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THE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
A. F. of L’s WILLIAM GREEN
... leaves White House with a smile.
Sen. Wagner
Gen. Chiang
Kai-shek
1%'cirg Review of Current Event*_
GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL
Dictates House Amendments . . . Thousands Flee China,
Expecting War . . . Housing Measure Stirs Up Senate
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(!) Western Newspaper Union.
Where Was John Lewis?
VIJILLIAM GREEN, president of
* * the American Federation of
Labor, emerged as the administra-
tion’s favorite son in matters affect-
ing labor as he was permitted vir-
tually to write his own amendments
to the house version of the wages
and hours bill. The senate had
passed the bill, 56 to 23, only after
President Roosevelt had called
Green to the White House and per-
suaded him to give lukewarm ap-
proval to the measure, with the un-
derstanding that the house would
amend it.
Southern Democrats in the senate,
led by Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
bitterly opposed the bill, but their
motion to recommit it to committee
was defeated, 48 to 36. The same
vigorous opposition was expected
from Dixie’s representatives in the
house labor committee, but the
“Green amendments” (so called be-
cause of the federation president’s
complete domination of the commit-
tee meeting) patched up the essen-
tial differences.
The bill, as passed by the senate,
would create a labor standards
board empowered to set minimum
wages pp to 40 cents an hour and
maximum work weeks down to 40
hours. The house committee had
intended to extend the limits to per-
mit the board to set wages at 70
cents and hours as low as 35. Un-
der Green’s influence the house com-
mittee decided to accept the senate
provisions on this part of the meas-
ure, but the scope of the board was
greatly curtailed by an amendment
which would permit it to deal only
with employers who maintain
“sweatshops” and “starvation
wages” through fake collective bar-
gaining agencies.
The “Green amendments” in
brief are:
1. Board jurisdiction over wages
and hours in any industry only if it
finds that collective bargaining
agreements do not cover a sufficient
number of employees or facilities
for collective bargaining are inef-
fective.
2. Acceptance of wage-hour stand-
ards established by collective bar-
gaining in any occupation as prima
facie evidence of appropriate stand-
ards in that occupation.
3. Board cannot alter wage-hour
standards already prevailing in oc-
cupation in community considered,
or establish classification in any
community which affects adverse-
ly the prevailing standard in the
same or other communities.
4. Industries are protected against
prison-made goods.
5. “Label^provisiQo” „o.t-j?rigift^i
""*5CTTs eliminated to protect indus-
try from what is considered a nui-
sance.
6. Government work is removed
from the board’s control and placed
under the Walsh-Healey act.
Chairman Mary T. Norton (D., N.
J.) of the labor committee indicat-
ed the bill would be brought up in
the house under a special rule
and speedily passed.
$700,000,000 for Housing
TCJ AVING disposed of wages and
hours legislation, the senate
took up the Wagner-Steagall low-
cost housing bill. This would au-
thorize the flotation
of a $700,000,000
bond issue by a
United States hous-
ing authority. To
meet operating ex-
penses of the pro-
gram’s first year,
$26,000,000 would be
appropriated imme-
diately. The pro-
posed bond issue
was cut from $1,-
000,000,000 as a com-
promise with the Treasury depart-
ment, which objected to so high a
figure.
The bill would aid low-cost hous-
ing projects in two ways. It would
make loans to the full amount of
contracted projects, aiding the re-
payment of the loans by direct
grants if the sponsors kept rents suf-
ficiently low; or it would make di-
rect grants not to exceed 25 per
cent of the cost of a project. Under
this latter method, the President
would be authorized to make an ad-
ditional 15 per cent grant from re-
lief funds, to be used only for the
employment of labor. Sponsors
would be required to contribute at
least 20 per cent of the cost.
The housing authority would also
be permitted to spend $25,000,000 on
demonstration projects to illustrate
to communities the benefits of elimi-
nating slums and providing ade-
quate housing at low cost. The proj-
ects would be sold "as soon as
practical” to local housing agencies.
Over the protest of administration
leaders, including Senator Wagner
and Majority Leader Barkley, the
senate adopted an amendment by
Harry F. Byrd (D., Va.) limiting
the cost of the housing projects to
$4,000 a family of $1,000 a room.
Wagner objected, principally on the
grounds that this would not be suf-
ficient for projects in New York
city, where it is believed much of
the money will be spent.
Flee from the Rising Sun
\\J AR was still officially unde-
** dared, but all signs indicated
that Japan was making ready to
prosecute a long-term conflict in
North China and
that the Chinese
were everywhere
preparing to with-
stand the advance
of the Japanese
army. Steady
streams of refugees
pouring out of the
area while they had
the chance revealed
the opinion of
masses of people
that a great war
was inevitable.
Tokyo was hurrying soldiers to
the front.
In the Fengtai-Lukouchiao district
southwest of Peiping, 30,000 veteran
Japanese troops massed for an at-
tack upon five divisions of China’s
central government army, number-
ing approximately 60,000. Including
the remnants of the twenty-ninth
army, driven from Peiping by the
Japanese, there were said to be
100,000 Chinese. Both sides were
well equipped with airplanes.
Further evidence of Japan’s ex-
pectation of real war were the
sweeping changes in military per-
sonnel .m lusu-coof ftFwwe--be-
tween Premier Konoye and Emper-
or Hirohito. Four new division com-
manders were named, as well as a
new commander for the island of
Formosa. It was regarded as sig-
nificant that all of the new ap-
pointees were soldiers with exten-
sive experience in China. The gov-
ernment was attempting to push
through an appropriation of $115,-
000.000 for operations in North China.
In a desperate effort to stem the
invaders, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, dic-
tator of China and commander of
the Chinese army, summoned into
conference at Nanking, national
capital, the warlords and governors
of important provinces. Plans were
made to throw hundreds of thou-
sands of soldiers at the Japanese.
The provincial rulers apparently
were only too anxious. Chow En-
lai, representing 100,000 communist
troops, said his men were willing
to become an advance guard for
the major Chinese offensive. Nation-
wide military conscription was be-
ing conducted apace.
Japanese newspapers reported
that a resolution to sever all re-
lations with Japan was before the
Chinese political council for consid-
eration. The fear that gripped Nan-
king was illustrated by the govern-
ment’s publication of warnings
against giving away military se-
crets, and the warnings which were
given government officials to get
their families out into the hinter-
lands where they might be safe
from enemy bombers.
Civilians in China needed no
warning. Thousands upon thousands
were lined up at the railroad sta-
tions in Shanghai and in Nanking;
many were women carrying child-
ren and what belongings they could
not bear to leave behind. Thou-
sands of Japanese civilians in China
packed the docks awaiting ships
which would carry them safely back
to their homeland.
As columns of Japanese soldiers
pressed forward to meet advancing
troops from Nanking, there was
no doubt that hostilities would con-
tinue to spread southward. It was
expected a real battle would ensue
when the two columns came within
striking distance.
Russia protested vigorously to the
Japanese embassy in Nanking
against the “pillaging of the Russian
consulate by White Russian ruffians
assisted by Japanese.” The Japa-
nese denied that any of their coun-
trymen were implicated aYid ridi-
culed the idea that the Japanese
planned any future attacks against
Russian consulates.
Irvin S. Cobb
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This Business of GoU.
fAAKLAND, CALIF.—As I sit
writing this, I look out
where elderly gentlemen, in-
tent on relaxing, may be seen
tensing themselves up tighter
than a cocked wolf-trap, and
then staggering toward the
clubhouse with every nerve
standing on end and screaming
for help and highballs.
I smile at them, for I am one who
has given up golf. You might even
go so far as to say
golf gave me up. I
tried and tried, but
I never broke a ty-
phoid patient’s tem-
perature chart —
never got below 102.
I spent so much
time climbing into
sand-traps and out
again that people be-
gan thinking I was
a new kind of her-
mit, living by pref-
erence in bunkers—
the old man of the link beds, they’d
be calling me next.
And I used to slice so far into the
rough that, looking for my ball, I
penetrated jungles where the foot of
man hadn’t trod since the early
mound builders. That’s how I add-
ed many rare specimens to my col-
lection of Indian relics.
But the last straw was when a
Scotch professional, after morbidly
watching my form, told me that
at any rate there was one thing
about me which was correct—I did
have on golf stockings!
f ’ * *
Congressional Boldness.
W ARNING to pet lovers: If you
” own guinea pigs or tame rab-
bits or trained seals or such-like gen-
tle creatures, try to keep the word
from them that some of the majority
members of the lower branch of con-
gress actually threatened to defy
their master’s voice.
The senate always has been
known as the world’s greatest delib-
erative body—and, week by week
and month by month don’t those
elder statesmen know how to delib-
erate! But these last few years the
house has earned the reputation of
being the most docile legislative
outfit since Aesop’s King Stork ruled
over the synod of the frogs.
So should the news ever spread
among the lesser creatures, hither-
to so placid and biddable, that an
example had been set at Washington,
there’s no telling when the Bel-
gian h a res_ w list a rt r amna gjjjgand- .,.an_P!mce..
"th'S'slHgmg mice will begin acting
up rough and the grubworms will
gang against the big old woodpeck-
er.
• • •
. Professional Orators.
\XT E HAVE in Southern Califor-
' ' nia a professional orator who
long ago discovered that the most
dulcet music on earth was the sound
of his own Voice. He’ll speak any-
where at the drop of the hat and
provide the hat.
What’s worse, this coast-defender
of ours labors under the delusion
that, if he shouts at the top of his
voice, his eloquence will be all the
more forceful. The only way to
avoid meeting him at dinner is to
eat at an owi wagon. But the other
night, at an important banquet, he
strangely was missing from the ar-
ray of speakers at the head table.
One guest turned in amazement to
his neighbor:
"Where's Blank?” he inquired,
naming the absentee.
"Didn’t you hear?” answered the
other. “He busted a couple of ear
drums.”
“Whose?” said the first fellow.
• • •
Foes of Nazidom.
'T' HE veteran Rabbi Stephen Wise
of New York has been reason-
ably outspoken in his views on Nazi
treatment of his own co-religionists
and the practitioners of other faiths
as well. And one of the most ven-
erable prelates of the Catholic
church in Europe, while discussing
the same subject, hasn’t exactly
pulled his punches, either.
So what? A friend just back from
abroad tells me that in Berlin he
heard a high government officer
fiercely denounce these two distin-
guished men. About the mildest
thing the speaker said about them
wan that both were senile. Some-
how or other, the speech wasn’t
printed in the German papers—
maybe by orders from on high.
Well, far be it from this inno-
cent bystander to get into religious
arguments and besides I have no
first-hand knowledge as to the Chris-
tian clergyman’s state of health, al-
though, judging by his utterances,
there’s nothing particularly wrong
with his mind. But I do know Rab-
bi Wise, and, if he’s in his dotage,
so is Shirley Temple. And I risk
the assertion that he would be per-
fectly willing to have one foqt in the
grave if he could have the other
on Herr Hitler’s neck.
IRVIN S. COBB
C—WNU Service.
Washington!
Digest JLl
National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
; NATIONAL PRtSS BLOG WASHINGTON. D C
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Washington.—The government’s
silver policy again is attracting at-
tention. Several
Silver things have
Quettion caused it. First
among these
things is the matter of rising prices
for foods and other necessaries of
life, but attention seems to havq
centered on the silver question
again as a result of the Treasury's
newly arranged agreement to trade
some of its gold for some of the
Chinese silver.
Probably the silver question is not
as widely discussed as it might be
because it is a complex subject and
there are not too many people who
understand it and its implications.
I cannot refrain at this time, how-
ever, from recalling that when the
silver act of 1934 was passed, I
wrote in these columns a prediction
that the country sooner or later
would regret that legislation. I re-
peat the statement now and I do
not believe it will be long until the
average citizen will recognize what
the silver policy is doing to most
of us. I mean by that, it will not
be long until Mr. John Q. Public
will understand that the silver poli-
cy has a lot to do with the high
prices he is paying for his pound of
bacon, his slice of beefsteak or a
thousand and one items that he buys
at the grocery store. He will feel
it, too, when he seeks to buy a new
suit of clothes or a new pair of
shoes. There can be no argument
about it: The affect of inflation
brought about by a perfectly ridicu-
lous silver policy is upon us.
Early in July, the Chinese minis-
ter of finance visited Washington
and called personally at the Treas-
ury to express the appreciation of
the Chinese government for the sat-
isfactory conclusion of negotiations
that enable the Chinese to give the
American Treasury silver for gold.
It was the usual diplomatic courte-
sy. At the same time, however,
the visit of the Chinese minister
served to awaken America to the
fact that the Treasury has been go-
ing along, buying silver from for-
eign countries in order to maintain
an arbitrary price which the Wash-
ington administration contended
should be the world price for silver.
This price is forty-five cents an
ounce, and it is a most profitable
price for silver producers in Mexico
and Canada and some 6ther foreign
countries. It is not as profitable,
however, as the price the Treasury
pays to American producers—which
is seventy-seven and one-half cents
But, one may ask, what has this
thing to do with the cost of beef-
steak, ham and eggs or shoes?
I hope I may be able to explain
it as I have watched the picture un-
fold and to explain it in a manner
that those unacquainted with high
finance may see the thing in its true
light.
* • *
First of all, the policy of the ad-
ministration that has brought bil-
lions of gold into
How It the Treasury to be
Works stored as so much
dead weight has
resulted in many thousands of
shares of stock in American cor-
porations or their bonds , being
bought by foreigners who gave gold
in payment. President Roosevelt
early in his administration insisted
that gold should not be in circula-
tion as money. Consequently, the
Treasury has so much gold that it
has had to build separate store-
houses to protect it, Now, we are
sending some of that gold to China
in trade for China’s silver. I think
most everyone will agree that the
silver is just as useless because we
have no need for it in our currency
structure. People do not want to
carry silver dollars around in their
pockets.
Assuming that the exchange was
simply an even trade of two ob-
jects, neither of which was usable to
us, one probably could dismiss the
matter with a wave of the hand.
Regrettably, such is not the case.
The additional silver frankly is add-
ing to our troubles because of the
Silver Act of 1934 which permits the
Treasury to issue currency—silver
one-dollar bills—against it.
So, instead of being sterilized and
stored away in vaults, the silver ac-
cession results in a prompt increase
in the amount of currency in circu-
lation. That action tends to increase
the excess reserve—unused money
—of the banking system. As this
money becomes available for cir-
culation, its value necessarily and
obviously is cheapened. Or, to say
it another way, the things you buy
with money become of greater value
because it takes more of these
pieces of currency to buy the same
quantity of food or clothes or shoes.
* * *
Authorities will disagree with the
above statement to the extent that
_ ...... all kinds of cur-
oome VYill rency have not
Disagree been expanded
(which means
inflated) by the issuing of silver
certificates That is true. But we
must be realistic and recognize that
a silver certificate occupies exactly
the same place in our currency
structure as does a bill that is
backed by gold or one that' is is-
sued by the Federal Reserve banks.
Therefore, it seems to me to be a
fair statement to s*y that the whole
currency structure is tainted by this
deluge of silver certificates now and
heretofore coming from the Treas-
ury. And it is equally a fact
that prices of every kind are going
to increase exactly in accordance
or in ratio with the new money that
is put out from the Treasury.
I do not know how long it will be
until the voters wake up to the ne-
cessity for repeal of the silver act.
It probably will not be long before
there is a wave of public indigna-
tion against the policy if the aver-
age person realizes that the pro-
gram is actually a tax upon the
American public. Surely, if the sil-
ver policy were labeled, “tax to sup-
port the silver program,” the atti-
tude of the country would change
overnight. That really should be
the name of the Silver Act of 1934
because that is its effect. The tax
results from the fact that the Treas-
ury is paying foreign producers as
well as American producers prices
for silver that are higher than the
value of the silver warrants. This
means that any article of silver that
ypu buy in a store costs you more
than it would if silver producers
abroad and in the United States
were not being subsidized. The ad-
ditional cost is a tax on every buyer
just as much as though you had
paid the tax directly into the Treas-
ury.
It may be interesting to know that
the Treasury has issued nearly
eight-hundred million in silver cer-
tificates. In addition something like
seven million silver dollars have
been coined, and these still re-
main in the package in which they
were wrapped at the mints. Be-
sides all these, there is silver bul-
lion that cost $375,000,000 piled up
in the Treasury. Silver certificates
can be issued against this.
The silver act of 1934 provided
that the Treasury could buy one
dollar’s worth of silver to three dol-
lars’ worth of gold for what is called
reserve purposes. On the basis of
the gold now held, the Treasury
can buy under that law a total of
$4,125,000,000 in silver. At the pres-
ent time Treasury records show we
have silver reserves amounting to
around $2,600,000,000. These figures
show, or ought to show, how much
inflation lies ahead—how much
higher-prices mnr—ur. 1 eTTs’ some?
thing is done to restore a sound
currency policy in the United
States.
• * •
Some Democrats who are not too
friendly with Postmaster General
Jim Farley, along
Just Good, with the Republi-
Clean Fun cans in congress,
are having fun
these days with the Democratic Na.
tional committee. They are also
succeeding, it appears, in making
President Roosevelt’s political seat
uncomfortably warm. Nothing will
come of it except that the subject
will fill many newspaper columns of
attack and defense as the politicians
shoot back and forth.
To review the situation, it should
be recalled that the Democratic Na-
tional committee found itself in debt
to the tune of about $650,000 at the
end of the 1936 campaign. Some
bright mind in the Democratic Na-
tional committee conceived the idea
of selling Democratic campaign
handbooks to corporations at $250
per book, or more, as a means of
raising money.
To make the book attractive, a
single sheet bearing the autograph
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
inserted. Hundreds of corporations
were solicited, and hundreds bought
the books—theoretically, because of
the autograph of the President. Mr.
Roosevelt stated he did not know
he was autographing the blank
sheets for the purpose for which
they were used.
Republican Leader Snell, of New
York, introduced a resolution in the
house of representatives, propos-
ing an investigation of the sale of
these books to corporations. He con-
tended that it was a violation of the
corrupt practices act.
Mr. Snell remained determined,
however, and sought to harrass the
New Deal further by asking Attor-
ney General Cummings for an offi-
cial opinion. At the same time, he
read on the floor of the house a long
list of corporations who had bought
the “souvenirs” of the 1936 cam-
paign, together with a list of prices
they had paid.
These facts cut deeply into the
Democrats who are seeking to pro-
tect Chairman Farley and the Dem-
ocratic National committee wiggled
and squirmed. Nevertheless, Mr.
Snell may as well have butted his
head against a stone wall since he
got no further than Representa-
tive Rayburn, the house Democratic
leader, would have gotten, if Mr.
Snell had been majority, instead of
minority, leader.
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QO GREAT has been the suci
■J cess of “A Star Is Born,”1
all the Hollywood studios are-
busy making pietures concern-
ing the private lives of film
stars. Just copy cats, that’s,
what the film producers are.
First one of these pictures to
reach the screen is “Hollywood
Cowboy” with George O’Brien as
the star and it is a very enter-
taining Western. Most pretentious
of them all is "Stand In” which
boasts Leslie Howard and Joan
Blondell in the cast. Most soothing
te the ears is “Music for Madame’*
in which Nino Martini lifts his voice-
in song, and the biggest novelty is
Grand National's “Something to
Sing About.”
Divorces don’t interfere with busi-
ness judgment in Hollywood. For
instance, when Wil-
liam Wyler was
asked what player
he would like to
have in the leading
role of “Having a
Wonderful Time” he
said’that only Mar-
garet Sullavan, his
ex - wife, had the
beauty and acting
skill required for the
role. Up spoke Hen-
ry Fonda, another
ex-husband of Mar-
garet’s, to say that
he would like to play opposite her.i
So, just to complete the cycle, they
telephoned her present husband, Le-
land Hayward, who is her manager,
and asked him if she would be free
to make the picture before going
back to New fork for stage en-
gagements and he said he would be
happy to arrange it.
“The Toast of New York” star-
ring Frances Farmer is a fascinat-
ing picture. It deals with the pic-
turesque period when Jim Fisk was
becoming a big shot in Wall Street,
when business men went around
brandishing buggy whips when they
weren’t conniving to get control of
a railroad, or wreck each other’s
fortunes.
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All over the country box-office
records are being broken by “Sara-
toga," the picture on which Jean
Harlow was working at the time of
her tragic death. Her fans would
be happier, I think, to see one of
her old pictures again, a gay, light-
hearted picture like “Bombshell” or
"Reckless,” for in “Saratoga" she.
Margaret
Sullavan
"is but a'paHid shadow of her former
self.
_k—
After arguing for weeks about her
salary demands, RKO have at last
signed Ruby Keeler to make two
pictures a year for them. She won’t
be in the next Fred Astaire pic-
ture, however, for Joan Fontaine
has that leading role nailed down.
Joan has been working like a
beaver, taking dancing and singing
lessons preparing for this big
chance. Ruby’s first will be “Love
Below Freezing,” the picture which
will bring little Mitzi Green back to
the screen.
—k—
A few weeks ago Josephine Hutch-
inson was busily reading plays,
planning to go back to the stage be-
cause she was so depressed over the
parts Warner Brothers had given
her. But when her Warner contract
expired, M-G-M signed her up and
now she says she won’t go back to
the stage until she is old enough to
play character roles.
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Freddie Bartholomew’s guardian
has lost one( round of her battle to
get M-G-M to pay
him more money.
The studio has taken
him out of the cast
of "Thoroughbreds
Don’t Cry” and giv-
en the role to Doug-
las Scott who played
in "Wee Willie
Winkie.” As soon
as Freddie Bartholo-
mew started making
big money, his par-
ents, who had left
his care in the en-
tire charge of his
aunt from his infancy, swooped
down on the household and wanted
the privilege of spending his mon-
»y. A court fight followed wherein
his aunt tried to protect him, and
she did win his guardianship.
ODDS AND ENDS—Paramount troupes
on location are running into plenty of
trouble: “The Buccaneer" company near
Neui Orleans had their camera barge
wrecked in a sudden storm. An earth-
quake in Alaska held up work on “Spawn
i of the North." Furnace-like weather on
I the California desert knocked out several
members o/ the ‘Wells Fargo" troupe, and
expense checks did not arrive in lime to
cover production expenses of Clyde Elliot
and his gang in Singapore . . . Hob Bums
and his bazooka have a rival! Mischa
Auer has invented a pop-o-phone and
plays it whenever offered the slightest
encouragement. It consists of a row o)
pop bottles containing varying amounts ol
wi ter.
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