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Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 2

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TWO ONCOLN EVENING JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. 1937. STRIKERS STRING UP EFFIGIES. VET DAY IN CAPITAL INAUGURAL ADDRESS ANOTHER DEATH IN i --T-y J- ea I 'itttt" 777 Johnson, explorer; James Braden, Cleveland; A. L.

Loo tnis, Omaha, and E. E. Spencre, Chicago. The survivors were reported improving. Pilot W.

W. Lewis, from his hospital bed, gave his version ot the "pancake" landing to Maj. R. W. Schroeder.

federal chief of airlines Inspection. The pilot's story was not made public, but Maj. Schroeder indicated he was considering a theory that treacherous downdrifts in the New ha 11 pass region may have caused the two motored airliner trouble. Across the pass, another transport crashed Dec. 27, killing 12 persons.

Cold air masses from northern mountain ranges, colliding in the pass with the warmer air from San Fernando valley, buffet planes dangerously, MaJ. Schroeder said. New Northern Seal fur coats Just received from our New York-buyer. All go at 1-3 off regular price at Ben Simon Son. Adv.

SHOT WHILE DRIVING. PLEASANTON. Neb. UP). Ernes Copilot Succumbs in Hospital; Downdrafts From Mountain Blamed.

LOS ANGELES. VP). Only eight survivors, all hospitalized, were left of the 13 persons aboard Western Air Express liner when it crashed on a snowy mountain of CLIFFORD OWENS. ridge near the Burbank airport Jan. 12.

T. Owens, copilot, died in a hospital, the fifth victim of a disaster for which the federal bureau of air commerce expects to hold a public hearing Thursday. Owens is survived by his widow and two young sons. Other fatalities were Martin. f- 8 4 our people, they will demand that these conditions ot effective government shall be created and maintained.

They win demand a nation uncorrupted by cancers of injustice and. therefore, strong among the nations in its example of the will to peace. Today we reconsecrate our country to long cherished ideals in a suddenly changed civilization. In every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. In our personal ambitions we are individualists.

But In our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else we all go down as one people. To maintain a democracy of effort requires a vast amount of patience In dealing with differing methods, a vast amount of humility. But out of the confusion of many voices rises an understanding of dominant public need. Then political leadership can veice common Ideals, and aid In their realization. In taking again the oath of office as president of the United States.

I assume the solemn obligation of leading the American people forward along the road over which they have, chase to advance. While this duty rests upon me I shall do my utmost to speak their purpose and to do their will, seeking divine (Oil dance to help us each and every one to give light to them that sit in darkness and to guide our feet into the way of peace. DEVICE AIDT AIR PILOT May Find Bearings After Losing Radio Beam. CHICAGO. (UP).

Aviation engineers claimed complete success for a homing device designed to aid pilots out of difficulties such as those preceding western airplane crashes this winter. The instrument, with which a pilot may find his bearings after he has lost the landing field radio beam, was demonstrated at Chicago municipal airport Capt Hal Snead went aloft in a TWA plane, intentionally "lost" his bearings. Flying blind, he employed the new instrument to find the landing field. Company engineers explained that previously a pilot who lost bis beam was forced to circle for it and, If he could not find It because of statfc, to fly low and search for landmarks. In such cases he chanced crashing into mountainsides.

Because of crashes this winter, TWA pilots were ordered to increase altitude whenever weather conditions left them confused. The new Instrument will enable them to re-locate themselves despite static, it was said. Snead said the device will eliminate 90 percent of pilots' worries. For the second time during the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, effigies were hanged from windows of the plant These, labeled "General Motors Stool Pigeons" and "George Boyeen," head of the Flint Alliance, an anti-strike organization, appeared after the strikers refused to vacate the plant In accordance with an agreement reached by leaders of both sides In a conference with Gov. Frank Murphy.

(Associated Press Photo) Thaden was accidentlly shot while driving to Sartoria. The gun, a ZZ rifle, discharged when his brother bumped against it in trying to reach a match in his pocket After' the bullet had torn its way thru his heavy winter clothing, pierced the flesh and torn its way out again it still had speed enough to shatter the rear window ot tne car. FARMER IS ACCUSED. SIDNEY, Neb. VP).

Co. Atty. P. J. Heaton filed Informations in county court against Louie Renkln, Dalton farmer, charging, he wrote more than $1,000 worth of worth-' less checks on the Dalton State bank.

Renkln faces nine charges. Eight of them involve no fund checks and the ninth alleges he obtained property under false pre- i tenses. WASHINGTON. (AP). The fol lowing is the text of President Roosevelt inaugural addresas: My fellow countrymen When lour year ago we met to inaugurate a president, the republic, single- minded in anxiety, stood in spirit i-oere.

we dedicated ourselves to the lullLlment of a vision to speed the time when there would be for ail the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit ol nappiaeas. we of the republic pledged ourselves to drive from the tempie of our ancient faith those who had prolaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. Our covenant with ourselves did not rtop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need the need to find thru government the instrument of, our united purpose to solve for the individual tne ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution wiinout the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered.

For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men. we of the republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable to solve problems once considered unsolvabie. We would not admit tnat we could not iind a way to master economic epidemics just as, alter centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the- hurricanes of disaster.

in tnis we Americans were dis covering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of sen government inis year marts tne lsotn an niversary ot the constitutional con vention wnicn made us a nation. At tnat convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos whlcn followed the Revolutionary war; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solutioa A century and a halt ago they established the fed-eral government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people. Invoke Government Powers. Todav we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives. Four years of new experience have not belled our historic instinct They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate states, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy.

Our tasks In the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday. Nearly all of us recognize tnat as intricacies of human relationships Increase, so power to govern them also must increase power to stop evil: nower to do good. The es sential democracy ot our nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals torn an honest and free system of elections. The con stitution of 17(7 did not make oar democracy impotent In fact, in' these last four years, we have made the exercise of all power more democratic; for we nave oegun to onng private autocratic powers into their proper subordination to the public's govern ment The legend that they were mvinciwe aoove and oeyond the process! of a democracy has been snaiiereo. iney nave Been cnai.

lensred and beaten. Our progress out of the depression is obvious. But that is not all that you and i mean oy tne new order or tnings. Our pledge was not merely to do a patchwork Job with second-hand materials. By using the new materials of social Justice we have undertaken to erect on the old foundations a more enduring structure for the better use of future generation In that purpose we have been helped by achievements of mind and spirit Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays. We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of un-imaglned power for the establish ment of a morally better world. Abandon Tolerance of Abuse. This new understanding under mines the old administration of worldly success as such.

are beginning to abandon our tolerance of the abuse of power by those who betray for profit the ele mentary decencies of life. In this process evil thlnes for merly accepted will not be so easily condoned. Hard headedness will not so easily excuse hard hearted- ness. We are moving toward an era oi Rood feeling. But we realize that there can be no era of good feeling save among; men of good will.

For these reasons I am Justified in believing that the greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America. Among men of stood will science and democracy together offer an ever richer life and ever larger satisfaction to the individual. With this change in our moral climate ana our rediscovered acuity to improve our economic order, we have set our feet upon the road of enduring progress. Shall we pause now and turn our back upon the road that lies ahead? Shall we call this the promised land? Or, shall we continue on our way? age is a dream mat is dying, or one tnat coming: to birth." Many voices' are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says "Tarry a while." Opportunism says inis is a good spot." Timidity asks' "How difficult is the road ahead?" True, we have come far from the days of stagnation and despair.

Vitality has been preserved. Courage and confidence have been restored. Mental and moral horizons have been extended. But our present earns were won under the pressure of more than rr It recreation and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children. I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.

I see one-third of a nation in-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it proposes to paint it out We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress la not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our nation, we will not listen to comfort, opportunism and timidity.

We will carry on. Overwhelmingly, we of the republic are men and women of good will men and women who have more than warm hearts of dedicationmen and women who have cool heads and willing hands of practical purpose as well They will Insist that every agency of popular government use effective instruments to carry out their will. Trustees for Whole People. Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people. It can make constant progress when it keeps abreast of all the facts.

It can obtain justified support and legitimate criticism when the people receive true information of all that government does. If I know aught of the win of If ordinary circumstance. Advance became imperative under the goad of fear and suffering. The times were on the side of progress. To hold to progress today, however, is more difficult Dulled conscience, irresponsibility and ruthless self interest already reappear.

Such symptoms of prosperity may become portents of disaster I Prosperity alreadv tests the persistence of our progressive purpose. uet us as again: Have we reached the goal of our vision of that fourth day of March, 1833? Have we found our happy valley? Great Nation Blessed, I see a great nation, imon a areat continent blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. Its 130 million people are at peace among themselves; they are making their country a good neighbor among the nations. I see a United States which can demonstrate that under democratic methods of government, national wealth can be translated into a spreading volume of human comforts hitherto unknown and the lowest standard of living can be raised far above the level of mere subsistence. But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens a substantial part of its whole populationwho at this very moment are denied the greater part of what ine very lowest standards oi today call the necessities of life.

I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day bv day. I see millions whose dailv lives in city and on farm continue under conditions laoeued indecent by a socalled polite society half a century ago. I see millions denied education, CUT OFF JAIL TOBACCO. COLUMBUS, Neb. (UP).

Prisoners in the Platte county jail who do not have money to buy tobacco hereafter will have to "mooch" the "makin's" from prisoners who do, or go smokeless. This was decreed when the county supervisors decided the board no longer would allow claims for "tobacco or luxuries" for Inmates. An average of 33 cents daily had been spent by the county for tobacco. ED Officials From Many States Rubbing Elbows With tip er sleuths. WASHINGTON.

C3P). Glittering galumphing gentry and just plain folk here to look and shout surged with buoyant homage Wednesday thru Inaugural scenes till soggy from three days' rain. The day looked so wet that workmen hurried a dry batch of paper magnolia blossoms to the presidents reviewing stand in front of the white house. The 23,000 covered seats In tern porary stands along historic Pennsylvania however, began to fill hours before the bugles blew for the military parade. Sixty-three super sleuths im ported from eastern cities eagle-eyed thru sidewalk Jams with orders to smash pocket picking, as If there were room enough even to light a cigar.

Buzzing Undertones swept the ranks of lieutenant governors, mayors, councilmen and aldermen. Those close enough to eavesdrop reported the political questions of the moment were: How do you meet the president? How many Inaugural parties are you going to tonight? The bulky presence of the capital's three police forces augmented by 300 stalwarts from New York and Philadelphia dimmed any faint prospect of a march on the white house to cheer the newly inaugurated president A close reader of history, Police Superintendent Ernest W. Brown, shuddered at the recollection of the time exuberant hordes of democracy invaded the mansion to hail Andrew Jackson and wiped muddy boots on executive damask. Hotels became so crowded that Joe Johnson the 88 pound bellhopwas pressed into service bearing ponderous baggage thru the thronged corridors. Emergency peddler licenses neared the record set at Sir.

Roosevelt's first inauguration when 201 hucksters put down SI each to sell fruit and buns. Street sweepers heaved sighs of relief at the district commissioners ban against confetti. The most consistent inaugural fan to come to light was 88 year old Charles Bruce, who saw Franklin Pierce take the oath of office In 1853. Next was Mrs. Jane Baden, 94, who witnessed James Buchanan's inauguration, but not this one.

"Too much chance," she said, "of catching cold." MILLIONS UNABLE TO SEW Cloth Retailers Bemoan Lack of Seamstresses. NEW YORK. More than 27,000,000 American women never have learned to sew, the national retail dry-goods association was told, and the members are both ered. The merchants, who want to sell their piece goods in something like the quantities they did in grandma's day, viewed with alarm the report that 82 percent of America's homes have sewing machines, but only 15,000,000 out of 42,000,000 women know how to take their own stitches. The remainder, the association's committee on home sewing promotion said, "do little or no sewing because they have never been taught, and are consequently unable to use fabrics, patterns and other home sewing supplies." The report said "the retail piece goods business would be much better today if the 16,200,000 women between the ages of 14 and 29 had been given adequate and proper sewing instruction." The committee proposed revival of the Sewing Institute, formed In 1931 and suspended later for lack of funds, In order to ret -thr feminine-population-back to the sewing machine.

It was suggested a $123,000 fund be raised to promote home dressmaking. Fill prescriptions at Gold' Adv. FEDERAL ACTOR SIGHED Grant Richards First to Get Movie Contract. HOLLYWOOD. (UP).

Grant Richards, 25, unemployed actor, held the honor of being the first federal theater project performer to be signed to a film contract The young actor had been appearing in a FTP production in Hollywood when seen by Emanuel Cohen, president of Major Pictures. The producer was favorably impressed with Richards' work and gave him a screen test. Cohen signed the actor immediately and then showed the test to Paramount studio officials who also were Impressed and asked that they be permitted to buy an Interest in the contract BEAUTIFUL FINK PLATES In Numerous Shades DENTURES OF BEAUTY OTHER PLATES MADE HIGHEST GRADE MATERIALS ECONOMY OUR WATCHWORD A State Law Prohibits Prlca Advartlalna Bridge Work Teeth Extracted Teeth Filled Gold Inlays Silver Fillings Plates Repaired ONE DAY SERVICE oo (x VH countries theSm: A I Milder refreshingly milder never flat A pleasing taste and aroma like it! For the good things smokers down-right plea- sure a cigarette can.give rfieldsgi world iV--'-'2 Coprnht I i wV LiGcrrr ft Mviu Tobacco Co, 1 DR. COUSINS DENTAL OFFICES Sn.l, ia A. M.

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