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Page Two CURRENT [VENTS PASS IN REVIEW RADIO ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT IS ELOQUENT BUT VAGUE?LABOR DEMANDS CHANGES. By EDWARD W. PICKARD jj:. W. -trrn Newspaper Cr.ioti. piIKSlDKNT liOOSKVK* T'S latest * radio talk with his fellow citizens was well written, well delivered and peculiarly vague as to bis future in* tentions. lie sought to ' reassure business and labor, both of which are questioning him > aoxiousl y. but he WHaT " *. made no detinite re\ * plies to their categorT% < jcaj queries. 1 lis one " ? specific statement was HEK I that within a month |> J *,e wol,bl seek to nek putiate a truce be_ . . A tween large groups of resi en employers and large ooseve groups of employees through which there would be a cessation of the strikes that have been disrupting the nation's business, lie said he would ask the representatives of those forces to agree temporarily on questions of wages. hours and working conditions, and that with such agreements in force he expected further adjustments would be made peaceably, through governmental or private mediation. "I shall not ask either employers or employees permanently to lay aside the weapons common to industrial war." he added. "But I shall ask both groups to give a fair trial to peaceful methods of adjusting their conflicts of opinion and interest, and to experiment for a reasonable time with measures suitable to civilize our industrial civilization." By way of reply to the appeals of many business, industrial and financial leaders that the more radical measures of the administration's program he abandoned. Mr. Roosevelt declared the New Deal is to go on. To the questions of those leaders concerning balancing of the budget, government expenses, further devaluation of the dollar or return to the gold standard, he made no reply. However, he did declare himself in favor of a system of business based on private profit. Then he said: "1 ant not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years n free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few. I prefer and I am sure you prefer that broader definition of liberty under which we are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America." Concerning the NUA, the President gave praise to General Johnson and said the national recovery administration was entering its second phase, "which is in turn a period of preparation for legislation which will determine Its permanent form." He admitted there was a question as to the wisdom of some of the devices emnlnvpd Murine (ho lirct r.hnco NKA, but decried the attacks on the constitutionality of many of the things his administration nas done. "We are not," he said, "frightened by reactionary lawyers of political editors. All these cries have been heard before." Near the beginning of his address, the President said: "I am happy to report that after years of uncertainty, culminating in the collapse of the spring of 1933, we are bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment of labor at a reasonable wage and of more business at a fair profit These governmental and industrial developments hold promise of new achievements for the nation." First formal response to the President's speech came from the National Association of Manufacturers, which urged him to Issue a proclamation for a "truce on industrial warfare" during which existing employment relations would be continued, and challenged the American Federation of Labor to take like action. Its statement said: "The President will find employers willing to sit down with him, as he proposes, to devise means for ending the constant series of strikes which have been one of the major obstacles to recovery." Green and Morrison, respectively president and secretary of the federation, said this was a subterfuge and that the manufacturers should first publicly announce they would obey the decisions of constituted authorities, especially concerning discrimination and collective bargaining. WHILE President William Green and some other leaders of the American Federation of Labor, Just convened in San Francisco, expressed approval of what Mr. Roosevelt said in his radio address, many others prominent in the federation are far from Mtiafled with the way things are go-, lng. The executive council's annual The Cherokee Set report devoted paces to an analysis of the effect of the NKA upon the interests of labor. Almost without exception. the effects were found either directly harmful or at least unsatisfactory The criticism was directed at the wo?tigs of the recovery program, in actual operation. The NKA and the New Deal itself were not condemned. r.ut the committee indicted the program on these main grounds: That it has failed to Increase the purchasing power of workers. That because it has failed to reduce hours of labor sufficiently it has also failed to create a satisfactory number of new jobs. That its compliance machinery is ineffective. with the result that violations of the spirit of the codes are easily accomplished anil quite general. Labor does not have proper representation in either code enforcement or administration. "In one way." the report says, pointing to what seems to be viewed as the only satisfactory accomplishment thus far under the NKA. "codes have fulfilled expectations. They have with few exceptions wiped out child labor." Discussing the alleged failure to increase purchasing power of workers the report says that in 10 industrial groups surveyed in the year ending with July, VJ34. employment increased 0.S per cent: Individual weekly wages 0.4 per cent and the cost of living 0.3 per cent. "This meant that the employees in these industries are at the same posl| ties regarding nni-??hn8in>? tmwer as, they held before the NKA," the committee commented. The report finds also that minimum wages fixed in codes have been regarded by employers as maximum wages and that the wages of skilled workers have accordingly been reduced to com lor increase wages to tne unskilled. The committee estimates that 10,ffflO.OOO people still are unemployed, although of these approximately 2.000,(XX) are cared for temporarily by the CWA and various government construction projects. The council said organized labor must be 41 forever opposed" to "currency inflation as the method of recovery" and it viewed the increased national debt with "alarm and with misgiving." ORGANIZED business and the President are not at ull satisfied with each other. Business leaders arc nervous, and Mr. Roosevelt feels that they have too many "inhibitions" and are not doing what they should to aid recovery. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, seeking a clear statement of the President's future intentions, sent him a list of questions on expenditures, budget balancing, currency stabilization and the government's part In business, politely requesting categorical replies. Mr. Roosevelt received the questionnaire with a smile and a joke, and there was no indication of his intention to answer it. It was revealed in Washington that the President also received not long ago a set of resolutions adopted at a secret meeting of 120 leading industrialists and financiers. These men asserted that the policies of the New Deal, along with the uncertainties of the future, are throttling economic recovery in the United States. The resolutions were not intended for publication and the President made no mention of them In his press conferences. Still another hard rap at the New Deal came in the form of a statement by the federal advisory council, composed of leading bankers. It was contained In a set of recommendations for cue xeuerai reserve system and severely criticizes the administration's monetary and economic policies, demanding a return to what the council considers sound principles. MISS GRACE ABBOTT, for years one of the government's most faithful and useful servants, has resigned her position as director of the children's bureau, to the grief of her associates in Washington and the regret of every one who knows about her fine work there. Miss Abbott now becomes professor of public welfare administration in the University of Chicago and editor of the Social Serv| Ice Review. GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON steps out of the picture and the NUA Is turned over to Donald R. Richberg and other "left wing" members of the PNew Deal management. President Roosevelt announced the greater part of the reorganization plan for the national recovery body, naming first the policy making board, with Richberg as its ^ chairman and Secretary Ickes? Secretary | - Perkins, Harry L. Hopkins and Chester DaDona,d vis as members. A fifth ic berg niember was yet to be selected, he to be the chairman of the new administrative board. Five other members of this latter body are S. Clay Williams, head of the Reynolds , Tobacco company; Arthur D. Whitc1 side, president of Dun & Bradstreer; aut, Murphy, N. CM Friday, Sidney H'.llnian. president of the j Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Leon 1 . C. Marshall, labor specialist: and Prof. ; V Walton II. Hamilton of Yale. Two ex- a officio members are Blackwel! Smith. \ assistant general counsel of NltA, and . Leon Henderson, chief of the NltA division of research and planning under Johnson. The judicial branch of the NRA was still under consideration. Mr. Roose- velt Indicated that its duties might be assigned to a special department of the department of Justice. T SECRKTARY OF THE INTERIOR 1CKES, as head of the federal public works administration, announced an ' ambitious family housing project for Chicago which, at a cost of c will abolish a "slum area" of 3? city blocks on the southwest side and re- vl place demolished buildings with small (l apartment houses tor 3.O0O families. Condemnation preceding? w??re start- h ed in the Federal court in Chicago, and Mr. Ickes said if the property owners are reasonable in their demands the project will go through speedily. The area to he rehabilitated is inhabited ? now almost entirely by persons of Italian descent and. far from being a n typical "slum," contains numerous neat, well-kept homes and several large apartment houses. The plan of v the PWA for its rebuilding Is very r similar to housing projects In Moscow i' and Vienna, with the government sup- h plying social and nursery facilities as 5 well as dwellings. k li NTEUEoTINC. though net h!gMy !m- A * portnnt. Is the report that conies from Vienna that Mustapha Kenial 11 Pasha, dictator-president of Turkey. h may marry one of the c four unmarried daugh- " ft Jjn ters of King Zog of 8 V Albania. Zog Is to visit 11 LJft W** ^ Ankara soon and the i1 ' engagement may be f k "X* ? announced then. Kern- v ffiv-'-''* aj who is fifty-seven A. >'ears old, divorced his I . first wife. I.atife 11a- b & M noutu. In 1925, and Is ? WW M wild to have expressed c u wish to re-marry. * President King Zog's marriage- 3 Kemal able daughters range n in age from twenty-three to twenty- s six. The Albanian royal family, like j Kemal, Is of the Moslem faith. d Humors of another almost royal c marriage couie from Paris. The Pariser j Tageblnttt, German refugee newspa- j per. says Chancellor Hitler contemplates taking as his bride a German princess, one of the family of Saxe- j Coburg and Golhu which is allied to the crowns of half a dozen European countries. It adds that the fuehrer at the same time will assume the title of "duke of the Germans." SEVEN hundred thousand German peasants gathered at Bueckeburg hill for their national harvest festival celebration and were told by Chancellor Adolf Hitler that their independence as a nation was perfectly safe. | Said he: "The latest prophecy is that j lack of currency for the purchase of 1 foreign raw material will bring about our collapse. They will never beat ua down. Cnder the worst circumstances they will make us more Independent" Reiterating his government's opposition to war. the fuehrer said: "We Nazis regard honor and life as indivisible. We have told the world what is 1 the honest wish of every German? j Germany and the German people de- J sire nothing but peace. Nevertheless, | they will never relinquish equal \ rights.** t EIGHT per cent boost in wages, amounting to more than $10,000,- I i 000 a year, has been granted their em- ' ployees by the four big packing con- < cerns of Chicago, Swift, Armour, Wil- 1 son and Cudahy, and their example is 1 followed by packing companies In other t cities. 1 The wage increases were granted as 1 a result of negotiations between the i companies and their plant labor con- 1 ference boards. Whether the increases ? were the full demands of the workers < or were compromises was not stated. 1 The plant boards are established at I all points at which the companies op- 1 erate and they are composed of era- I ployee representatives, half of whom I are chosen by the workers themselves ( and half by the managements. MAXIM LIT VINO V told the League of Nations assembly that Russia still hopes for the establishment of a < permanent peace conference In which I the United States is a participant, for 1 the consolidation of peace movements, i He asked the league council to obtain 1 a report on whether the world disarm- ? ament conference could be resumed I with a possibility of success. ( F HAROLD DUBORD, Democratic * candidate for the senatorship 1 from Maine who was defeated In the 1 election a month ago by Prcderlck 1 Hale, the Republican Incumbent, has announced his intention of contesting the election, charging practices "tanta- 1 mount to fraud.** In a letter to Gov- 1 ernor Brann he charged irregularities ' In voting. Illegal use of absentee bal- ' ' lots and illegui registration ol voters. I October 12, 1934 """"""""""improved ; iniform international Sunday i chool Lesson (By REV I'. B F1TZW ATER. L' P, Member o* Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of ChicftKo ) fl. W'csicrn NewMtam Union Lesson for October 14 HE CHRISTIAN AND HIS BIBLE LESSON TEXT?Acts 8:C5-39. GOLDEN TEXT?o how love 1 thy i\v' It ii? toy meditation all the day. fealm 119:97 I'KIMALY TOPIC?Learning From o?l s Book. JUNIOR TOPIC?An Ethiopian Finds iond News in the Bible. INTERMEDIATE AND.SENIOR TOPIT?Finding Time for Bible Study. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIT? How to Study the Bible. In the conversion of the Ethiopian re not only see the Word of God in elation ?o the salvation of a sinner, ut the Lord's work broadening in :s scope. I. Philip Meeting the Ethiopian (vv. D-29). 1. Leaving the Lord's work by Diine direction (v. 20). The I?rd ailed Phiiip away from a great work b Samaria, ami specifically directed im to this uian. Abrahamlike, he beyed the divine command, not uowing why he should leave the work n Samaria and go into a desert place. >8 he journeyed on by faith, he espied lie state chariot of the Ethiopian reasurer. The Spirit of God directed Im to go near and join himself to the harlot. The tactful question put to he treasurer gained him a seat by the ide of tills dignified officer. The com nission which at first seemed ao unromising was now clear. The way of uun uegins in ooscuriiy, nut it ai rays ends In the clear light. 2. An officer of state reading the tible (vv. 27, 28). The Etliioplan had teen to Jerusalem to worship. Depite his high official position, he was lot ashamed to be a worshiper of God. following after God should not be con idered beneath the dignity of a statesnan. Indeed, the world's greatest tatesmen have been God-fearing men. 3. A providential meeting in the lesert (v. 2D). The coming together ?f these two men was clearly the iredetermined way of God. God knew he road which the eunuch would be raveling, and the time of his passng through Gaza. II. Philip Preaching to the Ethiopian vv. 30-35). 1. The Ethiopian's employment vhile Journeying (v. 30). His occupaion ul the time of this meeting was ending the Word of God. At the in dtation of the Ethiopian, Philip Joined limself to the chariot and found him ending from the fifty-third chapter of isaiah. God will eventually show the vay of life to the one who searches lis Word. 2. The absolute need of an inter ireter (v. 31). The Ethiopian was ending one of the clearest testiinolles to the Messiah in the Old Testa uent, yet he was unable to underitand it. The Ethiopian, a great statesnan, needed an interpreter of the Scriptures. The mind of the natural nun is blind to spiritual things, mak ng the work of an evangelist indispensable. Preaching the Word of God will always be necessary. Valuable as s the Bible in the bunds of men, the ;ouch and influence nf the iivie? **??.? vho has experienced the work of God's saving grace in his own heart Is leeded. 3. Philip's message (vv. 32-35). He >egan at the Scripture which the Ethiopian wns reading, and preached into him Jesus. This shows us that he person represented in the flftyhird chapter of Isaiah as suffering in the stead of others was Jesus Christ nstead of Israel. It shows also that :he central theme of the preacher's nessage should be Jesus. He did not preach Jesus as a great teacher, but is a Saviour who had suffered and lied instead of the sinner. He ireached Jesus as the one who bad offered himself as a ransom for many, [f there is to be a revival, there must pe a return to the preaching of salva:ion through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. III. Philip Baptizing the Ethiopian [vv. 3G-38* As a result of Philip's preaching, the bunuch proposed baptism. When Christ is truly preached, men naturally desire to confess him in baptism. Water baptism is clearly included in :he program of evangelization. The Ethiopian might have offered many excuses as to why he should neglect ii\9 Important ordinance, but, like evsry man who is honest before God, he ivas willing at any cost to render obelience. It is faittx In the finished work of Jesus Christ that saves, but :hose who have a genuine faith desire :o seal it in baptism. IV. The Ethiopian Rejoicing ( . 39). Having understood the way of salration, embraced the Saviour, and renlered obedience to the Word of God, le went on his way rejoicing. Con'esslon of Christ always Issues In Joy Few Women Will I.ook Upon Household Duties as "Monotonous." "Women are best suited for monotonous jobs." That heading to a news div>:itch sent several of our readers up in arms. "Best suited indeed. What they mean is that women did u,e monotonous work that was put upon | them?as long: as they could not help j themselves," writes one ,?f the friends whom we heard fr-\ ' 'fore. The basis for it all was the publication of a report of a I hit ologlst, that women adapt themselves to monotonous w??tk with j greater success than ntra. can best bring themselves to the | daily performance of 111.01 . unus 1 work without losing their interest in 1 life. It is true enough that won. n have for centuries done uncomplainingly ' i the work that was their duty, though 1 it was not always the work t{jey j would have chosen. The reference | is of course to the monotonous ^rind \ 1 of housework, the job of 1 10 and | children. But it seems to me that ] j that is not all tliore is to it. j The question is, are household i I tasks as monotonous to the wife and jj j mother as they seem? Are the routine chores involved always as uninspired and uninspiring as tlicy mav seem to one who looks upon them 1 coldly and impersonally? j The setting to rights of the little | home, the preparation of the meal I the family will enjoy?are these du- * ties trying to a woman of imagination? For my part I should s iy the more imagination, the less trying they are. Kvery job. of eourse, at some time palls, all work has its | good and its less pleasant aspects, Duties which in themselves might he pleasureahle heroine a strain when multiplied beyond the capacity of a single person to cope with them. Hut if the demands upon her are within reasonable limits. I ?an very | well understand a wife and mother with abundant imagination enjoying j the tasks involved in the making of n home and the up bringing of children. It requires imagination on the part of the observer to feel the joyous thrill in the task of making up a lunch for little Bohliy to take to school, to measure the unbounded flights of fancy enjoyed by a mother ' bent over the apparently monotonous job of making a party dress for j her daughter. j Is it that women are suit.-.I to monotony?or that their imagination defeats monotony? Bell Syndicate?WNU S r *. Tomb Centuries Old What is described as a "beautifully-painted tomb nearly fifty cenl turies old'* lias been discovered. The tomb belonged to Tissen, presumably a member of the Council of Tea comprising the executive of the then Egyptian government. The paintings | are In colors so fresh that they look ; nearly new. I -needs mora I .? 9 than cosmetic I i' > M Beauty of skin comes p / from within.\X hencc?- V * ! *ip?rion dogstlx ports I 9 . ri with intestinal *??? _*?*CLEANSE INTER I" fi SAERTLE- 1 naLLY with GuMj K 1 **** ?*,_ 1 Te*. Helps relies* the J[ 1 iHflV 1 dogfedsystepprowPJ- H 1 I iTCHinq SKin I lDherevor i* ocean ca the bodq?I eaar Under or ?mmhpo the parts?flWCl* lq and wfelg relieved bq a Resinol I YOUNG MEN-YOUNG WOMEN 1 iCTSfSffjass&tf&s I MOLER SYSTEM I fi5^WW5St?S.03Sri^?? 1 Writ* for nr m? ioo*Z#t No. *** . ^ |fl MBimil,0|rad*alLRE.M?"
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