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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-24
HELM IN RACE
FOR SENATE ON
new KHAN WAVE
Blacks Ascent to Court
Aids cotton TaWm"
By THEODORE A. HUNTLEY

BY THEODORE A. HUNTLEH
Cotton Tawn" Helm is on his
way back to the Senate.
That's the word that drifts north
from Alabama with the recru.
descence of the Ku Klux Khan.
BY one of those curious twists
of politics, the shifting of Hugo
Black from the Senate to the Su-
preme Court, with the Klan issue
trailing along in the wake of his
appointment and confirmation,
has created a situation in Ala
bama which, according to those
who know it best, favorS the cleo
ton to the vacancy thus created
of a man who for many years
fought the Klan'S battles in pub
lie life,
The times-news., 1937-07-05
NOTHING TO BE pREJUDIcED AGAINST

Once mention is made of capitalism, certain
type of mind in America and the whole world re-
acts with prejudice and hostility.
1t regards capitalism as a monster of some sort.
As a matter of fact however, capitalism and its
basic principle are very simple and, when once un-
derstood ought to be equally cherished by the high
and the low, by employers and employees, by the
great and the humble, by the rich and the poor
The capitalistic principle is nothing more nor
less than the principle of private enterprise.
Personal freedom and responsibility,-these are
the twin roots of capitalism, remarks DIR. Virgil
Jordan of the National Industrial Conference
Board.
What this means in practice, comments Thomas
F. Woodlock in his Wall Street Journal column, is
"that any person shall be free to work at any oc-
cupation, to money, to acquire and own prop
erty to enter any business, and to invest his saw
ings as he peases-all on his own judgment, on his
own terms and on his own responsibility. All, OF
course subject to the laws of the land protecting
the common order and common justice, and all
without the seeking of privilege at the hands OF
government and, by corollary, without unnecessary
restriction by government"
DIR. Jordan has thus given a clear, easily-under-
stood explanation of the principle of capitalism as
representing more than the recognition OF lndi-
vidua enterprise and, along with it, individual re-
sponsibty
And the one of these is as important and reg
nant as the other.
Where freedom exists with an individual RESPONSE
blity must also proportionately exist.-Charlotte
Observer.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GROWN STUDY"


"Despite the fact that the King and Queen were
not in London, there were crowds outside the pal
ace all day. No one seemed to know what they ex-
pected to see, but they gazed hopefully" So runs
a fragment from newspaper description OF scenes
in London recently.
This habit that citizens have of gazing for no
apparent reason is not confined to public holidays
it has always been an odd phenomenon OF the
streets A simple job of roadmendng, even pile
of masonry, or q hole in the road-any such every
day sight inevitably collects its band of earnest
gazers. A small band of course, and it Is remark
able on account of the contrast it makes with the
active bustling multitude to be on every other
side. What is the attraction? The spectacle itself
so commonplace, obvious, cannot, one is prone
to think, be so intrinsically aluring.
What is this life, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare
So says Mr. w. II. Davies and he adds
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night
Which may be taken to show that, with the poet,
the stare is allied to free working of the niagara
ton. 1t is possibly the in degree with lesser
men. They have stumbled not upon beauty, but at
least, and perhaps nvoluntarily upon an opportun-
ty to divert their thoughts, and thereafter, to es-
cope for a few minutes into trains of reflection
free from the pre-occupations of the daily round
For nowadays, people are apt to find opportunities
for untrammeled mediation rather few.
1t is not, by any means, only the demands OF
work Books newspapers, the theater, the cinema,
and the wireless, urge their claims, more or less
stridently to the leisure of the average citizen
Backed by training and habit, they combine to fill
his mind with the thoughts, the doings, and the
dreams of others; and unless he be something OF
an original or, in the best sense, strong-minded,
he is too seldom able to ponder, TO wonder, and,
as il were, to think at irst-hand. Characters in
Victorian fiction were often to be found in a
"brown study: habit that dates them
Since such an exercise is a pleasant, and profit
able diversion, it is no doubt odd that some people
appear to fall into it only through hole in the
road as Alice fell into Wonderland through rab-
bit hole-Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
THIS RELIEF" RACKET

The Greenville News pays handsome tribute to
our North Carolina senator, Josiah w. Bailey, for
the determined stand he is making in the senate
against extravaganza and waste of money in relief
work
We have touched on this before and our'postion
is well known. We have held for the past two or
three years that much of the relief money was
wasted and thrown away, that many people who
were able to work, would not work as long as the
government would feed them, and that we were
making a nation of paupers and dependents, not to
mention harsher terms. The whole thing is po-
litca racket, kept alive by those representatives
who must have the votes of their constituents, a
large part of whom are on relief or associated with
relief projects. Senator Bailey would take politics
out of relief" by curtaling these huge government
tai expenditures.
Commenting on the measure that has been
passed, Senator Bailey points out that the so
called" relief bill appropriated approximately two
billion dolIars-not Sl500,000,000 as was general
ly understood. In addition congress has appropri-
ated $3.50 900 900 for the CCC activity, $3.50 0o0,
900 for social security-altogether we have appro-
priated, therefore for the coming year two and a
half billions on general relief account. The advo-
Gates of the spending policy won emphatic VIC
tory The bin was not a relief bill, it spend
ing-policy bill The motive for it was the nation
wide demand for projects, rather than the neces-
sity for relief of the unemployed" Gastonia
Gazette.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
MADE IN CHINA
Ry WICKES WAMBOLDT

about how much do you figure
is left for the Chine woman who
knitted these gloves by hand?" ]
inquired.
about ten cents" replied the
department head after moment
of meditation.
"And how long did it take her
to knit these gloves?" ! asked.
"Those Chinese women knit
very rapidly" said the department
head. 81 have seen them knitting
in the motion pictures.
"But about how long did it take
to knit this pair Of gloves" per-
sisted.
"Oh, about thre or four days."
said the department head. Then
addde, at is pitiful.'
/ stood holding the gloves knit
ted by hand by a Chinese woman
who received ten cents for three
or four days work knitting. What
could / do toward remedying that
condition? If | refused to buy the
gloves, WOulu lildI viz Slii7
nese woman? No, it would not.
That would mean just one pair
of gloves fewer she could sell. If
/ insisted on paying them more
than a dollar for the gloves would
that help the Chinese woman? No
it would not; she would not get
the extra money. What then,
could ] do? All j could do was to
give the circumstances publicity.
The correction must come if it
comes at all through efforts made
in China.
Sometimes we get very much
put out by the trouble caused by
labor unions in the United States.
But if organized labor did kick up
certain amount of disturbance,
there would be working conditions
The times-news., 1937-07-05
DURING mass in the Franciscan

III
church of San Lorenzo, in
Naples, young Giovanni Boccaccio
Tell in love with a vision, and
hat vision became the subject OF
his great poets most ardent
writings. He called her "Fiam-
META" the little fame, and she,
though already married, gaily ac-
.epted his advances. For a time
their illicit love affair fired Boc-
.accio's genius, then Fiammetta
lost interest, Boccaccio had to re-
turn to his home in Florence, and
only the memory of a short-lived
romance remained.
1t was about the middle OF tht
l4th century, when remarkable
poetry and prose flowed from the
oen of this lover. AS a result
the literary world today still reads
mis- greatest work, the "Decam-
eron." 1t is a book of 100 stories,
some verging on the vulgar, 9TH
.rs filled with tender romance.
Boccaccio lived a poets life
throughout. His romances were
many, and his disappointments in
.ove so keen that he denounced
women furiously in his al Cor
baccio." In 1875, at the age OF
So, and sore with the world, he
lied. His portrait appears on one
If the stamps issued by Italy in
1920
The times-news., 1937-07-05

dollar" ] observed, they cost you
about sixty cents, don't they?"
"Yes," said the department
head. .
"And out of that sixty cents"
I calculated aloud, "Must come
the American wholesalers costs,
expenses and profit, the American
importers costs, expenses and
profit, the American governments
import duties, the tranS-Pacific
steamship company'S expenses and
profit, the Chinese exporters
costs, expenses and profit, the
costs, expenses and profit of the
buyer who gathers up these glow
es from the Chinese women who
make them; there is also the item
of carriage on both sides of the
Pacific"
"Yes," said the department
head.
The times-news., 1937-07-05

yyTASHINGTON-The man who
" stood out in front and fought
the C.. /. o. and the Presidents
Steel Strike Mediation Board was
Tom Girdler Of the Republic Steel
Corporation.
But the man who supplied the
real backbone and force of the
battle of the independent COM
panies against labor organization
was President Eugene Grace Of the
Bethlehem Corporation. All those
who have had intimate contact
with the strike and the efforts to
settle il agree that if Grace and
Bethlehem, second largest concern
in the industry, had not stood out
against John l.. Lewis, there prob
ably would have been no major
strike.
1t appears that Bethlehem had
most to lose. 1t may not be
true, as C.HI. o. leaders insist, that
Grace worked on Wall Street
banking influences to get Republic
into the fight against Lewis.
But the union also charges that
Bethlehem has a lower wage
structure than other steel COM
panieS and that this, plus the fact
that it imports most Of its ore,
gives it q competitive advantage
it would be loath to lose.
And this charge has more sub
sanitation. A survey just COM
pleted by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, shows that the average
steel worker whose work was
spread over SO weeks of the year
earned at the time of the survey
Sl043 in the Eastern district, Sl063
in the Southern district, Sll23 in
the Pittsburgh district and Sll77
in the Great Lakes7Middlewestern
district.
The significance Of these figures
lies in the fact that practically all
of the industry in the Eastern dis
Gict IS at the Bethlehem plants in
The times-news., 1937-07-05
TAKING THE HARD WAY BACK TO
RECOVERY
(By BRUCE CATTON)

As the first six months of a new year
pass into history, it is customary to take
general look around to see how far the ma
tion has gone forward-or slid back-dur-
ing the period. In line with this custom,
statisticians are emerging with their late
June reports. And for once, dry figures are
serving as medium for highly dramatic
contrast.
On the bright side of the picture, the
Department of Agriculture presents proof
of a traditional sign of prosperity,,'-a de-
cline in farm population. This decrease,
the first since 1880, shows that during
1886, the number of persons living on the
farms dropped SO, 900. The assumption, Of
course, is that factory jobs lured them to
the cities. ,. ..
In another government statement, 1T is
estimated that the cotton carry-over on
July 81 will be million bales less than the
carry-over for that date last year. The as
sumption here is that that many more bales
will have been sold. ..... '@ vr
Other figures from the Department OF
Commerce show that in the first six months
of 1887 industrial production rose 20 per
cent over the 1886 period factory employ
ment was up 13 per cent; factory payrolls,
20 per cent; machine tool orders booked,
90 per cent; construction contracts ahead,
II per cent; dividend payments, 40 per
cent ..-....
BY themselves, these figures indicate that
n,r. nrOhlpn1-
child is putting on weight. But to under
stand the real portent of the gains, it Is
necessary to consider the difficulties under
which they were accomplished.
During the first four months of the year
there were 206S strikes, involving more
than a million workers. The number OF
man-days lost for the period reached near
ly IL million. Wages lost by striking en-
ployes and production lost to factories dur
ing involuntary shutdowns are inestimable.
And when the figures for production and
wages lost in the seven-state steel strike
and the innumerable side-strikes are add
ed, the total economic loss for the first six
months will be no less staggering. a
In the face of terrific and widespread in
dustrial disturbances, it is remarkable that
business indexes show any improvement at
all. But the fact remains that they do, and
for this, the United States has every right
to pat itself on the back and strut its PROV
ess before less successful nations.
But then, as far as the strikes have gone,
the nation hasn't done itself so proud. In
the light of our other Improvement, they
pose this SOLDERING thought:
How much farther around the Depres-
sion, corner would we have been if indus
try and labor could have resolved their
differences before the strikes instead of af-
ter them? .... .. .... a g.
The times-news., 1937-07-05

Bethlehem, Pa, JohnSt0wn. Pa,
and SparrOwS Point, Md.
limited STATES STEEL has
- sought TO get uniform wage
structure in the industry in order
10 eliminate this competitive ad-
vantage, and Bethlehem has
struggled TO preserve that advan-
tage, according to authorities.
Grace has been the outstanding
spokesman on the steel industry
and probably its strongest figure
since Judge Gary's rule over the
industry ended with his death. Re-
Gently he achieved the election Of
Girdler as president of the Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Institute.
United States Steel backed its
president, William A. Irwin. But
Girdler voted for himself and won
by one vote.
InaSmuch as Grace now appears
10 stand out as the first major in
duStrialiSt who has given John
Lewis a setback, his star in the
industrial armament hardly seems
10 be fading.
A university graduate, Grace
went TO work for Bethlehem 38
years ago as an electric crane OPP
orator. He had worked up TO be
general manager by 1908 and be-
came president in 1916. In pre-
war and war years, Bethlehem
made more munitions than any
other corporation in the world and
expanded enormously. Grace was
pioneer in the establishment OF
company unions, and under his
leadership Bethlehem adopted 4
policy of refusing TO sell steel TO
unionized building firms in Phila-
delphia and New York.
Although United States Steel
is still far bigger than Bethlehem
il has no leader comparable TO
Grace, and Grace can boast that
whereas United States Steel
yielded TO John Lewis, Bethlehem
and its allies fought it out.
tCopYEight 1887. NEA Sesyies Ins.l
The times-news., 1937-07-05

park sleeping increased ONLY
slightly; arrests for vagrancv ~
the ~ cities studied remained ,ba
same, or increased slightly.
PROBLEM LESS
SERIOUS
According TO the opinion ,f
local observers" the report said
"thc transient and homeless prob,
lem was not serious in two cite,
Kansas City, Mo-, and Mrmhi>
In three cities-Atlanta. Philala,
phia and Portland, 0re.--local
observers felt that they problem
was only moderately acute.
THE opinions in six eitic.-
Chicago, Denver, JackSonvil!c
Fla, Minneapolis, New Orlcan,
and Washington-rehected unsa,.
isfactory transient and homclc,,
problems. And in one city,
AngeleS-local opinion was no,
sufficiently definite to permit cla,
Sification."
The times-news., 1937-07-05

They can themselves our friends, yet the
rascals tell us when they drive down in the
morning how cool it was in the mountains
last night. .,,
Germany may abandon vest pocket bat
tleships, it is rumored, to make room for
the Watch on the Rhine, which has been
undergoing repairs.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
COLLEGE GETS FOSSILS

ALLIANCE, o. (UP)-F. Sid.
ney Dart, of Oberlin, o., has pre-.
Scnted Mount Union college here
with collection of nearly 2.OOg
mineral, gem, fossil and Shcl
specimens gathered from the rou
corners of the earth. The collor,
tion was made by his father. 'hc
late Francis Henry Dart. arts,
scientist and world traveller.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
WHAT DOES 1T PROVE?

The other day after negro
prize fighter had Knocked out a
Caucasian prize fighter it was par
ticularly noticeable that press ra-
dio reports gave the matter equal
prominent with the war situation
in Europe, the labor revolution in
the United States and other vital
national and international ques-
tions. 1t was announced, too, that
the winner of the fight had been
offered 100000 for single fight
next September. The President Of
the United States gest S75,OOO Il
wear. And all that proves some
thing or other.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
FEW HORSES IN SYDNEY

SYDNEY. - (UPD-Sydncy /,
eliminating horse traffic from il,
streets at "A rapid rate. In great,
er Sydney, according TO Il census.
there are l0,I5S horses. bu, in
the city Of Sydney there are only
g53 left.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
BIBLE THOUGHT
.rh.r. shall be FALSE TEACHERS among YOU"
(2 Pet. l:l,2) .

There is n very determined effort, widespread
and persistent in many of the Protestant ehurehes
of our day, to deprive the Bible OF its character
of infallibility We heard distinguished preaener
say some while ago that the Church should not
anchor herself to an infanible book, but to an IN
fable Christ" Is il certain that If We give up an
infalIble book we can logically cling to an infAi
Eble Chri.t?-Presbyteria Standard.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
DISAPPEARANCE ACT SOLVED

PARIS. (UP)-A street Of pri-
vate houses here has been grad
ually vanishing. Doors, windows
floors. ceilings, even brickwork
have vanished each night. Police
have discovered that the night
watchman had removed from the
houses under his care at night all
the raw material he needed to
build a home.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
REER SHIPPED BY PLANE

DARWIN, Australia.-(UP)-
Darwin. which has seen many no
table flights, has enjoyed another
pioneer effort in the arrival OF a
plane with the first consignment
of British canned beer. The con-
signment was quickly disposed OF,
and jokes about wives having
their best cooking utensil in can
opener have lost their point.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
l6 TEETH AT BIRTH

MERIDEN, Conn. CUP
baby boy born in Crosson hospila
here had a full set of teeth. A.
though covered with thin film
Of skin, eight teeth in the uppr.
jaw and eight in the lower wcr,
visible.
The times-news., 1937-07-05

The other day as was the un-
official observer while my wife
was doing some shopping, the
head of the department thinking
to keep me entertained or at least
peaceable, came to me and said,
The times-news., 1937-07-05

81 want to show
y ou something
interest. Here is
a pair of hand
s o m @ knitted
gloves we are
selling for a dol
lar. They are
knitted by hand
by Chinese wo-
men. See how
well they are
made"
i took the glow
es and examined
them "If you
sell them for u
The times-news., 1937-07-05

Depressions might be easier to take if
8 sthe banker could be persuaded to offer one
on the house after every third check he
cashes. -- y.., ...E
The times-news., 1937-07-05

The French Academy says there are g.
100 languages. 1t is assumed that most of
them were traced through Spanish war
combatants. s,@t,A ...E...i. -
The times-news., 1937-07-05

The watchful waiting policy of France and Eng
land in Spain actually amounts to iddling while
Rome burns.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
FEDERAL CENTERS
CLOSED

Half of this decline the report
attributed to the closing Of the
Federal transient centcrS. In con-
traSt, it cited a per cent IN
crease i'm the numbcr cared for by
private agencies.
Additional facts were needed
to show whether the number of
persons on the road Of homeless
in the cities, but outside the
agencies, has increased or de
creased, however, are these find
ings of the WPA research staff, IL
legal train riders decreased 36
per cent between August, 1888.
and August, 1886; "junglcs' and
The times-news., 1937-07-05

But let US note for the record that lot of Amer
leans abdicate and give up all authority for love-
The times-news., 1937-07-05
TRANSIENT Aid
IS DECREASED
Marked Falling OFF Of
Number Given Help Re-
ported by WPA

WASHINGTON, July i. (UP)
The Works Progress Admins
tration has reported a marked de-
crease in the number of tTansients
who receive aid from public and
private agencies.
A WPA research bulletin indi-
Gated also that much smaller
number of transients were on the
"road" during the year ended last
September and during which the
government was closing Federal
Emergency Relief administration
transient camps.
CensuSes taken in September.
1885, and September, 1886 show
ed decrease in IL cities in the
number of transient and home
less cases under care of public
and private agencies from $4,000
to | 1000.
The times-news., 1937-07-05

Hunters killed 10000 foxes in England in the
The times-news., 1937-07-05

in the United States as pitiful us
i'm China.
The times-news., 1937-07-05
THE N EW DEAL
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DuTcHER--
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Bethlehem, Pa, JohnSt0wn. Pa
and SparrowS Point, Md.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-06-11

w. Gertrude Brown, III. Helen
Waters, d. w. Wilson, Rachel L.
James, Webster E. Stovall, Beulah
Mitchell, Helen Scott, Stella Wash
ingtOn, Martha L. Kay, Edythe
Riley, Helen G. Morris, John Hall,
Alice L. Carr, Albert r. Carr, E.
Houston, Marguerite Combs, Tai
mage B. Carey, C. M. Sanders,
Charles White, ]. p. Owens, Well
ingtOn R. Emery, G. HI. Slaughter,
Dell Carey, Lesda Reese, Harry
Lewis, Clarence Hughes and Marie
Hughes.
L. E Willis, Hazel M. Kelly,
Rose Johnson, Barbara Russell,
Pearl Buckner, Arthur ]. Todd, Luz
clan P. Gibson, L. Bradford, J. r.
Bruce, C. Parker, 1. L. Smith, G. T.
Stansell, w. M. Marii, r. Benton,
Lee Johnson, Alene V. Thomas, C.
E. Bowers, Jesse HI. Howard, E. A.
Galloway, Anna Brown Quedellis
Martyr, B. Plummer, Eldridge E.
Faulkner, Lois McAdams, Matthew
Russell, Wayne M. Phelps and
John Phelps.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-06-11

list is this: Send cards to the pa
tient and make a personal call
when the patient is able to enjoy
talking with friends. The family
should be given first rights for Wis
iting hour since there is restric-
ton on time and number of visit
ors. Patients realize friends have
not forgotten them if cards are
sent and courtesies are shown their
relatives. It is the convalescents
and those who have been i'll long
time who are helped by a friendly
visit.
Ann Horris had shared her love-
ly flowers with several of the other
patients, making the section quite
gay-as was the young lady her
self, due to the presence of her
handsome male visitor, no doubt.
Mrs. Jane Pepper had improved
enough to worry about when she
would be released from the hos
pital. Mrs. Rosa Wysner was
waiting for her final release. Mr..
Monroe remains quite i'll.
Dorothy w. Wilson,
Director.