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Substitute Bill on Court Decried Worse Than Original, Writ Says—Robinson Case Discussed. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ® THE American people get the facts about the new bill to “pack” the Supreme Court which Presi- dent Roosevelt is trying to jam through Congress by gag rule, to cut off debate, they will come to the con- elusion that the substitute is much worse than the original. Thus, for ex- ample, the origi- nal measure would have re- quired the Presi- dent to appoint § an additional nymber of judges : when certain in- § dividuals in the present member- ship reached & certain age. The appointments were to be made at a specific M“{‘]endl'r the new bill, howevar, the| President is given power to make or withhold appointments &t his own | pleasure. Instead of being given the opportunity to pack the court only when a judge reaches a certain age, Mr. Roosevelt can now manipu- late the matter of nominations to suit his own convenience. Thus, if the court hands down de- eislons pleasing to Mr. Roosevelt, he can withhold nominations. In other words, if the court doesn't behave ac- eording to the dictation of “The Mas- ter.” s Mr. Roosevelt called himself in his famous Madison Square Garden speech last vear, the threat of the s appointment of an additional justice can be held over their heads. If they conform to his views, the additional | nominatiton can be postponed indefi- nitely till the “packing” cure is needed. New Language in Bill. This arises out of the new lan- guage inserted in the bill whereby additional judges ‘may” be appointed. It is not mandatory, but permissive, 80 & President can hold off appoint- ments at his own will. Likewise, the new bill provides that “the authority to appoint for any calendar year shall not lapse by rea- €on of the rejection of a nomination, delay in confirmation, inability to nominate during an adjournment of the Senate or withdrawal of a nomi- nation in & succeeding calendar year.” A President intending to await a certain time—as, for instance, just before one of his important cases ecomes up for argument—might cum- wlate his appointments. The simple right to withdraw the nomination or to run it from one calendar year to snother, makes it possible to defeat the purpose which Senator Hatch had in mind when he tried to limit ap- pointments to one in each calendar year. David Lawrence, Right to Fix Size. The new bill retains also the basic principle which opponents of the first bill stressed. It concerns the assumed right of the President to fix the size of the Supreme Court of the United States by enlarging it or keeping it at the number he wants, depending on whether decisions to his liking are being rendered. Feeling in the Senate runs high. The attempt on the part of the ad- ministration to shut off debate and to prevent the people from asking through their representatives ques- tlons from the defenders of the meas- ure is one of the most amazing ex- « amples of repression that has come forth in recent years. Filibustering merely to delay is one thing. Ade- cuate debate in order to place the facts and arguments before the Ameri- can people is another. The admin- {stration made a blunder when it ordered a gag even before the real debate got under way. Is the ad- ministration afraid to let questions + be asked that cannot be satisfactorily enswered? One aspect of the situation which i3 most unfortunate is that which centers around the Democratic leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas. He has been selected to fill the vacancy cn the Supreme Court caused by the retirement of Justice Can Devanter. Mr. Robinson has many friends. He probably is as popular as any member of the Senate, and his popularity ex- tends throughout both parties. But he may forfeit the regard of many who admire him should he handle the administration's fight for the new + court bill on the floor of the Senate. By all the consideration of govern- mental practice where judges are concerned Mr. Robinson ought not to participate in the debate as a man- sger of a cause. The management of the President's bills ought, for this single situation gt least, to be handed over to an acting leader. Attitude of People. Certainly the American people will not look kindly toward the elevation $o the Supreme Court of the United Btates of a man who personally man- ages & political fight to help the " President “pack” the Supreme Court end then gets a nomination to the bench when the fight is over. Mr. Robinson has independence, which will make him a fair justice, but he mAy go on the bench with the big- gest handicap any justice ever had ¢f he makes himself a partisan in ghe oourt fight and if he allows him- peif to be the spokesman of an unfair attempt to limit debate. Before Justice Van Devanter retired $be situation was different. But now, gince it is generally conceded that #09. Robinson is to be appointed to Il & vacancy, he has in effect been dlaqualified from sponsoring legisia- &lon In an active sense which affects @he very tribunal on which he is shortly to sit. The ‘men who wrote the Constitu- #on ‘thought of the same kind of eontingency when they wrote a pro- » vislon that a member of Congress should not be eligible to any office created while he was a member of $he legislative body. Technically Mr. Robinson is to be awarded only the wvacancy which was caused by Mr. Van Devanter's retirement, but actu- ally he is to be appointed to a court the nature of which will be consid- erably affected by the legislation which Mr. Robinson as a member of Congress will not only have voted on, but which he will have jammed through by a series of maneuvers » @esigned to cut off proper debate. Many people who want Senator Robinson to get that appointment to the bench because they like him and D | cisco, Calif., to Naval Dispensary, Navy E_EVENI NG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937. ——————-‘—————L_—L——_—_J__-_—J__.__—___.“____—____—___—_ Story of Roosevelt-Lewis Break Is Traced to White House. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. T I8 only fair to the old gray squirrel on the White House lawn that I Lewis be recorded here. And if the O. G. 8. is right, as he usually is, it puts quite & 4if- ferent twist to the tal: from the one the friends of Mr. Lewis chose to give it in the first edition. Likewise, it revesls quite a different set of shadows As previously recorded between these column rules, in “C. I. O. ecire cles,” or at least semi-circles, the President’s refusal to comment on the story of the break was taken and there was the mild suggestion that the whole stew had been cooked by the Lewisites. But, says the squirrel, quite over the edge of his nest and saw the story of the break aborning right under 8 White House eim. That's his tale and he's going to stick by it until the last nut is What’s Back of It All his story of the story of the break between the President and John L. and high lights, presumably cast by coming events. as & denial that there was cne, the contrary. He asserts he leaned cracked. * X kX Meanwhile, certain hopeful business men are doing some wish- ful predicting of their own. They base it on excellent, but unnamable, sources, and say that the President didn’'t mean what he didn’t say, i. e., that all was well between Frank and John, but that he did mean what he did say (earlier) about plagues on houses. Also that Secretary Perkins meant what she said about sit-downs and Secretary Roper ditto re violence. x K oK Of course, those who are wishfully thinking about a real, clean, wide break between the White House and the C. I O. are obligingly suggesting where and how it could be made. An excellent opportunity, they say, would be right here in the admin- istration’s backyard, where rather high pressure drives to unionize Gov- ernment workers are now being conducted both by the American Federa- tion of Labor and the C. I. O. Since C. I. O. has given assurances that it will permit neither strikes nor picketing among these workers, it is asked what its methods will be and hcw objections could be raised to them. The answer, vaguely given, is that improper political pressure might be on the program. Another complication, however, arises in regard to these “drives.” How can you tell sheep from goats? Recently the A. F. of L. has been doing some pretty brisk organizing in the Government. Promises have been given of the waiving of entrance fees (which is the regular charge always made against C. I. O.), and at least one enthusiastic organizer has been conjuring with names, one name being & big one on the Democratic National Committee. This is not a new trick, of course—slyly implying that jobs would be safer for members of the soliciting group because Mr. 8o-and-So was “sponsoring” the drive. * o ok % Dr. Ernest Gruening, who held the editorial chair of the Nation, as well as of several metropolitan dailies before Secretary of the Interior Ickes brought him into his flock, has displeased some of his immediate superiors in the department. He may, in fact, resign from cne of his two jobs—head of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. ILL KEEP IN £ TOUCH WITH E==p> N0, kiD He is eminently satisfactory as director of territories and island possessions to one side of the divided Department of the Interior, but not to the other. The “other” has tried to have him “investigated” out of office by the P. W. A. sleuths, but the report on him was, unfortu- nately for their bosses, entirely too flattering to be of any use for this fell pur, 5 - RS~ Ak pmtttt If Mr. Gruening gets out of his P. R. R. A. job, though Puerto Rico will still be his ward, he will no longer be a business colleague of Secretary Ickes, who runs a rum distillery in the Virgin Islands, Mr. Gruening has a cement plant in the making in Puerto Rico. It is not the Government's plan to ezport cement from this establishment when operations get under way, about January 1, but American-made cement could not be imported into the island in competition with the cheaper Belgian product. So when the admin- istration started to clean up “the worst slums in the world,” Govern- ment-made cement appeared cheaper than the bought variety. The product of the new plant has to be good—earthquake, hurricane, termite proof. American cement makers, now smarting under a Federal Trade Com- mission charge of being a combination to eliminate price competition, don't care about the Puerto Rico plant so long as it doesn't grow into a yard- stick for more ambitious Government operations. This is hardly possible, £0 all private business can do is to hope it won't be too successful. (Copyright, 1837, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Service Orders. Shipping News NAVY, Lieut. Comdr. William D, Corps, detached San Fran- Arrivals and Departures at New York ARRIVALS, Today. Davis, Medical Dept., Washington, D. C. Daly, Ch. Bosn. Walter J., detached U. 8. S*Milwaukee to Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15 Gahagan, Ch. Rad. Elec. Alan J., detached U. S. S. Maryland to Naval Radio Station, Arlington, Va., Sept. 15. MARINE. Larsen, Maj. Arnold C., detached Washington, D. C., to Norfolk, Va. O'Brien, Capt. William M., relieved from present duty and assigned to M. B, Quantico, Va. Miller, Capt. Lyman G., assigned to Staff, Marine Corps School, Quantico, Va. Fox, Capt. Clinton E., detached Vir- gin Islands to Quantico, Va. Shuey, First Lieut., detached Quan- tico, Va., to Fort Belvoir, Va., Sept. 3. Chapel, First Lieut. Charles E., de- tached Washington, D. 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Last year the Spanish government took steps to stop strikes and lock- outs; recalcitrant employers were put into jail and kept there until they agreed to arbitrate with the men. islation as & whole would be invalu- able will begin to wonder whether the Arkansas Senator is so close to the situation as to overlook the dam- age he is doing to his own record in public life as well as to the institu- tions of his country. i If the administration persists in its efforts to curtail debate such feeling on Capitol Hill will no doubt arise as to split the Senate into irrecon- cilable factions. All this is happen- ing because the administration doesn't fear that a practical coalition of op- ponents of the court plan will ever be mobilized at the polls in the 1938 elections. It is on this point that there may be a surprise. For a non- partisan movement to concentrate on alding opponents of the court plan and defeating the men who vote for it is unquestionably going to be under way by the time the next elections are held. think his broad experience with leg- (Copyright, 1037.) B! AMAPALA—La_Celb: CALAMARES—Santa Marta FORT AMHERS T Nora Beoia 11:00 A3 "—Nova Bcotia 11:00 A.M. IRIQUOIS—Vera Cruz 3:00 P.M! KENTUCKIAN—San _Franeisco_ MONARCH OF BERMUDA— Bermuda MUNARGO—Havana MUSA—Puerto Cortes NORMAND! Ceara NORTHERN PRINCE— Buenos Alr ~11:00 A M. Noon ACADIA—Yarmouth BASIL—Ceara Marriage Licenses. Charles H. Lamb, 23. 3812 st. and’ Anna L. Rabette. Ninth_st.; Rev. 8. Arthur E. Hayden, 2 Norma Meade, Rev. J. E Thirteentn , 5324 10" 8eventh Lewis| 5 and Theresa Templeto: st.: Rev. P. L. Moore. James R. Knight, 14 and Emma V. James, 21, st. n.e; Rev. P. L. Moore. John P. Jones. 17, Beltsville, Md., and Blanche A. Alford, 18, Hyatisville, Md.; Rev. D. C. Alford. Charles L. Brown. 21, and Ruby C. 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Louls Roulllion, 71, New York Ciiy. 'and . ‘Muir, A 5 M. ~Muilig 111 Ow: Agnes J.”‘Martinson, ampshire_ave. nan, jr., 28, New York City. [ V. “Bennineton, 27. 1801 st t.. Rev. J. H. Dunham, Otizer 1. Tuipgln 5. 550"@ pi. and Foow % R A -1 erHl opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions mug themselves and directly opposed to T) be contradictory among & Star’s. Some Court Bill Foes Check-Up Shows Several of President’s Closest Friends in Opposition Ranks. BY MARK SULLIVAN. HE Senaté speeches in support of the President's court meas- ure have so far dealt com- paratively little with the meas- ure itself. Their emphasis has been on the personality of the President, on loyalty to the President. They have charged that those Democratic Senators who op- pose the measure are disloyal to the President; that they oppose the President's meas- ure because they dislike the Presi- ; dent personally. The phrase “vi- triolic hate” has ° been used in de- scribing the atti- tude of Demo- cratic Senators opposing the measure, The present tactics of the Presi- dent's spokesmen may give rise to anger against the President, but the anger has not existed so far. Feeling against the President personally has not accounted for the opposition by | Senators of his own party to his court | measure. | Charges of disloyalty to the Presi- | dent not only divert attention from | the merits of the measure; the charges | are not true in fact. Among the Democratic Senators there are two who to an outstanding degree have been friends of President Roosevelt personally as well as sup- porters of his administration. One is Senator George L. Radcliffe of Mary- land. Mr. Radcliffe, some 15 years ago, was & business associate of Mr. Roosevelt—when Mr. Roosevelt, in the early 1920s, was the New York repre- sentative of & Baltimore insurance company, Mr. Radcliffe was one of the head officers of the company. The two were warm personal friends then and since. When Mr, Roosevelt began his attempt to get his first nomination for the presidency in 1932 he turned to Mr. Radcliffe to take charge of his interests in Maryland. After Mr. Roosevelt was in office he turrted to Mr. Radcliffe to take charge of his| public works program in an area o eight States. When, three years ago, | Mr. Radcliffe became a candidate for |the Senate, it was generally under- | stood that his wish to enter that body | was for the purpose of supporting his | friend in the White House. Through- | out Mr. Radcliffe’s presence in the | Senate he has upheld the President | and has had from the President gen- | erous consideration for Maryland's in- | terests. Refuses to Support Bill. When Mr. Roosevellt gave out his court proposal last February 5 and Washington turned to estimate how Senators would stand on the measure, | it was universaliy assumed that Sena- | tor Radcliffe, out of his personal loy- | alty to the President, would be in the | first rank of Senate supporters of the | measure. This assumption continued until less than a week ago. Through- out five months Senator Radcliffe, beset by turmoil of spirit as it now appears, said nothing. Last Tuesday on the day the amended measure was laid before the Senate, Mr. Radcliffe said: “I cannot vote for any plan to increase the size of the court.” Every one understands that this was & triumph of conscience over personal loyaity. No one doubts that taking this position caused Mr. Radcliffe much pain. No one doubts that Sen- ator Radcliffe today is as warm a personal friend of President Roose- velt as ever before—probably even more anxious than before to give sympathy and support to the Presi- dent in matters which do not call for unbearable invasion of Senator Rad- cliffe’s conscience. Another who is in much the same situation is Senator Joseph C. O'Ma- Mark Sullivan. Traffic Convictions. RECKLESS DRIVING. John Muraton, 24 G place north- east, $10. SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Edward J. Carroll, 4213 Grant street northeast, $15. Hugh H. Southgate, Maryland, $10. FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Richard Mansfield, 1618 Ninth street, $10. Allen M. Ferguson, 1616 Sixteenth street, $5. Liberty A. Jamison, 742 Crittenden street, $5. Harvey L. Butler, row, $5. George F. Heislerhagen, Maryland, 1826 De Sells $5. William E. Bailey, 4621 Forty-sixth street, $5. James E. Ennis, Maryland, $5. Harry Maury, 327 Anacostia road southeast, $5. John W. Orme, 3d, 3509 Macomb street, $5. Gordon street, $5. Fred D. Bendler, 1445 Park road, $5. Joseph O. Daly, Maryland. $5. Earl K. Shawe, 1601 Arigone place, W. Davis, 1336 Harvard 5. 2 Edward K. Harris, 3612 Sherman avenue, $5. Alfred Jones, 1853 Third street, $5. Paul H. King, 2036 Hegdon road northeast, $5. Cornielus J. Wanzer, 1515 Eighth street, $5. Onton 8. Lloyd, Maryland, .$5. Kurt H. Lanbinger, 409 Seward square southeast, $5. Stephenson J. Adorian, 3945 Con- necticut avenue, $5. Prederick W. Kurz, 3222 Fourteenth street, northeast, $5. Anna E. Stontenburgh, no address given, $5. John L. Knighton, 738 Ninth street southeast, $5. Harold E. Kyler, 752 Twelve-and-a- half street southeast, $5. Charles P. Towers, 318 Seventeenth place northeast, $5. Niel D. Buchino, 4805 Fourteenth street, $5. August J. Smith, Pennsylvania, Theodore Ember, Maryland, $5. Robert Mayfield, no address given, 5. Byron’s Works Copied. ‘The English poet Byron was once 80 popular, especially among youth, that, it is said, in parts of the country where books were few, his poems were aopied out in manuscript and so handed en from howse to house. ” | for it honey and Radcliffe 1s true in large honey of Wyoming. He was loyal both to the President snd to the President’s political manager, Post- master General Farley. In 1931, when Mr. Farley began his organization to get the Democratic nomination fer Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. O'Mahoney was one of the first recruits. Mr. O'Ma- honey brought to the Democratic Na- tional Convention in 1932 a consid- erable group of Mountain States dele- gates for Mr. Roosevelt. His work, as well as his ability, won for him a place on the Resolutlons Subcom- mittee which perfected the 1932 Dem- ocratic platform. After Mr. Roose- velt was nominated Mr. O'Mahoney was given charge of much of the Western campaign and was at the head of the party headquarters in New York during absences of Mr. Farley. After Mr. Roosevelt was in office Mr. Farley made Mr. O'Ma- honey First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral. When a vacancy arose in the senatorship from Wyoming and Mr. O'Mahoney came to the Senate, he was an energetic and consistent sup- porter of administration’ measures. ‘When the court measure came be- fore the country all Washington sumed that Senator O'Mahoney would not only support it but would proba- bly be one of the leaders in the fight ‘This assumption continued until the time when Mr. O'Mahoney, who was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was obliged to take his stand. With a personal re- luctance and a perturbation of spirit obvious to everybody Senator O'Ma- honey opposed the original court measure and now opposes the substi- tute for it Held True of Others. What is true of Senators O'Ma- degree of a score, indeed of nearly all the Democratic Senators who are to- day opposing Mr. Roosevelt's meas- ure. They have been friendy to Mr. Roosevelt personally; they have sup- ported practically all his measures up to the present one. They are loyal to the Democratic party and loyal to Mr. Roosevelt as the head and symbol of it. ‘Their opposition to the court meas- ure is &s outstanding an example of worthy choice between public con- viction and private loyalty as bas| n seen in American history. It is conviction and conscience only that moves them—in their situation no | other motive can be paramount. If | they were acting upon political ex- pediency they would siand with the | President. [Even if thev were sur-| veying the situation as It exists to- day, after five months of enlighten- ment has caused the country to divide on the issue, any Democratic Senator thinking in terms of his per- sonal poltical fortunes would prefer to be on the side.of the President He knows that his resistance to the | court measure makes renomination 2o | difficult as to be in most cases im- possible against the opposition of the administration and Mr. Farley's or- ganization BREWING COQ WAIHINGTON,D.C. We, the People Roosevelt Cannot Afford to Let “Normal Granary” Plan Die, Writer Holds. BY JAY FRANKLIN. URING the last campaign, the President and Secretary Wallace proposed a national system of crop-insurance in kind—premiums to be paid and claims met in terms of corn, cotton, wheat, etc. This would have the effect of stabilizing the individual farmer's income in terms of his land's average yield, it would maintain a direct link between supply and demand which would assure the people’s food supply and minimize fluctuations in farm prices. ‘The proposal was finally em- bodied in what the young experts of the Department ‘of Agriculture call “the ever-normal granary.” * There is nothing really new or revolutionary in the proposal. Joseph used it in ancient Egypt and 1t worked in China for centuries. * k% % Last night I was re-reading “The Travels of Marco Polo.” Polo was the young Venetian who traveled to the court of Kublai Khan, the great Tartar Emperor of the thirteenth century, and came back with such tales of Cathay that he was considered & monumental liar until recent travels and historical researches proved him to be an unimaginative commercial traveler who had delivered an honest—even & modest—report of one of the world's great systems of government. Among other things, Marco Polo discussed the Tartar system of crop insurance: “The Great Khan sends every year his commissioners to ascertain Whether any of his subjects have suffered in their crops from unfavourable weather, from storms of wind or violent rains, or by locusts, worms, or any other plague; and in such cases he not only refrains from exacting the usual tribute of that year, but furnishes them from his granary with 50 much cern as is necessary for their subsistence, as well as for sowing their land. “With this view. in times of great plenty, he causes large purchases to be made of such kinds of grain as are most serviceable to them, which is stored in granaries provided for the purpose in the several provinces, and managed with such care as to insure its keeping for three or four years without damage. It is his command, that these granaries be always kept full, in order to provide against times of scarcity; and when, in such seasons, he disposes of the grain for money, he requires fof four measures no more than the purchaser would pay for one measure in the market “In like manner, where there has been a mortality of cattle in any district, he makes good the loss to the sufferers from those belonging to himself, which he has received as his tenth of produce in other provinces. All his thoughts, indeed, are directed to the important object of assisting the people whom he governs, that they may be enabled to live by their labour and improve their substance.” This—uwith the improvements permitted by modern transpor- tation, instant communication, scientific storage facilities, money and credit and tazes, under democratic control—is what Henry Wallace's “ever-normal granary” bill proposes for American agri- . culture. If it worked with the Chinese—the most individualistic people on earth—it could scarcely injure our rugged American Yeomanry. It injures only those gamblers and exploiters who live by speculative profits wrung from the mecessities of their fellows. This is the measure which the speculators have side-tracked in Congress, President Roosevelt now proposes to revive the Wallace bill does not desire this session to devote itself solely to legislation in interest of labor and does not Wish the needs of the farming pop- ulation to be neglected. Since his basic political power rests on the union of the farm voters with or- ganized labor, he canont afford to allow this important measure to He the Headline Folk Coney Island Mirror Hangs in Palace of BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. 5 ‘T THE entrance to the main ree of Fmir Abdullah of Trans- Jordania is a Coney Island perhaps with oonstraint and self- consciousness, sees his person wildly smiles and purs his guest at ease. this is merely his way of breaking and getting on a basis of friendly Rollicking old Gomez, late dic- zuela, used to play jokes on impor- he was just mis- chievous, while They Do. Emir Abdullah. ception chamber of the palace mirror. A visitor, salaming to royaity, and ridiculously distorted. The Emir He explains that stilted routine under standing. tator of Vene- tant visitors, but the Emir is Emir Abdullah. philosophical. Ruler of the nearest pure Arab state to Palestine, the Emir approves Brit- ain’s tri-partite division, with the Arab section added to his Trans- | Jordania. From his palace window ne looks out across the desert to the mountains of Moab, where Moses sur- veyed the promised land. It's a long view back into the centuries, and it seems to induce in the Emir both dis« {llusionment and patience. This attitude is important. in the political backwash of the British cab= inet’s sudden decision, and it seems quite probable that they sounded him out before announcing it. Since the death of his brothers. Feisal and Ali, he has been a unifving power in the | three Arab states of Trans-Jordania, | Hejaz and Iraq, comprising many | millions of Arabs. He aiso is a power= | ful leader of the pan-Islamic move= ment, started by old Sultan Abdul Hamid II 52 years ago. He is the Abdullah of Lawrence's “Revolt in the Desert” campaigning brilliantly against the Turks, and then finding Winston Churchill and Sir Herbert Samuel long on promises and be strangled by the speculative in- terests of the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Stock Ex- change or Liverpool and London. Even if Mr. Wallace is temporarily baffled by the adroit opposition to his statesmanlike proposal. the “new"” New Deal will not be complete until a system for organizing and con- ferving our real agricultural wealth—instead of mere paper values—has been set up on a permanent basis We ought to be able to do as good a job as did Kublai Khan or Tut- Ankh-Amen in founding an enduring agricultural civilization, (Copyright, 1937.) London Rising. Dog Got Prizes of War. | short on fulfillment—historic recreance | which caused Lawrence bitterly to re- | Ject royal favor and hide himself away | a8 “Alrcraftsman Shaw.” | The Emir, too, was embittered, but he is a realist. He knows the power of England and scrupulously maintains the synthetic post-war status quo. England, of course, has a tremendous political stake in Islam as a buffer to India. but there are even more tangible factors which the Emir weighs and appraises and cannily uses. Those three Arab staves have cotton, rubber, London's surface in Roman days| Did you know that a dog figures in was about 16 feet lower than that of | the early exploration of America? Bal~ the present surface of the city, and | boa, the Spanish soldier who first dis- it is still surrounded by the great wall | covered the Pacific, in the year 1513, that defended Londinium, but the wall | had a bloodhound named Leoncico, 80 having gradually risen through the | a certain portion of the booty was al- centur ays laid aside as the dog's shar | tobacco, mineral and oil lands and | developments which have supplied the Emir with an ace card in dealing with 1 European nations. | He has been deliberately hostile and |1 underground, the level of the streets helpful in fighting that after a battle | resistant to Mussolini and Italv's radio blast across 1,000 miles of desert. (Copyrizht, 18: A Doast Jo Fawl Revese OUTSTANDING achievement is always recognized . . . and re- membered. 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