I. sESHSGSEy CARTER Washington, Holding back, a threatened epidemic Of strikes un- V tU onion labor leaders can get what - ,' taey want' In , Washington In the , way of legislation u proving aim- ' i ' eult taak for William Green, preai 'dent of the American Federation of , ' Xabor, and his lieutenants. In As "f ' ron the rubber company employees ;, ' are chafing at the bit So It la In t 1 hundred other lines. John' It. Lewis, president of the , United Mine Workers, has less dlffl- . " "' eulty with his onion. He wants, as Green does, to bold back the strikes, ,6nt D0 get the obvious goal of June 18, which Is the date the law creat- ' fog NBA expires. -v'"""; " Green, Lewis and an their friends 'here have the same object If the - idmlnlstratlon proves too lukewarm on the things they want, tbey can day the pending strike situation on ,( fthe White House doorstep. Preel - dent Roosevelt win then bo faced with the apparent alternative of giving In, or of precipitating so many strikes that a terrific blow .will be dealt returning prosperity. The Importance of this to the President can be realized only, by examining the political prospects. Next year the President, all of the house, and a third of the senate ' come up for re-election. In short, - the New Deal goes on trial before . , ' the country. Already there Is the V serious threat of a third party, 4 growing out of the doctrines being (preached over the radio by Hney ' Long, Father Coughlln, etc. The '' " ' President is perfectly familiar with ' ,thls. bnt relies on attracting enough conservative! to his own support , to win, and win easily. Bat attracting these conservatives la a precarious undertaking. The , 'old line Republicans do not think ho can do It That Is why they have- been sprucing p lately. The only question to date has been: will the radicals scare the conserva tives enough to turn them to Roose velt for safety? One i answer to this question Is: . - not ' unless Roosevelt shows the country that he Is really leading It back to prosperity. Otherwise the conservatives would not pat their ' trust in him, bat would rely on vot ing for some Republican. Which would mean that the radicals, with drawing so much of Roosevelt's sap port, woald seriously Jeopardise . Roosevelt's chances. Economic Menace 1 So that this threat of a strike epidemic Is more than an economic menace. It is a political buga boo of darkest shade; -And no one better then F. D. B. appreciates it ' J Which explains why shrewd ob servers in Washington are not writ tag off the Wagner labor relations bill as sure to die why they are not certain the 30-hour week bill will not be compromised (ssy at 36 or 38 hoars), snd why there Is so much uncertainty about NBA. Union labor officials would rath er have the Wagner bill than a 'continuance of NBA. Down In their hearts, but most confidentially, they -would far rather have the Wagner , bill, than the 30-hour weekeven : without compromise. The answer to both Is simple, but you cannot confirm the second In public. As to preferring the Wagner bill to NBA, the Wagner bill wonld be permanent legisla- ,Uon. As to preferring it to the 30- hour week, the Wagner measure tleaves more to be done by union 'officials, whereas the 30-honr week leaves less appeal to unorganized .workers to Join labor unions and be gin psylng dues. , NBA snd the 30-hour week to gether move directly toward an ultimate goal which wonld sharply " icurtall the power. Influence, need for perquisites of onion labor lead ers..; The government would step In and perform most of their func tions. It would gain for the work- . rs what the unions now have to ' algbt with private industry to at- ' jtain. And union labor leaders an very human. They like their Jobs and their power and want to keep ' them. Hits Export Trade - ; Great Britain's highly successful drive to compel Poland and other - European countries to buy more jBrltlsb goods, if Britain Is going ; to continue buying theirs, has '- played hob with prospects for Amer ican export trade. So - has Italy's ' " setting up of an "Amtorg" called the National Institute for Foreign ' Trade which Is to handle all Im ports and exports for' that country. - This government will beyond doubt . . denounce " Its commercial treaties with Italy, Portugal, Den mark and Poland In the near fn , tare. , - Secretary of State Cordell '.Hall, father of . reciprocal - trade agreements as a. mean of lowering economic barriers, has been reluct antly forced to this position.'; -The action would nave been taken al ready had it not been-for the dell- ' , rate situation In Europe caused by the war talk. There la no real hope that any negotiations short of the strong arm methods of treaty de- ' nunclatloo will lead to results. - One of the effects of , discrimlns i tlons against American goods In Eu hope has been to boost the stock of Gnrti R. rc ':, who stands for al i List au' tic abo land In reluctv slon t me " As i w! ' , me t i .. . iae Chrys en; , enthuslas- .1 t .o until Po- . jota system, hava a to the conclo j t'JO forthright Peek i accomplish anything. i the : wbeela within s Chrysler situation U sstlne. Chrysler has' en- Joyed very profitable market la Poland, selling many American cars there. Now Poland, under pressure from Great Britain, has Instituted a quota system, which win cut auto Imports from America to the bono. But this does not hurt General Motors, or Ford, anything like as much. Both have factories la Euro pean, countries, which are not hurt tl. ,1.. MM ' ' -Vf ' - ' Orf- American Labor Loses ' Bat every General Motors car sold In moat European countries. Instead of a Chrysler,.' deprives American workmen of Just so much - labor. For example,' in Its. factory In Bel gium, General Motors,' building the Opel car, uses European made mo tors and European ' made tires. Whereas the Chrysler plant In Ant. werp Is really more, a warehouse than a factory. ' All American parts are w'ty;h4' Moreover, the purchase of Euro pean made parts la not all. The reciprocal treaty with Belgium pro vides for a much ' greater-reduction la the tariff on porta than the tariff on cars. x c ' Bat the Italian situation la even more serious, within a few weeks her new restrictions will , bar all American wheat and tobacco, and will limit to 25 per cent of 1934 figures Import of American autoa. The restriction to one-fourth of last year's Imports applies to 200 differ ent products I J ,-,' i ' f On Italy's part thla la at once an attempt to adjust her long endur ing unfavorable' balance of .trade, and an attempt to stimulate domes-.. tic production, But; even' 1934 ex ports from America to Italy were not big. They represented a very lean year for most American ex porters, The restriction on cotton is expected to have repercussions aU through the South. Meanwhile Italy hopes either to Increase the output of her Fiat and other anto factories, or to encourage all Amer ican manufacturers of cars to es tablish branch factories In Italy. Either of which would provide work for Italians. . v . Wheat Is In a different category. Formerly the United States shipped about 80,000,000 bushels of wheat a year to Italy.-. With the boosting of the tariff on wheat to protect Amer ican farmers, from, bard Canadian wheat ' Canada aimply took over this market' Annoys White House White House irritation against the radio companies, for permitting Huey Long to get so much free time. Is growing pretty hot Bat It is not easy to make the case. To pat it clearly and simply wonld lay the White House open to a charge of attempted censorship, and give Senator Schall of Minnesota more to talk about That was irritating enough at tlie time. . .. . . Bnt the fact Is that Huey's at tacks bsve been snnoylng the ad ministration, from the - President . down, more than' sny other one thing. ..-It Is not really" the Imme diate political prospect of a third party, at all It Is Just plain an noyance, v The political situation, from the administration standpoint. Is fine. If Huey succeeds In stirring up a radical third party, the President, moving slightly to the right, will simply annex what Is left of the old Republican party's conservative wing. Roosevelt's re-election would be as sure as was Hoover's defeat last time, or inore : accurately, ' a Taffa defeat -waa in 1912. t. -.'.-- Moreover, the Republicans have played the . Huey - Long-Father Coughlln game' ; ; They nave ; been honing these malcontents would get somewhere. They have thought that only In a split of the President's following could ; any . Bepubllcan have a chance. But a radical Dem ocrat, garnering Democratic votes here and there, would or at least might elect a Bepabttcan.""-' ' Thla phase of It waa au right. with the WMte House. , t . Too Much Free Time : Now what burmrnp the adminis tration Is that Long has been get ting most of his time over the radio for nothing.-' The - radio companies do not like this. They are very un easy about it They know that both Long and Father Coughlln are-tremendous drawing cards over , the radio. But tbey do not like ' the Idea of giving away time to some one who Win produce Irritation at the White House. , It may ; spell trouble for them In other ways. They would much prefer S to . cot them, off altogether.;' ; ; But they had agreed, some time back, 'to give a certain amount of time to discussions of. public ques tions, on the theory that such use of radio-time was educational. In the best Interest of the country, and a generous contribution by a pros perous business to general welfare. , Tbey did not originate this atti tude, t was virtually forced on them. Partly by the radio commis sion and pnrOy by senators and memlA'i'S of tlie house. '.-' ' ' Coorrlht. WND Strrlo - V V By ELMO SCOTT WATSON - trr In California -American enter prise,' American daring and Amer ican engineering and .construction akin are moving forward toward a new triumph which, wul reach Its culmination In January, 1937, when the greatest, bridge In the whole world win be thrown open to traffic. To be strictly accurate, one should aay "the two greatest bridges In the world,? tor there are two proj ects under way at the aamo time in the Saa Francisco bay region and each has cer tain characteristics which make them pre-eminent, among each mas-made structures. It all depends upon what one means by "greatest." If by "greatest" yon mean "largest" and "long est," then It's the San Francisco-Oakland Bay brill vonll h talklnir about. It will be eleht and one-fourth miles long, almost three times as long as the present world's largest and longest bridge, that over the Firth of Forth In Scotland. If by "greatest" yon mean the "longest suspen sion bridge"' and the "highest bridge," -then youm be talking snout the Goldea'Gate bridge. the 44100-foot length of whose main span makes It the world's outstanding suspension bridge and whoso 750-foot towers make them the highest and largest bridge towers ever erected, ISO feet high er than those of the George Washington bridge across the Hudson iirvr.'-j;'-v 't?:' a eiuier cue it is uupoasuue w wi iu these bridges without dealing in superlatives, for each has la one way or another exceeded all previous records as to slse and, taken together, the two projects establish a record which prob ably will not be exceeded for centuries. They are man-made marvels on a scale so colossal as almost to defy ' description. The ' statistics alone are Imposing enough bnt to make them understandable to anyone who la not an engineer It Ir necessary to give some each comparisons as these; ' t ' M ir-" i tuv . mmw. bridge they are using 80,000,000 board feet of lumber. Do yon know how much that is? Well, it's enough to build 8,000 five-room houses, or all the houses In a town of 15,000 people. Have yon ever seen the city hall in Los An- gelest or the Buss handing In San Francisco or the I C Smith, building in Seattle? The. con crete and steel In this bridge would make 89 such bondings as any of those three.' It would probably be difficult for yon to vis ualise 18,500 tons of cable wires, But If you're told that the cable wire need in the -bridge Is long enough. If laid end to end, to encircle the earth nearly three times yoa'U get some Idea of how much wire la going Into that bridge. And the cable wire Is only a smsll part of the metal that's beta need. The structural steeL reinforc ing steel and cable wire necessary for the bridge win take 8.7 per cent of the entire steel output of the United States In the year 1933. ' You've seen 60-story skyscrapers? Well, each Individual tower of the bridge, standing more than 700 feet high from the base of Its pier on the floor of the bay to Its tip, represents a con struction Job ths equivalent - of such a , sky- rcraper. , ( j t , . ,v j . , . So much for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge. Now for some comparative figures on the colossus which will spaa the famous Golden Gate through which rushed the gold-mad argo nauts Of 1849. Ci,, .XiH !,f Ifs not nearly' so long as the other one but because ifs the world's largest suspension bridge, they had to do a lot of digging and building to support the tremendous weight of its 430-foot (that's more than three-quarters of a mile, yon know 1) span.' Jj ??-H:'- Imagine a tunnel 10 feet high, 10 feet wide and 20 mUes long. That was the total excava tion for the Golden Gate bridge.' a'.-avO' If all the cement that will be used In it were to be delivered In barrels In the ol-fashloned wsy snd these barrels we're stacked one . on top of another, they wonld make a pile 110 miles high. Or, to put It another way. If aU, this, con crete were nsed to lay a sidewalk yon and1 two of your friends could walk abreast on that aide walk an the way from San Francisco to New Tork, for It would be five feet wide and 8,186 miles long.". :,v v-. ? "';Pr. 'St-kty . Toa've been on top' of .a 22-story building? Bemember how small the people looked on the street down below? If you drive your automobile across the Golden Gate bridge in 1937 aqd look down at the people In the boat passing under the bridge, they'U look Just aa small. ; V And speaking of automobiles over the six lane roadway of the bridge there could pass a string of autonjoblies reaching from the Oregon Una to the Mexican border and moving at the rate of 22 miles an hour. (Sounds like a good place for a 8unday afternoon drive If you want to avoid traffic congestion,' doesn't It?) C And bo matter how many automobiles were on the . bridge at one time, there's not much danger of the two cables which support It break ing and letting you drop down Into the water below. Ton see, each one Is 86 Inches In diam eter and weighs 11,500 tons. There are 27,572 separate wires In each one end if aU the wires were laid end to end they would reach 80,000 mlleeweU over three times around the world. Yes, the Golden Gate bridge is LARGE and so Is the 8an Francisco-Oakland Eay bridge. ..In fact, the latter Is composed of two enormous structures " H longer than I'.-v York city's ride, t' 9 C Z9 Was!t'rv--4 t ' ' i serosa the .'J .Li.. - - VI'' t': .r1 r. I ss si ii sw - --j. ? ;i''ivrfei';'fei''4 i a.ri.i nhatfiaraoh of San Francisco bay with an architect's drawing of ths 8sn Frsnelseo-Oak-b hrldM drawn to seals' upon It San Francisco is In the foreground, Yerba Buena Is land In ths center to the left and Oakland in we background."' ' - i a Canatruetlen work on the Golden Oats bridge. Looking from Toll Plaza north (San Francisco aide) this picture shows: construction of pylons S-1 snd S-2; south pier and fender wall completed 1,125 feet from the shore at Fort point; 8 an Francisco tower construction, now 280 feet above the water with about 8,000 tone or ateei in position and SO per osiit completed. Across the waters of the Golden Gate can be seen the com pleted Marin tower standing 750 feet above the water. The hills In the background belong to Marin county. Thla tower Is located at Urns point :r'('i-A,:-fJ-i''i 3. The Golden Gate bridge as It will look when completed In 1937. San Francisco and the metro politan area In the background. , .;.' , v . 4. The last leg on the Marin tower, looking up to Its great height of 750 feet The steel supports at Its side are for sidewalks which will be 290 feet above the water.. . . t . Hudson. It Is a combination suspension ' bridge between Blncon hill In San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island out In the middle of the bay and' a cantilever bridge between the Island and Oak-. land, Yerba Buena Island win be crossed through the largest vehicular tunnel In the world, the bore being 76 feet wide and 68 feet high. The Bay bridge proper, including the island crossing, wlU. be approximately four' and one half miles long but Its total length from the end of the . western approach to the end of the eastern approach -will be eight and one-fourth miles long. The bridge will bo a double-deck structure with six lanes of automobile traffic on the. upper deck and three lanes of trucks, plus two lnterurban-tracks on the-lower deck, j The building of this bridge Involved some of the moat difficult -engineering problems ever at tempted Jty roan, Never before has a bridge been reared above piers which were sank, by the caisson method from the surface of the water down through both mud and water to rock bot tom, sight unseen. Never before hsve suspen sion towers reared themselves ("lifted by their own ' boot-straps,", one. might say) ' until their hollow steel frames rose 605 feet above the wa ter and. their concrete bases sank in some cases 235 feet; below water leveL'?:X'i'';.i''.',rrti: No other bridge yet built has called for so many piers, 61 In number.- In fact, It Was the belief for more than half a century that lack of adequate foundations In the bay for piers, as well as the impossibility of Stretching a span from Yerba Buena to . San Francisco, would pre vent the bay from, being bridged. . But in 1929 a survey of the- bottom of the bay, directed by state engineers, revealed at high ridge of bed rock extending between San Francisco and the Island which would provide a foundation at higher levels .than surrounding ; bedrock and make a practicable route. The water along this route Is from SO to 106 feet deep and bedrock lies from 100 to 200 feet below the mud. on the bottom of the Ny.W.':V Mv?-4 a-- So the most serious problem wss the work below the water, level and the building of the live major,' piers between the Island " and: San Francisco. Because of the depth of the water and the mad, "sand-hogs" ss underwater labor ers -are called' who Work in pressure chambers to clear away the mud to the rock bottom, could not be used. The solution of the problem was in a compressed air-flotatlon caisson method which enabled the bridge builders for the first time to construct their' piers-from the surface of the water down, using the Jaws of huge clamshell backets Instead of men to do the excavating. Each caisson consists of a cluster, of huge steel tubes 15 feet in diameter, held, together by an outer casing. Compressed sir made the caisson buoyant as It was towed Into place and an chored.' In the apace between the tubes, con crete was' poured, forming an . enormous box something like an egg carton,! except that the openings were round. Each tube was sealed with an airtight cap. 'The concrete poured around the tubes caused the caisson to sink slowly rod as It sank additional lengths were added to thd tubes and more concrete poured around them. When the bottom of the caisson sank to the mud In the bottom of the bay, a steel cutting edge pushed down through the mud. The caps were cut off the tubes and dredge buckets were dropped down through, them to scoop out the mud below the caisson. Gradually each caisson was worked down through the mud to rock bot tom, 1 1 one Ciwe 235 feet below the surface of the Y-" r. Thus the piifi were liillfc ;. . JTftMPfl4 on to. orCAbiiT" Another problem was the two-mile suspension between San Francisco and Terba Buena which had been deemed impossible. 8o the engineers decided upon two suspension spans In tandem. anchored In the middle of the bay -to a gigantic pier. It U 197 feet long (nearly 60 yards) by 92 feet, wide and rises 60S feet from the rock bottomof the bay, nearly twice as large as the biggest Skyscraper In San Francisco, Since the ktwo spans are anchored to this, tbey actually pall against each other. The San Francisco anchor- ago la a huge mass of concrete containing 68,- 000 cubic ards of cement v, , '. ;i J -. i. rt In spuming the cables tne entire tu.ow mues of cable are pulled in place by shuttle wheels which, ron over the towers aU the way from San Francisco-to the concrete center anchorage on the west, suspension bridge and from the center anchorage to Yerba Buena on ..the east suspension' bridge. Spinning the; cables is by far the most protracted Job on the bridge and win require a year. Each piece of wire, in the cable Is approximately two miles long.. A total of . 84,908 strands must be drawn over .the sus pension towers. Each cable win exert a puU of. 38,000,000 pounds against Its anchorage in San Francisco and Terba Bnena Jalan&.SKYi Just as the building of the Bay bridge pre; sonts knotty problems , to be solved, so does the building of the Golden Gate bridge bring up dif ficulties never before encountered In such work. Outstanding among these were the great length of .the suspension span, more than twice that of any previously, attempted and the difficulty of erecting : a foundation for the tower to support the', south ' span because of the depth of the water end the swirling of the tide in the open ocean waters at . the Qolden Gate,, s" But 100 feet offshore at a depth of loo feet an adequate foundation formation, was discov ered although the water here Is constantly tur bulent because of the seven-mile-an-hour" tide which constanUy sweeps in and out through the Golden Gate. ,At times breakers' 20 feet, high crash over this point First It was necessary to level off the site for this pier by blasting rock over an area of approximately ; an acre under water, after which the rock was dredged np, carried out and dumped In the sea. ; .i (C;j. Construction of the pier, the first ever attempt ed in the open ocean swept by the tides, was made possible only by tne erecuon or a giant concrete, fender, 750 feet 'In circumference, around the pier site, an original idea never be fore trled'This fender is being built in sections. First a huge steel box is lowered into flace on the bottom, after which it is bolted to adjoining boxes by deep-sea ' divers, working in ; complete darkness. Then concrete Is poured into the boxes, Gradually the structure Is built up until Its top. rim Is fifteen feet above high .water. The east wau ot tne render m omittea . aoove eievauon until the enormous aUson, to be sunk and filled with concrete for the pier Itself, Is floated Into place inside the fender. Then the fender will, be completed, and. the builders will have quiet water unaffected by tides Inside the fender In which to complete the pier. The fender will serve as a permanent protection to the pier when the bridge Is completed. ' " v ' .: Meantime, the Marin tower, built on solid rock above the water line, was completed ahead of program. Its slender steel columns rise above a foundation of concrete, embedded in the rock. The tower Is of cellular steel construction, the Inside being a veritable labyrinth of chambers In which even the designer could be lost without bis charts.' . Steel ladders .connect the hundreds of chambers from the foundation to the top of the tower, 748 feet high. ' r. : ' K'1' The twin anchorage blocks which support the weight of the world's longest suspension span are enormous solid concrete masses, weighing 64,000 tons each, so constructed that they push against solid rock when supporting the cables. The cable pull at each anchorage Is 63,000,000 pounds, but the anchorage block has a resistance sufficient to support two Golden Gate bridges. Retween the piers and the anchorage blocks are supporting pylons f r the e !;! s and the bridge. Airplanes of the i sembie winged roelu , to M. Louis Breguet, the 1 plane constructor, Ti -. merclal planes, . be--say, a heavy wing, loading T pounds per square foot, v. Increasing the lift cons: and ground brakes, and r and light engines moderaU y i charged. There will be a use of altitudes of -fights i. ceedlng 13.000 feet The r also will have comfortable t heated, and when necessary, t -piled with oxygen. t Week's Supply of Postuo I . i i Bead the offer made by the r i Company In another part of th j j per, They will send a fuU week's f -ply of health giving Postum fwe U anyone who writes for It Adv. ," ' Atricvltnre DispUcedl Agriculture, long the leading em ployer In Florida,. now ranks In f ond place because of the expan a of manufacturing and mechanical In dustries, reports the University cf Florida. i - - 'you cw o::ly what you plant All tLe sunshine, good soil, fertilizer and cultivation in . the world won't help poor seeds produce big, tender, flavorsome vegetables. The' quality must be in the seed. 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