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Plan Offered for Ending Strike Board to Arrange for Election of Workers’ Negotiators Urged. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. EACE with honor to both sides, peace without in any way im- pairing the bargaining power of the workers or the property rights of the employers can be achieved in a settlement of the auto- mobile strike if public opinion clearly understands the issues and if public authorities Fed- eral and State, recognize the full extent of their responsibilities as mediators in the public interest. But to under- stand the issues, 1t is necessary for concrete Ppropos- als to be placed before the people generally because up to now the conferences and conversations have been secret, and except for inferences to be drawn from the controversial statements is- sued by the disputants there has been no way of knowing how far the par- ties are in agreement and on what points they are in disagreement. In the hope that this may stimulate a general discussion of peace plans, the following suggestions are offered as a basis for immediate resumption of work in all plants: First, the President of the United States would be requested by the par- ties to the present dispute to appoint & special board of nine persons, con- sisting of three representatives of organized labor (inciuding at least one from the American Federation of Labor and one from the Committee on Industrial Organization), three Tep- resentatives of the automobile manu- facturers of America, and the Secre- tary of Labor, the Assistant Secre- tary of Labor and the Governor of Michigan. The chairman of the group would be the Secretary of Labor. Election Would Follow. Second, thi§ board shall submit within 60 days to the President of the United States for his approval or dis_- approval or modification, but for _hxs final determination, a pian containing the rules for helding an election to de- termine the unit or units of collective pargaining in the automobile in- dustry. 4 Third, the plan shall give every workman in every plant in the indus- try, no matter where located, an oppor- tunity by secret ballot to designate what organization, if any, shall act as his agent in collective bargaining, and the ballot shall plainly indicate all possible units of bona fide workers’ organizations, includirg craft unions of the A. F. of L. and the unions of the Committee on Industrial Organization, which the worker may appoint to act for him in negotiating wages and hours with the employers of his own plant or with the corporate manage- ment of the whole company, as the worker himself may indicate by his ballot. Fourth, on the result of the elec- tions will depend the composition of the permanent workers’ council which is to represent the workers in their negotiations with the general man- agement of the employer company or companies. Representation on this workers’ council shall be proportionate to the voting strength of each of the groups or organizations specified on the ballot. Would Deal With Groups. Fifth, the company will agree in advance to recognize the workers’ council as the sole bargaining agency representing the men who have by their votes formally consented to per- mit the council to act as their respec- tive agents. All workmen who prefer direct negotiations with their plant managements, either through craft unions or local committees of their own, may do so, but the company agrees in advance not to give less favorable or more favorable terms in hours and wages to any group, whether or not they are represented in the workers’ council. Sixth, the company agrees in the event of disagreement between the members of the workers’ council on matters of wages and hours to nego- tiate with one or more representa- tives constituting a section of the council or with members of the coun- cil individually on behalf of their constituents, and pledges that it will not discriminate between groups, but will give as favorable terms to any one group as it may agree to give to any other group whenever separate nego- tistiens may occur. Seventh, local grievance committees are to be established in each plant to take care of all local disputes apart from wages and hours, but with the right of appeal to the council in the event that no agreement in the solu- tion of a local dispute has been possi- ble after three months of negotiations between local employe committees and local employer representatives in any local plant. Provides Financial Liability. Eighth, agreements between the ‘workers’ council and the employers with reference to wages and hours are to be for stated periods and a stipula- tion is to be entered whereby both par- ties agree in advance to accept court Jurisdiction to determine financial liability in the event that the con- David Lawrence, tracts are violated by any signatory Leo group, and no strike of any kind or any lockout shall be authorized by any group of workers or by the em- ployers during the period of such con- tract. Ninth, agreement by the parties to the submission of a test suit in the proper court or courts with evidence to be offered expeditiously so as to determine the legality of the “sit- down” strike, and the rights of both sides are not to be prejudiced with re- spect to the use of sit-down strikes or lockouts or the utilization of property rulxhta during the period of the litiga- on. Tenth, both sides agree to resume work immediately on the acceptance of the foregoing terms and all “sit- down” strikers are to be taken back to work without prejudice or dis- crimination in their future relations with the employers. Gets Over Hurdle. ‘The importance of such an agree- ment lies in the fact that it gets over the hurdle which has made it im- practical to use the machinery of the ‘Wagner labor relations law. John Lewis says the law will be declared unconstitutional and cannot be en- forced because of lower court in- : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO 2 ¢ 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not News Behind the News Permanent Executive Control of Trade-Tariff Policy Favored by Hull. BY PAUL MALLON. ON'T tell any Congressmen, but there seems to be little doubt that State Secretary Hull is leading gradually up to the establishment of his trade-tariff-making power as a permanent Government lcy. Anyp:( his aides who fails to deny it at the moment will be summarily shushed. Mr. Hull is having a hard enough time getting a three-year ex- tension through Congress now without awakening the legislators. But after this current congressional pressure drive is over, you will find any or all of his associates ready to tell you off the record that the execu- tive trade-tariff system has come to stay. The possibility of permanence is 7 understood to have been discussed q on the inside during preparations for handling the present legislation. \ 3 It was decided Congress Lsdnotlyet 2 ripe. Three years' more develop= ment of the policy may soften congressional resistance. Three ye‘:ors ago, Mr. Hull got his trade-tariff power on the ground it was an emergency measure, needed to offset the unsettlement of world currencies. However, that emergency has cooled considerably since. Now Mr. Hull is bearing down heavily on the idea that an extension is needed to promote world peace. ? Three years hence, you will very probably see Mr. Hull offering the right reason for permanent continuance. If he does, he will say he thinks it is a darned good policy for the Ezecutive rather than the Congress to megotiate reciprocal tariffs because rate making now has become involved with shifting quotas, currency values, interna- tional politics, foreign relations, world peace. It is no longer first a domestic issue. The constitutionality of the system will have to be decided before then. So will the right of the Senate to pass on the treaties which Mr. Hull negotiates. s P Republicans are merely going through the motions of opposing the trade-treaty extension. Their members on the House Ways and Means Committee twitted Mr. Hull politically, but showed little inclination to go deeply into what the policy has accomplished and failed to accomplish. The fact seems to be that the Republicans are not in the frame of mind or position to function as an effective opposition. Once they got under Hull's skin. They asked if Britain had une officially indicated a wariness about signing a trade agreement which would be disrupted by a neutrality act in case of war. Mr. Hull termed the suggestion “the invention of some picayunish person.” The fact is Mr. Hull has not had an opportunity to get around in his department to find out what has been going on during his absence in South America. Note—The current extension will expire at the right psychological moment, June 12, 1940, when the Democratic National Convention will be sitting down to select its next Democratic presidential candidate. * X X ¥ That $10,000,000 fund which the Democrats are going to create in the next four years is really just an asking price. The insiders have no idea they will get it, or anything like it. They saw no harm in asking, but would see some danger in getting it. If the Democratic National Committee had a surplus of several millions stored for the next presidential campaign, 1% would be subject to all kinds of pressure for expenditures for this and that. The committee will really raise about $5,000,000, which will keep its tremendous organization going nomination of Prof. Roswell Magill portant than interest rates. * % him up. The effort was lost. Packard. step would legally estop them from challenging the censtitutionality of other features of the Wagner law. But & voluntary agreement on a special board does away with the con- stitutional difficulties because it be- comes a mutual agreement apart from the Federal labor law—in other words, a special contract between the parties. Likewise, the President of the United States acts in an informal capacity just as an arbitrator would in a customary arbitration proceeding. But his arbitration extends only to one point, namely, to the reconciliation of differences that may arise in the special temporary board as to the best manner of conducting a fair election. If the President wishes, he can also call on & special commission of promi- nent citizens to give him expert advice or he can decide the issues himself after receiving the recom- mendations of his own created special board. Coercion Could Be Stopped. Arrangements could be made through the rules governing the elec- tion to keep the ballots from being tampered with and also to assure a freedom of choice without coercion or intimidation of any kind whatso- ever. It might be necessary to en- trust the counting of the ballots and their custody thereafter to a court and its officers, a point that could be well taken care of by the rules for the election drafted by the President’s board. But whatever the rules, the parties agree in advance to accept President Roosevelt's determi- nation of what they shall be. I do not know whether the plan I have proposed will appeal to either side or neither, for I have not dis- cussed the proposal or its ideas in any way with persons identified with the employers or the employes, or with any public officials. But some such plan will have to Be developed it there is to be industrial peace in America, because the country will not long endure the economic dis- turbance being caused now in its biggest industry nor the threat which continued strikes carry to the future of other industries and businesses and the pay rolls of all their employes. (Copyright, 1937.) Births Reported. Harry and Nell Guthrie, girl. Frank and Muriel Waring, girl. Callan and Charlotte Dufy. boy. ard and Bernetta Hoffman. boy. nd Marjorie Poling, girl Lucia Fair, boy. 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Also, it is a tip that the Treasury mow considers tares more im- Formerly, the undersecretaryship was always given to a bond market erpert. * % Labor Secretary Perkins wanted to receive President Sloan of General Motors graciously, so she sent an automobile down to the station to pick It was not a Buick, but—of all things—a (Copyright. 1937.) RESOENTSOFD GETTAX REFUNDS Twoscore Individuals and Firms Receive Amounts in Excess of $500. More than 40 District residents and firms received income and estate tax refunds in excess of $500 on the basis of returns for the 1936 fiscal year, ac- cording to Treasury Department re- ports made public today by the House Committee on Expenditures. The two largest refunds, amounting to about $30,000 each, went to the estates of Isobel H. Lenman and Delia S. Field. The others in round figures to the closest dollar follow: Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, $1,670; Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, $2,001; Washington Gas Light Co., $15,170; Mary B. 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C, Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Lewis Tactics Criticized Roosevelt Rebuke on Demand for Strike Support Held in Order. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. HIS column predicted many weeks before the elections that President Roosevelt, in his sec- ond term, would face serious embarrassment from some of his own supporters. But it is surprising to see it come so0 soon. John L. Lewis’ state- ment on Friday was extraordinary. He apparently suggested that the Presi- dent owed the Committee on Industrial Organization—Mr. Lewis’ trade union movement—a quid pro quo for electoral support, and that the C. I. O. intended to collect it. The President’s reply— given to his conference—was non-committal, but & hardly veiled rebuke. And the rebuke was in order. ‘What, precisely, does Mr. Lewis wish the President to do? Shall he tell General Motor: = that it must recognize Mr. Lewis’ union as the sole collec- tive bargaiming agency? Shall he g0 on the air and advise the work- ers of the United States to join Mr. Lewis’ union? Shall he create a special cabinet position and dele- gate to Mr. Lewis the job of ore niz the 1n- 5‘\5!.:1:1‘ workers of the Nation? To do any of these things the President weuld have to usurp power which he does not have and delegate authority which he does not possess. Mussolini did that in Italy. He ordered the workers in every industry to join one sort of trade union and recognized that trade union, then, as the sole collective bargaining agency. Staln can do the same thing in Russia, But the United States is still & democracy, and has to move by democratic processes. General Motors Has Retreated. The situation is this: Under pres- sure of the extremely costly strike, and through the influence of a Fed- eral and State government, which are both definitely friendly to labor and trade unionism, General Motors has retreated a considerable distance from the position which it took origi- nally. General Motors agreed to nego- tiate on all eight points of the union’s demands, and to negotiate for the industry as a whole, and not plant by plant. It agreed, furthermore, to suspend production while the nego- tiations were in progress—not to re- open the plants. But on its part, it demanded that the sit-down strikers evacute the two Fisher body plants in Flint, which they still occupy, while the negotiations were in progress. The union agreed. The union evacuated all but two plants. Then came the Flint Alliance episode. The alliance was organized by a former Mayor who is a General Motors employe, and it claims to rep- resent the workers opposed to Lewis’ union. It sent a letter to General Motors petitioning to go back to work and asking General Motors to nego- tiate with them as well as with the union. General Motors replied that it would always be willing to nego- tiate with any group of its employes. No date was set for such negotiations. Lewis charges that the alliance is a stooge of the management and that the whole exchange of notes was a maneuver of the company. Since the eight points on which General Motors had agreed to negotiate included the claim of the union to be recognized as the sole Tepresentative of the works. Lewis declared that the demand had been denied by implication in advance of opening negotiations, and was evi- dence, therefore, of bad faith. So he Dorothy Thompson. halted the evacuation and retained the two Flint plants with His sit-down strikers—as “hostages.” General Mo- tors, on its part, claimed violation of the agreement and broke off negotia- tions. For the Government, which we guess wants to arrive as speedily as pos- sible at & peaceful solution, with some recognition of the trade union, Lewis” action and his statement must have been extremely discon . Ap- parently the rigid attitude of the management had broken down; ap- parently the situation was moving toward solution. And it is not easy to envisage what Mr. Lewis’ strategy will be. He does not want to submit the question to a vote of the workers. He charges that the workers will be intimidated, but we suspect that he is not nearly strong enough to con- trol a majority, even in the most carefully protected election. Probably he does not really accept the idea of majority representation at all. It is a new idea in trade unionism. But it has come into trade unionism, by the very fact that labor is seeking Government support and Government co-operation. As long as employer= employe relationships were not a matter for Government intereference one way or the other, the question of who and how many any union repre- sented was not so important. But if decisions are to be made by Govern- ment, the democratic process will be- come & public demand. For Govern- ment cannot arbitrarily choose to sponsor whatever minority can bring most pressure upon it. That way lies chaos. Unions Fight For Status. In the great industries of this country the trade union movement is still struggling for mere status. The movement is extremely weak. In the sit-down strike it is using the most effective possible weapon of the weak against the strong—a very old weapon indeed, that of passive resistance. It is also a hazardous weapon, because it can certainly be an instrument by which a minority can coerce a major- ity, even of the workers themselves. If independent trade unionism were accepted in principle by industry, genuinely accepted, then this weapon would have no more moral justifica- tion than it has legal justification, which, we suspect, is nil. But as 1t is, it is not easy to work up moral indignation, for this is a fight going on, & real fight, for the status of something recognized by law, but sabotaged by heavy industry in prac- tice, and industry certainly holds the bigger guns and the stronger strategi- cal positions. But the trade unionists cannot have it both ways. If they want to fight it out by themselves, that is one thing. Their success will depend on their power with the workers, and incident- ally with public opinion. But if they want Government as a party to the struggle, and they certainly do—it was their idea and not that of the indus- trialists—then they must collaborate to create conditions under which Gov- ernment can participate. Government can protect their right to organize, and see that the laws on the matter are enforced. Government can mediate as between equal parties. But it can only act in a spirit of arbitration. The Gov- ernment does not represent Mr. Lewis or even “labor.” It represents the people of the United States, all of them, who are directly concerned in this strike, because they are going to have to help pay for it. The temper of the country as a whoie at this moment is sympathetic to labor. But that temper can bs exasperated, and, we fear, will be if Mr. Lewis over- reaches himself with demands upon the President, which the President has no power to concede. (Copyright, 1937.) donor), $716; Josephine Ida Moore, $845; Norman W. Oyster and wife, $956; the estate of Samuel Ross, $1,- 643; the estate of James F. Shea, $1,483; under the will of Stephen L. Slocum, $3,347; Charles T. Smith, $562; Robert P. Smith, $1,254; Mrs, Sofla Stallforth (Alien Property Bu- reau), $3,496; Edward R. True, jr., $1,300, and Mrs, Mathilde Townsend Welles, $1,477. CURRENCY BILL SIGNED President’s Power to Manipulate Dollar Is Extended. President Roosevelt today signed the bill to extend until June 30, 1939, his authority to reduce the gold content of the dollar and to protect it in in- ternational exchange through the ex- isting $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. EDUCATIONAL. Cllasses Now Forming INGTON SCHOOL %vrl::“fimfllllis NGTON L PRESS BLDG. @ WASHI O T OiLoING & NEW YORK * A SELECT SCHOOL Special Short Practical RADIO ‘immeas SERVICING F St. N, MEt. 5626 1319 W, Eve. Class—Send for Catalogue Honey Important Product. Honey is becoming an important product in the Texas Big Pond coun- try. A carload of 39,000 pounds was shipped recently to Wisconsin, EDUCATIONAL. AGINC_{“ Metropolitan Law Institute Even C‘.-!'l'!'l'll!celtrellflfl Civil l'rvlc.s urses i@% Touch Typewriting Request. L —— PARTN] HIP CORPORATIONS Star Bldg. 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A list of several score of these leaders is contained in the year book of this \ 8chool.In 1936, and for the entire \ past ten-year period, more Ben- jamin Franklin graduates passed the District C.P.A. examinations thangraduatesofanyotherschool For information concerning the Pace Courses ask for . Thirtieth Year Book Benjamin Franklin University Transportation Building 17th and H Streets ME tropolitan 2518 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937. We, the People Py . Predicted Post-Election Slump Keeps Government Experts Guessing With Strikes “Interfering.” BY JAY FRANKLIN. OVERNMENT experts who were freely predicting s serious slump in the post-election boomlet ar2 still convinced that we are all headed for a bad tailspin, but they don’t know how to time it. ‘Whereas last December they expected it to come about the end of February, today they expect it anywhere between January and June. This is because two political factors have rocked the whole economic plcture for & row of more abundant statistics. The first is the automobile strike engineered by John L. Lewis and the C. I. O, with the unspoken support of the Roosevelt administration. This strike has already partly taken the place of the slump, by reducing orders for steel, freight, glass, etc., and by cutting into pay rolls and profits in the key industry of “prosperity.” In fact, labor troubles come closer to providing a real brake on wildcat booming than does the usual Federal Reserve mumbo-fumbo about interest rates and reserve requirements. Will “Carry Ball” Later. i ‘To the extent to which Lewis has held down production at Detroit, Flint, Pif , Toledo, Akron and other centers of motordom, he has saved Roosevelt’s political hide from a sudden sharp slump. This is particularly true because when the strike is settled motors will try to make up for lost money and will carry the ball at & time when, normally, things would slack off and await the Winter wheat crop and house-building to start a fresh season of activity. The other new factor is the ‘war scare, which is now taking the form of frantic buying of “economic munitions” by the potential belligerents. For example, the entire world cocoa crop is reported bought up clear through next December, and copper quotations are inching up as the European nations lay in stocks against the possibility of blockades and sanctions. General staffs value cocoa highly as a cocentrated food and stimulant for marching men, and copper—even in the last war—was one of the absolute necessities. In time of war—or rumors of war—price is no object, and the only thing which could check the rise of prices in basic commodities is the general pacification of Europe or the drop of European exchanges. Neither of these things is likely to develop in the next few months. Hitler will not be ready to talk peace before Summer and the British will not be in a position to talk turkey until their aerial armament program is completed. The $7,000,000,000 of foreign “hot money” now rolling lusciously around ‘Wall Street can maintain exchange rates, support stock quotations and, in the event of war, could be used to keep on buying American goods with American money. Total Embargo Shunned. Nothing short of an absolute embargo on raw materials could check this situation, and our human nature wouldn't stand for that after seven long years of worry and depression. Among other things, this means that our national housing pro- gram must be postponed again, since the epidemic of price boosting has infested both skilled labor and construction materials until any new construction would be at prices too high to support big-scale housing activities. To say that Government officials are disturbed about_this situation is to put it very mildly. Six weeks ago all but a handful poo-poohed the idea that the post-election “prosperity” was dangerous or could come to an end wlthl; the 1ife of the second Roosevelt administration, ow in department after department the horrid thought is dawnin; that the New Deal may have created another “1929” fz:hsqeennz -n: rooking the forgotten man, and that the administration had better prepare for the wrath to come. And they doubt that it will be possible to do so, now that Wall Street and the politicians have again tasted the blood of the golden calf. (Copyright, 1937.) WOMEN ARE ASKED 10 HELP LIBRARY Needs of Public Institution Acute, Dr. Bowerman Tells Clubs. Describing the needs of the District's {ree public library system as “acute,” Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, today called on the District Federation of Women'’s Clubs to study the press- ing problem with a view toward ar- riving at & solution “that will place the library in a position to adequately meet the growing needs of book- hungry Washington.” Dr. Bowerman told the federation that the Board of Library Trustees, in its annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, suggested that the present main library must be en- larged or & new building must be built to meet the ever-increasing needs for adequate space and administrative effl- clency. He pointed out that a bill recently was introduced by Chairman Collins of the House Subcommittee on District Appropriations calling for a new $2.- 500,000 main building west of Six- teenth street and north of Pennsyl- vania avenue. “In view of the fact the Board of Library Trustees has not yet con- sidered this bill, I feel I am not in a position to state my views on the matter,” Dr. Bowerman said. “My purpose in coming before you was sim= ply to review the existing needs of the library, and to present an impartial analysis of the proposed solutions.” Earlier in the meeting, Miss Mary Elizabeth Downey, chairman of the federation’s Public Library Extension Committee, indorsed the Collins bill. Declaring the library system is not ade- quate for a city of Washington’s size, Miss Downey said: “It is always easy for the District to get money from Congress when the funds are for spectacular things, but it is so much harder, for some reason or other, when it comes to such im- portant things as schools and - braries.” ‘The growth of the library from ap- proximately 65,000 volumes to more than a half-million, and the great increase in circulation was described by Dr. Bowerman. The circulation during the last year was nearly 3,- 000,000, he said. ‘The librarian said the first great need, in his opinion, is for more ade- quate personnel and a larger book fund. Next in importance he placed the need for more branch libraries. In this connection, he explained that the addition of new branches always throws an added burden on the main library, thus necessitating an ever- increasing administrative staff as the extensions are made. The third great need, he said, is for an adequate main library building. The board of trustees’ report, he ex- plained, said that during the major part of the day, the main building is so congested that it is almost im- possible to accommodate the throngs who come for books. From the ad- ministrative side, the report said, the present building is most inefficie: WITH _ MILBURN'S CAPSV LES (EVERY COMMON-COLD ean he a dangerous cold!| ‘Too often these common eolds are not treated, prompily and turn into more serious AT ALL €O0OD DRUGEISTS Headline Folk and What They Do Frank C. Walker Quiet, Unselfish Adminis- tration Worker. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. HE late Louis Howe was useful to the President for many rea- sons, but particularly because he never wanted anything. He might have been the inspiration for the selfless six of the Brownlow Com= mittee, who were to save the Govern- ment by being disinterested. With Mr. Howe gone, they tell the that Frank C. Walker will be the human catalyst of this administration—a sub- stance which can touch off all sorts of interesting reactions, but which never tries to pull out even the tiniest atomic percentage for itself. ‘The bald, pinkish Mr. Walker is rich and doesn’t need anything. He is philosophical and has no thirst for power. He is a political and economic pragmatist who tunes in beautifully with the pragmatic overtones of the new administration. His loyalty to President Roosevelt has made him reach for his check book the way the feudal liege man used to reach for his sword. He founded his fortune as the right- hand man of a distinguished economic royalist, John D. Ryan, the Montana copper king. He was a lawyer in Butte, born near Scranton, Pa., re- moving to New York in 1925 to repre- sent the New York and Pennsylvania real estate and theatrical interests of his uncle, Mike Comerford. He has been treasurer and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Demo- cratic National Committee and head of the National Emergency Council. He served through the New Deal in co-ordinationg co-ordina.ors, and it looks as if there would still be a lot of that kind of work in Washington. He is suave, smooth and noiseless and a miracle man in allaying patronage hostilities—naturally, since he isn't looking for anything for himself. He was a prize debater at Notre Dame University and is an ardent foot ball and fight fan. Shane Leslie, Irish author, eritic and lecturer, has an American mother, an American wife and an honorary degree from Notre Dame University. In the past, he has been a shrewd and helpful interpreter of America to Europe, signally so now, in addressing the Royal Dublin Society. “Henceforth, America will imitate itself,” said Mr. Leslie. “America will evolve and is doing so. The Social ist and PFascist conception of minds will pass into the Atlantic. There never will be treaties or alliances with any European power.” This is interesting as contrasted to what happened after the American election. Russia said it meant Amer- ica was going Socialist and Italy and Germany pulled the word Fascism out of the ballot box. He is a prolific writer and a canny student of world affairs. Some gene- alogists say he has royal blood in his veins—that he is a descendant of George IV and his morganatic but ecclesiastically wedded wife. He lives in an old castle and propounds new ideas. The writer has observed that this often happens—new ideas issuing from old houses and vice versa. (Copyright, 1937.) REGISTERED ine Machines. cioe At Public Auction at Sloan’s 715 13th St. Wednesday January 27th, 1937 At 10 AM. Terms: Cash. C. G. Sloan & Co., Inc.. Aucts. I S Cet™a package of MIL.| BURN'S CAPSULES now and start taking them at once, MILBURN'S CAPSULES ON SALE AT PEOPLES DRUG STORES AND OTHER GOOD DRUGGISTS

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