adlock Continues in
neral Motors Strike
OV. FRANK MURPHY of Mich
igan abandoned, at least for
present, his efforts to end the
dlock between the General Mo
ton corporation and
the striking mem
bers of the United
Automobile Work
ers, but James F.
Dewey, conciliator
for the Department
of Labor, remained
in Detroit, still hope
ful of bringing about
a peace conference.
William S. Knudsen,
executive vice presi
dent of General Mo
tors, thus stated the
poration’s position:
'lDiam 8.
Inudsen
Seneral Motors corporation rep
mtatives immediately upon
cuation of its plants by employ
engaged in sit down strikes will
it with representatives of the
in, but to accept the union’s
iitions would have placed Gen
1 Motors in the position of con
ing their illegal actions. We can
condone illegal occupation of
plants.”
lie union conditions, as set forth
President Homer Martin, were:
We are willing to agree to with
wal if negotiations are opened
mediately with an agreement that
plants remain closed, without
rement of equipment or resum p
of activities until a national set
lent is effected, and with a fur
■ agreement that all activities
l as circulation of petitions, or
izing of vigilante activities,
iatening or coercing of employ
be immediately stopped.”
bout a thousand men, engaged
he sit down strikes, were thus
ling up negotiations for' settle
it of the controversy which al
ly had thrown out of work near
00,000 employees of the corpora
eneral Motors officials received
grains from a number of Amerl
Federation of Labor units urg
no recognition of the United Au
obile Workers as sole bargain
agency for the motor car fac
i workers. They were assured
corporation would hot back
tt m thls^hdnt. * ?
aking the situation more diflfl
, the strikers in Flint engaged in
wild, riotous battle with the
rds and city police that lasted
hours and resulted in the injury
lozens of men. The local offl
i restrained themselves admir
r though armed with machine
s, and the state police were hur
1 to the scene to aid them. Gov
>r Murphy and other state offl
s also went to Flint.
Inaped Boy Found Slain
ir Everett, Wash.
EN-year-old Charles Mattson,
kidnaped from his home in Ta
ta. Wash., Dec. 27 and held tor
som, was found beaten to death
mow covered woods near Ev
;t The body was nude and cru
battered. State and city police
' department of justice agents,
i had been held back to give the
s father a chance to pay the
torn and save his son, immedi
y began an intensive manhunt,
their clews were few and poor.
nee Ready to Occupy
nish Morocco
IANCE, according to reliable re
torts, is all set to occupy Span
Morocco, and expects the full
peration of Great Britain. The
ncn naa sem 10
eral Franco,
S at the Spanish
cists, one protest
tost the alleged
lission to Moroc
of German
ps, and then
; another before
ng drastic ac
If they do
re, it will be
Gea. Franc*
unaiiy l
he sultan at Mo
:o and because at violation at
Franco-Spanish treaty at 1912.
nee has 100,000 men in her Mo
:an army and could easily and
idily occupy most at the Spanish
t, which the Fascists control,
port by the British presumably
Id come from the British fleet
be Strait at Gibraltar and possl
trom troops to replace French
es taken from the German bor
ranco sent a conciliatory reply
’aris.
i a reception to diplomats Chan
ir Hitler talked with the French
tassador to Berlin and assured
that Germany had no intention
(tempting to seize Spanish Mo
triln has Indignantly denied the
ence of German troops in Span
Morocco, asserting they are min
men and properly are armed for
protection. Sigh Commissioner
ibeder of Spanish Morocco also
■s there are no foreign troops
[is territory. To a correspond
ent he said:' "You can declare no
soldier, German, Italian, or even
Japanese—for they will soon invent
news of Japanese landing — has
crossed our frontiers.’’
At Gibraltar there was a report
that 3,000 Japanese volunteers were
expected to land at Cadiz and Jerez
de la Frontera to join Franco's
troops in a final assault on Madrid.
Tokio said the story was fantastic.
Great Britain, angered by the air
bombing of her embassy in Madrid,
filed protest. Some of her most
powerful warships were added to
the fleet at Gibraltar. 1)>e British
government forbade citizens to en
list in Spain, and continued its ef
forts to persuade other nations to
stop the sending of volunteers to that
Country. France agreed to intro
duce legislation to that effect, but
Germany and Italy were still cling
ing to their conditions and allegedly
continuing to give aid to the Franco
forces:
Supreme Court Rebuked
by the President
THINLY veiled but unmistakable
was President Roosevelt’s re
buke to the Supreme court in his
annual message on the state of the
union, standing tri
umphant before the
lopsidedly Demo
cratic senate and
house in joint ses
sion, the chief exec
utive said:
‘IThe United
States of America,
within itself, must
continue the task of
making democracy
succecu.
"In that task the „ “
legislative branch Koo,eveIt
of our government will, I am confi
dent, continue to meet the demands
of democracy whether they relate to
the curbing of abuses, the extension
of help to those who need help, or
the better balancing of our inter
dependent economics.
"So, too, the executive branch of
the government must move forward
in this task and, at the same time,
provide better management for ad
ministrative action of all kinds.
“The judicial branch also is asked
by the people to do its part in mak
ing democracy successful. We do
not ask the courts to call non-ex
istent powers into being, but we
have a right to expect that con
ceded powers or those legitimately
implied shall be made effective in
struments for the common good.
•The process of our democracy
must not be imperiled by the denial
of essential powers of free govern
ment."
Sketching the program for his sec
ond term, the President said legis
lation he desired at this time in
cluded extension of the RFC, of his
power to devalue the dollar and of
other New Deal authorisations about
to expire, deficiency appropria
tions, and extension of the neutrality
law to apply to the Spanish civil
war. Conceding that NRA had
“tried to do too much," he contin
ued: “The statute of NRA has been
outlawed. The problems have not
They are still with us.”
congress K*ceives Budget
Message of President
STATING that he expects to bal
ance the national budget and be
gin reducing the national debt in
1939, President Roosevelt submit
ted to congress a budget for the 1938
fiscal year. This, he said, balanced
conditionally except for statutory
debt retirement—meaning that if
his conditions are met the gross def
icit for the fiscal year beginning
July 1 would not be more than
8401,815,000, compared with $2,652,
652,774 in the current fiscal year
and $4,763,841,642 in the 1938 fiscal
year, which ended last June 30.
But the President warned the na
tion that conditional budget balance
in the next fiscal year and complete
balance in the following year de
pended on industry’s co-operation in
hiring more persons from relief
rolls. All estimates were dependent
upon continued economic improve
ment.
The President estimated that fed
eral revenue in the next fiscal year
will increase by $1,475,466,378 be
cause of better business and higher
taxes. He did not propose new taxes
but opposed the reduction of any
taxes now in effect.
The message allotted 451 millions
to a general public works program,
excluding die Florida ship canal
and the Passamaquoddy tide har
nessing project; 482 millions for ag
ricultural relief and soil conserva
tion; 835 millions for social secur
ity, and $16 millions for recovery
and relief.
The message reveale* that Mr.
Roosevelt planned to curtail relief
expenditures sharply from the 1936
37 levels. But he found available
funds insufficient for the rest of
the current fiscal year and asked
congress to appropriate $790,000,000
immediately, of which $650,000,000
la to be expended for recovery and
relief between February 1 end June
30 when the 1937 fiscal year ends.
^Jhinlu about
International Fonrfltuhing.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—When the German
troops marphed into the
^Rhineland, France was going
to fight about it, but didn’t.
When the Italians moved against
.Ethiopia, Britain was going to in
voke force, but
didn’t.
When Russia
poked her snoot in
to the Spanish
mess, there was go
ing to be armed ac
tion by other pow
ers, but wasn’t.
When Japan be
gan to nibble again
at China, there was
going to be inter
venwon, dui an
that happened was Irvin S. Cobb
that the League of
Nations chirped despairingly and
then put its head back under its
wing.
Somehow, I’m thinking of the two
fellows who started fighting and,
when bystanders rushed in to sep
arate them, the one who was get
ting the worst of it yelled:
“Five or six of you hang on to
that big brute. Anybody can hold
mel"
• • • l
Coring Temperament.
A JUDGE back east rules that
^ this so-called artistic temper
ament is not sufficient excuse for
a so-called genius to beat up his
bride,
I tried the stuff once—just once—
but the presiding judge in my case
was a lady. For years Td been
trudging as steadily as a milkman’s
horse, whereas »being a practioner
of a creative profession, I said to
myself I really ought to stage some
temperament just to make the fam
ily appreciate me. So I rehearsed
my act and went downstairs one
morning and put it on. So my wife
looked at me across the breakfast
table, and said: “I know what the
trouble with you is. You’re hjlious.
You'll take some calomel.”
Well, what are you going to do
when a beautifully staged emotion
al outburst is diagnosed, not as the
promptings of a tortured soul, but
as liver complaint?
You guessed it I took the calo
mel, and, I pledge you my word,
haven't had an attack since. ~
The Law’s Delays.
ONCE a Massachusetts Supreme
court reversed a felony convic
tion because the prosecution, in fil
ing the record, stated that the crime
was committed "on the fifteenth day
of June, 1855" but failed to state
whether the year was 1855 A. D.
or 1855 B. C.
And ever since then on quibbles
almost equally foolish—such as a
misplaced comma or an upside
down period—other high courts
have been defeating the ends of -
justice and setting at naught the de
cisions of honest juries.
Science has gone ahead, medicine
has taken enormous steps forward,
but law still rides in a stage coach
and hunts with a flintlock musket.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that
one reason for the law’s delays is
a lack of the thing called common
sense?
• • •
Dinosaur Footprints.
BACK in 1858, a college professor
discovered on a sandstone ledge
in Massachusetts a whole batch of
imbedded tracks of the dinosaur—
familiarly known to geologists as
dinah, just as among its scientific
friends the great winged lizard is
frequently referred to as big liz.
At the time, the discovery created
no excitement—merely a slight
shock of surprise to the old families
upon learning there was something
historic in Massachusetts antedat
ing the Mayflower. For the natur
alists figured those tracks had been
left more than 150,000,000 years ago.
And they were suffered to remain
nearly eighty years more.
But here recently it develops that
parties unknown have been chisel
ing Dinah’s footprints out and toting
them oft. Ibis would seem to in
dicate either that America is get
ting dinosaur-conscious or that dino
saurleggers are operating, or both.
So if a slinky gentleman should
come to the side door, offering a
prime specimen for the parlor
whatnot, don’t trade with him, read
er-call the police. Next time he
may come back with a dornlck off
of Plymouth Rock or the corner
stone at Harvard college or the
name plate from Cotton Mather’s
IRVIN S. COBB
©—WNU Service.
On More Mature Reflection
“Don't you wish you were a child
again and could play in the show?"
“No," answered Mias Cayenne, “I
thoroughly appreciate the advan
tages of a taxicab over a sled."
The Noisy Fellow*
- “Some men," said Uncle Eben,
"resembles de automobile horn dat
stin' doin' much to push things
along, but manages to sound like de
whole works.”
Improved
Uniform
International
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
* LESSON *
Mr REV.
Dean
HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
of the Moody Bible Inttitnt*
• Western Newspaper
r Union.
Lesson for January 24
TWO MIRACLES OF MERCY
LESSON TEXT—John 8:3-9; 8:8-15.
GOLDEN TEXT—The lame work*
that I do, boar witness at me. that the
Father hath lent me. John 5:38.
PRIMARY TOPIC — Jeeua Feeding
Hungry People.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Boy Who Gave
Away Hi* Lunch.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—Why Did Christ Work Miracle*?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC—The Significance oi Christ's Mira
cles.
The world is looking for super
men, those who can work “mira
cles,” and thus afford an easy solu
tion for the problems of the home
and of the ration. Men are ready
to marvel at and follow in almost
abject submission those who prom
ise riches without labor, food with
out toil, short cuts to comfort and'
satisfaction. Often they are con
tent if they only have something
over which they may exclaim
“Wonderful!” whether it be use
ful or not
The miracles of God, through his
servants and the Lord Jesus Christ
are not mere marvels or wonders.
They are not for the advancement
of the cause of any man or for
personal glory. They are the mighty
signs of an omnipotent God wrought
for the good of men, for their spir
itual enlightenment and as a testi
mony to the one true God.
The two miracles of our lesson
present Jesus Christ as a Lord of
mercy and grace—ready to meet
the needs of men. Deep and real
was his compassion as his heart
yearned over needy humanity.
It is suggested that in the study
and teaching of this lesson we vary
our plan somewhat and present sev
en seed thoughts found in the two
portions assigned. It is also urged
that the context in both chapters be
read with care.
I. We Are Impotent Folk (John
5:2).
The words well describe not only
those who lay helpless about the
pool of Bethesda but they fit us as
well. Oh, yes, we are strong, capa
ble, fearless, but only until we meet
some great elemental problem.
Then we see that we are indeed
“a great multitude of impotent
folk.” . The gently falling snow
stopped the undefeated Napoleon.
The silent fog can paralyze a na
tion. Death, sicknesa-rwho can stay
their hand?
II. Despair Spells Defeat (v. 7).
Long familiarity with his weak
ness had bred in the man with the
infirmity a sense of despair. Such
an attitude invites defeat It is
unbecoming to a Christian. Let us
not forget in the darkest hour to
‘fceep looking up.”
HI. God Answers the Weakest
Faith (v. 8).
Jesus evidently saw in the man’s
despairing reply a spark of faith.
He who believes honors-the name of
God. We may* need to cry "I be
lieve, help thou mine unbelief," but
if we believe God will gloriously
meet even our faltering faith.
IV. God’s Command Empowers
<w. 8, 9).
Jesus told the man to “Rise—and
walk”—the very thing he could not
do for his thirty-eight years of life.
But when the Son of God speaks to,
us he gives the power to respond to
his command.
V. Works Follow Faith (v. 9).
The man arose, took up his bed,
and walked. Man’s faith in God
and God’s response to faith lead
to man’s action on God’s command.
Too many are they in the church
today who have never stood up and
walked for God.
VL Look to God, Not at Your Be
sources (John 6:9).
Humanlike, the disciples counted
their money and found it was not
enough to supply food for a multi*
tude. And then there was a boy,
but he had only five barley crackers
and two little fish. It almost sounds
like a church-board , deciding to
close the cross-roads church and
let the Devil have the boys and
girls, because it costs too much to
keep up the work. God help us to
trust and go on for him. “Little
is much when God is in 11“
VII. Followers for Bread Not
Wanted (v. 15).
Those who follow Christ because
of business advantage and social
prestige know nothing of what it
means to be a Christian. He is not
a bread - making king; he is the
bread of life.
Visions ef a Better Life
It is well to have visions of a
better life than that of every day,
but it is the life of every day from
which elements of a better life
must come.—Maeterlinck.
Success From Work
Experience shows that success is
due less to ability than to seal. The
winner is he who gives himself to
his work, body and souL—Charles
Buxton.
Diversity of
There never was in the world two
opinions alike, no more than two
hairs, or two grains; the most uni
versal quality is diversity.-Mon
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
•-•-•
By Elmo
Scott Watson
• Veitcrn
Newspaper
Union
Sam Hawken, Riflemaker
HAT a Stradivarius la to vio
* ' linists, a Hawken rifle it to
those who love fine firearms. For
a genuine example of the work
manship of “Oli. Sam” Hawken of
St Louis is one of the rarest weap
ons in existence. So far as is
known, there are only five.
But it is not alone the rarity of
these rifles which makes them in
teresting. It’s a case of ‘the man
behind the gun” as well. He was
Samuel Hawken born of Pennsyl
vania Dutch stock in Maryland in
1792. He was a soldier in the War
of 1812 and after his return from
it he began practicing the trade of
gunsmith.
In 1822 he moved to St. Louis
where his brother, Jacob Hawken,
was already engaged in making
guns. That was the golden era of
the fur trade and the fame of the
rifles which Samuel and Jacob
Hawken were making soon spread
all along the frontier because they
were the most accurate and finest
pieces of workmanship available,
hot even excepting the famous Ken
tucky “long rifles.”
The demand for Hawken’s prod
uct was limited only by the supply,
which was small. For Hawken
made every rifle by hand, welding
the barrels out of strips of iron
which he got from an iron furnace
on the Meramec river in Missouri.
These strips were hammered into
five-inch lengths and welded around
a steel mandrel, thus making the
tube which was bored out with a
rifling tool afterwards. It was a
tedious and thoroughgoing job of
work, unusual even in .those days of
careful and honest craftsmanship.
But what was even more unusual
was the fact that Hawken had one
price for his rifles. That was 825
no more, no less. He could have
had twice or three times that price,
so great was the demand, but he
refused to charge more because he’
believed that one price brought him
trade.
Jacob Hawken died during the
cholera epidemic of 1849 in St.
Louis and Samuel Hawken contin
ued in the business until 1859 when
he sold out to an apprentice, John P.
Gemmer who was running the
Hawken shop whan Samuel Hawken
returned to St Louis in 1861 to
spend his declining years. “Old
Sam” became a regular habitue of
the shop so long as he lived and
could scarcely keep his hands off
the tools, so greatly did he love
the work. Once Gemmer allowed
him to don an apron and make a
rihe complete as he had done in
years gone by and this rifle, prob
ably the last which “Old Sam,"
honest workman, ever made, is one
ot the two Hawken rifles now owned
by the Missouri Historical society.
• • •
$50,000 Signature
THERE’S no doubt that John D.
Rockefeller’s signature, or that
of J. P. Morgan, would be worth
$50,000—if it were on a check! But
the only American whose written
name (not on a check) has ever
been worth that amount was Button
Gwinnett
Gwinnett was bom in England in
1732. Despite that fact he can be
listed as an American because he
came to America in 1770, was
chosen as a delegate from Georgia
to the Continental congress and was
one of the signers of the Declara
tion of Independence in 1778.,
The next year he was an un
successful candidate for governor
and he was also defeated as candi
date for brigadier-general of the
Georgia militia by Gen. Lachlin Mc
Intosh. As a result of a quarrel,
Gwinnett challenged McIntosh to a
duel which was fought with pistols
at 12 feet He was mortally wound
ed and died on May 27, 1777.
Most of the 58 signers o the Dec
laration of Independence lived for
many years after that historic
event wrote many letters or signed
many documents. But with Gwin
nett’s career cut off in less than a
year after he Joined that company
of immortals, he left tew examples
of his handwriting. So his auto
graph is the rarest of all the signers
and it is that rarity which gives it
such great value.
- In 1826 Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach,
the noted collector, paid $22,500 for
a will which was signed by Gwin
nett as a witness. Hut was an
unheard-of price for an autograph.
But it was only the beginning of a
“boom in Button Gwinnett*.’’
Later in the year this same col
lector bought another—this time a
signature on a promisory note and
it cost him $28,800.
In 1827 an all-time record for
autograph prices was reached
when Dr. Rosenbach paid $51,000
to- a letter signed by Button Gwin
the marine committee of the (
congress. Aside
Busy Sunb<
1UVT.r
Pattern 918
They’re never without their sun
bonnets, these seven diminutive
maidens who make light of their
own chores, and yours, too. See
how pretty they’re going to lool^,
embroidered on a set of seven
tea towels? Stitches are of the
easiest—mostly outline, with lazy
daisy, running stitch and some
French knots. Keep them in mind
for gifts. Pattern 918 contains a
transfer pattern of seven motifs
Unde PhuL
Leaving No Stain
Let us seek so to live that our
bygone year may, to use Cowper’s
beautiful expression, leave “no
stain upon the wing of time.”
Of all the wingless angels on
earth that yon value, the man
who you know when he tells you
he will do a certain thing on a
certain day, will do it, is the most
precious.
We all know how much we like
a man when we hear he has just
died. Let’s tell him a little of
that before he does.
Rejoice in Friend's Success
Allow no shadow of envy to mar
the sunshine of a friend’s suc
cess.
If one knows a mean story on
himself, let him remember it
when he is tempted to tell a mean
story on someone else—and re
frain.
The swan knows how to use its
neck; that is why it is beautiful.
The giraffe doesn’t and is gro
tesque.
Features of Gentility
Two main features of gentility
are propriety and consideration
for others.
Dignity is beautiful to contem
plate, but it needs to be employed
with skill.
Best thing for people who can’t
afford to eat breakfast in bed is
that they don’t want to.
Dnnet Girls
averaging 5 by 7% inches; illus
trations of all stitches needed;
color suggestions and material re
quirements.
Send IS cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needleeraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Write plainly your name, ad
dress and pattern number.
Stilt Jail for Debt
There still is a place where a
man may be put in jail for debt.
It happens on the Isle of Man.
At present, any person owing
money, who is believed to intend
leaving the island, may be ar
rested on a creditor’s petition and
lodged in the island’s jail until
he can produce satisfactory guar
antees that the debt will be paid.
The LIGHT of
1000 USES",
t pieman
AIR-PRESSURI
Man He 1
LANTERN C
Use your Coleman a
in hundreds of places
where an ordinary lan* j
tern is useless. Use it for
after-dark chores, hunt- 1
ing. fishing, or on any
night job ... it turns
nifht into day. Wind,
ram or snow can’t put
it out. High candle-power
air-pressure light.
Kerosene and gasoline
models. The finest made.
Prices as low as $4.45.
Your local dealer can
supply you. Send post
card for FREE Folders. I
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Sense of Decency
There is no sense of decency.
Some don’t have it. They are the
ones who have to be taken to
task.
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