.OL jj DO tragedy L l ~ -- -> . VK^ 2 - 1 ^- ' te S'crik'-; uragady, in Toledo.. a+'Jhe scory from Toledo is even graver than the one ,from7Minnea- polis. Two strikers were killed instantly when the Ohio national Guardsmen Tired a volley of ball cartridge point blank at the mob of rioters^ and twelve -^trirrr fell, wounded, All this happened just as people were congratulating”^^ Governor <te=is35«Efc»«g5» of Ohio for his promptness in sending the troops before any serious damage had been done. In •inneapolis polis /the author!t authorities had waited until one man was killed anu more than sixty wounded before they called out the soldiers, ^^.nd everybody said the ~tate of -..innesota had locked The stable door after the norse was stolen. -he difficulty in Toledo arose from the fact that i.he workers themselves were not unaniraous. fifteen thousand loin in walk-out. mid they found A of them refused to Si - — tiiemsjives »»a o -A- yo ^ in t. .;- luxx by three thousand of A. ^ their infuriated mates. p mt the first iyaj»$fci .... 5m of serious trouble the Toledo Thief of Tolice tel.x.. ^..d the Adjaoent General of Ohio ana asked for troc .. froai other parts of the State so that local puardsiaen ..oulu not be (forced to fi^ht their ov:n^xol » hu —So at dawn t ,is morning tvo thousand soldiers marched in a heavy dov/npour i:o the scene of the riot. •/ith bayonnets fixed and yas masks ready for action. this morning; i,j looked as though that uick action on the part of the Ohio authorities had put a sharp end to the tumult and ./ithout bloodshed, instead of that, the rioting broke out again this afternoon. he volley './as fired by the troops after an entire afternoon of fi ;hting with tear^as. -ix of the rioters were injur-d oy that -his is the most serious tragedy of the kind that has occurred in the United ^tacos since xresident hoosevelt j .................■■ ' - 3 - 7 took office and the hatio.;al Labor Joard v/as established, the end of the depression has brought labor troubles aplenty and there have been oasuulities all over the country but hitherto the fighting has been by the strikers and local police, .^o the - ole do. tragedy is the first .iiae in t.1^- loosevelt administration that strikers have been killed by soldiers, CHACO ___ • The big victory claimed by Bolivia over Paraguay has an angle that should interest military men the world over. Pro­ fessional soldiers are pointing to it as a victory for German strategy and tactics as opposed to French. It is known that the Bolivian army is German drilled. One of its first Generals in the early phases of the war was an ex-German officer who had beej one of the principal lieutenants of Field Marshall von Hindenburg on the Western Front during the Great War. The Paraguayans on the other hand have been drilled and trained by French officers. If this victory turns out to be as overwhelming as the Bolivians claim, it will take the edge off that unanimous resolution by the House of Representatives, the resolution authorizing the f President to slap down an embargo on arms to both of the fighting republics. The League of Nations is not getting very far In its appeal to thirty-one governments to join in this embargo. All the favorable replies that have come to Geneva have been from small nations who do not manufacture arms on a large scale and consequently haven*t much to sell. CHACO - 2 Incidentally ftepsi Representative McReynolds, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs? made public some interesting 1 figures. According to these figures the notion that American firms have been selling huge quantities of munitions of war to Bolivia and Paraguay Is, to put it mildly, exaggerated J ' 1 ___________ __ __ ........................ _____________________ JOHNSON FOLLOW I\[.R.A. There’s a nice bit of* comedy in the latest phase of the squabble over N.R.A. The news these days flames with the furious warfare between General Johnson and Clarence Darrow• Meanwhile, the General himself and Mr* Darrow were taking a friendly motor ride through Washington. Naturally, people wondered whether the General was taking the aged lawyer for a ride cr vice verse. It reminds one of the old limerick. There was a young lady of Niger. Who smiled as she rode on a tiger. They came back from the ride with the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger. But it was different in this case. Says the General, "We talked about the Piltd own man, the Neanderthal and the Little Man," also the Forgotten Man JOHNSON - 2 Said Darrow, "We talked about religion - and many other thing s.n This Darrow report has precipitated perhaps the most amusing of all the controversies that have taken place over the New Deal. First the defenders of the Administration say: "The Darrow report is atrociously unfair. The Board should be fired." But almost In the next second we hear other supporters of the Administration admit ting:"The N.R.A. is sorely In need of mending and the President is going to have some big changes made." In other words, tht? Darrow Report was all wrong but a lot of the advice it offers will be follows. Then there’s food for thought In two minor pieces of news about the N.R.A. From Washington we barn that eight firms were stripped of their Blue Eagles. But from Buffalo, New York, we hear that three thousand bakers sent their Blue Eagles back without thanks, decided to do without them. They say that many bakers have been forced into bankruptcy since adopting the N.R.A. Code. LOHG The dope now is that President Roosevelt’s message on war debts will be the last of these special coiiDfiuni cat ions he will make to iJr^a Congress. If this is true, it will make a monkey of those authorities sounding reports that the President would present to Congress a grandiose program of social reform, including such things as unemployment insurance and old age pensions. They say Mr. Roosevelt is anxious for the legislators to call it a day and go home. They, themselves, are homesick. Lots of them have to attend to that ticklish job known as mending fences, in preparation for the .Pall elections. MQUHT CL^IEl^S Maybe the President would u^e to be out at Mt. Clemens, Michigan. At any rate it was on the schedule this afternoon for President Roosevelt to push a button in Washington and set a lot of high jinx going in Michigan, healthy high jinx -- a Piesta devoted to vim, vigor and vitality. And it all began with an old Y/hite horse. Historians of Health relate that some years ago at Mount Clemens, near Detroit, there was an aged, white horse, limping and lame, with glanders and perhaps blind staggers and maybe also the "pip". Then suddenly this venerable animal took on a new lease of life and went kicking up his heels like a two year old. The astonished natives of Mount Clemens wondered why, and then observed that the old white horse made it a daily practice to stand under a leaky water tank and let the dripping drops of water splash over him. The water tank was the sad relic of a bankrupt enterprize for making salt out of the local water, which is impregnated with minerals. So it was presently surmised that the rejuvenation of the horse was because of the mineral properties in the water. That is why mount CLEMEUS - 2 it was in the cards for President Roosevelt to press the button in Washington today, and open the Mount Oleraens Health Fiesta, This brings attention to an interesting angle of human life. The medical profession reports that when hard times are on, people don’t think so much about their health, '’’hey have something else to worry about — money. And anyway if you haven’t any money, how can you take care of your health -- or maybe what’s the use. When the depression disappears though, people return to the important philosophy that health after all is the main thing in all of the world. They take themselves to the great health resorts -- such as Carlsbad in Europe or Mount Clemens here in the United States, All kinds of blythsome ceremonies are under way at the picturesque small Michigan city. Today they have a replica of that original tank, and a white horse stands under it with the water dripping down on him, A bathrobe parade with dignitaries marching in bathrobes and the Mayor in a bathrobe riding on the white horse. And a royal reception in honor of | « i mu— MfilMT CLEtmS - 3 the Queen of health — sixteen year old Farley Fane Ullrich, hailed as the "pink and perfection" of girlish healthfulness* Mount Clemens the city of magic water, known round the world for its curative powers. The Mount Clemens people today are saying;- "here's to your healthj" GLAVIS. There is a fascinating bit of human drama behind the big scandal in Washington, the scandal of the Public Works funds. W'ith three billion, three hundred million dollars of Uncle Sam»s money being shelled out so lavishly, it was more or less inevitable that some greedy persons would start chiseling. Secretary Iekes, as Public Works Administrator, promptly engaged the best watchdog he knew, Louis Glavis. This Glavis has had an interesting career. In the reign of Theodore Roosevelt, he was in the Department of the Interior. His immediate superior was Richard Ballinger, Commissioner of the Land Office. Glavis got on to a plot to steal some of Uncle Sam’s lands in Alaska. He reported his findings to Ballinger. Shortly thereafter Ballinger resigned and became attorney for the par­ ticular group of men that Glavis was gunning for. When Taft became President he made Ballinger Secretary of the Interior. One of the first things Ballinger did was to order Glavis to clear the titles for that Alaska Land Syndicate. Glavis declined and took his story to President Taft. The reply of Taft was to discharge Glavis from the service. ' >1 ! 1 T 1 ' .. ... _ a GLAVIS - 2 Collier’s Magazine took up the fight and there was a congressional investigation. In those proceedings Gl^vis’ counsel was Louis D. B randeis, now a Supreme Court Justice. Well, the investigation was a flop and Ballinger was ■ f given a clean bill of health. Nevertheless, he resigned six months later and his successor declared that Glavis had saved Uncle Sam two hundred million dollars. At the same time, Gifford ^Lnchot was also discharged as Chief Forester by President Taft. When Theodore Roosevelt returned from his hunting trip In Africa, Pinchot told him the whole story. i And this was one of the prime causes of the subsequent quarrel between Taft and Roosevelt. o And today Louis R. Glavis is again on the "job. And I Federal Grand Juries have already returned Indictments In thirteen out of the eighty-eight cases that he has dug up. 11 Ji II JUDGES Here’s auotlrier sc aaid 3,1 to keep us scandsilized, It concerns the federal bench. A sub-committee of the House has been investigating the conduct of three Federal judges in Chicago, particularly their handling of bankruptcy cases. The sub-committee’s report has been turned in. And already the Judiciary Committee of the House has recommended that one of these jurists, Judge Charles E, Woodward of Chicago, should be impeached . Before the end of the week the same Committee will have to decide whether or not to bring impeach­ ment proceedings against two other Chicago judges. Cases like these are already particularly distrub- ing. 2 *ost people cherish the idea that the Federal bench at least is occupied by jurists of learning and integrity. The las* tim' the Federal bench was attacked was in the case of Judge Lauderback of California, A considerable majority of the Senate voted to convict the California judge But it requires a two-tnirds majority:- and the vote was short of that. DAVID 70LL0 " JUDGES But let’s not be too hersh -.vitb the Federal bench, for here’s a Federal judge in New York City ./ho has handed do.m a Muiaorable decision. It concerns Spinach.— not the spinach that gro.vs in the garden out the spinach that bloonis on the face tre la. The ;lse dooision mi hit have been given by Dolomon, because it concerns the louse of javid. The house of David brought suit not against the ..ousa of Goliath, >ut against the House of ■•u'W'JWPto Hurph^ uiwu^runs a ja sc ball teem all covered v/ith whiskers like the ^aul players of the House of David, end dolled in uniforms inscribed ’’House of -avid." To make A matters worse Hr. murphy’s team had played dumb baseball, thereby bringing the ori, inol end authentic House-of-^avid- nine into disrepute, /’.onager Hurphy in his reply took exception to Hie oritoism of hie team's playing. ->oid he, " .hat do you iil J i:! H ^ean, dumb baseball?” .>’e grev; whiskers on the classical \ features of Grover Cleveland Alexander and put him in as I e pitcher. Do you call that dumb baseball: - mm < . ■ - •. -■' » - ■■■ ■ The decision rendered by Jud^e .Voolsey is, as I said, oolomonian. ’’Beards," he declares, "are in the public domain. A man nay wear anything on his face that he pleases, de may evon purposely imitate the facial shrubbery of his nei hbor—.ven tp the extent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have cau ht his fancy." I don’t icno; v/hat topiary means, Judge. 3ut it sounds good, ^ny way, it establiahes the freedom of the face. -hat part of the decision is ayeinst the House of oavid, but the rest of it is against the House of Murphy, by dressing in uniforms marked .ouse of ^avid they have infringed upon the ri hts of the original David!tea. In other words, beards cannot be trade.narked, but trade marks can, than which Solomon could have judged no more wisely N.R.A. 'The latent i<3ea is a code for "traveling salesmen. We had thought that everybody was thoroughly coded by this time, including the United Association of Hoboes, But the drummer now says that he has been neglected. He is tired of signing nothing but expense accounts. So he wants to sign a code. And I suppose one clause will read salesmen,,M Which reminds me — did you hear the story about two drummers. One said *1 went fishing and all i caught was a Code in the head , ^ And the other said: "That's a terrible joke, "1 went fisuing, and I. caught a nude eel", A bit ancient? Well, maybe I*d better duck and say SO LONG UiiTIL TOMORROW. like t is: "We want a new deal in jokes about traveling l|