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JL 4- 1" i THE: KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL Thuridiy Septmbfr2L19M To Keep The Home Fires Burning! he Knoxville News-Scntind Forty sixth yiar of publication Establish'd Dee 21 1116 ifVTov htno 1-PlTnji cHAMtUCIld Bl'SIXUI MANAoktt (T'phBBa I-I13U at CMirrh Avanua hr The publlthrt at piawa-Sanllnal I'pmparjr MnlaraA at tha Knoxvilla praiefflre aa Second Claes Mall Matter Mambara al the United freMii Associated herippa Howard News paper AUiania News paper Enterprise Assncl-a I ion Newspaper ml" maiioa nerva-a Audit liureau p( Cireuiatlaa and or Media temrda Ine Tha Associated Cress la exclusively entitled to tha use for republlcation ol all new a diepatrhea credited to It or not otherwise Cos UpM ana tna people Will Find HTufi star iiiibiitlitd fttrtin An I 9 ucscitimoN rates Hr Carrier: daily and Sunday kO cents Wlty mail: One month dally ID cents per one month dally and 8unliiylu cents ciaijy 115(1: threft immilii duly sis montha daily ala inoiithi dally and Sunday $00 one year dally $400 one yrar cany and Sunday ana year Sunday only $110 SEPTEMBER 21 1933 PRISON LABOR rlE TENTATIVE cod covering prison industry Just filed with the NBA by group of stale penal officials offers J1r-list solution to on of the most baffling minor problems Competition from convict labor Is not extensive but It ha" hsd aerloiia effect in rerialu localities by depressing general labor standards to workshop levels The I Labor Department estimate that 2276 prisoner last year produced $75-000000 worth of goods In only 66 out of 116 slate prison were convlet paid wages and theae wages ranged from two to 15 cents a day One-third of the shirts binder-twine and other prison goods was sold in competition with prlvalo industry two-thirds camo under Iho category of Such competition Justified both free labor and Industry in complaining On the other hand it would bo manifestly unfair to prisoners and to the states to shut down prison factories and kdep the men In Idleness The proposed rodo is not as drastic as competing industries have demanded for prison labor in their own codes But it tends to equaliza condition on both aides of prison walls It restricts convict work hours to those in competing free industries and acts 40 hours aa the weekly limit It prohibits the sale of prison goods at prices below outside costs It encourages the spread of state-uea manufacture by removing such work from rodo limit a A code authority set up by the NRA would administer tho agreement All able-bodied prisoners should work for their keep They should work at occupations that build their bodies and train their hhnds and minds They should he paid a small wage start them In life when they are freed And the product of their labor should go to tax-supported Institutions rather than into open competition with free labor The proposed prison factory code seeme to be working toward those ends The states labor and industry should Join In welcoming it BLUE EAGLE PRICES fTTHE Agricultural Adjustment Admlnls-1 tratlon ia ready to go to lengths to price-gouging This declaration should hearten consumers who are asked from all aides to aa a part of the recovery campaign If consumers know that tho federal government la ready to exercise its great powers to stop profiteering they will naturally be more ready to spend their dollars Profiteering la a two-edged sword Prices that are unreasonably high drive away purchasers leas buying means lower industrial and farm prices Enlightened selfishness dictates fbat the Agricultural Adjustment Administration whose task Is to raise farm prices sees that consumption la not decreased by profiteering This price question Is a controlling ono In the present effort to raise mass purchasing power NRA officials have appealed to manufacturers to hold oft price increases as long aa possible Triple A officials say they will countenance only fair increases In this situation it is the housewife naturally who holds the big stick She Is the biggest buyer she knows when prlees are rising She will be advised by Counsel of NRA and -Triple A when pricea-are unreasonable Her complaints if any will get a hear- lng in Washington Guarding herself she helps guard her fellow Consumers and the producers of the things she buys And in protecting her the government is helping the farmers the industrialists and their workers and fair competitors who are living up to the spirit of the Blue Eagle 1 SockW aits It ia 8 gonl bet that John Davis will oppose Donald Rirhbrrg whfn and if that moinontom Ifnl hattle ever conics off over NRA By 8 II Bl'RROW WASHINGTON The aock in tb noae that NRA la aav lng for the first big buslna man who brings a formidable suit aimed to break down tbe Prcsloent'e program la atill a secret Donald Rlchberg NRA legal chief hinted at it the other day in a speech: my brethren of the bur will read again certain oplfiona of tho Supreme Court they will find there written down the supreme law of government aa of the Individual is the law of It la a good bet that John Dam will oppose Rlchberg when end It that momentous legal battle ever comes off over NRA The Morgan attorney on his return from Europe recently voiced a belief that a worker had the Inalienable right to wyrk st least eight hours a day SOME LEGAL experts are predicting the NRA test will reach the Supreme Court by December and some are predicting that NRA will be kicked out the window by that august body One legal writer assert that Drandels on hla past rulings will not be found support- 1 lng such things as federal price-fixing and reduction of hours and fixing of wages Lou or lawyers claim that the oniy chance for NRA ie the emergency clause There la also gossip that ia prepared to take the Supreme Court by the horns and get Congress to Increase its number to li or 13 so be esn appoint Judges to insure a majority for NRA But it may not be necessary to treat tbe Supreme Court eo I roughly Gen Johnson Sen Weaker Lewis Douglas and 1 Rirhberg when they-drafted KIRA wrote It In a form that 1 le giving gray hair to lawyers NRA action Is Uken by agreement between the President and private Industry All the federal government does is to promise not to prosecute under the anti-trust laws Now the courts have ne power to enjoin' the President Legally every manufacturer who bas joined a eode or signed a blanket agreement has done so rolunurlly --i MUCH of the NBA backstage 1 strategy has been devoted to avoiding compulsion for two reasons one after public opin- ion is aroused (even federal Judges have open windows) an employer will take a long time to decide to fight the mats movement two every minute of postponement of the legal -battle increases chances of full success and If affairs are handled properly a foil year may elapse between filing -of a lawsuit and Its final by tbe court A few more montha and even tho Supreme Court might not be able to stop it There la a precedent The Supreme Court tried to atop the slavery fight by ruling for the South in the Dred -Scott case the result be-lng that the court Is credited widely with responsibility for the Civil War Weekly Sunday School Lessoir It Seems To Me BY IIEYWUOD BKOl'X NEW Maybe I'm not very logical myself Possibly that Is why I ran-not follow closely the reasoning of rertain rlienls who take arldulous exception to column about NRA Homebody sends a (lipping from Perms lo which expressed emotion about the parade and nttached 1s a news noto concerning a woman found in the wake of the procession who dropped to the sidewalk faint from starvation The Inference seeme to that her hunger was In some way raused by the marchers And yet that cannot be an for others stumbled and fell long before thla scheme came into being Another reader tells mo that on the very day 250-000 sought to trample down the grass which Mr Hoover said would grow in the streets (credit Morris Watson of the A 1') her father was evicted from his farm in northern Now York a a a AGAIN I fall to follow the trail of cause and effect Many individuals seem to think that thru the present stipulation of NRA codes every 111 and difficulty of our economic situation will be promptly solved But not even the most optimistic -and enthusiastic exponent of the Blue Eagle has said anything of the sort The highest claim I have heard even from Its advocates la the assertion that here Is an experiment tending in the right direction Around race tracke there la a can't beat a horse with no It seeme to me quite fair tb say to the most violent critics of the National Recovery Act: of what you say is true but what do you suggest as a The most logical answer would probably come from Communists and Communist sympathizers Their position in all frankness would be: don't think It will work and even If it does I wouldn't like Anybody who le committed to a thorogoing revolution brought about by direct action of the workers hae some right to say that he want! all palliatives effective or Ineffective ewept aside a a a AS A MATTER of fact the chief opposition has not come from the radicals even tho they may be the loudest and most articulate groups Gentlemen who eay very little for publication are the chief enemies As far as I can ascertain Henry Ford has not opened his mouth once about the entire queetion The truly damaging blows are being aimed by those who strike swiftly and silently in the dark Some strange allies can be identified as participants in the last NRA demonstration But I think a still stranger parade could be made up of those who are fighting It tooth and nail Mr Ford think -might properly be the grand marshal of this procession and he would be flanked by Mike Gold of The Daily Worker and the bulk of the editors of The Nation and The New Republic Robert Lamont lately president of the American Iron and Steel Institute would have a right to express a certain surprise to find hie nearest comrade In the march Robert Minor Communist candidate foe Mayor And for that matter Mr Minor would reasonably be justified in expressing a certain wonderment The same strange alliance would persist down thru the ranks It would be a combination of those who feel that NRA moves too slowly anf those who think it goes too fast The only common agreement could be found In the phrase: "To hell with a a a MR LAMONT the former ateel baron remarked sadly upon resigning his post in at least Implied protest against NRA: one knows how far it may Some of the boys who feel that the whole experiment le designed to forge new chains for Industrial slaves ought to sit down and try to cheer up Mr Lamont And he In turn could give comfort to these radical pep men by assuring them' that here ie the first step toward the end of the capitalist Then they would do well to throw dice In an effort to determine which le the pound and true theory It would be a bold man who would endeavor to predict just what will come out of the experiment All I can say is that from where I stand it seems to be moving And after four yeara of stagnation I count that as a triumph As the -gentleman aid about hie friend who lay In the gutter: no he ossified I Just saw him wiggle one finger" Some Early Leaders of Israel PRESIDENT CHARGES PRESIDENT GREEN of the American Federation of Labor has laid before -Recovery Administrator Johnson what he aaya ia "the definite documentary evidence of astonishing evasions by great of tha labor section of the Recovery Act Tha evasions he claims are set-ups of works councils company unions and other spurious pretenses at the free labor organization provided for under Section 7-A of the law Some of the evaslone are Icaya Mr Green hold and so hostile to 'the letter and the spirit of the law that 1 am certain the administrator must take Immediate and very clastic Mr charges are not the first 'Indications that a few large employer! still building on the old methods In their 'relationship with the workers The of Electrical Workers declares that the National Manufacturer! Association maintains a highly-paid lobby at that seeks to stir opposition t0 the labor sections of the codes and connives defeat aim of increasing buying Others It would seem been apeedlng production under the long-hour cheap-wage conditions Thla la Indicated by the fact that alnce production has Jumped 20 per cent '-employment only 10 per cent But Mr accusations are the first of actual law evasion Section 7-A of the law la very specific In declaring that shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively thru representatives of their own that employe ehall be required ts a condition of employment to Join any company union or to refrain from joining organizing or assisting a labor organization of Its own If corporations are preventing free unionization or If they are coercing work-ore Into company unlona they are violating 2he lawrammatter whether they give employe representation on councils or otherwise make friendly gestures' General record of fairness and liberality toward labor Is such that there Is little doubt he will give serious attention to President charges -mi DODGES GOVERNOR HILL M'ALISTER has apparently put his own political future ahead of unemployment relief and has submitted Washington officials an unworkable -plan for the etate to raise $2000000 with which to match $6000000 of federal relief money The plan Is for the state to give $500000 and counties and munlclpali- ties to pay the remaining $1500000 thue avoiding an extra session of the Legislature 1 Governor McAlister must know that the cities and counties of the state cannot raise the sum required of them particular-- ly without an extra session of the Legislature to give them authority to borrow money or issue bonds At the same time he knows an extra session is needed to give governmental subdivisions authority to borrow federal public works funds as urged by Col Harry Berry of the state public works board The feeling that Governor McAlister is frightened at the possibilities of an extra session and is playing politics even with relief la almost inescapable the welfare of the people This le the outstanding lesaon that comes to us from the study ot the lives of great leaders In the era of a struggle for life WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY: WILLIAM GREEN President American Federation 'of Labor: goal le tn industry operated for service to the nation and its people guided thru the processes of organized REV WESLEY MEGAW New York: blue eagle on the' window cannot hide a black heart In the 'ARTHUR HOPKINS theatrical producer: a a been inclined to disregard the tendencies of a changing world and vainly hope for a day that la gone' MAHARAJAH GAEKWAR of Raroda: ie not much difference between the religions It le what result! in service that HENRY FORD: have nothing to eay By that I mein there le nothing 1 have to say- WHAT! NO HOPE FOR MOTHERS IN LAW? The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for Set 24 GOLDEN TEXT: Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of hi Eph WILLIAM GILROY Editor ot The Cansregatlunsllat THE 12 lessons of the past quarter have set before us great leaders in Israel from the time of Joshua when the Jewish people were emerging from their long captivity and the experiences in the wilderness into the- consciousness of a new faced -with- dangers and problems to an age of national glory whlch-has challenged the admiration of the whole world The story ot So 1 and his temple ie written large upon the pages of his-t as the Gilroy spiritual Ideals and aspirations of the period But this atory must be read in the light of its backgrounds and the struggles thru which the national and religious consciousness developed THE VALUE of the study of the Bible If that it offers so much by way of analogy tor onr modern life It fa a great book of human experience presenting the story of religion and preaching to us th lessons of religion thru the realism of daily life with its temptations ltd conflicts and Its triumphs In the Individual' life and with full recognition of the social factors In the battle with Injustice and Inequality and in the efforts to build up a commonwealth Our problems have changed In form and content but in essence they are the same si tbe problems of this ancient people of Israel emerging out of bond age and chaotic conditions while Its' greatest leaders sought to build the life of tbe people Into a unified community in which a common prosperity built upon righteousness and justice waa the goal TS NOT THAT exactly our 1 task in America at the present hour? Cam we do it except as to some extent it was done In ancient Israel? Can we learn -'o avoid the pitfalls of the past and build more securely? No state ean build truly unless it baa high-minded leaders and a people willing to give heed to Its prophets The etorlee of these lessons have presented heroic figures both men and women: -Joshua and Caleb the courageous spies Deborah putting the men of her age to shame by her strong' leadership Ruth the woman of gentle but persistent loyalty and Hannah the devout mother contributing thru hsr devotion Samuel the greatest of all leaders and prophets of the period' Yet despite all these things one must recognize the measure of failure for the glory of the age pf Solomon was followed by strife and In the a strife and' division occasioned 'by injustices that had been allowed to go uncorrected PRESTIGE and glory are not enough for a people great kings and rulers cannot effect the salvation of the nation The welfare of a people rests more deeply upon the quality of its visions and Its deeds It is in the unselfishness and fairness of the relationships of ordinary life that people become welded Into strength No matter how mueh the strength of power or of wealth that a nation may seem to be building up there la always inherent weakness the doom of prospective failure If greed and selfishness be present or it those in authority and power disregard the factors of ele- mentai justice The strength and power of states depend ultimately upon "A Woman's Viewpoint" Sunshine Moonshine in town And his mother's the acaredeat woman And then there's Izzy Inch-cape who think football xught to be put under a code Let no man play more than two quarters and let every man qb the' equad get in the game vn Another Wlnchelleee tip Lee Monday eventually will run for the council regardless of statements to date that he Lee been going to the ball games all summer gladhanding everybody particularly policemen and- firemen for no purpose Election this year falls on Armistice Day Nov 11 And by that time the campaign prob-' ably will have been aueh a war it'll be time for an armistice MILLER A COUNTRY CALENDAR By Lucy Templeton By Mrs Walter Ferguson rpRUE AS it may be it la nevertheless disturbing to learn that if you are a woman your children will have a better chance for happiness in marriage if you yourself are tucked safely away In the cemetery Yet most authorities who have investigated thla statement assure ua of its veracity And I haven't a doubt In the world that the facte bear out their contention Because mothers both by Instinct and training are meddlesome Matties and it's nearly Impossible to impress them with the idea that the time will come when their children's business will not be their business Mama's attitude however is comparatively easy to understand After you have put your whole heart and soul into the care of a person you may I think be exonerated to a certain extent from the crime of showing undue Interest In his or her welfare And while the kids undoubtedly suffer from this maternal over-solicitation the mothers are also to' be regarded with a pitying eye For we must remember that they have been taught to think of themselves as the cornerstones of civilization They are or so they are constantly angels In the house arbiters of human fate guardians of morals and potters at the wheel of life hardly strange that they should become somewhat impressed with their Importance First they are complimented flattered and cajoled next they are asked to remove themselves from the picture and like Lot's wife they must not look regretfully backward No doubt the Victorian mother-in-law Played great havoc too but very few vituperations were cast upon her at the time largely I suppose because she came In very handy for pickling and preserving and cleaning and quilting and taking care of the babies of which there was always an oversupply Then along came birth rand with It began the movement against all sorts of in-laws The cubby hole modern apartment the empty nursery sounded the knell for mama The radio now furnishes advice for the family the electric gadgets do the work and so about the only thing she's good for Is help make up an occasional foursome Do you thiqk any chance that repeal will bring about renaissance of Jhe American mother-in- law? SIDE GLANCES By George Clark ABOLISH POLL TAX rpHE LEAGUE of Women Voters is ask-1 lag that the poll tax requirement of voting be abolished It should he joined by all other organizations concerned with public affairs Poll tax Is the greatest single impediment to free exercise of the ballot And the revenues it brings do not justify the restriction it places on every constitutional right DONALD BROOKS FIVE-YEAR-OLD Donald Ray Brooks is dead and bis little playmate Helen Wauon and her parents are heart-broken For Donald died of blood-poisoning that developed In Lis foot after be had obligingly tried to stretch some tight shoes for Helen Their grief is understandable but the Matsons should not ieel at all responsible for Donald unfortunate death It was en unforeseeable accident There are Hone in African -game sanctuaries tame enough to come out to be fed Whether Ivy poisoning ever causes death is a question which doctors have not settled One of the many puzzling feats about cancer is that this widespread disease apparent- ly unknown in the district of Lahul India HELLO 'Inflation is not a Secretary Wallace said in his speech yesterday No it For Instance over-inflation causae blowout These are tb days when more than any other time one needs one of those new-fangled hot-and-cold air furnaces- You need the hot air in the morning and the cold air In midday EX-LAWMAKER HUNS AFOUL OF "OWN" LAW Mr Hal Cleihents tb bar- rister and late Internal revenue collector le out gunning for Tbe News-Sentinel He blamee this newspaper for a mleerabl evening be spent on Tuesday ot this week It seems he had promised his young eon Dan a trip to the dog and pony show Mrs Clements accompanying And when the paper came that day announcing there would be no do and pony show great was the sorrow of the lad and disappointment of the mother But It have been so bad had not Hal Junior been so inquisitive Hal II Is reading law in his dad's ofrice and upon reading the dog and pony show had been forbidden to show except upon payment of a $1000 extra fee on the day that any state-aided fair was In session he took down the law hooka and pored thru to find the statute dad you voted for that law Y'ou helped put it thru" he told Hal Sr at the upper table that night And did the senior Clements ears burn at the calumnies heaped upon hi head by tbe younger Clements and hie mother for having unwittingly enoueh caused them to miss that dog and pony show? It was In the 1931 Legiala ture when Hal was in the state Senate and Hugh Faust got the bill put thru- It being ahome-nonsored measure he blandly voted when the roll was I guess it Is a good thing In principle" he he informed this column whet a tough time his rote nad caused him at home it sure did put in had with the At these early football game It's hard to tell falls whether be been tackled or is just prostrated by tho heat A football dad Just about now ft the proudest man ARE the eigne of fall in YV someone asked me the other day I Mid signs that 1 recognize are: the smell ot coal amoks In late afternoon the scent of moth balls in Church on Sunday and the fact that policemen are buttoned up in their winter tunica instead of wearing the fresh blue shirts that we have been seeing all Continued hot weather has negstived the evening fire the emergence of winter clothing from Its summer storage the donning of costa by the guardians of the peace But nature has flung out its own banners despite the lingering of warm weather Tho the days are still hot the nights are cool Okra ie a tropic vegetable and does not flourish once hot nights are gone The price of this haa advanced in the past week on the local market Another tropic offering that we have had in abundance melons are fewer and more expensive Most expressive of all a city dweller the starling has exchanged his summer suit ot glossy black with green and purple high lights for the winter uniform of gray adorned with white flecks like enow There are other eigne Night before last during tbe rain 1 heard birds eallln as they flew over southward Some ot the chimney sweeps so plentiful during July and August have already left ua Despite the green foliage due to abundant late summer rains a leaf drifts slowly down now and then from the trees In the back yard Blackbirds are flocking When we drive out into the country we the blackgume show a whole branch scarlet here and there Sumacs and eourwooda are turning But that is not In town yon may justly say Very well How about the fact that sidewalks ere blocked with coal chutes not to mention that we are all beginning to talk football and wonder what the winter styles will be like? A POWER STUDY CIT COINCIL has voted to employ an experienced power engineer to make a study of the tost of a municipal ff j-er distribution system and cf electric rat' 1 It a lcciral next step TLe people siould be informed exact1 on what they will vote fer or against Nov 11 and Council must know just how much ft ne-ds to spend on the tew city invest Bt-Lt ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS VI WILL ROGERS WIRES: BEVERLY HILLS Calif Sept 21 Editor Kewa-Sentlnel: -To inflate or not to Inflate that Is tha Democratic question Whether nobler lu the minds to suffer the slings and arrows ot southern politicians or to take up inflation against a sea of economists and by opposing end them To expand to inflate to inflate perchance to dream Aye the rub For In that sleep ot inflation what dreama may come puzzle the will and make donbtfnl er to bear those ills we have than fly to others know not of Yours WILL ROGERS A SILENT PICTURE CHARLIE CHAPLIN is to make acotvr film will he pleased at the scsouse- nitri talkie haa added a new i-tfrrrt to movie eimethirs was lost hr t-e Ciaes If ekifel anon and director cjo a story iLo-t word srd wiihckt a stream ef and aeei tai aiia-rfd t0 a I'C aedard ia that mect fctiore the crowded them cf: the hy sid £'- dialer has rsdsVedly taken I' are e-1 akillft! direrucn aed I'lios eary pictures tier tie 'great exs GREAT LAKES FRESII Q- Are the Great Lakes fresh or salt water? A Fresh waler BLACK ROSE Q- I there a Mack rose? A IWiimliurist class the Canille ie as black la color Tax an anewrr to any answer- a ot or information ty writ- rubric Kaibr Q-ition Editor I New-E-rtlnaL 1K Now York Avecjo WaiiiSnstun arctosira three ia cairp far reply Wtiu-ai and total ali(- earni-t a airrn nor coo oatrndod re-ocarci made All error qieMinna will rseelva a rtrso-: rp All i-tl-ra ara Jn i ar rd a Invite to make use of ifca 1 acrvice aa often as you CS1TOH Biologists are watching With alarm the dying out cf eel grass in many areas of the Atlantic roast because this grass is the main food of many waterfowl and marine animals hat an awfvl pUre to run out of gas "VitH be stuck here for au.