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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON, Thursday, August 19, 1937 Scenes and Persons in the Current News Advertising’s Value. \ r ERNALIS, CALIF.—On the ’ train a charming young woman said: “I always read Washington.—President Roosevelt codes which were so hidebound and J the advertisements whether I stated to the newspaper correspond- so inelastic that thousands of firms j want to buy anything or not. Do ents in his press were in open rebellion against the you think I’m crazy?” W ants Crop conference the oth- restrictions unless they were able to I told her she was the smartest Control Back er day that crop pass on the higher costs resulting young woman I knew. It I were control must be from these restrictions, to the pub j asked to describe brought back. He said it with some lic. That is, unless they could make the race in any by emphasis. Within a few days before the consumer pay the added cost, gone period since that, he had given his approval to a they faced eventual bankruptcy. i printer’s ink came bill placing a minimum on wages I do not say that the labor stand into common use, and a maximum on hours in which ards board as now conceived will go I’d turn to the ad labor could work in industries whose as far as the NRA codes but expe vertising in the pa productions enter into interstate rience with the present national la pers and periodicals commerce. bor relations board indicates that of that particular The President was not specific as the public should expect the maxi age. For then I’d to details of the legislation in either mum exercise of power instead of j know what people case but it is important to note that any middle of the road policies. The wore and what they he has reaffirmed his position on labor relations board has become a at® and what thciF these two principles for it is to be festering sore on private initiative. sports were a n d Remembered that both the NRA and Business interests everywhere, t h e i r follies and Irvin S. Cobb the AAA were thrown out by the Su while being pounded on the back their tastes and their habits: know preme court a long time ago, and by the administration to employ what they did when they were the President seeks now to restore more workers, are kept in a con healthy and what they took when them in another form. stant state of confusion by the bias of they were sick and of what they This circumstance would seem to the board. This is the board which died and how they were buried and 1—A Japanese outpost in the front line as the Nipponese engage the Chinese in undeclared war in North confirm assertions that have been was designed by Senator Wagner, of where they expected to go after they China. 2—View of mass meeting of 20,000 people which followed the annual parade in New York city of the jnade in various quarters lately that New York, to maintain peace be left here—in short, I’d get a pic American League Against War and Fascism. 3—Archbishop Edward Mooney (left), recently installed in the the President wants to maintain a tween labor and employers. If the ture of numanity as it was and not Catholic diocese of Detroit, confers with Archbishop Giovanni Cicognani, papal delegate to the United ["planned economy” for this coun labor standards board can use dis as some prejudiced historian, writ States, who consecrated him. • try. It would seem that he is de cretionary powers accorded it and ing then or later, would have me termined to go ahead along those can proceed in correcting abuses of believe it conceivably might have SPECKLED KING lines and that his program for reor labor as rapidly as is “economically been. Italy Launches Biggest Battleship ganizing the Supreme court was i feasible,” it may be able to develop I’d rather be able to decipher the part and parcel of the scheme. In better conditions in industry. But want ad on the back side of a Chal other words, the President’s new such language as the words “eco dean brick than the king’s edict on declaration about crop control and nomically feasible” are subject to the front—that is, if I craved to get wages and hours and his support of all kinds of interpretation and if the an authentic glimpse at ancient the Wagner housing bill represent a membership of the labor standards Chaldea. • • • return to the original theories which board happens to include some rad he held for “remaking” our nation. ical labor leader, most anything will Running a Hotel. After discussing these circum be economically feasible. T’VE just been a guest at one of the stances pro and con with proponents It is from such quirks of law that 1 best small-town hotels in Amer as well as opponents in the con bureaucrats expand their powers. ica. I should know about good ho gress, the conclusion is inescapable • • • tels because, in bygone days, I that Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers But there is yet another phase of stopped at all the bad ones. are headed into new ground. They this policy that demands consider The worst was one back East— desire evidently to make the federal ation. While the built over a jungle of side tracks. government the most important fac A nother United States is I wrote a piece about that hotel. tor in our national life and to set Phase one unit under the It had hot and cold running cock aside little by little the functions of federal g o v e rn - roaches on every floor and all-night state and local governments by their ment, it is made up of a number of switch-engine service; the room course of action. sectional units and each sectional towels only needed buttons on them Undoubtedly there is strong argu unit comprises a number of states to be peekaboo waists, but the roller ment for the policies they have and even each state in some cases towel in the public washroom had, adopted; certainly, there are many embraces subdivisions where prac through the years, so solidified that “King Freckles” was the title functions which the national govern tices in business and living traditions if the house burned down it surely ment can perform more effectively are as different as day and night. A would have been left standing. The conferred on Jackie Martin II of and more efficiently than they can regulation as to the fairness of hours cook labored under the delusion that Philadelphia, winner of a freckle contest in Philadelphia. Jackie was Thousands shouted and waved their hats as this sleek monster slid be performed by state governments, or wages in New England may be, a fly was something to cook with. chosen from among hundreds of down the ways at Trieste, marking a red-letter day in Italian naval and equally, it is true that some and probably would be, wholly inap Everybody who’d ever registered phases of our national life should not plicable in Alabama or Georgia. A there recognized the establishment. runners-up as the kid most abun history. The battleship is the Vittorio-Veneto (35,000 tons), the largest of Italy’s sea-warriors and one of the largest in the world. be subjected to the influence of state regulation that would operate sat So the citizens raised funds and dantly freckled. lines. On the other hand, there sure isfactorily in Pennsylvania may be, tore down their old hotel, thereby ly is valid reason why Washington and probably would be, completely making homeless wanderers of half bureaucrats should not be allowed to sour in the Pacific coast states. a million resident bedbugs; and interfere in the daily practices and Yet this board cannot administer its they put up a fine new hotel which convictions of individuals. regulations on a piece-meal basis; paid a profit, whereas the old one The reason I believe all of this they must apply to the whole coun had been losing money ever since Throngs such as these shown crowding its amusement area caused is so important now is that always try and it is only fair to assume the fall of Richmond. the Great Lakes exposition in Cleveland to extend its closing date from there has been a tendency of fed from the existing facts that where A good hotel is the best adver September 6 to September 26, according to Lincoln G. Dickey, general eral functions to expand. To say as rulings may be advantageous to tisement any town can have, but a manager of the fair. Dickey, shown in the inset, stated that the Sep this in another way: Federal of some sections of labor, they might bad one is just the same as an extra tember 26 date was final and by that time more than 8,000,000 people ficials from the lowest to the high completely destroy other sections of pesthouse where the patients have would have seen the 1936 and 1937 editions of Cleveland’s celebration of est seem to be equipped with a par labor. The same results can be ex to pay. its centennial. Visitors from every state have seen the Fair. • • • ticular faculty for delegating to pected from the effects of these rul themselves additional authority as ings on the employers, except that Poor Lo’s Knowledge. soon as they are accorded power. where the effect is adverse on em COMETIMES I wonder whether What the country should fear then, ployers businesses can be driven ° we, the perfected flower of civ it seems to me, is the steady en into bankruptcy—and the jobs they ilization—and if you don’t believe croachment upon the rights of states provided disappear. we are, just ask us—can really be and thereafter the rights of individ I think there can be no denying as smart as we let on. uals. Perhaps I should have re that no law will be successful unless Lately, out on the high seas, I versed the order and should have it has the co-operation, the active met an educated Hopi, who said to said, first, encroachment upon the support, of a very large majority of me: rights of individuals and, second, the people. If proof be needed, it is “White people get wrong and stay thereafter encroachment upon the only necessary to recall how the wrong when right before their eyes rights of states. prohibition laws were not enforced is proof to show how wrong they Now, there are those persons in in those areas where public sym are. For instance, take your de considerable number who believe pathy with them was lacking. It lusion that there are only four sincerely that the federal govern does not require very much time to direction points—an error which ment is the agency through which determine whether a law is popu you’ve persisted in ever since you all public functions should operate. lar. During the life of the NRA, invented the compass, a thing our I cannot agree. Rather, long ex those who opposed such impossible people never needed. Every Indian perience in Washington convinces regulations as General Hugh John knows better than that.” me that the old, old argument for son dictated were branded by Presi "Well then,” I said, “how many state rights—so long one of the ten dent Roosevelt at first as “chisel- are there, since you know so ets of the Democratic party—has ers.” It was a biting criticism. much?” too much merit to be overthrown Yet, within a few months there were “Seven,” he said, “seven in all.” without consideration for the effects more chiselers than there were “Name ’em,” I demanded. of the new theories. It may be that those who believed that the law “With pleasure,” he said. “Here human nature has changed enough could possibly be made to work. I they are: north, east, south, west, to accept new theories and live am very much afraid that there will up, down and here.” happily thereunder but I am quite be more chiselers under the wages Of course, there’s a catch in it convinced that human nature does and hours law than there are those somewhere, but, to date, I haven’t not change so fast. who believe in its efficacy. figured it out. • • • • • • TO SUPREME COURT King in Shorts Forgets State Cares To get down to cases in applica The Russian Puzzle. The initial operations of the board tion of the principles discussed and the law probably will not create T T NDER the present beneficent above, let us con- d . u - j a 8reat deal of regime, no prominent figure in tv ages a n a sider the wages Both Sides dissension. But Russia's government, whether mil Hour» Bill and hours bill. W ill Buck there will be dis itary or civil, is pestered by the T h at m ea su re gruntled groups of shows how this encroachment takes workers and there will be dissatis cankering fear which besets an offi place and gives a rather clear pic fied employers who will seek ex cial in some less favored land, ture of the expansive nature of fed emption or changes or special con namely, that he’ll wear out in har ness and wither in obscurity. eral policies. sideration by regulation. In some All General So-and-Soski or Com The wages and hours bill first cre cases, obviously, the board will is ates a labor standards board. It is sue new rules. As likely as not missar Whatyoumaycallovitch has circumscribed by certain limitations those new rules will upset some oth to do is let suspicion get about that which say that it cannot fix wages er group or region or section and he's not in entire accord with ad ministration policies and promptly above forty cents per hour nor can they will demand consideration. he commits suicide—by request; or it reduce the number of working Just here, it might be recalled hours per week below forty. Fur how under the AAA cfop control is invited out to be shot at sunrise. To be sure, the notion isn’t new. ther, a great number of lines of law, wheat, cotton and corn were late Emperor Nero had numer work are exempted from jurisdic originally considered but tobacco The well-wishers, including family tion of the board—work of a season had to have protection and rice ous al character, farm labor, labor in and potatoes and peanuts, and every relatives, that he felt he could spare he just up and spared them. certain specified industries which other farm product had its cham and And, in our own time. A1 Capone obviously cannot be subject to regu pions battling for consideration be built quite an organization for tak lation without destruction of the fore the Supreme court held that ing care of such associates as business itself. Besides these re the law with its processing taxes seemed lacking the faith. ’Twas strictions, there is an implied warn was an invalid delegation of power a great boon to in the design ing in the bill against sudden or by congress. Therefore, while I may business, too, While it floral lasted. abrupt changes in business prac be “seeing things'* concerning But in Russia where they really tices that would dislocate industrial the labor standards board and the do things—there no job-holder need Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of operation or curtail employment. new proposal for crop control, the ever worry about old age. Brer Alabama, whose nomination to fill These delimitations would seem to records surely support my state leave the board without a great deal ment that anytime the federal gov Stalin's boys will attend to all nec the Supreme court vacancy created of authority. Such, however, is not ernment starts a new policy it be essary details, except the one. for by the retirement of Associate Jus the case. Among those industries gins at the same time to enable ex merly so popular in Chicago, of : tice Willis Van Devanter, was pre Garbed in shorts and stockings and sweater to enjoy a day of fun. sented to the senate by President remaining under jurisdiction of pansion of federal power far beyond sending flowers to the funeral. Roosevelt. Black, a vigorous New King George VI is shown on a recent visit to the duke of York's camp for IR V IN S. CO BB the board, there is yet as much pow the original concept of a program, » - V N U Servie». Deal Democrat, is fifty-one. underprivileged boys at Southwold. England. e r as obtained under NRA and its a W „i,rn Newuwp«! Union. Cleveland Decides to Extend Its Exposition
