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Evening star., 1939-11-19
Mrs. TUPPER SCOUT
Continued from pose five

woman, you know lot about SELL
ing, Aunt Abbie, from what | heard
from mother
Your mother was generous SOUL"
his caller painted, her sudden shortness
of breath being caused by violent
spell of coughing which followed Mr.
Petty's words But go on" she
pleaded.
Mr.. Petty went on. He was OBJ
viously repeating story he had often
told before Mrs. Tupper drummed on
the side of the small overnight bag
which she called a purse.
I'VE listened in amused silence to
his halting sales patter for some time.
His English was slightly broken and
he often found it difficult to find the
right word And he kept pleading for
the chance to demonstrate his machine.
He was almost fearful about it.
Finally Anne agreed to let him show
her how wonderful it was. You should
have seen his face light up with graft
tude when she consented"
Il would have loved to-" Mrs.
Tupper said. Did he bungle the dem
onstration the way he did his sales
TALK"
He never gave it," Mr.. Petty as
sured her with grin. II didn't 60 in
with Anne to see how it worked, but
she told me about it afterwards They
went into the drawing room. We have
concert grand there. Anne still loves
to play, even if there isn't a mike in
the room. The little man saw it, He
went over and patted it lovingly Anne
asked him if he played, naturally"
Naturally"
Then he told her his story He had
been concert pianist in the old coun-
try. He had given concerts in Vienna.
Brussels and Berlin. 1t was pathetic
story. He told it to me afterwards. 1t
made wonderful material for pub
licity, later"
''He managed to get out of Germany,
| seem to remember. Didn't he have
relatives or - or friends here?
"He did. And. of course. he tried to
employ his talent, but. until dis
covered him, he couldn't get started
Evening star., 1939-11-19

was soft with pleasant Renaissance.
"We had been married about three
months. OF course, you knew Anne
was radio artist when married her?
Well, we had spent the afternoon
planting a garden. BY the way, you
must come out and see it sometime"
Mrs Tupper said she would.
1--WE were sitting on the steps when
a man came up the walk" Bertrand
went on. "He was round little man,
hardly as big as the vacuum cleaner
he was staggering under. Even from
distance he aroused our sympathy -
he moved so hesitantly, SO obviously
afraid that we were going to tell him
we didn't need vacuum cleaner
Did you?" his visitor inquired.
LAS it happened, we did. But we had
no intention of buying one from this
particular salesman, | can promise
you. In fact we said so right off the
bat" MIR. Petty lit a cigarette. But
he looked so pathetic he continued
when the air around his head was blue,
that we weren't too harsh about it,
And, of course, you were newly
weds." The bonnet nodded under
standingly.
"Of course" MIR. Petty granted,
but it wasn't that which softened us.
The thing that got under our skin was
his childish eagerness. his ingenious
ness, his - his ~
"A slick sales approach his visitor
suggested with throaty chuckle.
I've known many salesman who
stayed on the honor roll because he
played the heart instead of the head"
mo, it wasn't that. either. Natu-
rally, being a businessman know the
rudimcnts of selling"
"Of course" Mrs. Tupper agreed
smoothly.
The WBN executive nodded. And
the first step in selling is to know the
product you are selling. And this little
man - he introduced himself as MIR,
Emil Brawlheim - didn't know his
product. Not really, that is. Not the
way you or | would know product.
if we were selling it." His nod was
patronizing After all. though you are
Evening star., 1939-11-19

porch?" Abbie interpolated playfully.
Beethoven, Debussy. Played as l
never heard them played" MIR. Petty's
voice was solemn. "Of course, not be-
ing musician yourself, or not having
= a feel for music, you can't realize
how astonished l was. l know you
once did little singing but ="
Evening star., 1939-11-19

That was before Tupper popped
off and left the little nest without any
worms" his visitor assented dryly,
but can still hum
Mr.. Petty smiled.
II hurried into the house. Anne was
Just about to tell Brawlheim that he
(Confinved on poge IS
Evening star., 1939-11-19
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

Same like my protege,' Mrs.
Upper reminded him shrewdly.
Bertrand avoided the point. But |
am getting ahead of my story" he said
hastily. "Anne, more in fun than any
thing else, asked him to play. He
agreed eagerly"
And you heard him from the
Evening star., 1939-10-08

Britain and France last spring, the
allies undertook to bring Russia into
the peace front.
Thus when Russia bolted the
British and French peace bloc by
signing a non-aggression pact with
Germany August "a, Turkey was the
most stricken of all. Poland was
Indifferent, for Warsaw never was
anxious for Russian armed aid any,
way; Britain and France had never
felt certain an agreement with Russia
could be concluded. But to Turkey
it was the shattering of hopes that
all her friends could be bound
together in common action with a
common purpose.
With her loyalties and friendships
torn between the necessity of avoid
ing provocation to her powerful
northern neighbor and her natural
instinct to stand with those who are
defending the interests of the small
states of Europe, Turkey now is
forced to choose: Russia or the allies.
And on the sidelines, watching
anxiously but helpless to stem the
movement of events toward her dis
memberment. stands Rumania
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Sunk

This is a world of change. A spirit
of restlessness has pervaded it, re-
sulting in the removal of things pre-
viously expected to stand for all time
and part of eternity. Until recently
it was thought that the one i'm
movable asset was real estate. So
ingrained was this notion that land
has always been known as fixed
property. Now, even this supposedly
fundamental concept no longer ap-
plies.
A flfteen-acre section of Ed
Bright's Montana ranch without
warning seeded from the rest of his
holdings and began to drop out Of
sight at the rate of a foot or so a
day and Is now down forty feet
While this is by no means the first
instance Of drop in real estate or
of farm that turned out to be a
hole in the ground, 1t is quite an OBJ
ject Of curiosity to spectators peering
over the cliff at grass and other
vegetation apparently undisturbed
by the slow-motion earthquake.
It is all very disturbing for Ed, who,
naturally enough, has failed to in
clude in his budget a sinking fund
for such an unforeseen contingency.
AS the bottom continues to drop out
of his subterranean range he expects
to have increasing difficulty In
maintaining liaison with the little
dogies grazing on it. Once he looked
to the ranch to support him; now he
Is looking tor something to support
the ranch. 49,
Evening star., 1939-10-08
THE "MORAL HUNTSMAN"
BY the Right Reu James E. Freeman D., ILL., D., D. c. L.
Bishop OF Washington

course has never been more evident.
Will craftsmanship or diplomacy or more
Of prosperity stay the course of ruthless
men and nations and insure the peace
and tranquility of the world? Is Amer
lean genius SO masterful that 1t can
resist forces within or without that are
bent upon their selfish, Goddess designs?
These are questions that this genera
ton must answer, and no sense of self
assurance can give us peace, where there
Is no peace. History repeats itself, and
men create vast corporate interests,
states and empires and think themselves
secure. only to come at length to a day
OF reckoning. Moral and spiritual val
ues, a life governed and disciplined by
acknowledged and practiced orderly and
decent ways of living, these alone give
security and peace. Our boasts of broad
ening culture, Of cleverness and skill In
mechanics and the arts, our growing
power and wealth, these avail us little
when evil and malevolent forces are
abroad. America, most favored of ma
tons, serene in its proud isolation, has
grown SNUG, self-assured and proudly
concelted. 1t has permitted subversive
influences to go unchecked and un-
hindered, crime to become one of its
largest and most costly corporate in
terests. alien influences to enjoy license
unrestrained and unrebuked, and the
standards of home and social life to
decline to level that imperils the
things Of decency and self-respect. Any
consistent appraisal of the past quarter
century discloses moral sag in our
life. We have periodic spasms of re-
form, and now and again some cour-
ageous leader challenges us to action.
One does not have to resort to the ways
of a narrow, ungenerous pessimism to
consistently appraise the worlds present
drifts and tendencies. We do not need
an Osler to diagnose our ills. In saner,
soberer moments we can do 1t ourselves.
We have here in America marvellous
recuperative powers. We do. under
stress Of circumstances, respond to a
challenge to better our estate. That
challenge is here today. We want peace,
we want recovery from our economic
and social ills we want to live our life
and to live 1t freely and fully These
things We can do If we are sufficiently
sober and prepared to follow the ways
of the moral huntsman' They are
ways that mean the recovery of moral
and spiritual values; they are ways that
mean a people that exalts righteousness
in all the pursuits of life They are
ways that alone lead to happiness, Sc
curity and peace.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

A few years ago H. G. Wells wrote an
article In which he characterized Christ
in noble figure Of speech. He spoke Of
Him as "a great moral huntsman, strid-
ing across the landscape of history, dig
ging men out Of the little burrows OF re-
spectability In which they had ensconced
themselves" He may have borrowed his
striking phrase from Thompson's Hound
Of Heaven" In which the poet describes
the persistent search Of Christ for the
redemption Of man and the restoration
Of his moral and spiritual character.
Somehow these days compel men to a
fresh consideration Of the purpose and
design of the ministry of Jesus. When
the world reaches stage where its con-
adence is impaired and its course uncer-
tain 1t turns with freshened reverence to
Him, who In days of self-seeking and the
pursuit Of its selfish interests it neglects.
Such time is the present. 1t is tragi-
cally evident that what men have created
out of their conceits and genius has
proved utterly inadequate to secure to
them the things they most cherish.
They can build great cities, develop art,
attain great heights in their intellectual
schemes. do through mechanical genius
the seemingly impossible, but they have
not as yet devised system that will
guarantee and preserve to them the most
coveted and essential things of life.
After all the progress OF the centuries,
We have made little progress in securing
to ourselves the continuing peace and
happiness of the race. We have been
voluble In our expressions of peace, we
have signally failed to employ the only
means that can secure 1t. This genera
ton has sought and sought persistently
material things; its reverence for moral
and spiritual attainment has been cold
and indifferent. 1t has evidenced a
formal recognition Of religion and moral
values; 1t has given too casual and cold
response to Christian precepts and wor-
ship. At the, highest approximation Of
Its assumed virtues 1t has tacitly given
the Christian Church and the ideals for
which 1t stands a place of infrequent
recognition. 1t has tolerated religion,
not practiced it. The postwar years
failed to teach the lessons which four
years Of bitter strife made urgent
The moral huntsman" persists in His
course but as yet He has failed to dig
us out of our little burrows Of respecta-
bility.' What this assumed respectability
is, it would be difficult to say. Will new
and more critical situation open our
eyes and give us understanding minds
and responsive wills? The folly of our
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Pressure on Rumuniu

Protracted negotiations in Moscow
between Soviet officials and Turkish
emissaries portend little but i'll for
Southeastern Europe, and especially
Rumania, for it is clearly evident by
now that the Soviet Union is striving
to cut Rumania off from the rear in
order more effectively to work her
will with King Carols kingdom--the
recovery of Bessarabia, former Rus
sian territory now part of Rumania.
And beyond Rumania stand all of
the Balkan states, watching the
Baltic states succumb one by one to
Russia's pressure.
Turkeys foreign minister, Sukru
Saracoglu, went to Moscow Septem-
Der 26, before the German Russian
partition of Poland was negotiated,
and has been required to remain
there, working out a far broader
agreement than Turkey expected to
result from his talks
Dominating the Dardanelles, Turkey
holds the key to the Black Sea and
with it the fate of Rumania, which
besides Bessarabia embraces large
and rich areas formerly belong
ing to her neighbors- Bulgaria and
Hungary. Turkey is on the point
OF concluding final mutual assistance
agreements with Great Britain and
France, implementing the temporary
accords negotiated last spring when
Prime Minister Chamberlain was
building his anti-aggression front in
Eastern Europe. That Turkey already
has swung far into the Soviet orbit
was indicated last week when it was
revealed that the definitive agree
ments would include an exemption
in case Britain and France should
60 to war against Soviet Russia.
= But the Ankara government now
is being expected to go much further,
apparently to agree to close the
strategic Dardanelles to British and
French warships and to remain neu-
trail if Russia marches into Rumania
to get Bessarabia, an event which
may lend encouragement to Hungary
and Bulgaria in a general move
ment of reclamation against the ter
ritory of King Carol. The final re-
suit would be the reduction of Ru-
mania to an impotent little kingdom.
But before the dismemberment of
Rumania can be accomplished the
door must be locked, the barrier
raised against any British and
French interference, for unlike the
Baltic, blocked off by Germany, the
Black Sea could become a British
French lake unless Turkey, which
rules the Dardanelles, can be in
Inundated into closing the straits to
allied warships.
Turkeys friendship with Russia is
almost traditional. The two countries
have co-operated often, and, An
kara was pleased when, after con-
| cluding mutual aid agreements with
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Building Strike Threut

The threatened general strike in
the local building industry is abso-
lutely without justification, lacking
as it does any sounder basis than the
conflicting claims of rival unions for
the same work.
The trouble grows out of the de-
mand of the teamsters for the right
to drive mobile concrete mixers, and
the refusal of operating engineers
to relinquish this function. Both are
afiliates of the American Federation
of Labor.
An outsider has natural difficulty
in attempting to weigh the merits
of the issue as between the dispu-
tants, but the engineers are en-
phasizing that they have contracts
for this work which they are obliged
to carry out.
The strike threat would assume
less serious proportions If but the two
unions Immediately concerned were
involved, as there is always a good
chance under such circumstances of
working out satisfactory compro-
mise. In this case, though, there is
danger that additional building
trades will be drawn in. A spokes-
man for the teamsters already has
expressed the belief that "co-opera-
ton" will be Forthcoming and the
Washington Building Trades Council
has authorized a general strike call
in sympathy with this group.
On the favorable side is the fact
that the strike call is being held in
allegiance; one union-carpenters-
has announced it will have no part in
the Walkout, and some others are
said to be under orders to take the
same stand.
Underlying the local situation Of
course is the jurisdictional strike evil
that has gone unchecked in the ranks
of the American Federation of Labor
so long that reform comes hard.
The Building Trades Department
of the Federation recently outlawed
jurisdictional strikes and set up ma
chinery for adjusting controversies
springing from this source, and in
the present instance has threatened
revocation of the charter of the
Washington Building Trades Council
if the strike call is issued pending
efforts at settlement. The practice,
however, apparently has become too
well established to be disposed of so
easily.
In the meantime, unless better
Judgment prevails, Washington,
which has had it's share of building
labor trouble in recent years, is con-
fronted with the prospect of another
tie-up which will affect millions of
dollars worth of work.
Strangely, the Labor Department
which took an active part in the set
Ting the recent wage strike staged by
the teamsters' local, is non-commit-
tai on the possibility of action in the
current dispute. There is no reason
why the same interest should not be
evinced now.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Those Commercial Credits

uSSS
One section of the proposed neu-
trality bill prohibits loans or credits
to belligerent governments and their
subdivisions; but it permits, with
presidential approval, the granting
of ordinary commercial credits and
short-time obligations" of normal
character and falling due within
ninety days or less. These credits
may not be renewed, the bill provides.
None the less, some persons fear
that such credits to belligerent coun-
tries may lead to the building up Of
an American vested interest in the
allied cause and so draw us into the
war. But it seems evident that the
existence of a three month accumu-
lated trade Indebtedness is less Of
vested interest than the continuing
trade itself.
In peacetime most American ex-
ports to Europe are financed by the
extension of commercial credits of
varying maturities. In some cases,
for example heavy machinery, 120-
day terms are granted. Perishable
foodstuffs, on the other hand, are
usually sold for cash on the barrel
head. Cotton, leading export staple,
is generally sold on a ninety days
to-pay basis. The ninety day feature
of the proposed law should neither
work hardship on American exporters
nor Of itself stimulate exports.
The usual commercial credit is de-
signed to give the foreign buyer
chance to sell his goods before max
ing payment, while the American ex-
porter through the banks and other
lenders, is enabled to collect his
money at once. In other words,
banks and acceptance houses, for a
fee, finance the trade between the
date of shipment and the time, two
or three months later, when a foreign
importer settles his bill. Thus,
Texas cotton exporter who today
consigns shipment to Liverpool Is
able to get his money from his bank
at once. That bank In turn probably
ref1nances in New York. The cotton
arrives in England within a fort
night, but final payment is not made
by the Liverpool importer for an
other two and one-half months. In
transactions of this kind, however,
ownership usually changes hands at
the time of the sale as though the
sale were for cash. The seller or
financing agent has a" note In ex-
change for the goods; anything
which may happen to them within
the ninety-day period is the concern
of the buyer, and does not legally
affect the sale or redemption of the
note which he has given the seller.
England, France and Canada, the
nations most likely to use the ninety
day credits, already possess large in
vestments here. The mobilized dollar
bank balances and dollar securities
of their nationals, exclusive of gold
or direct investments, are sufficient
to give these three countries $3,40O,-
100000 in American funds. From
that, it would seem reasonable to
suppose that these buyers of Amer
ican goods would be able to keep
their ninety-day obligations current.
The Johnson Act, prohibiting loans
to defaulting war debtors, does not
preclude commercial credits of the
type the new bill considers. The
ninety -day-credit provision, If en-
acted, therefore should open the way
to larger volume Of European trade
of a short-term, self-liquidating
character
Evening star., 1939-10-08

which include year and more Of
violent abuse of Mr.. Roosevelt and
America in the government controll-
ed Nazi press, Germanys expecta-
ton that we should now snatch her
chestnuts out of the fire is as insin-
cere as it is ironical.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

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Nations productive resources and a CO.
ordination of those resources in some
tentative blueprint for q streamlined
organization. Every other major nation
in the world not only has such blue
print, but now is actually building on its
blueprint.
But, when the United States started to
make preliminary appraisal of capacity
Of some key industries, the trouble
started.
With remarkable ineptitude, the War
Department picked a group of big
name" industrialists to serve as its War
Resources Board and failed to select
single individual to represent labor, the
Nations primary resource and the one
that can cause the most trouble in pc
riod of crisis unless its interests are pro-
tected.
With equal ineptitude, the War De-
partment allowed accounts to be written
of the powers that would be lodged in
the War Resources Board over prices and
FAONNSVAOAA dAN AAuUSVAAdA OASdAAAAdeAOA
in time of war. When prices were men
toned, farm leaders pricked up their
ears. Soon they learned that no farm
representative was on the board that ap-
peared to be in line to do any wartime
price fixing.
Mr.. Roosevelt rather quickly was
apprised of the attitude of labor and of
agriculture. He assured farm repre-
sentatives that any plan with which he
might have anything to do would In
clude no food administration and would
give to agriculture parity with other
groups.
Labor was appeased by announcement
that the War Resources Board would be
disbanded and that any future planning
would be through the regular Govern
ment departments.
Now the regular departments Of Gov
ernment-each . partisan advocate of
the interests it represents-is studying
the Nations productive resources and is
trying to learn Of the experience in the
last war. The fact that departments are
studying what went on irplol7 and 1918
Is leading to whispers that the United
States 10 getting Ill ret to participate IN
1850 war.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

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La gaceta., 1939-06-02
Ell moviimiiento obrero local, ~nacional y mundial

aumenta su production a naqui
ma y 20 supongo, sin que pueda
probarlo, que vende los tabacos
como hechos a mano.
GPor que los tabaQueros no lie
piden establezca una diferencia
por medic de etiquetas, entire la
production a mano y la de las
maquinas?
Sc vende 10 hecho a maquina
en- la misma base de 10 hecho a
mano, con toda seguridad que
obtiene una exraordinaria ga
nancia temporal. Digo ganancia
temporal porqre muchos de los
fumadores dejaran de consumir
esa marca cuando Sc enteren de
que fabrica a maquina y oculta
este importantisimo detalle al
plblico.
Apreciamos la carta y la pa
samos para estudio a los torce-
doreS locales.
La gaceta., 1939-06-02
DERECHOS A LOS
PATPONOS

La Junta Nacional de Rela-
clones del Trabajo ACADIA de in
formar al comite de labor de Ia
Camara de Representatives. de la
naci6n que enmendara sus re-
glas para dar a los patronos ell
derechO a pedir election de con-
trato collective bajo algunas cir
cunstancias.
El presidente de la Junta, j.
Warren Madden, declare recien
.emente que no existen razones
validas para impedir Sc diera
A los p~atronos csc p~rivllegio,
ne ahora Sc halla solo lim!tadO
i las uniones y trabajadores.
Madden estima, sin embargo.
Tue ell derecho de los trabaja-
lores debe estar ampliamente
protegido.
AlgUnos patronos lie han da.
do a entender a la Sra. Norton,
presidente del comite de Labor.
rue 81 ell derecho a pedir eleccio.
mes Sc les concede, las quejas de
los duenos disminuiran en- I'm
500 o mas.