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$1,000 a Week to Start

an the air Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie could string
~ out the story of the family quarrel with John
Jacob as endlessly the little adventures of Amos
n Andy. They would not even have to write their
own copy. There are staff ghosts who could take
one little phrase out of of John Jacobs letters
to the Gilespies and write fifteen-minute routine
around it. They could get 1000 week to start
In vaudeville they might like to use little act
which your correspondent has been working over in
his spare time these last few days. It starts with
Mrs Gillespie reading the letters before the fire and
remarking to Mr.. Gillespie Paw do you really
think that ring that John Jacob gave our little girl
was worth 100000 like he said?" Mr. Gillespie dd-
ding with the dials on his radio, says Hush nav
EMO F1ermonte is fighting Rollo Rollova at the
R1dgewood Grove A. G. tonight, and want to hear
the broadcast"
The act then proceeds through reading of some
of John Jacobs letters, including his letter of
apology for passing unkind remarks about the Gill
leSpie family Then comes the broadcast of John
Jacobs stepfathers fight and the shrill voice of
John Jacobs NAV crying, In the belly, honey; he
don't like EN- down there"
EMO wins the fight by Knockout and each
member of the family then says few words on the
air from the ringside
Mr.. and Mrs Gillespie sit silent and lust at the
curtain Nav says, Paw, if you hadn't been so tenn
perish with John Jacob might have been at the
ringSde ourselves tonight among all the celebrities
instead Of sitting here reading old letters"
Copyright. 1884 by United Syndicate Inc)
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James n. Hanley, eX-laW part
ner of Nebraska's ex-Democratic
Committeeman Arthur Mullen, is
angling to keep himself on top of
the heap. Arthur had Hanley APP
pointed member of the federal
radio commission, also got one of
the commissions former examin-
ers to join his firm. Mullen's
radio practice thrived. Now
that the ratio commission is to
be absorbed by the new commu-
nications commission, Hanley cir
culated a petition on Capitol Hill
urging his appointment to it.
EORTHRIGHT Henry Morgen-
l. THAI will go to the Yellow
stone soon to rest from the ardour
of keeping the treasury depart
ment reasonably honest. He will
stay there until Roosevelt returns
from Hawaii, then join his train
en- route east. =. Members of the
house military affairs committee
estimate that John McSwain,
shrewo Scotsman from South
Carolina, will save the United
States about $4,000, 900 through his
Investigations of army scandals.
AS hartman of the committee he
has been like hound dog in fol-
lowing up every trace of graft.
Revenge is sweet! -Four
years ago Joseph R. Grundy, king
of high tariff lobbyists, went down
to defeat in a Pennsylvania Re-
publican primary. Bill Ware,
whose uncompleted term he filled.
worked against him. A few DAYS
ago, Ware was ousted as boss of
Philadelphia and the white
crested, sauve Mr.. Grundy en-
throned himself as supreme ruler
of Pennsylvania Republicandom.
-. Senator Lii Arthur Robinson
was renominated by reclamation
at Indiana's Republican conven-
ton. But all was not as har-
monious as it appeared. Sub rosa
there is considerable hostility
among the rank-and-f1le against
the Hoosier laranguer.
n n
WHATS in a name?
w In Oklahoma, If it is
spelled Will Rogers, it is good
for a congressional seat. In
1882, an unknown back-country
school teacher bearing this name
announced his candidacy. Al
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them. The proudest boast OF big business has been
that it might end through its efficiency the heller
SHELTER turmoil of making things for which there
was no market I am quite aware of the fact that
business in its present stature has fallen far short
of matching production and consumption with any
degree of accuracy And yet, despite the evident
failure to balance the economic scale, the key in
dustrialists still are shouting that this is con-
summation devoutly to be wished.
My puzzlement then is occasioned by the fierce
and searching questions which asked when any
body in the federal service is rumored to be guilty
of planning" When Tugwen was summoned before
the inquistion he was asked whether he was
"planner' much he might have been Intercepted
in criminal court as to whether he believed in
arson murder the coveting of neighbours goods
I realize, of course, that the more radical econom-
lists have insisted that planned production never
will be possible in a capitalist state. They argue
that such discipline only possible after collectiviSm
has been achieved. 1t is not my purpose here and
now to express my opinion upon this moot point.
One of the reasons why do not express an opinion
is that I don't pretend to know. But surely the
captains and the kings of American industry are
not yet ready to haul down the flag without
struggle.
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utterance. He then went to live
with an aunt in Newport.
By this time Jack Astor had
graduated from a preparatory
school, decided that he didn't
want to waste time" going to
college, and had taken a few
lonely trips to Europe and around
the world. He had few friends
and only one hobby-mechanics;
he'd drive a Rolls-Royce, but
liked to overhaul the engines of
f1ivvers.
He went to hunts and horse
shows and society tennis matches,
but didn't seem to have much fun.
From the time he donned long
pants he was considered one of
the most desirable catches of his
generation, and many an ambi-
tlous mama nudged her daughter
into his presence.
He grew wiry, athletic, slender
and moderately handsome. No
scandal ever attached to his
name; no Broadway hot-spot
knew his patronage.
MOT even the society gossip
Y columns we're able to link
John Astor's name with many
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The youngster always has been
self-sufficient, in his fashion. His
own money-part of the $4,000, 900
trust fund left by Colonel Astor to
his unborn child-paid the ex-
penses of his birth.
He paid 1886 for a fancy layette
a month before he was born.
During three years of his child
hood he footed the bills for $5,760
worth of clothes and toys for him
self.
And he contributed third of
the household expenses, taxes and
such.
These details came out in 1917
when his mother gave an &C
counting in court of how $86,03 of
her young sons money had been
spent for his upkeep during
thirty-seven months. Of course
that sum, large as it was,
amounted to only about one-sixth
of the boys income.
NH AOGiAAA1Nb n II M n - VI =
N1 FORCE had been only Is
when she married Colonel Astor,
and certain members of the Epis-
copal clergy had sermonized on
the immortality of a girl of ten
der years marrying a divorced
man of twice her age.
The marriage was a success,
though, until Astor's tragic death.
Subsequently his widow tossed
away more than 100000 and a
Fifth avenue mansion by marry
ing William K. Dick.
BY terms of the Astor will the
money and the house were to re-
vert to Vincent Astor, half brother
of the present John Jacob, if she
were to rewed.
John found close friend in his
first Stepfather, and was saddened
by the divorce. Then came the
romance between his. mother and
EMO Fiermonte, former Italian
middleweight champion and John
Jacobs boxing instructor for a
time.
Mrs. Aston Dick, who once had
married a much older man, now
became the 40-year -old bride of a
man sixteen years her junior.
Fiermonte, by the way, now is
supposed to be in training for a
match with Make Rosenblcom.
light heavyweight champion.
= n
HER son disapproved the
IL match, and said so to news
paper reporters in his first public
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JUST A POOR LITTLE RICH BOY
otes Jack Astor Who Seems to Say the Wrong Things
BY PAUL HARRISON
Times-NEA Service staff Writer

NEW YORK. 19socety feeling little sorry young
IN Aston.
True lot of bluebloods
involving the shattered the renav bc
erng the 100000 heirloom report
subs young he had
followed publication the alleged apology
Obviously talent amounting genius
the things at unfortunate
making commissioning
really but another chapter the story poor little
boy
pointed although may
help him battles
giving
custody the
in
month befur the born
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debs, although he was reported
engaged, at the age of 20, to a
daughter of Prince Torlonia of
Rome. The idea soon was
squelched.
After coming into his inheri-
lance last August, rumorS picked
up little. He was supposed to be
interested alternately in Eileen
Gillespie and Ellen Tuck French,
couple of 18-year-olds who had
been introduced to society only a
week apart, and who we're good
friends and both of excellent
families.
BY December everybody knew
that Eileen was Jacks choice. The
diamond he gave her once had
nestled in the crown of the guillo-
tined Louis XVI, and had blazed
from a brooch worn by the En-
press Eugene. Astor's paternal
grandmother had bought the
brooch in France.
COCIETY is all of a other to
~ learn what really happened
during the brief betrothal. In
newspaper interviews, John de-
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STATE SAVINGS SUIT
COMPROMISE limited
Double Liability Was Asked
From Stockholders.

Indications that a compromise
has been reached in the double
liability suit filed three years ago
against stockholders of the defunct
State Savings and Trust Company
were seen yesterday at a first hear
ing on the suit in superior court two.
1t was understood that represen-
tatives of the approximately 1000
creditors and depositors had agreed
on collection of an unannounced
percentage of the double liability
from the approximately 300 stock
holders.
The suit asked full double liability
when filed May 6, 1881. 1t was
maintained this was necessary to
raise an alleged difference of $4O0,-
600 between the assets remaining
when the bank closed April Is, 1890,
and its $1,2OO0O0, liabilities.
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HJeemC to Ne.
h
Haywood BROUN

T WONDER why the word planning sends all
l. Republican senators and many Democrats into
writings and contortions. Certainly there must
have been time in ages past when no i'll associa-
ton connected with the proposition "let's plan
this" According to tradition Joseph of the
earliest planners when he suggested to Pharaoh that
the dream of fat and lean cattle might have an
economic significance.
I suppose the present unrest in legislative halls
rests upon the fact that Soviet Russia has seized
upon word in common usage and made it all its
own. When anybody says plan" today the imme-
date reaction is Stain five year."
But the Russians hardly are the first people to
attempt to square production with need in advance.
Programs of this sort have been the commonplaces
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY COL
By Drew Pearson and Robert g. Aue,,

WASHINGTON preS;der
Roosevelts arrival in administration will mt into
eHct land reform program significant any of the regimen
ABOUT which certain immaculate Mr.
We'll The government will take land now held
honoponStc
The project will be through sugar PROCESSING a
ruero Fcan commission will be set the program
as Governor Winshp not considered sympathetic ~ Fe
BOOTLEG is being nations cantal moro no
~ mlscuousy than before.
ger speakes are out of business of av Joints
nave cropped up Standard gil-25 nint
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4AoAAlC 1Os
Among the seniors there is
packing and moving and catching
trains, and downpour of good
wishes and good advice, and some
polite wondering on their part as
to whether the speeches are going
to be very long winded.
These occasions have become a
kind of national festival in which
with pomp and circumstance the
American people celebrate one Of
their deepest and Oldest convic-
tions.
They believe, as no other ma
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weight champion of the world,
EMO Fiermonte, when her en-
gagement to young John ia
cob Astor was called off.
If the Gillespies' little girl
had married young John ia
cob she would have been en-
titled to sit in the Astor family
group at the ringside when
John Jacobs stepfather fights
SlapSie Rosenbloom for the
light heavyweight champion
ship and yell Hit him in the
Stats, Enrol"
However, that opportunity
is past, and it is just the Gill
lespies' hard luck that they
never will be able to claim
cfpn- Rinch if1-i1a-1oU- - - ,o141..
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

The following address, parts which
delivered by Mr. Lppmann University of
Michigan
this time of all the
gather together In order take like
Ihey They
there sentimental reunions the old graduates genuinely
to see old Bill and sometimes just little hazy to what Bills
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OF al pTIIIlIIIVe groups. IIAe
Joseph in Egypt, Robinson
Crusoe upon his desert isle was
of necessity a planner. He
calculated what his require
ments might be and then set
about to fulfill them. 1t was
not to his interest to store up
any SURPRISES for the export
market.
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fair Enough
WESTbROOK PEdLER

NEW YORK, June 19.-1f they haven't committed
L themselves too far already, will the Lawrence
Lewis Gillespies Of Park avenue and Newport r. L.
please get in touch with your correspondent at once
with view to making little money for themselves
and also for your correspondent?
The Lawrence Lewis Ginespies are the parents of
the little girl who just barely missed becoming the
stepdaughter-in- of the potential light heavy
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ton ever has believed, that they
must educate their sons and their
daughters. Since the first settle
ments three centuries ago, long
before there was an American
nation, long before the republic
was imagined, before there was
wealth or security, the American
people began TO tax themselves to
build schools and colleges and
universities.
They have subscribed to many
noble declarations about the lib
critics and the rights of man, and
have embodied them in their Con-
Stitution and their laws. But it
has been by their willingness to
support schools that they have
made these declarations signif1-
can't.
THE American people believe
- that the people can be edu-
Gated. On this faith our civiliza-
ton rests. They have believed
that with opportunity there would
emerge from the people leaders
and thinkers, inventors and or
ganizerS who would know how to
make democracy work. They
would not have built these schools
had they not had this faith in
their fellowmen, had they not be-
lieved that wisdom will respond
honorably to honorable treatment,
that in the long run men, if they
are trusted, will be worthy of
trust, that when things are ex-
pected of them they will rise to
the expectation.
There is much disbursement
in the world today. But on this
fundamental article of the Amer
lean faith, that the mass of men
are good enough to be educated
and that they can be trusted, we
still stand and by ceremonies like
these affirm our faith.
Let other nations, if they choose.
put their hopes in tyrants and
lf-selected superior men. Our
hopes are in free men max
ing their decisions by open de-
bate. Let others, if, they like, try
to achieve glorious destiny by
turning their schools into bar
racks, their teachers to drill mas
tiers, their learning into instru-
ments of policy.
II n
nUR destiny is in the hands of
~ the young men and women,
a million of them a wear. who
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Questions and Answers

Q-Do human hair and fingernails grow after
death7
A-No. That is a popular fallacy
(Which is the most precious metal?
A-Radiun.
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Common Sense Needed

COMMON sense in any cline
~ would seem to suggest
some possible connection be-
tween the labor of making
goods and the capacity of the
c1,rroY-t roorknt tn anccTh
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tai light heavyweight champion of the world. They
should have thought of this before.
What your correspondent has in mind is the
serial rights to the correspondence which was ex-
changed between John Jacob and themselves and
the further possibilities of the radio vaudeville tes
tlmonlals and moving pictures Your correspondent
has been around in this business for some years. and
1t pains him to see the Gillespies. paw and maw
throwing away valuable material which could be
marketed at considerable profit to themselves and
your correspondent with professional handling But
nrSt OF ALL your correspondent would earnestly adj
vlse the Gilespies to release no more of this ma
teral until they have conferred with him and heard
his proposition.
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AStOr MisSiUe Exclusive

THE Gillespies have big thing there. The
Il memoirs of Miss Evelyn Nesbit have been
printed many times in the last twenty-some wears.
and they are running again. better than ever at the
present time Miss Peggy Joyces story is another
twlce-told tale which could be touched I'D slightly
To-Day and sold over again at good prices But no.
oody ever has been able to offer the letters of John
JACOB Astor for publication, and if the Gillespies
paw ana maw intend to publish this correspondence,
it seems sinful waste to release it free of CHARGE
Your correspondent would undertake to put on a
great publicity campaign in advance of publication.
WIN posters on the circulation wagons and double
trucks IN the newspaper trade publications If an
ola story OF Charles Dickens could sell for more than
quarter OF million at this date in competition with
many other stories by the same author the first
Ignts 10 the trst published letters of John Jacob
Astor should be worth enough to interest the par
ents of EMO Fiermontes ex-stepdaughter- in law
elect.
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OUR destiny is in the hands of
~ the young men and women,
a million of them a year, who
come out of schools and colleges
that are dedicated to freedom.
Copyright. 1880
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Nathan MiIstein S0loist With
Philharmonic SATURDAY.

Hans LANCE will conduct the
Philharmonic Orchestra this eve
ming at Carnegie Hall The program
includes the Overture "Precioss" Of
Weber; First Rhapsody by Debussy,
with Simeon Bellison. clarinet as
soloist; sinfonietta, opus IT, Bere-
zowsky and Symphony No. in c
major, sibelius. This program will
be repeated on Friday afternoon.
Nathan Milstein will be the SOLO
list on Saturday evening and Sun
day afternoon playing the Tchai-
kovsky Violin Concerto in D major.
The Saturday program will also in
clude the Weber Overture "Preciose"
and The Sibelius Third Symphony.
The Sunday concert will have an
all-Russian program including the
Glinka Overture to "Rouslane and
Ludmills" and the Tchaikovsky
Fourth Symphony.
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Play on Chicago Stock
Yards Wins First Place
In Chicago Competition
(DaTy Worker Midwest Bureaul

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureaul
CHICAGO-"The Hog House"
play Of the Chicago Stock Yards,
presented by the Chicago Workers
Laboratory Theatre, won first place
in the Midwest Theatre Festival
Competitions for the National Fes-
tival held here recently.
Blue Eagle" given by the Albany
Park Jewish Workers Club, won the
foreign language section COMPETE
tions.
Eight theatre groups participated
in the competition for the right to
represent Chicago in the National
competitions to be held here April
10, IA and Is.
Written by member of the Lab.
Theatre, and based directly on the
lives and conditions of Stock Yards
workers, the Hog House" was the
outstanding play. It deals with a
strike situation in the Yards, and
the cast Of Negro and white work
ers, many of whom are Yards work
ers brought the story out ably To
get the proper background for the
play, the author, Alice Evans, spent
much time interviewing Yards
workers. Even the sets Of the play
we're designed by a worker from
the plant.
Blue Eagle" is story of strike
struggles under the N. r. A. The
Morris Winchevski Club was a close
runner up.
The Chicago Blue Blouses won
second place in the English group.
Ann Howe, Organizer Secretary of
the League of Workers Theatres
who came to Chicago to guide the
final preparations for the National
Festival, gave a survey on the prep
arations in other cities and states.
Groups are coming to Chicago from
New York, New Jersey, Cleveland,
Detroit, Gary, Moline, Los Angeles,
and other cities. Already, 20 del
egates from various Cana dian
groups are announced, and a group
Of the Progressive Arts Club Of
Toronto will participate as guest
performers.
The League of Workers Theatres
is appealing to all Chicago comrades
to cooperate in housing the del
egates. Send notices to; L. o. W.
T, co Breinin, 615 lakewood Blvd,
Chicago, III.
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By JOHN L. sPIyAK

TULSA, OkIa.-It was the
same story in this "wealthiest
city per capita in the world"
that I heard everywhere else.
Homes broken up. Families disin-
tegrating insufficient charity try
ing 70 keep them alive. Wherever
I have been so far, wages are de-
creasing, new labor is thrown upon
the market in the form Of wives
and children so that now no one
knows how many listed as workers
are actually unemployed. Certainly
more persons have been thrown on
the labor market during the de-
preston in desperate efforts to keep
homes and families together than
have been put to work even by the
C.W.A. Which means only that
there most probably is more unem-
ployment now, excluding the G. W.
A. workers, than there ever has been
during the depression.
How about union labor?"
This is a strong union town.
Some Of our incest people are Amer
lean Federation Of Labor leaders.
One Of them, the president of the
State Federation Of Labor is running
for Mayor And Wildcat Williams.
You really ought to meet him. Hes
a character. He actually kept this
town from breaking out into serious
trouble during the past few years
single handed, too. Kept the Reds
from getting control when the city
got very restless. They wanted to
march on the City Hall, talked
about selling food stores. Yes, sir.
This is a union town, and patriotic
too"
I'm view Of what conditions were
here just before federal relief came,
what do you think will happen when
C.WA. liquidation is ended?'
Border shook his head.
"Therell be hell popping, that's
all I don't believe Wildcat could
hold them back"
How did he hold them back?'
You'd better ask him" he
grinned.
I did.
Things got so bad here last year"
said wildcat. They started getting
out their guns, respectable, good,
fine citizens. You see, they we're
the better class Of people. They
had homes and they we're losing
thenl-losing them fast for nonpay-
ment Of taxes. They started by