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The Washington times., 1934-08-25
Civil Service Appeals
A Court Needed

The decision of the National Labor Relations Board
in the of John Donovan again directs attention to
the woeul lack of machinery for handling the personnel
problems of the Government.
After discussing various phases of the situation the
decision remarks:
"MOre important, sOhen DOnoUun discharged
and until the finally submitted to arbitration
there existed no method by Uhch he could obtain
dress. Unlike the priUdte employe protected by Sec
ton 7(a) there tribunal to IUhich he could
resort"
Fortunately for Mr.. Donovan he was able to get his
case before the National Labor Relations Board and to
win vindcaton from the allegations made against his
record by Gen. Hugh Johnson.
BUT CONSIDER THE THOUSANDS OF OTHER
GOVERNMENT employees WHO ARE NOT IN A
POSITION TO APPEAL TO THE LABOR RELATIONS
BOARD, WHO ARE WITHOUT ANY KIND OF
BOARD TO WHICH THEY CAN CARRY WHAT
THEY FEEL TO BE 1NJUsT1CEs ON THE PART OF
SUPERIORS IN THE SERVICE.
They might be treated just as was Mr. Donovan. Un
doubtedy many of them have been treated much
There is not, however, any by which they can
seek redress for the wrongs which may be heaped upon
ttgm which may even include the loss of their jobs
The Labor Relations Board recognizes the inustces
which may be worked upon Government employees be-
cause of this condition in the above quoted remarks
Efforts have been made in the past to have set up
Civil Service Court of Appeals which would hear and
adjudcate such
If such court had been in existence probably would
not have been necessary to set in motion the elaborate
national machinery of the Labor Relations Board in the
Donovan case.
Armed with the Donovan decision it should be possible
for Government workers to win the attention of
Congress the desiraby of setting up kind of
civil service court in the coming session.
The mere existence of such court would undoubtedly
do away with great deal of the petty nagging and
personal grudgery which makes working conditions
in some Government offices almost intoerable
It's existence would stay to the petty tyranny
in which minor officials take seeming delight
SUCH COURT IS A NECESSITY NOT ONLY FOR
THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYE BUT
AS WELL FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE
WHICH THE TAXPAYERS HAVE RIGHT TO DE-
MAND FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25

at
II No D. c.
j.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25

easy public access to the springs
and their uses, under scientific
administration, as one detail of
a vast health program. To date,
the State has spent about
The Washington times., 1934-08-25

n cumbent
S e n a t o r
H u b e r t D.
Stephens re-
ports through
his advis e r S
that "things
look fin e ="
and there is
some prospect
of his win
ming the first
primary and
not having to
enter a run
off.
Lou d and
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By lohn Snure, lr.

Mississippi primaries approach
with each of the three candi-
dates prOcIaiming certain vic
tory for the Democratic nOmina.
ton for United States Senator.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
I 1uman Side Of the News - ByEdwin C.. I'LL

$5,000,OO0 in the two splendid
bath houses now in use and on
the great spa which will be
completed by next summer. Of
this amount, 100000 was
The Washington times., 1934-08-25

"CASOIIlC clLAN
desirable, but never indispensa-
BILE.
When woman goes on too
long trying to play the siren,
she has to choose between run
ming a kindergarten and run
ming a free lunch for the
financially broke.
Most men and women could
get more joy out of the Indian
summer of life if they would
not mistake it for the return
of spring. The roses and rap
ture of youth are sWeet-but
they don't come back with the
grapes and goldenrod.
The average man syndicates
his affections and his kisses
probably because he thinks it's
a shame to waste so much 1T"
on one girl at a time.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Spies a la Mode

factory is to increase our beer consump-
ton. It's sacrifice, but for one stand
ready to do my part!"
This sentiment was applauded heart
lily, and Uncle Naboth lost no time in
organizing a draught board composed
of the husbands of the lady vigilantes
Among them they kept the Burgomaster
Brewery running at capacity production
day and night.
CNCE those turbulent days there have
been few symptoms of international
intrigue in East Teabone, or anywhere
else on this side of the Atlantic.
It isn't that we don't have plenty of
important State and military secrets in
this country. We probably have as many
as any of the central powers of Europe.
But for some reason the spies are not
interested in us. We just haven't got
espionage appeal.
This may be due to the fact that our
official communications are written on
ordinary paper and transmitted in the
usual way. If they were smuggled out
of washington in eggshells or tattooed
on the back of an Assistant Secretary
of State, the interest of the foreign
agents would be aroused Immediately.
In all the discussion of naval parity
and limitation of ornaments, nothing
has been said about espionage appor-
tionment. The other nations have gone
ahead, spying on each other right and
left, without giving America more than
a passing glance. Eventually they may
discover that espionage is the modern
substitute for war, and that when every
body knows all about everybody else,
military combat will be as unexciting as
a game Of poker played with transparent
cards.
But unless we make some effort to
encourage secret agents from abroad, we
cannot hope to share this millennium.
We should at least meet them half way
with black cloaks, false whiskers and
stilettos. For until the proper theatrical
note is struck, we can never persuade
them to spy American. There are too
many counter attractions overseas.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Three Kindred Substances

THERE Is o strange and secret kinship
] between diamonds and graphite (used h
lead pencils) and ordinary coal.
All three may possibly have common an
ceStry, though they come to very different ends.
II you 60 back far enough you may trace the
lineage of graphite and coal to those ancient
trees which were cooked and changed by the
pressure Of hundreds of thousands of tons OF
rock. And whether or not diamonds are also
products of tons of ancient chemistry, they,
like graphite and coal, are pure carbon.
just why the tremendous pressue changed
some of these ancient plants into hard and
brilliant diamonds, others into common black
coal, and still others into a soft dark gray min
eral admirably suited for writing, no one knows.
Graphite Is much lighter than lead, with
which 1t is ordinarily confused because both
may easily be used for writing. But pure
graphite Is much too soft to be used in lead
pencils unless it is first hardened by being
mixed with powdered coal.
Unlike coal and diamonds, graphite Is form
Of carbon which does not easily burn and when
it Is mixed with clay it Is used in making dishes
and bowls which are heat-resisting It's two
other chief uses are in lubricants and paints.
The fact Is that the so-called lead" In q
lead pencil Is much more nearly related. chem
ically, to the wood that encases II, than to the
metal by whose name it is so often mistakenly
called. Like the wood that holds it, graphite 10
q plant material, though the centuries Of rock
pressure have changed its form beyond easy
recognition.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

made on Max Steinwal In Q note fsund In
his car parked in front of his Beverly Hills
mansion Six notorious underworld rscketeers
are being questioned at headquarters"
Then, in midafternoon, just as the short,
Wintry twilight was approaching, they heard
again the sonorous, unhurried voice Of another
announcer:
This station has just been informed Of the
latest developments in the Mitzi Questly kid
naping case In raid on a small night club,
said to be owned by powerful gangland leader
named Bull Cassidy three of his henchmen
Evening star., 1934-09-02

the commercial forest area, 1853 900 900 acres
Is in second-growth ranging from seedlings to
saw-timber, which has replaced the original
forest stands. This ability to regenerate rap
Idly and produce saw-timber at an early age is
important in the practice of forestry in the
South.
Practically all the forest land tn the South
is IN private ownership, 90 per cent Of the
area and 80 per cent Of the volume Of timber
are in private hands, II the 2,250000 acres
of tax-forfeited forest lands g per cent Of the
total forest areas) are included as private lands
Nearly one-hah Of all privately-owned forest
land In the Nation is in the South, but only
IL per cent Of the volume Of merchantable saw
timber. In per cent Of volume of merchantable
saw-timber, the South leads all regions except
the Pacific Coast.
Prom the standpoint of current growth Of
wood, the South exceeds all the remaining
forests Of the Nation" says Mr. Demmon. In
total volume Of saw-timber and cordwood COM
sbined. the forest service estimates show the
South's forests to be producing at the current
growth rate Of about 4 300 900 900 cubic feet an
nually, or 81 per cent of that for the United
States as whole. In saw-timber growth alone
the forests Of the South are growing currently
$500. 900 board feet per year. or So per cent
of the total for the United States For the
1925-29 period the saw-timber and cordwood
stands IN the South were being depleted one
and one-half times as fast as they were grow
ing; the saw-timber stands alone were being
depleted almost four times as rapidly as their
current growth rate. On the basis of estimates
Of the normal future requirements of the United
States as whole, the forests of the country
are being depleted twice as fast as they are
currently growing In cubic feet or five times
as rapidly for saw-timber alone. This indi-
Gates that in the South the depletion Of timber
In relation to growth is not progressing as
rapidly as it Is in the rest OF the United States"
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Millions Visit Forests

THE extent Of the popularity of the natidEal
forests was well shown by the figures of last
years visits. Approximately "a, 500, 600 persons
visited the parks either for camping or touring
purposes. Naturally, tourists far outnumbered
the campers. but well over 100000 took Id
vantage Of the campaign opportunities
The activities of the Forest Service aided by
the Civilian Conservation Corps, have done
much to open up the beauties of the forests
and are expected to make this current season
perhaps the most popular of all.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Forests offer South Prosperity

OM key to permanent prosperity In the
South lies IN her tremendous forestry pos
sibilities and the particularly beneficial grow
ing and marketing conditions.
Many fast-growing types of timber combine
with q long season and abundant rainfalls to
make the growing of the trees comparatively
simple matter while the availability of all con-
suming markets makes handling of the timber
economical.
Well over a third-in fact, 80 per cent-of
the commercial forest land in the United States
is located in the South where 73 per cent of
all land is either in forest land cut over
and lying idle.
The South has long been an outstanding
source Of lumber and other forest products"
Z. L. Demmon, forest service expert says. "Al-
though the South has only IL per cent Of the
volume Of merchantable saw-timber of the
Nation, It exceeds IN this respect all other
regions except the Pacific Coast As an in
dustry, the forests Of the South rank second
only to agriculture in importance. Forest
products cut and sold on farms rank fourth
among all farm crops in the South with total
annual income to the farmers of more than
$S20oo00o. These facts represent some of the
high lights in the story of the importance of
the forests of the South"
The vast forest empire included in the IL
Southern States from Virginia to Texas con-
sists Of four principal forest types-the long
leaf-slash pine, the shortleaf- -loblolly pine the
upland hardwood and the bottomland hard
wood types. Sixty-eight per cent of the total
commercial forest area is occupied by pine
types.
The original virgin timber remains uncut on
about 100000 acres, or on 7h per cent of
the total commercial forest area An equal
area has been so severely cut burned that it
will not reproduce naturally In commercial
quantities within 20 years. The remainder of
Evening star., 1934-09-02

ening relays Of news
Police are combing Los Angeles and its out
skirts for Mitd Questly and her maid, Sophie
Davis, missing for more than 48 hours. Chief
of Police Hathorn has received a note branding
the affair as q clever publicity hoax, but Max
Steinwal, famous director, denies this vehem-
emily and demands prompt action. Already the
affair is front-page news.
And later, sandwiched in ON a famous dance
program: "It is now definitely established that
Mitzi Questly has been kidnapped and is being
held for $4,000 ransom. The bold demand was
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Continued From Ninth Page.

vigilantes was the capture of a small
boy who was discovered flying a kite
made of a copy of the East Teabone
Weekly Democrat in which several let
ters from hometown boys at training
camp were published These letters
contained important military informa-
ton concerning socks, sweaters, cigar
cites and cookies. It was Aunt Eulalie's
belief that distant spies equipped with
high-powered binoculars might read the
newsprint on the kite; so the lad was
deprived of his toy.
THE ladies also accused an elderly char
woman of signaling confederates
from the top floor of the Burst National
Bank Building. The charwoman denied
the accusation Indignantly, asserting
window When she emptied a pail of
soapy water over the heads of the
vigilantes by way of proof, they decided
not to press the charge.
But their real triumph was the affair
of the Burgomaster Brewery. Having
heard the proprietor of the brewery
say "Gesundheit!" when some one
sneezed, Aunt Eulalie deduced that he
must be pro-German and that his
brewery was really munitions factory
in disguise. "You can't tell me that all
those kegs contain nothing but beer"
she informed her sister vigilanteS. Some
of them look like gunpowder kegs to me-"
So Aunt Eulalie appointed Uncle
Naboth a committee of one to investi-
gate the Burgomaster Brewery. Uncle
Naboth investigated and came back with
the reassuring information that the
brewery was not manufacturing NUM-
tions. THAT is, not yet" he added
solemnly. "At the present time every
body over there is too busy making beer.
But have it on good authority that
as soon as the demand for beer falls
of they're going to make guns.
obviously, then," concluded Uncle
Naboth, "the only way we can keep the
brewery from turning into munitions
Evening star., 1934-09-02

were killed including beautiful woman found
In secret love nest with the racketeer"
An ominous pause Static began again and
held their breaths. The annou 1cer's voice was
filled with suppressed excitement.
"A statement dying men con-
fessed that powerful bomb set with deadly
precision e. concealed cabin where
Qucstly and her maid hidden 80"
The radio sputtered and backfired "a"
purpose Of speeding up payment ran
some money airplanes leaving =.
time bomb rushed to rescue this
fendish plot Station Pitts
burgh-"
'Whatu we do, miss? Whatu we dos"
shrieked Sophie her voice cracking on high
note. We'll be killed when that thing goes
off,"
THEY ran, hand in hand, out into the gath
ering darkness. stumbling. falling-heping
each other up-running again. Cutting their
knees and bare hands sharp rocks. But the
terror behind seemed to reach out spidery
fingers to clutch them.
They paused. waiting under the lee Of q
huge rock in a small ravine. How much longer,
wondered Mitzi, would this nightmare continue?
You had to wake up some time. Oh if only
Bruce-his face swan before her She
suddenly remembered, remorsefully, that she
how altogether his she was. Did he know? II
only she'd had chance to explain it carefully
to say it over and over earnestly against his
lips
Harkl Wasn't that the droning of an air
plane-fying low-coming nearer
The explosion that shook the cabin lifted It
high into the air, like giant angry hand, and
tossed the shattered pieces of kindling wood
recklessly to the four winds. 1t tore more than
a prodgious hole in the mountain side and
started the baby avalanche of stones rolling
down into the ravine.
Mitd never knew whether it was her own
scream or Sophie's that she heard before she
slipped with a frightened moan into uncon-
sciousness
A long time later she snapped back to life
with the fiery taste of brandy in her mouth and
q raw feeling in her throat.
Bruce was holding her masterfuly In his
arms-close to his heart-and it was beat
ing hard beneath her cheek, as If he had been
running. She snuggled against him. burying
her small nose in the hollow of his strong
bronzed throat
Thank heaven for radios!" doomed Max
Steinwall to Mitz as he hurried past. I'VE
took chance that you'd be tuned in. And
would you believe this place is only a stones
throw from Los Angeles-as an airplane f1ies7"
But Mitz wasn't listening. She was clinging
to Bruce
IT wanted to tell you," she was whispering
simply, that love you-and-
"And I've something important to tell you,
too, one and only" he interrupted his. eyes
shining. I'm a free man now. It was
Madeline Frost whom they found-dead-in
Bull Cassidy's apartment today. Killed during
the raid"
She nodded silently then, knowing that this
was her man-for life.
And so," he proposed presently, how'd you
like to marry your publicity man-tomorrow?
Keep the gags all in the family, and every
thing"
"I could take it-on the chin-and like It,"
Mitzi said promptly.
(Copyright. 1934.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-10
OUR DAILY BREAD

A MERICA's bilnon-dollar baking industry
n finally has raised the Blue Eagle banner
and begun working under an NRA code.
The new code doubtless will help the indus
try's 5000 bakeries and their workers. The
National Bakers Council, which is the code
authority, will set up market areas to protect
existing wage scales and employment stand
ards There will be forty-hour week for
large and forty-eight-hour week for small
nandicraft establishments. The wage mini
mum will be 40 cents an hour. with scent
diferential in the south.
What will the new code do for or to the
consumers?
Last MONTH according to studies made by
the AAA consumers counsel, DR.. Fred Howe,
bread prices in hfty-one cities were averaging
81 cents q pound loaf of white bread. year
ago the average retail price was Sc cents, so
that the price has risen % per cent in year.
During this time the average price of all foods
rose II per cent.
The increase of about Is cents in the price
of bread can not be accounted for by the
processing tax or other rises benefting the
farmers According to Dr. Howe there is
margin Of about a half cent between the rise
in the cost Of materials in loaf of bread and
the retail price rise. This half cent, it would
seem, should absorb the increased labor costs
under the new code.
General Hugh johnson thinks there will
be no bread pro1teering. Says he: Com
petition is so keen and the number of estab-
lshments so great that little likelihood exists
of the development of a price structure detri-
mental to the consumer or of inordinate
profits to the industry" AS further safe
guard" he has named Karl Hauck of the NRA
consumers advisory board to be a full-time
adviser to the administration member of the
code authority and to study costs and prices
in the various market areas.
1t is the governments business to see that
Sterilization of this industry is not paid for
in unduly high bread prices
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-10
BY-THE-DRINK FANATICISM

ME trouble with the drys," screamed the
vets in the not-so-distant past, sis that
they're such fanatics. They're just plain rabid.
Fanatics, that's what they are!"
The day of the dry fanatic passed. Now
we have the wet fanatic. And the latter is
infinitely more dangerous because it now ap-
pears that he has lost his sense of balance.
storm of protest has swept Indiana
once upon time it was BONE DRY INDIANA
because Governor Paul V. McNutt rightly
refused to declare by-the-drink sales of
whisky legal.
Leading the battle for the wide-open in
depreciation of the laws are:
1. Hotel owners. who are fighting on a
financial basis.
2 Wet fanatics who, as we've said before,
have no sense of balance and who are Shrek
ing for the good old days"-the days of the
saloon, the days which led to the scandalous
era Of prohibition, and
8. A dozen or so newspapers in Indiana.
newspapers which stuck stanchly to the
sinking ship Prohibition to the last desperate
days. What their motive is. nobody knows
stand.
This newspaper was wet back in the days
when Indiana lived under the Wright bone
dry law. This newspaper was pleading for
modification and repeal long before it became
fashionable to campaign against prohibition.
Repeal, We believed, would do away with
all the rottenness of bootlegging, the hypocrisy,
the lies. and all the rest of the sordid events
which took place under the rule of the drys.
It has to a good extent.
Prohibition may have made America a
hard-drinking nation. We don't know. But
we do know that the wet fanatic is the most
dangerous person in American life today. Are
we to have another era of a saloon on every
corner, the cutters strewn with drunkards,
and eventually another regime of prohibi-
ton? God forbid!
Indiana'S wet fanatics who today are
screaming for by-the-drink sales of whisky
were proclaiming temperance their goal back
in the days when it seemed that prohibition
was in the Constitution to stay. Now they've
forgotten what the word temperate means
Governor McNutt is right. By-the-drink
safes VI WHISKY oAO 444O S"A "A4NOA VIZ '
The state administration can not enforce
the ban on les-by-the-drink whisky 1t is
odd that the very communities which now are
protesting the loudest about not having ade-
ouate facilities for enforcing the law did have
the facilities back in the days when it meant
SIS for the prosecutor every time bootlegger
was convicted. How times do change!
It really is high time that Indiana came to
her senses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-10
TO BE EXPECTED

ONG ago, when the French revolution
IL had brought forth its reign of terror and
revolutionary leaders themselves began going
TO the scaffold, some one remarked that rev.
olution always devours its own children.
A survey of the recent bloody events in
Germany simply confirms this dictum.
Selling power by violence almost invaria-
bly, breeds still more violence. Disagreements
among men who govern a country are inevita-
bic under any kind Of regime; and where
these disagreements can not be decided at
the polls. in a peaceful manner. they even
tuaIy must get settled in a violent manner
with the firing squad or the guillotine for
the losers.
The German Fascist revolution is simply
following the formula.