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BRISBANE THIS WEEK v Descend Among Bicycles Many Strikes and Worries Two Flags That Clash Two National Hymns This column, like others to fol low, written in Europe, travelin about by autc resent an effoi Havre into world on wheels bicycle "/heels, ohincro frnm th world on automc L yS m. 3 bile wheels lei on the other sid Arthur Brl.bane Qf fte AUantiCHere working men and womei thousands of them, ride to an from work, ten to thirty abreas depending on the width of th street. They have the right of way, proj erly, in a democracy. So it used to be in Americi when automobiles were new, sma boys shouted "Get a horse," an New York state law compelled th automobile driver to stop his ca and engine, while a farm wago passed, if the farmer raised hi hand, or even lead the farm tear past his machine if the farmer r( quested it. Here the car stop! while bicycles circulate around on both sides. Similarly, you stoi later, meeting flocks of sheep, o roads across the salt marshes c the Vendee. France is a land of bicycles, ( many political parties, and, at th moment, a land of strikes. Like a other Earopean countries, it is land of permanent war scare! America looks upon war as a di! tant, improbable possibility, an when it comes spends billions o airships that do not fly, ships tha never go to sea, and similar ev dences of patriotic dollar-a-year e: ficiency. Europe's nations live i a state of fear, as an America family might live if it knew tha at any moment, well-equippe gangsters from next door might er ter? "shoot up" the household an set fire to the house. American travelers leaving th boat by railroad, descending i Paris at the Saint Lazare statior were surprised to find crowds fighi ing each other, not waiting fo Germany, crowds made up entirel of Frenchmen of different politics opinions. Some wore ribbons with the rec white and blue colors of the Frenc flag; others, more numerous, wor the plain color red. One side san the "Marseillaise," national hym of France since the revolutior Others wearing small red flag sang the "Internationale," officia song of the Communists the worl over, from Moscow to Harlerr Crowds grew bigger, the French men sang the two hymns at eacl other, more and more violentlj with excellent voices, not one on of tune, all knowing the words c their respective hymns. The "Mai sellaise" says, "Let us go, chil dren of the fatherland, the day c glory has arrived"; the other says "Arise ye prisoners of starvation arise, ye wretched of the earth." It was a scene never to be de scribed, now that Dooley is dead and Artemus Ward. Nobody both ered the descending foreigner from across the water. A te\ Frenchmen hit other Frenchmen not hard, then agents of th Surete, whom we should call pc licemen, gradually dispersed th crowds, that met and sang at eacJ other again the next day. The, live in the suburbs and work h Paris, or vice versa, and, meetin to the railroad station, it enrage them to encounter those that sin, the wrong hymn and wear th wrong colors. Those singers have chests lik mums, complexions that revea *' VJllf -A , cuuuucas uiiiiuub ui reu turpusuie and voices that could be heard, a! most, from Los Angeles to Sant Monica. One of them broke oil at the sa< word "starvation" and said to you Barrator, who had politely congrai ulated him on his vigor: 'Tene; tatez mon bras, et j'ai soixant sept ans"?meaning, "Here, fe< my muscle, and I am sixty-seve years old." The muscle rose in a biceps lik a small melon. The duty of a visiting foreigne is to observe, describe and nc comment; but this writer, had h accepted the invitation to speak i the American club in Paris receni ly, would have suggested tha the French, whose only earthly poi session is France, should be cart ful not to tear that property apar especially with Germany ready t gather up the pieces. This crosses the water by mai Is not new, and not news, when yo see it Only heaven knows whs might happen in a week. ? Kin* Features syndioMe, lac. WNL Servtec IJ.IjoU) 3klnkd about An Immortal Oration Beverly hills.calif ^ ?The future has a rotter ,. trick of mussing up the judg t ments of the present. What : s pity it is that we can't wear oui hind-sights in front. 0 When I read where som< ponderous performing pachydern ^ of the literary elephant quadrilh says. "This story will live forever,' a I get to thinking about a time-yel . lowed copy of s a metropolitan news j. V jj&M printed on Novem e fe 11 devoted Srea |p m JsjjM gobs of praise anc 1 1 ^0 -.Jos nine solid columns d m very solid?to thf ' eloquence of the e Hon. Edward Ever ett of Massachu j. wm-.aZJKKM setts, who, on the Irvin S. Cob! day before, aftei , months of prepa lj ration had, on a battlefield down ir ft Pennsylvania, spoken two hours ( and turned loose enough oratory tc ,, fill about nine gas balloons. But ol c the subsequent and incidental re IS marks of another man, an awk ? ward, shy man from Illinois, whc had spoken just two minutes, il 5> said, "The President was alsc it heard briefly. The applause was formal and scattering." n ... )f Prejudices of Critics /~\FTEN, 'twould seem, the pro A-r fessional reviewer makes ur il his mind beforehand that he e doesn't like you and behaves ac 11 cordingly. a A friend sent me a clipping frorr 5. a small city?it dealt with the open 5- ing of the picture, "Everybody's d Old Man." The writer was quite n severe in his analysis. He didn" it like the film. Passionately, he i- didn't care for me. f- The joke was that the theatei n where the picture was to nave Deer n shown burned down just about the t, time the paper went to press, anc d the picture wasn't ever shown ir i- j that town. d [ The next best illustration of th< point I'm making dates back years ago. I was discussing various nov e elists with* that gentle wit, the lat< n Oliver Herford. i. "Ollie," I said, "what do yoi t- think of So-and-So's books?" "Mj i dear Cobb," he softly murmured j "something I once wrote about hirr il ?in a critical way?so prejudiced me against the man I could nevei 1, bear to read any of his books." h . ? 6 Self-Anointed Dukes. 8 /"vtJT here we're waiting for tha" n Spanish baron and that Frenci ' count back in New York to forn the mother branch of their Noble s men's club for the protection o 'J holders of genuine titles in Amer ^ ica and, presumably, as a guar u antee to our own home-grown heir l" esses that, when they marry for ^ | eign princelings or what not, the ' | goods will be as described. There'! lt been a lot of title-legging, yoi '' know. As soon as the organteation get: ? started we're going to open the Hoi lywood division. Since only the au ' thentic nobility may qualify, it1! ' figured that the active roster wil be confined to a very limited group The State of the Nation. FAR be it from me to turn alarm ist right on the heels of the hoi v wave, but I feel it my duty to wan my fellow-Americans that this frag e ile and crumbling republic i! h doomed. That is, it's doomed i e you can believe what comes out o: I, our sainted political leaders in th< y way of predictions. a Hark to the quavering chorus g which already has started up: A s crisis exists. Every professiona g crisis-breeder in the land openlj e admits it. I can't remember whei a crisis wasn't existing. But thej come larger in campaign years. Wi 6 are facing a dread emergency j which has had no parallel since th( s last occasion when we faced i I. dread emergency. This very houi a the nation totters on the brink 0 an abyss. It has been tottering evei j since George Washington was Pres T ident?tottering worse at times, bu ^ always on the tot. e Miracles and Misdemeanors. >1 /~\NCE upon an early time then B " was a man so holy that evei the wild creatures would not harn e him. He drew a thorn from th? paw of a tame lion and the grate ful beast followed after him. So hi ,r became a saint ,t Only the other day in a court ii e Tanganyka, which is in Africa, ; it black man?a savage by our defi I. nitions?was on trial. It seemei the lions wen raiding the stock, si 5. the native authorities set traps foi j. them. The accused found a lion ii j one of these traps and made a lad q der and went down and helped thi great brute to escape. Being arrested, he explained sim ply that the lion was his friend. Si u they fined him $12.50. In the oldei lt times it was a miracle. Nowaday it's a misdemeanor. IRVIN S. COBB )?WNU Service. ,0T, SOUTH PORT, N. C? 1 Persons in the C iSI W' ; j - ',/ ? S.-V , iven to a rail head from Pierre, S. D of State William Phillips who is me ce President John N. Garner (right ation of Pan-American highways at 1 Quick Lunch for fi-f mJ y,' fs|| ' President Eduard Benes of Czec King Carol of Rumania when he art of the Little Entente powers. Golden Gate B \ . u ' vX ; :\ .. . v ; ) J W*~ ^^ -jT " ^ Xf s Automobiles will be passing over diet. Th's view shows the center lane largest structure of its kind in the j THE STATE PORT PII Scenes and 1 WJp V |jHV Vt ''WOfyKt l.?? 1?Drouth-stricken cattle being di ! South Dakota. 2?Under Secretary Long, as ambassador to Italy. 3?Vi [ secretary of foreign affairs, at dedici t San Diego Girl Is Selected as | War Vets' Queen | Shapeliness and charm were the two principal attributes which wen the title of "Miss American LeI I gion" for Betty Fulkerson of San . Diego (shown above), when war veterans recently gathered at the California-Pacific International exposition. She will be an honored guest of the Legionnaires during the state convention in Hollywood in August. She is shown holding the trophy she won. ; King Carol Greets Cz . ' ' A brand new grill with cooking i alloy so sensitive to heat that a sir cient fuel for cooking an egg enabl< in the office during rush hours. Phc device at the International Homel Mart in Chicago. echoslovak President hoslovakia was warmly greeted by ived in Bucharest for a conference ridge Approachii : /J**1 ; ' ' '; J S > <\ v *&?:> $*&? ' ?& V ". r ~ "r* the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridj with the floor steel entirely erected o : world, will cost $77,200,000 on con WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1936 Current News for shipment to the eastern part of ntioned as successor to Breckinridge ) and Gen. Eduardo Hay, Mexico's Laredo, Texas. the Stenographer .%^M| I nil n M nil irTmwiwirr n surface of an amazing new aluminum igle folded newspaper provides suffi;s hard-working stenographers to eat ito shows Laurette O'Neill testing the lurnishing show in the Merchandise REPRESENTS LEAGUE Bi Removal of Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner in the free city of Danzig has been I demanded by Dr. Arthur Karl I Greiser, president of the Nazi-controlled Dar.zig senate. tig Completion **ezrr- J&h*, ge by next November, engineers pren the West Bay Crossing. The bridge. npletion. National Topics Interpreted by William ] N'atlonal Press Building ' Washington.?The steel industry of the United States has cast for itself a role in the Labor and forthcoming cam- I Politics pa ign?whether it | ' intended to do so or not. The same is true of John L. Lewis and his segment of organized labor?and it is pretty generally suspected that Mr. Lewis intended to .get labor questions well mixed up in politics. It is all more important because' of President Roosevelt's attack on "economic royalists" in his Philadelphia acceptance speech. Whatever rights the steel industry has or whatever rights Mr. Lewis and his followers have, the fact remains that they are all knee deep in politics and there is every reason to believe that each side will suffer in public esteem as a result. It means simply this: each side is mixing up problems that are basically economic in character with sordid, even unclean, political motives. This outburst is prompted by two things: the gigantic steel industry has taken the position that it will defend itself against encroachment of professional labor leaders like Mr. Lewis and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and their satellites "from any source." The steel industry thereby has thrown down the challenge and now that such a die is cast, the steel industry will be compelled to do a number of indefensible things if it adheres to its program. The same condition is to be observed in the organized labor situation. Whether Mr. Lewis is willing to admit it or not, his declaration that he will foster, even enforce, his scheme for organizing the steel workers is likely to lead to overzealous acts by his followers?and overzealous and foolish acts all too frequently lead to bloodshed. For a number of years, steel companies have refused steadfastly to recognize unSteel Bucks ion labor as rep' ' * Wftfnn+n/I Kw fbo unions "J -7 professional leaders in the American Federation of Labor. They have attempted to defeat the inroads of that organization by forming what is known as company unions, groups of employees on the pay roll of each corporation. They have accorded to these groups the right of collective bargaining and have insisted that they would deal only with the representatives of the company unions for the reason that they believe they then are dealing with the employees concerned with question:, of pay and working conditions in that particular plant. If the national unions were recognized, officials of a given company always have had to negotiate with the expert union negotiators who are paid by the na- , tional organization. The results have not always been happy. This combination of circumstances, together with a disposition on the part of the steel companies, I am afraid, to be rather selfish in their attitude toward labor has developed a continuing controversy that has raged over the last score of years. It happened that the rather insolent announcement of the steel companies, their challenge, came almost simultaneously with the delivery of President Roosevelt's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for re-election. It was in this speech, it will be remembered, where Mr. Roosevelt denounced "economic royalists," in which he resorted to expressions bound to create class hatred and in which he used language that is certainly going to help discredit corporations which are large enough to attract national attention. Of course, I know that Mr. Roosevelt did not have the steel industry particularly in mind in his assault on massed capital but the effect is the same as though he had been shooting directly at the steel industry because of the coinci ucuwc ixiciiuonea aDOVe. The tragedy of the thing is that the professional labor leaders are going to use the steel industry's challenge politically; they are certain to attempt tc. gain government interference in their quarrel with the steel industry and, like all such conflicts, fairness on the part of either side to the controversy is likely to disappear because of the political mixture. From all of the inside discussions that I have heard, it appears that the issue between The Real the steel industry Issue and its workers is no longer simply whether the steel industry shall be unionized. It is a question of how it shall be unionized. In addition to this, Mr. Lewis has been chiseling away for several years in promoting his labor union idea of organizing all workers in one unit instead of the craft union idea that is basic in the American Federation of Labor. That is to say, Mr. Lewis proposes to have a steel union or a shipbuilding union or a textile union instead of organizing the workers in accordance with the particular jobs they do, whether Bruckart Washington, D. C. | they be engineers. Pa:n..T? I penters, moulders or an? B i the various other cr Since the steel industry t. I company unions, there ;s viction in many our ners -slB Lewis might well pi 0 t0^jH whether this is the time forward his program o! steel workers und r r,ati0ri-i^^B union control. There are tho;; ' believe that the eventually will become units larger labor structure of the try and, if that t true, it to appear that Mr. Lewis labor's cause. On the other hand, the dustry already is under the government. Mr. suddenly "cracked down" of the major companies te'J charging them witn colluj^B bids on government wort came out with this charge >B time which undoubtedly wm rJH the backbone of the union iB tors?and it is not unlikely tfeB the same token he has st*B the resistance which the steel B panies will use. Yet, it does seem that the B companies made a fatal the pronouncement they h;( sued. There are too many who will be inclined to belie-.VB the steel companies have taittB vantage of an apparent assur^^^B of collapse of federal superr^B There are few who believe that^^B federal compulsory collective gaining statute will last very ]B dux uie laci uiai xnis slate M due for the discard, it seeniifl me, hardly warrants the J-fl which the steel companies nfl taken. They are no more tfl ranted in that than union labgH warranted in taking advantage I the political situation to lea)fl their own nest. A real datge^H addition to this, is that CommjM agitators are going to use thissH ation as one vehicle lor spre^H their propaganda of dissatisfaci^H and discontent and Mr. F.oosetgH attack on massed capital unliqH nately lends itself to the nelaii^| schemes of the Reds. til It long has been said tkatlH method of administering laws fcH quently has Tax Law ed more disafl Irritation faction amocgfl citizens thu requirements of laws themsehiH Tax laws of whatever kind a splendid example. It has altgl been true since we have hadiH come tax laws that taxpa?^| have complained more about reaucratic regulation, indecia^H lack of uniformity in admaisaH tion and, generally speaking. sioH processes of settlement than the amount they were required pay. The same is true about oH customs laws despite the fact hH they affect fewer persons direct)? H The other day, the Treasury sued a notice to customs inspectu^H that was "effective immediate!?* It was a change in policy respd^H ing the quantity of goods an udH vidual may bring in from loregH shores without the payment o! customs tax. Since 1798 or thereabouts. tte^H has been a law which permittedH 1 returning American to bring commodities of whatever kindd^H desired, except narcotics, up<H $100 in value but tha; law pemJ^H ted the Treasury to make exj* tions. The Treasury notice the er day was an announcement d* an exception to this $100 exeeM tion. It said that no inbounc tnj^H eler could carry more than lM wine gallon of liquor without payment of the customs tax tluftH on. A practice had sprung up sittl the import duty on liquors has bAH m ade so high of returning tounSB bringing in almost the full exeO^H tion in liquor alone. Probably practice was getting very bad a?H no one questions the judgment the Treasury in determining P? jig cy. But it is the method empl^^B in making this change that aroused criticism. In ordering the new reguW?B immpdiatelv," the TreP^^ ury forced upon hundreds o elers the necessity for paying ^H on their persona! stocks of IifljM in what amounts to a sun -'?* *1 der. They had left foreign under one regulation and arrive der another. ^B I have no doubt at all that Treasury's reason for changinf rule while the game was k:tH played will result in a consid?|*B amount of revenue f t ' ' c ment But there are many believe, as I do, tha: vie cei^^B ment in all fairness should have sued its regulation to became efl*M tive at some fixed date in the ture in order that citizens who comply with it would be prep^^H by proper notification of whatJ?M were expected to do and the ties for failure to obey. H The incident to which 1 have ferred is an outs tana.:.-' exa?P?^S of inconsideration and such thw* always cause citizens to hart hurt feeling, a feeling that the (? ernment changeu the rules consulting those who must obey rules. <?) Western Newspaper Union.
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