The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-11

have the preference.
Senator Vandenberg
has been persistently
demanding that Post senator
master General Far "anue"pers
ley either resign from the cabinet or
give up his Craftsmanship Of the Demo-
cratic national committee. In line
with this his bill would prohibit the
postmaster general from holding any
political Office.
BY taking politics out of the de-
partment and establishing career
service, Vandenberg said, "the pave
ment-pounding letter carriers may look
forward to ultimate graduation to the
high post of first assistant postmaster
general"
Under this BILL" he added, politics
and postal affairs at last are sep
arated as far as is possible in a
democracy. All local postmasters are
put squarely under civil service with
emphatic and effective priorities given
to the postal grays' themselves.
Existing postmasters are permitted
to serve out their present commissions.
Thereupon the vacancies are filed by
promotion from the service ranks.
Only in the event that no such person
is available-and we anticipate that
this contingency would not arise other
than in some of the smallest Offices
can the vacancy be filed otherwise
than by promotion"
NNE Of the most serious issues that
~ will confront congress Is the bat
tie between business and industry on
one side and organized labor on the
other, especially over the thirty-hour
work week. The American Federation
of Labor Is committed to this PROPOSE
ton, and to the retention of the col
lective bargaining provisions of the
MIRA act. Big business, as represented
by the Chamber of Comerce of the
United States and the National Manu-
facturers' association, is opposed to
the thfrty-hour week, and now has the
support from the Brookings institution.
It also seeks the separation Of labor
bargaining and practice codes in the
reorganization of the NRA. The open
ing shot in this battle is the intro
duction by Senator Hugo L. Black Of
Alabama of his thirty-hour work week
bill, which at present has not the sup
port of the administration.
N EMOCRATS of Rhode Island sur
~ prised themselves and everyone
else by gaining control of both houses
of the state general assembly when a
senate committee recounted the ballots
from Portsmouth and South Kingston
and declared two Democrats had been
elected to the senate instead of the
two Republicans who had been certified
as winners by the state returning
board. The Democratic legislators i'm
mediately organized the assembly,
ousted the supreme court members.
abolished the state appointed board Of
public safety and passed a reorganiza-
tion bill to consolidate more than 80
agencies into II state departments.
EOREIGN MINISTER PIERRE La
VAL is carrying out successfully the
work begun by his murdered predeces-
sor. Barthou. to bring France and
Italy into friendly accord for the set
Element of all the conflicts that have
arisen between those nations since the
World war. The agreement, 1t is be-
lieved, will also insure peace in the
Balkans. After a week of lively ne
gotiations it was announced that M.
Laval would go to Rome ito have i'm
portant conversations with Premier
Mussolini on questions which interest
the two countries and on international
politics and to conclude conversations
which have been going on between
the two countries"
WITH remarkable celebrity the jury
wv In the Hauptmann trial was Sc
lected, consisting of eight men and
four women, and Attorney General
Wilentz set forth the states case
against the Bronx carpenter who is
accused of kidnapping and numbering
the baby son of Colonel Lindbergh.
The colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were
present, and they and Betty Cow. the
child's nurse. were among the early
witnesses. On behalf of the state the
attorney general demanded the penal
ty of first degree murder.
TN 1888 the James e. Sullivan memo
L rial trophy, awarded to the athlete
contributing the most to the cause
of amateur athletics during the year.
was missed by Bill Bonthron of Prince
ton by just one vote and was given
to Glenn Cunningham. Now it Is in
Bills possession as the result of his
great ioot-racing campaign during
1884, in the course of which he estab-
lished world record for 1900 meters
and beat Cunningham in three out Of
five races.
In the nationwide ballot. conducted
by A. A. u. Bonthron led in the pre-
liminary voting and then piled up 1,O72
a., th- fnnl &ncf nf&nr fho 1oId ho a