The Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune from Muscatine, Iowa • Page 4

TQTTRNALl AND THURgCAT, .1937 Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune By JOURNAL PRINTING CO. CLYDE RABEDEAUX, Publisher. WALTER RUSSELL. Managing Editor. Tht Journal Established 1840.

Trlbuns Established 184S. News Established 1880. News Tribune merged 1881. Journal and News-Trtbunft consolidated 191B. Member of Newsparer Syndicate.

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES. io. New JorS, Kansas City, Detroit. Atlanta St. Loalx, San Francisco.

NOEE, BOTHEXBERG JAJJN. electric department, ample in accommodations for immediate and future needs of the city utility. With it came completion of an underground conduit system in the downtown section of the city, designed to bring about better service and reduced mainten- costs. Other improvements of a technical nature, were made in the electrical distribution system and its operation. Rough paving along the route of highway No.

61 through the city gave, way during the year to a smooth slab of concrete, a "change appreciated particularly by motorists using the route daily. Neighboring communities likewise saw new homes built, new enterprises launched, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Dally Journal la Issued every evening In tho week except Sunday. Dadly delivered In the city by carriers and collected lor wiekly. 20 cents per wee 1C.

Dally one year by mull Inside 1st and 2nd tones I 5.00 Dally one year by mull outside 1st and 2nd 510.00 All mall subscriptions In advance. Entered as second class matter ot the post at Muscatine, Iowa, under act of March 8. 1879. Member Asioclatcd The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tile use lor re-publlcatlon of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published herein. Member of Dally Association.

Dei Molacs and business offices at 403 Shops Banding. TE1EPHOOTS. Private Branch Exchange numbers 28 and 27. When Operator answers ast for person or department wanted. FORWARD STEPS TAKEN As time rolls on, it is wholly proper that tt intervals mortals pause and look back over what-has gone before.

By common consent and custom, the advent of a new year has come to be observed as a period in which the accomplishments for the 12 months preceding it are held up for examination and opportunities in the comin'g year are scanned. It is in keeping with such a custom that The Muscatine Journal today, in its annual year-end review edition presents, through the medium of additional pages, in story and picture a resume of the year 1937, which in something like 24 more hours, will pass from the stage in favor of 1938. Scanning these additional pages in today's edition, which record the history of 1937 with particular emphasis upon developments in this community and the state df Iowa, it seems evident that the period of time designated by the calendar year 1937 will go down in history as one of Side George Clarke rzgins community buildings and other improvement projects brought to completion. The spirit of the year was demonstrated in a most positive manner here when voters endorsed overwhelmingly a proposal to issue bonds for a new half million dollar high school for which a PWA grant was authorized. Preliminary work on this undertaking is well under way as the year draws to its close.

Dame Nature entered into the spirit of the year in-a positive manner. Favorable rains and moderate temperatures contributed to -a generous harvest. The extremes of the long to be remembered winter and summer of a year before were missing. There were other than material gains this region in 1937. Early in the year, when raging'rivers and weakening levees brought disaster- and suffering to other parts of the nation, this area responded generously.

The Red Cross appealed for aid and it was given in amounts which far exceeded-the original re- WHIRLIGIG WASHINGTON (By Ray'Tucker) CHALLENGE President Roosevelt has given a private pledge to congressional liberals that he will apply the heat to defiant reactionaries of his own party during the regular session. He will keep the radical fires burning torn start to finish. Mr. R. will devote particular attention to the southerners who opposed him almost unanimous- on the wage-hour bill.

He has received confidential reports that with a few notable exceptions they do not represent sentiment home. Prior to another test on the measure he may tour several states below the Mason and Dixon line, delivering excoriating speeches at a few key points. He will, he has informed his gadflies on Capitol Hill pit his prestige against theirs. Unvarnished new dealers In house and senate have taken fright at the president's recent flirtations with business, banking and utility leaders. At several unreported sessions they have put F.

D. R. "on the spot" for his apparent indifference to The upshot was "We eat out once a week just to give the' wife, a NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS By PAUL MALLON which must be with" have JOHN H. FAHEY boss, 'I guess you'll have to give him Far from stopping the group health movement. Mr.

Fahey his promise that he woukT leal plans to extend it to include em- fn tead of malingering in the rear ployes in other governmenta F. D. sianai right behind him. Despite a hastily mobilized but powerful medical lobby at Washngton and elsewhere, the new dealers insist on cutting the high cost of living. MINORITY For years Washington has often wondered how many members of congress ac- -with definite to be clipped.

The of these leftists was welcomed during the -lull-speed organizing drive, but lately they have become a nuisance and an embarrasiroent to the C. I. O. general They are to be quietly ur e( office where possible. In other cases, their powen will be restricted.

In some unions, notably tfce United Automobile the reds are firmly entrenched and will be hard' to dislodge. Some lively internal skirmishes are in prospect. BRIDGES This inside "swing to the right," which will not be acknowledged publicly, will greatly diminish the prestige and influence of Harry Bridges. The Australian radical has been the undisputed czar of maritime labor on the Pacific coast, and the virtual boss of all C. I- O.

-activities in that sector. His grip on western seamen and longshoremen is too strong to be broken in a hurry, but the I. p. moderates will borrow a leaf from the reds' handbook and try from within" to undermine his However, the C. I.

won't blow up bridges until some- sort of i3 Patched up with from now on. INSTRUCTION "Jim Farley's mail proved too efficient during the holiday season for the P. M. G's peace of mind. He tried to recall an important letter after he had mailed do and was bawled out by the president.

Mr. Roosevelt has an obsession against opening gifts before Christmas even are per- Yuletide Washington This whole current depression is to be subjected to a big senatorial investigation show immediately after the holidays. What 'is more important, quests. Muscatine's Morgenthau May Need Hideout. Sec.

Morgenthau used a -photograph of his New York farm home on his Christmas cards Sistie" and "Buzzie" mitted to break that rule. So, in sending gifts to his the A of L. "Otherwise, the west coast C. I. O.

might be easily subjugated by his archenemy Dave the aggressive and able apportumst who. commands the federation forces in that area and has become the uncrowned king of Seattle. DISCONTENT One phase of potential tualiy work at their trade that hasn't yet been how many read or understand the measures submitted for their many devote any time to study of social and economic problems they are sup- iliuic: the investigating this year. He will probably hide- is to be done by senators who are I out from under the thumb of the White House. It a result in congress taking the ball away from Quarter- a Roosevelt.

At the very least, it means the whole bal- out there when the states and congress start looking for the billion dollars which has been paid, into the unemployment insurance fund. The treasury is In a serious although it has been kept quiet. Unemployment is expected to reach nine millions in January. Mr. Roosevelt has asked congress to authorize all states to make-payments lor unemploy- cabinet members, the head of the pose( to solve at 510,000 per family inscribed on the packages year a warning that they must remain untouched until Dec.

25. Mr. Farley, however, tore his open as soon as the present reached him, and immediately wrote a thank- you letter which convicted him of a Christmas crime. annual community chest 1 the year. progress and accomplishment.

Materially these gains are reflected in many ways. Buildino' proceeded at a brisk pace in this community during the year. Construction work of greater volume than for a number of years past was among the activities of New homes were erected in sections of the city. Many already built were improved. New commercial Btructures were erected and those already bunt were improved and enlarged.

Public undertakings in the construction field kept pace with private endeavors Federal, state and municipal authorities all had hand in improvsments which are a part of 1937's history. Muscatine's enlarged and remodeled post- Office was completed, dedicated and oc bringing a ceremonies attending the dedication nging a cabinet officer, James A. postmaster general, to the city briefly and dam No. 16 upon the Mississippi neared the final stages with the con- ruction of auxiliary features necessary in the final scheme of river transportation, which the undertaking is a vital link. An attractive and useful substation buOd- river drive for the support of public health, family rehabilitation and character building agencies saw an amount subscribed which set a new high mark.

Church and fraternal organizations continued their efforts at an accelerated pace. The Farm Bureau extended the scope of ts Educational work of schools was improved by the addition of new courses and changes made in. others. These things and others which. are related in greater detail elsewhere in today's Journal are proof of the assertion that Muscatine and vicinity moved forward material and other ways since 1937 began.

Members of The Journal's staff have put forth extra effort to put this edition in the hands of the readers. In their work they have been aided greatly by the contributions of manv others outside the newspaper or- oanization. Public officials and business firms have, by their friendly co-operation, made this edition, the largest year-end review ever to be published here, possible. The assistance of all whose efforts were contributed is gratefully acknowledged. This special edition is delivered to readers a day in advance of the year's depar- ture'so that a few moments will be available before the hustle and hurry of bidding 1937 farewell and extending a welcome to 1938, for an appraisal of what Muscatine and'community has accomplished.

It is delivered into readers' with MALLON subjected to an time. anced plan and ment insurance January 1, measures only 2 2 states and the District of 'Columbia will be fully prepared.) new deal will be; cold senatorial alysis" for the first The investigators themselves apparently made the decision to con-v duct the investigation. It came about this way: At the last session or congress, before this depression started, the senate adopted a resolution authorizing the vice president to appoint a committee to inquire into relict and unemployment. Mr. Garner apparently had a slight new deal blind spot in his eye tha.

day as he named Byrnes, Clark, Hatch, Murray, Frazier, Davis and Lodge. Of these, only Murray and is where the money is coming from. The treasury devised a neat little scheme for using unemployment insurance taxes to pay current running expenses. They take the money, thus, collected from the workers out of the unemployment insurance fund and spend it leaving the fund with 2 1-2 per cent of treasury lOU's maturing next year. Nearly a half-billion dollars will thus have been taken out of the fund when the January demand gets heavy.

A member of the White House staff read the letter and notified 'Jim" of his misdeed. But when the latter begged that the missive be returned so that he could "cover up," he was told that was. too also against the law to retrieve a letter after it had been dropped in the box. So "Jim" Christmas, calldown from the Nobody knows ''definitely, of course. But seasoned observers have often fixed the total number of serious, studious legislators at somewhere between 50 and 100.

It was figured that at least one- tenth of the house and senate labored at being statesmen. There are 80 committee chairmen who certainly should know what it's all about 33 in the senate and 47 in-the house. But the most accurate check obtainable indicates that only 40 have their minds on their job. Only that number regularly utilize the marvelous facilities Santa Glaus in the White House. ava lable Ior study, research, MEDICAL When H.

L. C. executives huddled in the front office to discuss Acting Controller General Elliott's ruling that their $40,000 group health contract was a violation of the law, they found their unperturbed. He was laughing so violently that his white goatee quivered "Gentlemen," he said, "we have scent the $40,000. It reminds me of nie tramp who wandered into a saloon, ordered a drink, swallowed it and then told the bartender he'd have to- wait for his money.

The barkeep yelled up the i bill-drafting and speech-writing Jin the congressional branch of the famed Library of Congress. The-special library staff assigned to this legislative service students, researchers, translators often go for weeks without making a sale to the political intelligentsia across the plaza. NEW YORK. By James McMullln "PURGE" The backstage attitude of the C. I.

O. high command toward its member unions and their officials has changed subtly but significantly in recent weeks. The trend is towards conservatism and full responsibility for fulfill- publicly will probably become important before a final formula for renovating the exchange manage- ment is worked out. Executives of corporations whose securities are listed on the big board are pretty well fed up with stock market vagaries oi recent months. Many of them have been bombarded with letters from indignant shareholders demanding to know what's the matter the company when the value of its stocks drops 50 per cent or more -within two or three months.

The industrialists of course had nothing to do with that, but they find it difficult to paciiy angry inquirers. They suspect that there's something wrong at the market end when the mirror that supposed to reflect industrial conditions with reasonable- accuracy distorts them so violently. Their discontent is finding expression in a strong sub rosa demand for active representation on the body that rales the exchange. They feel that- this is as a protection to their stockholders and themselves. The b.

i. is understood to be privately pathetic to their viewpoint. So it and when reform becomes It sounds like official abscond- the DOSS: he said, men of contracts. Bitter lessons I trust him for a the recession have brought it The own- home to C. I.

O. chiefs that the ing, but it is perfectly legal ab- I Tom wan ts us to trusl sconding under the social secus-ity ink. How about Frazier are southpaws. Hatch oc- ac t. The treasury just did not ex- er re pii ec 'Has he drunk it casionally leans that way but he, Byrnes and Clark have no R's on their sleeve.

The committee seems to be at least four to three independent of orders from above. Searchless Seven Expand Inquiry. So far they have done little investigating. A questionnaire was sent out to gather suggestions for remedies. Committeemen have not taken the trouble to make the result public.

All they developed was a few thousand curbstone opinions, of which not a single one appeared practicable. The Biggers unemployment census aiso prevented the committee from go- ahead until his figures show- the hope that they will find, in addition to mu ch of interest as they scan its pages causes for increased community pride and the inspiration for even greater attainments during the year which is about, to open. Poor Pa BT CLADD CAliAN "Mv dog came to -me- today Ma was-fussin' at me, but he walked real slow, if he was comm' to me his better judgment." Copyrlgnt. 1937. "As You Were" 50 Years Ago Today.

"The river has closed in a way quite unfavorable for the ice man. There is said to be no large pieces of good clear ice in the river in front of the city," a Journal item read. 25 Years Ago Today. Fire and water caused a heavy loss to the contents of the-Levi Barnard home, when fire gutted it at the noon hour. R.

Stafford returned from Des Homes after serving as best man at the marriage of Thomas McCulloch, former principal oi Jefferson school, and Miss Barbara Barclay of Des Homes. 10 Years Courtney Wilson and Ellis Shields, Muscatine Boy Scouts, received Eagle Scout emblems. Miss Viola Maxwell, nurse at the Muscatine county home, I was called to Florida by the death of 9 Aunt 11 el BY ROBERT QUILLBN The searchless seven, therefore, lately decided to expand. One committeeman, Mr. Hatch, has already indicated they will go into the monopoly issue, and announcement will be made soon that they are going still further into labor, prices, insurance, old-age pensions, government spending, WPA, technological unemployment, poverty and status of migratory pect another depression so soon and thought it could get away with this short-cut method of avoiding financing and increasing the debt.

Congressional investigators will go into this, too. I Mr. President Pulls the Strings. Public execs do not ex- pect anything to come out of their current negotiations with the White House. They are convinced that they are being played on -a long string for temporary political effect.

A resolution calling for a senatorial investigation of Sen. Berry's marble deal with the TVA has been prepared for introduc- the man behind huge union structure built up in gleeful haste last winter and Ye9' ijc the counter. 'Well, said thespring rests on sand foundations Famous Foreign Flyer HORIZONTAL 5 Flyer famous early in this century. 11 Portion. 12 Instruments.

14 Uncommon. 16 Wastrel. 18 Reverence. Answer to Previous Puiile CT. -r- a -southeastern democratic 19 Devil may not be pre 20 L'ion.

El Rowing tool 23-Knoclc. 25 Strike in fact, all depression factors. the It will constitute the first in- i nf -fVnn ripsl SS sented when congress reconvenes. For one thing, the senate dislikes to investigate one of its own members. For another, the word i 25 Upon.

is around that no one will ever be able to prove "anything except that Sen. Berry wanted more for his flooded marble quarries than TVA was willing to pay. 11 Skirt edge. To scold. JO Northeast 11 Toward.

J2 To rectify. 55 Noisy outcry. "The people that make automobile- -must not know about fellows like Joe and Bill. The new ones have got three places to empty ashes and no place, to empty eatin' tobacco." (Copyrlgnt, 1937. vestigation of the new deal as such.

Note: The senators, naturally, are not professing any intention of putting the new deal policies on the In general, their inquiry is supposed to oe mildly sympathetic and non political. Hearings will open Jan. 4. First witness will be Unemployment Census Taker Biggers; next Labor Secretary Perkins and her economist, Isador Lubin; later both John Lewis and Bill Green; thereafter, heavy eoods industnal- ists Inside tip is, the Biggers figures will be very controversial. They really will no.t show anything for sure, except such well-known facts as that heaviest unemployment is in the building trades; that a lot of housewives and high school-, children classify themselves as needing work.

The survey became obsolete with the new de- gression before the count was i completed. Those who have seen the preliminary figures, to be announced shortly, agree only on one conclusion: No really worth-while figures on unemployment will- be available until the state unemployment commissions really get to functioning -under the security "act, Ken Murray see Chicago now licenses horse race bookies to do business. Well, it's about time all American cities dipped in on that gravy instead of the cops. But what is fair for Chicago should be okey-dokc for the federal trovernment. I wonder has F.

D. R. or congress ever figured that lottery tickets would go good at all post office windows. Then we could have a roulette wheel spinning: beneath the rotunda, of every public library. And come to think of the floor of'the library of congress is a dandy place for shooting dice.

There's no doubt America is nntsy over the galloping nags. Why, even out. here in Hollywood it's g-ot 'em. A movie star's body may on the studio lot, but his mind is at Santa Anita. If Uncle Sam ever gets in on this legalized 'racket he'll not only balance the budget, but in a year or two he can pay off the national debt.

And as a stimulant, the government' forecasts could always start off like this: "Weather clear, track fast." (Copyright 1937, McNaught Syndicate, gold. 52 Sun. 53 Flavor. 58 Island. Frozen water.

59 Harem. 10 Eagle's nest. 61 Dormouse. 12 Chaos. J3 Mister.

14 He was also an airplane 47 Stir. 49 Those that VERTICAL tease. 1 Burdened. 50 Overlays with 2 Part of a shaft 41 Night before. 13 Fence rail.

15 Grafted. 17 Eggs of fishes. 19 Mineral spring. 22 Wine Vessel. 24 Conjunction.

27 Mohammedan nymph. 28 Critical reviewers. 31 Pedal digit. 33 Musical note. 34 Northeast 36 Somewhat hard.

Light colors. 39 To break open 3 Indian. 42 Neither. 4 Therefore. 43 5 To nod.

45 Artist's frame. 6 To ogle. 46 Tissue. 7 Electric 48 Jar. 8 God of war.

51 Lair. 9 Curse. 54 Wing, first man to flylO Group of 55 Male child, the English railway cars. 56 Twitching. (pi.) 11 This won 57 Before.

63 Fe was a international 59 Southeast, native of fame, (pi.) 60 Provided. 62 He was the reality listed corporations are liKe- lv to have "a substantial voice the management of the exchange. This would be a revolutionary innovation. WARNING This column Wednesday carried an item on Japanese propaganda in this country, in the course of which we noted that radio channels are closed to the propagandists. New York insiders learn that the state department was much annoyed by Ambassador Saito's recent radio appeal direct to the American people over the heads of accredited government officials, and is determined that of thing shall not happen again.

A law already exists which can be invoked to bar foreign propaganda broadcasts. Ironically, it is 138 years the Logan act of 1799. Under this act, connivance of an American citizen with the agent of a foreign stationed in this country is an ap- proach to the people through otn- er than recognized channels on a question subject to diplomatic ne- gotiations constitutes "correspon- dence with intent to influence such agent in relation to disputes or controversies with the United States." Heavy penalties, prescribed by this law, would apply both to the broadcasting company and the sponsor of. a program carrying foreign propaganda. The federal communications commission can and probably will give the state department a hand by issuing a quiet warning to all radio stations that they will get into plenty hot water if they don't watch their step on broadcasts by foreigners.

One little hint would be sufficient. The radio people are taking no chances on rubbing the F. C. C. the wrong way thesi days.

OFFER A leading New York banker, who has been taken over the bumps by Sen. Burton Wheeler in connection with the investigation of railroad financing, wrote the Montanan last week that he would be glad to come down, to Washington and offer some suggestions to the Wheeler committee il its chairman so desired. His letter went on to the effect that he had not offered them when he appeared personally before the committee because he didn't think it was interested in anything but anti-Wall Street Now, however, that Mr. Wheeler had indicated a real desire to help the railroads, he would he pleased to contribute ideas as to how it -could be done. The New Yorker privately rather hopes that the senator will boil over at his patronizing tone and angrily teU him to mind his own business.

He figures that be used to show that talk of operation between government and business isrthe bunk. McClure.