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s 2- a “WM, .\ of these first offenders wotild have been both honest and at galls mam Editor ed 'H OCIATED PRESS 'Associaf Freda is aguivéf eititled to the use for republication: 'all news dispatches credited to it or n0t otherwise credited in this paper d. also th hed herein. right amuxlseliatm? lg: specie] dispatches herein are also reserved. EBS: ALL DEPARTMENTS GLENS FALLS 2.3131 . BS Anancla! responsibility for typographtqai errors “entzssgtlxztwgilloreprmt that part of an advertisement in which ® nhlcal error occurred. Advertisers will please notify the gement immediately «of any- ertork which may occur. blished every evening (except Sunday) at 80-82 Glen Street by the . om. for Warren, Washington, Essex and Saratoga mg ozgjgininzalgountryrmte'red at the Post Office as Second IT Mattel” SUBSCRIPTION RA‘I'ES' By mail, in territories not served by carrier hd: within the first three mail zones, $6 per year; $3 for six months; . three months; 50¢ per month. Outsidé of the fifst three mail hich means 'west of Buffalo, south of Baltimore and in Canada- 'per mofith. By carrier 18 cents per week-$9 pér year. > , THE FASCIST TRIPLETS IN TROUBLE R Ten days ago the timorous might have feared that those great Fascist nations-Germany, Italy and Japan-would . goon. make the earth their footstool. Hitler had emerged from his historic and mysterious interview with the Austrian chancellor at Berchtesgaden and instantly the announcement \ wasg made that he had conquered Austria without striking a blow. This magnificent diplomatic achievement was under- \stood to have been encompassed with the approval of Musso- lini. As for Japan, she was still annexing hundreds of . thousands of additional square miles of Chinesé tervitory, 'Avith the approval of both Mussolini and Hitler. England was retreating from Eden's policy of distrust of dictators and 'preparing to sit down at the same round table with I1 Duce, which Eden had refused to do on the ground that I1 Duce is a liar. At least Eden says he found that the great leader of Fascism does not keep his word. But whether Eden's opinion of Mussolini's veracity is correct or not, ten days ago Eden was about to pay the penalty for his ill-favored ideas about Mussolini. In short, to liberal minded and democratic men and women throughout the world the international situation was dis- couraging. That was ten days ago. It has not suddenly changed so as to warrant unbounded optimism. But it has changed. In the last four or five days the fact hag become © apparent that these great triple sisters of Fascism and mili- tarism are not as flourishing as they seemed. In the first place, as The Glens Falls Times pointed out immediately after Hitler's Austrian coup, the Nazi victory in Austria is by no means of the proportions in which it was first pictured. The swastika is openly paraded in Vienna and other Aus- trian cities, although forbidden by law ; yet it is by no means certain that Nazism is about to engulf the nation. It even looks as though Hitler's own hand-picked selection for the post of minister of the interior, Seysz-Inquart, is less -of a slave to Germany than he was made out to be. There are going to be no Jewish persecutions in Austria and Austria, while under Schuschnigg's leadership, does not intend to lay down her independent political life at the command of Herr, Hitler. And, woe and alas, it is even intimated that Mussolini is mentary terms of Mussolini in his speech to the Austrian Reich, but utterly forgot to mention Hitler's name. Itis said i that just before he began speaking Schuschnigg received a' telephone call from Rome telling him not to be too anxious e that comes from breath, sweat and about bowing the knee to Hitler. What of the Far Eastern representative of the Fasclsti similar materials Its operations in China have been crowned with ' entente? brilliant success. Thousands of innocent victims have been killed or maimed. Every humane person has been turned against the Japanese. Now the Japanese themselves are turning against their military overlords. A bill to convert Japan into a corporative state on the order of Mussolini's Italy has aroused a furious rebellion in the Japanese Parlia- ment. It remains to be seen whether the civilian population or the military clique will prove the stronger in this contest. The fact is that a survey of world conditions today does not reveal the children of Fascism prospering any better than they deserve. UNION BIG BUSINESS One phase of the wave of union organization that has been sweeping the country has largely escaped notice. That is the union business as a business. It is getting to be a big one. A recent estimate was that during the year 19837 the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. took in and spent approximately $85,000,000, with about 70,000 people employed, mostly professional organizers and clerical help. The estimate may not -be accurate, but it reflects an unquestioned tendency. That means that simply as a business, unionism already has annual revenues greater than sales volume in the jewelry. typewriter, hat, or glove industries. The United Mine Work- ers alone had more than $2,000,000 on hand at last report. Many and many a \little business\ isn't as big as that. There is a certain humor in watching organized labor, which wos e GLENS FALLS TIMES TUESDAY MARCH 1 1938 The New York Times Says: P. 0, NOMENCLATORS Guide, that ancient and valued visitor, 'of ours,. Bub why at one stroke and in one state, Alabama, discontinue Are P, O. reactionaries Genesis, which ought to be a fine, growing place, is no more. mourns the loss of Jéster and Oberlin, though the latter yields to another great light of letters, Boswell, by spineless Fairview? Scotch whisky, and so deserved to get its mail at Ludlow, but why are so many flowery, romantic or strangely rhythmic names done away with? Woe is uis for Tulip, Hoopup, Berenice, Nicolia, Byron, Lydia, Melpha, |. 'Amantha, Idanha, Glénora, Why must Candlewax shine no longér? Why | was the large utterance of Scrabble suppressed? Lone Pine and Lightning 1 Flat suggest the geography of Bret Harte and should have been spared. Yet there is one poet in Mr. Farley's shop, indeed a painter of the lily, Tampashores is Oldsmar, tells us that the name of a certain Illinois P. O. is \Herod ,not Herold,\ x} Here is the February supplement of the United States Official Postal |; It is curmudgeonly to quartel | with a guest; and.our cause is of the smallest, save to those conservatives || who hold the doetrine 'of the elder world, of “primrtave’ peoples, now that | nainées are an essential part of the named and subject to the processes of |/ magic, Mr. Farley's young men, like those of his predecessors, are always | putting well-named postoffices out of business; renaiming them, too often | unfortunately. M Mr. Farley's name-squad knows its own business, which perhaps is none |- offices of such various financial connotation as Coxey and Gladstone? | How can we mystics, superstitious ones, if you like, fail to find an omen | when both Plenty and Enough have ceased to be? S6eking to discourage the more abundant life? Note, too, that if you want 'to write to anybody in Avant (Forward), Ark, you must direct to Bucks, [ville In North Carolina Memory no longer holds her seat. Tennessee's |- Jingo may have been too imperialistic, but why should it be supplanted Glenlevit may have sounded too much like a | To balance him there is a realist who | Kentucky's Picknic that was is Dirigo, as if it were in Maine. Maine's Sealand is transformed into J onespmt The Fami (NO. 462) BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Me- dical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine Few inventions seem to promise more for the comfort and happiness of mankind than those developed for air conditioning. Air is the first need of mankind for life. Control of the air as to its temperature and moisture can provide greater; comfort and greater health for human beings. Engineers have invented and manu- factured the necessary devices for controlling the temperature and moisture of the air in individual rooms, in great buildings, in factor- ies, in trains and other convey- ances, What we need to know, however, is whether or not human beings are less healthful or more healthful when they live in air conditioned rooms, and whether or not the hu- man being is harmed in any way by changing from high temperatures to low temperatures, from high humid- ity to low humidity or vice versa. When a lot of people get into a room, they alter the air in that room. Part of the alteration takes place from the fact that they breathe in air and breathe out car- bon dioxide and other materials. The air is also modified by the fact l to : gen in a room. The leakage of air not true to his German love. Schuschnigg spoke in compli- | through the cracks around windows that the human being or the body of any living animal is constantly decomposmg and giving off materi- ' als. Finally, the clothing worn by human beings in a room may affect the air in the room. In most places it is not necessary worry about the amount of oxy- doors is usually sufficient to maintain enough oxygen in the room for the people who occupy it. Most important from the point of view of comfort is the material the secretions of the body, gases from the intestines and stomach and :\\&\\\\\\\ssxs\ € \\\~*\\\ & t & gt x\\ s § § \\ Cane 8 Y § at of to by Ao TiS amt R § is\ 8 \~\ Nizz‘ 1§ THE Treafy of Sevres had 171: Turkey an emaciated state in INS—robbed of its Asiatic pos- sessions. Particularly did it gall Mustapha Kemal Pasha that the Greeks had obtained Smyrna, im- portant and historic Turkish port on the Aegean sea. So the blond, gray-eyed Gen- eral Kemal set about righting the . wrong, as he saw it. In two years h& had drilled 90,000 fanatical | nationalists into an army. Defy» | ing the glowering of the Allies he ' marched these men against 150,- i © 006 Greeks. At the end of a year's fighting the finally drove 1, the Greeks into the sea, literally has railed for years at \big business,\ itself growing gradu- burned them out of Smyrna. ally into a big business of its own. IDLENESS AND CRIME There has long been a suspicion that idleness was no breeder of virtue. Especially when it was coupled with other old offenders-like bad companions and lack of proper home . influence. - ’ t But now idlenéss marches to the head of the class as the > chief reason for crime, according to Warden Lewis E. Lewes, of Sing Sing prison. Some years ago gambling headed the , ° cause-of-crime list. Liquor came second and 1mmorsllty third. Liquor and immorality are still holding their places, . blut gambling is way down the line and idleness fakes its place. . Warden Lawes blames the depression and points to the result He said: \There are more first offenders getting into diffically in { i 1 'tough times than when times are good That's why the pro- portion of first offenders in prison is increasing lately.\ _ The warden didn't add what he might have: that most 2C liberty if they had been able to find jobs. Idieness will always | f | | be ; oductive of crime, in just about the direct proportion J By. 1923 Turkey had won beck most of its lost territory and forthwith the now all-powerful | Kemal took office as the presndent of the first Turkish republic; He» immediately abolished the Cal- iphate and removed Sultan Mo- d. VI. Thence began a series of re- | forms that is still shaking Turkey ° into a modern state. Fezzes were | discarded, women were unveiled ; and permitted to vote, a new al- phabet was written, education was made compulsory for those under 40, church was separated from state, buildings were modernized and good roads started across the nation. Meanwhile Kemal , had risen to supreme power. Soldier, fe. Statesman, poker player, hard | . drinker, he had . become the say- ior, dictator and his country. He ~a 1931 antihh postage stamp. (Copyrltht. use, NEA s‘erviee. £16.) NEXT: Where is the world's nut mu. mm eon-tn? 1 ly gecror T. M, Reg. U. 8. Pit. OK. SCIENCE HAS YET TO DETERMINE HOW HEALTHFUL AIR CONDITIONING MAY BE When people are especially sen- sitive to body odors, they may have headache, nausea or loss of appe- tite on coming into a stuffy room. Every room ought to have enough fresh air at all times to prevent the accumulation of objectionable body odors. 'The most important change in the air of an occupied and well ventilated room is an increase in. the temperature and humidity caused by the heat and moisture given off from the skin and lungs of the people in the room. 'The chief purpose of air condi- tioning is to lower the tempera- ture and the humidity to points at which human beings are comfert- able. In cold weather we merely open the windows and let in some cold outdoor air. In warm weather, however, it is necessary to cool the air in the room and to cut down the amount of moisture that if con- tains. A Book A Day 'HELL ON ICE IS ARCTIC CLASSIC » Saga of the Jeannette's Quest for Polar Route \Hell on Ice\ by Commander Edward Elisberg (Dodd, $2.75) is an epic tale, and one of the rarest ever to come out of the heroisms of the Arctic. The book is the saga of the Jeannetté, which nearly 60 years ago slipped out of the Golden Gate one sunny day, sped by cheers, sirens and a woman's tears; the first expedition to seek the North Pole by way of Bering Sea, And the qualities of a great novel are in its gripping chapters. For the Jeannette, altogether un- fitted for the perilous voyage, faced troubles from the first day out and late summer found her wallowing in the waters of the Bering Strait when she should already have been far north, Followed more delay while a coal tender caught up, and finally the Jeannette was on her way again. But by now the tumbling, crushing ice floes were closing in about the little vessel and hardly before she had begun to fight she found herself inextric- ably locked in polar ice. The Jeannette remained locked in that Arctic pack two years. Then it sank, and her half-starved, half- crazed little crew began a desperate trek across the floes to bleak Siberian shores. A few reached the tundra; others perished enroute; one went mad. Only a handful sur- vived to tell the story. And that story, one of incredible drama, Commander Ellsberg dug out after 60 years from the musty ' diaries, old letters and the dusty ' official reports of the Navy depart- ment. To make it even more graphic, he has told it through the person of George Wallace Melville, chief engineer of the Jeannette on that fateful expedition. It is vivid enough to chill you to the bone. \Hell on Ice\ should go to the shelves as one of the great Arctic classics of all time-P. G. F. MIN D Y o ur M A N N E R S$ Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions then check: ing against the authoritative an- swers below: 1. Should guests be careful not And, alas} | Mead: Richa rds Tolk By EDWARD RICHARDS Pisces. -or March sign: March 2, the moon comes 'to an; ~ ideas and promohon schemes, -, much fraud, dé- tion are 'ed with those 'ideas, and dur- ' 'ing the month, will be exposed and: great scan- 'dal aired to the public. Venus, as I said last night, rules the emotions of pleasure, and Nep-> tune rules the deep hidden forces, So when there is an influence of any planet to Neptune it tends to 'bring out for good or evil the ° most that that particular planet . riles, Venus, ruling love and | marriage and opposite to Nep- tune, will tend to nake people: extremely high-strung and emo- - tional. The love for sensation is strong. So it is a month when ° the appetite and passions will ge the upper hand, Many homes will be broken up, divorces among the high and low, The new moon falls in the house of intellect, so romance and foolish love affairs will tend to overcome what prac- tical common sense many people have. Those who have weak will power will suffer the most, as the influence lures and charms to destroy. The thoughts are un- clean and appetites of a low order under an afflicted Venus and .. Neptune. Your birthday today, gives a fine executive ability, which comes naturally. - 'The tendency is to start things and control them. The year ahead should be an ac- tive one for many of you. Many opportunities will rise where you can profit in business, change or travel. Tomorrow the morning is best, A good time to go shopping. Push, your affairs and have confidence in youtself, for a pleasant har- ntonious vibration rules. | People will be helpful, | Favors artistic matters, good for social affairs or to make plans for them. In the afternoon and night, if you can overcome the influence of depres- sion and self-pity, you can still make the whole day a successful About the Stars || on [)) & opposition. of Neptunelate in the. afternoon. This leadsto visionary ||\_ and. decep-» [4 . many. of those tricky schemes | :| the pending revenue act. «| poration scout reported that heavy 116 Grant Avenue, Glen? Falls. The Financial . @ Whirligig NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS By Lou Schneider WAR DEBTS Tate last month a secret huddle of admimstratwe and Congressional advisers\ was held at' the White House. The meeting was of greater importance than is generally known by the public. \ Those present were | Presigent Faoosevelt, Vice President Garner, Senator her-risen, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Representative Doughton, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Secre- tary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Reports that a new formula for the solution of the troublesome war debt question was discussed are true. This is verified by the presence of the heads of the powerful Ways and | Means and Senate Finance Com- mittees, These committees have the last word in revenue matters, # % L WISE But the secret meeting did not consider all war debts. It discussed England's war debt in particular and how a settlement with \her would affect the debts of other na- tions. Thomas W. Lamont, partner of J. P. Morgan & Company and England's fiscal banking agents in this country, has already held two conferences with the President, one prior to the seoret huddle and the other immediately after, The British war debt amounts to $4,600,000,000 in principal and about $1,000,000,000 in back payments-not. counting interest already due. Eng- land is reliably reported to have offered a fifty per cent settlement if she will be permitted to float a bond loan in the United States to obtain the money for payment. The British-U, S, trade pact-now im the making-is & forerunner of such a war debt settlement and bond fiotation. The British are wise. They will pay the money they owe the United States- with money obtained in the United States and then.float another good sized loan to help along their armament plans. | Bankers don't favor the plan. EXPLAIN ED In spite of Hitler's war-like blasts, President Roosevelt's statement that he is against inflationary moves and the resignation of Britain's Foreign Secretary, investors and - traders didn't dump security holdings, The lack of nervousness gratified brok- ers. Here are some explanations for - WASHINGTON By Itay' Tucker [| Muffed- Amidst gales of laughter Rep. Fred Vinson read to House Ways and Means Committee Democrats a confidential - report rebuking Big. Business for the inept presentation of its arguments during hearings on The cor- taxpayers had \sent boys to do a; man's. work.\ \Business said the memo, \has evidently failed to evaluate the im- portance of taxation in its current troubles. In selecting men to pres-. ent its side, business could choose fro : men making up to $250,000 a year, Whereas the lawmakers were limited to $10,000 men. Congressmen repéatedly demonstra- ted that they had more information regarding the particular business' represented than its own spokes- man.\ After citing speclfic instances + where committee members floored a witness even in discussion of the 'latter's tax returns, profits, divi- dends, capital setup, the fat boys' sleuth concluded that \business as' A whole . . has muffed a chance to get the business side of the story fairly before the committee whose j decisions will be the 1988 revenue act!\ Pat Harrison may help out, however, by holding a new series of hearings on the Senate side, * Reprisal- President Roosevelt has hidden behind a patronage blockade which [| he has built against a score of Sen- ators who spiked his pet proposals on Capitol Hill, especially the Su- preme Court zeform bill. Disregard- | ing the advice of his canniest po- litical advisers he insists on apply- | ing the birch rod. Most of the appointments made in the administration's early days are expiring this month and next. In some cases senatorial sponsors 1; have neglected to reendorse their men, assuming they would be re- named automatically in accord with custom, but many politicos have submitted formal letters of recom- mendation to Cabinet members and bureau heads.' They, in turn, have affixed their approval and rushed them along to the White House. There, in a forgotten drawer, they have accumulated for weeks. F. D. R. refuses to sign new com- missions for two reasons. He seeks to irritate and to discipline hostile Senators, and possibly to discredit them with their distinguished con- stituents and key politicos back home. The delay serves notice on the home folks that their statesmen are in very, very bad where it counts. # #0 % Stalemate- Several unpublished chapters in the 1938 patronage controversy dis- close that the two politically minded members of the Cabinet - National Chairman Farley and Attorney Gen- eral Cummings -- are at logger- heads with the President over his determination to punish party in- surgents. {soothe sputtering Senators. vet these, government. The Natlonal Wh1rl1g1g READ IT EVERY DAY - A discussionvof.events and personalities in the news, world-and national, by a. |] group of féarless and, informed newspapermen of Washington and Néw York -< Whirligig is published as a news féature, Opinions expressed are those-of the writers. contributing sto fhe column and should not. be. | interpreted as reflecting, the editorial: policy of this newspaper. (Copyright McClure Syndicate) In several instances involving [District Attorneys and U. S, Mar- {shals, Mr. Cummings has informed, their sponsors 'that their appointees |had given. excellent service, afd has- requested the Senators to submit a- written. indorsement for a second term. Obviously, either the A. G. didn't know of F. D. R.s peeve, or he didn't sympathize with it. But 'by revealing his attitude he has 'tipped off the victims that their trouble was at the White House:. Mr. Farley quickly intervened to With personal visits and telephone calls he assured them that the delay was- due only to routine, and that a. p1es1dentia1 okay would be forth- coming \almost any time now.\ But: desplte the A. G.'s and N. C.'s prom- ises, the reappointments still linger in a presidential pigeon-hole. Most Senators refuse to humiliate them- selves by asking P. D. R. for an ex- 'planation of the stalemate, and he: won't tell-publicly. L La L Education- Although President Roosevelt has frequently expressed his distaste for unionization of federal workers, John L. Lewis' pioneer organizer in this field-\Cowboy Jake\ Baker - is making rapid strides. His most re- cent innovation is establishment of a trade union school for U. S, em- ployes, Many of the teachers are avowed leftists from inside and outside the The pupils enroll in courses designed to teach them \The History of Labor,\ and \How to Run a Union.\ More practical studies include public speaking, economics, theatricals and-of all things-ball- room dancing! An honor graduate proficient in all subjects would be equipped to organize a strike among Park Avenue elite-to emulate Mt. Lewis himself in hobnobbing with the socially correct. John L. has enthusiastically en- dorsed the school's accomplishments. The February bulletin board is dec- crated with a glowing letter in which he compliments \Cowboy Jake\ on the educational experiment. self-educated man Mr. Lewis appre- clates how his movement has suf- fered for lack of formal training among his followers in their indus- tridl combats. ® # Insufficient- The cold cash spent for relief re- veals the mounting costs and suf- fering that have resulted from the T- months -old depression. The fig- ures amazed the President when he ran his eye across them. The average monthly cost for W. P. A's hungry Rousehold for the last six months of 1937 was only $90,500,000, probably slightly higher that the mean in November and De- cember. For January of this year it leaped to about $102,000,000, and February's estimated total is $132,- 000,000, At an average cost per man a month of $66, the increased ex- penditure from December to Febru- ary means that about 630,000 have gone on Uncle Sam's roll during that period. Yet the President éstimates that almost 3,000,000 people have lost their jobs since August. The discrepancy indicates that STRANGE AS IT SEEMS-By JOHN HIX For further proof addreis the author, laclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat. Of, (_ so Ra- CLINTON 61m Ne COLOSSUS OF THE AIR ... An ingenious Yankee was Hiram kgsHAé’fiRlsr eyfléuy five hitter, 4 @ f opel <1 Sm Mona! Menu TRIED To KEEP Fall GROLNP/ «ppg.. more “W Axo\ mm A “TM mms mésr Stevens Maxim, born in Sangerville, . Maine, in 1840. Maxim's inventions and gifts to science, too numerous to mention here, were confined not to any one field. Orie of his greatest claims to fame is the Maxim gun, the first repeat- them. As a | | \deals\ national hero of |. ~18 shown here on [|. AL to set moist cocktail glasses on the calm: Hitler's blasts were antici- uncovered furniture? 2. Is it good taste to turn so- cial conversation into & crifical discussion of persons? 3. Should a person making an introduction be careful to speak both names clearly? 4. Should grown-ups children with as much courtesy as they treat other grown-ups? 5 If a person who can afford expensive laste is going around with people who cannot, should he follow their lead? What would you do if- You thoroughly dislike the friend of & friend- is construed as a move towards peace rather than war; and, Presi- dent Roosevelt's talk against infla- tion is interpreted to mean that he artifical recovery. treat |} * ¥ * TURNED During the past couple of weeks any pick-up in production in the near future. Some views were bear- ish enough to predict that the in- | dustry would not improve until late in the summer . . . turn for the better is now evident. \ way you do? of a possible processing tax. “life; Keep the dislike to your- PRICE- WAR - ANSWERS Radio set dealers have started a 1. Yes! _ 'l price slashing movement. Consus- 2. No. || sions range from thirty to fifty per 3. Yes. } cent, The war started in New York 4. , but they seldom do. | but is rapidly spreading to all parts Yeu | of the country. Best “W'hnt Would You Do\ solution—4c). - gestion of large stocks in the hands wright. 1938, NBA service, lne. rowan-um, mui pated; Anthony Eden's resignation favors a normal rather than an. textile trade insiders couldn't see. But a decided | he‘ll?) Tell your friends how you This because of the recent rush of (b) Try to get him to feel the buying stimulated by consumer fears | | assistants stepped to their places. The purpose is to relieve the con» | ing rifle ever known. Because of alleged tnfair treatment of this and other inventions of his by the American government, Maxim forsook tHe United States to become a naturalized British subject. Maxim's interests turned to aviation in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Ten years before the Wright Brothers first managed to lift an airplane from the ground in successful powered flight, Maxim, strange asl it séems, hurled a four ton, steam-powered airplane through the air in actual self-sustained flight! Hiram Maxim was famed for his improvements in steam engines, and it is noteworthy that he was the first man to build one into an airplane. {The engine he constructed was capable of developing 360 horsepower, sufficient to raise the 8,000-pound craft from the ground. vet Maxim, a cautious scientific investigator, wished to take no fool- hardy chances on his new venture: Accordingly, his glant craft was weighted down, and a long timber guardrail was built above it so that, should it rise from the ground tracks, it would rot reach a dangerous height. g‘lme and again Maxim carefully piloted the airplane down the sloping runway, checking each detail and noting the ship's action under motion {zo that he would know what to expect if it should happen to rite from the ground. In: 1894 that day arrived.. The giant machine stood atop the runway, its wings spreading 104 feet life a glant condor. The engine was warmed. With a roar, the two 17-foot propeliers beat the air. From their positions behind the steam boiler, Maxim and his assistants waved to a watching crowd 'and the airplane started off down the track. Gaining speed, her throtlle wide open, the machine suddenly lifted from the ground. The crowd cheered, Up it rose, then with a splintering: Frightened, Maximshut off the throttle | Like the \One Hoss Shay\ it literally fell to pleces-the last of the first powered airplane to take man into the: | mirt .crash it strick the top guard rail. .and his colossus crashed to earth. lot dealers. At the rate sales are cur= | sie lull Tomorrew: Measuring An-Oces. Maxim and his two j: more than 2; 000000 are unaccounted and uncared for, unless local com- munities have been able to sustain It also explains Why Con- gressmen, governors and mayors are, clamoring \for more relief money than the administration has alloted for the balance of- the 1938 fiscal year, Without a sharp and unex- pected 'business pickup there won't be enough to go around. a Confidential- Senatorial curiosity over telephone tapping in the Interior Department 'has introduced a new wrinkle in downtown departments. Bureau chiéfs are taking no chances that they'll be cross-éxamined some day on something they did or did not say, Now, when a head man talks over the phone, his secretary or some other subordinate distens in on an extension until the conversation is finished. If it is especially impor- tant, a stenographer makes verbatim. notes of the dialogue, listing the dates, who made the call, and other relevant circumstances. These are carefully filed away un- der the heading of \Confidential\ in capital letters, They would pro- vide a more Authentic version of the inslde story of the New Deal, than the President's forthcoming volumes of state papers-but they're not for sale! #0 k % Notes- Hitler's demand for colonies may involve test of Monroe Doctrine- Senators watching developments . Progressives fighting for conflscatory tax on war profits in pending bill « . . Secrétary Ickes criticized for radio talk to Britishers . . . Con- gress is asked to accord suitable recognition to gallantry of British officers who assisted Americans after sinking of gunboat Panay. # ow La NEW YORK - ; By Jarnes‘MfMullin i Ceased- President Roosevelt, who started the New Year roaring like a Hon about monopolies and concentrated wealth, has been singularly lamb» like of late. Astute New Yorkers date the change in his attitude from the \little business\ conference. They figure it took that Bedlamite session to convince him that there really iséa depression, & all events, not one blast at business emanated from the White House since the little fellows sound- ed off. On the contrary, there have been no less than six gestures of a mildly encouraging nature. 1, Desterilization of future gold imports. 2, Authorization to renew R. F. C. loans to industry. 3. $250,000,000 relief appropriation. 4. Enactment of housing program. 5. Introduction of armament pro- gram. 6. Talk of raising the commodity price level. Tax revision is still to come, and there are probably other little rab- bits (no big ones in prospect yet) in the White House hat But the sudden cessation of attacks on busi- ness impresses New York observers most-and they offer a silent toast to the small business men who dalifi’r\ \ 'to speak their minds,. #0 o% L Buoyed- Canny Jim Farley is quietly build- ing his 1940 fences with skill and finesse, In a number of states he is giving sub rosa support to old-line Democrats against New Deal candi- dates, thus staking claims on po- litical gratitude which may be very useful to him two years hence. This is notably true in Kentucky and Tennessee, There has been talk of a similar backstage Farley vs. Roosevelt lineup in Ohio, but this isn't so likely, The National Demo- cratic Chairman could not very well give aid and comfort to Governor Davey-even on the q. t.-without risking the wrath of organized labor. He cannot afford to take that chance, _ . Mr. Farley's White House hopes have been buoyed by recent polis which show him leading other Dem- ocratic aspirants in popular favor,. He is far too wise to come out in the open as a candidate at this juncture, but he has well-laid plans, It can safely be stated that he be- Heves he can at least hold the bal- ance of power in the 1940 Demo- cratic convention U Overplay— The récent charge that Governor Martin L. Dewey of Ohio had made with General Motors and other large corporations is part of a well organized campaign to \smear Davey.\ New Dealers are boosting Charles Sawyer, a Cincinnati lawyer of con- servative background, to beat Davey in the Democratic gubernatorial primaries. The strategy is intende apparently not so much to buil Sawyer up as to tear Davey down. Lieutenant Governor Yoder is re- ported to be taking an active back- stage part in the anti-Davey cam- 'paign. New Yorkers who are watching this situation see indications that the New Dealers are overplaying their hand. They may succeed in wrecking Davey, but they are likely. at the same time to hurt their own ~ (Continued on Page Thirteen:) Test Year\ Knowledge 1. Which dmendtnent to . the Constitution abolished slavery in the U. 8.7 .%. What is neurology? '8. Who was Ernst Rietschel? 4, Name the chief body of our planetary system, 5. What is the basic alloy of pewter? 6, Name the birthstone for Oc- tober. 1. What is the name of the na- ‘tive Australlen dog? What 4s the political affilia- tion (of J. Mark Wilcox, Representa- tiv? from Florida? Name the fast runner who curled the message to Sparta for ald in the Battle of Marathon, 10. Name the capital of the prov: 17m: Ontario, den-d! Leu ias, L2 a pong nret pve en ctc manent ien worn cents mernoriet 1
