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Evening star., 1937-10-17
BY GASTON NERVAL

could President Roosevelts vigor-
Gus peace pronouncement have
been received with such genuine
enthusiasm as In Latin America. In
other continents, each nation inter-
preted it so as to suit its own points
of view; even the aggressive powers
against which it was obviously directed
feigned appreciation and claimed they,
too. were in favor of the lofty prin-
ciples upheld by the President of the
United States. AS for the European
democracies which sincerely agree
with the Presidents peace endeavors,
two considerations kept them from ex-
pressing their support too whole
heartedly: one was internal politics
and the other the fact that In case of
an international conf1agration they
would have to be among the first to
60 to bat.
The Latin American republics, how
ever, are in no such position. Most of
them are countries Of small military
Importance and far away from the
present dangerous war spots. Among
themselves they have no outstanding
quarrel which they cannot settle by
peaceful and legal means. AS mat
ter Of fact, the only three territorial
questions still unsettled have already
been intrusted to diplomatic or juridi-
cal methods of solution: Bolivia and
Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru. Hon.
duras and Nicaragua are solemnly
bound to solve their territorial differ
ences without resorting to force Of
arms. Only few daysbefore Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Chicago address, the
Chaco Peace Conference at Buenos
Aires made statement stressing the
obligation Of both parties to the Chaco
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ton, one being a definite divergence
in political philosophy.
Traditionally, the federation has
followed political course of aiding
their friends and Furnishing their en-
emies, but keeping themselves free of
commitment to any political party as
such. Neither have they endeavored
to be party themselves nor to ad-
vance candidates for public Office
within their own ranks.
The c. I. O., however, has mani
tested its political ambitions in in
creasing degree until today labor's
non-partisan league seems almost q
political affiliate Of the Committee for
Industrial Organization. C. 1. O..
leaders are running for Office in De-
troit and other Michigan communi-
ties and the practice threatens to
spread to the West Coast and to other
centers where labor's dissatisfaction
with the reigning political powers Is
acute.
An almost insurmountable obstacle
exists in the question of what status
NOAAa oC 6ANSii NdI iOuo QllkOIlS VI lilC
two factions If there should be created
one single administrative organiza-
ton.
Already claiming more members
than the federation and expanding
faster in the more fertile mass pro-
duction field. c. l. o. could outvote
the A. F. Of L. wing if voting strength
were apportioned on the same basis
for each group. Such development
would vest the control of the merged
movement in the hands of the Lewis
clique-a possibility which the feder-
ton leaders have seen long before
this and which they will take precious
good care never occurs.
Seem to Preclude Fusion.
These, then, are the principal issues
over which any peace debate must
wrangle. In truth, they seem vir-
tually to preclude any chances of a
fusion of the two factions, with the
most that can be hoped for being the
possibility that two labor movements
might go on their separate ways in
occasional harmony on such issues as
legislation, social security, unemploy-
ment relief, etc, but as entities unto
themselves still fighting bitterly for
every potential member in certain
industries.
Standing in the not distant back
ground of any peace meeting, also, are
the ghosts of To- of bad names
that have been lung about during
the last two years, a circumstance
that probably would not become a
matter of debate, but which would
be easily remembered when some of
the parties we're brought face to face.
They have been fighting words of
kind that would require some amaz-
ing gyrations of face-saving gestures
If all those participating ever were
to sit permanently in one council hall.
Despite this pessimistic outlook,
however, the possibility of harmony
with the labor movement is one which
should be hoped for both by its friends
and its foes. Both have been injured
in numerous instances as the two
factions hurled their strength at each
other while impartial sectors of in
dustry and even the agencies of the
Federal Government, stood suffering
between.
That conferences are to be held is a
step forward. Whether there are any
further steps will depend upon which
foot each party advances.
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But welding power equal to either Of
these is Joseph P. Ryan. A. F. of L.
chieftain of the International Long
shoremen's Union.
Seemingly, no oceans are big enough
and no water fronts long enough to
allow these three to live in harmony
with other. Peace conferees will
ponder long and shudder deeply before
telling either that he must consent to
allowing his organization to be ab-
sorbed by that of his foe.
Similar situations already exist and
are being accentuated daily in other
industries.
In the building trades, William l..
(Big Bib Hutcheson, bitter personal
enemy of Lewis, runs the Carpenters
Union Of 100000 with an autocratic
hand. Yet, the younger International
Woodworkers of America, affiliated
with the c. I. o., has shared the North
west lumbermen from Hutcheson's
jurisdiction and is now in the very
process of fighting him on other fronts.
One of the most spectacular of the
young c. l. O. leaders is James B.
Carey, president of the United Elec-
trical Workers. with an estimated
membership of 100000. But every
member Carey adds is one more that
Dan w. Tracy and the International
Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, the
A. F. of L. union Of 10000 in this
field, can't have. Needless to saw
neither Tracy nor Carey is likely to
back down.
Even in Lewis own industry, coal
mining, there is the same case of dual
organization, with the United Mine
Workers now being the dominant
union, but the A. F. Of L. currently
engaged in building up the Progressive
Mine Workers of America.
And lest it be thought that the C.
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I. o. proposal for 10O-man peace COM
mittees was simply case Of taking
an arbitrary figure, let it be told that
it was suggested at the insistence of
bloc of small afiliates who feared
in the talk Of peace the possibility
Of their being offered up as sacrificial
lambs. On committee OF 100 or
thereabouts they would have repre-
sentation undoubtedly primed to mess
up the entire negotiations at the first
sign Of their being traded into some
larger A. F. of L. jurisdiction.
Lewis endeavored to allay these fears
in his closing address at the Atlantic
City conference on Friday when he
said:
You may be sure in the confer
ence which may or may not eventuate
with the American Federation of
Labor, your representatives will do
nothing that will circumscribe your
efforts or cause any lessening of your
stake in this work.
III the Leadership of the A. F. of
L. chooses. to put aside their prejudices
and cooperate in working out a pro-
gram OF unity it is we'll. But it is
their responsibility if they fail and
in any event the c. I. o. will 90 on"
Philip Murray, one Of Lewis key
lieutenants, used similar words when
he proposed that the Committee of
Ten meet with federation represent
atives to work out plans for a larger
negotiating assembly.
I'VE want them to know" he de-
clared, that there will be no compro-
mise with our determination to Or
ganize the mass production indus
tries along industrial lines. We are
not looking for opportunity to be abb
sorbed into the A. F. Of L.
There also are other differences
which will be difficult of reconcilia-
Evening star., 1937-10-17
ROOsevelt's Call for Peace Greeted
By Countries of Latin.America

controversy to settle it peacefully; and
only three days after the Presidents
speech therecame message from the
Honduran government indorsing ar
bitration and upholding the sanctity
of treaties and judicial awards among
nations.
Even the largest Southern coun-
tries-militarily speaking, the powers
OF Latin America-went out of their
way to express their accord with
President Roosevelt's views. Presi-
dent Cardenas of Mexico seconded the
collective action suggested in support
OF peace. and even went so far, in a
published note to the Mexican dele
gate at Geneva, as to promise an
active role in organizing an economic
boycott Of the aggressor nations.
President Justo of Argentina in
structed his Ambassador to Washing
ton to express personally to President
Roosevelt unqualified Argentine in
dorsement of his utterances. The
Brazilian and the Chilean press report
an equally favorable reaction in those
countries.
1t is only logical that the Latin
American republics should be anxious
to join the United States in any con-
certed move to preserve the peace of
the world. Ideologically and tradition
ally, they are bound to do so AS early
as the first quarter Of the past century
the Latin American theory of the
"utti- -possidetis" and Bolivar's prema-
ture attempts at continental union
and territorial guarantees at the Pam
ANA Congress already contained the
seed of the paciflst machinery which
Is now being threatened.
Fer since Bolivar's time, every new
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~ BSIACLES great and involved
face peace negotiators Of
the committee for Industrial
Or iniZation and the Amer
lean FEEDER don of Labor in their con-
templatet efforts to bring these two
great laF factions into a program of
unity { 4 coordination rather than
contin- d strife.
Th fundamental obstacle, of course.
is u <etxent to which the c. I. o. has
mu ,hroomed its way into industries
Were direct and bitter conflict with
vkll-established craft unions of the
federation is inevitable.
When the group headed by John
L. Lewis was conceived and launched,
its principal objectives were the steel,
automobile and rubber industries. In
none of these did the federation have
anything approaching an effective
craft union.
That existing in the steel industry,
for example, was decadent organiza-
ton known as the Amalgamated
Association Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, its membership a scattered
few thousand and its force in the
greatest of Americas industries being
a complete nil. With its consent the
c. I. O. took over this nucleus,
expended more than $1,000 1000 and
built a powerful organization.
During the process, the American
Federation Of Labor merely stood on
the sidelines, reproaching the Anal
gamated for its desertion, but actually
suffering little by the loss.
Progress for One.
Similar situations existed in auto
mobile and rubber industries and If
the growth of the c. I. o. had ended
with these and few others where
the federation had virtually no foot
hold the problem of resolving the
differences between the two parent
bodies would be relatively simple.
Actually, of course, such is not the
case as We find the two groups fight
ing like Kilkenny cats in numerous
industries where any progress for one
means direct defeats for the other.
Some instances where this condition
prevails will serve to illustrate and
emphasize the seriousness of the prob
lem thus created.
In the maritime industries, as an
outstanding example, are found two
powerful c. I. o. unions, one strong
and one weak A. F. of l.. union, some
lesser organizations belonging to each
group, and one powerful independent
union. In all cases, the powerful units
are led by individuals of determination
who. without question, could success
fully block any possible efforts to trade
them off If peace conferees of the two
parent factions should so attempt.
Already, Harry Bridges, militant
leader of the West Coast longshoremen,
has warned the c. I. o. publicly that
his hard-fighting Pacific union will
stay with them only as long as they
are progressive" One look at Joe
Curran and at the record of his con-
duct since he rose to leadership of the
National Maritime Union, the second
powerful maritime affiliate of the C.
I. O., is sufficient to disclose that he
would accept no compromise that
would leave his organization short Of
Of its desired domination Of the sea-
going men Of the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

.NHE threat-Or the hOpe-of
something very close to State
medicine confronts the District
a Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1937-10-17
New Soviet Cars Paint
Fading, Pravda Charges

MOSCOW (P)-Paint jobs on Soviet
automobiles are fading from black
to gray and windshield wipers do not
last long enough, the organ Pravda
laments.
The newspaper which has zealously
criticized faulty work, recalled that old
cars were recently ordered from the
streets as eyesores. The new Soviet
small cars, the NIL, were supposed
to make a good showing, but Pravda
says many have lost their sheen. Al
though all automobiles are painted
black, the newspaper complained that
the paint and varnish industry can
not even produce good black paint"
Evening star., 1937-10-17
Nazis Drop Old Slogan
OF Famed Reich Paper

BERLIN (P).-"Forward with God
for King and Fatherland" no longer
appears on the title page of the Kreus
Gietung, well known Berlin daily,
which changed owners last August.
Once leading conservative organ
and mouthpiece of the Iron Chancellor
Otto Won Bismarck, it was acquired in
1882 by the Steel Helmet organization,
but later came under Nazi control.
The heading, however, retains the
historic Bismarck utterance: I'VE
Germans fear God, and nothing else
in the world"
Evening star., 1937-10-17


For the time being, the administra-
ton In Washington is not thinking in
terms Of war-it has merely adopted
. strong attitude in the hope that
such . policy would deter the war
minded nations from participating In
IN international conflagration.
Rightly or wrongly, the President
and his advisers believe that an off,
cial declaration of support for the
Western democracies will make Hit
Ter and Mussolini think twice before
they decide to embark on any fur
ther aggressive ventures. In the same
manner, it is hoped that after short
period Of violence-the usual Orien-
tai face-saving device-Japan may be
induced to listen to reason.
Secretary Hull eagerly treasures his
oonfidants that force is not being
contemplated. He likens the interna-
tional situation to a local condition
yhere Z band Of outlaws appears
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
BARGAIN DAY

A group of school children were
congregated in the rotunda Of
the Capitol debating about seeing
the sights. A representative Of
the guide force had told them
that each of them would have to
pay for the lecture tour. They
thought the price a little too steep.
Suddenly one of the guides stepped
up and said:
'T'u take you through for S."
Now it looked like rank under.
selling, but these guides split all
the intake at the end of a day
and divide it equally. It was Just
smart business on the part Of
one Of them so as not to lose
the party. ...
AS he walked through with his
charges he kept counting. And
counting. Near the end of the
tour his count was verified and
he looked extremely satisfied. BY
taking them all for IS his snap
judgment as to crowds had stood
him in good stead. II they had
paid the other guide the regular
price at SO much q head it would
have cost them only 10 cents
! more,
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
Timely and Fitting
BHJ. T. Williams, T.

Is this matter Of a fitting recor.
milton Of the very responsible
part which was played by Madi.
son in the formative days Of
this Republic. Not q popular
idol as was his friend Jefferson.
he was, nevertheless, an out.
standing leader. We do our.
selves little credit in our en-
thuSiaSm and the speed with
which we undertake to celebrate
the achievements Of men Of
lesser ability and accomplish.
ment, when we are fOrgetful Of
or fail to recognize what MadI-
son was and what he did, and
how genuinely he is entitled to
have beIated recognition, . rec.
OgnitiOn always his due"
But it will be no honor to the
memory of Madison for the Joint
Resolution introduced in the Sen.
ate by Senator Byrd and in the
House by Congress man Plumley
to be adopted with the consent of
political termites who seem to be
bent upon destroying instead Of
perpetuating America inStitu.
tionS.
Whenever and wherever propo.
sails have been made in the past to
DO honor to the memory Of THE
Fathers and Founders" Of the
American Union, opposition has
developed among those n1inorities
out of sympathy with the work Of
the Builders of our National Gov.
eminent.
ULTIMATELY PREVAILS
A patriotic Public Sentiment has
never failed in the past to beat
down this opposition. This Public
Sentiment has registered its will
with the Congress. It did so when
Congress provided for the memo
rails in the Federal City to The
Father of His Country, to Alexan.
der Hamilton, to John Marshall.
It did so when the Congress es.
tablished the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Commission whose
splendid task has been halted by
the opposition of a well-organized
minority.
And the same patriotic Public
Sentiment will ultimately prevail
and compel the Government at
Washington to honor the memory
of Madison, The Father of the
Constitution.
The fact that definite proposals
to this end are now before com.
mitteeS of the Senate and the
House puts the present Congress
to the test. If it's Members are
out Of sympathy with the mass Of
Americans who would honor the
memory Of Madison, the Ameri.
can people must await the election
of a Congress better qualified to
represent the nobler aspirations
Of the national household.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
ALASKA


Well, people are getting wise
travel-wiSe, that is. For from all
indications, Alaska is to have a
record tourist season this sum-
mer.
For many years those of us who
know and love Alaska have been
urging the traveller to visit this
land of rare scenic beauty, and at
last the traveller is responding
nobly. Companies whose ships
travel the Inland Passage" have
already prepared for air sail
ings and extra schedules with the
famed waterway to be featured
as a vacation cruise in itself.
We envy those viewing Alaska
for the first time, for theirs will
be a travel thrill without equal.
The voyage through the "In-
land Passage" is a memory treat
in itself, and something that can
be experienced nowhere else on
the globe.
The route introduces the regal
scenic splendor and awe-inSpiring
beauty Of the southern Alaskan
region.
Through the warmsheltered
seas, protected by towering snow
clad peaks, the brilliant northern
sun paints a picture of magic rain
bows framed by heavy forest
fringed shores.
From Ketchikan. the first port
Of call, Wrangell. the Oldest settle
ment, quaint and interesting, ID
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
WHAT TO DO?

Before very long, one Repre-
sentative is going to have to make
up his mind what to do about
getting a couple married.
A letter came to his office from
a young lady who says her hus.
band-to-be wants some special in.
ducement to join with her in the
holy bonds of matrimony and he
has suggested they come to Wash.
ington and be married by zone Of
the Chief Justices Of the United
States"
The lady in question says that
it's all right by her just so she can
get married. A casual inquiry
has developed so far that, although
the Chief Justice and the AsSo.
ciate Justices Of the United States
Supreme Court might have the
power to marry people. it hasn't
been done as far back as any one
can remember.
The Representative is awaiting
suggestions on the matter via this
column.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

visited before the steamer heads
up the inlets to Taku glacier.
Old Skagaway, where the trail
leads to the White Pass and Yu-
kon, is now a modern city located
amid one Of Alaska's scenic gems,
where one sees the gorgeous
Towering of the northern summer.
At Sitka, once capital under
Russian rule. one reverts back to
the dawn of the eighteenth CEN
fury. Old Russian blockhouses
and the beet-Shaped st. Michael
Cathedral reveal something Of the
splendor Of a once-transplanted
empire.
HighlightS of a tour through
Alaska include the scenic districts
of mighty Mt. Mckinley, most
towering Of North Americas
heights. Rising $4,000 feet above
sea level, it is the golden heart Of
Alaska.
Names Of White Horse, Klon-
dixie and Dawson, with the I'm.
tanned beauty Of restless river
scenes, become intimate memories
to those who turn their vacation
footsteps in the direction of
Alaska.
Cordova Of the glacier county,
Valdez, the mountain town on
Prince william Sound and Seward,
named for the far-Sighted man
who inspired Alaska's purchase.
are other beauty spots to be found
lin the. adventure that Is Alaska.
The Washington times., 1937-05-17

Vermont has Joined hands with
Virginia in appealing to the Con-
gresS to end its century-old neglect
Of the memory Of James Madison,
upon whom the verdict Of history
has bestowed the distinctive and
well deserved title-"The Father
Of the Constitution"
With a timely sense Of the fit
ness Of things, the only Repre-
sentative in Congress of the peo-
pie Of the Green Mountain State
Congressman Plumley-has in
troduced in the House a proposal
to honor the memory Of Madison
in the Federal City.
In the week in which the Phila-
delphia Convention of 1887 con-
vened, Mr.. Plumley offered in the
House a companion Resolution
to one offered in the Senate earlier
in the year by Senator Byrd Of
Virginia. It provides for the estab-
lishment Of 1.-The James Madison
Memorial Commission"
This Commission will be charged
with the duty Of formulating and
recommending to the Congress
plans for the construction of
permanent memorial in the Fed
eral City to the great Virginia
scholar and statesman who made
so large and constructive a con-
tribution to the establishment OF
the National Government.
WORTHY MEMORIAL
Although the Congress has ap-
parently been blocked by an I'm
sympathetic minority in its at
tempt to build in the Federal City
suitable memorial to Thomas
Jefferson, Mr.. Plumley takes the
optimistic view that the same Con-
greSs might be able to follow
through in a determination to
give to Madison a memorial
worthy to stand with those to
Washington, Hamilton and Mar
shall that have long added to the
beauty of the Federal City. Ad-
dressing the House by unanimous
consent, in support of his own
Resolution, Mr.. Plumley said:
"It is not my purpose to add
anything to the confusion ex-
isting and obtaining with re-
spect to the location of q proper
memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
I do, however, insist that so long
aS q controversy has arisen in
respect to the matter of an ap-
prOpriate site for the Jefferson
Memorial, it would be well to
take into consideration the fact
that ultimately q memorial to
James Madison, the Father Of
the Constitution, will be erected
In this city or in its envirOns.
ALREADY too long neglected
The Washington times., 1937-05-17
A Business Trip

WHEN daring Dick Merrill and John S. Lambie
w grounded their swift silver plane at Floyd Ben
nett Airport in Brooklyn they completed the first
mercial roundtrp flight the Atlantic made
by heavier-than-ar craft.
Though compelled to land first at Quincy, Mass, be-
cause of static the radio BEAM they reached their
destination without accident and with only slight delay
Thanks to their skill and courage, The Washington
Times and other Hearst newspapers have been able to
publish the first actual pictures Of the coronation of
King George vi days before any other newspapers in
the United States
Even more than that Merrill and Lambie proved it
feasible to make such trying flight under adverse
conditions and arrive virtually schedule.
Just Lindbergh the pioneer who blazed a solo
trail to Paris 10 years ago. Merrill and Lambe have
bazed a COMMERCIAL trail across the Atlantic
anyways.
In years to come, when such epocha flights become
commonplace and great flying boats cruise between
London and New York in few hours they will be re-
membered as the ones who helped realize the PRAC-
TICAL possibilities of transatlantic aviation.
Here's to Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie first filters
to span the ocean on BUSINESS, NOT AS A STUNT.