L«X,._ - SUijlOCO « TUESDAY. JUIJE 12. 1934 airplane disaster The investigation of that airplane disaster in the Catskills brings some strange facts to light. The revelations might provide the makings for the most extravangant sort of mystery romance. There was a rumor the big passengers transport had exploded in the air. This was based on the fact that crystal of picric acid, a powerful explosive, were found among the belong ings of one of the passengers, a chemical engineer. That is followed by the statement that in this passenger's belongings, among the burned wreckage naval documents have also been found — they related to formulaes for a new explosive which is the particular property of the Uavy* This is known to Uncle Sam's experts as explosive D. Although this opens the door to all sorts cf speculation the investigators are agreed that there was no explosion in the air# The plane crashed into the mountain, the mountain called MThe Last Chance,,. EARTHQUAKE That earthquake down in Argentina is not as bad as the one tnat caused so much havoc in IndiaA But afthe same time it 'j/as plenty serious y because an entire town was destroyed, a town oT six thousand people. Ninety-five per cent of the houses were utterly wrecked. It was not merely one earthquake that Argentina had, it was a hundred of them. A hundred shocks since Sunday night. The quakes were felt in three provinces, even on the outskirts of Buenos Aires itself. The -g<»vorno3*-^f o«o pr n vfwftau hadr—fco - apply- -£o the Prcaiekint for—federal hcl>. The Argentinians were fortunate in one thing;-th*=fe no lives were lost. MOSSOLINi LetTs talk of one of the most talked-of events on schedule^now — the meeting of Hitler and Mussolini. Of all the ix diplomatic meetings of recentyears, ttecb one is arousing A the most eurioittFinterest. Think what you like about Fascism and Dictators, these two Fascist dictators are the world's most vivid and striking personalities today, loved, hated. applauded, condemned. thirnk that-strikes-firo to the imagination- i-g the p-lace wher-c-Mna oolini: are to meet -- the Villa Pisani, not far from the lagoons and canals of Venice, and on the road to ancient Padua. The name Pisani made me wonder — it’s so famous in the history of Venice, queen of the sea. I made inquiries and it would seem that the Villa Pisani is indeed the historic seatjof that old family of Venetian admirals. It calls to mind one of the singular episodes siege of history, the long and arduous Venice by the Genoese, in the old days when Venice and Genoa disputed the supremacy of the seas. The besieged Venetians were in the depths VXoSCLDq - 2 of v/oe. So they went to a dungeon and made a plea to a prisoner, "he prisoner was Vettor Pisani, their former Admiral whom they had oast into chains. They begged him to core to their rescue. He did. He took command of their fleet, and won a victory over the blockading war galleys of the Genoese, JBut that sort of thing was rather a commonplace with the great Admiral. Twice in his life he was taken out of his dungeon, put in command of the fleet, and each time he won a victory at sea. 3o the shads of the glory of Venice will hover when the two Dictators meet in the villa of the family of those ■Sfr Venetian Admirals. And shades of anoter glory will hover too — Napoleon, who occupied that same villa as his headquarters during one of those flaming Italian campaigns of his. What will II Duce have to say to his German discipre^ Will he try to curb and calm down tbe wild vagaries of the Hitler regime? Mussolini is known to be exceedingly level headed and r. / Or, he is likely to talk sense to the mystical, erratic Hitler^J One MUSSOLINI - 3 tAing if- c er't ?.ixi -- pains are being taken to reassure other nations, France in particular. It is being made clear that the me ting will result in no I tali an-German line-up directed against France. Meanwhile there is a meeting in Paris that is exceedingly significant to the Kitler-Mussolini confab. The Prime Minister of Yugoslavia is conferring with the heads cf the French government, and this is the preliminary to a series of visits which the French Foreign Minister will make to the Foreign Ministers of the Little Entente. While Hitler and Mussolini are taking things over mid memories of Venetian Admirals of Napoleon, France is tightening her alliances. r.KRMANY ■ HitleiM-e—eeuntpy htro- The other day we had the French looking foi the collapse of Gerniany*s financial structure^ yesterday London* s prediction that Berlin would go off the gold standard. Today Amsterdam, the financial capital of Holland, is betting that the mark will be devalued. Many of the operations on the Amsterdam Exchange are obviously based on this belief. Then, again, I was interested by the observations of Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Colonel Knox feuoj had been touring Europe^ and he draws a gloomy picture of affairs in Germany. The boycott, he says, has done a great deal of harm. The scale of living is going down; foodstuffs again are being made of I substitutes, as during the world war. Colonel Knox prophecied that if Hitler’s government fails, Germany *s next government will be a military dictatorsnip. One symptom of the trend of things in ™ attack made by young Nazis on Chancellor Hitler’s Labor Miniotei . This Cabinet Minister was insulted by a detachment of Jie organization known as the Hitler Youth. In the excitement, one of these young Nazis drew flERmANY - 2 a revolver and fired. It Is not fired at the _ — A 6 Labor Minister. £ This is interpreted as a symptom of a rift in the Nazi ranks. Hitlers younger followers, the radicals, are impatient v/ith the slightly :aore conservative tendencies of their elders. The * Hitlerite Party seems to be slowly separate^ Itself into radicals and reactionaries. Meanwhile, the Nazi question was the cause of a bit of fun in the House of Representatives in Washington. It was over Hiat committee which is investigating Nazi propaganda. Pt ■^urno out The committee^ has spent all its dough and wants more. It asked the House for forty thousand dollars. tSut the House decided that twenty thousand was enough for the committeemen to spend on finding Nazi in Uncle C»mfs «» A UM, - . -. i % Vi JAPAN iiie disappearance of* that Japanese consular officer in Nanking is becoming a major episode. Immediately after the squadron of Nipponese warships appeared in the river the Chinese capital. 4 ' n Tokyo followed it up with an ultimatum. The ©foi-jadai?* governmaent t* Lit given forty-eight hours in which to produce the person of the mis sing Japanese diplomat^unhaxvned. Otherwise, the warships will land marines. Historians ave recalling that the seizure of Manchuria began In the same way. A Japanese offlefc*i was killed at Mukden. Troops were landed. That incident grew into the conquest of Manchuria and the founding of the state of Manchukuo. So the present episode at Nanking, with warships menacing the Chinese capital and now a threat of landing marines, looks singularly ominous. TUGWELL The handsome professor came off handsomely, Rex Tugwell, the handsome Braintruster, won a victory in his appearance Before that noisy Senate investigation committee. The crisis and turning point of the investigational Battle came in a powerful Bit of dialogue, worthy of Shakespeare, Eugene G’Ueil, or Sophocles -- mayBe. Just picture the hand­ some professor, in the full flower of his good- looks up there testifying, Senator Murphy of Ohio, who, I suppose is also handsome, was asking him delicate and intimate questions, not c one e ming his emotional life, But concerning his farm life, '’'he complaint about the hand some professor, as an Under—Secretary of Agricult re, was, that he was just a hand­ some professor and not a homely farmer. That1 e why the dialogue was so dramatic, "Did you ever follow a plow?" demanded Senator Murphy relentlessly TUGY/ELL - 2 Yes sir, responded 'the hand some prof esscr• "Did you," the Senator hammered away with an inexorable determination, "did you ever have mud on your boots?" "Yes sir," cried the handsome professor, in a choking voice. ^he Senator's voice sank to a tragic whisper;— "Do you know how hard' it is to get a dollar out of the soil?'" "Yes sir," sobbed the handsome professor. It was a great scene, worthy of Edwin Booth, Salvini, or the sublime Sarah Bernhardt -- and the handsome professor qualified as a dirt farmer at the plow with mud on his overalls. There seem to be a lot of "hand somes" in that yarn, but why not? A Washington newspaper held a beauty contest of government officials, a poll among movie audiences and shop girls, and Bex Tugwell won the beauty prize. He is tall, has iron grey hair, and lo ks like a poet. That's what makes him -- the handsome professor — or rather the handsome farmer* STRIKE It is an ominous sign in the steel industry that both sides are openly getting ready for a fight. Grocery stores in the neighborhood of the steel plants report that the wives of the union men are stocking up with supplies. On the other hand, the plants have increased their private police forces and installed flood lights on the roofs. The indications now are that unless President Roosevelt can effect a settlement, the unions will vote a ’walkout on Thursday. That is the program, although in the Pittsburgh district the rank ani file of the men into what prefer a comproiiise| rather than plunging U to be a disastrous fight^> asi/ nanisioa FOi-iLO.. iSTRIKE And bno united States Circuit Court of Appeala hundcd down a decision today which is of great importance to both employers and men - important in every industry. The decision concerns the law against injunctions in labor disputes, the lav/ sponsored by Senator * Norris and former Congressman, now ilayor, LaGuardia. It prevents the Federal eourts<'~to>issue£^njunctions except where either xxsl X side is able to1 prove violations or fraud. The lavr had been attacked on the ground that it was unconstitutional. But the decision of ilie Circuit Court of Appeals says: 71 The la.w constitu11 o.na 1.r nROOGHT Ur. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, has been making a survey of the regions stricken by the drought. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been obliged to add thirty-seven new counties in six different states to the list of those afflicted by the long dry spell. As for Mr. Hopkins, the Federal Relief Administrator^^ he is beginning to work on plans to move five thousand families from South Dakota, where these dry spells are frequent, to more fertile parts of ^ the country. Five thousand families! Thatfs iml-ts an exodus caterpillars A curious incident is reported from For^jffilliara, xhe train service along the line of the Canadian National A curious Railway to Fort William from Wirmepeg was held up for two hours. When they came to Investigate, they discovered that the cause of the delay was an army of caterpillars, millions of them! They swarmed over the rails and made it impossible for the wheels of the train to get a grip on the rails. I wonder whether any tall story teller car^ doctors Veil, the College of Surgeons soon found out yrhat the physicians think of scheme for national health insurance. The physicians reply with a loud, asa vociferous "No!" -were ■jaeettog • t.rp n —rrtri-tre^ uhe-G-oldw^- "1 Shi eta the American Medical Association^ is holding a convention in Cleveland. And are the physicians sore! In fact, one of them introduced a resolution condemning the surgeons. •i « Group medicine has already been practiced in many parts of the country and in many forms. But it will be a long, long time before the main body of the medical profession agrees to anything like the national health ek & jssub clinic proposed by the surgeons. CROOKS seems to nows — a crook is crooked* Ori maybe itfs news because somebody was surprised to find that crooks are crooked*^-- aa4-a prison-gward- - ik H- -er o-okedrj At the Illinois State penitentiary one of the guards asked the warden If he might resign* What's the matter?" asked the warden* "Don't you like the job?" And the keeper replied:- "warden, they’re nothing but a bunch of crooks around here. In the last month I lost a gold watoh and eighteen dollars, on one day, and fourteenAano ther day* I am-ne-t g©4« to—go- wonder who let those piokpookets into the Illinois State penitentiary? And whofs letting them stay there? The parole board must be laying down on the job I VASSAK Dr. Henry Noble MacCraeken, President of Vassar, has broken one of the mles of the college nresidents* union. I mean the rule that comraenceraent addresses should be dull and monotonous* Dr* MacCracken sent the graduating yoixnJL_,ladies of Vassar on their way into the world with a really hot idea. Said hes- "My idea of a perfect world is one in which all the work should be done by people between the ages of forty-five and sixty.” Then the doctor went on to paint a beautiful rainbow:- wThe first forty-five years of your life,” he explained, ”should be passed in education, travel and a creative life. Then, after you get tired of claying, work will be welcome.” There is something attractive about the doctor*s irridescent rainbow* The trouble is that if the system of no work until forty—^tve goes into effect, it won*t hapoen until I»m about forty-five years old myself, so 1*11 have to go lax to !! ! i work all over again, Dr. MacCracken had another idea not so rainbowish. _________ He says wm. .......... ,W-. VASSAE - 2 MV/ar should not be fought by the young. Only people over forty-five years old should go to war. They haven*t so much longer to live anyway. And furthermore, they're the ones who make wars." And that would let roe in for trouble also -- for a war. 1 I gness I'd oet4:.er "be carefu 1 to not spiit an infinitive, c r I might cause a few Princeton! an professors to indignantly frown at me. They're clamping on the rules of correct I’ngliah d own at o 1 d Nasaau. They're going to carefully see to it that the students talk correctly and eloquently and avoid all such solecisms as the split infinitive. Every freshman will "be .given, an examination in correct English before he can become a Sophomore. If he flunks the examination, he will, have to then take an eight weeks' course in grammar, syntax, and the other elegancies of language. The students are already beginning to facetiously call it the Illiteracy test. People sometimes wonder why the split infinitive is incorrect. It's clumsy,. Bight now I sin trying to clearly and vividly give 'an i 1 lustration of that* I have split every infinitive I’ve come to, in the past minute and hasn't it sound ed clumsy? I’ll leave it to you Take the word "say.n The infinitive is "to say Split the infinitive and you might have this bit of awkwardness:- "to correctly and grammatically say —" The correct form, much more pleasing to the ear, would be included In a ssk sentence like this: - "It is now time for me to say correctly and grammatlcally - SO LQUG ONTIli TOMORROW.