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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Obetf surovce.

Joan Kubela, 4lete devcatko
nalezeno bylo zavrazdene "a
dveTmi sklepa opusteneho do
mu uprostFed baziny blize
South Beach, Staten Island,
New York. Byla uSkrcena
snGrou. Byl ucin6n pokus o
jej1 znasilnen1.
Samuel Elmore, 80 rokd sta
ry nat6rac pracujic1 jake
WPA delnik ktery oznamil
policii, re mrtvolu nalezl, po-
droben byl vyslechu.
Vrazda jest jiz ctvrtou sve-
no druhu V m6st6 New YOrku
V posledn1m mes1ci.
Joan byla jedinym d1tetem
Williama Kuleba, elektrika.
Nasledkem nemoci jejf matky
stravila nekolik tydnG u sve te-
ty Grace Lesandi.
We ctvrtek dopoledne poza-
dala Joan tetu, jestlize Sc MI
re jiti koupat V Narrows u po-
bTezi. Teta svolila. Kdyz Sc
Joan nevratila k j1dlu, teta sla
ii hledati a oznamila ztraceni
dftete policii.
Kratce pred polednem V pa
tex zena ma zadn1ch schodech
poslednf rady domkG Cd pobfe-
Ii spatTily diva muze spechaJl-
CT k MIN a kdyz byli ma dolech
vzdaleni, jeden z mich pocal
volati co mt hrdlo stacilo, u
kazuje palcem ma dun stojicl
v tajuplne osklivosti uprostred
baziny asi ctvrt mile cd skupi-
ny dTevenych bud nazvanych
Camp Warren: "V onom dome
jest dft6."
Detektiv Corgrov odebral Sc
S obema muzi do domu. Muz,
jenz udal, re nalezl dfte, byl
Elsmore. S MIN byl William
Hahn, ktery pravil, re Elsmore
mu sdelil, re d1tko V dome ma
lezl.
Kdyz vesli do domu, Elsmore
vedl detektiva kolem do skle-
pa, kde Iezela mrtvola ubohe
male Joan. Nemela Satecky a
lezela oblicejem dolG. Ma "a
dech mela polozeny kus zdi.
obsahujicf n6kolik cihel. Ko-
lem krku m6la Sndru, kteroU
byla uskrcena.
Jak policejnf zprava udava.
la, vypov6di Elsmerovy V mno.
hem sc neshoduji, kdezto {
Hahnovi Sc oznamuje, re Wy.
povfdal primo a upf1mne. Els
more mezi jinym udal, re spo
lecne s Hahnem nalezli mrtvo
lu, kdyz on zabyval Sc chyta
MIN rakG, jelikoz destiv6 poca
ST nedovolilo mu pracovati.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
z Iowy.

V Cedar Rapids, Ia, die meto-
dy, kterou nedavno byla vylou-
pena p~okladna Cedar Rapids
Investment Co., neznamy ka-
sar vloupal Sc do ohnivzdorne-
no sklepen1 Loose-Wiles Bis
cult Co., a uloupil $1,000.
Krajan, Arnold Yak, mana
Ter obchodu, objevil loupez
kdyz pfisel do 1fadovny.
Frank Buresh, 35lety
farmar V Oxford Junction,
Iowa, byl predveden pred fed.
komisaTe E. McPartlanda ma
obvinenf re spiknutf ku poru-
SEMI danoveho aktu provozo-
vanfm nelicensovane palfrny
Thu. Minuleho tydne totiz ma
Bureshove farme byl nalezen
veliky kotel, kdyz pred tim je-
no vybuch zapalil stodolu a il
ne budovy. FEEDER. agent ne
mohli Bureshe najfti az v pom.
deli a nynl hledajf ctyri muze
a zenu, O nichz zatceny pravf
re jim palfrna patrila, a jemr
platili jen najem. Buresh by
pTidrzen pod zarukou $1,000
ku porotn1mu predveden1.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Penize vyplatili neznamemu.

Penize vyplatili neznamemu.
Prazska "Narodni Politika"
pise: V roce 1888, 20. zaT1,
zemTel v Chicago ceskosloven-
sky vystehovalec Ferdinand
Salek. Americke 1rady zjisti-
ly, re jeho dedici jsou NAME
lie Frantisek a Aloisie salkovi
re Skalice ma Slovensku. V po-
zdstalosti jim pripadla i neboz
tfkova vkladnf kn1zka Okresnl
zalozny V jednom moravskem
meste ma vklad 79,428.8O Kc.
Kdyz konecne pc dlouhyeh
1Tednich prGtazfch manzele
dostali dedictv1 i s vkladnl
knfzkou, dopsali teto zalozne,
ably jim vklad i S 1roky posla-
la. Byli vsak velmi prekvape-
nj odpovedf zalozny, ktera SIDE
lovala, re jiz 16. srpna 1888
cely vklad Ferdinanda Salka
kdosi vyzvedl.
Ma prislusnem vyplatn1m do
kladu je pouze necitelny pod
pis, a nikdo pc ctyrech letech
Sc jiz m jak vlastne
k vyplate vkladu doslo. Man
zele jsou tim ovsem poskozeni
a podali trestn1 ornament ma
neznameho pachatele. Snad Sc
pTi vysetrovan1 podari zjistiti,
kan Sc dedictv1 vlastne pode-
10.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Josef Wincenc, syn slo-

- Josef Wincenc, syn slo-
venskeho farmare M. M. Win
cence v Clarence, New York,
ma jehoz farmu konaji sve w
Lefty jak Slovaci, tax i Cesi, do
stal cd ustavu mezinarodnfho
vzdelavani stipendium ma jed
norocnf studium hubby ma praz
ske hudebnf konservatoTe. Do
Prahy odcestuje jiz 3. zarf t. r.
Je nadanym hudebnikem.
Hrati ma housed zacal, kdyz
mu bylo 6 rokG. Jake osmile-
ty byl uz clenem 3 skolnich or
chestrG V Bennett, koncertn1m
mistrem orchestra sve skoly a
brzy studentskym kapelnfkem.
PAX sorganisoval svou vlastnl
kapelu.
= 18leta Beatrice Vyhlfda-
Iowa z Pierce, Nevada, stala sc
obet1 nestest1. Zemfela v Nor
folk nemocnici nasledkem po-
palen1, ktere j bylo episode
no, kdyz zazehovala ohen We
sklepe obydl1 Waltera Ablera
v Pierce.
Beatrice byla zamestnana v
Ablehove domacnosti. Chtej1c
v kamnech rozdelati ohen, ma
lila do kamen petroleje. Jak-
mile rozzehla sirku, vznaly Sc
petrolejove plyny z gasoline
We plechovky, stojici nedaleko
kamen, plechovka explodova-
la a horfc1 petrolej postr1kal
divcin odev.
Neil Sc podarilo plameny
ma nj uhasiti, utrpela tezke po-
palen1 ma zadech, ma obou ru-
kou a ma ramenou, jakoz i ma
nohou. Take ma obliceji byla
popalena a jej1 Was byl ozeh-
nut.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Mnozstvi psenice We
skladistich.

Statni zeleznicn1 komise O.
znamuje, re v obilnfch eleva-
torech v Nebrasce Sc naleZalO
koncem cervence 2,237,416 bu
slG pSenice, kdezto v stejnem
case minuleho roku pouze l.
2S2,392 buSlG. z teto ohrom-
ne zasoby naleza Sc 1,937,761
buslG v Cargillovych elevate
rech v Omaze a ostatn1ch mist
mich elevatorech v ruznych cas-
tech statu. K ochrane MATTE
LII pro pripad ohne mali eleva-
tory ~pojistenl v 1hrnne sumo
81, 104,500.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Trest.

Ma Pankraci byl t~restanec
Byl vegetarian. Jednou Sc ten
to muz necim rozzlobil, zacal
Tadit, rozmlatil z~aT1zenf sve &c
ly a dozorce, ktery no chtel u
klidnit, zmlatil. Kdyz Sc to do
zvedel Tiditel venice, zavolal
81 dozorce a pov1da:
"Poslouchejte, "a trest do
stane ten chap dnes k veceri
tfi jitrnice a ctvrt kila ovaru.'
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Pamatka.

"Milostiva PAM, mohla by
ste mi dati nejakou malickost
ma pamatku pc vasem zemfe-
lem muzi? Byli jsme spolu ia
kovf dobTi pTatele -"
Dam yam jednu malickost,
ktera mu byla nejdrazsf re vse
no ma svete," povlda ochotne
vdova.
Zach, jak jste roztomila,
sm1m prosit co to bude?"
"Vezmete 81 mne!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Spolkl chrup.

V Boston ma policejnf stanici
dopotacel sc James Garrow z
Island Pond a tTesouc1 sc ru-
kou napsal ma kousek papiru
slova: "Spolkl jsem vlastni
chrup a umfram nasledken
nedostatku vzduchu.' Polici.
ste jej co nejrychle dopravil
do hlavnf nemocnice kde mu Il
kari poskytli prozat1mni 1le.
WI, neil bylo mono prikro.
citi k operaci.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Teprve pri dopadeni.

Zedn1k Tlamicka spadl s lie.
Semi. Poranil sc ma stesti nike.
Ii vazne = a probudil Sc We sp.
tale. u postele nalezl svou Re.
nu. "Natloukl ses, kdyz isl lie.
tel dolG, vid, Florisi?" pta sc
ustarana manzelka.
"Ba me-" vrt1 Floris hlavou
"kdyz jsem letel, ~nestalo Sc m
mic = to teprve, kdyz jsem do.
padl ma zem!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Zavrazidl dcery a sebe.

V Island Park, New York,
Michael Horbackewski, 80 ro-
XII starry zahradn1k ~zastfelil
patrne v navalu s1lenstvi, jak
koroner usuzuje, sve dive mia
dicke dcery, vazne zranil nej-
stars1 dceru a pc te 81 podfezal
'kr bfitvou. Byl okamzite mr.
tev.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Mlady zvrhlik odsouzen
" Chicago.

17lety John Ardelan byl v
Chicago shledan porotou vim
MN re zlocinu nasil1 ma Gle.
tenn devcatku, jim jest6 tezce
zran9nem. Porota urcila trest
dozivotnfho zalaTe. Radila sc
necelou hOdinu.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Kde pax on a lit nepravidelne.

Pan KIObOucek tfpeI TeUmd-
tismem. zena no hnala k dok-
torovi. Ten pana Kloboucka
peclive proklepal a pravil:
"Cela vase nemoc je cd ne
pravidelneho zivota. Jiste re
zijete velice nepravidelne?"
"Ale CO jich vede, pane dok-
tor hajf Sc urazene pacient
"Kazdej den vypiju presne Je-
denadvacet piv a presne We
ctvrt ma tri odveze me domov'
mix ma vozejcku dom1. Kde.
pax nepravidelnost. To Dude
cd neceho jinyho!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Americke vypravy " CSR.

V Praze byla vyprava 20 a.
merickych student6 a SUDDEN
tex, kteTl n aceste stTedn1 Evro
pou pfijeli tam primo z rakou-
skych Alp. Prazst1 hostitele
Sc postarali ably v nekolika
dnech ukazali cizfm SUDDEN
|tGm vSe, co by je mohlo zauj-
mout.
V oficialnim poTadu bylo
mnoho vec1 kulturn1ch, mnoha
socialnf zarfzenf, navsteva ma
prazske radnici i hold Nezna-
menu voj1nu. Ale mezi n6ko-
lik dnf pobytu American6 Sc
vloudila take nedele a Praza-
nun napadl znamenity pro-
gram.
Prazane newell americke
suddenly ma Karlstejn ami ma
Konopiste. VGdce student1
prof. w. N. Kenton naznacil,
re by 81 ~1castnici vypravy radi
ma nekolik dn1 odpocali v o.
pravdove pTfrode. Pc nekoli-
ka telefonn1ch rozhovorech
odjfzdeli Americana V nedeli
dopoledne We starem autobuse
do Stechovic.
Dal sc pustili smele pres kop-
&c pesky a pred polednem do
sli do osady gu ~ztracene made
je" We Svatojanskych prou-
dech. Chvilka stacila k doho-
de S osadnfky a "a kratko jiz
americke studentky vafily We
vyp6jcenych kotlfcfch tramp
sky obed. Ami odpoledn1 pre-
hanka nepokazila naladu a
kdyz ustal dest, lakala hosty
feka a pc nj volley-ballove
hrfste.
Dnlezite mezinarodn1 matche,
u. S. A. versus Ztracena ma
dele, znamenaly naproste vi
t6zstvf osadn1kG. K zapasu Sc
seslo vsechno obyvatelstvo ne
kolika sousedn1ch osad. Stej-
ny dspech jake m1cova hra me
ly trampske p1sne. Stf1dave
zp1vali americtf STUDENT i hos
titele a nalada stoupala tax
rychle, jak slunce klesalo.
o seste iodine vecer NELL
byt jiz Americana ma Barran-
dove ma plaveckych zavodech.
Autobus vsak cekal We Stecho-
WEIGH skoro do soumraku, nez
pc navigaci dorazil prGvod Sc
sborem kytarist1 a S improvi-
sovanou americkou vlajkou v
cele.
Dc Prahy pTijelo take sest
americkych kamelotG, proda-
vacG novin z New Yorku, ktef1
cestujf Evropou jake vftezove
souteze spojenych vydavatel-
stew americkych listG, jiz Sc
z1castnilo 1000 kamelotI.
Jsou to: 13lety Henry Theo-
dor Wensel, 18lety JOHNNY AL
fred Nuhn, 15lety Otis john
son, 17lety Walter Leech a
diva cernosi, 15lety John Surry
a 17lety Herbert Blanks.
Tito chlapci opustili IL. GER
vence New York ma lodi "Man-
haitian, ably Sc vratili domG pc
absolvovanf sveho vyletu 16.
srpna.
Kazdy z Mich dostal "a ukol
vypsat sve dojmy z cestovani
/ Evropou v clanc1ch O dvou
: stech slovech. Chlubf Sc, re
byli pred odjezdem z domova
prijati sekretarem statu HUI
: lem We Washingtone.
/ Setrny.
V San Francisco, Tomas
" ~
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20

"Nedavno me omylem vyho-
dill z hostince "U Iva. Vratil
.jsem Sc, ale to jste mel slyset
ten kraval, ktery jsem tam stro
pill"
mo, a potom?"
"Potom me vyhodili podru-
he"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Pilny ynacek

"Jen Sc pine NC, synacku
Cemu sc nauc1s, nemGze tt nj
kdo witt"
"A cemu Sc nenauc1m, to
lmne teprve nikdO neveZme!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Cikan die sve pIanety.

SuSlar Sc radil S manzelkou
o napadnfku sve dcery. Pravil :
"NaSe dcera Sc nem1ze je-
ste vdavat. Must cekat, az~se
il naskytne primerenejs1 par
tie"
Manzelka: "Nesmysl, ceka-
la jsem JAZZ"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Jen 81 najit sikovneho lekare,

Pacient: "Pane doktore, ru-
ka je tedy 1plne v poradku?'
Lekar: "Ano, vsechno S nj
mGzete delat!"
Pacient: IT ma housl1ch hra-
ti?"
LekaT: "SamozTejme!"
Pacient: "Dekuji VAN, pane
doktore, to jsem totiz nedoka-
zal ami pred 1razem!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
Svatba no naucila.

"Vy jste Sc ozenil v patek a
trinacteho? Nejste powered
vy?"
"Jsem, ale teprve cd toho
patku a trinacteho!"
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20
SetrnY.

V San Francisco, Tomas
Laheen, Ircan, ktery Sc ohanel
po 25 let ma ulici kostetem, pc
smrti zanechal bohatstv1 $42,-
ITO.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1937-08-20

IA1O 1ld hO11OA 81 P1ld OOJO0N LIZ
dalsf hudebn1 studio do Cesko-
slovenska. re ma madam, to
dokazal ma svych koncertech,
jez mel vloni v Public Audito-
rum a pTedtim v Narodn1 SIM
ma Broadway. Bude dale stu
dovati hru ma housle.
Narodni Sdruzen1 Cechoslo-
vakn v Clevelandu rozhodlo Sc
prispeti nadanemu mlademu
Slovakovi a zahajilo v jeho pro
speech sbirku.
- 83 clenna vyprava Rev.
Jana J. Lacha z Whiting, Ind,
ktera v sobe zahrnuje 60 mia
dych slovenskych hudebnlku,
ocekava sc v New Yorku re
sveho zajezdu ma koncertni
turne pc Europe. Slovenske
spolky New Yorku a okol1 u
tvorili jiz pred casem zvlastn+
vybor, ktery Sc postara O slav'
ne uvltanf.
Vyprava ma pristati tentt
patek, nacez provede jeste ne
kolik koncertI v rGznych mis-
tech americkych, take mlad
hudebnici vrati sc k sym no
dicnm az asi "a diva tydny pr
SVEN pTistanf v New Yorku
Prvnf koncert Dude zde v Cen
trial Opera House.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
STUDENTS OF
ROSE SCHOOL
GIVE PROGRAM

In observance of public schools
week, pupils of Rose school present.
ed a musical program Tuesday night
under the supervision of Mrs. Ruth
Merryman, principal and music in
structor of the school. Miss Mar
jorie McFarlane, county SuperVis
or of music assisted with the piano
accompaniments. In addition to sew
eral music festival songs and Amer
ican folk songs by the entire chorus,
the primary children were present.
ed in child rhythm action num-
bers and an interesting interpreta-
ton of The Little Red Hen in
song
Adding variety to the program
were piano solos by Hazel Lehman,
Loretta Rau, Alice McElroy, and
Eunice Hartsock; and two num-
bers by the rhythm band under the
direction of Harold McElroy and
Billy Rau. Children appearing in
special numbers included Clement
and Benny Wilson, Joe Paul McKim,
Bobby Roth, Bobby Mccall, Ray
mond Bucher, Dorothy Jo Kinnaird,
Peggy Mccall, Eunice Hartsock, an
Carlene Cook.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
WHILE THE PRESIDENT
GOES FISHING

On the same day, press dispatches
reported that President Roosevelt had
embarked for a vacation fishing trip in
Gulf of Mexico waters, and that three
Democratic members of the senate judi
ciary committee had lined up against
the Presidents court reform bill. Politi-
cally minded observers cannot help Won
dering if the Presidents fishing trip is
not magnificent gesture of confidence
at time when his prestige is meeting
the greatest challenge ever hurled
against it.
The stand taken by the Democrats on
the judiciary committee makes one thing
certain: that the bill will be given an
unfavorable report by the committee.
In other words, the committee will rec
ommend that the bill be defeated.
His proposal that six new justices be
added to the United States supreme court
is the most publicized of all of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's personally sponsored
bills It's defeat would be consider
able blow to his prestige in the eyes of
the voters.
1t remains to be seen whether the
fishing trip is a poor or a good piece of
strategy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02

luke has never been out of the
county but he is always just back
from touring with Robinson's circus.
we played the Rocky Mountains
yesterday he will say, and if you
will listen will tell of his silver
diamond studded trapeze and the
lovely lady he calls "Millie Devoe,' -
whom he catches in her leaps for
life. Zuke'S actual ShoWmanship
consists in earring the purple BAN
ner in the L. c. Fields minstrel
parade and he passes the handbills
for the boat shows.
Nothing is more poignant than
evenings mysterious hush in a
small town. There is a peculiar
rich softness to the air, pierced only
by the chirp of crickets, the forlorn
cry of belated whip -poor-will and
the croaking plant of frogs. Or as
the moon comes slowly up the griev-
ing owl in tree bloom that SO often
comes through the open window
just as one is floating off to that
repose a restless, haste-urged city
can never afford. 1t is not COM
pensation or chance, that our finest
philosophical discernments come
from those who live by the side of
the road and away from the furious
thunder of living. All of us from
small towns who live in cities know
this, yet We continue to stick around.
So, as the fellow says, what
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
WHEN ANYTHING GOES
IN THE LEGISLATURE

The California state senate has proved
the fra1lty of such bodies by passing the
assembly budget bill without amend
ment-because the senators want to 90
home
There were quite a few things wrong
with the budget bill, and many of the
senators knew it. They told the others
So but even at that, the honorable solons
finally agreed to lay the whole matter
IN the governors lap, so they can go
home sooner. What it amounts to is this:
the senate, or legislative body. surren-
dered voluntarily TO the governor, or
executive branch, what little right it
might have had to fix the states budget
The fact that the senate's action was
motivated by belief that any amend
ments to the bill would send it back to
the assembly, where it originated, and
result in endless quibbling over details,
puts in the hands of sponsors one of the
strongest arguments they could have for
a state government of one legislative
house, instead of two.
The two-house system was devised so
one house could provide check on the
other. The senate in this instance at
least, certainly did nothing to check
assembly rachness.
Californians can thank their stars for
governor who is pledged to an economy
campaign-and has given every indica-
ton of keeping his pledge.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02

Harry Colmery, national COM
mander of the American Legion, is
an outspoken and intelligent public
figure; and he has seldom spoken
out with more intelligence than he
did the other day at a luncheon
meeting in New York.
Commander Colmery was saying
that the aim of the American Le-
gion is primarily to preserve for the
liberty-loving people of America
the heritage handed down by the
founders of the republic.
Il am not interested in saving the
world for democracy" he said. u
will be damned glad if We can save
America
IN view of the experiment We
tried 20 years ago this spring those
words are worth remembering For
in 1917 we set out bravely to save
democracy and the world at large,
and We wound up by losing our
ideals and our shirts and by seeing
both the world and democracy de
cline into perilously bad state of
health.
So it ought to be clear to us by
now that Commander Colmery has
the right slant on things. We have
more than enough to do at home,
and any efforts we make to save
democracy can best be made with
in our own borders. Taking up arms
to save democracy beyond the sea
is a mugg's game, at best.
X 4 X
What We mean by that word, de
mocracy," is more than just a sys-
TEN of government under which
every man has vote. We really
have in mind the whole liberal con-
cept of society-the idea that the
state exists for man, and not man
for the state; the belief that an
excess of freedom in infinitely pref
erable to a deficiency OF freedom,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
Strolls Thru Hollywood

tranSmitter and holler insults af-
ter 'em.
Franciska Gaal, Cecil B. De-
Miles blond Hungarian find. will
follow the star-spangled example
of Marlene Dietrich and become an
American citizen. She's off to Mexi-
cali to reenter the United States
under the quota law as first step.
Before she was cast opposite Fred
ric March in "Buccaneer,' Gaal
didn't expect to stick around, and
came in under a visitors visa "a
Warmers are set to give "CasinS&
one of those super super rides be-
ginning June Cast in the musical
so far are Warner Baxter, George
Brent, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell
and Patrick Knowles. Story was
contributed by Dennison Cliff, vet
eran writer and director, who has
been in England the past several
years.
Dave Rubinoff raised a stencil on
the Fox lot when his 100000 Stradi-
varius turned up missing, but call
ed it all off when he learned his
standin, Bob Cochran, had bor-
roWed it for fiddling practice. A
dozen replicas of the violin had
been made to save the original from
heat of the arcs. Cochran thought
he had one of the "Standins.'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
News Behind the News
Religion and the Supreme Court .. i.
Politicians Use the Church Free
dom Becomes the Rallying Cry =.

WASHINGTON.-The attempts at play and
counterplay on religious groups by opposing
forces warning over the administrations Su-
preme Court plan have been among the most
interesting behind -the-scenes phases of the
struggle.
No large religious denomination or group has
taken any position for or against the plan But
the contest has been marked from the begin
ming by:
The effort of anti-Roosevelt forces to per-
suade members of all creeds that the bill was
threat to religious liberties.
The effort of administration strategists to be-
little such persuasion.
Men of various religious beliefs have been
caused to testify for and against the plan as
part of conscious program OF appeal to church
groups.
Backstage the men who have been running
the opposing campaigns have privately congratu-
lated themselves and colleagues on their ability
to capitalize or discount the religious angle.
This sort of thing isn't new in politics. but
it seems fair suggest that if religious men had
played in politics to the extent politicians have
sought to play with religion, there might be
loud howl as to the proper place of gentlemen
of the cloth
The opposition scored early with testimony
against the judiciary plan by DR.. Norman j.
Gould Wickey, executive secretary OF the Board
of Education of the United Lutheran church;
and Prof Theodore Graebner, professor of theol-
ogy at Concordia College, st. Louis, and editor
of the National Journal of the Lutheran Church.
But soon administration forces were circulat-
ing statement by Rev j. w. Behnken, presi-
cent of the Missouri Lutheran Synod, which has
a national membership of 100000 He said: If,
by the appearance of two Lutheran ministers
before the judiciary committee in opposition TO
President Roosevet's proposal, the impression
has been created that the Lutheran Church
is engaged in political activities, would like
to state emphatically that such is by no means
the case The churchS work is spiritual,
not political The court proposal is political
matter"
At time opponents of the plan were remark
ing happily that large section Of the Catholic
religious press of the country seemed to be
against the plan the other side thought 1t staged
a coup by getting Dean Thomas F. Konop of
Notre Dame Law School, to testify in favor.
Then the opposition countered with Dean
Ignatius M. wilkinson of Fordham University
Law School, another Catholic institution.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-02
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Help World by Saving Democracy in America

I the feeling that every man has the
right to live his own life as he
chooses, subject only TO the rule
that he must respect the rights of
others.
Far from being helped by the
World War, this ideal has been pro-
foundly harmed. All across Europe
the lights have gone out, one by
one. We have seen great nations
boast that they have killed democ-
racy and freedom; We have seen
them eXalt the state into a sort of
god, killing off the rights of the in
dividual talong incidentally, with a
goodly number of Individually, as
if human society had no better
model TO copy than the society of
the ants.
AS Americans, we want to see
those lost ideals restored oVersea y
But we should realize by now, TIL /
it is futile for us to try to thrust
them down anyone's throat at the
end of a rifle barrel. They just
don't grow that way. Until men see
for themselves that those ideals
bear a bigger fruit of human hap
piness than any other, they will re
main unconVinced
And that brings us back to Com
mander Colmery and his remarks
about saving America There is
where our path of world useful
ness lies. If We can make democ-
racy work in a complicated, fear
haunted world, solve our problems
without sacrificing our old liberties,
and make this land in sober truth
the land of promise it has always
been in legend, We shall have done
our full duty.
If We save democracy for the
world We may, in the end, save the
world for mocracy-Without fir
ing a single gun.