Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1937, Page 7

Epoch-Making Week in U. S. History Due Wagner Decision and Congress Parley May Guide Labor. THE EVENING News Behind the News Failure of Hitler’s, and Il Duce’s Men in Spain Delays European War. BY PAUL MALLOQN. ILITARY staffs around the world are beginning to suspect that Mussolini and Hitler talk & much better war game than they play. Together, they have not even been able to oust the com- munists in Spain The serious failure of their equipment and men araund Madrid has delayed the incvitable Exropean war for a year and possibly for BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | EXT week may mark a mile- stone in the development of | a workable relationship be- | tween employers and em- | ployes in America | First, the long-awaited decision of | the Supreme Court on the const- | tutionality of the | Wagner Labor| Relations Act is expected to be handed down| Monday. | Second, a con- | ference of con-| * gressional lead- | ers has been| called for the lat- | ter part of the | week and this is timed to coincide with the study that would nat- urally be given to | a piece of legis- Jation which will have just been an-| alyzed from a constitutional stand- | point by the highest court in the| land. It may be taken for granted that & chart of what is considered a valid | and invalid exercise of governmental | power, Federal and possibly State, in | Jabor relations will be found in the | forthcoming decision or decisions of | the Supreme Court. There are sev- | eral cases pending involving many different aspects and it would not be | surprising to find the court hnldingi‘ the Wagner act valid in some in-| stances and invalid as applied by the Labor Board in others. Each case, of course, stands on its own merits. Actually, too. each Jaw- suit seeks to determine whether the rights of the citizen have or have | not been taken away from him by an act of Congress. That is all the Supreme Court. really decides—it doesn’t pass on the validity or wis- | dom of acts of Congress as such. | May Equal N. R. A. Importance. But from the language of the de-| eisions which probably will discuss the broad rights of Congress to legis- | late on the question of employer and | employe relationships, many interest- ing revelations of legal interpretation | will be disclosed. To those people in ‘ America who still have respect for | judicial process and who accept the jdea that constitutional precedents when presented in carefully reasoned | judicial opinions form the bulwark of the American system of government, | the opinions to be rendered on the ‘Wagner act will assume an impor- | tance equal to, if not exceeding, the Bupreme Court’s findings in the N. R. | A. case, | More prestige will naturally attach | to the Supreme Court opinions if they happen to be unanimously ren- dered because it is inevitable that minority or dissenting opinions should be seized upon by those who have Jost the decision as being, indeed, the ‘way the majority should have de- cided. 1f the various opinions in the differ- ent cases, each presenting different circumstances and facts, should col- lectively indicate how relations be- tween employers and employes can | be governed by law within certain | definite spheres of action, it will be | a victory for the school of thought which today insists that collective | bargaining and other desirable objec- | tives of labor can be achieved within | the Constitution and without the neocessity of “packing” the Supreme | Court, either. | May Stir Amendment Action. David Lawrence two. This, at any rate, is what the best-informed military men here read between the lines of the recent European dispatches telling of Gen. Franco's minor losses. of Mussolini again pulling hair from his chest, of the British press again boldly baiting Italy, of the trouble at the Spanish neutrality conference, etc. It may not explain everything, but 1t discloses much of the back- ground of new weakness in the bite of the world’s two loudest barkers. German soldiers, and particularly German military planes, have fallen down too often in Spain for their deficiencies to be concealed from practiced military eves. The planes have proved to be siowbr than an- ticipated in actual war conditions, They are not only heavy but lack sufficient maneuverability. Soviet fiyers on the other side have flown rings around the Ger- mans. Their only trouble is that there are too few of them. The Germans have decided to redesign both planes and engines. That is probably cear pro- gram. It seems to practical military men that Hitler will hardly choose to take on Russia unti! the program is completed. ok * % A5, The excusé for German and Italian man-failure may be less serious. Those non-combatants who have checked the situation closely believe that neither the Italians nor the Germans at the Spanish front have much heart for their business. Friction has developed. Gen. Franco's Moors despise native Spaniards, the Ttalians do not like the Spaniards and seem to be only casually friendly with the Germans, ditto for the Germans regarding the Itallans and Spaniards. Both the Germans and Italians have their own company and line officers, but the higher commands are all held by Spaniards of Franco's choosing. The Germans and Italians have little confidence in the ability of these Spanish officers. All this does not necessarily mean Franco is doomed to failure, but his present position is threatening. The defeats he suffered around Madrid are not not particularly important. This lost ground may be recovered. But behind him are 120 sizable towns and cities which he is holding with only a nominal garrison in each place. Garrison duty sapped 50 per cent from the strength of the original army which he put before Madrid. (He had about 35.000 for the initial attack.) Since then he has been reinforced by Germans and Italians. whose numbers can only be guessed, but are erpertly guessed between 50,000 and 75,000. If you begin to hear of uprisings against Franco in garrisoned towns, it will be time to sell him short quickly e The most recent flare-up between Mussolini and Britain grew out of a slightly different phase of this background. Mussolini started it in his recent swing through Italy’'s Mohammedan holdings, by posing as the Great White Papa of Islam. As every Britisher knows, John Bull has a copyright on that pose in his vast Mohammedan colonies, possessions and mandates. He has always been touchy about any one else stepping into the family. No official here will care to comment publicly, but they all suspect the anti-Italian attacks in the British press had an official flavor. The foreign office has a way of leiting the press perform diplomatic missions which cannot be undertaken officially and openly. Mussolini apparently believed likewise, judging from the heat of h sponse. Now officialdom is trying to get the press to soft- pedal the situation and will suc- ceed to whatever extent is desired. The State Department seems never to bave heard of neutrality legislation. Officials are saying nothing publicly, and all th say privately is that the subject is involved in too delicate a debate between the House and Senate for them io protrude their noses. On the inside, they seem to be lending a hand, or at least a couple of fingers, in behalf of the House bill, which gives considerable executive leeway. That bill will apparently interfere least with their trade treaty policy. They assert that they erpect the trade treaty policy to survive. Their story is that most of the countries with which trade treaties are being megotiated are more interested in geMing their exports into the United States than in obtaining erports from us. (A notable exception is Britain.) The neutrality legislation is calculated to affect only our exports directly, " Every trade treaty of the future, however, will certainly carry an escape clause which will make it subject to cancellation by the neutrality policy in war times, BETTER GO EASY (Copyri Na‘gure’s Children 1937 Nuttall’s Pond Weed (Potamogeton It the opinions should indicate plainly that Congress does not have | power to legislate machinery of me\‘ kind prescribed in the Wagner labor | act, impetus will surely be given to | the movement for a constitutional | amendment, bestowing on Congress the power it does not, in the opinion of the court, seem to possess. Nobody can know in advance what the Supreme Court will say but many well-informed lawyers who have fol- lowed the precedents will hazard the guess that where the cases plainly involve interstate commerce, Congress will be upheld in its intent under the socalled commerce clause to regu- late employer and employe relations | in certain limited ways. { Where, however, the cases involve entirely what is known as intra-State or within-the-State matters, such as production as separated from trans- portation or distribution, the court may hold that such regulation of em- ploye-employer relationships in the fleld of production is not a matter for Federal control under the com- merce clause. The Supreme Court in following past decisions and precedents has little choice and hence rarely verses” itself though it does often find & new case not on all fours with a preceding case and hence per- mitting of & different opinion or in- terpretation of the same law Heretofore the Supreme Cot again and again said that “produc- tion” was & local matter, and that regulation of production and its inc dents was not a matter for Federal legislation. It has also said that labor engaged in railroad transportation was interstate and subject to Federal power, Inherited These Distinctions. The court of today was handed these distinctions between State and Federal | power by its predecessors. The dual system of government in which States have within their domain powers not given the Federal Government by the Constitution, may be inefficient or outmoded, but as long as the dual system 1s not changed by con- stitutional amendment, the Supreme Court has no right to change it The court of today is also much more progressive as a whole than courts of earlier periods in American history in that the Congress today iz held in check so that it may not | take away rights almost at will. For the first 50 years of American history, the Congress was allowed free rein in the sense that the Supreme Court held only two acts of the National Legislature to be invalid. The attacks made Jefferson and others against the Supreme Court were based on its refusal to restrain Congress. It was said that the court allowed Congress to amend the Constitution without submitting amendments to the people in the way prescribed by the Consti- tution itself. Today the criticism is just the other w The Supreme Court is enaeavoring to protect the citizen and the people generally against & usurpation of rights and liberties be- from the citizen longing to the people and which&m[ t has | by | epihydrus). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HE Greek definition of this weed means “river plant.” It is a large genus of about one hun- dred species and is to be found |in the temperate and tropical regions of leaves, those that are submerged and those that float on the surface of the water. are dainty and very narrow, those on the surface much larger. | Some members of this tribe are of special value in aquariums, and they |are of inestimable value in private | | ponds. There are 40 species to be | found in North America. All members | of this family are weedy plants. They attach themselves to the bottom of | ponds and love the edges of Jakes and shallow streams. They are of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of these places, but they help to keep the stream beds in their rightful courses. Their toots | | cling fast to the muddy bottom. They have strong and sturdy stems that | make ideal anchoring places for small | creatures as well as insect eggs. Mem- | bers of the pond weed tribe are de- | pendable. They hold their small spikes of inconspicuous flowers above the | water in Midsummer. Few of us who visit the home of the pond weed notice them until we realize what important little weeds they are. For many of our friends of these spots either have clung {to them in youth or will crawl up the | | strong stem in order to transform into flyers. The flowers are perfect naked and green seed in each seed box. It has a hook or is coiled. Once it drops from its place of safety, it must cling to some- | thing until it has an opportunity to | send its slender little root foot down into the mud, or it fastens itself to an object close by until the time comes when it will drop down into the water. Water birds who know all about the seeds in places where the pond weed grows are fond of the little nutlet rights of workers Nuttall's pond weed is easily trans- of the employer is a del- | planted and is one of the water plants r granted that the Wag- | to be fond in llly ponds. As far as the is upheld with reference to | nature lover is concerned, he has been Y of the seeing these little pond weeds all his industrial d life. Their story, of course, is not one dra that is exciting nor would it attract fut much attention, for this plant’s flowers freely with ' and fruit are never conspicuous. ghts and obligations v goes ongress fon in labor dis- State lines and irrespect of production merely involved, then a new ex- ercise of power by the Congress over the future of American labor will seem to have been validated as part and parcel of the vaguely phrased but often definitely interpreted right j of ess to regulate the flow of among the several States Whether the court proclaims new rulings or sticks to the old prece- dents, the coming 10 days will open | up for discussion the whole question of labor relationship to constitutional {law on a background of “sit-down” strikes that have grown to epidemic proportions and of spectacular con- troversy over the future of the Su- preme Court itself as an institution— {a most extraordinary combination of | circumstances occurring by coinci- | dence in the 150th year of the life | of the Constitution. (Copyright, 1837.) They are There are two kinds peo have not consented in the customary way to relinquish Delicate Task. rt in far the Congress may g0 in lim and the ! 1cate one. F ner act the employer in future | putes, the inference will be that Congress is able at some live in the pond and to the birds that drop down overnight en route to their Northern destination. There are some pond weed neighbors is to have be delighted at the number of little creatures who use the pond weed as an anchorage, a springboard or even a place to hide under. On your visit to any stream or pond this Summer, see how many members of the pond weed family you can recognize—re- member there are 40 species to be found. (Copyright, 1937.) e Ry CLAIRE ADAMS BRIDE HOLLYWOOD, March 27 (& — Claire Adams, film star of the silent days, and Donald Selbie Mackinnon of Melbourne, Australia have been married in London, England, her rela- tives said today. The couple will reside temporarily in Berkeley Square while Miss Adams | 1= making a picture in London. Later they expect to come to Beverly Hills. ~ o Y STAR, WASHINGTON, necessarily The Star’s. D. C, HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not 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. BY MARK SULLIVAN. EN. HUGH JOHNSON (“sol- dier and columnist, too™) denies that Labor Leader John Lewis is a dictator. He | reproves those who make the charge. Johnson repudiates specifically the notion, widely current, that Lewis dic- tates to President Roosevelt. Quite | contrary, 8ays} Gen. Johnson. He | i says that others ; “may think Mr. Lewis is dictator at the White House, but that ! isn’t what Mr, | Lewis thinks, He ! thinks he is Little Orphan Annie.” Johnson says that Mr. Lewls | “. . . is not in § ‘frequent conver- sation' with the President. His great enemy, William Green, is, however—and he comes to the front door when he visits, too. Mr. Lewis has seen the President twice since election, and one of those visits was so carefully covered that the reporters did not get it.” What Johnson says on this point can be accepted. The general knows the President and the President’s mind—he was once “No. 2 man” in the administration the “assistant President.” And Johnson likewise knows Lew . Mark Sullivan, He was called | Lewié’ November Chill Presidential Cold Shoulder Argu.es That C. I. O. Leader Is No Dictator Yet. or other heads of the A. F. of L. were in and out of the White House rather frequently. This was observed by the minor labor leaders about Washing- ton. It began to trickle out to little local labor leaders throughout the country that Lewis did not seem to stand so well at the White House, and that Green was now the fair-haired boy. This was bad for Lewis’ busi- ness. He was in a life-and-death fight to get his C. 1. O. going, and the ap- parent discrimination agsinst him at the White House hurt. Besides, he was harassed by other things. His strike against General Motors at Flint was going badly. Lewis “Blows Up.” So Lewis blew up—he is an ex- plosive person. Late one afternoon, January 21, he sent for the news- paper men. To them he gave a statement for publication. He re- minded Mr. Roosevelt that during the campaign “the administration asked labor to help it * * * and labor helped the President * * *” Now, said Lewls, “labor expects the administration to support the auto workers in every legal way in their fight.” “This,” said | Lewis, “is no time for neutrality, no | time for pussyfooting.” That statement by Lewis created a sensation. Everybody assumed Mr. Roosevelt must do something about it. He did. He uttered just one sentence. It was a cryptic sentence. and very mild, “In the interest of peace, there come moments when statements, conversations and head- The nuttall pond weed has a single | But | it really means something to those that | that overshadow this one, but you will | lines are not in order.” That was & very gentle tap on Lewis’ wrist, so gentle, indeed, that there was doubt whether it was a tap at all. Since Lewis’ name was nut mentioned, no one could be sure Mr. Roosevelt was even referring They are cronies. They are both ro- mantics; they think of themselves as | two musketeers of the time D'Artagnan. 1 seem to recall Gen. Johnson telling about one midnight | occasion when they rolled through | the Virginia countryside in an open | io ewis. car ululating old songs together. Or | The whole episode gave rise to maybe the general recited Rienz’s|much print. All took one direction. “Address to the Romans” and Lewis| A1l said that Lewis had presumed on sang “My Bonnie Over the | his help to the President during the Ocean.” Anyhow two were very | campaign to demand that the Presi- happy and companionable and were ' dent should now help him win a having a good time together. ® strike. Knock Brings Entrance. But Lewis' friends declare that this relations between Lewis and Mr. | newspaper interpretation of his action Roosevelt is inside dope. Besides, it j is “all wet.” They say the strike is borne out by palace gossip around | Was not really in Lewis' mind at all. the White House and by other sources | That was not what he was mad about. of the low-down. It runs counter to| What caused him to blow up was general supposition, but it's true all | the spectacle of his rivals, the A. the same. The real present attitude | F: Of L. leaders, going in and out of Mr. Roosevelt and Lewls toward |Of the White House while he was each other is one of—let us not say |Ke€Pt out in the cold. And Lewis' suspicion, but mutual watchfulness. | friends point out the denoument, as Since the relation of Lewis to | they say in France. They point out President Roosevelt is not only a | D&t within 48 hours after Lewls matter of current surmise but also, | 1ad let out his blast, he was in- under present conditions, 8 matter | e 10 the White House. ;’CH[’I‘S:‘"In‘r’“‘;‘;‘;}‘i‘:{né”&n“ Justi- | grew cold towsrd Lewls after the -mn’; SieeRt ti]a}. Tovis has ‘wnulecthn, the answer must be sought ‘“ Ro b # S S in Mr. Roosevelt's temperament. It Mr. osevelt only twice since the |js an unusual temperament. Maybe election. The beginning of the story | Mr. Roosevelt felt that Lewis was goes back to several months pre- growing too fast. Maybe he felt that ceding the election | Lewis might try to crow in Mr. | | A year ago. when Lewis was forming | Roosevelt’s barnyard. Maybe he felt his Committee on Industrial Oragni- | that one barnyard is not large enough zation and Mr. Roosevelt was getting | for two chantecleers. However, this ready for his campaign for re-election, | is all surmise. the two were quite close. They were] We know what Heaven and hell more or less what the American | will bring, vernacular calls “in cahoots.” | But who can know the mind of | Mutual Watchfulness, the Yes, what Johnson says about { Roosevelt They | : canoodled with each other. Probably | the king? (Copyright, 1937.) Mr. Roosevelt was a - little cautious | SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937. We, the People Columnist Gets a Word in About Court as He Digs for Court Column- BY JAY FRANKLIN. ERE'S the way & column on the Supreme Court gets itself written: Find bunch of fan-letters at office, agreeing that lawyers ought to be given the works and saying I am a swell columnist. Nobody calls me & skunk, a Communist or a paid propagandist. Wonder whether I am slipping. Inspect publicity photographs requested by syndicate. They make me look like & cross between a cockatoo and & Boy Scout. Decide candid camera can be too candid and send them off with a heavy heart. Go to Senate Office Building and consult private secretary of Senator Norris of Nebraska about the State’s new unicameral Legislature. Tell him four guys down in Texas want to know how the new sys- tem prevents pigeon-holing, buck- passing and secret conference methods of legislative skullduggery. He explains, so decide to save ma- terial for a rainy day. Stop in at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. A guy named Everson from the Farmers’ Union is testifying against the President’s plan. Think I spot a section of his mimeographed statement which was written for him by the corporation lawyers. Later see Dick Wilson and ask who in blazes Everson is and what he rates in the corn belt. Understand Everson represents minority of Milo Reno's old following and is not regarded as cutting much ice. Read Mr. Hughes' letter to Senator Wheeler about the work of the Supreme Court. Remember that Joe Stinson told me that William Howard Taft refused to call himself “chief fustice” on the ground that the title was not mentioned in the Constitution. Note that Mr. Justice Hughes sets himself against the Comstitution by questioning the right of Congress to estadlish appellate divisions in the court. Look up constitution in World Almanac and underline passage which says, “* * * the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such ezceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make” Wonder whether Hughes' letter foreshadows new trend to deny or limit power of Congress in this fleld. Think he hit a foul ball on that one. * X ¥ % Argue with colleague as to effect of Hughes' letter. Agree that Roosevelt's arguments about inability of aged justices to perform work of court thoroughly phoney. Advance view that in future Supreme Court won't be so important as to justify present hysterical hullaballoo. Insti- tution being deflated as well as reformed and due fof 50 years hibernation. Probably a good thing to end “Divine right” talk about judiciary. Cross to old House Office Building and locate Maury Maverick of Texas in hideout, working hard on his political autoblography. Am grati- fied to hear him refer to prominent Senator as such-and-such. Maury says judiciary bill would pass house in two weeks with hundred votes to spare and fears present senatorial hearings will delay final passage till September. As his hideout is just under eaves of building, under- stand his annoyance. Must be hot in Summer. Stop at office of chairman of House Judiciary Committee, Hatton Sumners, also from Texas, believed to oppose President’s plan but too cagey to give an opinion. Sumners out, s0 make tentative appointment through his secretary for following morning. Appointment later canceled. Return to Press Club and read Senator Wheeler's statement, attacking the Roosevelt plan. Think it a pretty good job and am amused at his crack at Tugwell for taking a job in Wall Street, as wonder how much of Wheeler's opposition is due to big copper companies, said to “own” Montana, and how much to ingrowing liberalism. Drop in on Tom Corcoran to learn what he thinks of Ray Moley's helping stab Roosevelt plan. As usual, Tom unlocatable, 80 assume he is vibrating from pillar to post in effort to offset Hughes-Wheeler-Moley attack on judicial reform. Wish these guys had a place where they could be found when needed. Go home, have shower, drink and dinner. Tune in on ex-Su- preme Court Justice John H. Clarke, speaking for the plan. Clarke says Roosevelt scheme en- tirely constitutional. Who ever said it wasn't? Am amused at in- tellectual puzzle presented by a man over 70 arguing that men over 70 are biased and incompetent judges. If he is right, his opinion is also biased and incompetent. Like snake swallowing its own tail. Turn dial to hear Henry A. Wallace speaking to farm groups at Richmond, Va. Find that his speech is clear, logical and persuasive as usual, and calculated to increase pressure through A. A. A. county com- mittees on stubborn Senators and reluctant Representatives. ‘Wonder how soon the farming regions will really get political parity with banking and industry. WIill the South and West stand against the East or will they pass up this chance to cement their power? Back to office. Senator Burke on the wire, much encouraged over Burt Wheelers’ testimony, says it has wiped out effect of administration’s two weeks of witnesses. Tell him I have read Moley's statement and that it is also effective. We agree that administration will block any resolution for constitutional amendment. He says his crowd willing to vote for amendment only if judiciary bill is dropped. Oh, well—here goes: “Here's the way a eolumn on the Supreme Court gets itself written.” : (Oopyright, 1837.) An American You Should Know Federal Trade Commis- sion Head Continues “Fighting Career.” BY DELIA PYNCHON. HE Federal Trade Commission, created by act of Congress in 1914, has done much mission= ary work for soul-sick business. The commission is & national long- range organization “to prevent une fair metkods of competition in com= merce.” It is legal, economic and administra- tive in character, and deals with questions involv- ing public inter- ests There are five €0 m m issioners, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Only three can belong to the same po- litical party. Democrats now have the edge at the rate of three to two members. Chairmen rotate. Each commissioner ultimately is chairman, presiding and supervising proceedings for a term of seven years. The present chairman is William A. Ayres. Born in Elizabethtown, Ill., Mr. Ayres early moved to Wichita, Kans., where he grew up, was educated, mar- ried and had three daughters. He is a large, kindly lovable sort of man, with a ready smile, slow Kansas drawl and a vast understanding of human nature. “I have been scrapping all my life for one thing or another,” Mr. Ayres said. “First it was for my education at Garfield (now Priends) University. Then it was to pass my bar examina- tion. I was strong, so I drove a thresh- ing machine, or anything handy, to get along.” Admitted to the bar in 1893, he practiced law in Wichita until elected to Congress in 1915. “I have always been a Democrat, and so were my father and gran father,” Mr. Ayres said. Those we! the days, he explained, when a Demo- crat was something of a curiosity in Republican Kansas. Kansas people, however, have a way of voting for the man they want regardless of politics, as Landon’s defeat there evidenced. Mr, Ayres’ election to Congress was also an example of Kansas' political independence. He served faithfully in Congress from 1914 to 1934, with an interlude of two years, when he was defeated by a mere hundred votes. For 10 years he was the only Democrat in either branch of Congress from Kan- sas. A hard-working member of the Appropriations Committee during his congressional years, Mr. Ayres called his service there “one continuous fight to keep down appropriations.” Now as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission he continues his W. A. Ayres. fighting career. It is one legal case | after another to protect the “little fel- :low" from unfair business practices. A | total of 1,827 investigations were start- | ed last year by the Trade Commission, ;eacn of which -requires from two | monghs to two years to conclude. Out |of this the commission issued 386 | complaints of unfair competition. | Eight hundred and ninety were ap- | proved stipulations. This proceeding allows the respondent a chance to mend his ways. | about it, for he would not want to | {give offense to Mr. Lewis’ rival in |labor leadership, William Green, | i president of the American Federa- | {tion of Labor. Lewis declared re-| had and must be re-elected. | Lewis, through his labor organiza- | tions, contributed $469.668.91 to Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign funds—the larg- | est contribution the New Deal received. | Once the “Fair Haired Boy.” While all this was going on, Lewis— so his friends say and observation bears it out—was a favorite at | White House, the “fair-haired boy.” | (Barring the fact that Lewis’ hair is not fair but black and exceptionally | abundant.) At that time Lewis could ||/ drop into the White House whenever | ! he wanted and call the President on || the telephone as informally as he might call one of his own assistants. | | | After the election—this is the story ||| | of Lewis' friends, and Gen. Johnson |! bears it out—Lewis felt a November || chill in his relations with the White ||/} House. During more than two months | | he was only at the White House once. | When he tried to get Mr. Roosevelt || on the telephone, he was given the | “run around” by Mr. Roosevelt’s sec- | retaries Tl This was pretty irking to Lewis, but || \ilf there was worse. While he could not || get to the White House, his rival in |lI| labor leadership, Green, could. Green | | ever Those that are not seen | LR MR. MINEAR been Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. | "T"HERE is a legend about an ancient | Greek philosopher and a problem | | of nines. The number nine was | thought to possess magic powers in | /||!l| days gone by, and this problem was | ||| proposed by the philosopher after he ||| i il | I —has MR. LUDT —developed and ¥ ¥ | had been constantly harassed by a | fellow townsman, who claimed nine | as his lucky number. The philosopher | showed how three nines could be made | || o equal eleven by placing two of them, | forming 99, over the third to get the fraction which equaled eleven. He then suggested that the fellow towns- man arrange three nines to equal 20. | The use of simple arithmetic signs or | devices was permitted. Can you do it? ’ (Copyright, 1037 ) } (See Answer on Page B-11.) 1 P — ; 0. U. Enrollment Grows. The University of Oklahoma has 5201 students this semester, the | 1argest second-semester enrollment in associated for years with one of Washington's leading Cemeteries, most of this time as General Manager. recently com- pleted Forest Lawn Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio, to the complete satisfaction of the lot owners and of the community generally. LT B MR MiINEAR AND MR. LupT make an announcement “On February 18th of this year, the control and management of Fort Lincoln Cemetery was as- sumed by us.” L. O. Minear Paul M. Ludt .... AND A PROMISE i E WHO are now directly responsible for the plan- ning, development, and finally the completion of Fort Lincoln Cemetery, feel that we should now, at the beginning of our work, make this record of our This is done that we may not for a moment lose sight of our promise, which we now make to ourselves, to those who share the ownership of the property, and to the Community, that Fort Lincoln Ceme- intentions and of our ideals. ten tery shall be—"" enterprise, “’maintained forever as a resting place marked by our continuing care for those who are gone from us briefly, ’a home of peace and comfort, which we may anticipate without misgiving, Fort Lincoln Cemetery “”A Cemetery designed and developed artistically and in good taste, outstandingly beautiful in a City of beauty— built substantially and honestly for endurance, “‘maintained throughout and perpetually, to a higher standard than might be expected or ““a final resting place expressing in design, landscaping, buildings, and use of natural beauty, the thought of eternal L. 0. MINEAR PAUL M. FoOrRT LINCOLN CEMETERY peace.”’ Outstandingly Beautiful in a City of Beauty ! the school's history. -~ “Honestly and ethically conducted as a- business “’and more materially—a place of distinguished beauty, satisfying every longing we may have ‘for the particular and considerate care of those we wish to serve—always. shall be— required, LuUDT