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20 Years Bugunter but He's Not Catoonsfs Idea Of
the Trade and That Time He's Spent Only Years in the

I IKE so many Iowa natives,
IL he went to California. But he
went there to start, instead of to
finish. He came out of the Uni
versity of California in 1914, in
1915 he got a job with the state
Agriculture Department, and with
IN two weeks was on his way TO
the Orient. He spent two years on
that trip, hunting parasites.
He came back in 1917, grabbed
uniform on his way through, and
was on over the ocean to France.
He found plenty of parasites
there, and wasn't looking for
them either.
After the war he went with the
United States Department of
Agriculture, and in 1920 they
sent him again to the Far East
where he was to stay, with brief
visits home, for the next IL years.
He lived and worked in Japan.
Korea, Manchuria, China, Formo-
sa. the Philippines, Dutch East
Indies. the Malay States and In
ola. He has also worked in Cuba.
Panama and Central America,
and all over the United States.
He came back TO Washington
in 1881, and has been sitting at
desk most of the time since then.
He was made chief of the Divi-
sion OF Parasite Control in 1884.
He recently was in Europe again,
TINS time as delegate to the
Sixth Congress of Entomology, at
Madrid.
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Holding Court
by GEORGE ABEL

WASHINGTON Nov. s-Dipomatic and official
W society is specializing about how cordial the
Judicial Reception at the White House will be this
season.
The winter social program of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt has jus: been issued. In it, the Judicial
Reception is listed for Thursday, Jan. 9. BY that
time good many things may have happened to
make social relations between the Supreme Court
and the Administration trfe strained.
Ccnstitutionality of the AAA, the Bankhead Act
and the iva are already before the court and will
probably be decided before the reception date. The
Guffey coal bill still in the lower courts but may be
reached before January
Just what dignfed Chief Justice Hughes whose
dinner conversation is impeccaby brushed as his
snowy whiskers, may have to say to Mr.. and Mrs.
Roosevelt during long, dull January evening and
what the Roosevelts may reply is furnishing some
amusement in official circles.
breaking precedents as easy to the
y Roosevets breaking dinner dates does &c a
debutante the rest of the White House social pro-
gram leaves diplomats only mildly agog.
The Cabinet dinner on Dec 10 opens the official
week earlier than last year. Half the White
House parties being held Tuesday instead Of
Thursday-the conventional White House cay AS
usual, during the Roosevelt regime, the New Years
reception has been omitted and state dinners start
at o'clock instead of $50.
Fortunately for the peace of mind OF foreign en-
voys Washington has no Ethiopian minister SO the
diplomatic state dinner at the White House on JAM
Is should go forward without complications Italys
royal ambassador Augusta RoSso. will be able to
appear as debonair as always, undaunted by African
glareS.
Last seasons cold glances between the Bolivian
and Paraguayan ministers have thawed into
smiles, much to the relief Of White House attaches
They also hoping that guests who attend the
Congressional reception Jan. % will not
brown shoes with their white ties-as good DEM
ocrat did last year
Rented dress suits will not be frowned upon.
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Photo by Ma rgaret Bourke- White from

vantage of one great union for.
auto workers that would draw
help and encouragement from the
other 100000 members of the
A. F. of L.
He spoke of the speed-up, and
of minimum decent yearly wage
of $1500-$1 an hour for 80 hours
work a week, and so weeks work
year.
"THE employer points at the
l. high hour rate he pays you,"
he Numbered. But he fails to
tell that the average yearly wage
for the auto worker is less than
$700 a year."
Those are the fat organizers
figures, not mine. 1 know that
many workers go to work in cars
and that many more don't.
1t may seem far-fetched but all
this has much to do with how
Michigan will go politically. F. j.
OlllOn, Jne president OF the Inter-
national Union of Auto Workers,
had this to say:
Fully so per cent of our men
are for Roosevelt. He can't throw
us down, any more than I'VE can
throw him down. We are his real
friends. Well elect him if he'll
stick with us.
God help us all if the reaction
aries defeat him. No one can tell
what might happen. Thered be
bloodshed and destruction.
THE workers today are sullen
and disillusioned. They're not to
be monkeyed with They're not
going to be denied forever"
Tomorrow-Along the industrial
front in the American Ruhr. In
innate interviews with men in the
rubber factories.
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BY ERNIE PYLE
Times Special Writer

VXIASHINGTON, Nov. Eff
w teen years of his 2O-year
career have been spent in for
eign lands.
He started his scientific wander
ings, with all expenses paid by
the government, when he was %.
He is ~ now, and during all that
time he has been in his native
America only five years.
His name is Curtis P. Clausan,
he is the chief parasite hunter
for the Department of Agricul-
ture, and I am told that he is con-
sidered one of the three greatest
parasite men in the world.
But Clausen is no dreamy Scien-
fist. He is regular human being.
He likes his fun. He is crazy about
y snorts. He's golf flend-plays in
zero w-ather. or in the rain, or
any tine YOU mention it. He plays
we'll. too.
The cartoonists never could use
him for their skinny-legged bug
hunter in pith helmet and
glasses. swishing butterfly net
through the bushes. He's about as
far from that as anything you
could imagine He would look fine
in uniform. He is big and
tanned and rather younger look
ing than he is.
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10 the faithful is what is left after the starryeyed
socialicians, the crystagazing professors and the
liberal monopolists Of honesty get through passing
the pie to the objects OF their fondness favor,
philanthropy-and that is almost nothing at all
TT is the most poignant pathos in political history
Jim is so honest loyal and good natured that in
public he smiles and takes it the chin, but in pri
vate he weeps along the waste like woman wailing
for her daemon lover
His sorrows crown of sorrow is that because OF
the popular msconception of his gluttonous, but
foodess feast he is going to have to step out Of the
Cabinet before the campaign.
There are tragic figures of poesy-the Spartan
youth smiling while the fox, concealed by his shirt,
gnawed at his vtals-Cyrano charming his own be-
loved into his rivals armS-but none more tragic
than this tongue-twisting complexty-Jim Farley
taking the rap for political diddlng, which he wanted
to do and didn't because the real bidders wanted to
do it and did it, and now demand that he continue
the camouage and walk the plank for seeking to do
what they wanted to do and did and he wanted to
do and didn't.
Copyright 1895. by United Feature Syndicate 1nc1
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of their members in the great
plants they have successfully or
ganized certain independent units
such as the Studebaker in South
To-day the workers have lost
all faith in political action. When
Section IA failed to guarantee
their rights to organize, and then
the Supreme Court knocked out
the whole NRA, they became COM
pletely disillusioned.
"They have made up their
minds that no one will help them
but themselves. They are bitter
and frightened. Of course if the
Wagner Law is declared constitu-
tional you will see fireworks
around the plants"
7 WENT to three of these union
Il meetings in Detroit.
One was held in a hall over a
beer parlor. At one end of the
room was a poster of soldier, a
marine and sailor arm-in-arm,
bearing the legend WELCOME
BUDDIES."
There were less than 20 men in
the room when I arrived. There
were two or three imprisoned
speeches and then a general dis
cussion as to how best go about
organizing a particular plant.
Four of the audience were paid
general organizers. One of them
whispered to me that a third of
the men present were factory
spies.
Adding together the paid or
ganizers and the paid spies,
didn't leave many workers. A fat
organizer waXed eloquent. He told
of the terror and stupidity of in
dlvidual bargaining and of the adj
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Senior Strauss is acquainted with the enlightened
American system of dealing with statesmen when
one wishes to operate games of skill in such mod
cities as Saratoga, Los Angeles and Miami
Beach In America it is customary to make ar
rangements with statesmen in advance, and Senior
Strauss seems to have complied with the highest
American ideals in this respect.
So in due Senior Strauss tables began
to operate at Formentor and San Sebastian, where
games of skill have been barred for many years.
But at San Sebastian after Senior Strauss had opened
his salon at great expense the local governor re-
ceived at telephone call. Thereupon policemen
walked in flourshing pistols in vulgar and
Senior Strauss salon tossed into the street as
the saving goes
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pickets and the butchers and the
packers fed us a lot of boloney.
and they called us Reds and
laughed at us.
But one day they'll find out
that poor people and even women
have rights. We're going ahead
organizing. We got our Women's
League Against High Cost of Liv-
ing and other cities are joining in
with us.
I'VE want our children to have
more to eat. People are making
too much money handling food.
They've got to bring prices down.
I don't know as I'm against
Roosevelt; I am against the pack
ers and those who keep food
prices up. We want the right to
live"
Maybe in cold type it all doesn't
sound so tragically real as it did
from the lips of this woman who
can remember no single day of
her life when poverty and hunger
and want were not at the door
step.
Never had there been any of
the Wanted American high
standard of living for her. Never
had there been moment of real
security. Always there had been
fear and dreaded anxiety.
nOWN the street I talked with
~ a woman who ran a larking
lot in an alley She was Polish
and she spoke broken English.
My man used to work in the
auto plants but he got cancer and
died." she said simply. Il amt
much for Roosevelt now. Prices
is too high. We can't get hardly
enough to eat. But my children
was saying they was still for
Roosevelt. I guess maybe I vote
for him.
Across the alley a boy about Is
was leaning against shed play
ing a harmonica. A yellow cur
dog was squatted by his side, his
nose lifted high, bowling most
mournfully. imagine he thought
he was singing. 1t is the way with
men as well.
In front of a great motor plant
I stopped a workman homeward
bound from his eight hours of
toll.
His blue shirt was open at the
throat and I noticed that he
wore no underwear. When he told
me that he had a wife and four
children, and that he was lucky
if he got seven or eight months
work a year, 1 knew why he was
going without underwear.
Il guess most of the boys are
for Roosevelt" he told me after
We had been talking for some
minutes. "He tried to help us.
We thought at first that the NRA
would do us lot of good but it
didn't help us much. We'd have
been organized under that Sec
ton IA if the bosses had let us.
Il can tell you when you work
eight hours in one of these plants
today you amt got much steam
left. The speedup is something
awful now I don't know how
much faster we work than we used
to. but it's lot faster"
= II
EVERYWHERE in this automo-
~ tive country around Detroit
one hears constantly about the
speed-up. 1t is the legitimate
child of the line, belt and con-
veyor system. 1t has reduced man
to his lowest depth and raised the
machine to the status of at least a
minor god.
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Snall always think OF
her as The Little Girl Who
Remembers. Listen to what
she told me and then maybe
you will think of her that
way, too:
MY father was Polish miner
named Anton Stancus. and I was
born in the soft coal fields near
Neffs, O., in 1904. I don't know
just where that is, but I think it
is somewhere near Wheeling.
THE first thing 1 can remem-
Der was when I was 3 years old
and we had strike that lasted
Tor IA months. We never did
have enough to eat during all
those months. I can remember
how they threw bread at us and
old shoes and WORKOUT clothes"
A TOUCH of bitterness was
L n creeping into her clear, sharp
face as she continued:
When I was 13 my mother died
and 1 came on up here to De-
troit. I got job in a furniture
factory wrapping chairs.
AT night I'd be so worn out
and my arms SO tired that even
the next morning my hands would
still be numb
When I was 18 I married and
for five years I didn't have to
work no more in the factories.
But in 1927, after we'd been
married five years and my two
children was born. my husband
hurt his back in an automobile
factory and he had to quit.
went to work in the plants then.
He amt had no work since;
he's Al now and I guess they think
he is too old for the speed-up."
A GAIN that touch of bitterness
L n crept in. People who never
worked in one of them speed-up
plants can't imagine what it is
like. You're just completely worn
out at night.
And people who never tramped
the streets looking for job
can't understood why people hang
around the employment gates of
factories at in the morning beg
ging for work at just any wages.
We'll, I worked from '27 to "a.
Then I was laid off, too, and 1
never got gack on again. I don't
know what we'd'a' done if we
hadn't had relief money.
But it wasn't enough to keep
us decent. 1 guess we all just got
tired of being poor.
I'VE neighbor women used to
talk and one day in July We de-
cided we'd call an open-air meet
ing and see if there was any way
we could get meat prices reduced.
1--WE held our first meeting on
July Is, and then 10 days later
we had a big meeting in Coperni-
Gus school and the next day.
which was Saturday. we started
picketing the butcher shops.
I'VE did that every Saturday
for several weeks and then on
Aug. 10 we sent a delegation to
Washington.
The President was too busy to
see us and guess when we got
through with Secretary Wallace
he wished he hadn't seen us
either"
MARY ZUKS eyes were blaz-
AV1 ing, and her voice had
taken on fire and passion.
Back here they arrested our
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CLAUSEN is the first man to
~ hunt for parasite for the
famous japanese beetle, which
has been running rampant in New
Jersey since 1916.
He dug and Travelled and dug all
over Japan, for five months, be-
fore he even got a nibble. Then
he found five parasites within two
weeks. He hired japanese children
to help him collect beetles with
parasite eggs on them. He gave
them quarter of a cent per
beetle. In one day, 300 kids
brought him $4,000 beetles.
Much of ClauSens work has
been right out in the tropical
jungles. But the worst he ever had
during Is years in the Far East
was a headache. Never had mall
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EuEnouh
VESIBRO6K PEGLER

GENEVA, Nov. 6-The state Of civilization in
- the world could hardly be simplifed more per-
fecty than in the current affair OF the "ice bill'
in the Spanish republic
In Spain two members of the cabinet, including
the foreign minister. have thought it best to
sign, and there's great public indignation as the
result of squawk by Senior Daniel Strauss, citizen
of Mexico who introduced the game of skill known
"strapero.' Straperlo is similar to roulette but
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has only Is numbers on the board
instead of the conventional 38 as
in American roulette. The per-
son who is skillful enough to
place his money on the winning
number receives generous re-
ward from the management, but
it requires great skill to select
the winning number.
Sportsmen who tried their
skill when the game was run
ming at Formentor on the Span
ish island of Mallorca are said
to have put down about 100000
more than they picked up. Com
inc frnn Mexico il iS rarnha b o
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aria, never took quinine, although
his native helpers were always
coming down with the fever. And
he saw no more than a dozen
snakes in all that time. He did kill
tiger in India, though. He has
the skin here in washington now.
His crowning achievement
(Which I had to learn about from
his friends) was his work in
Malaga from 1929 to 1881. He was
hunting parasite for the Citrus
Black Fly, which was turning Gu
ba into a shambles. The result
was like an entomologist's dream
of Heaven. He found the parasite,
turned it loose in Cuba, and the
result was both immediate and
complete. The Black Fly situation
was simply washed up right there.
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went to Joe Brown to find out
a lot of things. Joe has worked
around auto plants for 20 years.
He is by way of being writer and
economist as we'll.
Of course he's probably little
too bitter-but, after all, he is
probably a little too slow after
that 20 years. He's seen numerous
attempts made to unioniZe the
plants and he has seen strikes won
and strikes lost. I'll let Joe tell
his own story.
In the spring of 1888 there was
spontaneous move toward union
ization among the automobile
workers.
"We won three or four strikes
for better wages and conditions in
row. In April the Mechanics
Educational Society was organized
and grew like a mushroom.
Then with the passage of the
NRA the United Automobile
Workers Of America began organ
lzlng as a Federal Union under the
A. F.. of L. They built up several
great locals, including one with
1900 members in Flint.
Then early in 1884 the Auto
mobile Labor Board was set up and
held hearings on alleged discrimi-
nation cases. The decisions were
USUALLY in favor of the ernp1overs
and both the A. F. of l.. and the
MESA repudiated the board.
y
COON wave of strikes swept
~ through the industry" he
went on, illuminating in the great
Toledo strike. Today the United
Automobile WORKERS have their
own International and while,
through intimidation and hired
spies and fear. thew have lost most
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DUKE OF GLOUCESTER TAKES BRIDE


ONDON, Nov 6The Duke of Gloucester,
IL and Lady Alice Montagu DougasScott daughter
late Duke of Bucceuch Queensbey today
by the Archbishop of Canterbury
chapel at Buckingham Palace.
The Oct cancellation
elaborate ceremony
1000 guests
The brides eight bridesmaids included the little
ces Elizabeth and Margaret Rose The duke supported
his brothers, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Kent
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'pA 'Otco Wy Llfc illllIOIlo IeBdIu u
less of merit, need or anything
but elections.
Big Jim may dream of being
just that, somewhat as a wide
eyed little boy dreams Of being a
pirate. That is the principal
pathos. For the facts are that
Tammany, by reason of his neg
lect of it, would, if it could, tear
his heart out and eat it boiled in
oil; that, instead of being a
mordant and ruthless pirate, Jim
has about the guile and predatory
instinct of big, honest, lumber
ing and friendly Newfoundland;
and, finally, that the only pa
tronage" in either jobs or words
which lin is pernitted tn PASS
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BY FRAZIER HUNT
Copyright. 1895. NEA Service. |

A FIRST she would not let me in. l suppose that l
looked too much like square-toed planclothes dick.
could see that the door locked and knew that
would have talk fast and earnestly or she would slam
the inner door in my face.
Finally she slowly unlocked the screen and found
myself in the plain sitting of the fourroom down.
stairs fiat picked out chair and she curled up in
rocker the room from me-
She looked like kid, maybe Is or ID years DID, Yet
she the flaming spirit of Detroit-the Mary Zuk who
had led thousands of women in meat strike that had been
front page copy for weeks
Maybe it's a bit fantastic, but could see in her the
rencanaton of the screaming leaders of the mob
that traed from Versailles bright day 146 years ago
the mob that told to eat cake they had no bread
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The My/Jeeh
DY
GEN.HUGHSJOHNSON

"ASHINGTON-Patho shrouds the rugged
w shoulders of j. Aloysius Farley.
The popular conception is of a heavy jowled,
scowling and predatory Tammany boss, handing out
jobs by the thousands ard public works by the bill
lions in exchange for votes hu tie riinns recard=
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Listening to INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
SbeedUp Plant Lezxs Workers With Not Much Steam Left

about life under the New Deal they living
in
talk with
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He BleU the Whistle! Tsk! Tsk!

T Formentor the pleasure continued for about
week and Senior Strauss was able to recoup some
portion of the ice bill before the governor stepped in
and he again was tossed into the street Naturally
this unethical conduct incensed Senior Strauss and
he wrote indignant letter to the president of the
republic in which it appears that he guilty of
another serious breach of etiquette. In fact Senior
Strauss blew whistle and the president consider
ing this to be very grave matter, took steps.
AS the result of the presidents inquiry the cab
met resigned but all the statesmen got their jobs
back again in the cabinet with the exception Of
the foreign minister and the minister of public in
structon. Senior Strauss appears to have conducted
himself in extremely respectful manner except in
blowing the whistle, which is considered unpar-
donable breach of etiquette in the best American
circles.
Indeed, if Senior Strauss we're to blow the whistle
in the state OF Florida by writing such letter to
Senior Dave Shotz. prime minister of that ancient
Spanish colony, he undoubtedly would be taken for
a boat ride and fed to the sharks or alligators
1t Goes to Prove Something
FOLLOWING the blowing of the whistle it was
discovered that Senior Strauss had made an
in delivering the ce 1t appears that he did not
deliver the ice to the foreign minister and to the
minister of public instruction and may have been
victim of dishonest representations by persons claim
ing to represent them.
nephew of the minister of public instruction are in
voved in scandal, the delicate diplomatic phrase
puts it. And this made it embarrassing for the
statesmen to continue in office
But to an American accustomed to American eff
cheney and straightforwardness in public affairs it
is impossible to imagine that Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull would be forced to retire on the mere
ground that his son, if any, had been involved in
arrangements for operation of game of skill
The unfortunate Senior Strauss appears to have
MAD only the most honest motives and to have been
justified in his efforts to get back his money which
led him to blow the whistle. But primitive Span
lards unlike the sophisticated citizens of the old
Spanish colony of Florida, have adopted an gnor-
ant attitude and want somebody sent to prison
1t all tends to prove Alphonse was right in his
contention that Spanish people are not yet ready
for sef-government. In America, on the other hand
they do such things with consummate grace Not
even so much as deputy sheriff or policeman ever
was forced to resign over the ice bill in Saratoga
or the old Spanish colony of Florida But in Amer
lea sportsmen rarely blow the whistle and never
to the President de Ia Repubiques