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'Comment CHESTER ROWEEL DAI IT A AZ I N'E ty REV. S.iPARKES CADMAN Radio Mmuttr Federal Council of Churches of Christ Amenta VOL. CXVIII OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933 NO. 177 I Bridge Copyright. 1833, XT7 L-t I "THIS is written in Chicago, WHAT IT MEANS Things Political BY MARK SULLIVAN Why cannot we have real ography of Jesus, inch as have been written abont so many great historical characters? Can you name a great man con- temporaneous with our Lord whom a full and complete biography has been written? Compare; your actual knowledge of Jesus witbi that you possess of the leading men-of His era and I think you will find that we know more about His personality, teaching and mission than we do about any character existing 2000 years ago.

The Gospels are not biographies in the sense you desire, nor do they claim to be such. The close of John's Gospel plainly states what they are and why they were writ- ten. Read the last two verses of that Gospel for the relief of your purpose frequently expressed by President Roosevelt that the other nations of the world can by steps similar to our own achieve high prices. Thereafter, with both America and the world on a new high price level, and at a new equilibrium, reciprocal arrangements for lower tariffs might be possible. DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON.

June 26. Republican strategists think mis is ine lime to Degin bombarding the administration and start developing public opinion for next Congressional campaign. The attack unloosed by Minority Leader Snell is a case in point. Undoubtedly there are many vul nerable spots in the Democratic armor and they are being uncov- ered right along. But what the Republican leadership doesn't realize yet, is that the Republicans have done nothing to merit another lease life.

Their position in the last Congress was very clumsy. The rank and file of the Republican members generally supported the President, but they did not manage give the country the impression willing cooperation. Instead they seemed more like obstructionists who did not dare to obstruct for fear of being called partisan. The truth, 6f course, is that many Republicans conscientiously differed with the Roosevelt policies. They differ even more radically today.

but the pressure from their constituents to support the President and give him a fair chance to work things his way, Is so intense that even the most partisan of Repub licans has had to bow to the public win. The Republicans as an opposition party missed their opportunities in the last session. Had they agreed witn some of the Roosevelt meas ures and fought for and vigorously urged their adoption, they would have been regarded as sincere when they opposed some of the inflation ary legislation. But the biggest blunder of the Republicans was in the dispute over veterans compensation. Having originally voted to give the President power to make the resula tions and thus effect big cuts, thev did not later divide on the merits of the case but voted as a bloc to embarrass Roosevelt in his recent effort to get a compromise through ine senate.

Republican newspapers throughout the land denounced these tactics not only because the Republicans were wrong on the issue itself but because it was such a conspicuous exhibition of partisanship above country. (Copyright, 1933, for The Tribune.) PUDDING IS GIRLS' FAVORITE, NORTON, Mass. Chocolate pud ding is tne iavonte lood among Wheaton College girls, and fish is the most unpopular, a referendum revealed. I 1 lor The Tribune.) Lty rrcuiier Lemuel F. Parton around New Jersey so high that no one can scale it and with everyone coming in passing inspection first" His critics complain that he has succeeded.

In April, 1930, he paid the government a $5000 fine on a charge of income tax evasion and then paid taxes of $88,721.65, this being a compromise after his plea of guilty. Last March the Iron Workers' Union accepted his resignation, by a vote of 359 to 1. It was said then that his salary for 15 years had been $250 a week. Brandle, a fight promoter in his youth and an organizer and politician for 20 years, is an ally of Mayor Hague of Jersey City; and, all in all, one of the astute and powerful politicians in the state. 1 how can I go? And he tell hie: 'Why aon you try nying7' THIS bicycling craze may go too far, at that.

Over in Brooklyn the police fear the "scorcher" is coming back that nefarious bicycle rider who, back in the '90s, was given to burning up the road. A police alarm was sent out the other day for a "hit and run" cyclist who knocked down a pedestrian, who suffered lacerations of the left eye and face. The wheelman was bounced off his seat but remounted it hastily and sped away. AMMANY LEADER JOHN F. CURRY is as canny on the golf courses as at the track.

His 100 to 1 shots are legend; he very cagily demanded a handicap of 36 at a political gathering the other day at the Westchester Country Club. He shot 100; his net was 64 and it won the cup. He won't get away with that handicap again. for, Doctors at first-aid f5s the as of to of WHO'S NEWS TODAY -By Things theyksk iheMmneL those haunch paunch and jowl en-' gagements which sometimes take place on the intersecting highways of labor and politics. The trial of Brandle at St.

Louis, before the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, is another installment of a narrative which has included many ringside stories. The bullet-headed, tight-lipped Brandle has a banking business and an insurance business, is business agent and former president of the Iron Workers' Union, and is president of the State Building Trades Council, and of the Hudson County Council. In October, 1928, addressing New York industrialists, he said: "I am trying to build a fence 1 among a bunch of professors and editors, who are discussing propaganda and how it is done. They are all presumably rational persons themselves, but they, are ananimously convinced that the people are irrational. They, as professional scholars, are all interested, impersonally, in public problems, but they are sure the people are only interested each in what affects himself personally.

They find out things, by investigating to determine what is true, but they report that the people are controlled by mass-appeals to unreasoned phrases and slogans. These, they are sure, are the essential processes, not merely of democracy, but even of dictatorship, which, after all, rests on popular consent. a a a IS it as bad as this? Demagogues, whether of politics or of the press, have always treated the people as if it were, and now come the high-brows and certify that they are correct. The psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychopathologists, et id omne genus have put the human soul in the test tube and found it composed mostly of its irrational elements. Everybody can think a little, and gome people can think more, but the one whose conduct is determined by his thinking is rare indeed.

It is feelings, habits, traditions, prejudices, stereotyped phirases, interests, impulses anything but thought that move us. So the practical men, who live by appealing to the public, assume and so the experts now confirm. a a a ANOTHER high-brow, Professor Merriam, is more hopeful. Not that he has any higher estimate of the rationality the people than his colleagues, but that he thinks a new regime is coming, in which reasonable things can be done without requiring the people to contribute reason to them. The essential question has always been where "power" shall be located.

Once it was in whoever had the muscle to enforce it. Now it is in politics, wealth and war, with wealth generally controlling both the others. But Gandhi has power, with none of these. Poets and priests have ruled mankind, when kings and soldiers were secondary forces. So it does not follow that power must stay where it is now.

a a a THE most visibly impending change, says Professor Mer- riam, in technical language which is here translated into English, is the obliteration of what was once the distinction between government and business. Now these are being everywhere merged last of all in slogan-ridden America, where, because our fathers embodied governmental principles in certain words and business principles in other words, we still imagine those words mean something. However, we passed a law last week extinguishing that distinction in fact. It survives only in the motto of the Chamber of Commerce letterheads. a a a HOWEVER, because power is gravitating first to the new politico-economic unification, it does not follow that it will stay there.

Business and politics are not all of life. Science and technology are already an even greater part. If formal theology is a dwindling factor, essential religion is not. For it has to do, not with facts and quantities, but with values. Not what is, nor how much of it, but what it is worth, is the essential human measure.

Unless we believe what nobody can prove that life Is worth living, and that the progress of humanity is more important than personal advantage, nothing else can be done. Science and mathematics can not demonstrate this; government can not decree it; technology can not construct it; business can not trade in it but life consists of it. a a a AND life itself is more than the multifarious raiment with which modern institutions have clothed it life, in which beauty may be more than substance; leisure better than work; love more compelling than greed; learning more vital than action; the expansion of the soul more desirable than the accumulation of goods; liberty more essential than efficiency, and a new idea, which stimulates thought and broadens imagination, more enticing than an old slogan which aves the trouble of either thinking or visualizing. Perhaps some day we may recognize Life as the purpose of living. a a a SO the high-brows, in their jargon, of which this is a paraphrase.

They really esteem the human race; even though they deem it mostly irrational. Their own most valued experiences are also irrational. They differ from other people cnieny in ineir openness of mind. Nothing is sacrosanct to them, merely because it has always been not even "American institutions," if better ones; are offered. It is their trade to' stand jut the frontier of knowledge and the vanguard of thought, to peer into the unknown.

a a a MEANTIME there, is one old slogan, on which Americans must soon decide, whether it is worth preserving or not. That is "liberty." All the rest of the world has given it up, as the price of the new experiments in regimented collective action. We are making a beginning of those experiments, too, but we are hoping to reap their results without paying the price. If the rest of the world is right, that it can not be done, we must make our choice. And that will be a matter, not of science, or government, or business or theology but of human values.

ASHINGTON, D. June 26 With President Roosevelt on the vacation to which everybody regards him aS abundantly entitled, with Secretary of State Hull and Professor Raymond Moley in London. Washington as a source of information about America's attitude at the London conference is barren. The Treasury Department gives out statements, many of them definite and clarifying. Washington, however, has had the notion for several weeks that important financial politics of the government are not made by Secretary of the Treasury Woodin.

Washington is pretty confident that, for example, the April decision to go off the gold basis in the sense of declining to permit shipments of gold to pay international balances was not made by Secretary Woodin, but against his judgment and against the judgment of the Federal Reserve Board. It is not possible to deny that much of the confusion at London, and much of the lack of definite-ness about American policy at home, arises from a condition in the Department of State. The head of the department is Cordell Hull, a man of highest character, of scholarly temperament, universally credited with exceptional intellectual integrity, and an old-school Democrat in the sense, among other qualities, of holding the traditional Democratic view about lowered tariffs as a benefit at once to the United States and to the world. It is assumed confidently that if Hull were making the policies of the United States at London he would urge the conference to proceed promptly toward tariff reductions. IN Washington, however, observers infer that at the moment greater weight goes with the man who in the State Department is third in rank, Assistant Secretary Moley.

Professor Moley, so far as public statements disclose his attitude, and President Roosevelt with him, leans at this time toward a United States which shall achieve high prices, and which, in order to maintain high prices, must have high tariffs. Two of the Roosevelt administration's most important measures, the farm relief and industrial recovery acts, both include provisions for higher tariffs to sustain higher prices. At the same time, Professor Moley and President Roosevelt seem not to bar indeed, they sometimes propose reciprocal tariff reductions as a future development, and seem to regard, them as consistent with high domestic prices and with the farm relief and industrial recovery acts. Outsiders are emphatic in declaring there is a clear distinction between the two paths; that the United States must make, or be forced to make, the choice between a status in which, through tariff reductions, it takes a larger part in international trade, or, on the other hand, a status in which the country becomes self-contained and more or less isolated on a plateau of high prices. Probably the explanation of the inconsistency lies in the hope and IN THE BY PERCY NEW YORK, June 26.

The mood and Intention of the author of "The Ghost Writer" were not easy to fathom from his play, but apparently he had received some pretty painful impressions of the business of writing things for other people to sign. His hero, one Bill Harkins, struggling for gold and the girl, certainly had all sort of troubles. He could write good stories, but couldn't get anybody to print them. All he needed, so the author, Martin Mooney, would have us believe, was a "contact." Once Hawkins had that and, one story published, all would be easy sailing. So his faithful pal, Joe Gordon, described as the "king of chisellers," an optimistic and hard-boiled young man, out to promote whatever would bring him suitable rake-off, arranged that he should "ghostwrite" for the successful elderly novelist who lived just overhead.

The novelist had a mistress, one Claire Castell, and part of the arrangement was that Harkins should be at least passably amiable to Claire. His innocent gestures in this direction got him into trouble with his real love, a nice girl, of rather exalted social connections whom he always addressed as "Sweet Stuff." Harkins wriggled out of that misunderstanding only to tumble into another, again with the extraordinary Claire, and this time it wasn't until the final curtain was just about to come down that Harkins was again rescued, this time by "Sweet Stuff" herself, by a bi of literary subterfuge hard to understand at the moment, let alone to explain here. MEANWHILE all sorts of strange things happened. The world weary old novelist overhead took one drink too much and passed suddenly away. A broken-down actor entered for no reason whatsoever, except to mouth the familiar lines of this ancient stage stencil and toss glass after glass of whisky down his throat with trembling hand.

Harkins, broken by life's deceits and bitter? ness, almost succumbed to Claire, after all. A harmless young man whom he mistook for- "Sweet Stuff's" fiance entered and spoke one sentence, only to get a knockout blow on the chin from Harkins, who was then told that the young man was the Associated Press re porter come to Interview him on DIFFICULTY of interpreting the trend at Washington is increased by the fret that Professor Moley, as he left for London, announced that in an informal way, with him and Secretary Hull absent, State Department matters would have attention from Bernard M. Baruch. The announcement was cheering to every one who understands Baruch's high ability, his understanding of economics, and especially his experienced acquaintance with the technique of international conferences and with the men and the intricacies of European diplomacy. He was one of not more than two or three men who throughout the World War and at the Paris peace conference served President Wilson most closely.

To the degree that Baruch will have a hand in affairs, domestic or international, the country will be served with extraordinary wisdom and ability. Nevertheless, introduction of Baruch into the situation increases difficulty of interpreting the trend. As to the tariff, Baruch, perhaps mainly as a matter of accepting an inevitable temporary expedient, believes in the farm relief and industrial recovery acts, and necessarily in the higher tariff provisions that go with them. WHERE the confusion arises in the monetary field, Baruch has been a strong gold-standard, anti-inflation partisan. Probably the best statement of the evils of inflation made in all the outgivings of the past several months was in the testimony of Baruch before a congressional com mittee before the act providing for potential inflation was passed.

The gold standard, and currency matters generally, are at the heart of the London conference, and they are related to the matter of tariffs. It is difficult to think of Baruch's influence being on the same side as that which everybody ascribes to Professor Moley, and which President Roosevelt has so far taken. There is in the situation one curious condition. One mentions it for its oddity, and without ascribing potentiality to it. The United States has taken no step toward inflation.

All that has been done is to authorize the President to inflate if he deems it desirable. Actually, instead of inflation, there has been a return of upward of half a billion dollars of currency from circulation since early March. At the same time, the country, without inflation, is embarked upon the rise of- prices and the expan sion of business for which infla tion was recommended. It would be daring to suggest, though it is not impossible, that there may be no need for inflation, and therefore no act of inflation; at least the present condition is remark able. THEATER HAMMOND the literary success of which he himself was still unaware.

It was all very mixed-up and queer, with bits of comedy here and there and amusing lines, mostly from William Frawley's Joe Gor don. Frawley, recently released from his impersonation of the un- bashed and eloquent press agent in "Twentieth plays slightly similar role here. Indeed, the author seems to nave thought June a good time to rake up a job lot of odds and ends from this and other seasons and lug them out in "The Ghost Writer." Frawley is about the only member of the cast who appears at ease in his surroundings and about the only one to whom the author has given a fairly plausible part. Hal Skelly, so sure and at ease in "Burlesque," and so excellent in at least the latter half of his perform ance in the more recent seems uncomfortable as the ghost writer. And no wonder.

The author has done little or nothing to explain his acquaintance with the young lady whom he calls "Sweet and less to make him acceptable as a series young writer. After all, something more is needed in the way of characterization than the mere lack of funds and the posses sion of a typewriter. Brisk Miss Peggy Conklin is quite thrown away in the part of "Sweet Stuff, while Ara Gerald makes the up- stairs siren more unreal, if possible, man sne is the author script. DWARD LOCKE'S "The Cli- max" was first seen in these parts baek in 1909, and it has since been revived several times. The fact that the piece requires but one set and four characters may have had something to do with it.

At any rate, here it is again, and here, too, is Guy Bates Post, who played its kindly old Italian music-master part an astonishing number of times in the play's earlier aays. The mental-suggestion stuff isn't as compelling as it might be. especially in the moment when Adelina's voice comes back. The spectator expects some sort of counter-attack on the old musi cian's part, instead of which the doctor's spell just seems to fade away. In fact, the whole enter tainment is a bit slow-moving and overly "sweet." But Post gives, an expert performance as the old singing teacher and Miss Norma Terris (who will be remembered for.

her performance in "Show soarv, ngs very prettily. difficulty. The records we have of the Master were compiled from 30. to 100 years after the events with. which they deal and were intended by their authors to present an in-: terpretation of the Lord they adored.

They satisfy every legitimate demand and have ed the faith of all, who for nineteen centuries past re ceived their Redeemer through the. New Testament aid. The center of the Christian faith; is neither a book nor a creed, but a' person and a life. How not the Risen Christ manifested Himself to ma uiscipies in every age no uut erary evidence of His divine revelation would have been sufficient to sustain it Because He was mora, real to His followers than any other; personality with whom they had- contact He is and will always be the Logos, the Incarnate Word of the only true God, whom to know aright is life eternal. Why is is that so many friend whom I have helped are ungrate- ful? Don't help any one merely the purpose of earning his gratitude.

Your assistance is a personal obligation, and so is their Do good for its own sake, and. you-will not be disturbed when thanks'' are not forthcoming. Jesus healed, ten lepers, yet only one returned''! to render Him homage, and Ha was a despised Samaritan. It easy to condemn the other nine be--cause we forget the small part which real gratitude plays in life, Its common gifts are rich, varied in. kind and universal in scope.

Not-v withstanding, we usually take theny as mercies. But if some unexpected misfortune falls on us our protests are lusty and persistent. We face a world of eternal circumstances which are not of our, choosing. But our reaction to them' is within our choice, and thing are largely what we conceive thern to be. The genuine sufferers reveal the most thankful souls.

Many lovely flowers of character are grown' in. the soil of pain, and none is mora beautiful than unaffected INFORMATION prunes in, what strength solution should be used?" For French prunes the lye solu tion should contain about one pound: or lye (caustic soda) to twenty gallons of water. In dipping prunea the solution should be kept at about 200 degrees Fahrenheit, Just below the bollint point. Under these conditions an immersion from' five te fifteen seconds should be sufficient' I'ncEK ino Biun 01 me "Is the Tioga Pass road open at the present time?" YeS. "What can I mix with plaster ol paris so that it will harden s.

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cjlw TALK of NEW YORK By Ward Morehouse BUREAU OF "Will you please tell me through your Information Bureau column, when the fleet will be in San Francisco bay in August? How long will the ships be in?" The fleet will be in San Francisco bay August 12 to 21, 1933. "Can dahlias be grown from seed?" Yes. "When and where was 'Babe' Ruth born?" "Babe" Ruth was born In Baltimore, Maryland, on February 7, 1894. "Is there a rifle range in the Eastbay accessible for target practise to civilians? The National Guard rifle range at Leona Heights is open to civilians on the third Sunday of the month. "Could you tell me where I can find a good fortune, teller or palmist in We regret that we cannot give you Information of this "Will you tell me what the stands for on the license plates?" The special licenses with on them denote that the cars with these special plates are publicly owned, and exempt from paying a registration fee.

"Is it possible to get books from the Congressional Library in Washington?" The Congressional Library does not lend books. "In making a lye water to dip hospitals advise NEW YORK, June 28 (CPA) i Senator Bennett C. Clark, congressional novitiate from Missouri, and son of the old Demo cratic war horse, the late Champ Clark, makes visible a wide gulf between the old time Jeffersonian democrpcy and the uncharted domain of the new deal. Senator Clark is, like his as Jeffersonian as they come, but he balks at the "planned economy" of the Industrial Control bill not only balks, but starts kicking over the party traces. The issue involves the first Showdown on the essentially new elements of the new deal, and the partisan reaction in both camps is emphatically negative.

Planned economy is an orphan, so far as even liberal partisan melior-ists like Senator Clark are concerned. Politically nurtured in the old "bloody ninth," his father's congressional district, schooled at Washington as parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, Senator Clark is an apt politician, getting into the national headlines for the first time at 43. One phase of his career reveals a change in the political modes of the last decade or two. Champ Clark found it expedient to wear slack trousers, a slouch hat and black string tie and, although an extremely literate man and a college graduate, to be ostentatiously ungrammatical at times. His son finds it safe to wear good clothes and use good English.

He stepped out courageously as a wet, when other Missouri politicians were pussy-footing, and he has been outspoken and consistent in his advocacy of low tariffs. His traditional inclinations are against extreme federalization and his opposition to the broad collecti-vation of the new bill is understandable and doubtless sincere. He is a St. Louis lawyer, with four children, including twin sons. He is big and amiable, a marked man politically since he upset the slate of the Missouri boss, T.

J. Pendergast. He writes books, mainly about John Quincy Adams, his hero. I HAD the pleasure of spending an evening with- big, stolid, Joe Clemente Orozco when he came to New York three years ago. It seemed that no wall was.

safe, so eager was the Mexican muralist to start swinging his brush. When they summoned him to Pornona College, to talk about murals, they said they had no money. "It is nothing nothing," said Senor Orozco. "All I want is a wall." "Wayman Adams and the other American artists encounter this inundating genius, as they start another art fuss over his being employed to touch up Dartmouth College. Echoing the recent Rockefeller City-Rivera row, the argument hinges on the home talent plea" of the Americans.

They can fill up all the vacant walls without any outside help. Jose Visconalos, Mexican minister of education, stirred up the famous revolutionary syndicate of artists, including Rivera and Orozco, about IS years ago, offering them eight pesos a day to paint walls. Senor Orozco had been tinting post cards in. California, and this seemed like real money. After they had made Mexico a polychromatic country, they overflowed into the United States, arid now there seems nothing to do but set them to work in the Grand Canyon, TE New Jersey battle between Theodore M.

Brandle, New Jersey labor ''czar" and former Senator David Baird Jr, is one of i rs2 rv EW YORK, June 28 (CPA) While commuters scurried hither and thither and piled up on each other at subway turnstiles, all was serene today in at least one corner of the vast Pennsylvania station. A little knot of the faithful disciples of Isaak Walton were placidly- swapping yarns as they participated in the opening of a "fishermen's information bureau," the first of its kind to be established in any railroad terminal in New York. H. W. Major, who not only fishes but designs fishing tackle, is in charge of the new bureau.

He explained that its aim is to call attention to the fact that the waters of Long Island and New Jersey afford greater opportunities for successful game fishing than any other section of the United States. Among other things Major claims that in these Eastern waters there are about fourteen times as many swordfish as may be found in the waters surrounding Catalina Island and Southern California. "I do not wish to minimize the advantages which Catalina and Southern California afford in the way of big game fishing, but, having discovered an even more bountiful haven for the followers of this type of angling, I am quite certain that my host of friends in the golden state will not mind my telling the world about it." On exhibition at the bjtireau is a fish which brought Major the three-six tackle sailfish record. It measures 8 feet '2V inches. And when the fishermen get tired of asking questions, of course, it is Major's duty to urge them to hop aboard a Pennsylvania or Long Island train and be whisked away to the happy fishing grounds.

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