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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Roosevelt in Inaugural Address Pledges Aid
for Forty Million Under-Privileged—Secretary
Perkins Tries to Break Motor Strike Deadlock.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
T OFTY ideals, beautifully worded
4 and eloquently voiced. That
•seems to be a fair description of
the second inaugural address of
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. Standing
bareheaded on the
capitol portico in-
cold, pelting rain,
he took the oath of
office administered
by black robed
Chief Justice
Hughes, and then,
in ringing words
carried by radio to
the ends of the
President earth, he pledged
Roosevelt his - administration
to carry on its fight for the social
•security and material prosperity
.and happiness of the entire people
of the United States.' In effect, he
promised that the federal govern-
ment would bring about a better
life for one-third of the nation now
•underprivileged, and that the pro-
gram of planned economy would
be continued. For forty millions
who are not getting their share of
the nation’s material benefits the
government will provide homes,
food, clothing, education, recreation
and increased incomes.
The President’s listeners inter-
preted some of his phrases as a
challenge to the Supreme court,' as
when he said:
“Nearly all of us recognize that
as intricacies of human relation-
ships increase, so power to govern
them also, must increase-—power to
stop evil; power to do good. The
essential democracy of our nation
and the safety of our people depend
not upon the absence of power but
upon lodging it with those whom
the people can change or continue
at stated intervals through an hon-
est and free system of elections.
The constitution of 1787 did not
make our democracy impotent.
“In fact, in these last four years,
we have made the exercise of all
power more democratic;, for we
have begun to bring private auto-
cratic powers into their proper sub-
ordination to the public’s govern-
ment. The legend that they were
invincible—above and beyond the
processes of democracy—has been
shattered. They have been chal-
lenged and beaten.”
Before the inauguration cere-
monies, Mr. Roosevelt and mem-
oers of his family attended a special
service in St. John’s Episcopal
church. After delivering his address
the President reviewed the military
parade from a cupola built in front
of the White House. In addition to
the soldiers, sailors and marines,
samples of the Civilian Conserva-
tion corps and of the National Youth
administration were in the line, as
were the governors of 46 states with
their staffs.
of labor that the ‘economic royal-
ists’—and the du Ponts and Mr.
Sloan are among them—used their
money to try to drive Mr. Roose-
velt out of the White House.
“Labor rallied to the President’s
support when they attacked him.
“These same economic royalists
now have their fangs in labor, and
labor now expects the government
to support labor in its legal and
logical objectives.”
This was too much for Sloan, who
started for home with the remark:
“We find it useless to attempt any
further negotiations in: Washington.
Any time the President sends for us
we’ll be there.”
Lewis’ position was strengthened
by the settlement of the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company strike and in-
creased prospects that Libbey-
Gwens-Ford glass workers would
return to their jobs. His strategy
has been to curtail General Motors
production, and interfere with its
principal competitors, Ford and
Chrysler, as little as possible. Re-
sumption of production by glass
manufacturers would permit Ford
and Chrysler to produce at full
speed while sit-down strikers keep
General Motors plants inoperative
CONGRESS did not wait for the
U inauguration to rush through
the bill asked by the President ex-
tending for two and one-half years
his power to control the two
billion dollar stabilization fund and
to devalue the dollar. Senator Van-
denberg and Representative Snell,
minority leaders, made futile ef-
forts to amend the measure so that
it would call on the secretary of the
treasury to submit to congress a
complete audit and report upon
the operations of the fund after the
expiration date in 1939.
T ISPATCHES from Vatican city
D said the condition of Pope Pius
XI was steadily growing worse. He
was suffering excruciating pain,
especially in the
right leg. The pon-
tiff, however, insist-
ed on conducting
some of the business
of his office, telling
Archbishop Castigli-
oni he was deter-
mined to work as
long as breath re-
mained in his body.
The pope was
greatly distressed to
hear of the death of
Pope Pius
Bishop M. J. Gallagher of Detroit,
the superior of Father Charles
Coughlin, “radio priest.” Bishop
Gallagher made a visit to the Vati-
can about six months ago.
what
MI) thinks
— about:
Making 1937 a Safe Year.
CANTA MONICA, CALIF.
D -—This time last year we
were all dedicating ourselves
to a crusading campaign to
make 1936 a safer year for
motorists.
We were going to cut down the
volume of traffic disasters, going to
reduce the appalling
mortality toll which
had marked the pre-
ceding year.
So what?
Well, here’s what.
The end of 1936
showed an all - time
top for deaths on the
public highways—
roughly 37,450, or
approximately 450
more than in 1935.
■ So now we’ll pious- Irvin S. Cobb
ly resolve, all over
again, to do something about this
hideous destroyer which kills by the
thousands and maims by the hun-
dreds of thousands and makes our
fatalities and casualties in the world
war seem, by comparison, puny.
* * *
The Value of “Experts”
T HEARD a supposed expert advis-
1 ing a director,' bound for Africa
to shoot -a big game picture, that
practically everything about his kit
was wrong except possibly his rear
collar button.
It reminded me of the pampered
millionaire’s son who was heading
for the arctic circle. He called in
a veteran of polar expeditions and
told about his outfit. All went well
until he started describing his parka.
“It’s fine,” he said, “made of seal-
skin and the hood all fringed with
wolverine and—”
“One moment,” said the profes-
sional, “is the hairy surface of the
pelt worn next to your body?"
“No,” said the youth. “The fur is
outside, of course.”
“All wrong,” pronounced the crit-
ic. “Thermal demonstration has
proved that to conserve the bodily
heat the hide should be turned so
the fur is used as a lining and the
smooth or naked side is exposed,
thus cutting the wind.”
The youngster burst out laughing.
“Have I said something to excite
your mirth?” demanded the special-
ist.
“Oh, not at all.” said the amateur,
“I was just thinking what a darned
fool a buffalo is.”
The Life of the Party
THERE ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE
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***By VIRGINIA VALE***
TF YOU are still sighing
A with regret over Helen
Jepson’s departure from the
"Showboat" program on the
radio, you will be delighted
to hear that she is going to
make a motion picture.
That ambitious young company
Grand National that went over big
with “Great Guy,” in which they
brought the too-long-absent Jimmy
Cagney back to the screen, is going
to star her in a musical. And Vic-
tor Schertzinger, no less, who piloted
Grace Moore to screen fame, is go-
ing to direct Miss Jepson.
—*—
Movie officials are so jittery about
having Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers careen
around on roller
skates for their next
picture “Stepping
CECRETARY OF LABOR FRAN-
OCES PERKINS herself undertook
the difficult task of breaking the
renewed deadlock in the General
Motors .strike, but
at this writing she
had not made much
progress. Governor
Murphy of Michi-
gan, who went to |
Washington for the |
inauguration,!
helped her, arrang-i
ing separate meet-1
ings with John L. -
Lewis, C. I. 0. lead-1
er, and President"
Sloan of the motor Secretary
corporation. But his er ins
efforts to bring these. two gentle-
men together seemed futile. Lew-
is summoned Homer Martin, head
of the striking union, and John
Brophy, C. I. O. lieutenant, from
Detroit and conferred with them
on “strategy”. All the union lead-
ers appeared supremely confident,
and Lewis insisted the demand that
the union be recognized as the sole
bargaining agency must be conced-
ed if there Were to be any strike
settlement negotiations. -
Secretary Perkins, after talking
with both sides, went directly to
the White House. She said she was
“keeping the President informed”-
of developments. The belief was
general that it would be ne,cessary
to invoke the personal aid of Mr.
Roosevelt to bring about a peace-
ful settlement.
Lewis brought about the tempo-
rary suspension of negotiations by a
statement he gave the press. With
brutal frankness he said:
: “We have advised the secretary
THE conflict between fascism
I and communism in the Old
World grows more intense day by
day, and the German Nazi leaders
insist every nation must espouse
one side or the other. Air Minister
Goering declares England especially
should align herself with Germany
and Italy, but Foreign Minister
Eden in a speech before parliament
virtually handed back to Germany
the question of Europe’s fate. “We
cannot cure the world by pacts or
treaties,” said he, “or by political
creeds, no matter what they be.”
He demanded to know whether Ger-
many intended to use the “mani-
fold gifts of her people to restore
confidence to a world sick of an-
tagonism,” or “to the sharpening of
international antagonism and a pol-
icy of even greater economic isola-
tion."
German officials called Eden’s
speech “untimely;” and Ulrich von
Hassel, German ambassador to
Italy, speaking in Cologne, described
the “axis of Rome-Berlin” as a
“central pivot around which the
whole of Europe revolves."
“Germany and Italy,” he said,
“are destined to fight the false doc-
trines of the east (Russia) and sur-
mount Western capitalism. Germany
and Italy are neither east nor west,
but the center, and Europe will be
able to keep in harmony only if
they remain the strong central ax-
is.” .
It was said in Berlin that a mixed
German-Japanese commission has
been named to carry out provisions
of the Berlin-Tokio anti-communist
agreement of last November.
Over in Japan Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita opened the parlia-
ment with a speech in which he
declared communism was to blame
for the political troubles of the world.
Americans in England
D ENEWED excitement has been
I aroused in the British isles by
the discovery that yet another mem-
ber of the royal family—this time
it’s the young duke of Kent—not
only shows a regrettable tendency to
enjoy himself as any normal nat-
ural, healthy youngster might, but,
what is even more distressing, han
lately been seen in the company or’
an American woman. 3
Oh, these pestiferous Yankee
women! In spite of all that can be
done, it’s almost certain some of
them will witness the coronation,
and several thousands of them will
break their girlish necks trying to
do so.
Militarizing the C. C. C.
. p EPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS of
Oklahoma is trying to accom-
plish something which should have
been done long ago. He’s preparing
a bill to make military reserve units
of the C. C. C. boys, which would
mean discipline and morale for
thousands of young Americans and,
if needed, would provide the nucleus
of a trained citizen-army.
Seems to me there is every reason
why congress should enact the leg-
islation, not as a warlike gesture,
but as a peace-time move for na-
tional defense and national protec-
tion. But watch the professional
pacifists fight it.
Actors Trading Careers.
IT ALF-WAY across the continent,
actors who have succeeded in
Hollywood and are headed east, hop-
ing to break into the legitimate
stage on Broadway, pass actors
who, having succeeded on Broad-
way, are heading west, hoping to
break into the movies in Hollywood.
It is a two-way traffic which grows
heavier all the time.
Thus we see how human hopes
are uplifted and how curious a thing
is human nature, not to mention
human ambition. Also it’s good for
railroad travel.
But if the jaybirds suddenly de-
cided to trade their nests for wood-
pecker holes and the woodpeckers
fell in heartily with the idea, we
superior creatures could laugh at
feathered friends for being such
idiots.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
does not intend that the construe-,
tion of the two new battleships—
to cost $50,000,000 each—shall be
started until he has exhausted every
possibility for obtaining an interna-
tional agreement to cease such con-
struction.
That is the real reason that there
appears to be so much ground work
to be gotten out of the way before
construction can actually start. The
truth is that the Navy department
would be able to call for bids within
twenty-four hours after the Presi-
dent gave its officials the green
light. .
The Navy department always has
plans for new battleships. It keeps
changing them as this or that fac-
tor develops—as each new discov-
ery is made. It has been a long
time, so far as can be discovered
since any really important change
in the general lines of construc-
tion was made. The last two big
ones were the changes designed to
make the big ships less vulnerable
to submarine, and airplane attack.
Strangely enough, the defense
from airplane attack was not as
important as might be thought. The
chief idea is a very heavily armored
deck, at some little distance below,
the “false” deck that the visitor on
a battleship sees.
But this armored deck was forced
not so much by airplane bombs as
by “plunging” fire. The real target
of a fourteen or sixteen-inch shell
is not the side of the ship but its
deck. This is because, when the
shell strikes, it will be falling in a
slow arc very close to the perpen-
dicular. In fact, it hits almost
precisely as would an airplane
bomb.
This gradually developed with the
increasing range of big guns. No
matter what the velocity of a shell
is, it falls—as soon as it stops
rising—with the same, speed as
though it were released from a
bombing plane. Hence to ob-
tain great range it is necessary to
“elevate” the guns to an extraor-
dinary angle. Thus when the shell
strikes a target say at 20,000 to 30,-
000 yards that shell must have been
a terrific distance up in the air at
the top of the trajectory.
Change in Fighting
It is this change from the old
days of sea fighting which results
in a battle line of ships now at-
tempting to maintain a broadside
position to the enemy instead of be-
ing headed directly toward the hos-
tile ships. It is much easier for long
range gunners to hit a ship facing
them or steaming directly away
from them than it is a ship which
seems to present a much bigger tar-
get by being broadside on.
Tn short, as the shell is falling
when it hits, it is much easier to hit
the length of a ship—which runs
up to 1,000 feet—than her width,
which is around 100 feet at the
widest part.
But the whole point now is that
for several years- there have been
very few important changes in fun-
damental construction of battle-
ships. As a matter of fact, few
have been built anywhere since the
Washington arms conference which
concluded in the winter of 1922. -
Aviation enthusiasts thought there
would never be any more. The ad-
mirals still want a lot of the big
fellows. President Roosevelt in-
clines to the side of the admirals
in this controversy, but is still hope-
ful that some common sense agree-
ment can be reached which would
save the American taxpayers $100,-
000,000 in this particular instance,
and the taxpayers of Britain, Japan
and Germany, not to mention some
BENNETT C. CLARK
other countries which really cannot
afford new battleships, equal sums.
Moreover, the President is definite-
ly of the opinion that an armament
race does not make for peace.
War Boycott
Proposal to boycott any country
at war—that is to refuse to buy its
export—is the latest development
among what might be called the
“Peace Is Worth Any Price”—to
avoid the less flattering “Peace At
Any Price”—element in congress.
Trade experts are inclined to re-
gard this addition to the plan of re-
fusing to sell war supplies as rather
academic, especially as there is by
no means any certainty that a ma-
jority of congress would vote to
ban all war supplies.
The present language reads
“arms, ammunition and imple-
ments of war.” This does not in-
clude steel, copper and manganese,
though every one admits these are
essential war supplies. It does not
include cotton, which should prob-
ably come in the next catagory, and
does not include foodstuffs.
Nor is there any certainty that
they will be included. For example,
Senator Bennett C. Clark of Mis-
souri, one of the leading advocates
of a drastic neutrality law, would
put foodstuffs and cotton on a cash
and carry basis. That is, any bel-
ligerent could buy them, providing
they were paid for at the port of
New York or any other American
port, that the ship carrying them
to the scene of war did not fly the
American flag, that it carried no
American citizens, and was not in-
sured by an American underwrit-
er.
He admits that copper, steel and
manganese are in a definitely more
warlike category than foodstuffs,
but is not certain as to whether he
would ban them.
So that the advocates of an embar-
go against imports of any sort from
any belligerent nation would seem
to be a long ways out in front of the
procession for the moment at least.
As Economists See It
Economists in the Department of
Commerce, however, point out that
a nation engaged in a really im-
portant war would, not be able to
produce any considerable amount of
goods for export anyhow. r It would
be too busy producing supplies for
its own fighting forces. A huge
percentage of its ordinary produc-
ing men would be called to the col-
ors, its working women, both from
factory and farm, to plants produc-
ing supplies needed for the army
and navy.
Then there are other develop-
ments, aside from these obvious
ones. For example, Italy did not
have to strain very much, in a mili-
tary way, in her Ethiopian war. But
she was obliged to stop the export
of one of her excellent money
crops—lemons. That is the reason
the price of lemons in the United
States was so much higher than
last year. It was discovered by
her medical experts that the men
fighting down in Ethiopia would re-
quire an enormous amount of lem-
ons to guard against various dis-
eases. That sort of thing always
happens, generally in some totally
unexpected quarter.
One of the few exceptions is wine.
It may be recalled that the French
had piled up an enormous amount
of wine by the close of the World
war. They thought they could sell
huge quantities of it, at high prices,
in the United States., In the excite-
ment of war they had overlooked
the fact that the United States was
to try the prohibition experiment
—every one here thought perma-
nently—beginning in January, 1920,
and that war-time prohibition would
be effective until that date.
This almost forgotten—so far as
the United States is concerned—fac-
tor was one of the causes of bitter-
ness on the part of the French about
the war debt. How could they
pay us if we wouldn’t take their
products?
So, altogether, the idea of banning
imports from a nation at war is
likely to be more of a thumbing
of the nose rather than a real eco-
nomic threat. •
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Toes,’-’ they have
taken out one quar-
ter of a million dol-
lars. insurance
against production
delays due to acci-
dents. They know
how dangerous it is
to give Astaire a
new toy like that.
He’s likely to skate
right up walls. So
Fred
Astaire
they are protecting themselves from
any spur-of-the-moment antics he
may indulge in.
Luli Desti is not going to be like
other foreign film stars who come
to Hollywood to make pictures. Usu-
ally the newcomers spend about six
days in New York, seeing nothing
of our country but night clubs and
theaters, photographers and inter-
viewers, before they ■ rush to
Hollywood by airplane or fast-
est ‘train. Miss Desti, on her
arrival from England, persuaded
Paramount officials to let her drive
across country in leisurely fashion
so that she could really get ac-
quainted with us before starting
work in our studios. She won’t
even hazard a guess about how long
it will take her, because she knows
that she will never be able to resist
going off her carefully-marked route
to explore side roads.
If good wishes make good pic-
tures, “Steel Highway” will be one
of the best of the year. It was rushed
into production in order to keep Ann
Nagel so busy that she could not
brood over the tragic death of her
husband, Ross Alexander. In this
picture she plays a leading role for
the first time. Another good reason
why everyone is pulling for the suc-
cess of this picture is that a new-
comer is playing opposite her. And
the newcomer is none other than
William Hopper, son of Hedda Hopr
per. ;
A few years ago, every visitor to
New York made a bee-line for the
Hippodrome, just as nowadays the
Radio City Music Hall is number
one on any list of sights to be seen.
Buddy de Sylva has been brooding
lately over all the young folks who
grew up too late to see one of the
thrilling, dazzling, Hippodrome
shows, and has decided that some-
thing must be done about it. So, he
is going to make a picture called
“Hippodrome” for Universal,
—
The amiable lunacies of the Burns
and Allen pictures and radio pro-
gram go right on in
J their more private
J life. Just now they
are having a won-
I derful time sending
I telegrams to Tony
Martin, signed by the
| casting director of
Twentieth Century-
Fox, telling him that
he must mend his
ways and live a
more quiet life. And
the handsome six-
Grade Allen foot Tony couldn’t
be more proper.
When Burns and Allen transfer their
broadcasting activities to N. B. C.
April first, Tony will go right along
with them.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Errol Flynn
insists that he is going to Borneo as
soon as he finishes “The Prince and
the Pauper.” Lili Damita may think
otherwise, just as she did the last time
he got all ready to start . .. Romantic
rumors about Marlene Dietrich and
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., may be just
rumors, but nevertheless when she
arrives in Hollywood soon to film
“Angel,” Junior will be on his way
here . . . When friends borrow books
from Humphrey Bogart and keep them
more than two weeks, he charges them
five cents a day, and gives the con-
siderable sum thus collected to charity.
£ Western Newspaper Union.
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