The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 6

If Tst 6 VTant'Ato SJtat THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENT INTL Tune In WROX Wednesday Jane 7 1939 Tragedy at Sea He Knoxville Ncws-Scntinel Vr ef A Bfripplovnrd Kmipipff GEORGE CARMACK Miter CHAMBERS Business Manager (ft Iuiimii OffiCS Kl Wait Curh Avtnus Telephone 3-3131 KnlarrH at Kfinillll eHori4 Ciim Moil Matter Some Old Jim T3ACK about 1932 Jim Farley had tho unrontrMed title of No 1 patronage difprnrr of tho United States In the few years though there has heen a conceited drive to drape the mantle of "stMesmunshlp" about Mr Farlrjr'i shi'iildei But in his speeches this week In Tennessee Mr Farley proved that ha wsa still the "same old Jim" when ha endorsed Governor political patronage drive in which mort than 1600 have hern hired and fired purely on the basis of politics with these words: "And may I pay tribute else to your excellent governor rrentlee Cooper and hla splendid administration I am aure he will go down In Malory as one of the best men who has ever orruplrd the chair of ghlef executive of Tennessee I wish him and his associates continued success" Full reports of the United Free i Scrippi-Hnward Newspaper Alliance end YEA anesrva Jiy Vail Daily 1-r Year Iw-iy "4 Sunday T0 per tr Mftrrf-fftHAVD "Give light and the people fill find their oirn nay" WEDNESDAY JUNE 7 1930 3 to 1 fPHE Personnel Department In Nash-ville ennounced yesterday that lSi'S persons had heen fired from the state servire In the five months since Trcntice Cooper became governor During the first six months he was in offiee Gordon Browning fired 648 state employes And yet the major cun In Trentire Cooper's attack on Gordon Browning during last year's primary wan that Gordon Browning had made a Joke of the merit system FAILURE OF MAN Now's the Time! mHE time to improve Knoxville's safety campaign Is while the drive is getting results After number of people have been killed after Knoxville has such a poor record that it is impossible to rapture the 1938 title of "Tennessee's Safest City" it is too late for improvement as far as this year's record is concerned That's why (he Knoxville Junior To-lire Department which Young Men's Division of the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring is such a fine Idea If ihese boys betwren the age of 12 and 20 can' save Just one child's life this summer the idea will have paid a big dividend Knoxville's "Deathless Days" record is really mounting If no one is killed by traffic before midnight tonight this will be 56 rcnsecutive days without a fatality Knoxville must beat last year's record of 81 consecutive "Deathless And the time to do it The police enforcement campaign must not slacken Every motorist must drive slowly and carefully save lives in Knoxville CLAPPER 8AY8: Sampling Method May lte Good Idea for To Try Out By RAYMOND CLATTER WASHINGTON June 7-We still havt a great deal to learn about handling governmental yxperimenta so that they won't defeat their own purposes as ii shown by tho unfortunate situation with regard to the Wages and Hours Act Hero was on act highly desirable in purpose namely to protect the sweatshop worker As was inevitable in drafting such general legislation defects appeared arter the measure went into effect It was found for Instance that the little country telephone exchanges often operated by housewives as a sideline clearing only a few calls each 24 hours are presented with an overtime pay requirement that makes their operation almost Impassible unless dial systems are inatallrd to eliminate the oper- 31 clapper ators An amendment has been proposed by the wage-hour administration to exempt such workers High-paid specialized employes professional brain workers who are judged by results not by the number of hours worked were being required to turn in overtime schedules Employers are required to pay such workers time and a half for overtime A highly paid advertising writer for instance or a writer like myself has to work without much regard for the clock Some produce their best copy at night Some are stale one day and hot the next when they can produce a prodigious amount of ropy The employer doesn't care how little or how much such an employe works He wants results It is muc the same with the employe Sometimes ho sits at his paper for hours or stares through the window Again he grinds out his work almost orf-hand There is no way for these men to measure their working time berause their wrk pretty much their life Anyway they are paid far above the scales which the Wage and Hour Art was inteided to protect So the Wage Hour Administration sought to wipe off this layer ef impossible administration by proposing an amendment to eliminate from the scope of the act employes receiving $200 or more a month Then Came Dirty Work T3UT when these and several other de-33 sirabie corrective amendments were proposed in the House farm lobbyists fronting for fruit and vegetable backers put their hooks in for amendments which wouid remove the protection of the Act from the miserably paid employes of canneries and other food processing establishments Friends of the Wage-Hour Act were fearful of exposing it to the shipsa wing of farm and packer lobbyists and have refused for the time being at least to go ahead with the program of amendments to eliminate the sour spots in the act Thus highly desirable perfecting amendments are blocked by the pressure of Interests desiring to nullify the Act in a considerable area where the need of it is great Enemies Gather Round rIS kind of trouble is encountered whenever an attempt is made to tighten and improve legislation At the first 'sign of revision enemies of the legislation gather around to harpoon it with sabotaging amendments and the result is that the Administration stiffens and abandons desirable amendments Unquestionably that is the reason the Administration is not active in revising the Wagner Labor Relations Act Thus New Deal measures are frozen when they should be considered still in the experimental stage subject to correction Social security amendments are being put through at considerable risk of having undesirable amendments hitched on in the process Use Sampling Technique TVTUCH more desirable is the method used in trying out the food stamp plan in a few selected cities employing variations of the basic idea so that the mechanics may be tested This is the sampling technique used by a business in placing a new article on the market Various methods of advertising are tried out and the article may be given a trial in a few localities before the national marketing campaign is undertaken It is not always possible for Government measures to be thus introduced through restricted testing But where this technique is possible it helps eliminate prolonged headaches and permits of experiments which could not be risked if they had to be introduced on a national scale General Johnson Says: When Most Banks Lend Funds It's PM That Is Handed Out By HUGH JOHNSON WASHINGTON June 7 Government should -the Government should to see it flow to work as used to flow Senator Mead's proposed business banks are not PEGLER SAYS: La FoUclte Thinks Its Criminal To Burn Own Letters Bv WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK June In a statement on the iniquity of labor espionage and the maintenance of private armies Senator La Folletie reported that great eorporatiuns had stripped and even destroyed mrreupnndenre filea which his committee desired to Inspect and that some witnesses made piece-meal answers He was indignant about this and the tone of his complaint was such as to create the impression that an American rjti-1 en or corporation is under some obligation to co-operate with the LV prosecution when placed in the role of defendant by a congressional committee This conflicts with the best legal advice and recalls a remark made by Mr John Flynn one afternoon when there was a lull in the munitions inquiry The Investigation had gone Into the office files of various companies and had spread on the rerord and the pages of the newspapers intimate correspondence which though not incriminating was distinctly embarrassing and of a character roughly comparable to the sophomore crush notes which sometimes are read In open court to the excruciating misery of middle-aged businessmen in actions for divorce or breach of promise businessmen" Mr Flynn said are ao dumb (hat they must get rich by lurk alone Can you imagine a amart man leaving that kind of stuff in his files?" a Surely Their Right OFFICEConsurription is not written for public consumption It may be very confidential without being illegal and Its publication may create bitter enmity on the part of persons who are discussed candidly under the seal of confidence It may reveal commercial secrets which are not public business and contain uncomplimentary observations on the personalities and methods of competitors customers or politicians Thus it would seem to be wise if papers are subject to subpoena to keep the files free of alt but the most formal records and to resist the temptation to douse with lavender and tie up with baby ribbon those intimacies which often are put on paper perhaps hastily and without thought as to how they would sound in print by which businessmen try to give one another lowdown" or "the picture" To strip or destroy correspondence before subpoena would seem to be the privilege of individuals and private business and if subpoenas 8 re to command respect they should be used with restraint for the purpose of obtaining legitimate information and not to make publicity and political capital for statesmen or to harass political opponents As to the reluctance of witnesses to babble on beyond the scope of questions which are put to them it may be said that the Dies Committee has been in trouble ever since it began its inquiry because it didn't cramp- witnesses and did permit them to use the hearings as a sounding board for sensational and sometimes silly speeches If a witness attempts to enlarge his answer In justice of his position he may be accused of trying to make a speech and called to order but on the other hand if he doesn't he may be accused of delivering piecemeal answers and obstructing the inquiry Don't Talk Too Much A FORMER Attorney General of the United States once wrote some succinct advice to an individual who was about to be summoned to an inquiry "Don't lose your he said "and don't lose your temper Answer only such questions as are pertinent to the legal and legitimate inquiry and of course volunteer no information If you have anything to tell tell the truth and that only In response to legal inquiry Claim every privilege hold your chin up and fear no one or anything" A wise witness will resist the temptation to expand his answers when he finds himself in the role of the accused but without the benefit of a formal accusation which at least defines his status and gives him the protection that is ordinarily accorded defendants And even a -defendant under formal charge in a court will be cautioned by his counsel not to engage in repartee or swing out into space with the explanatory remarks any observations which seem to him to be clever but may give the prosecutor ideas The Congressional type of inquiry is capable of errors or nverzeal and political ambition or partisanship and unless the hearings are conducted with scrupulous fairness an inquiry intended to ascertain facts may be an inquisition bent on discovering and publishing heresy FOREIGN MINISTER JOSE MARIA CAXT1LO OF ARGENTINA: "In no manner can Argentina accept campaigns in favor of foreign doctrines whether they are fascism communism or Why Go Homo While This Hongs On? fTHE report persists In Washington that exactly nothing will be done about the capital-labor problem by this Congress "Barring a possible rebellion in both the Senate and House ranks" says a typical dispatch adjournment will record a blank as to the Wagner Labor Act the National Labor Relations Roairi mediation and those other factors so vital to industrial peace continuity and recovery We ask onre whit Is Congress for? What greater rase of nr gleet of duty then for the lawmakers to walk out on this problem? And again we call attention to the fart that Congreas is hired by the year Superimposed on the millions of involuntarily unemployed is the avoidable unemployment caused by employer-employe disputes Were there in force a mediation system as effective for example as is the railway mediation art witli the railways and the airlines it would be avoided That act came from a Congress that didn't quit and go home The problem is not Insoluble Experience In this country with the railways and the airlines proves it There has not been a major tie-up on the railway! for a dozrn years And experience abroad also has proved that mediation there has hern able to assure rontinuity of Industrial operation and all that meana In stopping the inestimable loss from shutdowns Mediation could be extended to all American Industry But not by a Congress that Is suffering from homesickness and political fright A streamlining of the Wagner Act and a coupling with it of a mediation plan could turn the trick TY last report from the Bureau of La-bor statistics 43000 were idle from labor disputes When that many are out of work who could be at work if theie were adequate mediation an incalculable number in addition are added indirectly When for instance an auto plant closes it is not just the man on that plant's payroll who is made idle All down the line salesmen clerks repair men and a whole host of workers are dependent on the industry at the top If the full scope could be encompassed by the statisticians who report only those directly thrown out of work there would be such a picture as to wake Congress up to dause in fact that "rebellion in both Senate and House ranks" which would get something done We trust it is not too much to hope that by the exercise of some attention and some vision Congress may yet move in on this one of the most pressing of the domestic troubles of a nation suffering in the tenth year of hard times Sunshine Moonshine By MILLER CO now Roosevelt can't come to the Smokies next week Well our invitation neverthe-' less still holds good to the King and Queen FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS Damon and Pythias Izzy and Maurice Woodruff Booth and Senator McKellar likely to help this situation because they will not touch the cause of it This bill could produce some effect only if it is intended and written to provide money to irresponsible borrowers on probably uncollectable paper I do not so understand it but if I misread it and it does so intend it would work a far worse evil than it attempts to cure It would penalize prudence prefer dead-beats and gamblers and throw more Federal money away with less return than Harry Hopkins ever dreamed of doing "Actual! jr 0 1 1 1 les If it amounts to anything should be Just another name for patriot-I Jim Farley here Will Rogers in the Hall of Fame sons and daughters of Oklahoma" A said one of the orators "present to America's hall of fame a companion to George Washington the only other unanimous choice of the people" The scene was the rotunda of the Capitol of the United States From the pedestaled undraped statue the whimsical smile of Will Rogers looked over the hundreds who had gathered to honor the memory of America's cowboy humorist philosopher ambassador-of-good-wilL The upturned faces of the living audience were sober and serious matching the solemn stone and metal visages of the departed great and near great that line the walls of statuary haiL The only quizzical countenance was that of the lifelike bronze by Jo Davidson from which the flag had just been lifted Will Rogers was enjoying what he regarded as a huge Joke He had been committed and by his own generation to the eternal company of America's immortals George Washington Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jack-son and other soldiers and statesmen of undying repute What a Valhalla for one who in life never held public office hut whose great achievement and delight had been in puncturing the pretenses of those Who did The hall of fame has been enriched by truly great character Yet the paths and byways of the living hare not been Impoverished For we could not and would not forget the man whom another orator of the occasion Governor Phillips of Oklahoma described as plain and kindly spokesman of the inarticulate one more irrefutable example of the fact to whirh we as citizens of a democracy unwaveringly adhere: That out of the humblest heritage and simplest cir-cumstanres ran come great characters who will revive our faith enlighten our thinking and fire our souls to irtinn" An untime'y death in took from the living a frna'e citizen who po-cfsed "Simplicity understardine loys'ty r-d love ef his r-n! To a world sorely tried bv hates sm- pM inrrlficje Will Regers' bequests are hi' v-d humor his to'ersoce his humari'v BY A as well as WPA is now performing the labor on public works here The difference is the National Youth Administration hands are still youths when they finish their projects BUT THEY ARE TOO "They're gorgeous says Hoover of the Smokies" from The The mountains he means not our ball team Come to think of it who ever was it that first called open air seats One who sits there gets anything but bleached WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS SAYS IZZY INCH-CAFE IS MORE UMPIRES WITH UMPH A skipper was arrested in New York for blowing a boat's whistle for 20 minutes Just on a toot probably One state is considering doing away with horses for police in its big cities You can listen to radio programs in a squad car not make indiscriminate commercial loans to business as Senator Mead proposes It is true that the banks are not loaning the amount of money they did during prosperity and much more lending wouid be necessary to aupport the volume of business that once kept most of our pepple' employed but it by no means follows that the way to recover that commerce is to have the Government either lend or guarantee the kind of loans that the banks are unwilling to make In the first place the only way a bank can make profits is to lend money to both big and little customers It is as much the business and instinct of a banker to lend money and make profits as it is the business and instinct of a hog to root All the banks and bankers I know me hungry to make loans and most of them are scouring the woods for them as never before in recent years T)UT most of the credit of bank 13 loans is other money held in trust under greater responsibility than ever before A banker make lousy loans and live He must -feel reasonably convinced that principal and interest will be paid Banks can't speculate or gamble with money Because too many of them did that in the high old days of 1923 and 1929 the crash wiped out so much of the savings of the poor that bankers dropped to the lowest repute in my lifetime We certainly don't want that to happen again Furthermore there are two parties to every loan a borrower and a lender Most business men are no more willing to risk borrowing money they can't repay than are banks to lend it If you don't pay your debts the sheriff is going to get you and bankruptcy is usually a sentence of economic death to a business large or smalL That fate is not escaped by having the Government "guarantee" your loan to the bank Either the bank will have to sell you out before it can collect the guarantee or the Government itself will have to move in the same and the Government is no David Harum in softening foreclosures not even for widows or orphans T3EYOXD all these objections is the danger that if the Government goes into unlimited banking business on Federal money it won't be long befoie we shall have a collapse and Government ownership of everything outright Communism But that involves a long discussion a little beside the point this piece It is active business that makes aetive and not the reverse Both depend on the reasonable belief of borrowers as well as 1 lenders that money ran be used to make a profit and be repaid It is precisely the general unfortunate absence of this belief that stagnates the active use of banking credit by borrowers to make active business The credit is there idle in unheard-of surplus Bankers as well as business men are intensely eager ss Government Extra! 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A "MEMORANDUM for the press" is- sued by the Department of the Interior on behalf of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration informs us "Announcement of the birth of America's No 1 baby monkey was flashed through the dense stand of palms on Monkey Island five-eighths mile off the coast of Fuerto Rico and radioed to the States today Birth of the first bouncing Rhesus monkey in the first primate colony ever established under the American flag signalled success for an experiment which is intended eventually to free American science from the foreign monkey business providing a supply of American monkrys raised on American soil to the United medical market The mother of the No 1 baby ar-j rived at Santiago Island with some 400 other monkeys last year Today's 1 heralded event and the definite indi- rations of additional births in the near future indirafe that the primates have I adjusted themselves to their new environment" 1 Every ritizrn should be grateful our A Country Calendar By LUCY TEMPLETON LMOST without exception when one develops a new place the temptation to get started is so overpowering that the owner begins to stick things around in "likely" places saying to himself that if they do not look well there (which is highly probable) they can be moved That is of course unless a landscape architect is employed and everything is set out according to a plan as it should be At the same time one gets' an enormous amount of pleasure in laying out his grounds to suit himself That one may not be deprived of this creative joy and still make the minima cf mistakes the best thing to do is to acquire some knowledge of garden architecture This can be done by taking a university course attending lectures or by reading This last method is the one most of us employ for it is easiest and cheapest Rather than pick up desultory and unrelated bits of knowledge from articles and stray paragraphs it is better to get a book that starts out at the beginning and deals with the subject in a thorough and authoritative way Whittlesey House in its Garden Series has just published the ideal book for the beginning gardener for one whd wants his garden expertly planned but who wants the satisfaction of doing it himself I wish I had had a copy of this book three years ago as it would have saved me time money and trouble Its name is GARDEN PLANNING AND BUILDING It is by Stuart Ortloff and Henry Raymore and costs $3 It differs from other books on the subject in that it not only makes the layman realize the difficulties of his undertaking but shows him how to overcome them Mass of information in some books of the sort is so weighty that one feels hopelessly that he is going to make mistakes anyway so he might as well go ahead and make them in the easiest and least painful manner GARDEN PLANNING AND BUILDING makes all this clear and plain in an interesting way with many fascinating plans and pictures Midsummer is a good time to plan a garden Few gardening operations can be carried on now but one can see things at their best and decide if one wants them Then the plan will be ready by fall which is certainly the most satisfactory planting time in our climate Religion Burke We know and what is better we feel inwardly that religion is the basis cf civil liberty and the course cf all good and of til comfort SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith generous government which does not hesitate to spend our money on radio messages and press agents in order that we may learn without delay of such important events as the birth of America's No 1 baby monkey onlrm a JL0rry Jews but Won't Admit Them In the Sena'e committee headed rd a helping hard to few cppieti-d Got- I i an families has run a helping hard to man by Senator Russell (D Ga) action has heen temporarily blocked by the conflicting proposals of strict anti-immigration-fats For after one sub-committer had reported favorably on the Wagner hill to admit 2M0S children another subcommittee went to hat for a measure to lorhid all immigration for at least five years The full rommWe may meet this week to pps r- vie two measures Reynolds fV C) Bachs Ban fTHE Ho vre meanwhile has yo sr executive session to Cor jqj tfip jjJ Tr nn immigration is the Sc-r-v- Reynolds (D- C-) an rir rcc'u-innist If r-av-ro en the slight relief ta: -'i-e- affords for Germany's unwiT-r ould be withdrawn fer-iit 27376 persons Ger -y i ncluding to fiscal 123 m'y 1 cutyti us-er tv quula tsciud- ing 11917 Jews but currently the full quota is being filled and there is a waiting list for many monthsin advance Fund Lack Is Difficult TITEAXWHILE the inter-governmental committee on political refugees is seeking outlets in various parts if the w-orld for Germany's unwanted Jews Prospects for colonization in the Philippines the Dominican Republic and British Guiana among other places are being explored The British "settlement" of the Palestine question placing a fixed limitation on future Jewish immigration has heightened the urgency of the situation So has the spread cf anti-Semitism from Germany to Hungary Italy and elsewhere Germany's rrfual to let departing Jews take out more than a small fraction cf their wealth creates a difficult problem for those who are seeking to arrange for the admission of the refugees a various countries WASHINGTON Jure Sides yfy for the 9C-7 "Jews vih-v beard the German Lu a Rove in Cersrejx to extend a irTn trouble noi German cKidrrr to enr the States in the next jear and a hs'f ha- r-en Tending fer They were Jrtrccured hr Senator Wagner Y) ar Frgers I Ma-O and D-rseU (D hJ hearing: ha-e beta conducted by the corn cf beta Senate ard but neither ccmnuttee has 3 acted ca the Icgula-Loo the gods I know the stores soli pants lor until I had outgrown any boys i 1 I.