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\i*irs MSevietr of Current Barents HUGO BLACK CONFESSES New Justice Says He Was Kluxer But Resigned . . . Rail Strike Averted ... Windsor Coming to America * Justice Black Delivering His Notable Address by Radio. W. ftldccuLcL SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union. Black Joined Klan; Quit hi DID join the Ku Klux Klan. I A later resigned. I never re joined.” Thus Hugo L. Black, now Asso ciate Justice Black of the Supreme court, admitted to an immense radio audience that the charges against him were true. Black asserted that since he quit the Klan he has had nothing what ever to do with it He cited his record in the senate and in private life to back up his assertion that he w T as entirely free from religious or race prejudices. While he apparently repudiated the principles of the Klan, he did not explain why. on receiving a life pass card after his election to the senate, he said to a gathering of Klansmen: "I realize that I was elected by men who believe in the principles that I have sought to advocate and which are the principles of this or ganization.” Black emphatically declared his devotion to the principles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and said that he was of “that group of liberal senators who have consist ently fought for the civil, economic and religious rights of all Ameri cans, without regard to race or creed.” Some of his best friends, he added, were Catholics and Jews, and members of the colored race. At the outset of his address Black undertook to turn the tables on his accusers by asserting that the ’‘campaign” to discredit him “fans the flames of prejudice and is cal culated to create racial and re ligious prejudice.” “When this statement is ended,” he concluded, “my discussion of the question is closed.” There was a definite note of de fiance in Black’s address, but it is fair to assume that the American public was not satisfied with his ex planation. Fromr all parts of the country came renewed protests against his presence on the Supreme court bench, and various large asso ciations “resoluted” about it. Many of the senators who voted to con firm his appointment because they accepted the assertion of his friends that he was not a Kluxer are re sentful at the deception practiced on them—but what can they do about it now? President Roosevelt, up to the time of writing, had maintained si lence. One of his aides explained that the President decided some time ago that there was no course of action open to him in the Black case. When Justice Black took his seat, the chamber of the Supreme court was crowded to capacity. Albert Levitt, an attorney, was on hand to ask permission to file a suit seeking to force Justice Black to show cause why he should not be declared con stitutionally ineligible to sit. The court deferred action on the request. Another motion to the same effect was filed by Patrick H. Kelly, a Bos ton lawyer. Special Session ON HIS way from the West Pres ident Roosevelt made a speech at Grand Forks, N. D., in which he declared his intention of continuing his fight to “reform” the Supreme court. He also announced attempts to pass crop control and labor legis lation would be made at a special session of congress which probably will be called about November 15. Rail Strike Averted THERE will not be a nationwide strike of railway workers. Such a disaster was averted when the five operating railroad brotherhoods accepted an offer of the companies of a flat raise of 44 cents a day. They and the fifteen “non-operat ing” unions had demanded a 20 per cent wage increase. The latter al ready had agreed to a raise of 40 cents a day. For five weeks Dr. William M. Leiserson, member of the national mediation board, had been holding daily conferences with representa tives of both sides. In announcing the terms of the agreement, Leiserson praised the co-operation of both parties, saying the manner in which they receded from their original positions was the biggest factor in the settlement. H. A. Enochs of Philadelphia, chairman of the carriers’ confer ence committee, estimated the in crease would mean an average raise of 6.6 per cent for the 75,000 work ers. A. F. of L. May Expel C. 1.0. \\ r HEN President William Green * * opened the annual convention of the American Federation of La bor in Denver, he was not able to fid William Green present an optimist ic picture of the fu ture of unified labor. The battle with John L. Lewis and his C. I. O. continues un abated, and there are “dogfights” among the unions all over the country, generally concern ing jurisdiction dis putes or shifting of affiliation. If the report of the federation’s executive council is adopted, the C. I. O. unions will be finally ousted. The council said in part: “For two years we have pursued a policy of toleration . . . All of this has failed . . . Now the executive council feels that the time has ar- j rived when the American Federa tion of Labor must meet the issue in a clear-cut and positive way . . . The issue which created the division in the ranks of labor must be made clear. “In order to accomplish this pur- j pose the executive council recom mended that the convention confer upon the executive council author ity and power to revoke the charters of the international unions holding membership in the Committee for Industrial Organization.” President in Chicago CHICAGO put on its best dress to receive President Roosevelt, who spent two and a half hours there. The main purpose of the visit was the dedication of the new outer drive across the mouth of the Chicago river, a project that was partly paid for with federal money. Mr. Roosevelt first reviewed a long and colorful parade and led the way across the structure. Then from the south end of the bridge he deliv ered an address that was broadcast by radio. The President was entertained at luncheon by Cardinal Mundelein, a friend of long standing, and soon after proceeded on his way to his home in Hyde Park, N. Y. Windsor Coming to U. S. TJ IS honeymoon being ended, the duke of Windsor intends to take up the really serious things of life, and before long he will come to the United States for the purpose of studying housing and working con ditions in this country. This was announced in Paris by the duke’s secretary, who said Edward and his duchess would first go to Ger many for a similar survey there. The duke's interest in such mat ters is no new development, for as Prince of Wales and during his brief reign as king-emperor Edward was notably concerned with the social welfare of lys subjects. On many occasions he assailed housing con ditions of British workers. In London it was said the gov ernment had given reluctant per mission for the duke’s American trip in order to avoid an open rup ture with him. He resented the close restrictions placed on his movements and, it w’as rumored, had threatened to return to Eng land. American friends of the Windsors think they may make their tempo rary home at “Wakefield manor,” near Front Royal, Va., possibly ar riving there in November. The manor is the estate of Mrs. George Barnett, cousin of the duchess. j I Hands Off, Says Japan j JAPAN doesn't like the British plan for an international confer- J ence to mediate the Chinese-Japa- | nese war, so Tokyo issued a stem | warning to the rest of the world not to interfere with her doings in | China. Japanese government circles were I visibly perturbed by the turning of world sympathy to China, and with out exception attribute this to suc cessful Chinese propaganda. The United States government re cently told Japan it would be held strictly accountable for injury to Americans or their property in Chi na. Tokyo responded with a firm refusal to accept such liability, and our Department of State didn't know just what to do next. Member nations of the League of ; Nations had a plan to raise a large 1 fund to fight the cholera and bu- i bonic epidemics in China. But the j Japanese told the British that this would be interpreted by Tokyo as j foreign intervention in the war, so j the British delegates backed down I and persuaded the league council to content itself with a resolution recommending to the assembly an increase in the allotment of money for health work in China. The League of Nations adopted a resolution severely condemning Jap an for the aerial bombardment of defenseless Chinese cities, and Tokyo, indignant, charged the league of acting without verifying the facts. To the protest of five great powers, previously filed, the Japanese gov ernment replied with the assertion that the bombing of Nanking was “necessary for our purpose.” The British public is becoming in creasingly aroused against Japan and there is a general demand for a boycott of Japanese goods. Ed Howe Dies WITH the passing of Ed Howe of Atchison, Kan., the country loses one of its best-known and best liked philosophical commentators on current events. He was eighty four years old and died as he had wished, in his sleep after a day’s work. The “Sage of Potato Hill” founded the Atchison Globe in 1887 and retired 37 y?ars later. There after he busied himself with the publication of “Howe's Monthly,” which he called a “Journal of In dignation and Education.” * Red Officials Executed EXECUTION of the president, vice president and six other high offi cials of the Adjarian Republic of the U. S. S. R. for treasonable plotting was reported to Moscow from Tiflis. At the same time, reports from Leningrad province told of eight em ployees of the grain trust there be ing sentenced to death for allegedly treasonable damaging of grain sup plies. Bar for Free Courts CONVINCED that the independ- j ence of the federal judiciary is still threatened, despite the defeat of the plan to enlarge the Supreme court, the American Bar association, in session in Kansas City, voted unanimously to authorize a commit- j tee to keep up the fight to preserve the freedom of the courts, as rec ommended by a special committee. That committee said: “There ap pears to be no likelihood that efforts to re-make the courts of the United States will not be renewed. Your special committee is of the opinion j that the association ought to main- i tain itself in readiness to meet such j issues as they may recur, rather : than to rely upon impromptu organ- ; ization for the purpose.” The lawyers listened to many j speeches, both attacking and de fending President Roosevelt's court program and his appointment of Hugo Black to the Supreme court. The climax to all this came when Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chair man of the house judiciary commit tee, arose to talk. He had a pre pared address, but shifted to an ex temporaneous talk in which he de clared the people have lost control of the government of the United States and it has passed into the hands of a million people in its ex ecutive department, in which only one man was elected, and which the people could not control. “What are we going to do about it?” Sumners cried. “Are you will ing to join a battalion of death to save the Constitution and the gov ernment? “As we look to the future, we are rapidly approaching a crisis when it will be decided whether our eco nomic system and ofir government will stand or fall. “I mean actually. A very serious situation is before the people. It means we have got to do something soon. We have got to balance the budget. We have got to decentral ize government responsibility.” — + — Auto Union Shake-Up SEVERAL times Homer Martin, president of the United Automo bile Workers of America, has inti mated that there were too many radicals among the leaders of that union. Now, allegedly for reasons of economy, he has got rid of some of them. These organizers have been left out: Victor Reuther, one of the leaders in the General Mo tors strike at Flint, Mich., last win ter; Robert Kanter, Stanley Novak, Melvin Bishop and William Tonn of Detroit; R. D. Richter of Saginaw; Charles Rigby, Ohio; Frank McMil lan, Kansas City; Eugene Stauder, Frank Bartee and Schutz, Indiana. THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER Historic Hoaxes 88 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON © Western Newspaper Union. The Sourdough Hotel IF YOU’VE ever been to Alaska you probably thought it was a good joke on your friends to write a letter to them on the stationery of the Sourdough hotel, and you chuckled to yourself when you visu alized them puzzling over some of the statements on the letterhead. The Sourdough hotel is located at 1333 Icicle avenue and among the i house rules are these: towels I changed weekly; spiked shoes must ! be removed at night; anyone trou j bled with nightmare will find a hal j ter on the bedpost; don’t worry ; about paying your bill—the house is supported by its foundation. This hotel was the creation of a young newspaper man named E. J. White who went to Alaska during the gold rush of 1898. The primitive living conditions in the boom camp of Dawson appealed to his sense of humor so he had printed several hundred sheets of stationery for his Sourdough hotel. The gold seekers, seeing in this a chance to play a joke on the folks back home, eagerly bought his sta tionery at $2 a dozen sheets. White’s clever foolery landed him a job on the Klondike Nugget and started him on the career which has made the name of “Stroller” White fa mous. He’s still a newspaper man, publisher of the Juneau Stroller’s Weekly, and tourists in Alaska are still writing letters back home on the stationery of the Sourdough hotel. • • • “Enigmatical Prophesies” WHEN purchasers of “Poor j Richard's Almanac” for the year 1736 opened their copies of that household necessity, some of, them, no doubt, were considerably alarmed when they read in it cer tain “enigmatical prophecies.” For “Poor Richard” (otherwise known as Benjamin Franklin) solemnly predicted that during the coming year many of America's greatest j cities would soon be under water, i that a certain power with which | the country was not at war would take great numbers of vessels fully ; laden out of the seaports of the country, and that an army of mus keteers would land in this country to annoy the inhabitants. Further more he promised to reveal in the i next issue of his “almanack” the ! proof of these statements if his | readers were not aware of these | events when they happened. So they had to wait patiently for ! a whole year to learn the answers to these enigmas. But, true to “Poor Richard’s” promise, the 1737 issue of the almanac did contain the | answers. The water which had covered the great cities was that of the sea and the rivers, raised by the sun in the form of vapor, then descending upon the cities as rain. The power with j which the country was not at war was the wind which did indeed “take great numbers of vessels fully laden out of the seaports of the 1 country.” As for the army of musketeers ! which would land to annoy this country’s inhabitants, they were mosquitoes. For “everyone knows they are fish before they fly, being bred in the water; and therefore j may properly be said to land be fore they become generally trouble some.” • • • “Exaltation,” nee “Yes, We Have No Bananas” WHEN Mrs. Sara Smith exhib ited one of her paintings at ! Claremont, Calif., and the art crit ics dismissed it from consideration as being “distinctly of the old school,” her husband, Paul Jordan i Smith, an author and minister who considered his wife an accomplished painter, resolved to get back at those supercilious “experts.” Several months later an art ex hibit in Boston included four paint ints by “Pavel Jerdanovitch,” who was called the “supreme master of the disumbrationist school of paint ing.” They were named “Aspira tion,” “Adoration,” “Exaltation” and “Illumination.” In the cata logue was this statement by their painter, “To those that realize that real art depicts not what we see, but what we feel, hear and smell, these soul-revealing creations will be sources of ecstatic, moronic rap ture.” The ultra-modernist critics looked at his paintings, nodded sagely and uttered many laudatory comments on “the rise of a new star in the art firmament.” Critics in New York and Chicago, where the paint ings were later exhibited, agreed with them, until . . . “Pavel Jerdanovitch” was re vealed as Paul Jordan Smith of Cal ifornia who said that he had bor rowed some of his wife’s canvases and “just slopped on a lot of paint.” For instance, “Exaltation,” the most famous of the four, had been called “Yes, We Have No Bananas,” and had been used as a fire screen in his home. Smith had produced these ultra-impressionistic pictures, he said, “without the slightest knowledge of painting, just to prove that most art critics don’t know what they’re talking about” Improved II SUNDAY International I SCHOOL -> LESSON -:- | By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 17 CHRISTIAN SPEECH AND CONDUCT LESSON TEXT—James. Chapter 3. j GOLDEN TEXT—Let no corrupt com munication proceed out of your mouth. — Ephesians 4:29. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Words I Say. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Bridle on the Tongue. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP lC—Christian Speech. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP lC—Christian Words and Works. Christian speech and conduct may well be studied in the book of James, for he stresses the impor tance of works as demonstrating faith. There are two common er rors—one is to attempt to be justi fied by good works apart from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ —the other is to talk abput believing in him and then fail to live in accordance with one’s profession. Some have assumed that James fell into the former error, urging works as a substitute for faith, but an intelli i gent reading of his epistle clearly indicates that he is in no sense con tradicting the Scripture doctrine of justification by faith, but is show ing that professed faith which does not result in Christian living is in reality a dead and useless thing. I. Christian Talk (vv. 1-12). As he enters upon his searching and convicting discussion of the tongue and its misuse the writer dis i tinguishes between 1. Two kinds of talkers (vv. 1,2). a. “Teachers” (v 1.) who have a I peculiar responsibility because they stand as the representatives of God at the sacred desk. It is not a place to be sought after, and the j man who fills it a$ God’s call needs divine grace and direction that he j may speak the truth. b. “We all” (v. 2). The speech ' of every one of us counts either for j or against God, even though we j may not fill the teacher’s chair or I stand in the pulpit 2. A single danger (vv. 3-12). All of us have the one danger—lack of "tongue-control.” Developing that thought the text first points out that a. Powerful things need control (vv. 3-5). The horse is a wild and useless animal without the directing and restraining bit. A ship without a rudder will be lost. A tongue needs direction and control, for while a little thing, it is tremen j dously powerful. b. An uncontrolled tongue is dan gerous ((w. 6-8). How vivid is the imagery of the words before us. A fire spreading and destroying, an untamed animal running wild in all its fury, a deadly poison eating away the life—such is the uncon j trolled tongue. We recognize the truth of these things. We see how vile and care less speech debases man, how words chosen for their power to destroy pour forth from the press, over the footlights, from man to man and lit erally “set on fire the course of j nature” (v. 6). c. An uncontrolled tongue is in consistent (vv. 9-12). Again the fig | ure is striking. The fountain which i pours forth fresh pure water to sus tain life does not at the same time Dring forth the bitter brackish wa ter. Fig trees do not bear olives, vines do not bear figs. Nature is consistent and dependable. But the tongue—ah, that is an other matter! How sadly do we confess our failure, for here do we “offend all” (v. 2). We bless God, and defile and destroy man, with i the same lips. “These things ought | not so to be” (v. 10). May God give us grace and strength that they may not be so. 11. Christian Walk (vv. 13-18). The word “conversation” in v. 13 Is an English word which now means “talk” but which formerly meant “manner of living.” 1. Words and works must agree (vv. 13,14). It is only right that those who speak of following Christ should prove it in their manner of living, Talk may be smooth and broad in its claims, but the demon stration of its reality and honesty is lin the daily walk. This calls for wisdom which is divine—earthly wis | dom will not suffice. 2. Earthly wisdom is false (vv. 15,16), There is a wisdom apart from God. Men of the world are brilliant and able, but scrutinize their wisdom and you will find that it is “sensual” —that is, of the senses —or natural as distinguished from spiritual. All too often it is downright “devilish” (v. 16). 3. True wisdom is from above (vv. 17,18). Undefiled, unselfish, uncom promising, but not quarrelsome or stubborn, impartial and sincere— and "full of mercy and good fruits” —such is God’s wisdom for the Christian’s life. Letter of Light The great comprehensive truths written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no per fect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor of immortal hope, except in the principles of Christian faith, and in the sanction* of the Christian religion. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * STAR ; \ DUST ; i JVfiovie • Radio * ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE*^ AN ANNIVERSARY cele bration that meant much to motion-picture and radio folk, took place a short time ago at Loew’s State, one of the few remaining vaudeville houses in New York. On its sixteenth birthday, players who got their start or revived their careers there sent tele grams and encouraged the ; manager to keep vaudeville alive. Among the many famous names who graduated from this theater are ; the radio pets Ed- Joe E. Brown gar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Martha Raye, James Cagney, Walter Huston who played a dramatic sketch fifteen years ago, and Joe E. Brown, who was one of a team of acro bats who called themselves artists. Screen stars too numerous to men tion have played personal appear ances there, and it was during an engagement of Buddy Rogers and his band that his romance with Mary Pickford first became widely known. — M — Tex Ritter’s musical Westerns made for Grand National are be coming so popular he is looming up as a real rival for Gene Autrey, who is currently the screen's num ber one attraction. No drug store cowboy is Tex Ritter—he really comes from Texas, and every so often he bolts from his stage, screen, and radio successes to go back to ranching. The first time he was lured away from ranching, it was for a role in “Green Grow the Lilacs,” the Theater guild play which also launched a young actor by the name of Franchot Tone. The ! next time he came East to appear at the Madison Square rodeo, the radio moguls grabbed him. — * — Gordon Miller, who threatens to become a matinee idol, reached pic tures by the hitch-hike route. He is slated for the very important role opposite Deanna Durbin in her next picture, “Mad About Music.” He hitch-hiked from his home in Flint, Michigan, to New Orleans, where he went to the Plantation night club and offered to sing for his supper. He sang himself into a steady job. Universal picture’s talent scouts heard him and signed him up. — * — The same men who picked Tyrone Power and Don Ameche out of ob scurity and guided them to film fame think that they have a new matinee idol in the person of Dick Baldwin, whom you will see in the Ritz Brothers’ new picture, “Life Be gins at College.” Baldwin was just about to Leave Hollywood, discour aged over his failure to get parts, when he was called to the Twen tieth Century-Fox studios for a test. A day later he was given a contract. —*— Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the beau tiful swimming star, who has been thrilling the customers at the Great Lakes Exposition since early sum mer, is going to be Tarzan’s mate in motion pictures this winter. She will play opposite Glen Morris, world decathlon champion. Eleanor was in pictures for a short time two years ago. — * — Barbara Stanwyck surprised even her closest friends when she got on a boat headed for the Panama canal and the Pacific coast instead of one going to London where Robert Taylor is. She said she has no j idea when she and Bob will meet again. ! It has been raining so continuously in | England that out door scenes of his picture have been delayed and his al- Barbara Stanwyck most-daily cablegrams sound pretty blue over the prospect of a long ab sence from Hollywood. She won’t gc j over to see him, though, partly be cause she is all signed up to make a lot of pictures in Hollywood. _* ODDS AND ENDS—May Robson icho is playing Aunt Roily in “The Ad ventures of Tom Sawyer," celebratec \ her fifty-fourth anniversary as an ac j tress recently at the David Selznich studios . . . Red Skelton made such a knockout test for R. K. O. that he has been given the role intended for Mil j ton Berle in “Having a Wonderful j Time” . . . Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was ; summoned back from London via j telephone to play opposite Katherine j Hepburn in “Bringing Up Baby" ... I If Hollywood moguls really want to lure Irene Rich away from radio and back to the screen, she says that they cill have to let her play a giddy siren. She won’t play any more neglected vives ... 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