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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE WAGNER ACT A, FAILURE?

The Springfield (Mass.) Union says that the
Wagner labor act has failed, that It has induced
labor disputes rather than prevented them
1t was $50 obviously prejudiced against the en-
poyer and in favor of labor that its breakdown
inevitable. Administration ofavoritism encour-
aged labor either to ignore it when advantageous
to do so, to invoke its services on the slightest
pretext, where favorable decision was clearly IN
dicated."" .....,.
In a copyright dispatch from Washington, David
Lawrence reminds that the supreme court of the
United States in an opinion by Chief Justice
Hughes has ruled = r..
1.-THE act does not compel agreements between
employers and employees. 1t does not compel any
agreement whatever. 1t does not prevent the en-
ployer from refusing to make collective con-
tract, and hiring individuals on whatever terms
the employer may by unilatera action determine"
This paragraph which seems to be significant is
on the side of Tom Girdler, and the other iron
masters who, say they will sign contract with
John Lewis's c. 10. unless and until the courts
say that they must. A bargain is struck only when
both parties toit agreed. Can collective bar
gain be binding when one party to the discussions
is, disagreeing?
1t happens that Senator Wagner author Of the
act has been quoted saying that the statute does
not compel employers to sign contracts. This be-
ing the case, and the courts will be passing upon
this point, it looks if the Wagner labor act is
not the perfect instrument a section of labor has
believed it to be-.
Meantime, the c. l. o. has met firm resistance
by several steel companies and the position of the
governor of Ohio lends neither aid nor comfort to
the scheme of preventing willing workers from
working. Tom Girdler and his associates take the
position that efforts at coercion have been made
and that they choose to protect their who wish
to work, The federal mediation board in this case
has failed dismally In the language of baseball,
it did not get to first base.-Charleston News and
Courier. s-.
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FINAL TEST OF DEMOCRACY

Whatever may be the result of the battle that
has opened in tn senate iover the so-caled COM
promise plan as affecting the supreme court, that
battle will stand in the history books as marking
the supreme test to which the one great experiment
in modern democracy was subjected. Our whole
governmental system stands or falls as that battle
goes, and with our governmental system stands, or
falls the hope Of democracy in the modern world.
For, hundred and fifty years all thinking men
have recognized in our system the very archtype
of popular self-government by commonwealth of
free nations, the heart of which is protection of
minority rights. under majerity,r It's in the
saercdhess of those rights that liberty resides. To
protect them we; ordained a fundamental law and
placed that law in the guardianship of a supreme
court. The independence of that court is our sole
reliance while the organic law stands, and it is
that independence, that is now directly attacked.
What previous crisis in our national life can COM
pare with that ?-Thos. F. Woodock.
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Editor, The Timcs-News:

Editor, Inc llmcS-NeWS:
Smarting under the adverse de-
cisions of the supreme court, to
most Of his New Deal abomina-
tions, and fearing more such de-
cisions in cases now pending -
i'm which his administration is
made defendant,-the president
now demands the right to de-
str6y the independence and intcg-
rity Of this branch of our Coy
ernment, by adding enough new
members, of his own choosing, to
corrupt the court and to make the
will Of Roosevelt the supreme law
of the land.
Roosevelt the defendant, de-
handing the right to pack the
court and jury! Sir, such mOnu-
mental impudence is without par
allel in court procedure, and
proves that, if we are to preserve
the purify Of the supreme court,
we must portect it from dirty
politics, and from officials who
cannot be trusted under oath to
protect it.
This can only be done by
amending our constitution, 10
withdraw all appointive powers
over the supreme court, which
arc now held by the president and
senate, and placing such power III
the judiciary Of our country. We
have forty-eight supreme court
justices in our state supreme
courts. By amending our constl-
tuition to give these forty-eighV
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THE N EW y E AL
IN WASHIN GTON
-RY RODNEY BUTCHER.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff CORRESPONDENT

Hopkins and Secretary Henry
Wallace as White House rivals
against Congressman Jim OCon-
nor of Montana, Bob Mouton Of
Louisiana, and Otha Wearin OF
Iowa--all three great braggarts as
to their hog-calling proficiency.
Roosevelt himself decided the
result was a two-way draw be-
tween Mouton and Wearin.
THE Union Postal Clerk, official
l. organ of the National Fedora
ton of PoStoffice Clerks, in a COL
umn called Trap Opens His
Trap" because it's written by one
j 3. Trapp of Los Angeles, is
responsible for the following
items:
The one and only place where
one can mail letter free to my
part of the world is at PoStoffice
Bay, Charles Island, in the South
Seas. The poStoffice is a barrel
anchored in shallow water, handy
for sailors on long voyages.
Zachary Taylor once refused
poStage-due letter. 1t was notif-
cation Of his nomination for. the
presidency and he didn't get the
news for days.
The first opening Of a poStoffice
in Korea in 1885 was a flop be-
cause the Koreans, thinking it was
plot of the foreign devils"
burned the postoffice and killed
the postmaster on the very first
day.. o.. ..u ~, 4,
The telegraph was part of. the
postal service from April, 1914, to
March, 1916, and during that
period its inventor, Samuel Morse,
was on the federal payroll as
superintendent Of that branch OF
the service. Then Congress re-
fused to provide for its continu-
ance on the ground that it should
be q private enterprise.
A man in Webster Grove, Mo-,
has paid rent on a private post
Office box for several years. He
has never received a letter.
Copyright. 1887. NEA Service. Ino.l
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LIGHT ON A RACKET

There is a good chucke in the story of the Chat
tanooga storekeeper who put up1,ana empty cigar
box in his store under sign reading:
"Police got my, slot machine; please put your
money here s,... ,,.,,.,,.
The chuckle comes from the fact that his pa
irons took him at his word, so that in few days
the box was nearly full of coins q, aa,,. ~ i,
, The, average American likes a joke. and isn't
above tossing away a nickel if it appeals to his
sense of humor. .,..!.. :.....,,... 40. ... -
The point, however, is that the customers who
played" this cigar box got just about as much for
their money as they would have got if the slot ma
chine had never been removed. - a
The average, slot machine is an everything.goes-
in, nothing-comes-out proposition. You might just
about as well put your money in an empty cigar
box, for all you are likely to get out!of1it.
These, Chattanooga players are probably ahead
of the game; they at least got chuckle for their
money.-Greenville Piedmont
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TO CONTROL OUR DESTINY
then you are not natu
leader.
PUPPET LEADERS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

then you are not naturally a
leader.
PUPPET LEADERS
Political rings set up puppet
leaders. A person Of good effect
is chosen to be out front.
Follow him." says the pollti-
cal boss to his henchman. The
herchmen follow him. The poll
teal boss tells the man out front
what to do. 1t is, the political
boss giving orders and command
ing obedience from under cover
who is the real leader. That is
why he is the political boss.
Concealed political leaders are
dangerous to the pu0!ic. They
work havoc through their foolish
puppets-who must shoulder the
blame and take the consequences.
When puppet leader becomes
useless or ruined another is put in
his place.
MANY a good but shAple man
hAk been disgraced or utterly de-
stroyed through being enticed in
10 being puppet leader.
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BOY FIGHTS CRoCODIly

PETERSBURG, TrausM.J
.(UP)--Caught by r.ocola,
while he was hcrding cayI. ~.
the bank of the Njcl!cIc r..u .D
the .TtanSvaal, a little ua,... s.'
foug, desperately Tor hi ..'n ari
won. BY digging his fn.ua mS
the croc0dile's nostriIs, Boz force.
the monster to lct him ru aar
mutilaring one of his legs.
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W7ASHINGTON.-That party the
" Democrats had at Jefferson
Island is well in the past, but
some of the best stories of what
happened on the island are just
beginning to leak out.
One of them evidences the fact
that although President Roosevelt
will call man by his first name
as quickly as one thus addresses
a. barber, or waitreSs-often APP
plying the praenomen to a lady
or gent on first meeting-it takes
a Jim Farley to remember the
correct name every time.
"A group of anti-court bill SEN
ators stuck close to each other on
the island, and a half dozen of
them approached the President in
a group to pay their so-called re-
spects. Senators Bailey of North
Carolina, and Byrd of Virginia
had passed by and had not been
greeted by their; first names,
which would, be a story by itself.
Then up stepped Senator Clark of
Missouri. And the President
either had become flustered by
this time or. else suffered one of
those. brainstorms or. memory
lapseS which at one time or an
other afflict us all. The only
other possibility, is that he was
trying to be funny, which is UNI
likely. ..... ...,sr. .
"Hello, Fran6!" exclaimed
Frank Roosevelt. .....
And was Bennett Clark sore!
So . 81 = .. .t. 80,
iYOuR correspondent also has
= INDUCED in research as to the
hog-calling contest which was a
feature of the picnic, heretofore
inadequately' reported.
Not with any thought of in
flicting any bum humor about
hog-calling and pork barrels, but
rather with the thought that hog
calling might soon enter into the
court plan debate.
1t seems that Roosevelt himself
organized and mpired the hog
calling contest, entering Harry
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BULGARIA is rejoicing over the
- birth of a son to King Boris
III and Queen Joanna, for not un.
til now was there an heir to that
country's throne. The Bulgarian
constitution provides that only q
male of royal birth may rule. That
excludes 4k-year-old Princes.
Marie Louise, while the kings only
brother, Cyril, is a bachelor.
The newly-born Crown Prince,
who is named Simeon, after the
great Bulgarian ruler Of the tenth
century, will inherit what his
father is believed to detest.. For to-
day, while the country is under a
virtual dictatorship, the king is
said to be kept within his palace,
far from free to do. as. he pleases,
He became ;4o3ar9s in 1918, when
the termination Of the 'World'War
caused his father, King Ferdinand,
to abdicate. III,
Boris is a popular ruler. His
hobbies are more democratic than
aristocratic. He likes to run
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GIRL, ID, FREED OF MURDER

SURAT, India. ,uPt s Hm
du girl Of ID Las been ..r.,r.
here OH a charge Of Eiduw..a and
murder. The prosecution gcI
tie girl and her mother nrac.rr
witchcraft and thar To- p.rrrr
their skill they had kidua..I IVA
girls from Il village. one OF m,
victims was killed with 20 .r..r
but the other was recovered ..N,
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Justices sole power to Gil yg..
cics or to make appointmo"INN St'
our supreme court, We NAV y
have America from the prrS;i'S
Rnd his puppets who are dn,.'.''
hg constitutional <iemocrar,. y
substituting eollcctivism. i'm r,l s@.
the government has all the ri '.,l
and the individual has orfv .,..'
rights as the government choo..,
to give him.
All honor to those rcd.blo,s. ,
patriots in the senate who .af
to corrupt the supreme cour, we
betray their country. And ,ts.''
on the president. who ha, ann"i
"Tammany Hall FARLEY" y,
threaten them!
BENZ. X. CLAYTON
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Plato, Greek philosopher, who
lived 1884 years ago, told the
people, "most of the social and
political ills from which You suf-
fer are under your control, given
only the will and courage to
change them. You can live in an
other and wiser fashion if you
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DON'T IRRITATE THEM

A woman nOtlCpd IN her iiOnt
yard dog acting strangely. She
took q broom and tried to drive
the animal away. 1t turned on
her and bit him. The dog was
mad.
a mother returning home found
in the house Il man she knew. He
was acting strangely. She or
dered him away. He turned on
her and killed her; then lay ir
wait and killed two other mem
berS of the household. The man
was mad.
BE cautious how you deal with
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choose to think
it out and work
it out. You are.
n OF awake to
your own pow
err"
Before m a n
could really con-
,rol his destiny,
as Plato taught,
Aristotle percei-
we'd / h u t he
needed far more
knowledge, and
far more accur-
ate knowled & e
than he possess
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NOT TOO LATE TO SAVE THE RULE
OF REASON
lRY BRUCE .CATTONl

We have had the age of stone, the age
of brass, the age of iron and the age OF
this. that and the other thing; but when
future historians come to write about this
particular era in world history, they can
hardly do anything else than call 1.-THE age
Of violence. " ",l
That is to say that it is a time in which
men seem to have given up the old notion
that disputes could be settled by reason
and compromise. When nerves are over
strained and the old faith IN human intel
ligenee is. low, it is easier to sail IN with
fists FLYING than to sit down and talk things
out. So! q" '.'.
SO we have a. tortured Europe today
with its incredible war in Spain and its des-
perate preparations for bigger and more
ruinous war. We have mass executions in
Russia, pogroms and concentration camps
in Germany, and the rule distributing might
I'M Italy and lesser lands. And in our own
country we have bitter industrial warfare
on half dozen fronts, with armed pickets,
vigilante movements, massed troops and
all the other distressing features of re
gime OF mabashed violence. r"o"' 81
All of this makes the present hard
time tollive through, For it is not so much
the fact of violence that is distressing as it
is the fact that men resort to it'more and
more readily. Considering that civilization
basically,is little more than the develop
ment of restraints on mans impulse to vio-
lent action, it is not hard to see in this
trend an ominous sign that civilization is
collapsing.. ..,~ -
There would be little point in reciting
this,sif there were nothing left for us to
do but SIT resignediy by and wait for full
catastrophe. But the point for Americans
to remember is that the growth of the-age
ofviolence has been much slower on tins
side. of the water than elsewhere. For all
our troubles, we are still, committed to the
non-vioient way of life, as exempliffed in
political democracy and the theory OF hui
man equality. VI 70" -
In other words, it is not yet too late for
us,to turn away from this drift toward the
blind belief that might makes right. And
we can best do it by reminding ourselves
constantly of the fact that continued com
fidence in our democratic processes,is our
oneAand only defense, i.,.i7IA. '"'
For confidence in democracy is moth
ing less than "a confidence in the inherent
decencypanda sanity of the human race. We
rely ON majority rule, peaceful persu aston
andtopen debate because we. believe that
ina the long rum men have the, good sense
and the coed will to make such things
work. -. e. l.E SO, go. s =.
That'is why these resorts to violence in
our own land are so .ominous. To the ex-
tent that they take place, that confidence
of ours is broken down; and,to the extent
thatfit is'broken down, the strength, of our
democracy is lessened. We are. long way
from Germany and Russia-but. until we
insist on peaceful settlements and the'rule
ofireason,in piacecof force, we'are headed
in the direction of those nations. =
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MEETING NEVER MISSED

LORAIN, O. (UPp BEN *
Harris, beginning his 2tlM Year
as head Of the board of ..a.. of
the City of Lorain. never ms
missed monthly mcctinr TO. rar
board and never has been md,
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GIRL UNLOCKS BALKY SAFE

CLEVELAND. (UP) - Bruce
Boutall, superintendent of records
for criminal court, sighed with de-
SPAR at the end of Il half hours
futile fussing with the combina-
ton of the office safe. "Let me
try it," suggested his secretary,
Miss Dorothy Botava. The com
bination yielded at her first at
tempt.
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So today before we Americans
can correct wrong economic and
governmental conditions we must
know exactly what is wrong and
how to remedy it. We cannot
control our destiny with narrow
prejudices and with greedy and
selfish motives.
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TEST FOR LEADERSHIP

Should you like to know if you
have the quality of leadership?
Then observe if you have the IA
Guilty of inspiring obedience. If
you have not that in you which
causes those with whom you deal
to heed you and do as you say,
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YES WE HAVE

"You never heard of anybody
countcrfeiting dirt" preacher
shouted at us congregation last
Sunday.
Evidently that preacher never
had peddler with childlike cX-
preston sell him a wagonload Of
sand mixed with coal dust count
erfeiting rich black dirt.
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SNAKES WAR ON SNAKES

JOHNSONDALE, Calf. CUP
Bull snakes and king snakes
are being imported into this see
ton in an experiment to see If
they can drive out the rattle
snakes.
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SALES PEOPLE LlNGUlSTS

MILWAUKEE. (UP)-A sur
vcy of the 1900 employees Of the
three outlets of department
store compayn here disclosed that
$40 speak foreign languages and
can dispense service in % ton
cues.
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HUGE NUGGET FOUND

COBALT, Ont. (UP)---25O,-
00O-pound silver nugget, expect
ed to yield 5000 ounces of silver,
was found by two brothers work
ING claim near here.
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a.. Philadelphian advised fencing for
grace and poise, but that& doesn't help a
congressman. His big problem is not how
to jainp; but which way. ,"t.'' H''
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Father7Diyine's Olympic games at King
ston, N. Y, may have been just his way of
being sure the flock was at least two Jumps
ahead of the devil.
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LETTERS TO :.
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu-
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDlTOR.
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traiT Shm
mountains an d
travel incognito
among his coun-
trymen. His por-
trait appears on
several stamps Of
Bulgaria. One is
shown here.
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only one you can enjoy without getting hair all
over you. .,f -
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Copyright. 1897. NEA Service. Incl
NEXT: What states are includ-
ed in, the terms Of the Northwest
Ordinance Of 1887? II
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persons and animals that act
quccrly.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
.pr We STEADFAST,

uNMovABLE, ALWAYS ASTOUNDING IN The
WORK OF THE LORD, forssmseh as ye know .ha'
your, l.b0ar is not in vain in the Lord u oor
1859 .c'>l .7.
If God wants a thing done, the deVil doesh y
Whenever any spiritual advance is attempseu'
three-fold hinderances always appear The t'e'n
becomes n brake; the world becomes a detoar' anu
the devil becomes obstruetion'ss Always count
upon these difficulties: BUT always also remen''e'
that it is written: 81, .......,
"THANKS BE. UNTO. GOD. WHO ALWAYS
CAusETH us TO TRIUMPH" e Cor. 2:l0-
Ernest NJ Wadsworth. '.- .
Evening star., 1937-10-13
PICKETS BEAT FOUR
MEN AND FIRE TRUCK
Crowd Drags Non-Union Men
From Vehicle After Demand to
See Membership Cards.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 13.-Vio-
lence in Western Pennsylvania truck
picketing campaign resulted today In
the burning of one truck and the beat
ing of four men.
Between so and 10 men dragged two
non-union workers from a truck early
this morning, beat them and set fire
to their truck in the Lawrenceville dis
trict of Pittsburgh.
Ralph Laughny and Andrew Yudeck
told police they were stopped by the
pickets and asked for their union
cards.
Both men said they were dragged
from their seats. Laughny was
treated in a hospital for cuts on the
head and hip. Yudeck's head was
cut.
Their truck was driven against a
concrete abutment and buried.
Scott F. Marshall, an officer of the
Joint Teamsters' Council No. 40, an
A. F. of L. affiliate cooperating in the
campaign to unionize truck drivers,
commented:
I'm sorry for that. We want only
peaceful picketing, though the course
something untoward may occur now
and then. There must have been
some definite reason for the trouble"
Evening star., 1937-10-13
SABOTAGE HINTED
ON NAVY VESSEL
File and Pieces of Metal Strip
Teeth From Gears on Cruiser
VincenneS,

Secretary Of the Navy Swanson dis
closed today that investigation Of al
legged sabotage aboard the cruiser VIM
cennes had disclosed that file and
other pieces of metal lodged in re-
duction gear boxes of the vessel had
stripped teeth from the gears.
The Navy Inquiry Board reported
that the metal might have been de-
liberately placed in the gear boxes by
unknown persons, or could have been
left there accidentally. 1t attached
no official responsibility to Govern
ment inspectors on the job and did
not estimate the damage.
The investigation which disclosed
the evidence of possible sabotage was
started when unusual noises were
heard from the reduction gear ma
chinery of the 10,000-ton Vincennes,
now undergoing tests in the Boston
Navy Yard.
The file found in the gears was Lot
Of a type issued by the Navy, the
board reported.
Evening star., 1937-10-13
Mariner Staying Attributed
To Letter Straying in Mails
Visa for 4 Armenian Assassin Had Been
Issued-NOtice Never Delivered,
Due to address Change.

memorial service today at the Amer
ican church of Beirut.
Alfred Tabet, Lebanese attorney gen.
eral, said Karayan, 20, returned to
Syria from the United States in 1894
to live at Aleppo.
karayan will be tried by a special
court next week
A Reuters tBritish) News Agency
dispatch to London said that Meguer-
dich Karayan. arrested after the kill
ing Of Mariner, asserted he was a
naturalized subject of the United
States. He said he was born in Tur-
key 20 years ago.
The prisoner gave his United States
address as Botolph street. Boston
and said he left America In 1888 be.
cause of i'll health.