected Mr. Roosevelt would take
command of the situation and deter-
mine definitely what shall he done
with the recovery administration.
ORGANIZED labor scored a victory
over Recovery Administrator
Johnson when the national labor rela-
tions board ordered John Donovan,
former president of the NRA union
dismissed by Johnson for "inefficien-
cy," reinstated to his position with
the labor advisory board.
"The agencies which are adminis-
tering the law should in their own
dealings uphold its purposes," the
board said In its decision, giving a
veiled reproof to Johnson for what it
implied was a violation of section 7a
of the NRA.
With rather bad grace the NRA ac-
cepted the rebuke and permitted Don-
ovan to return to his Job. Johnson
himself had nothing to say about it,
but Dr. Gustav Peck, Donovan's im-
mediate superior, issued a statement
in which he sniffed at the board's de-
cision and warned Donovan that he
would have to "toe the mark."
Soon after this the NBA announced
that It does not regard itself as
obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle in
cases where the national labor rela-
tions board has found companies guilty
of violation of section 7A of the na-
tional industrial recovery act and of
subsequent failure to obey the instruc-
tions of the board.
The labor board has recommended
withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to the
NBA compliance board in all cases
where companies have disobeyed Its
instructions to reinstate discharged
einployeea The decision by the NBA
will remove teeth from decisions by
the board, since it may now hear
cases, make decisions, and find that
no penalties are inflicted for disobey-
ing its orders.
/""V)TTON garment code amendments
reducing the working hours and
giving workers a wage increase have
been signed by the President. The
amendments, which affect plants In 42
states, are of far-reaching importance.
Sidney Hlllman, labor advisory
board member and Amalgamated
Clothing union bead, termed signing
of the order "the most far-reaching
move NBA has yet made to Increase
employment." It was hoped that this
order would avert the threatened
strike of the garment workers.
Jouett
Shouse
TWO prominent Democrats, two Be
publicans almost equally prominent,
and one leading Industrialist, all of
them of conservative tendencies, have
united to organize the
Arnerlc a n Liberty
league dedicated to a
war on radicalism in
the United States.
The five founders of
I lie league are: A1
fred e. Smith. Demo-
cratic Presidential
candidate in 1928;
John W. Davis Dem-
ocratic Presidential
candidate in 192*1;
Nathan I,. Miller, Re-
publican ex-governor
of New York; James W. Wadsworth,
Bepubllcan congressman from New
York, former senator and Presidential
possibility for 1930; Irenee Du Pont
manufacturer, who supported Smith In
1928 and Roosevelt In 1932. They be
lleve the league membership will
grow into the millions and that It will
become an Important element In the
national life.
For president of the organization the
founders selected Jouett Shouse, for-
mer chairman of the Democratic na-
tional eotrtmittee and president of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment until repeal was accom-
plished. In a statement Mr. Shouse
set forth the purposes of the league
as follows:
"It is a nonpartisan organization,
formed, as stated in its charter, 'to
defend and uphold the Constitution
of the United States and to gather
and disseminate information that (1)
will teach the necessity of respect for
the rights of persons and property as
fundamental to every successful form
of government, and (2) will teach the
duty of government to encourage and
protect individual and group initiative
and enterprise, to foster the right to
work, earn, save, and acquire property,
and to preserve the ownership and
lawful use of property when ac-
quired.' "
To Interviewers Mr. Shouse declared
the league was not anti-Roosevelt, but
it seemed clear that it will tie opposed
to most of the major purposes of the
New Deal and the radical professors
of the brain trust He said he had
visited the President and informed him
fully of the purposes of the league,
but he would not tell what Mr. Roose-
velt's reaction had been.
promlae agreement, and martial law
In the city waa discontinued, bualneaa
thereafter speeding back to normal
conditions. The peace plan, devised by
federal representatives, provided that
all employees on strike be returned to
their jobs without discrimination and
on basis of seniority. It Included an
agreement to hold an election within
ten duys in each of the 160 firms In-
volved to determine whether their em-
ployees want the drivers' union or
other representatives to act for them
In collective bargaining, and a pledge
of the 100 Arms to pay for at least
one year not less than 50 cents a®
hour to drivers and 40 cents to help-
ers, platform men and Inside workers.
William Green
WILLIAM GREEN, president of
the American Federation of La-
bor, says he hopes the general strike
of textile Industry workers will be
averted; but he an-
nounces at the same
time that the federa-
tion Indorses tlie
strike and will co-
operate fully with the
ofiicers and members
of the United Textile
Workers' organization.
He appointed federa-
tion committees to as-
sist the textile work-
ers l n d announced
that he would draft
trained organizers and strike special-
ists from other unions to assist the
textile union.
George A. Sloan, president of the
Cotton Textile Institute and chairman
of the cotton textile code authority,
said the threatened strike is not Justi-
fied by the facts established by Im-
partial government economists.
Challenging the wage Increase de-
mand of the United Textile Workers
of America, Mr. Sloan declared that
"as a result of three basic wage pro-
visions In the code the hourly wages
paid In March, 1934, show an Increase
of 7 per cent as compared with March,
1933, when there was no code.
"All of this has meant a substantial
Increase In manufacturing costs," Mr.
Sloan said, "and the research and plan-
ning division of the NRA found, after
a comprehensive investigation last
June, that 'under existing conditions
there Is no factual or statistical basis
for any general Increase In cotton tex-
tile code wage rates.'"
THE strike of truck drivers In Min-
neapolis was ended when the men
and their employers accepted a com-
I IEUT.-COL. MARIO HERNANDEZ
L' organized a plot to overthrow the
government of President Mendleta of
Cuba and establish a military dictator-
ship, but the authorities got wind of
it and frustrated the conspiracy, In
which a considerable part of the army
was Involved. Col. Fulgencio Batista,
head of the army, said that Major
Benltez and some soldiers were sent
to arrest Hernandez and that eight
men of the detachment were killed.
Hernandez tried to shoot Benltez but
was himself shot in the head and neck.
The official report said Hernandez was j
being rushed toward Havana In an |
automobile and that the car upset, th0
prisoner being killed, though the oth-
ers In the car were uninjured.
Maj. Angel Echevarria. commandant
of Fourth infantry at Camp Columbia,
and Capt. Augustin Erice, chief of the |
signal corps, conspirators with ller- I
nandez, wore captured later and a i
summary court martial sentenced them I
to death.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INtERNATIONAL
Sunday i
chool Lesson
(By RKV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D..
Member of faculty. Moody Blbl*
Institute of Chlcaico.)
© by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for September 9
HEZEKIAH LEADS HIS PEOPLE
BACK TO GOD
LESSON TEXT—II Chronlclcs 80:1-
27.
GOLDEN TEXT—For If ye turn
again unto the Lord, your brethren
and your children Khali tlnd compan-
ion before them that lead thorn cap-
tive, so that they shall mine airaln
Into this land; for the Lord your Cod
Is gracious and merciful, and will not
turn away his face from you, If ye
return unto him. II Chronicles 80:9.
PHIMARY TOPIC—A King's Call to
God's House.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A King's Call to
Worship God.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-
IC—What Makes a Good Leader?
YOUNG PEOPI,E AND ADULT TOP-
IC—Godly Leaders In Civic Life.
17MGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are
now under arrest lu Manchukuo,
charged with plotting against Man-
chukuo and Japan and sabotaging
Japanese military trains. The Russian
government, through Acting Consul
General Bayvid at Harbin, has pre-
sented to the foreign office of Man-
chukuo a demand for an explanation
of the arrests and insists on prompt
measures for the release of the
prisoners.
"The arrests were made without
documents, accompanied by searches
of the apartments and offices of Soviet
employees of the Chinese Eastern rail-
way which have not been explained,"
Itayvid said.
The Japanese allege that some of
the prisoners confessed to an attack
on the Japanese military Intelligence
office at Suifenho (I'ogranlchnaya), to
sending Manchurian and Corean coin |
munlsts into the territory, to wreck- j
ing trains carrying Japanese troops
and munitions toward the frontier, |
and to creating general disturbances |
along the eastern line.
Probably before long will come the j
news that the Japanese have seized
the Chinese Eastern railway, and that j
may very well result In war between i
Japan and Bussia.
By A vote of about 10 to l the poo
pie of Germany decided that Chan-
cellor Adolf Hitler's action In assum-
ing the powers of president was all
right. The result of the plebiscite
was: "Yes," 88,302,769; "No," 4,204,
054; "Invalid," 872,290. Though the
"yes" votes were several million less
than In the November plebiscite on
the withdrawal from the League of Na
tions, the Nazis are satisfied and Hit
ler appears to be safely fixed as the
country's ruler for the rest of his life,
His power, as chancellor leader, It
greater than that of any other dictator.
I. Hezekiah Calls the People to
Keep the Passover (vv. 1-12).
The way for a sinning and divided
people to get back to God and be unit-
ed Is around the crucified Lord. The
Passover was a memorial of the na-
tion's deliverance through the shed-
ding of the blood of the sacrificial
lamb.
1. The Invitation was representative
of the nation (v. 2). The king took
counsel with the princes and the c<m-
gregation to show that the proclama-
tion was the expression of the na-
tion's desire.
2. The time was unusual (vv. 2-4).
There was not sufficient time to sanc-
tify the people nor to gather them to-
gether at the regular time, so they re-
solved. Instead of postponing It for a
year, to hold It on the fourteenth day
of the second month. This liberty had
been granted before In an exigency
(Num. 9:8-13).
3. The scope of the Invitation (vv.
5-9). It included all of both nations
who would come to keep the Passover
to the Lord God of Israel. "Israel" is
now used to Include both kingdoms.
The effort was to win back the nation
which had seceded. The posts who
were sent with the message were au-
thorized to supplement the proclama-
tion with an urgent exhortation to Join
as a united nation. This urgent invi-
tation was tactfully put as follows:
a. It touched ancestral memories—
"Turn again unto the Lord God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel" (v. 0).
Both kingdoms had a common ances-
try.
h. Recent bitter experience — "Be
not ye like your fathers and brethren
who trespassed against the Ixml God
and were given up to desolation as ye
see" (v. 7).
c. Yearning for captive kinsf<Tik—
"Your brethren and children shall find
compassion before their captors" (v. it).
d. The instinct of self-preservation
—"So that they shall come again Into
this land" (v. 0).
p. The forgiving mercy of God—"For
the I^ird your God Is gracious and
merciful" (v. 9). God will not turn
any sincere seeker from him (John
0:37).
4. Israel's reception of the invitation
(vv. 10-12).
a. Some mocked (v. 10). This ur-
gent and sincere Invitation excited
only opposition and ridicule by certain
tribes.
b Some with humble hearts come to
Jerusalem (v. 11). In Judah God gavp
them one heart to accept the summons
to unite in the Lord around the great
Passover.
II. The Passover Kept (vv. 13-27).
1. Bemoval of heathen altars (vv.
13, 14). These altars were erected In
Jerusalem In the time of Ahaz (28:24).
Before there could be worship of the-
true God, all these traces of Idolatry
must l>e removed.
2. The Passover killed (v. 15). The
zeal of the people was shown In their
going forward with the service, though
the priests were not ready.
3. The priests and Levltes shamed
(vv. 15-20). The zeal of the people
put to shame the priests and the
Levltes. They were stimulated to per-
form their duties by the law of God
as given by Moses. They even took
charge of the killing of the Passover,
since many of the officers were not
sanctified so as to render this service
for themselves. The Lord healed—
that Is, forgave the people.
4. The praise of glad hearts (vv.
21, 22). They continued for seven days
In this glad service.
a. The Invites and priests sang
God's praises dally on loud instru-
ments (v. 21).
b. Hezekiah spoke comforting words
to the Levltes (v. 22) and commended
them anil their teaching of the knowl-
edge of God.
c. They made confession of their
sins to God (v. 22). This was the evi-
dence that their action was genuine.
5. The Passover prolonged seven
days (vv. 23-27). The king's object In
prolonging the feast was to make a
lasting Impression upon the people so
us to result In thorough conversion
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