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community the differing ability Of
like against
the has worked out practical
ch people beginning wonder there could
b
Black and connery do privately their formula
30hour week He the President
reluctantly 4ohour week and SIG minimum
insisting attorneys
legislation
the statistics 40 hours
minimum.
matter of fact impartial economist of
standing all
But this not the nub Of the difficulty which lurking the
confirm their that the authority
beginning.
Merit il cent necessary
fr another higher
minimum be loDered absorbed
shortage OF labor depelops further
other words the
economic control industry time
question then will
ruin employer and help another Will their powerful organization
under civil service? In political campaign will they
with the various political sections the with
Democratic campaign contributors?
The first alncusve available the Capitol
heated settled
decisions uphodng
hardly ripple
different
The
another spade earth the Presidents
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The Rockefeller Era
Oil Titan Introduced Planned Economy to
Reconstruction DAYS.

throw mud, but sprays 1t evenly"
Without libel, with complete logic, and
with the most impressive documenta-
tion OF every sort, Miss Tarbell proved
that the Standard Oil Co. was built by
criminal conspiracy and unprecedented
ruthlessness. But the moral judgment
Is not the historical judgment. Mr..
Rockefeller ruined everybody In sight
in his own field, but not just for the
purpose OF making money, but for the
purpose Of producing oil In the most
grandiose fashion and in the most
efficient fashion in which it had ever
been produced up to that time. He
would buy refineries which were off
the pipelines and destroy them because
they were inefficient. He did not be-
lieve that competition is the soul of
business. He believed in organization
And thus he might rightly be claimed
as the father Of planned economy.
X X X u
The man was all of a piece; he got
in at the right moment and he got
out at the right moment. The Sher-
man antitrust act was invoked
against him only to demonstrate that
the Sherman antitrust act was totally
ineffectual The N. r. A. was the
eventual result. His son inherited the
headaches, which came not from
the muckrakers and not from the
oppression Of government, but from
the contradictions Of the system it.
self. The son had to develop a labor
policy, and was one of the inventors
OF the company union. But Rookie
feller, ST., withdrew from the pic
ture before modern monopoly had
reached the height of its efficiency
around 1910. and began destroying
itself. In the reconstruction period,
during which he built his empire,
there were no such contradictions
and no such social problems. When
the reconstruction phase was over,
and the problems connected with
the creation OF huge proletariat
and begun, Rockefeller, sr., retired
and began giving his money away
with the same grandness of gesture
with which he had acquired it. He
made totalitarian state in oil and
socialized the profits. Having fought
the American system to a showdown,
he spent his last years fighting death.
No system and no individual is i'm
mortal, but no one will ever be able
to write the history of America and
circumyent Mr.. Rockefeller.
copyright. 1872
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terially reducing the sum total Of
goods for use.
There is, in fact, no constitutional
barrier against the redistribution of
poverty any more than there is now
against the redistribution Of wealth
by taxes that burden and break down
price structure.
Millions of voters, the owners Of
property and the owners of jobs,
those with small savings and large,
will have to say now as they watch
the course Of economic events whether
the New Deal is an influence for the
social betterment or an unstable in
duence like its counterpart in the
Labor government in England, which,
with its loose fiscal policy, came near
wrecking the British Empire.
New Deal Coast Clear.
The New Deal now has all the law
it needs, all the court backing it can
possibly use, and the question now
is whether 1t can head off national
insolvency and actually increase en-
ployment so as to absorb the mil
lions still idle.
Unless the New Deal can accom-
plish that task in the next two or
four years the American people at
the ballot box will indicate their
choice of some other leadership. But
the Supreme Court, winding up this
week difficult and delicate course
through a two-year period of in
tense controversy, has gradually DEM
onstrated that the Constitution is suf-
f1clently flexible to permit the New
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about pictures, which, to this observer
at least, is a welcome offset to the
Congressional Record, which. unfor-
tunately, isn't illustrated. The pro-
curement division of the Treasury,
clearing house for the muraLs with
which the Government is decking its
buildings here and all over the coun-
try, seems to be the busiest and hap.
pieSt place here, as the art scouts
flush new talent in the remotest cross
roads.
This weeks main event was the off,
cial acceptance by Attorney General
Cummings Of Leon Kroll's two highly
acclaimed murals in the entrance room
of Mr.. Cummings Office suite in the
Department Of Justice Building. Mr..
Kroll is distinguished New York
artist. At the informafceremony in
the classic ante chamber, housing the
new murals, he was overwhelmed by
the praise Of art cognoscenti of Wash
ington, official and unofficial.
1t is difficult story to report. Just
offhand. the Government tossed Mr..
Kroll the theme, Justice Defeated
and Justice Triumphant" That was
news, right at the take-off as gov
ernments, particularly the American
Government, don't usually hand out
texts like that.
Mr.. Kroll had two lunettes, each %
by feet, to fill He had a beautiful,
classic, paneled chamber which was
no fit container for mere journalese
in painting He had to achieve classic
stereotypes of this kind of mural
painting. His solution is a marked
sensation in the art world of the Cap
ital
The mural Of Justice Defeated"
over the entrance door, is dominated
by sinister black-robed figure. hold
ing the mask of hypocrisy half over
his face, while figures symbolizing
labor, the arts and all social and hu-
man aspiration shrink under the lash,
against blighted and blasted land
scape. In the mural, Justice Tri-
umphant,' at the opposite end OF the
room, a heroic. robed figure. portray
ing Justice Stone with a law book in
his hand, leads the symbolic person.
ages back to work and aspiration, this
time against burgeoning landscape.
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Deal to conduct social and economic
experiments nationally or through the
States or through a combination Of
both. and that it isn't up to the Su-
preme Court to save the Nation from
unworkable laws If the Nation doesn't
care to save itself through the
processes Of representative govern
ment in general and through the
Congress Of the United States in
particular.
When the present term Of the Su-
preme Court ends next week there
may be another resignation from the
bench. This will not dispose of, but
will turn to one side, the Presidents
bill to reorganize the judiciary. The
chances are the bill will not be
withdrawn but will be allowed to
lapse till next session and will be held
during the remainder of the Roose-
velt administration as a sort of club
over the judiciary, revealing all the
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Lewis, the New Deal and whatever
may follow it.
X X
Rockefeller senior was Of all men the
most complete expression Of the era
Of reconstruction, the age which fol-
lowed the Civil War. The Civil War
was social revolution. 1t ended
mercantile capitalism in America and
introduced the age Of industrial capi-
talism. That this should happen was
what the Civil War was about, and
with that perfection Of timing char
acteristic Of his whole career, Mr..
Rockefeller founded his company in
1870, the year that, historically speak
ing, 1t had to be founded. He built
his industrial empire in the only Pc
riod in which it could have been built.
1t could not have been done before
1870. 1t could not have been done
after 1900. That is why the Marxians
love the senior Rockefeller. For the
Marxians like to see their projected
history come partly true. and Mr..
Rockefeller obliged.
The elder Rockefeller gave lip
service to American individualism
perhaps because he was not q phi
losopher, but he was no more Of an
;ndividualist than Lenin. He was
the father Of large-scale industrial
capitalism. Of monopoly enterprise,
and all that that implies in social
results. This was sensed long ago
and was the reason why Standard
Oil was muckraked Mr.. Rockefeller
made frontal attack on what, until
his time. had been regarded as the
American system-and is still so re-
garded by men like Senator Borah.
set not thy foot on graves" said
Emerson. But it would be treating
Mr. Rockefeller with less respect than
he deserves should a sentimental
obituary hesitate to state firmly that
he was the greatest privateer in the
history of American capitalism. His
career produced an important docu-
ment Of American social and economic
history; the history of the Standard
Oil Co. by Ida M. Tarbell If Mr..
Rockefeller was the capitalist master
piece Of his era. Miss Tarbell's volume
on him remains the masterpiece OF
American undertaking. Benjamin Stol-
berg, reviewing new edition of the
work In 1925, said, Miss Tarbells
research is as holeproof as it is fool
proof, and accordingly she does not
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1t doubtful the pokesmen
Wha they Mussohn has not opinion
so Jar on this matter But Goin0 the
told the German people that
ent OF political difficulties by
dreaming.
Now the japanese
They that long national
mon such conference doomed failure.
As usual the
made abroad Nazism.
IS heavy previous
The German police Mayor La
Guarda has called Hitler indugng
kind OF tennis
l5 provided however, broadds
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Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews,
chief OF the Navy Bureau of Naviga-
ton, sought several times to interrupt
Hobbs before he finally succeeded. He
said he wanted to take exception" to
every point Of the indictment, which
he termed most serious
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The Germans Uonder uha hare saidh heret
German Ambassador had in
York stating that the authoritarian philosophy
to bring happiness country
Vatican
KING George by Archbishop Pzado
in
minister Abbey stand with comfortable
at the doors of the abbey From there could
tves OF
principal church OF the High Church o
Dr. H H. Kangh, direct
Chinese Republic He probably
presented to all who touch
The old Chinese
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more reason why, II the New Deal
laws are bad, the people who be-
lieve them unsound or the victims
Of the unsound experimentation must
have recourse to other methods OF
redress
For the constitutional crisis in
America is over so far as the Su-
preme Court is concerned. The con-
stitutional debate has been turned
into another direction and presented
the Nation with another issue
whether or not constitutional gov
ernment shall be restored by dissolv-
ing the merger of the executive and
legislative branches. This can be
achieved only by the Congress itself
in recovering its prerogatives over
the spending Of public funds and in
resuming the writing of regulatory
laws hitherto delegated to admins
trative commissions.
(Copyright. 1879
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in interstate
VS.. Dagenhart
But his bill went further According
that the
the
New Jersey.
In other words the beraed Supreme
Federal the flow
by President
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This Changing World
Loyalists Too Busy Fighting Foreign Invasion to
Listen to Peace Proposal.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

FEF II months Of destruction Of life and property in Spain
~ European diplomats finally discovered
holocaust bigerents:
and he friends you
rnercenaes This is the the
and the rebel leaders Great Britain supported
Unfortunately neither the
the Italians to listen to these wisdom
claims this
and Italians besides
easier said than
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pending An overhaul, Hobbs read ex-
cerpts from letters from a number Of
naval officers criticizing the system
Their Identities were kept secret. One
said the system was causing lying"
Cheating and dishonesty" among
the officers.
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duced Of social
phenomena, one
can without hesi-
tation rank him
with Washington, ,
Jefferson and
Lincoln as a man
who was the
apotheosis Of his
time. Given the
admission of such
q thing as eco
nomic deternin-
ism, 1t was in
evitable that he
s h oul d appear,
and the result OF
him is John L.
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with many of its
m a jor policies
just roug h J y
blocked in, been
so boldly or elab-
orately pictorial
iZed-that Is, no
epoch since the
days when the
Popes and the De
M e d is made
great mluals their
political and cul.
tural billboards.
All this is an un-
precedented stir
and complex Of
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to maintain the
traditional prece-
dents with re-
spect to human
rights in proper
ty. This reliance
has carried with
1t the notion that
the res ira i n t
against u n Wi S e
laws would be
found in the ju-
diciary's rejection
OF u n c o nStltu-
tional use of gov
ernmental power.
Today, hoWev-
er, after an eXpe-
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NAVY PROMOTION
SYSTEM ASSAILED
Breeds Bootlicking Among Officer
Personnel, Says Representa-
tive Hobbs.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Hobbs, Democrat, OF
Alabama told the House Naval Com
mittee yesterday the Nays promotion
system was breeding "bootlicking"
among the officer personnel and de-
stroying its manhood"
Testifying on a proposal to suspend
the Selection Board promotion system
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means to induce Mussolini to
withdraw his legions from the
Spanish mainland.
X X X
The foreign Offices Of the re-
naming democratic states are con-
fident that the international eco
nomic conference, which will take
more definite shape after the visit
to Washington of Belgium's prime
minister, Van Iceland, might put
an end to the present political ten
sion Throughout the world
Evening star., 1937-05-26
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Kroll Mural, Highly
Acclaimed, Unveiled
by Officials.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

THIS correspondent found Con-
gressmen, lobbyists, politicians
and patronage mongers here
just sitting around and count
ing their money or strolling out to get
a shine and manicure Artists, in
contrast, we're working under forced
draught. Never has an epoch, even
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IdIe, IL Hdue u Change III CHe court
appear to be less necessary than
the President has contended.
A more important judicial de-
cision was rendered that same day
by Mr.. Roosevelt in his labor
standards message. In a way, he
assumed position as Justice
Roosevelt and handed down a new
definition Of interstate commerce.
1t laid down the principle that
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HE opinions OF the riters this o1p not
necessarly The stars Such opinions presented in
The Stars effort to 0De all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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The Berlin propaganda min
istry is patting itself on the back
for having shown much tact in
preventing the German newspa-
pers from publishing the speech
Ambassador Dodd made in Berlin
last month. The American Am
bassador stated in the capital of
Nazi-ism that the only possible
form Of government under which
individuals can thrive is the demo-
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BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

IF WE accept the conception OF
Emerson and Carlyle that the
great man is the representative
4 man, the man who fulfills an in
evitable historical function, then the
elder Rockefeller, who died last week,
was indeed great American. Seen
in his setting, his epoch, regarded as
function, and judged by what he pro-
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News Behind the News
Conflict Over Terms of Hours Wages Bill Indicates
Many Changes Will Be Made.
BY PAUL MALION.

u statesman
nu submitted his idea of creating Federal standards
industry said door,
4 "is subject about which
Mr. r. followed much the course in his He
nted the idea, accomplishing
White
presentation difficulty getting practical
poyes be affected supposed be stipulated the Official
bulletin
the commission hree scratched
with pencil and a number inserted nve).
The official bill changed
hour before its Introduction that Representative Conney
Senator Black telephone had
deeions Both their Official
copies OF the bill they presented.
there has confusion misunderstanding
about the contents important Of legislation
legislators
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Legal Barrier
To Waste
Removed.
Rulings Give u. S.
Right to Become
Bankrupt.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

through significant evolution.
a This week may be said to mark
the ending of one distinct epoch and
the beginning of another of tran
scendent importance.
Up to now, business and industry
have relied primarily upon the courts
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now living.
X X X
This condition tells the whole
inside story of the legislation and
the underlying feeling Of Con-
gressmen. They are all for decent
working standards, but no two will
agree on how these can be i'm
pressed upon the country, by Fed
eral force, in practical and effec-
tive WaV- with different standards
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23
GIRLS WIN
MERCHANDISE AWARDS

A prize award of $500 worth
of grocery merchandise was
awarded to Mary Harriet Rea-
gan, r. ID. No. 2, Durant, Miss,
in the $4,000 contest recently
completed by the Kellogg Com
pany, makers of Kellogg Corn
Flakes and other cereals.
Contestants were required to
complete the text of a comic
strip. Fill ms were limited to 90
words. The cartoons appeared
in an advertising campaign by
the kellogg Company in news
papers throughout the country.
First prize was $4,000 in cash;
second and third prizes were
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
In addition to the cash awards
two Lincoln Zephyr. sedans; 10
Ford V-S's; 60 electric refriger-
100 radios; 100 bicycles,
and 1883 grocery orders were Pc
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23
HOLMES JR. COLLEGE
PLAYS OLE MISS

Holmes Junior College Bulldogs
play Ole Miss frosh at Oxford
this week. The game will be
called Friday afternoon.
Last year the Ole Miss fresh
men eleven defeated the Holmes
aggregation by a close score and
the game was one of the best in
this section of the state. The
Holmes men will be out for re-
venge this year and an excellent
game is forecast.
A number of Holmes supporters
will make the trip with the team.
Scooba was decisively defeated
last week aud il is believed the
Bulldogs will make a great
showing against Ole Miss at OK
ford.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23

yesterday, when the following proceed
ings were then and there held and had
1t appearing to the Board that on
page II, line 81, of the Land Roll 1886
81, the Lexington Ice & Creamery Co.
is assessed with Part of Lot 1s9, $245.00
which is a double assessment with Mrs.
G. A. Wilson, page 80, line 80, and it is
hereby ordered that the Sheriff be
credited with same and the assessment
on page II, line 81, cancelled.
1t appearing that on page 456 of the
1936-1937 Land Roll the assessment of
John B. Wilkes, Estate, was doubly
assessed with the assessment as found
on page 430, line 9, of said assessment
roll; it is therefore ordered that the
Sheriff be credited with the assessment
of John B. Wilkes Esate, on page 456,
line 3s, valuation s144.00.
1t appearing from the reports of
county auditor and superintendent of
education of the county that many of
the Sixteen Sections and other school
fund loans ARE in arrears and default
in payment of interest and principal and
that same should be collected for the
credit of proper funds or securities
therefor foreclosed.
1t is therefore ordered that Parham
H. Williams Chancery court clerk, county
auditor, and acting treasurer and GUS
todian of notes and securities and evil
the same to A. NJ. Pepper, attorney of
denees representing said loans, deliver
this Board, for immediate collection,
action, foreclosure, or suit as in his
opinion may be best and most expedient
for the purpose of collecting, adjusting,
renewing and placing said loans in
proper shape and form as provided by
law. 1t is further ordered that the
superintendent of education of this
county and the clerk of this board
render said attorney all necessary as
sistance and aid in collecting said funds
and that the President of this Board be
authorized and directed to appoint SUBJ
stituted trustee where deemed neces-
sary or expedient in the foreclosure of
said deeds of trust, said appointments
to be made in he manner n form for
the time as provided by law.
1t appearing that the General County
Fund is in need Of 81 10000 with which
to meet the September, 1897, payroll,
and the Bridge Fund is in need Of
$1,175.00 with which to meet its Septem-
Der, 1887, payroll, and it further appear
ing that there is sufficient money in
Township ID, Range 2 West, and in
Township 16, Range l East, funds to
make the above loans, and that this
money will not be needed in the said
Township funds before tax collecting
time next February, it is therefore
ordered that there be loaned to the Cen
eral County Fund the sum Of 81, 700. 100
from Township ID, Range 2 West Fund,
and the sum of $1,175.00 be loaned
to the Bridge Fund from Township 16,
Range / East Fund, due and payable
February Is, 1888, and in anticipation
of tax collections for the year 1887,
with six per cent per annum from date
until paid. The Clerk of this Board is
directed to issue warrants on the above
funds as ordered, and to make the proper
transfers.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23

from Alabam," star of Station
WWL, New Orleans, will posi-
lively appear in person at each
and every performance, rain or
shine! Lewis side-kick, Wiley
Flash" Wake, will be seen in
conjunction with this feature, as
too, will Uncle Ezra Fletcher
and his Radio Gang.
Numbered among the others
lending further support and col
orful enhancement to this splen-
did attraction are: "The Three
Dancing Buddies;" Naomi Bar
rett, blues singer; Dolores Frauz,
acrobatic dancer, Keller and
Williams, "the Two Dancing
Pats" of Texas Centennial fame /;
Johnny Finch; Kirk and Kirk ;
and "Ponchita" with her Rhum-
ba troupe of exotic, glamourous-
ly-gowned girls, presenting the
Dance of the rgentine.
Housed in a huge, waterproof
tent theatre seating $500 people.
transported upon a fleet of spe-
cially built trucks and buses.
and carrying its own light plant
and special scenic effects, the Oh.
lie Hamilton Radio Barn Dane,
company will show on the Woods
lot. Doors open at 7 p. m. and
the performance starts promptly
at s. p. m.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23

Mr.. c. s. Hill, Jr. left Mon
day for Memphis where he will
enter Tennessee State Teachers
College for the 1898 session.
Mrs. Earl Howell and her two
daughters, of Jackson, were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D.. v.
Pound last week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-09-23
ROTARIANS ENJOY
INFORMAL MEETING

Durant Rotarians enjoyed an
informal program at their regu-
lar weekly meeting Tuesday. vo-
cal selections given by Robert
Irby, Quitman Steed, Jim Nc
Dade and William A. Bacon were
greatly enjoyed as was a spell
ing contest.
j. ID. Alsbury was welcomed
into the club. Only two Rotari-
ans yer absent at this meeting.
Attendance at the Rotary meet
ings has gained steadily and n
great deal ii interest is said to
be manifested in the club work.