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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-07-15
MAIDEN
Eastern Avenue Baptist Church
Rev. James Jackson, Pastor


The pastor took for his morning
subject, "a Divided House." The
Trustees Rally was well attended with
guest speaker Rev. S. M. Riley, Jr.,
OF the 18th Methodist Church, Boston,
his subject was "The Prodigal Son."
Other features on the program in
cluded: Organ Prelude-Mrs. Florence,
H. Taylor; Selections by the Eastern
Ave. Quartette, Miss Lenora Sneed,
Miss Daisy Thompson, Mr.. Grantland
Knight, Mr. Herbert Young. Solos:
Miss Marian McCrea, and Mr.. Fred
Wright; Remarks by Chairman of
Trustee Board Mr.. L. A. Carter; Re-
marks and benediction by Rev. Jack
son. Mr.. Turner Rose was Master of
Ceremonies.
Closing program of the Junior Mis-
siOnaries was held Thursday evening,
vacation thoughts" were expressed bv
those present including the supv. Mrs.
Robinson and Rev. Jackson. The
president wished each member a
happy vacation, a most refreshing col
lation was then served.
At the regular business meeting of
the church it was voted to have one
Sunday service for the month of
August.
The Picnic Committee are sponsor
ing an Amateur Show" on Monday,
July 18th in the recreational hall.
Those desiring to appear on the pro-
gram see Miss Catherine Webb or
Miss Emma Desmonde.
Regular teacher and officers meeting
was held Wednesday evening at the
home of Rev. Jackson, 81 Harvard St..
Maiden with a good attendance. The
summer schedule will be lust one hour
from 1890 to 1870.
Mid-Week Prayer service will be
Friday evening at 1880, good programs
have been recently enjoyed Rev.
Luther Martin has charge of the devo-
tions.
Visitors during the day were: Mrs.
Anna Baptiste of Pasadena, Cal. ac-
companying her was Miss Jean Car
roll. They are spending a few weeks
with Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Carter of
Maiden, and Mrs Cellie Washington
of Florida, who is visiting Mrs. Mary
Stokes of Madison St., for a few
weeks.
The Senior Missionaries met We'd
nesday evening to make plans for this
last fifth Sunday program for the
summer on July both.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
TIPS TO

Rock Garden Advice

SELECTION of flowers and their
- location in the garden can
make or break your rock garden.
Therefore, descriptions on seed
packets must be read carefully
when seeds are bought, and the
plan of the rock garden must be
carefully worked out.
Creeping plants, for instance,
should be allowed to make carpets
of color in the larger soil pockets.
Erect plants may be used in fiat
spaces. Trailing plants should be
allowed to droop over the face of
rocks, or they may be placed at
the top of the bank or wall.
In smaller crevices, tufted
plants with rosettes of foliage and
short flower stalks are suitable.
Ordinary garden or bedding plants
should be eliminated from consid-
Grafton for the rock garden, it is
advised by Gilbert Bentley, flower
expert.
True rock garden plants grow
less than 10 inches tall. Use only
low-growing ANIMALS and perenni-
ais that grow among rocks in their
native haunts-those that belong
by nature among stones.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

dllo lildue people IIllIlk dDOuI'
their government in terms of
economics instead of politics.
They have made the most
conservative Republican re-
alize that a growing democ-
racy must be changing democ-
racy, though not necessarily with so
many changes as Mr.. Roosevelt has
offered. That's matter for debate.
But the most amazing feature is
that six years have not dulled
Americas interest in this toy called
the New Deal. Whether pro or con,
arguments are still as heated, still
filed with as much fresh fighting
fodder as in the days of "alphabet
soup" and the blue eagle. The an
swer lies not in the people but in
the man, a President whose impul-
siveness, whose quicksilver mind
and aptness at sensing the public
trend has kept foe and friend in a
six-year dither.
Still Mystery Man.
Franklin Roosevelt has shattered
more precedents than all his prede-
cessors put together, and in some
cases it was a fine idea. Since the
day he flew dramatically from Al
bany to Chicago and accepted the
presidential nomination, he has
been administering constant psy-
Geological rabbit punches to the ma
tional vertebrae. Yet, after six
years of the most whitening pub
hcity any man ever experienced,
he remains an enigma whose per-
sonal habits and mental processes
are misunderstood by the millions
who follow him.
There have been sample suspi-
cions, as when the Supreme court
enlargement plan fell like a stencil
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Defense

Last December President Roose-
velt's arms expansion program had
more foes than friends in the still
to-convene seventy-sixth congress.
Two months later it had more
friends, thanks to clever White
House publicity maneuvers and a
lot of saber-rattling in Europe. The
house passed 367 to Is an admins
tration bill to spend 1915, 200, 900 ex-
ira on defense the next two years.
(Same day, Great Britain voted
about 81 ,000, 900, 900 more for arms.)
Chief features are boosting the
army's aviation force to $500 first
line planes and making the Pan
anna canal impregnable. Certain of
passage was the VinSon naval eX-
pansion bill to spend $68, 900, 900 on
naval air and submarine bases.
But there was little unity in this
new strength. Closely allied to re-
armament is the problem of U. S.
military alliances with other de-
mocracies, since the threat that in
spired American rearmament is the
same threat that makes France and
Britain jittery. After a California
air crash revealed U. S. manufac-
turers were selling military planes
to France, after President Roose-
welt denied telling senate military
affairs committee that U. S. "fron-
tiers are in France" the White
House-congress foreign policy de-
bate came out in full bloom. Ques-
tons: Cd Shall the u. S. keep it's
foreign policy secret? (2) Is Pres
ident Roosevelt risking involvement
in war through secret international
deals?
After a weeks debate there pre-
sumably were no longer any secrets
about either the French deal or the
administrators foreign policy. Ac-
tual cause of the rumpus was ap-
parently removed, but not congress
sional resentment.
Thundered California's Sen. Hi
ram Johnson: ''No epithets applied
to senators or newspapers will re-
lieve the situation of its secrecy
There is resentment among
the administration that anybody
should ask the facts. But if there
comes war it will not be fought
by the President alone ="
Facts themselves are startling.
Faced with U. S. military orders
under the new defense bill, plane
manufacturers already have their
hands full with export orders. Start
ing with $25, 100000 in 1886, plane
exports have roughly doubled an
nually, approximating 5000, 900. 900
this year. In the past eight months
France and Britain have ordered
1000 ships. Chief congressional
wonder is which orders will get
precedence, U. S. or foreign.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

In the one million dollar to one
and one-half million dollar bracket
are four schools: Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, New York uni
versity, Ohio State university and
the University of Pennsylvania.
Spending between $500, 900 and one
million dollars yearly for research
are: Duke, University of Iowa, Iowa
State college, Johns Hopkins, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Northwestern,
Penn State, Princeton, Purdue,
Rochester, Rutgers, Stanford and
Texas A. & M,
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
When Hubby Buys a Neav Shirt
Prosperity Must Be Returning e

MINNEAPOLIS.-Men are buy
ing new suits and hats and shirts
again, and thereby boosting the
business outlook for 1899. Trade in
mems wear is one of the early
barometer signals of both slumps
and recoveries. Expanding sales of
pianos and other prosperity"
goods at the end of '38 and the
beginning of '39 also register in
creased public buying power and
optimism, according to a survey of
nationwide department store trade
by Northwestern National Life In
surance company.
Inventories in relation to sales are
now at record lows for the past
several years. In the 236 depart
ment stores covered by the study,
numerous instances of sales lost be-
cause of short lines were reported.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

Pianos were outstanding among
the nine key lines of luxury and
semi-luxury goods covered by the
study, with an actual increase of
6.2 per cent in dollar sales for the
year 1888 over 1887, of 1879 per cent
for the final quarter, and of 2O.1
per cent for December, over the
same periods of 1887. Three other
prosperity" lines forged ahead of
the corresponding month of a year
ago, in December department store
trade-jewelry, household furniture,
and electric household appliances.
Sales of mems wear, which sig
nailed the depression of 1887 several
months before it's general onset by
their own private slump, climbed in
December, 1888, to within per cent
of December, 1887, and in January,
1899.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

MOST tSPEECHABLE-Pres.
ident ROoseueIt's radio Uoice,
among the best in the land, is not
heard SO frequently as during the
first term. Here he addresses the
Mobilization for Human Needs
ouer nationwide radio hook-up.
getic and unpredictable than her
husband is Mrs. Roosevelt, who has
done considerable precedent shat
tering in her own right. Often
away from home (she was recently
found to be more popular than her
husband), Mrs. Roosevelt leaves
many ordinary duties in the hands
of Miss Margaret LELAND, the
missy" who doubles in brass as
the Presidents secretary, guardian
and sometimes hostess. Although
the 1889 version executive mansion
still has its rigidly formal diplo-
matte banquets, a sample evening
guest list is more apt to include
cabinet member, novelist, la
bor leader and two or three mis-
cellaneous visitors.
Then, too, the President is a hob
byist. It takes a heap of shelf
space to hold his ship models, and
his stamp collection provides fra
ternal tie with another group.
Popularity Still Stands.
The essence of this discussion is
that President Roosevelt still main
tains his personal popularity even
though most people think his New
Deal has gone through the wringer
via court rebuffs and congressional
perverseness. Whether this has
happened is debatable; most of his
advocated principles have actually
been adopted. Still to come, pro-
vided congress is willing, are more
measures along these liberal lines,
plus amendments and corrections
to existing legislation.
The President maintains we were
something like 80 years behind
when he took office in 1888. Most
of that time has been caught up
but we've still a few years to go.
Answering critics who maintain he
has forced reforms too abruptly,
Mr.. Roosevelt points out that Lloyd
George did an even more radical
job in England Is years ago.
Halfway through his second term,
the President has yet to settle the
issue of a third term, but keen OBJ
servers think he really wants it. AS
before he will probably jump if the
chances look good, and another
precedent will go smash. The core
of this problem is that he wants the
New Deal program preserved above
all else; if another man can do it,
fine. If not it must be Roosevelt.
For obvious reasons this points to
a third term. First, New Deal and
Roosevelt are inseparable in the
public mind. Second, last autumn's
purge" failure showed what the
Presidents magnetic personality
can do for himself, it cannot do
for others.
But you can't make predictions
F. D. R. is unpredictable!
Western Newspaper Union.
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taryship "to avert a national scan
dal" after G-men had "gotten on
his trail'' regarding Atlanta engi-
neering activities.
Next day Mr.. Robert hurried to
Dougherty county and filed charges
of slander against Representative
Allen. Returning, he found He'll Bent
Edwards waving his arms from the
house floor and talking like this:
"It's shame on the state that
we've got such man as Chip Rob-
ert. It's a shame on the national
Democratic party that they allow
Chip Robert to do like this. And it's
a shame on the President of the
United States that he has allowed
Chip Robert to do what he has
done"
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Trend
HotU the tUind is blo,uing

IOU tHe tCtnU Is OtOtCLng
TELEVISION - Philadelphia
manufacturers predict a limited
number of television receivers
will be placed on sale in May,
with six broadcasting stations in
operation.
FORTS-Japanese are reported
building underground defenses
like Frances Maginot line along
Russian frontier in Inner Mon
golia.
COMMUNISM-Paris' Commu-
mist paper, L'Humanite, predicts
outlawry of Communism, restric-
tions on freedom of press and as
sembly and limitation of the
rights of parliament following
Aprils presidential election.
RAILROADS = U. S. carload
ings in mid-February hit 1913
a week, 6.8 per cent. greater than
in the corresponding 1888 week.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

witness the Maryland purge"
speech last autumn when he de-
parted from carefully worded man.
uscript to make public endorsement
of Rep. David J. Lewis for the sena-
torial post then-as now-held by
Millard Tydings.
There is evidence, however, that
the Supreme court reorganization
fiasco may not have been an i'm
pulsive, stubborn gesture. Though
congress baked like an unbroken
horse over this unheard-of proposal,
it was stirred to passage of a meas
ure permitting retirement of JUS
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Loves the Spectacular.
3 i'm ] or l i'm 3? Take Your Pick

NEW YORK. = This month a
weird looking 80-foot car will pop
through Manhattan's subway tun-
nels, inaugurating a new era in
rapid transit. Streamlined, noise
less and comfortable, it will attract
even more attention because it's
actually three cars in one!
The new unit was perfected after
five years of research by scientists
purposely chosen from outside the
transportation field so they would
not be hampered by traditional de-
signs. 1t has three segments to
reduce the weight on each axle Of
the four underlying trucks.
Specially lighted for reading and
general illumination 1.-TWO kinds),
featuring Enthusiastically con-
trolled temperature and air condi-
tioning, the new cars will sit "a
people. It will stand 200. Working
in automatic sequence are three
types of brakes, the first utilizing
the cars generators, the second a
magnetic principle and third a
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Colleges Spend Millions
On Their Research Work

Top universities of the nation in
research expenditures are Califor-
mia, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard,
Illinois and Michigan, according to
a survey in the report of the nation
al resources committee.
In the group spending between
one and one-half million dollars and
two million dollars a year for re-
search are Cornell, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Yale.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Pensions

Last time he was called before a
congressional committee, Pension
eer DR.. Francis E. Townsend re-
fused, ending up with a 30-day Jail
sentence for contempt. President
Roosevelt pardoned him, business
got better and pension talk dwin-
died. But last summer Townsend
ism and colorful assortment of
other old age assistance plans bios
somed with Recession. The admin
istration fought this November cleo
ton threat by promising to amend
social security, but by the time con-
gress assembled it was obvious pen
sioneers would have their say.
This time DR.. Townsend appeared
as political theorist, economist and
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

MOST REASONABLE - The
guick-,Uitted President shares a
joke ,Uith Vice President Garner
at the Jackson day dinner in
Washington shortly after con.
gress cOnrened.
tees at full pay. Subsequently, via
deaths and retirement, Mr.. Roose-
welt has been able to fill four vacan-
cies with liberal justices.
Generally speaking, the White
House of Mr.. Roosevelt's day knows
what it's doing, thanks to new
methods of gauging public senti-
ment. He isn't Americas most
widely travelled President for moth
ing; these excursions provide a
choice method of getting reactions.
Nor is Mr.. Roosevelt's unprecedent-
ed use of the radio to no avail;
from sheaves of telegraphic re-
sponses he learns how the wind is
blowing.
Questions Visitors.
Each day he reads 10 to Is news
papers from scattered sections of
the country. His incoming mail to-
tails 1000 letters day compared
with President Hoover's 400. A
steady stream of callers files daily
through the white doorway that has
become the No. l interview and
picture spot in Washington.
If six years have changed the
nature of the Presidency, they have
also changed domestic life in the
White House itself. No less ener-
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Treasury

Heading southwark to help the
feet ward off an imaginary aggres-
sor from Europe, President Roose-
velt told reporters business and in
dustry need have no fear of new
taxes, new U. S. competition in the
power field or spending beyond
budget needs. A few minutes later
he challenged budget critics to ex-
plain how the government could toss
away its red ink bottle without
boosting taxes or eliminating "es-
sentiar federal functions.
If business need fear no new
taxes, but if more taxes are needed
to balance the budget, the Presi-
dent was (D contradicting himself:
(2) limiting that small taxpayers
could expect new levies, or (3) stat
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Has Plague of Gulls

Silver gulls have been developing
their swarms to the proportions of
a plague along the coasts and in the
harbors of North Germany. At
tempts to reduce their numbers with
shotguns have not been successful;
the gulls soon learned what shot
gun range was and stayed just out
side it. Attacks on their nesting
grounds have not been entirely sue
cessful. Parties raided rookeries
last spring, destroying more than
5000 eggs.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
0UI lex
AUOTES
AMERICAN CREED

0nUR nation was founded upon the
~ principles of responsible citizen
ship and has grown great upon that
foundation. Personal freedom and
equality of opportunity under the pro-
lection of the law have been-and, |
fervently hope, always will bean abid-
ing creed and a zealously guarded way
Of life of the American people
Cordel Hull, U. S. Secretary Of State.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Par,-America

Chief reason for U. S. trade back
wardness with Argentina is that
both nations sell cotton, wheat, corn
and beef. Even as Secretary of
State Cordell Hull unused over an
Argentine announcement that U. S.
imports must be reduced, another
South American nation made an op-
posite overture. From Brazil (big-
gest South American nation in point
of size, population and resources)
came DR.. Oswaldo Aranha, foreign
minister, to spring pleasant sur
prise.
Whereas modern Latin American
nations have traditionally COM
planned of U. S. dollar diplomacy"
DR.. Aranha openly invited Ameri-
can commercial participation in
Brazirs development. His COM
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

MOST TRATELED-Surpass-
ing all other Presidents-euen
Taft-Mr. Roosevelt matches the
public pulse on his jaunfs across
the country. Here is his special
train at Pueblo, Colo, last
summer.
bomb, or when the White House
tried to purge" undesirable Dem
ocrats in last years election. More
recent has been the series of judi
cial appointments in direct defiance
of frowning, independent seventy
sixth congress.
At the time it seemed impossible
that these unpopular moves should
have originated with a master psy-
chologist, if such the President is.
But they did, and still the average
Roosevelt devotee does not know
what Gen. Hugh S. Johnson has dis
covered about the President. He is,
says the outspoken 'Ironpants,
strict opportunist who will try any
thing if he thinks he can get away
with it.
Loves the Spectacular.
This impulsiveness goes with Mr..
Roosevelt's flair for showmanship
and the spectacular. He is prob
ably the most convincing orator
ever to occupy the White House,
and if he sees an audience is with
him anything might happen. AS
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
FDR Still Grips Public Fancy
After 6 Years in Limelight
Unpredictable Now as in 1893, President
May Run for Third Term If Success
Seems Likely
By JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Six years ago March Franklin Roosevelt kissed
Holy Bible and promised to defend the United States cons
ton Those have been the unpredcabe
trvy modern American history because unpredc
able man has been President.
Once surrounded by of quiet dignity the White House
has emerged center of the nation the local point
eyes and than before watched chief
house of glass.
Six years of Roosevelt have Jared America from it's
nerhawhatever else you may say about the New Deal
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Georgia

Long before he Zoomed to secre-
taryship of the Democratic national
committee, L. w. (Chip) Robert Jr.
was a prominent Georgia building
contractor. One of his jobs was the
$5,O00,OOO addition to Milledgville's
state hospital, for which Roberts
firm got 6 per cent as a fee. This
session, Georgia's legislature began
looking for skeletons to drag from
the Robert closet. Chief skeleton
draggers were Dougherty county's
Rep. Delacey Allen and Valdosta's
Rep. H. B. (Hel Bent) Edwards.
Going home from Washington to
defend himself, Chip Robert first
heard Mr.. Allen say he had stolen
the taxpayers money on his Mill
edgville contract. Next Mr.. Allen
charged Chip Robert had resigned
his assistant U. S. treasury secre-
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

EDITORS NoTE-When opinions are
expressed in these columns. they are those
of the news analyst. and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

patriot before the house ways and
means committee, defending his
plan to provide up to 5000 a month
to persons over go by a per cent
transaction tax.
Said Political Theorist Townsend:
eff we can't establish a higher
standard of living for the submerged
one-half of our people than $40
month, then certainly we're not 60
ing to be able to maintain our type
of government much longer.
Said Economist Townsend: eve
have not scratched the surface of
our wealth and productive ability"
(He added that pensions might even
tually be boosted to $500 a month";.
Said Patriot Townsend: 81 wish
you could hear the expressions of
contempt against this great govern
ment of ours, government I love
and cherish with all my heart, a
government I would die for If
this government is going to survive,
it must not give occasion to these
people"
Crux of DR.. Townsend's argument
is that the profit system needs over
hauling to avoid a spread of SUBJ
versive agitation prompted by pow
erty. Well do committeeman know
that U. S. poverty breeds i'll will,
but there is serious doubt that Town
sendism will receive congressional
precedence over the social security
revision plans President Roosevelt
offered several weeks ago, and
which the California doctor terms
"the height of absurdity."
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02

mechanical process.
Light construction was empha-
sized in the car, built at Battle
Creek, Mich, by the Clark Equip
ment company in cooperation with
engineers of the Aluminium Com
pany of America and the B. F.
Goodrich company. A new type
rubber spring was developed to sup
The Ely miner., 1939-03-02
Weekly News Analysis
Closer U. S.-Brasil Cooperation
Predicted after ArapE,a Visit
BY Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Zine

ing indirectly that he had no plans
for an early balanced budget.
In the light of figures the treasury
had released one day earlier, Mr..
Roosevelt's remark was more de-
pressing. During 1938-39's first sew
en- and one-half months the U. S.
spent $3.50, 76O,015, OF 100000, 900
more than the entire estimated re-
ceipts for II months. Since receipts
to date are only So, $40, ,6O1, 1869, total
seven and one-half month deficit is
$2,074, ,158,146. If spending continues
as expected, reaching almost So, $780,
600, 900 by June 80, the years total
deficit will approximate four billion
dollars.