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Platforms Show Issues Difficult ifficul « | Social Security Prob- | lem, With Its Compli- cations, Permanent. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. N ANALYSIS of the Repub- lican and Democratic plat- A forms, from an objective or expository point of view and » With no purpose to weigh the merits, might be a desirable thing to do and the voters might appreciate it, but the unvarnished truth is that both plat- Sorms are written gusms with such broad g principles that § neither document contains an ex- Pplicit forecast of the legislation that might some ~ day be adopted to carry them out. Having heard for three years that the Demo- crats did not carry out their 1932 platform, the pypig Lawerence persons who drafted the 1936 platforms of both parties purposely wrote general phrases 0 that legislators would have the nec- essary leeway to meet changing con- ditions and to deal with the contro- versial aspects which so often neces- sitate a compromise law that appears to deviate from a platform pledge. To this series of six articles deal- g with important platform planks, an effort will be made to explain, so far as possible, the scope of the Re- publican and Democratic promises, because, while they may seem in some instances to be saying the same thing, an examination of a phrase or word here and there will show the point of deviation. Take “social security,” which in- tludes a multitude of proposed re- forms ranging from old-age pensmns“ to unemployment insurance. One might get the impression that the New | Deal platform, which happens to be ! very brief on the subject, was not| very comprehensive, but the truth is the social security act already on the | statute books is the New Deal's real | plank on this topic and it would have | encumbered the platform considerably | to have attempted to reproduce its | long clauses. Still there is in the New Deal plank | @ hint of possible change and a faint | « Buggestion of awareness that perhaps | the Republicans are right in their charge that some of the provisions of the present law are unworkable. If one were disposed to be partisan, he might say that the social security act was adopted in a hurry to get! something written into law and into operation, and that, for a hasty job, | it was well done. But this is only to concede that social security is one of the enormous problems of the genera- tion, and that no matter which party | is elected in 1936 or 1940 there will be | many changes, in accord with the de- | mands of a public opinion that will | have a good deal to say on the subject | for the next 50 years. Economic Security. The New Deal platform speaks of having “built foundations for the se- | curity of those who are faced with the bhazards of unemployment and old age,” and that on the “foundation” of the secial security law it is planmed “to erect a structure of economic security.” | The Republicans devote considera- ble space in their platform to social | * gecurity and insist that New Deal policies have in fact “endangered” it. Then follows a direct charge that the unemployment insurance and old age | annuity sections of the present law *are unworkable” and deny benefits to *about two-thirds of our adult popula- tion” while imposing, nevertheless, tax burdens on them. The Republicans propose a substitute system. So far as unemployment insurance both parties agree it should be handled by the States with Federal co-opera- “ tion. At present the plan means a| far-reaching pay roll tax. The im- portant difference between the two planks is on old-age pensions. The Republicans pledge that every American citizen over 65 years of age should receive the supplementary pay- ment necessary to provide “a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want.” This payment would not come from a pay roll tax, but from a *direct tax widely distributed,” prob- ably a sales tax. The payment would be made to the individual States who would administer the program with finances collected by the Federal Gov- ernment. Social Security Phase. ‘The Democrats have something of this kind, but it is regarded as a rela- tively secondary phase of their social security program because they have set up a system of old-age annuities to provide for persons who are not necessarily in want and they think that this plan would make unnecessary any special provision for the needy. In other words, the New Deal plank essumes that over a period of years the old-age annuity plan would take “ care of those who would be apt to be- come a public burden through relief as well as those who have been thrifty and saved through what is really a “forced saving” plan. This at present means a tax on pay rolls and indi- vidual employment incomes for years to come. The Republicans attack the latter {dea as being fantastic and dangerous. . They declare that the $50,000,000,000 reserve fund which would be built up out of pay roll taxes and income pay- ments by employes would be used to buy in the public debt or would be invested in. Government projects so that the money would not be avail- able in case of economic emergencit and would be a mere promise to pay— & sort of fiat money. On the other hand, the criticism made of the Republican plank is that if old-age benefits are confined only to those in need, the tendency for pen- sion rolls on that basis is to increase « * from year to year. It is estimated that 1,000,000 out of the 7,000,000 persons above the age of 65 are at present on rellef, so that if each got $30 a month (815 from the Government and $15 from the States), there would be $360 8 year or $360,000,000 for the 1,000,000 persons on relief. This would mean $180,000,000 a year from the Federal and $180,000,000 a year from the State governments, Tendency to Shift. Such payments would be easy to spread in the tax mechanism, but_the critics of the plan say that the tend- sency is for relatives to shift the burden to the Government in many instances % 80 Lhat the percentage that would have to be taken care of might be trebled. This form of direct pension might wx’e expensive unless well adminis- s THE News Behind the News Eastman’s Passing Causes No Regrets—Rent Reform Program Comes to Halt. BY PAUL MALLON, ‘A NOTHER important governmental reform has passed away without benefit even of the usual obituary notice. Co-ordinator Eastman, who was to have set the railroads in order, explre&g' officially last June 16 of negation. Congress not only failed to extend his term as co- 2 i ordinator, but neglected to pass a FasThiy i N 90-day appropriation which would have permitted him to publish the reports he has been writing about railroad troubles. ° The end came abruptly. It has been generally understood on the inside that no one would object to the 90-day arrangement, but near the end of the session, with the Senate involved in a filibuster, every one interested in Co-ordinator Eastman was apparently looking out the window. The inside fact is that Congress failed to act by the unanimous consent of all concerned—President Roosevelt, the railroads, railroad labor and the Interstate Commission. * ok ok X ‘These last three years have been bad for all co-ordinators, but espe- cially for Co-ordinator Eastman. What happened to him was this: The railroads were always against him, because they were required to pay about 10 cents a mile to finance his investigations. Railroad labor lost interest in his activities suddenly after the consolidations agreement was reached with the railway executives, guaranteeing the workers against being thrown out of work by con- solidations of terminak facilities. All his fellow commissioners on the I. C. C. except one reached the unofficial conclusion some months ago that his co-ordinating was & nuisance and interfered with their work. ‘To make it unanimous, the co-ordinator is said to have had some sharp personal difference of opinion with Mr. Roosevelt at a White House confer- ence not long ago. g This just about left Mr. Eastman himself as the only one favoring his activities. He suffered the experience and unhappy fate of all co-ordinators. It marks the end, temporarily at least, of the railroad reform program, except such effort as may be undertaken by the I. C, C. * K ¥ x New Deal lawyers are inwardly skittlsh about making a test of the ‘Wagner labor act in the Supreme Court. One appeal assailing the act has already been filed by an Arkansas lumber company, but it involVes technical grounds which may not furnish a constitutional test. Two Circuit Courts have decided against the Government in big cases, the Fifth Circuit at New Orleans in the Jones & Laughlin case and the Sixth at Cincinnati in the Freuhoff case. Ofer Circuit Court decisions are coming along this Summer. But the lawyers here do not like these cases. They would rather wait to see if a better case develops during the Summer. The choice will not be made until the last minute, probably about September 15. The truth is, they do not feel any too sure of their position. " dok K % It is beginning to be evident to the Treasury taxmen that there will have to be another new tax bill next year. no matter who wins the election. All the faults in this latest bill will not appear until it has been in force for a while, but some are beginning to develop daily as regulations administering it are being composed. The situation was best described by a Senator, commenting on the contention that the new corporate tax theory is merely a technical plug- ging of the loopholes through which large personal holding companies have been escaping taxation. Said he: “We have plugged the loophole with a balloon.” * % % x Latest ingredient in the alphabet soup is the unique B. E. B. It is unique because it is the only one of the New Deal agencies which has su far avoided any publicity whatsoever. This beach erosion board was set up under eristing legisiation dealing with rivers and harbors for the purpose of solving beach erosion along the coasts. Congress provided that the board pay “not to exceed” 75 per cent of the cost of its investigition. When the President signed the bill, how- ever, he passed word privately down the line that the Federal share be kept at 50 per cent. Fagged Congressmen usually turn their thoughts to travel near the end of each session. They put through a few resolutions appropriating funds enabling them to investigate such pleasant vacation spots as the national parks, the Panama Canal, Far Eastern relations, etc, etc. Last year half of Congress went to the Philippines, by way of Japan, China and points east This year, however, the boys lost their imaginations. When no one was looking, neer the end of the session there was adopted a resolution merely authorizing a Senate committee to “investigate the steamship service to South America and South Africa.” An appropriation of only $5.000 was authorized for that important purpose. One explanation is that the investigating Senators will receive their transportation more or less free. (Copyright. 1936.) VMMM - SOUTH AMERICA AFRICA - — ] PULIPPINES Lt Borah “Batching It” in Boise, “Too Poor to Maintain Horse’* By the Assoctated Press. | Senator would be alone most of the BOISE, Idaho, July 6.—Senator | time. She attends the social func- ‘William Edgar Borah—for 30 years a | tions while he reads, often aloud to “lone wolf” in Washington—has re- | himself, in their unpretentious quar- turned home, alone, and is “batching | ters. it” in a little downtown hotel apart- | Mrs. Borah, he explained. decided ment. | to visit friends at an Atlantic Coast Senator Borah isn't cooking any | beach resort rather than return here meals or doing any housework. | when she learned Boise's temperatures Neither is he playing golf. And had reached a maximum of 104 de- bridge bores him. His favorite diver- | grees. was riding. “And 50 I'm here all by myself.” he said the dean of the | commented, “She probably won't be T'm too poor to main- | here until late this month.” Rl gnoee Often at the end of a hard day EVENING STAR, Democrats Are Doubtful of New York Literary Digest Poll Would Indicate Lan- don Is Favorite. BY MARK SULLIVAN, ‘The action of Democratic Gov. Leh- man of New York—first saying he would not run for re-election this Fall, and later that he would—is generally scrutinized for light on the motive inspiring the change of intention. Universally it is assumed that Gov. Lehman's change of mind was in re- sponse to urgings from President Roosevelt and the Democratic national managers. Universally it is assumed that the urging was caused by the feel- ing that Mr. Lehman running again for Governor would help Mr. Roose- velt carry the State for President. Consequently it is widely surmised that Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Farley and the Democrats feel doubtful about carrying New York State in November. About the probabilities in New York State in November there is some evi- dence in the poll which the Literary Digest last May made of one up- State city in New York. The city was Binghamton. Binghamton was chosen | for the test because the Digest editors believed the population of that city to be typical of up-State Tew York asa | whole. Binghamton seemed a good barometer, Turn From Roosevelt. To consider the meaning to be de-| rived from the Digest’s record poll cf Binghamton, we must start with the actual vote cast by Binghamton in the 1932 presidential election. In that | 1932 eleftion, Binghamton divided | almost exactly even. The figures were: | Roosevelt, Democrat 13.077.0r 50.2% Hoover. Republican 13854 or 4987 Now compare this with the Literary Digest poll of Binghamton made in May of the present year. The Digest gent secret ballots to every one of the registered voters in Binghamton, 27,397 of them. Returns were received by the Digest from 5,754 voters. That is, of the voters polled, about one in every five replied snd stated their choice. This is about the percentage that usually responds in Digest polls. | Of the replies, 2,063 said they would vote for Mr. Roosevelt. This is 3585 per cent. The rest (omitting a negligi- ble number of Socialists) said they would vote Republican this year. The number saying they would vote Re- publican was 3,525, or 61.7 per cent. | Thus the attitude of Binghamton this | year, as revealed by the Digest poll, is: Democrat _2.063. or 38.85% | Republican __ -----3.525.0r 61.7 % | B8 per cent less in 1936, | Let us now see what is the per- | centage of change. Mr. Roosevelt in | This year, in the Digest poll, he gets | _WASHINGTON 35.85 per cent of the total. “To put it| in a brief table: Roosevelt, 1937 (actual election)_50.2 % Roosevelt., 1036 (Digest poll)___ 3585 % ‘That is. Mr. Roosevelt's share of the vote dropped from 50.2 per cent to 35.85 per cent. The falling off, from 50.2 down to 35.85, is 14.15 per cent of the total. But we must apply Yhis falling off not to the total vote, but to Mr. Roosevelt’s share of the vote in 1032. Thus applied, we find that Mr. Roosevelt in 1936 gets about 28 per cent less than he got in 1932. In other words, he will receive this year only 72 per cent of what he got in 1932. For convenience, let us say roughly that in Binghamton Mr. F.oose- velt this year will get only three- fourths of the vote he got in 1932. Now let us take the change in Bing- hamton and apply it to up-State New York as a whole. In doing this we are, of course, assuming that Bing- hamton is a fair barometer of the whole of up-State New York. This assumpton is borne out by previous election resuits and previous Literary Digest polls. The total vote. in up-State New York in 1932 was: Roosevelt. Democ: -1,079.783 Hoover Republicas 1383907 If Mr. Roosevelt this year gets in up-State New York only three-fourths of the vote he got in 1932, his vote in that territory would be only 809,838. By the same inference, the Republican vote in up-State New York this year should be one-fourth more than in 1932. One-fourth added to the Re- publican vote of 1932, which was 1,353,907, would be 1,692,383, Landon 2-to-1 Favorite. These figures represent what the | respective votes of Messrs. Roosevelt and Landon would be if the total vote | this year were exactly the same as in | 1932. Of course, the total will not be | the same. But it is valid to assume | that these figures represent the pro- portions in which the two candidates will divide the vote this year. We thus have, if we accept the| Digest poll of Binghamton as a barom- eter. the total vote in up-State New York this year divided thus Roosevelt R00 R3R Landon __| 21.692.383 That is, accepting the Digest figures for Binghamton as an index, Landon should carry up-State New York this year by more than 2 to 1. This seems an extraordinary fore- cast. Yet it seems to be what is indi- | cated if the recent Literary Digest poll | of Binghamton be accepted as an index. It remains to be emphasized that | these figures apply only to up-State | New York. New York City 1s not| included. Presumably New York City will go heavily Democratic as usual. | But no imaginable victory of Mr. | Roosevelt in New York City would be | able to overcome his loss of up-State New York by 2 to 1. In sum: The clear distinction is that President Roosevelt will lose New | York State. Further, Binghaiton is a | sound index that New York State will | g0 against Mr. Roosevelt, it should | also be an equally sound index of how | 1932 got 50.2 per cent of the total vote. | the whole East will go. (Copyright, 1856.) ALSMITHSILENT | ABOUTCAMPAIEN Associates Reveal He Is Not Quite So Affable as Formerly. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 6.—Alfred E Smith is carrying on his usual Sum- mer routine as ‘“chief salesman” for | the world's tallest building—still silent | His motor car was left in Washing- ton, so Borah walks or rides in a taxi. Even were Mrs. Borah here, the tered, though the possibility of po-| litical pressure on Congressmen to | have constituents added to the rolls cannot be overlooked. The New Deal plan takes the opposite tack. Instead of a pension paid to the needy, there would be a pension for all andgthe employes and employers would have to pay it. This means a direct tax on production costs and a job of administration that is simply overwhelming. To keep track of every employed person, the shifts in jobs, the changing wages, is in itself terrifying as a statistical and clerical task and will mean a huge bureaucracy in Washington and in the States. But this is entirely apart from the problem of how fo keep the politicians | from shifting the burden s0 as to make it larger from year to year on the employers and less and less on the employes so that conceivably the economic system might be burdened with a tax that could curtail con- sumption of goods and bring unem- ployment and a diminished national income. The question of how to invest safely a fund taken annually from 30,000,000 workers and 4,000,000 employers and get 3 per cent is not easy to figure out. It is essential for the working of the plan that 3 per cent be earned. The Federal Government is not able to issue securities for these big amounts unless it proposes to keep } on going in debt by means of public work projects. The expefts disagree on the answer to all this for there is no immediately clear solution of the tangled problem. Both parties, however, tried to show their hearts were in the right place and the New Deal plan now on the statute books will more assuredly re- quire revision if not repeal of un- workable sections. (Copyright, 1936.) EATIN CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS E.J. FEBREY & CO. Est. 1898 FLUES AND BOILERS CLEANED The clean heating plant lasts longer and costs the least. ‘ork guaranteed. CALL NATIONAL 8680 Borah walks alone in the city park River. His days are long and trying. His correspondence piles up from all parts of the world. Demands for him as a speaker alone would take up his entire time if he could accept all the invitations, per- | sons close to him say. His social life carries him only oc- | casionally to the homes of a few old | friends. ] o A | YOUNG FASCIST KILLED | | Spaniard’'s Unclad Body Is Found | Tied to a Tree. | MADRID, July 6 (#).—Naked and | tied to a tree, Jose Maria Sanchez, & | Fascist youth, was found dead yes- terday, his head riddled with bullets. The youth, a son of Mariano San- chez Rexach, an imprescario, had been missing from his home for three days. His body was found near the town of Pozuelos, not far from Madrid. The killing was believed by some persons to have been in reprisal for the slaying of two Soclalist dairy workers and the wounding of four others as they left a meeting Friday on what he intends to do about this presidential campaign. The man who really wears a brown derby and is still addressed as “Gov- ernor” by the 350 persons who work for him in the Empire State Building | has not even hinted what his next move will be since his appeal two weeks ago today to the Democratic party to shelve Franklin D. Roosevelt. To his work-a-day associates, there has been a different “Governor” sit- | ting these recent years in the chair he brought from the chief exscutive’s | office in Albany in 1928 to his green- | carpeted office on the thirty-second floor of the 102-story building. They say he is not quite so affable as| formerly. | They haven't the slightest idea whether he will cast aside a lifetime | that stretches along the gentle Boise | l0Valty to the Democratic party and come out for Republican Candidate Landon. Politics Not Only Problem. Deciding what to do about the pres- idential campaign is not Smith's only problem these days. He sits on the boards of a bank, & coal company and an insurance com- pany, but most of his working hours are devoted to meeting people who want him to sponsor something or other or make a speech anywhere from Maine to California. | As “chief salesman” for space in the building, he has made innumerable | trips to the observation tower as guide | to all types from European premiers to the winners of an “ideal married couple” contest—his latest visitors. He shows them souvenirs in his of- fice from engraved corner-stone laying trowels to a Texas centennial cowboy hat, which ‘now adorns his. window ledge. Collecting and framing news- paper cartoons is his favorite hobby. And if newspapers don’t send him the original of a cartoon he wants, he will write for it. Has a Back Door. A retired New York police sergeant and & 25-year-old girl—his only sec- New Springs in Cushion Have your 1335 10tk B4 N.W. Eat. Cogswell Chairs__$11.50 Fireside Chairs___$14.50 Chair Caneing, Porch Rockers Splinted NOTICE! SUMMER PRICES NOW PREVAIL! Due to the fact that we want to keep all our men work- ing this Summer, we are offering you these low prices. CLAY A. ARMSTRONG retary—are the only actual protectors 1910 MEL. 2062 Smith has against hundreds of people who daily demand to see him. | Bald-headed Sergt. William Roy sits | in an outer office and more than once he has had a crowd swoop upon him and refuse to move until they have seen Al Smith. But Smith fools them | every time—he has a back door. The mext barrier is Miss Mary Carr, | with brown bobbed hair, the faintest | sign of freckles, but not a bit of any | makeup. No high-powered secretary | air about her—even her dresses are sihple frocks made by her mother, a ' Fifth avenue stylist. SOARING TITLE WON BY CHESTER DECKER Scores 295 Points to Capture Tro- phies and $500—Du Pont Second. By the Assoclated Press. ELMIRA, N. Y., July 6.—Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J., held the national soaring title today under a new merit point system used at the | contests here for the first time. Decker, with a score of 295 points, was awarded the Charles F. Evans Trophy which goes to the national champion and the Vincent Bendix Gold Trophy and $500 cash prize for | Stumpers, the longest distance flight He flew 146.6 miles to Otisville, Pa., | yesterday. Richard C. du Pont of Wilmington, = Dawson. Del, 193¢ and 1935 champion, was D. C, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936. - Lewis vs. Green New Dealers Have Backed Mine Union Head Because | of Aggressiveness. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. F ALL those social forces that have been striking like lightning around the world it is apparent to even the naked eye that one has struck William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor. And it is the concensus of observers that it will eventually displace him in favor of John L. Lewis In that event he will be the first labor head in this country to be the victim of a political party. Therein lies his trouble—he was not aggressive enough for the Mew Deal. Much has been written about the schism between him and Lewis being craft unions versus industrial unions. That is the surface contro- versy. And undoubtedly the selfish- ness of craft union heads has figured into it. But industrial unions as such are not the underlying cause of friction. There are already industrial unions within the American Federation of Labor. The question has been about extending them into such lucrative flelds as the automobile workers and the steel industry. Here there is no conflict between Green and Lewis as to the merits of doing this. The conflict is in Green’s conservativeness and Lewis’ aggressiveness. To go into those industries, as Green sees it, means trouble, and very likely accomplishing mothing in the long run. Lewis, on the other hand, cares nothing for the trouble or the dis- turbance caused. He has been inspired by the New Deal and ambition burns in his breast. He is out to give organized labor a more aggressive leadership. As to whether that will prove to be better than the conserva- tive leadership of Green remains to be seen. The fact is that the most successful unjons in the past have been those of the conservative rail- road brotherhoods. The miners under Lewis have hac their ups and downs, but mostly downs and they haven't reacked a stage of security yet. * % % % Green's troubles began with the advent of the New Deal. He is the slow-going, conscientious type. At times he has made some right bold utterances, but they seemed at the time to be out of character and they were. His service to labor has been more as its loyal representative in national affairs than as a forceful leader. That loyalty he has given should be chalked up in large letters in his favor. There were reports that he wanted to be Secretary of Labor under Hoover, but they were never based upon anything tangible, and the rest of his record has been a stead- fast effort to keep labor from being made the tool of any se.of politicians. The New Deal envisaged a tie-up with organized labor, however, from the first. But from the outset it found Green most reluctant. It found him reluctant, in fact, to go along with the N. R. A. but finally brought him over when it dangled before him the power he would have as the head of one of the two pillars of the vast struc- ture that was to be set up. * % % x Then to the New Deal's disgust he was not successful in materially adding to his membership under the unionization stimulus given by the N.R. A. He made a foray into the automobile industry and got nowhere. It is quite likely that he saw the New Deal was not prepared to back him up as it had claimed and he backed off, in his conservative way, rather than upset an industry which was leading the way back to recovery. Green is that way; Lewis is not. From that time on there has been a steadily increasing coolness be- tween Green and the administration. Just before the N. R. A. went down the administration had a dickens of a time getting him to come out with a pronouncement that it kad done a world of good for labor. After Green's failure to materi- ally add to his membership and Lewis’ success in unionizing the coal miners, the administration took to him. They have been building him up ever since as a forward thinker and man of action in the American labor movement. He plays ball with them. It was he who forced Green to indorse the N. R. A. just before it went down and it was he who res- cued a resolution favoring its revival at the A. F. of L. meeting in Atlantic City several months ago. . His is an ageressiveness the New Dealers like. Green s not fast enough. Green is a Democrat and has announced he will support Mr. Roosevelt. But he is not in that bandwagon labor movement headed by Lewis and George H. Berry. It is doubtful if he could really get in it if he tried. Because the New Deal wants aggressiveness in this battle against the economic royalists. DEMOCRATS ENLIST WOMAN SPEAKERS All - Volunteer Bureau Set Up—Many Will Be Heard. Py the Asscciated Press. An all-volunteer feminine Speakers’ “Drinking Gang.” Bureau set-up, with Mrs. Charles W. Tillet, jr., of Charlotte, N. C.. at its| CHICAGO, July 6 (#.—A cruising head, has been announced at Demo- | police squad today found the body of cratic headquarters here, Albert Fabian, 46, unemployed painter, who had been beaten and stabbed to the Democratic National Committee| Side. A blood-stained brick was | the “Grass Trampers” idea last elec- | tion, “long before the Republicans had | their Grass Roots convention,” she said. Mrs. Tillet organized the first county League of Women Voters in her home State. She is a member of the Public Affairs Committee of the Y. W. C. A. National Board, vice chair- man of the State Democratic Execu- tive Committee and reginal adviser for Southwestern States. MAN BEATEN TO DEATH Police to Question Members of Trace Family Back 1,200 Years Ancestors in 725 Were Establishing Rule in Wales. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. T 15 just 300 years ago this year since Miles, John and James Morgan landed in Boeton. and | I it was about 1,200 years earlier | that some soverign princes of the Morgan clan were establishing their rule in what later became Glamorgan- shire in Wales. Massive, deliberate men they were, 80 1Iar as sure VIving recoras re- veal. J. P. Morgan of the house or Morgan & Co. 15 of this pattern, anda neuritis seems the last imaginable amc- tion of sucn an imperturba oie strain. Mr. Mor- gan nas never encouraged ne in charge of women's activities, said that instead of featuring a few star “many women with great | ability” would be utilized in the speaking campaigns. | _“I'm not for queens," “This is a mass effort.” She told of a special division, “the said Miss | second with a total of 288 points; Grass Trampers.” now being organized Alfred Slatter of Los Angeles, third, | in the Speakers’ Bureau to “go from with 218; Henry N. Wightman, Upper | county to county with local leaders Montclair. N. J., fourth with 200, and ' helping to interpret national policy Emerson Mehlhose, Wyandotte, Mich., | in its relation to local problems.” fifth with 171 Miss Dewson claimed authorship to WHAT A RADIO BUY New 1937—Great Value RCA-VICTOR RADIO PRICE, $27.95 $1 Week Pays DONT EXPECT THE BEST- &% you accep? subslitides! Hame yout Beet «sAND KNOW WHAT YOURE DRINKING ! | found nearby. The police said they would ques- tion members of the “Bottle Gang,” a name given a group which pooled | its money to buy liquor. quiries into the state ot nis health or personal affairs. and exact details of his ailment are withheld. But whatever it is. it seems to be | passing, with the likelihood that Mr. Morgan soon will be busy again with his hoe and his rake in his dahlia garden. The Morgan forebears have always been what Kaiserling calls “time- binders.” There is an institutional character in the family, with long lines of transmitted resemblances, which traits some future savant mav assemble in a multiple biography of one of the most unique and per- sistently dominating strains on the planet. As to this continuity, it was in the year 725 that Gla Morgan of | the then extant house of Morgan & Co., devised and established the jury system in Wales Miles Morgan scarcely had his feet | on the Boston cobblestones befo he was off into the wilderness, dick: ing with the Indians for land, al- though he was still a minor. H purchases were the first Morgan bu: | ness deals on this continent. In t early eighteen-hundreds, his de- | scendant, Joseph Morgan, saw the railroad era coming, sold his stage coach lines and joined in railroad ploneering. and later in insurance. | His son Junius, grandfather of the present J. P. Morgan, rising as a | “merchant prince.” as they called it | in those days, revealed the Morgan ascendancy in merchadising as well as finance. It was his son, the founder of the house of Morgan & | Co., who swung the family talents | into planetary range. building his great empire of finance. | The elder Morgan was distinctly a “money king.” his son less s0. On the death of his father in 1913. J. P. Morgan summoned his 18 partners and ‘decreed a withdrawal from great in- | dustrial directorates and a move into finance banking of the British pas- tern. Again, in 1933, when Federal |laws were driving in a wedge between | the financing and marketing of securi- | ties, Mr. Morgan moved his field over | into private banking, again of the an- | cient British tradition. | He dislikes and fears the intrusion {of public curiosity. 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