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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
WAGE-HOUR LAW
C COMBING

The wage-hour law is certain to
get a strong combing-over. Last
winter a strong movement in the
house had already developed aimed
at exemptions for farming, picking,
processing and packing traces.
This fall the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers drew up a
further formal complaint that the
present law obstructs re-employ-
ment without any compromising
| increase in industrial efficiency.
The wage-hour law has devoted
friends and Influential enemies in
| congress, and some attempt to re-
write the law completely is almost
| certain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
FLASHES
OF LIFE
by The Associated Press
BLASTED

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A grizzled
49.year-old dynamiter, denying he
was drunk as charged, told Judge
John L. Draper he had eaten bits
Of explosive to stop a headache.
Them pills." he explained, lis the
onliest thing that'll make my head
stop hurtin' after a hard day of
olastin. But it makes me stagger."
The judge freed him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
GRACEFUL COCKTAIL SERVERS

Graceful new cocktail servers of
sparkling clear crystal are double
bowled-the lower bowl for ~lchipped
ice, the top bowl for fruit or sea-
food-a charming gift for the house
wife who likes to serve delicious
food in special ways.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05

United States new car registra-
ton for the first quarter Of 1888
approximately 81 per cent
higher than for the same period
Of 1897.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
NEXT: The reciprocal trade
agreements fight.

The Dominion of Canada
third among the gold-produclng
countries of the world. If the Pnll-
ippine output is excluded from the
figures for the United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05

During summer months, steel
workers are supplied with quantities
of gumdrops and salt. The gumdrops
provide energy and the salt is cool
ing
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
REWARD

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Policemen
an'nony ]. Mcguire and Karl D..
oprague hesitantly accepted six
Eases of beer from a truck driver for
Aelping get his truck out of a ditch.
out they won't drink the brew.
ehlef ]. T. Peterson said the beer
ana truck we're stolen. The truck
Was recovered, too.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
FLYING

FLYING HOUND"
MICHIGANTOWN, Ind Instead
Of a pack of hounds, 60 fox hunters
used-an airrlane.
Aviator Russell Stair, flying low,
sgnalled whenever he spotted one
OF the animals.
The system worked so well they
caught seven foxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
The Family
DOCTO R
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, journal of the American
Medical Association, and Of

Hygela, the Heaitn magazine
Unless we plan our meals and
choose intelligently from among the
wide varieties Of foods now avail
able, we cannot get an adequate
diet, no matter how much we eat
or spend. The amount Of money
spent on food is important because
a purse that is too lean simply
cannot buy the essential foods.
Durino the long period of the de-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05

HE'S GOT 'LIGION
DALLAS-A thief broke into a
Methodist church.
All he took was O Bible.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
10 D. {. Youths Learn
Horsemanship at Camp

Sixteen Washington youths are
among the 154 c. M. T. c. enrollees
being taught horsemanship at the
Fort Belvoir (Va) cavalry camp.
Bordering the Potomac River just
south of Mount Vernon the cavalry
summer camp was moved three
years ago from Fort Myer because
of crowded traffic conditions. Army
troops and Reserve officers are con-
Evening star., 1940-07-08

creditation by the Board of Educa-
ton shall have the same effect as
accreditation by the various State
departments of education. Colum-
bus University Junior College was
the first local institution to be given
this approval.
The junior college is now author
lied to grant the title of associate
in arts to students completing the
three-year course at evening ses-
sions Also it can offer pre-iegal
courses In conformity with the re-
quirements of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

The latter favored continuing all
present farm subsidy programs, with
governmental crop control features
removed. Price fixing, on the other
hand, would involve greater govern
mental control.
Aides said Secretary Wallace
would appear before the Democratic
Platform Committee at Chicago to
ask party approval of present agri-
cultural policies.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c, MONDAY JULY g. 1910

street NE, red course; John P. Nc
Clure, 125 Chamberlain avenue,
Kenwood, Chevy Chase. Md, red
course; John G.. McIlwee, SIT Pea
body street NV. red course; Robert
B: Richards, 1926 Park road, red
course; Arthur B. Rounds, 34l6 Rod
man street NV, red course; Donald
U. Sparrow, 4339 Chesapeake street
NV, red course; William w.
Stevens, 1921 Newark street NV,
red course; Joseph D. Stout, $3.50
Porter street NV, red course, and
William G. Wharton, jr., 3547 Thir-
teenth street NV, red course.
The white" trainees are men at
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Farm Leaders May Seek
Plank on Price-Fixinq

BY the Associated Press.
Administration farm leaders in
dicated today they would ask the
Democratic National Convention to
adopt an agricultural plank broad
enough to cover governmental fixing
of farm prices If economic develop
ments should interfere with present
crop programs.
Such a plank would be in sharp
issue with the Republican platform.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

ducting the one-month training
course.
The Washington youths attending
are:
Stewart S. Bassett, 4410 Chesa-
peake street NV, white course;
George w. Conger, 230 A street NE,
white course; William A. Duvall,
1925 Chester street Sc, white
course; Thomas j. Gavin, 1887
Thirty-third street NV, white
course; Homer H. Hackett, 1902
Porter street NV, red course;
Daniel H. Hopping, 1903 Geranium
street NV. white course; William
H. Kerr, 3717 Reservoir road, red
course; John E. Kester, Bill Tenth
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Aberdeen Issues Call
For Skilled Mechanics

Automotive laboratory mechanics
are wanted by the War Department
for the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Experience in general automotive
repair and overhaul work on heavy
duty automotive equipment is the
basic requirement. Age limits are
18 to so and pay ranges from 81 200
to S1,620.
Details are available at the Civil
Service Commission, Seventh and
F streets NV.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Education Board Approves
Columbus Junior COLLEGE

Approval of Columbus University
Junior College was announced today
by the Board of Education. The
boards action is in line with an
act of Congress giving new powers
to the board.
The new law provides that ac-
Evening star., 1940-07-08

Officials of the Bari Levant Fair
in. Italy announced that entries this
year were more than double those
of 1899.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

tending their third Citizens Military
Training Camp, while red" trainees
are attending their second.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
Colonel Church Rides Again

Has anything constructive been &C.
complished by the grandstand play OF
Colonel Samuel Harden Church in his
offer of a million-dollar reward for
bringing Hitler home alive? One may
doubt it, and one may doubt that any
similar gestures will do the faintest bit
OF good in returning the world to sanity.
Church, as head of the Carnegie Insti-
tute, has responsible position. He
should know that the United States is at
peace with Germany. He should know
that grandstand offer OF this kind of a
reward for the kidnapping of the head of
nation with which his own is at peace can
accomplish nothing valuable, but can on
the other hand only add to the worlds
already over-abundant supply of ill-will
Colonel Church has ridden off in
several directions on several horses in
the past. The title of colonel attaching
to this worker for peace, by the way,
deScendS from time when he was on
the staff of Governor Hoadley of Ohio and
won a gift sword by sterling military
work in suppressing riots in Cincinnati
in 1884 Church was militantly pro-ally
as soon as European war broke out in
1914. AS early as 1915, his writings were
included in little book published in
England called Sixty American Opin-
ions on the War" which purported to
show show many friends we have in
America" He bitterly assailed Germany
as solely responsible for that war, and
was not without influence in building
the mood that caused the United States
to enter it in 1917. Once the United
States was in, Church was pretty implac-
able. "We are engaged in bloody and
remorseleSS war with the most pitileSs
and despicable nation that has ever at
tackled the peace and dignity of civiliza-
ton this high note of raging battle
ought to be sounded until . peace is
within our grasp and upon our own
terms" he wrote.
Church emerged from that war as an
officer of the French Legion of Honor In
September of 1888 he was urging that
America resolve that it Twill never fight
again." though in the same breath he
assaied Hitler as "the most malevolent
and dangerous power on EARTH" He
urged that America keep out of the COM
ing war, though all the world should
sneer. Now comes this grotesque demand
for a million-dollar international kid
naping. Time will show whether Colonel
Church has contributed anything TO
peace and to his espoused cause OF keep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
All Share In Credit

The news that sufficient taxes have
already been paid in to the city to allow
retirment of the temporary loan whole
month before 1t falls due is pleasing.
Everyone should take some pride in this
and should also compliment our city
officials on the fine and efficient job
they are doing In the matter OF control
ling the city's finances, While the retire
ment OF the loan actually does not entail
any saving for the city, 1t does mean lot
with respect to our credit in the money
markets and will certainly be Of benefit
In the future.
The fact that heavy payment of taxes
In the last few days swelled the total paid
In has enabled the city to arrive at the
point where 1t had sufficient funds to
meet the last loan floated to enable the
city to keep doing business until It's next
source OF steady income started to drib-
BILE In. OF course Waterbury has always
had good record with regard to pay
ment OF temporary loans, Many cities in
the last decade or so have been forced to
default and this virtually amounts to
bankruptcy. It's long tedious pull to
regain normally after such failure,
Waterbury certainly is to be envied that
1t has not failed In any such obligation,
To the taxpayers of Waterbury 60 the
most credit naturally for the present sit
uation. They have needed the announce
raents and warnings about paying their
taxes promptly. In addition many of
them are paying full years taxes in
stead OF splitting 1t up in two install
ments, This results In personal saving
which the city does not begrudge, While
large tax payments naturally swell the
total faster, It's the small amounts which
really constitute the backbone. They
are contributed by the small home own
ers and by the thousands of rent-payers
whose regular payments to landlords
mean prompt taxes, The renter pays
just as much In taxes as the owner, All
share in today's glory of achievement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
Pearson And Allen Column Credited For
Exposing Political Scandal In Louisiana

For Lousana's cleaning OF It's political slate with
the inauguration, the first OF May, OF new, non
machine Governor Sam Jones, The Washington
Merry Co Round, Drew Pearson's and Robert s.
Aliens daily column appearing In The Waterbury
Democrat and some 400 others throughout the
country, deserves great measure Of credit,
SO declares Dolph Frantz, editor Of The Shreve-
port Journal, the only newspaper III Louisiana
which ran Oh the scheduled date The Washington
Merry Co Round column last June II, first Of
series OF damaging affidavit sustained attacks Oh
the state administration OF the then Governor Rich
chine.
Mr. Frantz wrote recently TO Drew Pearson, on the
eve OF Governor Jones taking office:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
. HlGHLlGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS
Novel Humanizes
Chicago Massacre

In an effort 10 analy2e all the
elements which must Of necessity
make up any violent labor reaction,
Meyer Levin has employed with eX-
traordinary success a relatively new
literary medium In his "Clti2enS"
(Viking: $2,75).
Levin has chosen for his clinical
study the Chicago Memorial day
massacre of 1887, masked II as a
Fourth Of July massacre. " Is a
humaniZed document Of the trag-
edy that took the lives Of 10 steel
strike pickets - document In
novel form, as important TO a full
understanding of the catastrophe
as are the Grams Of reports and
testimony attesting 10 the physical
facts.
Levin has interviewer fact with
fiction. supplying character and
evidence OF human emotions
where case records omit them. He
uses verbatim part Of the testi-
mony before the La Toilette Civil
Liberties committee, but he calls
II the Gottschalk committee be-
cause he has filled In the gaps In
the record with logical sequences
derived from his own Imagination.
He makes composites OF the po-
lice officers, OF steel executives, Of
prosecuting authorities. In Sc
ries of 'interludes, he gives breath
and ambitions and human faults
to the dead strikers, none Of whom
he ever knew.
DR.. Mitchell Wilmer Is the CEN
trail figure in the novel, but Mitch
Is used primarily as guide on a
sort of intellectual Cooks tour,
inquiring into motives. trying TO
find scientific explanations for the
phenomena spread before him.
1t is a depressing chronicle. and
yet not so depressing. There are
moments Of futility, brighter
flashes of hope toward a new Or
der, not through self-annihilating
revolution but through changes
wrought by costly mistakes.
Levin is not indicative about
anything that may have happened,
but he Is heartlessly probing
ruthlessly realistic. If you have
ever seen a picket line, you will
want to read Citizens" You will
want to know what makes people
subject themselves to danger and
privation in their fight for rights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04

And the brain Trusters' Mr..
Hull has In mind are not the
proverbial pair OF Corcoran and
Cohen, but only one man the In
effable, inexplicable, irrepressible
Adolph Augustus Berle, Jr.
The ineffable Adolf possesses q
paradoxical capacity for getting IN
Mr.. Hull's hair. while at the same
time Mr., Hull leans on his assist
ant Secretary OF State as one OF
the most important members Of
the State Department.
This Is the key TO Berries weird
makeup. People don't like him,
but they can't get along without
him.
LATE FOR DINNER
His capacity for offending Is
unsurpassed In q city where snob-
berry Is one Of the accomplished
arts.
Arriving at the Jugoslav Lega-
ton one night very late Tor dim
ner, the ineffable Adolf an
nounced: II have just been 10 q
very important White House con-
ference"
And yet Adolf can be the height
of charm and graciousness, just
as he can be the height of useful
ness TO Cordell Hull. He writes
some of Hull's most effective
speeches. helps frame some of the
most important U. s. foreign poi
icy, and as aide TO Mayor La
Guardia. helped to revitalize the
finances of New York. Also he
authored Section 77B Of the
Bankruptcy act helped reorganize
the New York savings banks dur
ing the 1882 depression, and wrote
a book on the obligation of cor
porations to their investors which
helped lay the foundation for the
Securities and Exchange Act.
Probably one reason the in
effable Adolf sometimes gets on
the nerves Of Secretary Hull Is
that he has been trying TO steer
Mr.. Hull's political path toward
the presidency. And MIR. Hull,
who considers himself with
some justice) one Of the shrewd-
est politicians ever bred In the
hills of Tennessee, thinks that
he Is completely capable Of steer
ing his own course.
The other man whom Adolf is
trying TO put across to the Ameri-
can public (as vice presidenD is
none other than Fiorello La
Guardia, who. 1t is generally
agreed. is just about the most skill
full putter-across-o In
the United States-except perhaps
for Franklin Roosevelt. LaGuar-
dia, however. does not resent
Berries solicitude. In fact. the
two are intimate friends. and
worked closely together when
Berle, as Chamberlain Of New
York pulled the city's bond values
from 80 TO lit.
CHILD PRODIGY
General Hugh Johnson is credit
ed with the remark: "Berle was
a child prodigy. No he is no
longer prodigy"
At any rate. Adolf graduated
from Harvard at i8-an age when
youngsters are just entering. He
had been reared In the intcllcc-
tual home Of a Congregational
minister by a father who had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04

Returning to the subject of the new
road up through the Naugatuck Valley
all motorists realize by now that in many
sections 1t would be next TO impossible to
do much about the existing highway. Take
the spots where the valley proper Is ex-
tremely narrow, just above Beacon Falls.
The only solution to using the existing
route would be to hang roadway along
the face of the rocks where the trolley
right of way exists. This would be quite
an engineering feat, If modern wide
highway was to be built, But the valley
isn't like this all the way and there are
many stretches where vast improvements
can be made over present lay-outs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
%ELNG

1.-THE Merry Co Round played tremendously
important part In the overthrow OF Longism In
Louisiana. Many citizens are st talking about
the initial exposure which was made through your
columns, which our newspaper was first 10 publish
In louisiana
"As you may already know our good friend Jimmy
Noe, who furnished you your first information on
the Louisiana scandal, was the key man In Sam
Jones victory. The Jones success would not have
been complete unless Jimmy Noe determined In
his fight Oh graft and corruption and faithful TO
the cause OF clean government, campaigned with
intense vigor and inspiration and h fine Job was
done for our state. You may be sure that you and
Mr. Allen had much to do witt, this victory"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
Selected Poem
FORGOTTEN SPRING

(Norl Lee in the Poets Corner, Hartford Times)
had forgotten the bright jonquills
In golden glory on the sweep OF the hills
And the gay, sweet song OF the brooks and rills-
had forgotten spring.
had forgotten the robins nest
With the little blue eggs meath a. throbbng breast
In the budding elm where the sun stopped to rest
had forgotten spring.
had forgotten the chill, sweet pain
In the caress OF the first spring rain
On the whispering grass where had lain
had forgotten spring.
| had forgotten in winters prose,
That Under the ice the stream still flows,
While meath the sonw, the violet grows
/ had forgotten spring.
I climb the hill where the horses plod
Turning the fresh. sweet smelling sod
I stand abashed in forgetting spring.
l had forgotten God.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04

Spring will burst on this part of the
nation in all it's glory one of these days.
Well wake up some bright and sunny
morning to find the air perfumed with
that magic of springtime; We'll hear
strange birds singing in the tree-tops;
we'll notice the pink and white buds on
the fruit trees. The transition is sud-
den one, but if you're watching Mother
Nature right now, you'll see she's just
about ready to throw off the dull cape
and don the brilliant one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04
Current Comment

The worst I can wish Of that
man Hitler is that he should black
out this house every night for the
rest of his unnatural life.
Unknown but immortal British
housewife on being admonished
by air wardens.
In my youth. never had the
benson OF such close companion
ship with a mule.
Postmaster General Farley In
Mule Day" address at Nashville.
The moral climate of the United
States is as varied as its physical
climate.
Attorney General Robert Jack
son.
You did not hate them or wish
them evil; you merely followed the
stern rule OF war: kill or be killed
General Manncrlieim In ms fare
well TO the Finnish army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-04

fought 10 clean up thine banking
system of Massachusetts, and
whose motto was "Despite all, the
truth Imposes ITSELF"
Berle, who Is now 49, did not
marry until he was 80, and when
he did, no picked out Beatrice
Bend Bishop, woman Of equal
brilliance, also an heiress 10 sew
eral million dollars.
Mrs. Berle had been disoWned
by her family In y quarrel over
finances, and when the wedding
day rolled around, 1t was Henry
p, Fletcher, eX-chairman OF the
Republican National Committee
and uncle Of Mrs, Berle, who con-
Quoted her to the altar.
DIR. BEATRICE BERLE
Mrs. Berle Is q remarkable wo-
man. A doctor Of medicine, she
Is practicing physician, and
spends part OF her time at Gal
linger hospital, the government
supported institution for WASH
ington's poorer citizens. She also
spends several hours a day tutor
ing her own children, leads SO
busy a life that New York ru-
mors once had 1t that the Berries
had twin tubs installed IN their
bathroom, because that was the
only way they could find fifteen
minutes to talk to each other.
Mrs. Berries greatest passion In
life Is children-and she doesn't
care much whose children Ar
irving In Buenos Aires for the 1896
Pan-American Conference, Mrs.
Berle was entertained at the
prim and palatial estate Of AM
bassador Weddell. Looking out
over its gardens, Mrs. Berle left
her hostess aghast with the re-
mark:
"Oh. this Is such a lovely
garden. We must have a chill
Gren's party Immediately. I'm
going to invite about 20 chill
dren."
Berle is an original Brain
Truster and first came to know
Roosevelt when FDR was. still gov
ernor of New York, and Adolf
still teaching at Columbia. 1t
was three Columbia professors
Moley. Tugwell and Berle-who
formed the nucleus of the first
Brain Trust, and of these, the
sole survivor is Berle.
NO PRIVATE LIFE
Paradoxically, Berle was first
appointed Assistant Secretary of
State in order to handle press
relations job for which no one
could have been worse suited.
For like Rex Tugwell. Adolf hates
publicity. yet the public spotlight
light seems to follow him unceas-
ingly.
II suppose the price Of work.
ing for the government Is TO
have ones private life explored"
he says. "but I think II need not
extend beyond the individual to
his family. 20 have them thrown
I'm the jackpot rs we'll"
Berle has now settled down into
a special groove in the state De-
partment, where he doesn't have
to worry about press relations. He
has had a finger In the Hitler
seedlings, the sending OF an en-
voy to the Vatican. and especial-