Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1937, Page 11

. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1937. A—11 ——EEEe e . W | § CI'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not Party Cleavage Issues Still Remain Jefferson Island Parley Apparently Fails to Remove Causes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. EVERAL days having passed since President Roosevelt gath- ered to his side at Jefferson Island the members of his party, Capitol Hill has had an op- portunity to appraise the episode in the light of its possible meaning with to the Court First of all, it may be stated that Mr. Roose- velt did not de- bate public issues - § with his guests except in the most incidental fashion. He made to causes. He mere- ly sought to re- ; establish the same spirit of good fellowship which was so charac- teristic of the early days of his first administration and which lately has given way to an atmosphere of bitter- ness Mr. Roosevelt had been told by the press and so many persons individually that he is possessed of a magic charm in personal conference that. when the [opportunity came to employ it in an lemergency within the party, he nat- urally did not hesitate. But what does all the conversation and conference with the members of the Democratic party in Congress add up to? What effect will it have on the court bill? Cleavage Recognized. Basically. the most significant thing about the Jefferson Island outing, in the words of a prominent Democratic Senator who attended, was the fact that it had to be held at all. Cer- tainly the President's belated recogni- tion of the cleavage his policies are making in the Democratic ranks is better than no recognition at all. But fundamentally Mr. Rooseveit lwould have to abandon such things David Lawrence. as the Corcoran wage and hour bill} and his alliance with John Lewis and the C. 1. O. really to win back the confidence he once had among mem- | Democratic bers of the insurgent lso have to lay He would [preme Court. None of these things [apparently does Mr. Roosevelt m:erfid to do. On the contrary. the President has 4 scheme which is giving the anti court, Senators a good deal of worry. [Briefly, it is that the Senate pass any court bill it wishes, as for instance, the compromise proposed by Senator Hatch. This bill would provide for the appointment of additional jus- tices only to match those who are lover 75 years of age and do not re- tire and the appointments would be spread out over a period of years. House Substitute May Be Trump. To some of the middle-of-the-road [Benators this seems like a plausible proposition and it would not be sur- prising if it did pass. Then the Pres- ident’s trump card is to put his origi- nal bill to enlarge the Supreme Court through the House of Representatives. It is conceded that, unless public opinion is definitely aroused and mem- bers of the House hear from home as emphatically as did the Senators, the measure might get through the House with a comfortable margin for the President. Then the Senate bill and the House bill would have to be ironed out in conference committee between the two houses Mr. Roosevelt naturally would have some advantages in such an arrangement because it is .usually easier to control a conference com- mittee than it is to control both houses of Congress. If the conference com- mittee wrote a compromise, it might be one that leaned more closely to- ward the original plan of the Presi- dent than toward the bill that passed *he Senate. This would be a victory for Mr. Roosevelt Senators opposed to the “packing” of the court are aware of the strategy and their first move undoubtedly will be to prevent any “compromise” meas- ure from coming to a vote. This can be done by a “filibuster,” but on the skill by which a filibuster is conducted will depend whether public opinion is alien= ated by refusal to allow the Hatch compromise to come to a vote. Filibuster Could Void Conference. On the whole, the Supreme Court controversy is far from over with and Mr. Roosevelt carried on his charm wschool at Jefferson Island only as a preliminary course of education with a few Senators who, he hopes, will at least help him get a vote in the Senate on some kind of a bill. The President, however, may have underestimated the strength of the opposition in the Sen- ate to the court measure. Certainly a filibuster has an even chance of killing all action on his bill at this session and to undo whatever good his harmony conferences at Jefferson Island may have accomplished for him. * What Mr. Roosevelt may not per- ceive is that it is his alliance with the |’ forces of John Lewis which is causing dismay on Capitol Hill and that the road to harmony inside the Democratic party really lies in satisfying the South that its industries are not going to be controlled by a board in Washington and that the C. I. O. domination will no longer be countenanced by the Pres- ident. (Copyright. 1837.) LA FONTAINES ACCEPT SUMMONSES IN SUIT Bervice Obtained Through Attor- ney Ford in $15,000 Damage Action in Prince Georges. By & 8taff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. June 30.—-Service on the summonses for mes A. La Fontaine and James A. Fontaine, jr., defendants in a $15.000 damage suit, was accepted yesterday by their attorney, Charles Ford, Sheriff Guy Bell of Prince Georges County announced. The case has been set for the October term of court. Sheriff Bell announced in Circuit Court last week he had been unable to serve either defendant in the suit, filed last March by Louis Lebowitz, tttorney for the plaintiff, Edward J. Merritt of Hyattsville, who asked lamages for a fall on the stairway of the Maryland Athletic Club, on the Bledensburg road, which the La Fon- taines are reported to operate. 8 “Why not” he always What’s Back of It All Unemployment Census Now Scheduled After Ex- perts Give President Definition. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. ELL, we're going to get that unemployment census, after all, it seems. V ‘This comes as a surprise to a number of people who ough’ to be used to surprises by this time. Probably a dozen bills have been introduced for such a survey; press and public have demanded it in resonant tones and with sweeping gestures. But that was all. When anybody asked the President answered, “Define unemployment, please!” Apparently, somebody stepped up and did just that. If the loquacious squirrel which lives under the White House eaves is correct, it was quite a distinguished group who did the defining. Not just one lonely 'Sg:{g‘é&‘%effg g definer. Several. 'WATSON./, And so, that hurdle having been hurdled, the rest was easy— or should be. Senator Black of Alabama introduced a bill which, among the horde of others, .nobody noticed. In fact, what with the Jefferson Island party just leaving off, and the Fourth just coming on, nobody has noticed it at this writing. However. examined through a high-power microscope, this document looks very important. It reveals what appears to be a White House watermark, perhaps even a White House fingerprint. Notw, once the experts have reduced the bona fide “unemployed” to a formula, it will, they say, be easy for any good, average census- taker to go right out and count noses. Of course. to be of any value other than serving as a slice of political pork, an unemployment census must continue to be a going concern, that is, it must be cumulative, kept up to date Some of the modus operandi of this job might conceivably be furnished by the United States Employment Service and, if we follow the British system, and keep right up to date, the postman can ring twice, once a month, and keep up the latest statistics with the outgoing mail. * kK ¥ The first salvo in the renewed battle over the court reorganization bill is due to sound off immediately unless the boys have to go home and shoot off their children's firecrackers first The preliminary barrage seems to consist chiefly of the adverse report of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is already the Government Printing Office’s best seller for all time, as far as committee reports go. It is said that the biggest single order, when and if placed, will be for 200,000 copics of the report to be distributed by the National Commuttee to Uphold the Constitution, a private group which has been helping the opponents of the bill. This organization is credited with having distributed more than 2,000,000 anti-reorganization speeches during the heat of the controversy this Spring. The Senate, by resolution, requested the printing of 40,000 copies of the report, which was described by observers of the needs of the anti- administration artillery as “not a drop in the bucket.” Senator Burke's office alone has had calls for 1,800 copies: Represent- ative Bacon of New York has ordered 1,500 copies; other large orders are keeping the presses rolling. * ok % % Meanwhile, the opponents of the bill claim they are having a hard time finding champions of the ad- ministration to meet them in pub- lic debate. Time on the air for the first week in July has been made avail- able by the Columbia Broadcasting System and Senator Wheeler is willing to meet all comers. It is claimed that Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of the In- terior Ickes and Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace have been ap- 3 X ok ox % The name “Roosevelt” appears only seven times in the Washington telephone directory, and only one of them is a person—Mrs. Henry L. Roosevelt, wife of the late Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a cousin the President The others are: A beauty shop, a hotel, a market. a pharmacy, a steamship company, a high school and a valet and laundry service. Al these except the high school (named after T. R.) and the steam- ship company (Kermit Roosevelt’s) were named after the hotel, which was here before F. D. R. arrived at the White House. On the other hand, there are 78 Hoovers in the telephone directory, and all of them are people but one. (Copyright. 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) of Man Turning to Stone. though he is imprisoned in stone. He A patient in a hospital at Prague, Czechoslovakia, is slowly becoming petrified. He says that he feels as is able to bend his neck only slightly and then only sideways. Doctors are unable to aid him. necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, J themselves and directly opposed although such opinions ma% be contradictory among to The Star’s. Fair Code for Unions Governors Begin to Respond to Public Demands for Justice for .Y DOROTHY THOMPSON. HE only possible position for any one who believes in de- mocracy and in liberalism to take now, in the industrial struggle, is to support Senator Vanden- berg’s bill to amend the Wagner labor relations act. The bill safe- guards the rights ... of labor to organ- ize, provides that one labor election need not impose a union for all time, gives hoth em- ployers and em- ployes the option of calling such elections, provides that privileged strikes cannot be called without a majority vote of all employes and that breaches of contract, suspend the right of representation. | It also establishes a ‘“code of Inir‘ practices” for unions, prohibits com- | pulsory assessments for political pur- | poses, outlaws coercion and physical | violence—by either side and insists that officers and agents of a union must be American citizens. The bill parallels proposals which | have been made in this column for months. That it is timely no one will question. It is long overdue. For either we are going to get a labor act which is in harmony with Ameri- can public opinion, or we are going to get even worse chaos than at pres- ent exists. Governors See It. What American public opinion is, no one need longer doubt. Gov, Da\‘ey] and Gov. Murphy are being forced to respond to it. Gov. Davey has modified the policy of Washington for just one reason! He has become aware of what the communities which | he represents, think. Gov. Murphy is | also, apparently, beginning to be aware | Dorothy Thompsen that action has got to be taken against | unbridled license on the part of the | C. 1. O. It has got to be taken to protect the very things for which | the Wagner labor relations act ostensi- bly stands: Industrial democracy and the rights of workers. John L. Lewis is, of all people, the man who—if he is sincere—should welcome the clarification of the law. Mr. Lewis has admitted on numerous occasions that he does not have his cohorts in hand: that, inflamed with enthusiasm, young and untrained lead- ers are bolting the union discipline. | Mr. Lewis disclaims all responsibility for the Saginaw strike, which cut off | power from 200 communities, and for innumerable other “wild” strikes. Therefore, he should welcome a higher discipline—the discipline of law. Menace of Vigilantes. He should welcome it also because the growth of vigilantism is menacing in the extreme; menacing to all of us; especially menacing to him. there would be vigilantism of growin; fury if conditions continued as the: were, if lawlessness was condoned | the hands of legal and public author- All Sides. tolerated by the Federal authorities and its henchmen, also has been pre- dicted for months in this column. Now it is here. Newspaper men report from Michi- gan that Ku-Kluxism is growing rap- idly: that base ball bats, rifles and shotguns are becoming part of the standard equipment of shops, restau- rants and bars. We are informed that the Ford service squad has spies in the C. I. O., masking as ardent unionists, and that the company unions, or anti- C. 1. O. unions, also contain many C. I. O. members. Spies are invariably agents provocateurs. The American Legion forms the backbone of the vigilante movement. But every conceivable *‘patriotic” or- ganization rallies to their defense. The Friends of the New Germany, whose conception of democracy is Mr. Hit- ler’s, are supporting the vigilantes. Mr. Gerald K. Smith, one of the ablest rabble rousers of the country, is mak- ing hay. Father Coughlin is prepared to align his tongue and his organiza- tion on the side of a neo-Fascist move- ment, and the Nazi government is sending one of its most unprincipled propagandists, Baron von Killinger, as Consul to San Francisco. The State Department ought to say, “Persona non grata.” Education Becomes Involved. And W. P. A. teachers of “adult education,” pald by all Americans, are teaching classes organized by the C. I. O. the tactics of trade unionism. It has already reached the stage in Michigan, where to be effective at all the citizen has got to take sides in a fight which, whoever wins, threatens to ruin democratic government based on law. And yet the overwhelming mass of the American people—TI say it without the slightest hesitation—hate the terrorism of both extremes, want the establishment of principles, want & just law which both Mr. Ford and Mr. Lewis must acknowledge: want the instruments of force exclusively in ities, and want those authorities to represent the law and not some per- sonal authority or party policy. It is not too late for that spirit to win in this struggle, provided that the members of the Congress of the United States act according to their conaciences and horse sense. (Copyright, 1837.) DIES TO SAVE DOG Woman Drowns While Pet Swims Safely to Shore. FLINT, Mich, June 30 (#)—Mrs. Mary Pesik, 23, jumped from a row- boat in nearby Lake Fenton last night and drowned in an attempt to save | her pet bull dog. The dog swam safely to shore. Mrs. Pesik was riding with her hus- band, Vladimir, and a sister-in-law Sherift's deputies said they were That | g | told she was a good swimmer., but 'y | apparently became exhausted because d | of wind and choppy water. This Changing World Chautemps Sits on Lid That Might Blow Off at Any Moment. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ONNET might become the head of the French government sooner than he himself expected. It is doubtful whether Chautemps wili pe able to weather the storm brewing now in France. And since he is not much liked either by the parliamentarians—who in principle don’t like any premier—nor by the country at large, another cabinet crisis within the next few weeks is not excluded. ‘Whether any financial genius will be able to put some order in the disturbed French finances is another matter. France needs, these days, & minister of finance who is not only a genius but a magician. A man who can create something out of nothing. Yet the French problem is not difficult to understand. France has spent much more than it can afford. The Blum government has taken a leaf out of the economic and social policy of President Roosevelt and has spent a lot of money for old age pensions, social security, P. W. A. works and what not. Fundamentally this expenditure is laudable and did the working classes of France good. But when it is coupled with an equally heavy expenditure on ‘“non-profitable” things such as re-armament, fortifications and such, it becomes too heavy to bear, even by a country which is fundamentally rich. And Blum has been taking money with both hands from the treasury to spend on anything his parliamentarians or his advisers have been asking. When the treasury became hopelessly empty, he got out and passed the buck on his dear colleague, Chautemps, who was yearning for the premiership. He has it now. But whether he is happy to be made the scape-goat of an impossible situation is another guestion. * o ok % ‘Where Bonnet is going to get the money is one of those things which nobody knows. It is doubtful whether he himself has any definite ideas about it. Tuesday he took the routine measures to avoid a financial panic and to prevent those international vultures, the foreign exchange speculators, from picking at the stricken France. But he will be faced with more trouble than he is bargaining for if he wants to go off the gold standard definitely and wants to devaluate further the franc. The French people. even the members of the Socialist and Communist parties, are conservative as far as their pocketbook is concerned and are likely to start some real trouble if their franc becomes agaln the foot ball of politics. Naturally, the Germans and the Italians, who are sheltered by their totalitarian form of government from these vicissitudes, are not going to allow France’s distress to go by without taking advantage of it. What Hitler and Mussolini have up their sleeve will be seen shortly. But there is no doubt that they will try and establish their position in Europe more firmly than it is now, because of France's weakness. The principal danger of such a situation is that in order to bring about a better co-operation and cohesion among the French people, the Govern- ment might play once more on the chord of national pride and national security and chance a conflict with the Central powers over the Spanish situation. The majority of the French people, regardless of whether they are of the left or of the right, will be united in any action their government might take to prevent Germany and Italy from establishing themselves firmly in Spain. * ok ¥ Of course, Great Britain is not likely to allow the French to go off the tangent and be drawn into a conflict by the sly policy which the two Cen- tral Buropean dictators are following ‘The British are determined to be long-suffering and take it on the chin—they have a robust constitu- tion—until they are good and ready to come to & show-down. But that will take time and the weakness of the U. 8. 8. R, together with the crisis in Prance, makes their situa- tion more precarious. Hence, it 1s more than likely that London will handle Mussolini and Hitler with gloves. They can't afford to do anything else for the time being The next few weeks will be full of surprises for everybody. Germany and Italy believe that henceforth they could send troops to help Franco with impunity. Nobody will oppose them except with words. The Henlein plebiscite in Ozechoslovakia is also likely to come up in the course of this Summer or early in the Fall. Henlein's demand that the Sudenten Deutschen be given home rule will be undoubtedly backed by the German and Italian governments. What other unexpected crises might develop nobody can tell, but the nces are that there will be a plenty. Headline Folk and What They Do Tazio Nuvolari’s Silver Turtle Works Hard for Race Driver. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. EW YORK, June 30 —Like Kipling's faid Ultruda,” Tazio Nuvolari wears a silver charm to tend off evil. The luck piece of Italy's racer grandissimo, who arrives in New York for Satur- day’s 300-mile race, is a little silver turtle. He has been smashed up so often and has been s0 miracu- lously saved that Europeans call him “the man who has a con= tract with the devil ™ Practicing *for the Trip>h Grand Prix in Africa, he blew a iront tire at a speed of 160 miles an hour, Somebocdy took the trouble to ance he was hurled tumbling through the Nuvolari, measure the dis spinning and air It was | inches. He | and_ pract: | morning y y a tree | and bounced i 1 and ous again with inj would have | killed any c en less ‘Mck\' He that pretty hard Forty-four stature, weighing s a sort of ass Du Italy, second only to touching off There are thous sands of littl Italy, some= body naming a baby after h every day. He is and a snappy dresse free-style Italian mode. Twenty-one | motor cycle racer as no He ha | auto classics in w | pated. It was his s {in the Vanderbilt Cup race | tortuous course of the Roosevelt Race- | way last year, which first flared out | his name and fame in this country. (o 100 yards, plus a few was out of the hospital siver turtle short ie L old, in vears azo he was & dare-devilish then WO, 153 EGG KILLS HEN {“Two in One” Fowl Lays One Too Many. MILWAUKEE, Wis () —Over- | production was given as the reason | for the death of the “two in one" Ruth Knie. | _ Shortly ore ter the hen, | Biddy, produced a double egg. & hard- | shelled egg inside a thin soft-shelled |one. A couple of weeks later she came up with another, but one shell had broken The other day she laid the third, wilted under the strain, and died. Mothers in Russia receiving large- family government benefits are esti- mated at 270,000. BIGGEST SALES IN GUNTHER'S HISTORY PROVES THAT DRINKERS ARE SWITCHING T Thousands discover that sweeter beers don’t quench their thirst like the cool beery flavor of Gunther's. Real beer drinkers report that they can take more Gunther’s in hot weather without spoiling their appetites! No wonder Gunther’s is the biggest ' makes you feel as though you'd | ther’s is the overwhelming favorite. selling beer in this part of the coun- ' eaten a big meal. Especially in hot | Real beer drinkers must have the try. It’s like the old time beers. Dry | weather, you want a beer like Gun- | dry, beery tang, the true beer taste. and tangy, cool and beery. And not | ther’s—the kind you can drink often! The sweeter, less beery beers are the type that “fills-you-up” and | And quench your thirst withoutdull- 'just not beer to them! . | So ask for Gunther’s. Its flavor It’s the same way all over the will grow on you. Drink it fof a few country. In city after city across|days and you'll never be satisfied the Nation, a dry beer, like Gun- | with any other type of beer. ing your appetite! I/ UNTHER'S2BE THE DRY BEERY YOU CAN TELL THE REAL BEER-DRINKERS: They don’t just order beer. They order by name. And more of them ask for Gunther’s than any other kind. 5 ’ { BEER