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Labor Ruling
Disturbs
Woll
Union Chief Discusses
Possible Dangers
to Workers.
by DAVID LAWRENCE.
HAS union labor placed itself in
the straight.jacket of anti
trust. laws by its espousal of
the Wagner labor act, and has
the Supreme Court of the United
States by its latest decision placed
labor within the scope of persecution
for possible monopolistic practices?
These questions are answered to
Borne e x t e n t by
Matthew W o 11„
vice president of
the American
Federation of La
bor, In an article
Which appears
today in the
American Photo
Engraver, the of
ficial journal of
the International
Photo-Engravers’
Union, of which
be is the head.
Mr. Woll re
veals the uneasi
ness of certain
David Lawrence
labor elements over the Supreme Court
decision He writes: *
"While rejoiceful in the apparent
change of the United States Supreme
Court in reflecting a more advanced
liberalism and the impressive demon
stration that the Constitution of the
United States is sufficiently flexible to
meet any and ail new situations and
conditions, nevertheless this joy is
tempered with the fear of possible
dangers that may be lurking in
this momentous decision.
"It is to be remembered the change
cf attitude and of decision turns prin
cipally upon the application of the
conspiracy doctrine embraced in the
Federal anti-trust laws and as they
were attempted to be applied in the
miners' case of Coronado.
Coronado Case Claim.
“The decision we now rejoice over
Is predicated almost entirely upon the
Coronado case. It was in this case
that the claim was made that the
activities of a miners' union inter
fered with interstate commerce for
sooth. it—the miners’ union—had
stopped the supply of minerals being
shipped out of the State where it was
mined.
“The Chief Justice, who wrote the
opinion in the recent Jones & Laugh
hn Steel Co. care, referred clearly and
definitely to the second Coronado case
as establishing definitely the principle
that anything which interfered with
the stream of interstate commerce,
even in the way of interfering with
the flow of goods which entered into
that stream, was a violation of the
anti-trust act and was. therefore,
Within the jurisdiction of the court,
“A minority of the Supreme Court,
on April 12, 1937, looked carefully at
the second Coronado case (May, 1925)
and then made a severe scrutiny of
the Jones and Laughlin case. Then
Justice McReynolds, who wrote the
minority opinion, exclaimed, almost
petulantly: ‘We find nothing in the
record of any strike.’ Which was
accurate enough. There had not been
any strike, as yet. The labor union
had taken steps to avoid a strike.
They had carried their complaint
against the employer to the National
Labor Relations Board and there had
proven that some of their members
had been discharged on account of
their membership and activity in their
own labor union.
Wagner Act’s Effect. !
“But, under the Wagner act, this '
action of the corporation 'tended to
Interrupt interstate commerce’ be
cause by interfering with the free
action of its employes in the matter
of the organization of their owm union
the company was taking action calcu
lated to bring about a strike. And a
strike would have interrupted inter
state commerce.
“Now, it is nothing new that work
ing men have a right to organize their
own union; nor that they have a right
to demand collective bargaining. The
new thing is this: That any interfer
ence with the exercise of those rights
is liable to interfere with interstate
commerce, and so becomes unlawful.
"It is unquestionably true that
always hitherto the burden for the
blame has been placed upon the work
ers. This time, by a process of per
fectly legal legerdemain, the shoe was
discovered to be upon the foot of the
employer and so w^e now learn that
employers as well as workers may not j
engage in any collective activities
which tend to interfere with the flow
of goods which are to enter the stream
of interstate commerce.
u must do oorne in mma tnat tne
W’agner labor relations act does not j
attempt to set out any new rights of i
labor but does attempt to set out j
unfair labor practices on the part of
employers. By that very reason, the
Wagner act does not change other
existing laws in relation to labor and
labor activities. Therein lies potential
danger.
"Unquestionably the decision on the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. case has
enlarged the legal conception of inter
state commerce. By the same token
this enlarged conception has corre
spondingly extended the control by
Congress over trade unions as well as
over employers and over their activi
ties. It is equally true that by this
decision the jurisdiction of our Fed
eral Courts has been enlarged to a
like degree. It is to be remembered
that employers prefer the Federal to
th State Courts bcause Federal judges
are not elected but appointed, for a
term without end, excepting by the
process of impeachment, resignation
or death.
"More serious than all else Is the
ibsorbing question: Have the Sher
man and Clayton anti-trust laws
been correspondingly enlarged to
cover the collective activities of labor
and, if so, to what extent are our
labor organizations now liable to triple
damages under the Federal anti
trust laws?
Jones A Laughlin Decision.
"Let us bear in mind that the
decision in the Jones & Laughlin
case was predicated on the second
Coronado case. By the same logic
and reasoning is there not now the
danger that labor may find itself
handcuffed and shackled by the
illusive and restrictive provisions of
Federal anti-trust laws?
"Time and experience alone can
tell what the future has in store for
labor. While rejoiceful in the ap
parent forward step taken, let us
not be unmindful of the dangers
lurking in the procedure followed.
Let us be certain that in our ecstasies
of the moment we may not awaken
to find that labor has forged the
News Behind the News
Roosevelt Understood to Have Vetoed Economic
and Arms Parleys.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THERE will be no international economic conference, no disarmament
conference, no change in the value of gold. President Roosevelt
has made his decision. It was reached at a White House Confer
ence of cabinet members, in which there was warm discussion pro
as well as con. At the end the President decided for the cons and went
fishing.
It is true that something more than talk lay behind all these con
ference and gold rumors in circulation lately, both here and abroad. It
seems to be also true that State Secretary Hull, while denying the rumors,
personally harbored hope that something constructive could be accom
plished internationally through the conference medium. Mr. Hull lost the
argument at the White House conference, as well as his hopes.
The triplicate negative decision will be made public shortly in some
affirmative way, possibly announcing a movement to forward personal
cuiuacis aim cu-uyeiawuns i/VLween
Mr. Hull and the prime ministers
of the leading European nations.
Or perhaps a safer way to say it is
that Mr. Hull was designated to
work out Whatever is to be said as
a result of the decision.
★ * * *
The reasons which caused the
decision are not to be stated
definitely. It is obvious, however,
that our Ambassador-at-large,
Norman Davis, regardless of what
ever personal hopes he may have developed in London, has been unable
to inspire the President with any marked encouragement for the success
of an economic or arms conference. At least, the President sees no reason
to assume the responsibility for championing a conference, despite some
official and much unofficial pressure from Britain and some of the other
nations. And if the United States does not champion a conference, of
course, no one else will.
It is the same old story. All nations want something out of a
conference. None wants to give anything. France wants security,
Germany credit. Britain a preferred pound, Russia protection, Italy
more credit. And all want debt cancellation. If ayn of these nations
is in a mood to make bona fide concessions, it has not yet made its
willingness plain. And you may be sure they won't.
The historj of modern conferences also is fresh in executive memory.
When Uncle Sam played host before to the world, the nations came
singing his praises. They ate his food, rejoicing that he was the savior
of the world. Good will popped and bubbled like champagne. But when
it was over, the discovery was made that some silverware was missing from
the pantry.
Mr. Roosevelt does not know it, but he has been nominated for one
of the oldest but not necessarily the most exclusive clubs of statesmen.
It is a very honest group of Democratic members of the House who have
foregathered daily in the cloak room since any living member can remem
ber. They call themselves the Demagogue Club.
After the revised budget was received a few days back, a meeting of
the club was called to consider what was thought to be a club crisis. One
member presented the situation like this:
"It has always been the honored prerogative of members of Con
gress to demagogue lreely. We have had the exclusive right to promise
our constituents something for nothing.
"We have always had the assurance that when we passed these
demagogue bills, a Presiaent would veto them or the Supreme Court would
strike them down.
"But now we have a man in the White House who can out-demagogue
us. and if cur safeguard of the Supreme Court is removed, how are we
going to get re-elected?"
The matter was taken under semi-serious advisement.
* * * *
Talk of a constitutional Democratic party to supplant the Republican
party is coming from bigger authorities with greater gusto. They are
serious about it.
It is known there is at least one Democratic Senator against whom
WANT TO BE
k MY PARTNER
me rcepuoncans win oner no op
position the next time he runs.
This has already been discussed
and (unofficially) decided. Sev
eral other similar cases are in the
discussion stage.
Most Republican authorities are
inclined to leave the matter to
tfieir individual State organiza
tions. They do not know what will
come of it, but they would not be
surprised to see it work into the
iormaucn oi a constitutional Democratic party within a few years.
The possibility is enhanced by the natural inclination of many
statesmen in both parties to consider such issues as the budget, in
flation, money and the Supreme Court as far more vital than party
success. As against this natural inclination, there are large groups
of Republican party workers to whom a merger would mean sacrifice
of their personal positions.
Apparently it depends more upon the future course of the Roosevelt
program than anything else.
♦ * * ♦
In case you have been thinking that Mr. R. was easing up on his
Supreme Court packing demands:
Presidential fixer Charlie West was so busy working the Senate in
behalf of court packing that he was unable to handle the emergency fixing
job for the President on the Miller-Tydings bill. The President’s en
gagement secretary, Marvin MacIntyre, was rushed to the Senate lobby
for the emergency job.
(Copyright, 1037.)
Virginians’ Cheers Drown Roar
Of Guns as “Crater” Is Rewon
Small Band of Survivors of Lee’s Army
Sees ‘Confederates’ Charge to Victory
Again in ‘Second Battle o f Petersburg ’
By the Associated Press.
PETERSBURG, Va„ May 1.—The
roar of 40.000 sentimental Southerners
swept up behind “Mahone’s men” as
2,500 cadets, Marines and National
Guardsmen taking the roles of those
gallant Confederates charged to victory
late yesterday in concluding the re
enactment of the Battle of the Crater
before Petersburg in '64.
Thpy were Virginians mostly in that
throng which watched from sunny
hillsides the explosion of 150 pounds
of power, the Federal charge into the
old Crater and the counter-assault by
which men depicting Gen. William
Mahone's three brigades retook their
fortifications.
They rose to their feet in a wave and
drowned with their cheers the echoes
of artillery and the fast chatter of
musketry as the “Confederates” ran
to engage the “FederaLs” in hand-to
hand conflict and to close the beach
which the exposition theoretically
created in the morning phase of the
battle.
Lee’s Survivors Present.
A small band of Lee's survivors—in
cluding Gen. Homer Atkinson, com
mander in chief of the South’s vet
erans, and Gen. William McK. Evans,
Virginia chief of the TJ. C. V.—watched
very handcuffs with which it has
again become enslaved.
“We know only too well the cunning
and geni' s that directs large corporate
enterprise. While there is a change
of attitude on the part of an increas
ing number of employers toward
labor and labor unions, there is also
developing an increasing demand for
greater regulation, control and re
sponsibilities on the part of labor
organisations. It is to be hoped this
decision may prove all we have hoped
for it and that it may not prove
again to be but another Greek-bearing
gift.”
Mr. Woll’s view is not very much
different from that expressed by thus
correspondent on the day following
the decisions in the Wagner act cases.
The theory that employers are re
quired not to set up impediments to
the flow of interstate commerce is
as much applicable to the employes
who did set up impediments in the
Coronado case. While judicial inter
pretation of existing powers has been
applied to a unique set of circum
stances in the Wagner act cases, it is
significant that Mr. Woll takes the
view that the Supreme Court had a
well-established precedent to follow
in what it did April 12 and that the
congressional power which has been
upheld is broad enough to apply to
employes as well as to employer*.
with Gov. George Peery of Virginia
and a score of Representatives the
pageantry of that bloody day’s fight
July 30, 1864.
Sitting at the side of Danville’s
93 - year - old Confederate - veteran
Mayor, Harry Wooding. George Harris
of Carson, Va„ recalled that there
was “an awful uproar’’ that morning.
Before his elderly eyes Quantico Ma
rines. Virginia Military Institute
cadets and Virginia Guardsmen fell
“dying” in the counter-attack, but
Dr. Douglas Freeman, the battle nar
rator, testified that the crash of 12
French 75s and a field piece yesterday
could not create the din which nearly
150 guns set up in the real battle.
Unlike the real engagement which
cost near 6.000 killed and captured,
the mimic maneuvers directed by Col.
C. J. Miller of the 5th Marines
caused not a single injury despite the
fury of blank cartridges firing. The
sun took heavier toll. Fourteen fainted
this morning and three this afternoon,
the Red Cross station reported.
Field Pieces Open Battle.
Dr. Freeman began his account
through amplifiers of the morning
phase of the battle, and the 25,000
who had arrived looked across to
another hillside where blue-garbed
men had begun to carry bags of
“powder” along the line of the 511
foot tunnel which the 48th Penn
sylvania Federals dug under Stephen
Elliott’s South Carolina brigade.
Eight field pieces from Richmond,
four from Fredericksburg and the
cadets horse battery fired opening
salvos and the battle was on.
The imitation mine was exploded
at 12:04 p.m. and the "Federals,” first
disorganized as was the case In his
tory, were rallied to rush up the
hill to clumps of trees at the grass
grown crater. They crowded into it
and the first phase of the sham battle
was done by 1 p.m.
Something more of the Northern
army’s charge past the crater was
shown, and then the grey-clad actors
representing Mahone's veterans formed
in a rough ravine for the three charges
by which they closed the crater breach
and captured 1,101 Yankees.
With them into "battle” with Maj.
W. A. Burruss of V. M. I. went Wil
liam Mahone 4th, Petersburg lad, who
is the great-grandson of the Confed
erate general.
Cadets representing David Weisiger’s
brigade of Virginians charged first,
flags flying, but obliqued to the left
of the crater under terrific Federal
fire.
"Georgians” Rush Crater.
Next came Ambrose Wright’s brigade
of Georgians, part of whom had gone
up with Weislger. The acrid smoke
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own. not
x necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions oj interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Inflation Fears Recede
Extraordinary Spectacle of Rush to Economize
Cheers Capital Observers.
BY MASK SULLIVAN.
FOR the past two weeks of fall
ing prices of some commodities
and many securities, there are
a few causes in Washington
and several outside. In the whole
network of causes, well informed
opinion says, the largest single one
ivsioiouj vi a vvii
dition in London.
On the London
Stock Exchange
transactions are
conducted with
c o m p a r a tlvely
small margins, as
they used to be
on the New York
Stock Exchange.
Probably margins
in London are in
many cases as
low as 10 per
cent; (hat used
to be a frequent
figure on the New
Mark Sullivan.
Yortc excnange. a period oi cumula
tively urgent selling in London has
brought the margains of many specu
lators close to extinction. The specu
lators, thus imperiled, are obliged to
sell. Their sales carry prices still
farther down. This in turn imperils
still other speculators, and the vicious
downward spiral gets under way. In
short, there is, in London, something
approaching a stock exchange crisis.
Because many of the stocks thus sub
jected to forced sale in London are
American ones, the effect reflects it
self in quotations on the New York
Stock Exchange.
Here, however, the selling encoun
ters a defense, a defense for which
the New Deal is entitled to credit. On
the American stock exchanges the
margin prescribed by our Federal
Reserve Board is 55 per cent. That
is, a person who buys stocks must
put up 55 per cent of the price in
his own money and borrows only 45
per cent. In this condition, a fall
in prices would have to be so ex
treme as to be almost unthinkable
before a panic of forced selling could
arise. Further than that, in America,
comparatively few stocks have been
bougt on margin at all. Compara
tively few are in banks as collateral
for loans. Much of the buying of
stocks in America during the past
four years has been outright. With
us, there is no condition that is likely
to cause a panic of falling prices.
Roosevelt Advice Praised.
In fact, America might have ab
sorbed much of the selling from Lon
don and might have kept prices
more stable but for one condition.
Just about the time the selling of
American stocks in London was most
urgent, several agencies of the Amer
ican Government took actions de
signed to restrain prices. Among
other things, President Roosevelt
publicly advised Americans not to
speculate. The advice is good at all
times. Mr. Roosevelt's motive for
giving the advice at this particular
time was probably a concern lest
prices of commodities and stocks
might continue their remarkable rise
of some two years past, anc’. might
reach a dangerous elevation. His
motive was probably fear of inflation.
DAYLIGHT SAVING
BILL TO BE SPEEDED
House District Committee Will
Hasten Action on Commis
sioners’ Report.
Speedy action on the Sacks bill to
put Washington on a daylight saving
schedule is being sought by Chair
man Norton of the House District
Committee.
Planning to give the measure a pre
ferred status on the committee calen
dar, Mrs. Norton yesterday wrote to the
Commissioners requesting them to
hasten a report of their views. If the
Commissioners submit a report before
next Wednesday, the bill probably will
be considered by the committee at
that time.
Mrs. Norton has received a number
of indorsements of the bill, and only
one protest, anonymously signed
I “Mother." The writer complained
i daylight time would only serve to add
| another hour a day to her domestic
j routine. The principal indorsement
came from the Washington Board of
1 Trade and the Merchants and Manu
; facturers' Association.
i Representative Sacks, Democrat, of
i Pennsylvania, who sponsored the bill,
i does not believe it will meet any seri
ous opposition on its legislative
journey.
VOTE ON FLORIDA CANAL
DELAYED IN COMMITTEE
Rivers and Harbors Group Not to
Ballot for Ten Daya,
Mansfield Says.
The House Rivers and Harbors
Committee will not vote on the bill
to renew work on the Florida ship
canal for at least 10 days, Chairman
Mansfield said yesterday. He ex
plained that Representative Colmer,
Democrat, of Mississippi, who is out
I of the city, has requested a delay of
I the vote until he returns.
Hearings on the controversial ship
canal closed Thursday after W. C.
Mendenhall, director of the Geological
Survey, testified the “great drainage
ditch” across northern Florida would
affect the water tables over an area
wider than the 30-mile zone estimated
by geologists who made a survey for
the War Department.
drifted back to spectators, but the fight
remained unwon.
Finally, the “men of the last hope,”
as Dr. Freeman put it, lined out for
the assault which Gen. Lee, looking
from an upstairs window of the Gee
House, 500 yards behind, said must be
won. They were Saunders’ Alabamans
—630 of them, once of Willcox’s Bri
gade.
At 3:30 p.m. the bugles blew, with
“Stars and Bars” snapping in the
stiff breeze, Saunders’ men stood up
and began to run. The crowd came
up on benches and titptoe and yelled
in one mighty roar.
The Alabamans drove on in heavy
fire, never faltering, and into the
crater. The "battle” was won; the
■how was over.
It was probably a mere coincidence
that Mr. Roosevelt’s advice coincided
with causes which led to selling in
London.
But Mr. Roosevelt’s admonition was
not the principal contribution Wash
ington mad, to falling prices. Price
tides do not pay much attention, for
any length of time, to pronounce
ments by Presidents. Mr. Roosevelt
can no more talk prices down than
Mr. Hoover could talk them up during
the depression.
There is in Washington, however,
a real contributory cause to the re
cession in prices. This contribution
by Washington consists of an apparent
determination to balance the budget.
And in proportion as balancing of
the budget comes in sight, so does
the specter of Inflation recede. With
ebbing of anticipation of Inflation,
prices tend slightly downward, toward
a level which expresses their true,
normal value. Prices of a little while
ago included an extra, which was the
expectation of inflation. That ex
pectation, for the moment, is being
squeezed out of prices. The result
is wholesome. Farmers may not like
to see wheat quoted 15 cents a bushel
lower than a little while ago and
cotton 2 cents a pound less. But in
the long range, farmers as well as
everybody else should be grateful for
the passing of the fear of inflation.
The fear may not be gone perma
nently. The possibility of inflation
is not gone completely. But for the
moment, events and conditions in
Washington point toward escape from
inflation.
Move to Cut Expenses.
What has happened is that, first,
Mr. Roosevelt came finally to pay se
rious attention to the fear of infla
tion long held by thoughtful students.
He seemed to realize and accept the
principle that the mam cause of in
flation is Government borrowing. In
his recent budget message to Congress
he set his face in the direction of
reduced expenditures. Thereupon the
Democratic leaders in Congress set
about making still further reductions.
At present there is in Washington
an extraordinary spectacle, a kind of
competition, between Congress and
President, as to which shall do the
most reducing—and of course as to
which shall get the credit for it.
The credii that both President and
Congress seek can come only from the
public. What is happening is that
both President and Congress, assaying
the country’s feeling, conclude that
the country wants reduced expendi
tures. Throughout the country, the
free spending school of thought seems
for the time to have strunk to a
minority. Apparently Mr. Roosevelt
and Congressmen judge that the sav
ers and economizers are now a ma
jority, that economy is politically
popular. The existence of this pub
lic mood is a sign of economic health.
It is perhaps the most cheering new
development in a world in which, until
recently, a good many conditions
seemed discouraging.
CCopyrlght. 1837.)
We, the People
Strategically Timed Fish Fry Serves to Clear
Carolina Court Calendar.
BY JAY FRANKUN.
ST. GEORGES, S. C— Dorchester County Court was sitting in the
high school auditorium at St. Georges while the old court house
was being remodeled with the funds the county had gained from
the last bank failure. (It had taken collateral for its lost deposits
and the bonds had risen, giving the county a *28,000 windfall.)
The case under tho consideration of the Jury involved a suit for
*50,000 damages against a railroad for killing a man in 1934. Court term
was due to expire the next day and the railway’s attorney seemed to be
stalling for time. The Judge wanted to get back to Orangeburg that
night and the Jury, according to the cynical deputy, was holding out for
another free meal from the county and an extra day’s pay.
At that moment, my friend whispered the magic words, "Fish fry,”
to tne sheriff. The suggestion ran
through the court room like a
brush fire. Between the conclu
sion of argument and the charge
to the jury, the young State Sena
tor who represented the plaintiff
sent his man on a 60-mlle drive
for the fish nets. The sheriff and
all the court attaches agreed that
it looked like a good night for a
fry, and the “Co’t,” it was under
stood, might be persuaded to ad
joum ior rsn. bo we leit it at that.
Later that afternoon, word came that the boys had caught enough
fish for a fry but when we got back to the Improvised court room, the
deputy was almost tearful.
‘‘Dawggone! We’ve got a hung jury!” he objected. And as we
passed the jury room, a high, plaintive voice was heard exclaiming inside,
"We can't seem to agree on nothin’ nohow!” Just as though the little
Ashes were not already sizzling in the deep fat, the judge continued his
long, painstaking charge to the second jury—a suit for damages to a truck
and trailer, also by the railway.
The "Co’t'’ addressed the jury in kindly and complimentary
terms. He was the judge of the law, they must judge the facts.
As the key turned in the lock and the lonely deputy mounted wistful
watch outside the door, the "Co’t" benevolently suggested an adjournment
for an hour for dinner. Five minutes later we were all whirring along the
Beaufort road in the direction of the Edisto River.
The Ash fry grounds were a right pretty sight. The dark clear
waters of the river curled between towering live oaks, dripping witn
Spanish moss. Deep iron pots were simmering on red Ares and an
indeterminate number of men—both white and black—were busy around
them. No women folks were allowed to spoil things at these frys. The
full moon was just rising when the counsel for the plaintiffs discovered
that he had accidentally left all his rye whisky back at the court house,
so the sheriff volunteered to fetch it and see how the juries were getting
along.
When he returned, he told the judge that both juries had arrived at
their verdicts and were clamoring to be let out. The Anely-modeled
judicial face considered the situation gravely. It was well past 8 o’clock
and two hours past the usual supper-time for most people thereabouts.
But the rye was circulating and the Ash were almost done. "Junes keep
us waitin’ often enough," ruled the "Co't." "This time they can wait
for us!”
Finally the judge looked at his watch and suggested we go back for
the verdicts. Loading up writh fried red-brea.sts and half a bottle of whisky
for the marooned deputy, we returned to the court
Both juries, the deputy claimed, had begun threatening to break
down the doors, but they filed out respectfully enough and confronted
the dignity of the "Co t ” who had resumed his black robe. The
$50,000 suit was settled by the jury in favor of the plaintiff—$2,500
damages. The truck-and-irailer case was settled for $1,250. The
lawyer for the plaintiffs—he who had organized the fish fry—had
won both his cases.
The juries were respectful, but there was a resentful set to their shoul
ders which the judge noted. After all, it was cruel and unusual punish
ment to be locked up in a bare room while others were reveling in cat
fish stew and fried red-breasts. So he ruled—wisely—that the jurors, hav
ing been kept late, were entitled to their next day’s pay and that the
county should give any who wanted it a free dinner at Duke's Hotel, after
au. men ne declared tne term of
the court at an end and requested
the sheriff to drive him back to
Orangeburg.
Informal? Yes, but not in the
least und'gnified. The railway had
avoided settlement of the $50,000
suit for over three years and had
the corporation lawyer secured a
hung jury for another 24 hours,
the case would have been delayed
for at least another year. So for
the "Co t' to go off on a fish fry leaving a hungry South Carolina jury
locked up had turned the trick and brought the verdicts in time for a clear
Judicial week end.
(Copyright. 1837.)
An American
You Should
Know
Head of Coast Guard
Quit College to Fol
low Sea.
BY DELIA PYNCHON.
Co-ordination of the gigantic life
saving, law-enforcing, coast-patrol
ling service is the capable hands of
Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche, com
mandant of the United States Coast
Guard, Treasury Department.
Alexander Hamilton is responsible
for its location in the Treasury De
I Admiral Wafsche.
partment in
1790. He estab
lished the Rev
enue Cutter Ma
rine Service to
protect American
revenue. Here it
has remained, ex
cept during war
times, when the
Coast Guard is
an author i z e d
part of the Navy.
Having been
the only armed
force of a young
Nation for seven
^ A K r-.
fought in every official and unofficial
scrap throughout our history, the
Coast Guard holds an important
position in our armed forces.
Admiral Waesche. born in Thur
mont, Md , in 188C. has seen the
world from the decks of a Coast
Guard cutter. In 1904 he gave up
electrical engineering at Purdue Uni*
versity to follow the life he liked.
Lean, fit, bronzed. Waesche has the
far-sighted eyes of a sailor man.
His first commission upon gradua*
tion from the Coast Guard Training
School, in 1906. was on the Mohawk.
In the teeth of a southeast gale they
hunted for the distressed ship Ponce
! from Puerto Rico. They did not find
; the Ponce, but W'aesche found his sea
' leg3.
Eight years of sea duty led him up
■and down our coastline—to'the Ber
ing Sea to protect the seal and otter
herds, to Turkey during the Ar
menian troubles, to the Mediterranean
on naval transport duty. He com
manded 6 of the 25 Navy destroyers
pressed into service during the rum
running days of 1924. In a year and
a half they broke up a rum fleet of 60.
On shore duty in 1918, Waesche says,
‘T fought the war in the Ordnance
Department from a swivel chair in
Washington.”
Nhe new Coast Guard Academy at
New London, finished in 1930, is the
last word in up-to-date plant and
equipment. The new Coast Guard
Institute and Correspondence School,
originated by Waesche. improves the
efficiency and raises the ranking of
enlisted men.
Coast Guard combined personnel
numbers about 10.000. It has ap
proximately 270 active stations along
the coast. During the Winter ice pa
trols in the North Atlantic broadcast
j weather conditions for protection
against icebergs. During the Missis
| sippi floods 400 boats and 2,000 men
were flung into rescue work.
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