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operators through these same in quiries by congress. And always, during the work of the committee, there have been tremendous attacks from the conservative city press. In which tiro things always appear; one la the rldlcnle of the members of the committee, especially tboae elected from a rural constituency; second, the claim that the constitu tional rights of the people are threatened by them probing aetiv ltles of congress. Actually, these Investigations are the only powerful thing congress has-to restrain those tremendous groups which in' themselves consti tute a superpower above the gov ernment And, as I have said pre viously, the moot powerful and moat dangerous to popular government at the moment la the power trust Roosevelt pledged his administra tion to put a muzzle on that giant so It Is odd to hear the giant’s law yers and politicians elalm that the New Peal has forgotten pledges, • • -• ? CASK OF BRECKENRIDGE I think 1 see some connection be tween these corporations and the activities of a man who ought to know better. Cot Henry-Bracken* ridge, who- was assistant secretary of war In the Wilson cabinet when Franklin- Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy, Is now at tempting to ran as a candidate for nomination for the Presidency on the' Democratic ticket. Brecken ridge was a promising youth- In Kentucky when he stumped that state for Woodrow Wilson and helped to carry it Breckenridge was a great progressive Democrat at that time, but after he bad tasted Washington life and went over to New York to become a Wall Street lawyer, he fell off his pro gressive horse with a complete frac ture of hla entire political system. He is. now a complete munition trust fixture. The thing that may have started Breckenridge running for the nomi nation against Roosevelt Is the fact that Colonel Lindbergh employed Colonel Breckenridge-as an attor ney. Some' of the Democrats here recall that he was In the newspaper headlines for weeks at a time, and they think that he was bitten by the publicity bug. I am sorry Henry Breckenridge Is doing this thing. • * • RETURN TO FOLD Breckenridge la a symbol of the sort of thing that former Gov. Al fred E. Smith hoped for when he threatened to "take a walk” should the Democratic convention endorse the Roosevelt administration. In cidentally, New Dealers here are saying it la natural for A1 to prom ise to walk after the disastrous ex perience be had when he tried run ning. Seriously, though, there Is no rash of leaders to get out of the Roosevelt column. In fact it Is all the other way. Here In the East where there was reasonable expec tancy of some Democratic defec tions, there la a marked effort to come back Into the party. The strongest and most consistent anti Roosevelt Democrat In the senate Is probably Millard Tydlngs of Mary land. Senator -Tydlngs has ham mered the New Deal on practically every Issue; and yet, when It came to make a choice he stood up at a great meeting In Baltimore and de clared dilmsel^ In the Roosevelt-, col umn. He would not go to the Dem ocratic nominating convention In Philadelphia and vote against Roosevelt His outward and spoken excuse was that while he criticized the New Deal, he feels sure that any Republican - would be much worse. But the real reason was that the political leaders of the New Deal took the fight right to him, as it will be taken to every one elaei If there la going to be any walking away from Roosevelt let it fie done now. When confronted with the al ternatives,-the anti-Roosevelt Demo cratic leaders refuse to capitulate In favor of the Liberty league The same attitude that Senator Tydlngs had could be observed In a some what slighter degree In Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia. • - - RAILROADS IN BAD FIX F«* people tc^Use the tad finan cial llx of the railroads. Some of the best ones are making money, but tbe entire railroad bos In ess has suffered six tad. years. Six years ago the railroad *tneome was around seven billion dollars.. Last year it was around four billions. -The roads have cut expenses, but as a whole the railroad industry lacks a billion dollar* of making a profit. . This administration Is trying, to carry out, a plan through which ' many competing lines would be merged and many economies effect-1 ed. Some progress has been made,1 bat the plan stops dead still when it comes to saving money by dis charging too many railroad em ployees. Neither the President nor the railroad labor unions will stand Now comes the Interstate Com . “Death Rides the Waves” By FLOYD QIBBON8 Famous Headline Hunter. r\ID you .ever, notice, boys and girls, that in all the stories you read about shipwrecks and storms at sea you never seem to hear anything about the fellows who get the worst of it? I mean the boys down below decks in the engine room. Harry Helgesen of Brooklyn, N, Y., tells ns about what the “black tang” is np against In a storm at sea. He ought to know, too. Harry If a licensed marine engineer In steam and Diesel. Harry's big thrill earns when he waa assistant engineer on the auxiliary steam yacht Ulvira on a hard luck cruise In the Atlantic. The cruise started from Brooklyn for southern waters on February 8, 1934, but they never got very'far south." The bad luck started the very first day, Harry says, when the ship ^ grounded on Roamer'a shoals In the channel. 'The crew of ama teur and professional sailors' finally got her afloat again and the ship came back to port and went Into drydock for Inspection. The hull was found O. K. but they had lost a couple of, days. When the Sea Kicks Up There Really Is a Mess. The next start was made In a snow flurry and everything went' fine until they got to the open sea. . Once there the sails were run up and the engines cut off. Down In the engine room the “black gang’’ was get ting things ship-shape Now when an auxiliary yacht IS. under sail things are generally-easy for the boys under decks, but just as they were about to bank the fires, Harry says, the chief mate came down and said they were In for “a bit of a blow.” And a “bit of a blow” was putting It mildly. Wbamta storm from the north Stepped the Ulvira with a broadside that nearly turned her over. In a second all was busy as a beehive In the engine room. “Full steam ahead” came the order from the bridge, and Harry and his gang went Into action. Death Signs on the Ulvira's Cruise. Harry ran up on deck to get the smoke .stack hoisted. The stack had been let down when the sails were run up and they needed more draft. On deck all waa confusion. A boom had . snapped under the strain of the gale and the sail and boom were hanging over the side and Ihto the wataP like'af'Sep anchor. And that wasn't all. Hubert Kuechenmelster, a young Northwestern university student and amateur sailor, had been swept overboard. The huge waves.breaklng over the rail made rescue impossible. Death had signed on the cruise of the Ulvira I Harry got his stack up and hurried down the ladder to his station. What be had seen on deck wasn’t very encouraging, but his Job was below decks, and he went to it Those engines bad to get going or the boat and all on it would be lost The engine room by now was a mesa. The boat was pitching heavily, Harry says, and the huge seas shipped at each pitch started,coming down through the bunker plates, hatches and deck houses and filling the bilgee with water. *We started the pumps,” Harry writes, “but the ashes stirred up by the water kept dogging the straipesr and the water kept rising. The engines *were going full blast but we didn’t know how long that would The Water Kept Rising Toward the Fire. keep up. The boiler plates started leaking from the forcing they were getting and the water in the hold was up to the engine cranks. As soon as the water reached the fires we were through.” And the water kept rising. It was swishing across the floor like it does In a ship’s, pool on a rough day. Anything that floated became a menace as It sailed back and forth at breakneck speed with the action of the ship. In all this dirty water full of ashes and debris, Harry and a fireman spent an hoar “diving.” Diving In an engine room means going nnder the water to free the strainer from the debris drawn in by the suction of the pnmpe. How Would You Like to Dive Into Slimy Water? last imagine diving in that slimy water wondering if you were going to be swept up against the boilers and scalded to death! Up on deck another fight was going on against the elements as the ship reeled nnder the shocks of the gigantic waves, but onr story is below decks and below decks we stay. Tha four men In the black gang fought the advancing water for 24 long hours without relief. Once the captain came down and asked If they wanted more men, but the chief engineer knew that a greenhorn would only he in the way and asked for a bottle of rum Instead. The ram came down and Harry says it saved the lives of everybody on that ship. The ram gave the exhausted men new life and for the next two hoars they worked like madmen. The high point of the water was only eight Inches from the boilers. Another Inch and it would be the boats, and the boats could never live In a sea like that But that extra Inch never came. Instead, the four men watch ing the water In the ash pits suddenly let up a weak ch'eer. The water had stopped! Tha pumps were at last holding their own! After Death’* Vigil the Black Gang Got Hungry. Well, sir, the gang realised then that they were hungry. Harry climbed perilously np the ladder to the deck to search for food. The galley was a watersoafced mixture of food-stuffs and kitchen utensils that slid back and forth across the floor with every movement of the ship. The ship's cook, was gone seasick. And the galley fires were long since dead. * But that black gang had to rat so Harry fished up a side of bacon «nd finding some egg* unbroken In the Ice box he managed to snare a frying pan and carried his prises down the ladder again. The U. 8. Coast Guard to the Rescue! Two man braced hlr then as he held the frying pan over a shovel full or live coals. Harry admits It was the best meal he aver tasted In hie life. He admits, though, that he has had bet ter service. They picked the food out of the pan with their hands and had coat dust foe salt and pepper—but it tasted swell. ' Then came the coaft guard and towed the disabled yacht Into Nor folk. Y*-» end the mid-winter, bard-tack cruise of the Ulvlra was history. ■ e-^WlCU Service. Tall Tales $ As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN mid ELMO SCOTT WATSON ■ ■ I. | . | » • »♦.»,. .. The Faithful Crutches OST people know about theloy alty of dogs and other dumb animals that serve mankind, but they do not realise that Inanimate things are frequently just as faith ful. So says Herbert Sharpies of Montreal, Que., who tells this story of the faithful crutches. One day he saw a traveling docto: in the market place offering for sale a marvelous salve which, he claimed, would cure all Ills. One of the first purchasers was a man whose legs were so shriveled and twUted that he had to use crutches to get along. One minute and eight seconds after he had rubbed some of tbe salve on his legs they were' so straight and strong that he cast away his crutches and started to walk' bome without them. * The doctor, having no use for the salve left in the box by the man, and noticing that the crutches were very dingy from long use, began rubbing some of the ointment on them to see If it would brighten them up. At once the crutches be gan to dance and caper around him, stopping now and then to ad mire each other. Suddenly they paused In their an tics and the next moment they were trotting gaily down the street until they caught up with their for mer master. After that they walked sedately at his heels, ready to come to his assistance If need be, even though he had cast them off with out a single thought Victims of Imagination JOSEPH THOMPSON, of Nash ville, Tenn.. who gets around the country-quite a bit in his work for a railroad, Is seldom surprised by the queer things that folks do— like putting tacks In a dining car meal, eating them and threatening to sue the carrier. The reason Joe preserves his calm Is that once he operated a farm and most everybody knows that the queerest sort of things are forever happening there. 'Joe’s plantation featured fine hams and a herd of nervous goats but he still likes to talk about his trials and tribulations with a patch of popcorn. “Never had any decent luck with the popcorn,” Joe testifies. “Gets hot as blazes down at Nashville and first thing you’d know my field would begin to pop and I’d lose practically everything I’d put Into It Don’t suppose I ever got to market more than half a crop. “What I finally did was to plant the popcorn at a spot very close to the house. The noise of Its pop ping kept the children amused. “One time, though, the whole field began to pop nt the same time. The white pellets flew Into the air In a thick cloud and fell In the pasture with my nervous goats. Eighteen of the goats thought it was snowing and lay down and froze to death.” The Unfinished Story CHARLES M. WALKER tells tall tales because of silent hours with feeding sheep In the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming. But, strangely enough, bis favorite yarn concerns the heart of Chicago In stead of the great open spaces. “In 1928,” Charlie tells, “down town Chicago had numerous banks and many bank vice presidents. De spite their numbers, however, some of the latter were obsessed of self importance. One of these I recall. “He lived fashionably on the north shore, commuting dally to the loop. One crisp morning he discov ered the family cat dead at his back door. It was only 18 paces to a small garden but the banker re volted at being seen burying a cat. He wrapped the carcass in oiled pa per, intending to cast It Into the Chicago river which he always crossed downtown. . Distinctive Dress for the Small Girl 1833-B Any little girl from two to six will look simply charming in this distinc tive tiny frock which has a high waist finished off with a dainty scal loped collar, and three little buttons. The shape of the collar gives the dress a fetchlngly demure look that Is adorable on all little girls. Notice the «pft flare of the skirt and the loose short sleeves—simplicity Is the keynote. This design requires a minimum of time and effort to make. Try It In gingham, wool chains, mus lin or-a silk with a wee little flower design. You can also make this ver sion in a simple crepe which Is used In party frocks. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1S33-B Is available for sizes: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 4 requires 1% yards of 35-lnch fabric, plus % yard of contrasting. The Barbara Bell Pattern Book featuring Spring designs Is ready. Send fifteen cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept.. 247 W. Forty third St., New York, N. Y. 0 Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. IOF INTEREST TO I IKE HOUSEWIFE To remove egg stains from a linen tablecloth soak it in cold water be fore putting it into hot soapsuds. • • * Icing for cake may be prevented from cracking by adding one tea spoon of cream to each unbeaten egg. Stir all together, then add sugar until the Icing is as stiff as desired. * • * Set your alarm clock to notify you when baking period is completed. You may then continue your work in the other part of the house without worry. * • • Baking powder biscuits, corn breads *nd muffins may he freshened by Crushing them all over with cold wa ter and heating in a moderate oven {375 degrees F.) for five or ten min utes just before serving. • * • A little vinegar poured into a saucepan in which onions have been fried will remove the odor of onions from the pan. • • • To remove stains from a vase or Bottle, put In It two tablespoons of salt and four tablespoons of vinegar and shake well. Let stand for sev eral hours, empty and rinse out In hot soap suds. • • * A worn whisk broom trimmed down to its stiffest part makes a very good scrubbing brusli for the sink. © Associated Newspapers.—WXU Service. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are beet for liver, bowels and stomach. 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