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JOHNSON REQUESTS N. R. A. Chief, in St. Louis i Yalk, Says Drive Is Ahead of Schedule. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 14 —Straight| speaking Gen. Hugh S. Johnson flew Into the Middle West yesterday with & plea for the President’s re-employment program and explained that its success | depended upon co-operation of the! “people in each town” and, in the last Bnalysis. upon the women. | “Already the ranks of the idle are| thinning,” he said. To the quoted assertion of skeptics | that “there are Blue Eagles everywhere, | but the employers that show them are | cheating.” the national recovery admin- | §strator assured a crowd of 15,000 per- ! sons that action against the "umm»1 will COmE' lached for leadership. ortant chiseling {ringe” ater. Gen. Johnson flew here from Wash- | ington in an Army plane, and soon | efter the close of his address, made at | the open air Municipal Theater in For- | est Park, started the return trip East.| Receives Vigorous Applause. ‘The sweitering crowd which gathered to hear Gen. Johnson, Gov. Guy B.| Park of Missouri and other dignitaries, | mpplauded vigorously. Frequently the national recovery administrator was in- | terrupted by hand clapping. | In asking the co-operation of the| American housewife he said | “Woman. in defense of the support ©of her home. is about as safe for! triflers as a lioness at the door of a| denful of cubs. When every Amer- | can housewife understands that the lue Eagle on everything that she per- | mits to come into her home is a symbol | ©f its restoration to security. may God | have mercy on the man or group of | men Who attempt to trifle with this| bird. | “The job of any woman in this pro- Bram is a very vital, active and definite one. In the first place she should in- sist on a display of the Blue Eagle by | every supplier of her home.” “But that is not enough—already, we have heard some boasting of manu- facturers, ‘We don't need the Blue Eagle. Our dealers’ eagle will cover sales | of the goods.’ Far Ahead of Schedule. “Oh ye of little sense, It makes no | difference whether it is an automobile or a package of pins—women will ask | for the manufacturer's eagle on radiator | ceps or maker's package and no, $30,000.000 corporation will be permitted | to cover its omissions behind the self- | sacrifice of a $30.000 dealer.” Explaining the progress of the cam- | paign the general asserted that the | President’s re-employment program is far ahead of schedule. “We are not try- ing to get figures. We don't need them just now and neither do you, The Blue | Eagle is a very visible bird. If you want to know how the plan is working in | your town, count the stores and fac- | tories with eagles up as you go along the street.” “Today this country is astir from coast to coast. Nothing can stop the | movement. Along the line of march | are such men as stood on the banks of the Hudson while Fulton's steam- boat got up steam and cried ‘She'll | never run’ We also heard a similar complaint in Washington for a month.” Appeals for Buying. ‘The speaker asserted that violation of the N. R. A. code for any business man “is a sentence of economic death.” Buy, buy now!” he shouted at those persons with money or income. “Buy everything you need and have so long | denied yourself. It is the key to the ‘whole situation.” Gov. Park, who spoke briefly, as- serted it is “the patriotic duty of every citizen to obey his (Roosevelt’s) com- mands. “We must not let up until every willing worker has a job,” he said “Missouri will do her part.” g Representatives from nearby States attended the rally. Leaders from Oklahoma, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas and Kentucky were introduced by the chairman. Before Gen. Johnson's appearance a telegram was read from President Roosevelt as follows: “St. Louis today in its N. R. A. organization celebration performs a great service, one of value to itself, the State of Missouri and the Nation. Gen. Johnson will extend to you my greet- ings, congratulations and appreciation of St. Louis’ 100 per cent support of the national recovery. ‘With best wishes, “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” TWO MEN LYNCHED; THIRD STILL MISSING Bodies of Two of Trio Indicted for Attack on White Girl Rid- dled by Bullets. By the Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala., August 14 —One of three colored men spirited away by & lynching party was still missing today. after the bodies of his two companions were found riddled by bullets. The three—Dan Pippen, jr. 18; El- more Clark, 28, and A. T. Harden, 16— had been indicted for killing Miss Vau- dine Maddux. ve whose battered body was found in a savine Police said that as a result of rumors of a threatened attack on the jail here tney decided to remove the prisoners to Birmingham for safekeeping. Sheriff R. Y. Shamblin said that on the way thel arty was halted vesterday near the efferson County line by two automo- bile loads of armed men, who seized the men. Later the bodies of Pippen and Har- den were found near Blocton. Acting on instructions from Gov. B. M. Miller, Judge Henry B. Foster ordered a grand Jury investigation. Bitter criticism came from the Inter- national Labor Defense, radical organi- #ation. Lawyers for the International Labor Defense had sought to represent Pippen. but were ruled out. Sheriff Shamblin charged that feeling aroused by “the interference of the I ternational Labor Defense lawyers in the case is directly responsible for this wviolence.” Track Smugglers in Planes. Egyptian air force pilots searching for | smugglers in Sinai reported that the tracks of the party’s camels were plainly visible from the air. Minute Mystery SOLUTION TO CALLING “SQUAD CAR 1B.” The professor believed, as was later proved, that the robbery was a fake because both girls said the stickup men jammed guns against their ribs. As the rain was swirling from all directions he kn they would not have been driving with their windows down. Had the windows not been down the alleged robbers could not have stuck the guns against the women's bodies. GUILT SOON LEARNS TO LiE—Breddon. - | Eagles?” | and unseen audience did THE EVENING N. R. A. Ahead of Program ! HUUSEW'VES, A"] Johnson Tells St. Louis Gathering Success of Presi- dent’s Re-employment Drive Is Inevitable With Loyalty of Nation Behind It. By the Associated Press. an address made here yesterday by Gen. | at the door of s den full of cubs. ST. LOUIS, August 14—The text of | When every American housewife under- ° | thing stands that the Blue Eagle on every- that she permits to come into Hugh 8. Johnson, National ReECOVETY ner home is a symbol of its restora- Administrator, follows: The President’s re-employment pro- gram is far ahead of schedule. We are not trying to get figures. We do not need them just now and neither | 0 you. The Blue Eagle is a very visible bird. If you want to know how the plan is working in your town, count | the stores and factories with Eagles up as you go along the street, That is the answer and you can get it for yourself by the simple use of your eyes Right now, in this town, the Blue Eagle window is the rule and not the exception. How did these early birds happen to flock forth in such sudden numbers 50 spontaneously and so soon? Because this country—weary of woe— | was ready to make any sacrifice for national co-operation against this accursed depression. Because this land Because at the very darkest moment of our four years'| night—March 4th last —that leadership came like an answer to prayer, and in a day or two vitalized and incarnated | the yearning wish in over one hundred million human hearts. Because, hav- ing wakened an almost dying hope, by its early acts, it has never paused for one m steady hand has struck one blow after another with the regularity and force of a trip hammer to forge the one tion to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who a tempt to trifie with this bird. ‘Woman’s Job Vital, The job of any woman in this pro- gram is a very vital, active and defi- nite one. In the first place, she should insist on a display of the Blue Eagle by every supplier of her home. But that is not enough—already, we have heard some boasting of manufac- turers. “We don't need the Blue Eagle. Our dealers’ eagle will cover sales of our goods.” “Oh ye of little sense.” It makes no difference whether it is an automobile or a package of pins— women will ask for the manufacturer's eagle on radiator caps or maker's package and no1$30,000,000 corporation will be permitted to cover its omissions behind the self-sacrifice of a $30,000 dealer, But mere passive co-operation of women is not enough. It is not an easy job to get an idea—even as simple | as that of the Blue Eagle—into the minds of everybody in every nook and cranny of a Nation as great as this in 30 days. It is to the intelligent women of the country that N. R. A. appeals to | see to it that there shall be not one ent—-but with a strong, swift | weapon with which we can defeat the ! worst enemy that ever threatened our shores. That weapon is confidence — confidence in ourselves, in our institu- tions, and in our leadership. The job is almost done. These growing flocks of Eagles are as sure a certain sign of returning confidence as robins are of Spring. And like the coming of Spring they have covered the whole country. The Blue Eagle means some- thing vastly more than the rich re- sponse to bulletin No. 3 or any other act or word of N. R. A People have jumped at it as the first concrete opportunity to show in a definite way the belief of this whole country in every act and deed of the greatest leader any distressed country ever had at a great crisis—Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To the administra- tion which I represent before vou to- night. this man stands as a symbol of the faith of a whole people. Not Enough Eagles. are asked almost breathlessly da; “Are there enough Blue “Will the plan succeed”” The answer to the first question is “No, there are not enough Blue Eagles There won't be enough Blue Eagles until every emplover’s window is adorned.” The an<wer to the second question—“Will the plan succeed?"— is altogether up to the people in each town. You don't need to ask how many Blue Eagles there are. Just look about you. If you see a place where there is none and you do any kind of businees there you have a right to ask: “Brother, where is your Blue Eagle?” And (if the answer does not to you seem falr), to take your business elsewhere. If every person in this seen that for a week, there would not be a store or shop or factory in this whole country without its Blue Eagle. Never in the history of the world was a people’s destiny more suddenly and completely placed in their own hands. If you want to continue in this national val- ley of the shadow of economic death, ignore this bird. If you want to lift your country out of it, insist on this Blue Eagle in the window and on the wares and merchandise of every man who works for another man. It is the most potent talisman for good that ever was given to a country. Men have died by thousands to defend a muslin banner because it stood for a sovereign pride. but here is a chance to live by millions by adherence to a symbol that stands solely for the solidarity of & people. ‘There i5 one sure reason for success. This is a move to bring happiness back to homes and homes are the peculiar province of our wives and our sisters and our mothers. It is they who have borne the brunt of this four years' blight on decency in living. And they are the purchasing agents of America. It is said that women do 80 per cent of buying. It is more ac- curate to say they do (or in some measure control) 100 per cent of our buying. This whole venture is in the hands of our women. It is they who can put the Blue Eagle on everything that stands or moves in trade and commerce. Our cause could not be in surer hands. Men might argue about how many business angels could stand on the point of an econoniic needle— and let the chance go by. but a woman of her home We every HAT was & smart gag those fellows in Phila- delphia pulled,” one confidence man said to another as they talked over busi- ness opportunities for industrious young men. “These fellows picked out & leading citizen by the name of Black. Then one of them drop- (44 of their sisters in their community who does not know and understand what must be done to put her men folk back on somebody's pay roll. In every city, town and hamlet in this land, there should be a local committee charged with the duty of carrying our great President’s program into effect. Naturally some of these groups are active and alert and able and some are less so. There is one way to make them all so and that is to get the women folk of their community after them. That, madam—wherever and whoever you are—is the biggest part of your job. Get in touch with your local com- mittee tomorrow. If it is asleep, wake it up. If, for some reason, there is none in your town, get together a few live women: form one—telegraph me and you will be duly commissioned in 48 hours to supply the need your men folk have neglected. The job of these committees is—by a store-to-store and factory-to-factory canvass—to get the Blue Eagle on every employer'’s window and. by a house-to-house canvass, to marshal the great army of women buy- ers in this country behind the Blue Eagle. All this is not a campaign of intimi- dation, It is & campaign of explana- tion. ‘The only thing to make the President’s plan effective is to under- stand the President’s plan. And all that is necessary to understand the President’s plan is to know that every employer who can show the Blue Eagle | has already raised wages and made ew jobs and that he cannot possibly keep it up unless everybody acts right now to support him and buy his goods. That simple but necessary program depends on just one thing for its suc- cess—the instant and intensive activity and support of the mothers and wives and sisters and sweethearts of this great country of ours and on nobody else in the world. Men Led Revolution. Our men had the leading part in the Revolution which made the Nation —and in the Civil War which united it, and in the World War which glori- fied it. who must carry the whole weight of President Roosevelt's war against de- pression—perhaps the most dangerous war of all. It is women in homes— and not soldiers in uniform who will this time save our country from mis- ery and discord and unhappiness. They will go over the top to as great a victory as the Argonne ever was. It is zero hour for housewives. Their battle cry is “Buy now under the Blue Eagle.” and the bird is blazoned on the banners in their van ‘Today, this country is astir from coast to coast. Nothing can stop this movement. Along the line of march are such men as stood on the banks of the Hudson while Fulton's steamboat got up steam and cried, “She’ll never run—she’ll never run.” We also heard a similar complaint in Washington for & month, We like to remember that when the Claremont began chunking up the Hudson River, men ran along- side crying. “She’ll never stop—she'll never stop.” now. going weapon ‘Well, we have trusted the people of this country in every great crisis since our beginning, and it is the belief of this administration that they can be trusted now. Surely they are more to be trusted to get us out of this hole than some of the blind leaders who s a racket- By James E. Grant, do with this dangerous amount, promptly sent up the pearls. The gypper explained over the phone that he was Mr. Black and was going out of town for & few days and had forgotten to send Mrs. Black an anniversary present. “From then on it was simple. Nothing to do but watch until the jeweler's man had delivered the —get the pearls ped into the leading jewelry store and looked at strings of matched pearls. He said he might be back to buy and the salesman gave him his card. “The next stop was to tele- phone and, using Black's name, to order a string of pearls deliv- ered to his home. The jeweler, knowing Black was good for any | pearls. Then call up Mrs. Black and, using the jewelry salesman’s name, say that the pearls had been delivered by mistake. Then dash up to her house and get the pearls. Give her the jewelry salesman’s card and make a lot of apologles for the mistake. The blow-off comes when Mr. Black gets a bill for those pearls.” These exposures of rackets are printed to advise and protect the public. ke (Copyright. 1033.) {bolts in one claw and a mill wheel in But, this time, it is the women | | some ‘We are hearing that also | “Beware—what are the people | got us into it and who now profess alarm because we are about to depart somewhat from ancient doctrines. Some say, “Oh yes, there are Blue Eagles everywhere, but the employers that show them are cheating. They put up the Blue Eagle and then beat the game. They don't raise wages and they don't make jobs.” People who say that don't know what is going on. The President un- derstands the temper of the Amerlclnl mple better than any leader we ever . He had part in the great co- operation of the war. His doctrine, at every turn, assumes good faith and it springs from an acute experience. The strength of our Nation is that you can trust it to play the game. But he is a realist and he has repeatedly said— publicly and privately—that he does not purpose to leave the vast m-gomy of honest men to the mercy of the small percentage of those who would explolt the public spirit of their betters. He said in his inaugural that he be- lieved in putting first things first and the first thing in this great program is to get Blue Eagles in every window. ‘The time for dealing with the unim- portant chiseling fringe will come as soon as that is done. But please trust the Blue Eagles, who carries thunder- the other, to deal with it effectively and suddenly and to the complete and lasting satisfaction of the great bulk of American players of the game. Eagle Badge of Honor. ‘The Blue Esgle is a badge of honor of the very essence of American fair play. We cannot do less than accept unquestioned the pledge of every appli- cant and to award this bright medal to every employer who asks for it. Nine- ty-nine out of a hundred will deserve it, and live up to it, with the almost holy reverence of a religion in this solemn and critical hour. We all know the possibility of an Iscariot in every 12. Even Judas sur- vived for & season—and then Mung himself for shame. As soon as this great modern leglon is marshaled, it will be time enough to look about us. There will never be a need for spies or constables or police court actions Everybody in every community knows what an employer is doing with his| help. Does anybody for a moment believe that any man can deceive the public behind the badge of the Blue Eagle? At this time. we ask only, that you visualize the rare case of a man who has betrayed the confidence of the President and the people of this Na- tion and. behind the outspread wings of the Blue Eagle has inveigled the women of his community to support his business, and then imagine that, after just complaint and fair and pa- tient hearing, he is at last found out as one who would prong pennies in violation of a spontaneous confidence | of his Government and his neighbors. QGuilty as charged. Gullty of trifiing with this great chance to lift this coun- try out of economic hell. Guiity of a| practice as cheap as stealing pennies out of the cup of a blind beggar. What should be done with such a man? No jail deserves to be dishonored by his ncarceration. As happened to Danny Deever in Kipling’s regimental hanging —N. R. A. will have to remove from | him his badge of public faith and business honor and kin of his but- tons off an’ cut his stripes away” and break the bright sword of his commercial honor in the eyes of his neighbors—and throw the fragments— in_scon—in the dust at his feet It is a sentence of economic death. It will never happen. The threat of it transcends any puny penal pro- visions in this law. The mere image | of it is the rare exception that proves the rule that, under such & new and intelligent approach to this economic riddle as has been given to this world by Franklin Rootevelt, honor is a bet- ter guide for business conduct than | Hoyle's book of tuppeny rules written in a statute and the scorn of trusting people & more potent force than threats of jail and fines and injunction, which | any adroit advocate can avert. In this high court of commercial chivalry we are beyond the day when any lawyers' interminable palaver can fill the peo- ple’s mouths with dust. It is a new thing in social and economic relation- ship and we are now getting the trump cards of the new deal and the Blue Eagle is the ace of aces in the deck. Hopelessness of Triflin; It is for these reasons that nobody need entertain a fear that there will not be enough Blue Eagles—or that any man who walks on legs can (with impunj trifie with this bird and long survive. But the very power of these bolts in the claws of this earliest of American symbols—the thunderbird uggests a greater caution We put out the re-employment agree- ment after a painstaking study of what is needed to put all our people back to work. . We knew that there were ast industries that probably could not meet the general rule with- out too great a sacrifice. We left our rules wide open to give them their chance to come here and show why there should be changes. We knew that this would bring to our doors great willing and patriotic groups, anxious to give their utmost. but put to the stark necessity of asking for some adjustments. ey have come and, pending a hearing when the | whole matter may be considered under | the public eye—or as some one has| sald, “In a gold-fish bowl"—the claims | they make have been granted (largely | on their own statements, but checked | by our staff). As fast as they have come in we have relieved them. But, beyond all these wholesale classes, we know that there are individual cases where men whose hearts are right, and who are with the high purpose of the President as devoutedly as the most zealous of his followers, cannot fully comply with the letter of this rule. As to these, we have left it up to their fellows—elther in local Chambers of Commerce or in trade associations to tell us what should done for the moment. On this advice, we shall re- lease the Blue Eagle to them, even though they cannot *0 the whole dis- tance. No man should object to leav- ing such a question in the hands of his neighbors, and—at least until there is reason to act otherwise—we will go the whole length in accepting this neighborly advice. In about a week we shall announce a system de- vised by the President’s wise and faith- ful secretary—Col. Howe—by which all these special cases will be distinguished by a chevron on the breast of the Eagle with a registered number show- ing the extent and reason for the ex- ception. With this great flexibility, we think we can count on the justice and fair play of the American people to see that no harm is done to any one. We may make mistakes, but the essential idea is justice and restraint and this we ask of the whole American people. Exact the Blue Eagle from every employer, but don’t be too criti- cal of what you hear until a fair hear- ing 1s had for every exception. Let us be perfectly frank about the Cohmmbia Permanent Building Association PAYS 5% compounded semi-annually Under U. S. Gov't Supervision Organised Jan. 1, 1903 Loans Made Occupied Homes NO COMMISSION 733 12th S5t. N.W. Melvin C. Hazen, Pres. Wm. P. Richards, Vice Pres. Floyd E. Davis, Treasurer Fred A. Smith, Secretary C. Clinton James, Attorney Member Building Association Counchl of the District of Columble HERIFF TOM B. BASH (right) a gangland execution early Saturday and killed two of the gunmen who were putting an enemy on the spot. weapons found in the gangsters’ ca; deputy, who was with the sheriff and helped kill the gunmen; T. A. J. Mastin, county prosecutor, holding one of the gangsters’ weapons, and Bash ‘The sheriff and his deputy, accompanied by their wives, were en route home from a party. of Jackson County, Mo, stumbled into In this group, examining the are (left to right) Lawrence Hodges, —A. P. Photo. whole program. All this Blue Eagle| effort is unusual. So far as we have been able to discover there is nothing quite like it in the entire range of economic history. It is a heroic remedy and we must all understand it from top to bottom. It is not bally- hoo. It is not boycott. It is mot magic. It is just what it seems to be and nothing more nor less. It is a frank dependence on the power and willingness of the American people to act together as one person in an hour of great danger. And that brings us to the critical point of the program which I must make with all the em- | phasis at my command. This thing won't last three months uniess all men who now have employ- ment and all who are now to be put back on the pay roll—or to have their part-time work increased—turn right around and pour the entire benefit back into the channels of trade. Our people have smiled their way through this hell—there is not one who has not made his sacrifice. he kept his job he gave something to somebody. He helped some friend or some member of his family—too proud to ask for public help—too much up against it to refuse what we kindly call a loan. No use harping on that. We all know what is meant we all know that has gone on all about us recalls a favorite line in poetry, which—to quote from memory, perhaps in error: “And I have done one braver thing Than all the worthies did— And thence a braver yet doth spring Which was—to keep that hid.” It is the sublimest thing in cur story —the secret of every decent person, which—to every decen: person—is no secret at all. The blundering silent sentiment of this self-styled, hard- boiled people of ours is enough to bring tears to the brazen eyes of & squatting Buddha. To insure against fear, the people | who have a little left have adopted a non-buying policy that is fatal to recovery. It is an unemployment psychology that sends us shabby to our work. Unpainted houses—cracked shoes, many times half-soled—shiny pants — rattling autcmobiles dyed dresses — refurbished wardrobss — all these badges of unseifish husbandry must now be discarded if this plan is to have a fair chance to do what we hope for it. We must shake our- selves out of this four-year-old idea of doing without against & rainy day and we must do that overnight. Business Must Increase. Keep this in mind. outside of a few great corporations, there is not an em- | plover in this country who can take on and maintain these vastly increased costs of re-employment unless he is promptly compensated by increased business. The re-employment that the | Blue Eagle is bringing is not enough. The whole plan will fail unless, by this vast encouragement of free spending we can break the frugal hoarding habit which springs from fear and lack of confidence and substitute a generous public buying that will start the wheels of industry in all of its departments. Buy! Buy now! Buy everything you need and have so long denied yourself. It is the key to the whole situation. You have been thus urged several times before during this depression. but the difference between now and then is that now there is the best reason in the world for buying—that it is good business. We know here what are the advance quotations to retailers for restocking their shelves with goods. They show price advances of from 40 per cent to 60 per cent because of increased costs due to re- employment and higher wages. You can't get away from it. Either the whole structure is going down like a House of cards, or we shall not see ain the prices now available for 1t | The thing | and | every creature comfort—every luxury ! and” even the food we eat and the | clothing we wear. It is a counsel of | the plainest common sense—spend now | for re-employment — with everything | | you have to spend—from automobiles | with Blue Eagles to sacks of flour with | Blue Eagles—for the selfish reason that you may never see such prices again and for the unselfish reason that thus —and only thus—can you put your own breadwinners back to work and keep them there. For once, at least, in our experience, self-interest is in step with patriotism. Turn into the channels of trade every cent you get | and start tomorrow! Of course, it scarcely needs to be added that you might as well throw your money away as to spend it where the Blue Eagle flies not. No Blue Eagle—no help for the jobless—and let nobody persuade you to the con- trary. The Blue Eagle is the best protection a people ever had. “Chiseling” may be a slang word, but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louls there came to my desk the other day (signed A. C. Worfel) a drawing of & turkey buzzard—a sickly opposite of what the newspaper men in | Washington affectionately call the “blue hawk.” In his loathsome taions is a chisel. In place of the “U_S." at the side of the Blue Eagle stand two greasy money bags. Instead of the word “member” are the words ‘non- member” and, in place of, “We Do Our | Part” is the legend “We Do Not." | Washington calls him “the black | buzzard” and. since (under the genius of Mr. Coiner) we worked out here the | Blue Eagle, nothing more apt has come to this administration. It may be harsh, but this whole country must be alert for chiselers. They are chiselers who fudge their n agreements with the President. | They are chiselers who insist upon | their adherence to Franklin Roosevelt's | policies on paper, but find some pe- culiar reason to excuse themselves in practice. They are chiselers who say | one thing and do another and imagine | that. because the Blue Eagle lights on | their lintel, they are privileged to do | what they like behind his back. He has only ‘one eye turned to the front, | but that does not mean that he only | sees one way. The wheel in his right claw keeps on grinding. The bolts in his left claw have the speed of light- | ning They move in any direction and his right eye turns with unblinking attention to what goes on behind the | window. He is & canny bird, an ade- quate bird and he is fully equipped for | any emergency. Time for Solemnity. It is, perhaps. undignified to be facetious. It might be more impressive, in closing. to be more solemn. The times are certainly solemn enough. The chances we are taking are desperate enough and I should be the last man in the world to make light of these responsibilities. You know I do not do so. But we have the philosophy of Franklin Roosevelt, the cheerful kindly, intensely human man, who has descended into the shadows and fought | with beasts at Ephesus, and come forth smiling. with soul unscathed—an in- REDUCED PRICES ON ENGRAVED BUSINESS STATIONERY ‘Brewmamp Engravers and Fine Printers 611 TWELFTH STREET And NOW! THE ONLY AiR-CONDITIONED SERVICE to Pittsburgh FASTEST TIME We now extend our air-conditioned service to in- clude a Parlor Car between Washington and Pitts- burgh, the first and only service of its kind between these cities, in addition to an air-conditioned Dining Car. Cool, Clean, and Quiet, no matter what the temperature may be outside. SHORTEST ROUTE | it was Andrew Jackson. IN STABILIZATION S. C. Badger, Financial Edi-| tor, Fears Clash of Democ- racy and Fixed Dollar. By the Assoclated Press. JOHNSONBURG, N. J., August 14— Sherwin C. Badger, editor of Barron's| Financial Weekly, speaking today at the third annual conference for engi- | neers at Stevens’ Engineering Camp, said stabilization of prices “may require & new series of controls not adaptable to_democracy.” “It is impossible for any man to pre- | dict what inflation will mean to this; country because, with the possible ex- ception of the Greeks under Solon, this is the only time that a nation has ever considered embracing inflation with its eyes open and with a definite purpose in view. | “We have already found, however, that the threat of inflation has brought | sults according to Hoyle. It has cr ed markets which have been a par: dise for speculators; it has raised prices rapidly; it has fcrced people to flee from money into things, even if the things were held in the form of in-| ventories for which there is no imme- diate use. This has already been upsetting to normal recovery which started throughout most of the wprld during the latter part of 1932 and has forced the Federal Government into new experiments—the N. R. A—to| stimulate purchasing power so that it might catch up to prices and specula- tive production ‘ hose who advocate inflation believe they can stop it at the proper time and then stabilize the dollar, which means stabilizing average prices. Granting, for the sake of argument, that these things can be accomplished, we should not fool ourselves into thinking that a stabilized dollar is going to end our future troubles. Prices have been the | governing wheel of the capitalistic sys- tem. If we stabilize prices (the dollar) we shall be preventing the governing | wheel from governing and in its place | we shall have to set up a whole new series of control, the extent of which | no man can imagine. | “Perhaps this is desirable, but before we embrace the idea with too much fervor it may be well to consider whether we desire Government control and | whetfer it is possible in a democracy.” Injured by Batted Ball. Ten-year-old John Scott, colored, 902 Sixth street southeast, was injured seri- ously vesterday as a result of a battea ball striking him over the left eye while +atching a game on a lot at Sixth and K streets southeast. He is confined in Gallinger Hospital. His skull may be fractured, police reported. | spiration to everv man who has won- | dered why—blameless—the modest fruit of all his efforts should be swept away | —and he, wholly helpless to prevent it, must sit and suffer hopelessly. It is beyond me to say why all this has happened. but I know that it has happened before in our history and that, to misuse a favorite theme of high school oratory, “the eternal stars shine out when it dark enough——" Once it was Thomas Jefferson. Once Once it was Abraham Lincoln, who—regardless of party label—was a Democrat. Once was Grover Cleveland. Once it was Woodrow Wilson—and now it is Frank- lin Roosevelt It is not for me here to try to trace the silver thread that ties these great men together. Times change and necessities differ. What was good for the agrarian America of those elder days is probably entirely inappropriate to this mad age of whirring machinery, but this single thing I know—that we are effecting the deliberate plan and Jjudgment of one of the greatest cham- pions of the mass of men that ever walked this earth—that where he leans I for one. am proud to follow and, in this great crisis in the world's affairs. to follow blindly for thus—and not otherwise—are human ends attained. DRUGEISTS ASKING FOR 36-HOUR WEEK Would Limit Operation of Stores to 52 Hours—Hear- ing Not Set Yet. By the Associated Press. A 56-hour work week was proposed today by the National Association of Retail Druggists in a code of fair com- petition submitted to the Recovery Ad- ministration. Hours of operation of stores would be limited to 52 hours per week unless operation hours were less than 52 be- fore July 1, 1933 The maximum hours would not apply to drug stores employing not more than two persons in towns of less than 2.500 ropull!lun which are not part of & arger trading area. Registered pharma- cists and executive employes would be excepted from the 56-hour week of other employes. Minimum wages of $15 a week in the North and $14 a week in the South | in cities of 500.000 population and over were proposed. In cities between 250.000 and 500,000 the minimum would drop to $14.50 in the North and $13.50 ir the South becoming, in communities between 2.500 and 250,000 of population $14 and $13, respectively. In towns of less than 2.500 popula- tion the druggists proposed to increase all wages by not less than 20 per cent provided such increase does not exceed $12 a week. In making public terms of the pro- posed code the Recovery Administra- tion sald: “The code of fair competition of the National Association of Retail Drug- gists in its present form merely reflects the proposal of that industry. None of its provisions have vet been approved by the National Recovery Administr tion. A date has not yet been an nounced for the holding of a publ hearing on the proposed code.” SIGNING OF KELLOGG TREATY TO BE OBSERVED Fifth Anniversary of Pact Will Be Marked by Nation- Wide Celebration August 27. 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