PAGE FOUR THE MESSENGER OWENSBORO, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934. SITTING ON THE LID Sit HfoHHMgM Published Dally Except Sunday and Monday by OWENSBORO PUBLISHING CO. Incorporated 100-102 East Third. Owensboro, Ky. TODAY By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyright. 1934) Publication er Mr. Brisbane's opinions doe not signify that this newspaper endorses them, but that It desires to give its readers the views of the world's widest read and highest paid editorial writer. NEW YORK DA.Y BY DAY. By O.
O. M'fNTYRE. (Copyright. 1934) A feature appearing In more newspapers la America than any other today a column unique in style and original la content. mans, the fair angel of peace for French and others, one picture in his right hand and the otner in his left, Herr Hess Juggles most adroitly, but withal earns small applause.
For both pictures are flat and superficial. His world audience cannot be blinded to the vivid pictures of intolerance, of demagogy, of medieval savagery on which the colors of the Nazi artists are still fresh and clear. ous consolation, in their last hours, to Catholics executed in the recent Nazi excitement. Osservatore says: "Religious assistance in their last hours was refused on the ground that the arrested persons were unworthy of It." That will sound strange in America, where even murderers of all denominations Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, are attended in their last moments, and at public expense, by a priest, clergyman or rabbi, as the case may be. Any man, whatever his religion, Mohammedan, Taoist, Buddhist, no matter what, would be allowed here to receive religious consolation at the last moment even though he had committed the worst crime and at public cost, although the big prisons retain chaplains of the three dominating1 religions only because their followers, so much the more numerous, commit by far the greatest number of murders.
The Smithsonian institution is translating an interesting "diary," notebook taken from some mur-ered frontier soldier. Four Indians in turn owned the diary and "wrote in it" in pictures, each having killed and scalped the owner that preceded him. In this dairy are pictures showing various Indian owners, including "Yellow Horse," "Little Bear," and "Howling Wolf," all pictures in the Indian's diary show how they killed and scalped other Indians or white men. But it is not for white men to sneer. If you wrote the diary of many of our "best minds," you would have nothing to report except the collecting of money.
The difference between collecting scalps and collecting money is not great, only the difference between white and red men, and, sometimes, scalp collecting is the less cruel amusem*nt. IU4 ft Vnll4 fMUu Syndicate. In) Comment On The Kentucky Press Meeting In Owensboro By Editors In Attendance heart be your Judge. Your dislike for a fight or an argument often keeps you from getting your Just rewards. Your love nature is strong.
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Advertising rates and sample copies eheerfully furnished on application. MESSENGER PHONES Business Office 300 Editorial Room 301 HESS TO THE WORLD Rudolf Hess' world broadcast is double-barreled. It officially marks a right-about-face in Nazi foreign policy, and at the same time it seeks to frighten the stunned German people into renewed solidarity under the Nazi command. The broadcast is opportune. It aims to offset the effect of Bar-thou's pilgrimage to London.
And It purposes to make outraged Germany forget the massacres of a week ago. The sound of it is agreeable enough, but of substance there is practically nothing. It vouchsafes no explanation of the necessity of the German blood-bath. It glorifies Hitler to the sky for having suppressed the rebels, but it keeps Germany and the rest of the world In total darkness as to the nature of the treason and the specific guilt of the leaders who are dead. It heaps fulsome praise on the head of Barthou, but it offers neither apology nor justification for the rash official assertion that' some of the German "traitors" had been dealing with "a foreign power." Hess makes a remarkable talk to the veterans of Prance over the head of the French government.
He pictures the horror of their years in the trenches, and begs them to forbid repetition. He even addresses them directly in the Trench language, a most astounding condescension for a Nazi, and a proof that Hess is Hitler's alter ego speaking to all the world. And then he warns one and sundry that if Germany were to be invaded she would fight as no nation has ever fought and would exact a most formidable price from any foe. Such a statement from the spokesman of a theoretically "demilitarized" and defenseless power is notable, but doubtless true. All this is in marked contrast to the Nazi talk of scarcely two weeks ago.
Going back only a little farther one finds a statement that Ger many has no use for general security compacts, and that Hitler considers it beneath his dignity to make any further overtures to Prance. Now Hess makes what he and his associates consider a supreme effort to allay the anger of the world. They dread no possibility of immediate armed attack, but they are genuinely alarmed at the economic attack which has been provoked by more than a year of irritation. And they wish, if possible, to counteract the effect of Barthou's significant travels. They even go out of their way to hand a paragraph of praise to Poland, the nation whose territorial demarcation is the most grievous of all Germany's post-war griefs.
Assuming that all Germany by this time realizes the personal heroism of Hitler, Herr Hess offers no substantiation whatever of the great plot story. And there are many thousands of Germans who are eager for substantiation and detail. While Hess was speaking at Koenigsberg, Robert Ley, the Nazi labor dictator, declared at Oldenburg that Hitler is "the greatest figure in German history." As the statement is official, it relegates to comparative obscurity Arminius and Charlemagne and Barbarossa and Frederick the Great and Bismarck and all the other towering Germans of heroic fame. It must be accepted because it is a Nazi dictum, and the fact that all the men whom Hitler killed were deserving of death must be similarly accepted without discussion. It would be beneath the dignity of a Hess or a Ley to Justify what has been done; it would be weakness to concede that Hitler ever did anything needful of Justification.
So there is no meat for the German people in the Hess broadcast, and nothing but a Jiggling of the bogey of war to convince them that Nazi rule must endure. The nightmare of war for Ger-1 In Alberta's huge Jasper park, Fred Brewster, a Rocky mountain guide, watches eagles and ospreys, also called "fish hawks, sitting on the high limbs of a tree, eagles at the top, ospreys below, and still lower down plain crows, all watching the lake. An osprey drops, brings up a fish. Two eagles pursue. The frightened osprey drops the fish.
The eagles try to catch it, usually fail. The crows, flying close to the surface, in a body, never fail, always get the falling fish and enjoy it. There you have our civilization upside down. With us, those nearest the ground get the least, those next above get a little more, and those at the very top get practically everything. Perhaps we can change that situation in the "new era" as the birds have changed it in far away Alberta, and enable those near the ground to get the big share, the semi-little men a trifle higher up the next biggest share, while the eagle men on the top branch almost starve to death.
Genuinely earnest "cracking down" might accomplish that. J. Piermont Morgan, of Broad and Wall streets, ordered his big yacht, Corsair, to his front door on East island, and will cross for a short vacation in England. Once such a trip might have aroused envy, but no more. The travelling salesman, the "lady buyer" for a department store, almost anybody may cross on a bigger, faster, finer boat than the "Corsair" at a very reasonable price.
The wise socialism is that which gives to the big crowd bigger and better ships, parks and hotels than any individual, no matter how rich, could afford for himself. Also, among Americans of the right kind, a man and woman take pride in improving their own little house or boat, wasting no time in foolish envy of others. There is no real happiness of possession, except in what we earn and what we have. Samuel Felitto sat at the wheel of his taxicab yesterday, waiting for his customer to come out of a restaurant on Fulton street. New York.
Little boys were as thick around him as flies around a sugar bowl. They stood on the running board, but their heads through the windows of the taxi, and all faces, including that of Samuel Felitto, expressed profound happiness. The taxi radio was running and giving full details, inning by inning-, play by play, of the great "all-star baseball game," that fifty-four thousand were watching in New York's Polo Grounds. The customer appeared as the broadcaster roared "Medwick makes a home run, scoring two ahead of him." The radio thunder of the fifty-four thousand "fans" could not drown the yells of the small taxi-cab audience, shrieking with delight. There Is a real miracle, and a very great marvel.
Men become accustomed to everything, but the conquest of time, space and gravitation stiH surprise them. Everything would run smoothly if all the United States representatives and senators felt as G. Bryant, of West Virginia, feels. A candidate for congress, his platform reads: "I am behind President Roosevelt all the way. I'll jump off the top of the Washington monument if he wants me to." A solid house and senate like that would make fascism unnecessary.
Mr. Bryant, educated as a civil engineer, once a professional newspaper man, recently "operator of peanut and popcorn stands," knows what depression means, and says: "I am entering the campaign without a dime, and will be compelled to hitch-hike and 'thumb' my way around." We learn from adversity. The Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, properly rebukes the Hitler government for refusing religi- LOOK1NG BACKWARD TEN YEARS AGO (Messenger of July 12, 1924) Marriage of Miss Ethel Ray Stoermer, of Owensboro, and Dr. James Mansfield Bailey, of Memphis, in Richmond, Va. To sail for Wuchow, China, in September.
Dr. Bailey to be medical missionary stationed at hospital in Wuchow operated under auspices Southern Baptist foreign board. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Hayes announce engagement of daughter, Helen, to James T.
Wilkes, of Adel. Ga. Misses Ellen and Jane Huston entertain with bridge party in honor of Miss Mary Ellen Bukey, Park-ersburg, W. guest of Mrs. W.
M. Rudd, and Miss Christine Davis, of Hopkinsville, guest of Miss Marion Steele. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Baseheart, 518 East Fourth street, a daughter. TWENTY YEARS AGO (Messenger of July 12, 1914) Joe Moore goes to New York, in the interest of the ready-to-wear department of the S. W. Anderson Co.
Messenger moves to new home at Th'rd and Allen streets. Temperature register is 101 1-2 degrees on government thermometer on H. S. Berry's farm. Bathing party to be given by younger set in honor of Miss Ethel Tinsley.
Louisville, guest of Miss Meme Smith. New York, July 11. Grog-shops on the Bowery are flashing window banners of red: "Whisky 10 cents." The new bars, open so passers-by may see, are filled with the same old soaks that frequented the sunless back-rooms during prohibition. And gulped raw and lethal "smoke." The change has given the dour highway some of the royster of the days of Suicide Hall and Atlantic Garden. For the beetle-browed bouncer has been restored to oust sleepers and the more jubilant Jags.
It's only after midnight that life moves to a minor key. Then the Bowery takes on something of the pathos and elegiac quality of massed squalor. Drunks snore in hallways and tired women hang out the upstairs windows, seeking some faint scour of breeze. Only the jangle of the elevated span overhead breaks the silence. All-night pawn shops appear listless, for the Bowery has little more to pledge.
The dingy restaurants with menus frescoed in white on windows are faint peeps of light. The only glitter comes from the pert, white-tiled 5-cent hamburger towers. But the Bowery is not bothered by depression. Depression has been with it always. Likely the most enduring friendship out of the days when Park Row was Park Row is that of Burns Mantle, the critic, and Fred Knowles, once managing editor of the Evening Mail.
For more than 20 years they have dined together every Thursday, starting off pleasantly enough but winding up in an argument that usually results In aloof farewell bows. And next Thursday they begin all over again. Sam H. Harris and George M. Cohan dined together weekly until a misunderstanding sundered their association and friendship of many years.
Their rift was patched up by Jim Moore, owner of the restaurant they frequented. Another Broadway pair that dined together weekly for many years was Lee Shubert and the late Melville Ellis. The fussy diner-out of the old school is still with us. I noticed him at the Colony the other evening, asking to see the cork from the wine bottle, complaining or drafts and mixing his own salad dressing. He was a die-hard to the final rite of leaving a silver cartwheel dollar for the waiter.
Across from the Plaza against the nark curb tonight only three drooping nags stood in the shafts of their carriages. A year ago there were at least a dozen. One of the jehus suggesting1 a venerable Victor Herbert told me the diminishing guild had hoped the sidewalk cafes would add a puff of life. They heard that the red-wheeled fiacre in Paris depended almost solely upon the terrasse trade. But they saw no change.
By next summer he believed they would all be gone. Fifth avenue now has a perfume bar at which sniffers sit in high chairs. A white uniformed attendant selects choice scents from pyramided racks of bottles and sprays within smelling distance of prospective buyers. Someone tells me the biggest buyer of expensive scents Is Mrs. Harrison, Wiinams.
Peggy Joyce used to average $3,000 a year for especial blends. Mis-tinguette has the largest private collection. And William Gaxton so likes perfume he went into ths business himself. Thingumabobs: George Arliss, expecting knighthood, is to make London his permanent home -Jim Tully has been in old Mexico to be portraited by Diego Rivera The office of Barron Collier is lined with subway and street car ads Messmore Kendall has one of the finest collections of Washingtonia Max Baer has a mink-lined auto robe and has read Emily Post five times Song writers took "Hey, nonny nonny" from an old Scotch song and not from Harlem It means "Hail to the noon!" Damon Runyoh's three most intimate friends have been Frank Bruen, Francis Alber-tanti and the late W. O.
McGeehan Albert Payson Terhune can approach the most ferocious dogs and they'll wag their tails Jim Barton always keeps his Scot-tie in his dressing room while he's on the stage Courtney Ryley Cooper has signed up to turn out an original screen story for Will Rogers. From a Texas weekly: "Mclntyre used to refer to Shakespeare a lot but recently he seems to be quit fed up." Tip for a magazine piece: "How I Broke with Shakespeare." Would Consolidate Two Vocational Departments Frankfort, July 11. (JP) Consolidation of the Department of Vocational Education and the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation was recommended today by state inspector and examiner, Nat B. Sewell as a move "in the interest of both economy and sound business administration." In a report on the department of vocational rehabilitation, the inspector lauded the agency for "its consistently good record in the matter of controlling traveling expenses" and for its "splendid showing" in reducing administration costs. However, he said he believed the director and one supervisor can do the work being done by a director and two supervisors.
The present director is paid $275 a month and each of the two supervisors receive $250 a month. Childless marriages are nearly twice as numerous in American cities as in rural districts, it is said. WISCONSIN TRIES IT Creation of a system of social insurance, President Roosevelt' has announced, will be one of the tasks of the next congress. A chief item in such a program will certainly be unemployment insurance. There is keen interest, therefore, in the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Fund, which went into effect on the 1st.
It is appropriate that Wisconsin, always in the advance socially, should lead the nation in this experiment with job insurance. The Wisconsin plan avoids the term "insurance" apparently to meet the criticism of those who assert that the trend of employment can not be subjected to accurate actuarial measurement. It is not so far-reaching as employment insurance laws which have been urg. ed in many states, as the Wagner-Lewis plan for a national system which was submitted to the last congress but did not pass. In Wisconsin employers are required to set aside 2 per cent of pay rolls until they have accumulated a fund of $55 for each eligible employe.
Then the rate is cut to 1 per cent. Benefit payments would not be more, than $10 a week or extend for more than ten weeks in any year. That is a very modest scale of payment. It manifestly would not go very far in the case of a long-continued depression. The scale was intentionally set low in the hope that a majority of employers would voluntarily set up unemployment insurance plans.
This hope was not realized although the date on which the plan became operative was delayed a year. This disinclination of employers to establish their own systems even when they knew that the state would act if they didn't is significant. It supports the argument that unemployment insurance through private Initiative is impossible of realization. Such insur. ance has been discussed for twenty years or more.
But, according to the best available figures, less than 200,000 of the more than twenty million industrial and mercantile employes in America now enjoy the protection of privately instituted job insurance or employment guarantee plans. Public action apparently is necessary. There is every indication that it will be forthcoming in the near future. President Roosevelt's Industrial Advisory Board has already recommended a broader plan than Wisconsin's, calling for contributions by both employer and employe. This is the basis of the English system, which many Americans used inaccurately to denounce as a "dole." Our haphazard system of relief has proved far more costly.
DISTRESSED KEY WEST Key West seems to be the forgotten child among American municipalities. This southernmost city of continental United States has seen business stagnate, population dwindle and oniy its debts thrive. Now it gets a receiver who nopes to make it "another Bermuda." Anyone familiar with Bermuda will recognize the magnitude of his task in this direction. But this terminus of Flagler's railroad over the keys has themak ing of a real tourist resort. Just a step across from Havana, within easy reach of either the east or west coast of the state which harbors northerners in winter, it has about everything geography or climate can give.
It needs restoration of courage, a pepping-up of depressed spirits and a little of the optimism which made it a railroad town in the first place. Half its reduced population is now on relief rolls. The receiver's first job is to get some of the number back on their own feet. It is a pleasant ride across the waters to Key West. The dwindling city should provide something to do aft-er one gets there.
"QUOTATIONS' In a law-abiding citizen, but if anybody comes around looking for trouble I sort of helps them divide it. Jack Johnson, famous ex-pug-list. Make the world a fit and proper place for children and they will be born. Prof. F.
Crew, British biologist. Banking as a profession is in its infancy. I might also say it is not yet bom. James P. Warburg, New York financier.
I'm 73 and I've been on the stage 50 years, and I have my right to have rheumatism occasionally. Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heinle mother, since you are fond of chil dien and have a special genius for the care and training. Among those who were born on this day are: Comte de Gasparin, French scientist; Andrew H. Reed er, first governor of Kansas; Henry D.
Thoreau, poet-naturalist, and and Nathan H. Meeker, founder of Greeley, Colo. Editorial Comment A FINE SELECTION Governor Laffoon's selection of Wilbur K. Miller for chairmanship of the recently created Public Serv- ice commission was a choice that will meet the approval of all who know the prominent Owensboro lawyer in person or by reputation. A law partner of Congressman Glover H.
Cary and Judge Arthur D. Kirk, one of the strong firms of Owensboro, the Laffoon appointee is a veteran practictioner though still a young man. He was the Daviess county attorney from January, 1922 to January, 1930, an dthrough-out his eight years in office firmly established himself as a man who regarded the oath of office as a covenant with the public to be obeyed. Wilbur Miller is a man of conviction and with the ability to state those convictions. He is a lawyer but first a citizen.
He served the people of his county acceptably and will carry his high, honorable conduct into the duties of the new state position. Courageous and courteous his interpretation of the work of the Public Service commission will be in line with his past recprd at Owensboro. Whoever goes to Frankfort during his incumbency with a grievance may be assured of a sympathetic hearing by the chairman of the commission, and the evidence will be as carefully weighed as Early Reminiscences Of City of Owensboro William Smither Or Bill Smothers. (Written by the Late Senator Thomas C. McCreery and reprinted from Owensboro Mon-itor of 1866.) CHAPTER XXVII "What say you, Mr.
Smothers?" said his honor. The shrill voice of Jo Daveiss answered, "We are ready for the defense." John Daveiss, recognizing the voice of his brother, embraced him affectionately, and having introduced him to Broadnax and the bar, proceeded to empanel a jury. The evidence in the main was in accordance with the facts already stated. Jo Daveiss made no labored effort at cross examination but permitted the witnesses to make their statements in their own way, sometimes putting a single question to elicit an explanation. Then the attorney announced that tne testimony was closed in behalf of the Commonwealth, Jo Daveiss exchanged a few words with Smothers, and then rose and said that his client from motives of deilcacy, had positively refused to introduce his sister who was the only witness who could state anything material to the defense, that the Prosecuting Attorney might proceed with his arguments to the jury.
By the feeling method in which he made' his simple statement, he seemed already to have gained the vantage ground. But John Daviess was a man of no ordinary ability, and knowing that he had to cope with one of the greatest advocates of the country or the world, he put forth his full strength in his opening speech endeavoring to forestall the impression which had always attended the powerful efforts of his brother. The evidence was arrayed in a masterly manner and he closed by a spirited and strong appeal to the jury to discharge their sworn duties honestly and faithfully, exhorting-them to disregard alike the fame and the passion of the orator that was to follow him and assuring them that whilst the wicked might rejoice at acquittal all good men would amen to the condemnation and execution of a marauder, an outlaw, an assassin and a murderer. That 'wonderfully eloquent and strangely eccentric man, Jo Daveiss, then rose to address the jury. It was his ambition to do everything1 after a fashion that nobody else in the world ever had attempted.
He never was known to ride to a court house but made his circuit on foot, whilst a negro boy accompanied him on horseback, carrying his papers in a pair of saddlebags. His manner, his style, his tactics at the bar were all his own, and they all lie buried with their great master, on the field of Tippecanoe. No fragment of a speech of his remains today; and from the erring and fading memories of men we derive our only ideas of that inspiration which moved upon the feelings and swayed the passions until he could drive his triumphal car over any obstacle that might oppose his onward course. Tradition furnishes a dim outline of his speech in defense of Smothers which was probably the greatest forensic effort of his life. It was made for a friend without hope of reward and the whole power of mind, body and soul, were poured forth in his cause.
He commenced as if he had a fee to assist in the prosecution. He reiterated the strong points in the attorney's speech and offered additional arguments in favor of conviction. The friends of the accused began to whisper that he was a snake in the grass and that he had come to help" his brother, and the eyes of Smothers were raised in call surprise to the face of the counsel. (To Be Continued) If they wanted to enforce the law in Tennessee, nobody could buy or sell a razor, for it is prohibited by statute and a fine and imprisonment are provided. flect the attitude of many Ken-tuckians, though Mr.
Ringo spoke entirely for himself, not for the association or any one directly connected with the association meeting. The prizes that were awarded under the direction of Prof. Victor Portmann of the University of Kentucky brought out displays that show how fortunate Kentucky is in the ability of her editors. The Kentucky newspapers are continually advancing to a better presentation ot the news and more effective leadership in the thought and action of the commonwealth. THOROUGHLY ENJOYED (By George A.
Joplin, Somerset, President Kentucky Press Association). To Publishers of The Messenger and Inquirer: Since returning home we have done nothing but tell our friends about the wonderful hospitality of our Owensboro hosts and the fine citizens of your good city. We could talk for 365 days and nights and then not begin to tell them how marvelous you all were to us. Honestly, the K. P.
A. has never received such a warm reception any where and every one enjoyed every minute of their stay. How in the world you all staged such an enjoyable barbecue Thursday night with the odds so tremendously against you is nothing short of a miracle. Any one else would have given up the idea and told their guests to entertain themselves had their plans been so greatly upset by the weather. The program you arranged was magnificent.
It was timed just right and the talks made by the Owensboro citizens and the musical numbers given contributed much to the success of the meeting. Sorry we didn't get to see each of you individually before we left but it was impossible. Your edition of the paper with the pictures and writeups of the various editors was a "knockout" and I know took plenty of hard work. The hotel management was most courteous and our rooms were all that could be desired. We will never forget you or Owensboro.
Do hope you all will come down to see us before long. Best regards, Sincerely, GEORGE. YOUR BIRTHDAY JULY 12 Is this your birthday? Then you are a natural student in which mental pursuits are all important to your happiness. Yet you are alert and alive to the world about you and like to take an active part in any progressive movement. However, you like to be assured that it is worth your serious attention before you get mixed up in it.
You are original and inventive, and have an excellent speaking voice and an unusual power of pursuasion. You can talk anyone into believing black is white. You would probably make an excellent lawyer. Strangely enough, however, you are not sufficiently careful in safe-guarding your own interests. Others, realizing your talents and your careless business head, are apt to take advantage of you.
See that you are properly compensated for your work! You will probably find it easy to express yourself conversationally as well as in writing. You are fond of music, and lacking the specialized training to play some instrument, you will become an enthusiastic listener and a ready sponsor for those who are musically inclined. In a business bargain, guard against letting your affections play you false. Act according to the dictates of your Judgment and good sense, rather than letting your THE KENTUCKY PRESS ASSOCIATION'S MEETING IN OWENSBORO. By Editor Thos.
R. Underwood In The Lexington Herald The meeting in Owensboro of the Kentucky Press Association was one of the best meetings from all viewpoints ever conducted by the association. This is saying a lot, because Urey Woodson, formerly a publisher of Owensboro and now then property custodian for the federal government, told of the meeting held in Owensboro nearly iirty years before. Lawrenca Hager, former president of the Kentucky Press Association, and his associates, Bruce Hager and George Fuqua, had the hearty assistance of the entire city of Owensboro in acting as hosts. Mr.
Hager had invited the press association to meet in Owensboro before but, due to a previous invitation from Cumberland Gap and due to Mammoth Cave's desire last year to promote the national park program, the visit to Owensboro was postponed. George Joplin, as president, following Mr. Hager and James T. Norris, of Ashland, is continuing the active service of the organization which has gained for it such large support from the editors of Kentucky newspapers. The N.
R. A. has made the press association all the more essential, inasmuch as the Kentucky Press Association has been designated to handle the code affairs under the Graphic Arts code of those news papers assenting thereto or not having assented to any other code. The executive committee of the press association is the -code authority for the newspapers of Kentucky and for printer-publishers, as many of the smaller newspapers have Job printing plants. The presence in Owensboro of Al Baumgart, administrator of the code under the divisions that in elude the newspapers assenting to the Graphic Arts code, added much to the interest of the meeting, and the work of Keen Johnson, who has represented the K.
P. A. in code meeting, in handling a code clinic. demonstrated the practical work ings of the code. Mr.
Baumgart threw new light on the way the code developed by explaining that the government did not originate the fair trade practices. The purpose of the government, he made clear, was to establish a standard for wages and hours. When Industry was asked to increase wages and to shorten hours the reply given was that it was impossible to do this inasmuch as cut-throat competition was making it impossible to keep up standards. The government's reply to this suggestion was to offer to set up the N. R.
A. as a medium through which industry could regulate itself in the matter of fair trade prices and could undertake to eliminate unfair competition based on long hours and low rates of pay. Mr. Baumgart's explanation is that the red tape of the N. R.
A. is not from the government but from industry itself. Among the many enlightening discussions was one by Ben Ringo, formerly a leader in Kentucky poll-tics, and Kentucky journalism. Mr. Ringo decried the tendency on the part of metropolitan newspapers in Kentucky to try to build up circulation by apparently sensational attacks on public office holders.
He said that he does not believe that a man can be a fair, honest, law-abiding citizen as a private citizen and immediately become a scoundrel upon election to public office. Mr. Ring-o declared that no public officer is assisted to better service by constant nagging and destructive criticism. These words seem timely and re when he was battling' for a client or the commonwealth. A strong.
1 1 1.111.. Ti stury young man wnour mmcr wui render service of the highest quality. Henderson Gleaner. Around The Radio Clock New York, July 11. That's Just the thirg for a Friday the 13th broadcast, so decided the network chieftains when they learned there was to be a bonafide "gas buggy" race at the World's Fair in Chicago on Friday afternoon.
The "gas buggies" are real forerunners of the present-day automobiles, all of them machines built from 1896 to 1904. In keeping with the day, there will be 13 entries doing 13 laps on a 1300-foot track. WJZ-NBC expects to have their microphones on hand. Guy Hickok, foreign correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle for 14 years, is to discuss "the average German looks at Hitler" for the women's radio review, WEAF-NBC next Monday. WEAF-NBC: 2:00 Chick Webb's orchestra.
3:30 Tales of Courage. WABC-CBS: 2:00 Detroit sym- Dhonv. (KMOX-WHASl. K-nn The Beale Street Boys, iii30 rarm ana Home Hour, (K-m MOX-WLW). 2:30 Chicago symphony, (WSM).
Crossland Quits Race For Congress In the First Frankfort. July 11. iff) Caswell B. Crossland of Paducah today withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination for congress in the First district. The withdrawal leaves R.
8. Mason, of Eddyville and W. V. Gregory of Mayfield, incumbent, the only contestant for the nomination..
