Page Post Established 1808 TSs Established Published ever; week day evening except Stturdtj XHB TBIBUNE FEINTING COMrANl Member of the Associated Freii The Associated Cress Is exclusively entitled to the tor rtpubllcttoa of r.tws dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, tnd the loetl published All rights of republlcatlon ot special dispatches herein reserved. Entered in the Postofllce Jefferson City. lecond Class Matter Coder the Act of March 3, by Oxrrler In Jttltrsan Citj lie Weekly By Mail In Missouri 1 Teat ts advance 14.00 I Month In advance .60 I In 6 Months In advance--J2 50 5j Hall Outside Missouri I ID 1 Month In advance .10 I Months in 6 Months 1n tTLEFHONI BOflO NEWEST POLITICAL REFORM Men honestly interested in efficiency and economy in government are giving thought to the possibility of a state law patterned after the recently enacted Hatch bill. As a matter of fact the Hatch bill will fail in its objectives unless it is reinforced by similar legislation in the states. For example, much emphasis has been laid upon the fact that national conventions no longer can be packed by federal employees.
There is nothing, however, to prevent conventions from being as heavily weighted with state office holders as they formerly were with federals. Unless states pass similar legislation that is bound to be true and nothing has been accomplished. The same is true of the nefarious practice of laying the lug on state employees. Prison guards despite their meager pay will continue to feel the heavy hand of the party's collectors on their purses as they ever did. There is nothing to prevent the administration from broadly hinting to them that it is wise to give.
The giving we learned last year, is not confined to the regular election alone but to the primary as well. The fact that you are the most efficient man in the employe of the state will avail you nothing if you refuse to out when the party's finance committee looks meaningly at your monthly pay check. Ah end must be put to tiiat system before the people get any kind of a return for their tax dollars. The chances of a bill like that finding its way through a Missouri legislature are admittedly very slim. All reforms have been checkmated and junked and a complete new set of faces will be needed before anything of that nature can be accomplished in Missouri.
But they won out in congress and they Ian succeed in the legislature. THE CCC STANDS UP Every once in a while the work accomplished by the Civilian Conservation Camps is summed up. Such periodic reports are an old story by now, and yet as time passes, the sheer figures grow more and more Six years of work are now behind the 2,500,000 young men, war veterans, Indians, and territorials who have passed through the camps. And today, the United States has, among others, these things which it did not have before: 1,741,000,000 trees, 104,000 miles of- truck trails or minor roads, 71,000 miles of telephone lines, 40,000 bridges, 4,700,000 check dams in gullies to reduce soil erosion, 5390 large impounding or diversion dams. "I am proud," reports Director Fechner of the CCC, "of the fine performance record of these young men." He should be proud, and so should every one of us.
For the physical results of the work do not stand alone. Many hundreds of thousands of young men today are better men than they might otherwise have been. And that is the greatest accomplishment of all. WORDS AND WORDS A. P.
Herbert is not only a first-class writing man, but he has a sense of humor and a willingness to get right down and slug in the practical field for things he believes ought to be done. This British versifyer, member of Parliament and crusader for political reforms, has never broken a lance with a tougher enemy than the one he now challenges. He has taken on the common--all too common--tendency to use 12 long words when two short ones would do much better. For instance, Herbert cites this: "England anticipates that as regards the current emergency, personnel will face up to the issues and exercises appropriately the functions allocated to thetir respective occupational groups What does it mean? Nothing except what Lord Nelson said much more simply, and much better, in his famous battle message: "England expects every man to do his duty." Somehow we cannot sympathize with those who are forced to pay heavy fines for failing to buy city auto licenses. A month and a half is grace enough for any driver.
We hasten to add however, that the price of the tags is outrageous we would gladly su pport any effort to induce the council to reduce it No Oswald, the city council has not even thought about the traffic ordinance. The aldermen do not want to act in haste. They have had at only about two years. 3 nscience fer money returned by people who received too much from the government. There can't be much in It.
It hasn't attracted the attention of new dealers. Washington Daybook By Preston Graver 'August 5.0, 1939 window at the restaurant where WASHINGTON-- In its program for organizing the building trades workers, C.I.O. is steering clear of any discussion of the annual wage scheme, which involves lower pay per hour but higher pay per year. "We haven't gone far enough along the road for that," said Denny Lewis, younger brother of John L. Lewis.
John L. put Denny in charge of organizing the building trades workers along industrial lines. Now they are mostly under A.F. of organized by trades We went over to see Denny in his office the national headquarters of the United Mine Workers. It used to be the exclusive University club and still looks like it The patrons are different, though.
No University club with a full quota of ex-football players ever housed such big men. Labor leaders don't come pocket sizes. They come in 200-pound jobs. Denny and Brother John are no exceptions. Both are big.
Denny looks like John, with a large head and a larger head of hair. His is not so rough cut as John's We hadn't been in the building two minutes i we discovered dignity is being added to Denny. The staff calls him A. D. Lewis Denny sounds a bit familiar you must admit.
Denny is a more genial sort a John He laughs with you when he talks. He laughs occasionally into the telephone. When John smiles it is newsphoto worthy. In Government Twice Denny cut about the same path for himself up through the labor movement as did John a i the Iowa coal mines at 16 and following the union trail upward. He stepped into government once in Illinois to head a slate mining departmet and again in 1930 i he De a rtment of Labor under "Puddler" Jim Davis, staunch Hoover Kepubhcan, now senator from Pennsylvania He became an assistant to Brother John when the New Deal moved in in 1933 While we talked, a steam trip hammer was driving foundation pilings for an office building close by.
We shouted questions. He shouted replies. Sometimes the trip hammer would pause suddenly for a breather while one of our untrimmed shouts roared along a corridor leading from his office "Right out on that building," he said waving a hand toward the trip hammer eighteen A.F. of L. building trades Sn will be working before it is comnieted.
I wants to organize them all into one union and end junsdictional disputes Th Di-etically, an A.F.of L. concrete pour- an a a to a leak in a h-n 6 us ca carpenter. If he does it himself without calling the carpenter, the carpenters may raise a jurisdictional issue and possibly strike. As Denny explained the I system the concrete ourer PC "id put in peg but would have to insist on the carpenter's rate of pay while he did it A Little Later But we were curious about C.I.O. views on this annual wage business.
Many persons have held the idea that if building trades workers would accept an annual wage rate and do more work per year at less hom-lv pay, they would contribute oward a buiS rev: val. This is the idea: A carpenter gets $11 a day. But, labor statistics indicate, he works on an average, only enough to bring in S1200 a year. That is about five months work J-r an employer would guarante him in THIN BLUE LINE antee would go up the chimney Man About Manhattan By George Tucker NKW YORK-At all hours of the day and night people drift through the high, missive doors of St. Patrick's Cathedral, on i avenue.
It is Ihe most a i I ever saw. 1 am no student oe architecture, but it does not take one to know that Here against Ihe background of Rockefeller Center is the most impressive contrast in schools of architecture that exists in New York i tr ast is so ivid, so stunning, that I always think of that line from Robert Louis Dllte" A SPri ParSley against a siiver plate --whenever I come upon it frnm th magln Cathedral itself is 50 feet from the curb. You rise to it by two flights of marble steps that extend to the vaulted Gothic doors Inside all sense of space disolves into an ws a Its spires are 330 feet high. From Fifth n2 Ia iS aV6nUe the Cathedral 0 feet long. It is more than 200 feet wide Its doors are 15 feet high and 15 feet wide.
It' has been called "the outstanding monument of Romanticism in the country the Ronv l6f t' aS Cnter the Cathedral, is Ck where Pamphlets and other nf a Ure on the creed an customs Catttolicism may be found. Then you come to he Window of St. Vincent De Paulf founder of All PS the fMissi who died 1660. ii 6 ma windows are dedicatl ed to the memory of great figures in the hi 4 1 hCa lic Church Window oi til" a of Hungary, St. Andrew the Apos- PathP i Ca thenne Alexandria, reveals v.
lea mg on a whee! th instrument with which she was tortured, before she beheaded, in 305. The Quen-Safat has a ress window is that of St. Em eror shown in a The title-window of the Church St Pat rick's, portrays scenes from St Patrick's lifV Th5? de ai into Heavl fo 4U ln window 1 0 tory of the heroes of the Catholic Church domes, its twin spires! its reminder of tht and continuity of Christian Civlu! What Others Say in agit ti and the se attacks on Brit- interests and rights in North China are to so teJ tak the BrUJSh would M- a scnous Vlew of the situation. Commons! Chamberlain, to the House Fewer Than 600 Will Swap Tales of Gettysburg and at Roll Call Encampment PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10 (UP) The time-thinned ranks of the Boys in Blue" will rally once again to swap tales of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Appomattox, and the days of 1861 at the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic here Aug.
Fewer than 600 Union veterans of the Civil War are expected to answer the call, but joint sessions of five affiliated patriotic organizations will the ranks of the visitors to an 10,000. Of the regiments which' marched for the Union nearly three-quarters of a century ago, only 3,616 were living on June 1 according to veterans pension bureau figures, with the number being decreased by death at the rate of 100 to 150 a month. Led by Commander-in-Chief Rooert M. Bownd, 94, of Brooklyn, N. the little band of sur- Vivors will assemble round the stacked arms, knapsack a canteen, symbol of the A participate in memorial services for their dead companions.
Auxiliary Groups to Join Joining in the ceremonies will be delegates of the Women's Relief Corps, Sons of Union Veterans, Auxiliary of the Sons of Union Veterans, Ladies of the A and Daughters of Union Veterans. When the old veterans parade in review, they will join forces with the mobilized Pennsylvania Rational Guard, units of the S. Naval Reserve, a detachment of the crack 12th infantry of the U. S. Army, the U.
S. Marine band, delegates of their affiliated organizations, and all veterans' groups. Convention headquarters reported that plans to provide transportation A men had met with vigorous opposition from members who declared, "We will march." -typical spirit of the old soldiers was revealed in a letter to headquarters from R. H. Shifflett, Long Beach, Cal.
veteran who told of saving the dollars irom his pension that he might travel to Pittsburgh for "my last encampment." Pupils to Stage Pageant Pittsburgh school children TMmbermg more than 10,000 will honoring the Among the affairs which the veterans will discuss in their business sessions is the "teapot tempest" over the ownership of a relic cannon, reportedly recovered from the wreckage of the Confederate Merrimac, first iron-clad warship. The cannon, bearing the markings of a No. IX Gahlgren gun and said to have been identified as one of the six cannon recovered from the ship, was found in an unused lot near Pittsburgh's old armoi-y. School officials who now control the armory, refused to surrender the gun to civic groups, which desired to mount as a memorial. 1 Mayor Cornelius a ar with a demand that "something must be one a the still rests in the field where it was discovered.
The veterans were expected to demand reclamation of the, relic. DEATHS LAST NIGHT By The Associated Press) John P. Grier YORK--John P. Grier 71, retired member of the New York stock exchange and special tne ln Wall street firm of Smith, Barney and Co. Mrs.
Homer S. WASHINGTON tos Homer S. Cummmgs, wife of the former attorney general. Dr. Bernard L.
Jefferson TJRBANA, Bernard L. Jefferson, 52, professor of English at the University of Illinoii. Life Saver Kills Him LEICESTER, England, Aug 10 --CAP)--Joseph Gamble, 78, built a steel shelter'against a wall to protect him from bombs in time of war. As he passed by to get a stick of wood it collapsed, killing him. Take Care YOUQ CYS Optometrist Air Guest Rooms i Dining Rooms jvm AND BALTIMORE! 218 E.
High PRESIDENT A A I a Combines Intensive Loafing i Heavy Fishing BY BRUCE CATTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 If you plan to drop at Uvalde, this summer and pay a call on Vice President John Garmer, you're rather likely to be disappointed. really meant Mr. Garner a lot ot fishing, keeps a trailer a battered 1931-model automobile for his fishing trips; takes the old car because it is high-slung and can negotiate of Illinois, who takes off for rutty, chewed-up roads that a resentl y. is really going rutty, chewed-up roads that a modern car couldn't take.
He also keeps a canoe, together with a lot of fishing tackle. Returning to Uvalde after a session in Washington, he lashes the canoe atop the trailer, sticks the fishing tackle and a supply of grub inside, picks up an old fishing crony, and sets out to do a little intensive loafing. The two men usually wander off into the back country, as far from the traveled road as they can get; when they strike a likely looking spot by some stream they camp, get the canoe down, and stay there as long as the fish are biting. Then they wander on to the next likely- looking spot and repeat the performance. Bass, crappies and a cats are the usual catch.
The trip may take two weeks, may take three, may take longer. The vice president doesn't come home until he feels thoroughly relaxed. Prize Speaker Some sort of prize for speaking under difficulties ought to go to Congressman Paul Shafer of Michigan, a a Pennsylvania political rally about the time Congress closed. Midway in his speech a definite and highly pungent aroma began to drift across the open- air forum; a concentrated essence of skunk, which got so strong that people began hiding behind their handkerchiefs. "I didn't know," remarked bhafer to his audience, "that this speech smelled as badly as all that." Then a couple of skunks wandered out from under the speaker platform, sauntered down the aisle, and left the meeting flat.
California, Here They Come -11 taf roba My 35 people will be taking off for California shortly to carry on the investigation of the Senate Civil Liberties ee The com got for its expenses in place $100,000 Senators LaFol- o- lette and Thomas (its only members) said was necessary; opinion as to whether the Senate will give it more when the 000 is gone is divided. Meanwhile, the $50,000 will be stretched as far as possible. Documents for the committee's files will be photostated instead of copied, to srve on stenographic costs. Most of the committee's workers will be "borrowed" from various government departments and agencies. (This is a common Washington custom followed by practically all commit- bulk of the 5 0 thus will be available for travel mg expenses and living expen ses.
before open hearings can be held. Best guess is that hearings probably won't occur much before November. European Summer School Between session junkets to )pe to study conditions" common as grass for con. enable the solon vacation and think he's working. But Congressman Kent Keller of Illinois, who takes off for to workl Keller introduced a complicated and far-reaching industrial reconstruction bill in the closing days of Congress.
Now he plans to spend the next four months in Europe, mostly in Norway and Sweden, to get a line on methods of combating unemployment. He'll use the material thus gained when he starts plugging for his industrial reconstruction bill next winter. Flashes of Life (By The Associated Press) No Kefugfe COLUMBIA, S. two policemen spotted the man they wanted and from then on it was a zig zag footrace for four blocks. Suddenly their quarry ducked into a building.
It was a police station. Rescue KANSAS CITY Dishwasher LAST THREE DAYS! THE RAVE OF THE YEAR ANN SOTHERN in HOTEL FOR WOMEN COMPTON MAXWELL HALUDAY GALE -ttSiuDEE D1NEHART- BLACKMER POPEYE--COMEDY--NEWS a dog wedged on Ice Slx mche wide and 20 feet deep between the restaurant and the next building. How long the dog "had been there, nobody knew, but when Kenneth Krock snared him out with a rope he was so weak he couldn't stand up. So the boys named him Flop- S16. Aged Egg KANNAPOL1S, N.
J. Little's -young daughter was helping with the dishes. "Peep, peep," she heard. Looking into- a large bowl where the eggs were httle girl found an infant chick still damp but chirping cheerfully. Bingo! MARSHALL, -A thirsty i i OI.JT courthouse employe put a nickel in a soft drink vending machine and hit the jackpot.
When the machine finally 3d, the astonished patron had a dozen bottles instead of thf one he expected, The U. S. leads the world in railroad trackage with 38,500 miles. Soviet Bussia holds place. I Ifrive Out to the I Ifrive Out to the ELMS West Highway 50 EVERY DAY IS FAMILY DAY A I A MISSOURI STATE FAIR Ends Tonite 2 Big Kite! "STRONGER THAN DESIRE" Virginja Bruce, Walt.
Pideeon Plus "FIVE CAME BACK" AUGUST-19-26 SATURDAY TO SATURDAY AT A I A The Missouri Slate Fair Is Now a Family Affair SOMETHING SOMEWHERE FOR EVERYBODY. EVERY MINUTE HORSES IN THE-FLESH! Machinery in th. raw Miracles of farming Blue-blooded livestock Friencis from town and farm A chance to talk shop or swap. Also a ahady to take off your shoes Don't forget Legion Day, Sunday, Aug. 20, Dad.
FIREWORKS Emblazoned in the August night Flash Williams and THKILL drivers Auto racers out to shatter records for one of country's fastest mile ovals The Midwest'i finest State Fair Midway. Fifteen high-class showj; fifteen thrilling ridei CHILDREN'S DAY. Monday, Aug. 21. Children 12 and Under Admitted Free All Day, The ferris wheel and the merry-go-round.
Bands and clowns and bicycles and wrist watches and cash prizes. Prires for the twins (or the triplets) prizes for the largest family of children. Even a prize for child having the oldest grandparents present. Scda pop gum pop-corn ptinuti ice cream and REST AT THE FA1RT It'i welcome break In year-long routine for you, Mother. Rows and of home-making exhibits dear to your heart, and rest at the spacious Woman's Building--built especially for you! Leave the younger children at She Nursery and Playground under the supervision of trained nurses.
CAMP AT WHITE CITY. No charge for ground ipace. Bring your tent and camping outfit, or rent them at low cott. i 19 20; HORSE RAC1NC: A ug- 21-25; GRANDSTAND REVUE: Evenings, Aug. 20-26; HORSE SHOW: Evenings Aug.
20-25, in Air-Conditioned Coliseum. $57,000 in Cash Exhibits EVERYBODY PAYS Policy 25e Write for Program CHAS. W. GREEN. Sec- Sedalio, Mo.
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