Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1937, Page 2

PRESDENTTOKEEP PRESENT BT Law Requires Action on| Postmaster General—Oth- ers Stay Automatically. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt will begin his | second term of office Wednesday with- | out change in his cabinet, it is now | expected. It is considered probable that the | President will not send to the Senate &ny new appointment of these cabinet officers, with ‘the exception of the Postmaster General. r the law, | definite provision is made that the | term of the Postmaster General shall | be co-cxtensive with the term of the | President appointing him, and for one | month thereafter. Postmaster General James A. Farley will be reappointed by the President. unless Mr. Farley for reasons of his | own should asked to be relieved. There | has been no indication from Mr. Far- ntends to make s | he law relating to the appoint- ment of the Postmaster Generai is as follows “There shall be at the seat of Gov- | ernment an executive depa m; be known as the Post Office Depert- ment, and a Postmaster General, who | ghall be the head t eof, and who £hall be appointed by the President, | by and with the advice and consent o the Senate, and who mav be 1emov in the same manner; and the term of the Postmaster General shall be for and during the term of the President by whom he is appointed, and for one | month thereafier, unless sooner re- moved.” | Farley Reappointed. Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Jan. 17, 1937, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Fascist bombs wreck U. 8. Consulate at Malaga, Spain. Page A-1 Duke of Windsor may join Mrs. Simpson soon. Page B-3 NATIONAL. Dr. Mattson says son was slain for knowing “too much.” Page A-1 Gov. Marland of Oklahoma receives demand for $5,000. Page A-1 T. V. A. chairman proposes truce with private power interests. Page A-1 $14.000 gold bar missing from French ship’s cargo. Page A-1 Bureau of Investigation asked to aid in Trader case. Page A-1 Pilgrimage to Capital for inaugural gets under way. Page A-1 President to keep present cabinet for second term. Page A-2 Byrd presses reorganization fight in radio address. Page A-2 Hamilton advises G. O. P. to culti~ vate labor. Page A-6 Showdown predicted in seamen's in- terunion strife. Page A-12 Denhardt to testify in death of fiancee. Page B-3 SPORTS. New “farm” system to be put in effect by Washington club. Page B-7 Capital tennis players are ranked in various classes. Page B-§ Catholic U. surprises by 4-all tie with Duke boxing team. Page B-9 Maryland loses stirring basket battle, wins in ring easily. Page B-9 Dempsey doesn't look for knockout in Braddock-Schmeling go. Page B-10 Odell, young heavy hope, being nursed along on coast. Page B-10 Harness regulations being revised to prevent “‘scoring.” Page B-11 The President, may, under the law, | therefore, immediately reappoint Mr. | Farley as Postmaster General or send ' Federation asks joint committee on | in his appointment during the month following. When the resident Woodrow Wilson began s second term of office in March, 1917, he re- tained his cabinet, but did not send in reappointments for any of Albert Sidney Burleson of Texas was his Postm later, the question of the law relating to appointment of Postmaster Gen- eral was raised in the Senate and gttention called to the fact tha! Bur- lJeson was holding over without having been reappointed. So President W then sent to the Senate & reappoint- | ment of his Postmaster General and it was confirmed. | It has been the practice in recent years, when a President has begun 8 sacond term, not to reappoint mem- bers of the cabinet whom he wished to continue in office except in the case of the Postmaster General. Their ecommissions state that their appoini- ments and their service are at the pleasure of the President. The late | President Calvin Coolidge. who be- came President on the death of War- ren G. Harding in August, 1923, after | his election and inauguration sent to the Senate only two cabinet appoini-| ments. They were those of Harry S. New for a second term as Postmaster General and of Charles Warren of | Michigan to be Attorney General. | New's nomination was confirmed, but that of Warren rejected—on a %he| vote. Former Vice President Charles | G. Dawes, who had been taking a nap at his hotel, rushed to the Senate too late to save Warren. Mellon Held Over. When Herbert Hoover succeeded Coolidge as President, he sent to the Senate an entire new cabinet, with | the exception of the Secretary of the | ‘Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, and the | Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, | now Senator from Pennsylvania. Both Mellon and Davis had served first in the Harding and then in the Coolidge cabinets. The right of Mr. Mellon to | serve as Secretary of the Treasury | had been challenged in the Senate by Senator McKellar of Tennessee, on the ground that Mellon's stockholdings barred him under the law from that office. It was well understood that if Mellon's name were sent in again to the Senate, there would be & con- test over his confirmation and con- siderable debate. The debate came anyway, McKellar presented a reso- | lution which was referred to the| Judiciary Committee, declaring that Mellon should have been reappointed | and that he was ineligible because of his business holdings. The Judici- ary Committee reported that the Sec- retary of the Treasury did not have to be reappointed—that only the Post- master General had to be reappointed when beginning a second or third term of office and that Mellon was not de- barred. If President Roosevelt follows the | course of his immediate predecessors, he will not submit new nominations of | his cabinet officers. If, on the other | hand, he desires to do so there seems | no doubt he can have quick confirma- | WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. fiscal proposals. Mapes report may outweigh Jacobs’ with subcommittee. Page A-1 Maj. Gen. Le Jeune resigns as super- intendent of V. M. I. Page A-11 Page A-1 report. Page B-1 r General. About a year Police report no large influx of strik- | ing seamen. Page B-1 Officials pay honor to Moran on his retirement. Page B-1 Commissioners submit nine bills to Senator King Page B-1 bills. MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wavside. Lost and found. Obituary. Vital statistics. Traffic convictions. City news in brief. Resorts. Page B-3 Page A-2 Page A-3 Page B-10 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-4 PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Civic news. Page D-4 Military and veterans’ news, Women's clubs. Parent-teacher activities. Educational. Pages D-5-7 Pages D-6- Page D-6 PART THREE. Society Section. Soztty news. Pages E-1-10 Well-known folk. Page E-4 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-! Dick Mansfield. Page F-2 Radio programs, Page F-3 Amusements, Page F-5 Automobiles, Page F-6 Aviation. Page F-6 Children's. Page F-7 High lights of history. Page F-7 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Trade irregular in week. Page G-1 Staples continue advance. Page G- Utility shares in favor. Page G-1 Steel leads stocks (table). Page G-2 Corporate bonds gain (table). Curb list higher (table). Classified advertising. Winning contract. Public Library. Stamps, Cross-word puzzle. Page G-3 Page G-4 Pages G-5-15 Page G-5 Page G-5 Page G-16 Page G-16 In character. However, even in the case of Woodring, it is believed there will be no immediate change, and that be will continue as Secretary of War for & time at least. Already there are many candidates for the job. Among those mentioned has been Paul V. McNutt, until recently Governor of Indiana and a former national com- mander of the American Legion. As far as Mr. Farley is concerned, tion of the appointments at the hands | p, cated by arrow), president of | It was a happy group of strikers that Homer Martin (indi- them. | Federal pay bill awaits civil service | the United Automobile Workers, | led out of General Motors Fleetwood plant in Detroit, Mich., yesterday as evacuation of strike-bound plants was started in accordance with the agreement between union and corporation officials. They marched to the Cadillac plant, where they joined other strikers and all gathered meeting. Conferences for permanent settlement of the strike are to start tomorrow. in a nearby hall for a mass —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, - INTOLEDO STRIKE |Assistant Labor Secretary Offers to Serve as Conciliator. B the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, January 16—Ed-| mund Ruffin, Todelo industrial peace board director, announced late today Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady offered to assist in efforts Pages D-8-10 | to settle a Gas Employes’ Union strike | | against the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. and the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co. McGrady called by long distance | telephone and asked whether he could | be of service, Ruffin said. | The peace board director told Mc- | Grady he was not needed immediately and informed him of a scheduled ses- uation. | Developments within the ensuing | 24 hours will determine whether a re- | quest will be made for the Labor De- partment’s ‘“ace trouble shooter,” ;Rufhn said. Secretary Perkins had | previously assigned Hugh S. Kerwin, Federal conciliator, to investigate the controversy. Plans to Leave Today. (At Washington McGrady an- | nounced he would leave by airplane tomorrow morning for Toledo to par- ticipate in a conference between gas plant employers and striking em- ployes tomorrow afternoon.) Consumers admittedly were “jittery” | | tonight as an emergency erew of 25 men maintained gas service under an | agreement between the companies and =2 | City Manager John N. Edy received | assurances from company executives and union officials there would be no suspension of service after 270 union members abandoned their posts today. The union called the strike after negotiations over a written contract collapsed.. Skeleton union ecrews re- mained until the companies secured men to replace them. ‘Three plants and one booster unit erve approximately 70,000 domestic this city of 250,000 population. Members Sit in Cars. The union established no picket | sion of the board to consider the sit-| ___ and 300 industrial gas consumers in | By the Associated Press. Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter frankly pleaded ignorance of a duck law yesterday on learning that Federal officials had recom- mended that he be charged with hunt- ing without & $1 stamp. The 77-year-old jurist said he did not know that a stamp should have been attached to his license when he But Ira N. Gabrielson, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survi | that ignorance of the law was no e cuse. Gabrielson said the bureau had recommended to the solicitor of the be filed. “We make no exceptions for persons of prominence,” sald Gabrielson. George King, a game warden, re- | ported the judge lacked the stamp | required on all hunting permits on | December 8 while hunting at Belthont Bayv, in nearby Virginia. | Van Devanter recalled that the Van Devanter Frankly Pleads ' Ignorance of Duck Stamp Law went shooting last month in Virginia. | , indicated | , “duck shooting” trip was made on invitation of Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate. The judge | asserted a game warden informed him | “that lots of other hunters” did not { have the stamps because they dld not | know about the law. | “We had not shot any du?ks, and | I offered to get out the blind and go to a nearby post office and get one at once,” the justice said. “The in- spector said it was not necessary. He | zaid to get one when we finished shoot. ! ing. The inspector was very pleasant.” | F. P. Callahan, in charge of game law enforcement, expressed surprise | the stamp law, which became effective 1 | in 1934. | | Callahan said more than 1,000.000 | | of the stamps had been purchased in the last two fiscal years. He ldded‘ “more than 100 cases had been filed in Federal courts against hunun\ lacking stamps. The maximum pen- | alty imposed so far has been $100 fine. | Gold (Continued From First Page.) soupy weather. But the gold was in the ship's guarded strong box, which crew members swore had ot been opened. The queer part of it was that only the one bar was taken. The ship carried a gold bullion cargo estimated | at almost six million dollars. The theft was discovered by & sharp- eyed driver of a mail truck safter | having gone unnoticed during un- | loading. He saw an eight-inch siit in one of a group of parcel post bags assigned to the Irving Trust Co. of | New York, and refused io accept it. | The bag was supposed to carry two bars of bullion. When examined, it carried only one. Two Held as Smugglers. Investigators pinned their hopes of recovering the gold on two seamen HISTORY IN taken from the ship and charged with | smuggling narcotics. | French postal officials who stood“ guard over the Paris’ strong room said | there was no question the gold ship- ment was intact when 1t left France. When the ship arrived in Quaran- | tine the fog was so thick the usuel procedure of taking off mail was de- { layed until she docked. | Police and owners of the line operating the Paris disagreed as to | whether the gold was insured. They agreed, however, that a gold bullion bar would be most difficult to cash | because of the United States Govern- | | ment's gold confiscation policy. —_— Modern Trend. Willson Park, Salem, Oreg,, is to be the site of a magnificent new capitol building at a cost of $2,500,000. to be built in a beautiful modern design. Symbolic of the State, the figure of the Oregon pioneer is to crown the capitol tower. THE MAKING of the Senate. { The fact that Postmaster General | Farley has continued on as chairman ! 0 one doubts the President would continue him in the cabinet. It has been reported that for personal rea- sons Mr. Farley would like to get into of the Democratic National Committee | private business again, and that he has been irksome to a few of the| Sohate:’ beiticlacly o Beastar may retire :/hen opportunity arises. Norris of Nebraska. Whether the Ne- A M e, S Despite efforts in some quarters to slodge Secretary of Commerce Roper nd Secretary of Labor Perkins, there 5 ¢ | Norris, who deserted the|ipe capinet officers are concerned their Republican Party first to support i President Roosevelt and then to run | CORtinUAnCe in the service is expected. himself as an Independent for l_!_1‘5ecrev.nnea Hull of the State Depart- { ment, Morthenthau of the Treasury, election to the Senate, had the support | of the President and his Postmaster | " a.ace of the Department of Agri- General for re-clection last November. ' :;‘;::;: d“": i:;:::g:‘nb‘l}r .l:é,e: ‘I:; .::' No Resignations Submitted. | torney General Cummings. Secretary So far as is known, none of the | syanson will be continued as head of members of the cabinet have sub-|ithe Navy Department, although there mitted their resignations to the Presi- { has been some talk of his going into dent. In fact, it is reported that some | another office at a later time. of the cabinet officers have asked the Any shake-up in the cabinet prob- President whether they should take | gy will wait, it is believed, upon the such action and that the President|enactment of the proposed ‘new reor- answered “no.” This seems to confirm | ganjzation act, which the President the belief that the President does not | has asked at the hands of Congress. at this time intend to make any|Under that proposal there will be cre- changes in the personnel of his official | ated two new cabinet offices, Secre- family. | tary of Public Works and Secretary of In the case of members of the dip- | Social Welfare, and the name of the Jomatic corps serving in foreign posts, | Interior Department will be changed Ambassadors and Ministers, the prac- | to the Department of Conservation. tice has been for them all to submit | It may require two or three months, their resignations at the end of a | or‘even longer, to get this new law presidential term. The President ac- ' through Congress. The regrouping of cepts them or not as he desires. But | Government agencies may call for men in the matter of cabinet officers there | with certain specific qualifications to seems to be no compulsion to submit l head the departments under which mtmauons. or at least no general | these agencies will come. Ppractice of that kind. ‘The name of Jesse Jones, now head The present Secretary of War, Harry | of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Woodring, was appointed to that post | has been mentioned in connec- after the death of Secretary Dern last | tion .with a possible realignment of mobiles near the plants. A sharp drop in temperature may convert minor service troubles emergencies, company officials said. A gas line leak developed today, af- fecting 25 homes, but workmen re- paired it immediately. 1. A. Ludwig, Ohio Fuel Gas Co. manager, said the limited crew may be unable to provide complete service indefinitely, although for the present consumer demands could be met. Union President R. J. Boudrie said the workers asked for a signed con- | tract, wage increases and other con- cessions in an 11-point proposal sub- mitted to the companies. McGrady ended a similar strike under a temporary agreement last August. The Toledo Industrial Peace Board averted a threatened strike last November in which similar demands were involved. Raiph Lind, mediator in a Federa- tion of Flat Glass Workers' strike against the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.,, announced today he would not call & joint conference pending re- sults of peace negotiations in a Pitts- burgh Plate Glass Co. strike. P PAINT TRADE DROPS Shipping Strike Contributes to Sharp Decline. ‘The shipping strike was a principal factor contributing to a sharp decline in United States foreign trade in paint products, both exports and imports, during November, it was reported yesterday by the Commerce Depart- ment. Accumulative totals for the 11 lines, although members sat in auto- | into | Summer. He is serving under a recess appointment, and can so serve until the close of the present session of the Senate. It is understood that the President does not intend to send ‘Waoodring’s nomination to the Senate at this time for confirmation. At the time Woodring was appointed Secre- tary, it was said at the White House that the appointment was temporary ] the cabinet. However, Congress has Just passed a law extending the opera- tions of the R. F. C. for another two years and the President may wish to keep Mr. Jones in his present place. ‘The names of Harry L. Hopkins and John H. Winant have been suggested for appointment to head the new Departments of Public Works and Social Welfare, (3 months of 1936, however, are well above those for the same period of 1935, ‘The total value of paint product exports was, $1,413,000 in November, a decrease ©f $310,000 as compared with the record for November, 1935. Imports of industrial drying oils, the bulk of which are obtained from the | Orient, tell off during the month. ) Inaugural Editions The Evening Star MAILED, POSTAGE PREPAID, ANYWHERE IN UNITED STATES, MEXICO OR CANADA Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday January 19th, 20th & 21st 15¢ Three Copies (Foreign Mailing 45¢) “January 19 Edition Alone (Mailed) Sc January 20 Edition Alone (Mailed) 5c January 21 Edition Alone (Mailed) Sc Three Days Each issue will contain @ full and complete coverage in words and pictures of the second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 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Subscriptions Will Be Taken at Star Want Ad Stations and Hotel News Stands No Telephone Orders or Charges | year an irreducible minimum of sup- | BYRDTELLS VIEWS | INRADIO ADDRESS Carries Reorganization Campaign to Farmers of Nation. ‘ Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia | carried forward his campaign for re- organization of the executive agencies of the Federal Government in a redio address to the farmers of the Nation Agriculture Department that & charge | that any hunter did not know about | YeSterday. | The Senator, chairman of the Sen- ate committee studying the reorgani- | zation problem. said on a National Grange progrem the Government's debt is virtually equal to the value of | all agricultural capital in the country. | He praised the grange for resolu- tions passed at the last convention indorsing efforts for efficiency and | economy in the Government. | Concerning temporary agencies of the Government, Byrd said: “Congress set up these agencies and called them temporary; and in doing said to the N tion, ‘These agencies are temporar. for it fixed the date on which they were to expire. If the emergency is over, we should dismantle some of these costly temporary structures. If it isn't over, the country should be told.” Later, in an interview, the Senator said he did not consider the defeat Friday of his effort to shorten the life extension of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. a major setback in his| drive for reqrganization. On the contrary, he said. he did not consider the vote a clear test of | the question of reorganization. The vote of 23 to 52 was on his motion to amend Senator Glass’ resolution extending the life of the R. F. C. to July 1, 1939. The Byrd amendment would have reduced the extension to July 1, 1938. The Senator said if any reorganiza- tion plan is effected, it can not become effective until the end of the next | fiscal year, inasmuch as the budget for the fiscal year 1938 has already been drafted. ‘Therefore, he said, agencies such as the R. F. C., operating under specific | time limits, should be continued on an annual basis, since it would be less difficult to abolish any agency at the end of its authorized lifetime than during its tenure of life. After the Byrd amendment was beaten, the Glass resolution went through, with only Byrd dissenting. Byrd explained that his purpose in voting “no” on the final ballot was to be consistent in his position. The Senator said he considered the 23 votes cast in support of his posi- tion to shorten the extension by one port to be expected in his reorganiza- tion drive, with a possibility that on the clear-cut question of reorganiza- tion other support may be forthcoming, she thought was a large rat. grew more and more frightened. stead of retreating, however, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. EAR ADMIRAL CHARLES ST. JOHN BUTLER, U. 8. N, M. C., in command of the Naval Medical Center here, had a visit yesterday from a gentleman who | desired to show him a lie detector he had invented, an elaborate ma- chine, operated by electricity. The inventer wished the admiral to try it out on his colleagues or in the clinic maintained at the Naval Medical School. “Your machine is no good” said the admiral, who is a fellow of infinite jest. “I have the best lie detector in the world, it never falls to work,” opening & drawer in his desk as he | talked. Buddenly he produced a small slip of paper, the upper, half of the front of an envelope, on which the post- mark had not cancelled the stamp. ] Neve e “Show that to any person you know.” the admiral went on, “and ask him if he would use the uncancelled stamp on another letter. It he say: ‘no’ you know he is lying.” The inventor picked up his ma- chine, on which he had labored for years, overheard saying: and as he departed he was “Why didn't I think of that, too?” * % x x CONFUSED. This one sounds too good to be true, but Beverly White, a desk clerk at the National Press Club, vouches for it An unidentified lad walked into the club at an early hour one morning—too early for any news- paper man to be clubbing—carrying a suit over his arm. His want, he erplained, was a fine job of pressing jor the suit. The “cop on the corner,” he added, had fold him that was a “pressing club.” Oh, well. % % RAT. HIS is a story about a rat in the Nelson C. Bean hen house. ‘The Beans, who live in Arlington, specialize in fine poultry, half for | the fun of it and the other half be- cause they like good fried chicken. The other night Mrs. Bean heard a disturbance in the hen house. Mr. Bean heard nothing, not even his wife, when she tried to awaken him, so she ventured forth alone. Flashlight in one hand, stick in the other, she entered to find what As it Bean In- she just made more and more noise until rein- forcements arrived in the form of Mr. Bean. With gun, ax and spade, he finally subdued the rat which, when stretched out for measurement, turned out to be & possum. * x % ¥ EXCLUSIVE COMMONS. \VHEN does a common name become uncommon? The Washington Telephone Directory has nine of its columns filled by persons named Jones. The same book lists only four in- dividuals named Mahon Yet this year there are two Mahons and only one Jones serving in the Congress. And the two Mahons have the same initials—G. H. A telephone conversation between the Texas and South Carolina Rep- resentatives was reported as follows: “Hello—Congressman Mahon? This is Congressman Mahon speaking.” “How do you do? Congressman Mahon is delighted to meet Congress- man Mahon.” grew larger and larger, Mrs. Vrtto Minenf BN Pliew Yeu ! v P Auis 13 Made e eic e Ml (¥ Congressman Mahon would be hon- ored if Congressman Mahon would visit Congressman Mahon in Congress- man Mahon's office.” Congressman Mahon accepts Con- | gressman Mahon's invitation and Congressman Mahon will come to Congressman Mahon's office immedi- ately.” *x ok ox EXPLAINED. An acid-faced lady of uncertain years ran for a Chevy Chase bus last week, waving her arms at the driver. The bus was some distance past the stop when the driver saw her and pulled to the curdb. The lady, out of breath, mounted the step and in a gasping but re- proachful voice said: * Driver, I waved and waved at you. Why didn’t you pay attention to me?” Whereupon a deep voice from the Nye to Speak in Forum SENATOR TO DISCUSS NEUTRALITY LAWS TOMORROW NIGHT. ‘The steps that must be taken if this country is to remain neutral in event of a foreign war will be outlined by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Da- kota in an address on the National Radio Forum over station WRC at 10:30 p.m. tomorrow. Speaking from Washington over the forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to- coast network of the National Broad- casting Co, Senator Nye is expected to discuss errors in this country's policy of neutrality that led to its entry into the World War and to suggest means | of keeping America neutral if another | European war breaks out. One of the best informed men in the | Senate on neutrality problems, Sena- tor Nye headed that body’s Munitions Committee, which conducted an ex- haustive investigation of armaments last year. Senator Nye is a firm believer in mandatory neutrality legislation and is expected to play & leading role in the | fight now looming in Congress on this vital question » E SENATOR NYE. | bezzling $9,992. HEPPARD FLAYS REPEAL RESULTS Evils Greater Than Before, Says Senator on Prohi- bition Anniversary. ‘Three years after repeal, beverage aleohol is more of a danger and menace to America than ever before, Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, author of the eighteenth amendment told the Senate yesterday on the seventeenth anniversary of the adop- tion of national prohibition. “It is also evident.” he declared, “that those who brought about re- peal have not remedied the danger nor modified the menace. It is further evident that the evils of beverage alcohol have assumed such obviously destructive forms that an aroused public sentiment, when the case is properly presented, may well be ex- | pected to support the re-enactment of Nation-wide prohibition.” After emphasizing the hazards which drinking drivers add to modern traffic | problems, Senator Sheppard said: “In the horse and buggy days the drinking driver could drop the lines relapse into a stupor, and reasonabiy depend upon his sober horse to take | him home safely, and this without menace to others on the highway | In the present age, if the driver re- | laxes control of the steering wheel of an automobile but for & moment he invites and frequently causes deati | or mutilation to himself, to other drivers, to passengers, and pedes- trians.” He laid stress also upon the neces- sity for sobriety because of the part machinery plays in modern industry | nd the need for complete control of all faculties in operating machinery. Dangerous New Saloon. “Another part of the new scene is the new saloon—more alluring, more enticing, more dangerous than the old. The old saloon was the outgrowth of | years of experience in the attempt | to police the liquor traffic. The argu- ment in support of it was that it segregated the sale of liquor frqm that of other merchandise; that women and children were excluded. The old saloon fell into disrepute not only because of the product which it sold, but because of the social and other abuses which developed. It was promised that when the eighteenth | amendment was repealed the salosn | In any form would not be permitted to return. “Many ingenious devices have been contrived to prevent the place of retail | sale from having the appearance of & | saloon. Package stores are being tried. The requirements that liquors shail be purchased only with meals, that patrons shall drink while seated at tables and not while standing with one | foot on a brass rail at a bar are also | being tried. But thoughtful observers of social conditions today are inquiring | Whether these modern substitutes for | the saloon are not in many respects | far worse. The employment of host= esses and bar maids, including many | young girls, and the presence of wemen | and girl patrons in growing numbers | in these new liquor places are develop- | ing serious problems.” | Senator Sheppard also charged that | the practice of cashing the pay checks | of workers in liquor establishments is another characteristic of the old sa= loon “that has returned in more sine ister proportions.” Trouble Being Stored. Calling attention to the large stocks of liquors being manufactured for fu- ture use, the Texas Senator continued: “These tremendous stocks indicate the plans of the liquor traffic for the future. Misery in storage! Crime on deposit! Murder in reserve! Hclil warehoused for the future destructioa of mankind!” Senator Sheppard said that accord- ing to a study entitled “After Repeal " published by the Institute of Public Administration, the most discouraging thing in connection with the liquor traffic since repeal is that “the boot- legger is still with us.” | Commenting on the many different | types of regulations adopted in the States since repeal, Senator Sheppard said: “No matter what type of law has been enacted since repeal by the States or the Federal Government, the basic consideration appears to have been the collection of liquor revenues with slight regard for social | consequences. In the mad scrambie | for tax receipts, social considerations | are being ignored.” | Declaring that the American people adopted prohibition after years of ex- perience with the liquor traffic had left them no other choice, he added: “Today there is still no other choice. The bootlegger is still with us, the hi- jacker is still present, the gangster still kills, public enemies still war upon us. kidnapers still ply their ghastly trade. while the destroyer alcohol, converts the highways into enues of death and mutilation.” S rear of the bus said, “No sex appeal.” | 'AY SISSON is a flight steward on " Eastern Air Lines. His sister. Miss | Lollie Sisson, is an air hostess for Transcontinental & Western Air. For some time they did not see | each other at all, Jay being on the Newark-Miami run through Wash- ington and Lollie on the Kansas Cit: Los Angeles route. Some time back. however, Lollie was brought East to fly the Newark-Chicago run. So now they have established a home in Newark, where they meet at intervals to chaff each other amiably between shuttling back and forth to points half a continent apart. ® x x x INJUSTICE. HORSE thieves are still frowned on in the West, and Brien Mc- Mahon, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department’s criminal division, for one, believes the Western law may be a little too harsh at times. In a recent report to Attorney Gen- eral Cummings, McMahon pointed out what he called an “interesting contrast” between the severity of sentences meted out to two Indians charged with stealing a $60 horse and sentences given convicted bank em- bezzlers in Louisiana. Louisiana courts gave John F. Kelly, a teller of the National Bank of Com- merce at New Orleans, a year and & day for embezzling $250 and also & short sentence to Elmer M. Chapman, assistant cashier of the Homer Na- tional Bank at Homer, La. for em= But in South Da- kota, McMahon told Cummings, Ben- net Running and John Runninghorse of the Rosebud Indian Reservation were given two and one-half and five REUNITED. | years, respectively, for stealing the $60 horse. ) L)