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18 Ml BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937 were months ago, and they have not yet cut it YVONNE, ANNETTE, CECILE, EMILIE, MARIE Now and Then Daily Eagle IfoundM tj Iuh Van Aodaa IB U41J (Trad Mark "a)t" Hrflatarad I off from its chief base of supplies. So far the defense has proved itself to be Just a little bit better than the attack. Why Was Redwood Murdered? It is Important to find out who murdered Norman Redwood, organizer for a union of subway workers. It is much more important to learn why he was killed. For this reason the State of New York is as vitally concerned in this crime as New Jersey, where the murder took place.

Mr. Dewey is currently exposing the ramifications of racketeering in the restaurant business. Does any one doubt that racketeering is taking place in many other fields? We know that construction unions in the past have been under the dominance of powerful groups and that they have been a happy hunting ground for racketeering union officials. What is the situation today? Just why was Redwood murdered? Needless Fears. It is not necessary to question the motives of the opponents of the Child Labor Amendment to refute their arguments.

We do not doubt the sincerity of the Catholic bishops or of other who are still making a determined fight against this reform in New York State. They seem genuinely fearful of what might happen should the Federal Government be empowered to regulate the labor of persons under eighteen. There Is this difference between the advocates of the amendment and its opponents: The latter seem most concerned over what might happen if the amendment should be ratified. The former have for many years been greatly concerned over what has happened because there is no effective way to curb the exploitation of children. Since the agitation against child labor began there has been a great Improvement In the lot of children.

Public sentiment has been helpful in lessening the abuses. This is an argument frequently used by opponents of the amendment. But isn't it just as reasonable to suppose that public sentiment will operate to prevent the kind of undue interference with youth that the opposition seems to fear? All lasting reforms must be supported by sound public sentiment. Public sentiment today demands greater protection for children In industry. The same wholesome public sentiment will in future protect children from excessive Interference by the Federal Government.

We cannot imagine legislators passing laws under the amendment that would run contrary to such sentiment. Scientists and Mice. Scientific gentlemen in the Department of Agriculture have issued instructions as to methods of dealing with mice. If 'the family cat lies down on Its job, as family cats too often do, and if the mice are shy of traps, which often happens, the experts suggest sprinkling the house with napthalene flakes. Mice, it appears, can't stand the smell of napthalene.

It may be that the family will also object to the smell, preferring the mice as the lesser of two evils. If there is a baby In the house, which is not an uncommon occurrence, it may eat the flakes, which can hardly be good for its innards. This is not the limit of the scientists' advice. If the trap does not harvest the expected number of victims it may be that the mice are tired of cheese as a steady diet. It is recommended that the bait be varied and peanut butter, chocolates, fried bacon, sardines, nuts, meat and bananas put upon the menu.

Whether the bacon should be served with or without an egg the Department of Agriculture does not say. If none of these baits work perhaps something could be done with mushrooms on toast, clam chowder, lobster a la Newburgh and dill pickles. These latter suggestions do not come from the scientists. Dr. Townsend in Contempt.

In the most kindly spirit toward Dr. Francis E. Townsend, it may be said that the verdict of the Jury in his trial for contempt of the House of Representatives was not only what was to be expected but what he Invited. It is well that it should again be demonstrated that the authority of a committee of investigation of Congress is not to be lightly flouted. If the worthy doctor had nothing else to his credit, he has at least helped to make that point absolutely clear.

By force of his example, others may be saved from thinking they are above the law. Dr. Townsend set out to change the course of the world with his $200-a-month-pension system. He had hit on a short cut to revolutionize society and achieve the perfect State, which throughout the ages so many others before him had hoped to see realized. He had a large and clamorous following, eager buyers of his patent remedy for many of the tils from which we suffer, and the money came pouring in.

Men in a large way of business who have things to sell might have lost thir heads in the same circumstances. People will invest in all sorts of colored liquids and coated pills if they believe they will do them good. Dr. Townsend had a strange power to make others put their trust in his theories. Alarmists at one time feared that he had inoculated Congress.

But it was not his engaging theories that finally landed him in trouble in the courts. It was the seeming conviction that because of the number of his adherents he need not show that respect for the House which ordinary witnesses are expected to show when summoned before Its committees. Possibly the force of that conviction may wane, In the same way that the forces behind him have weakened. Archie M. Andrews, California promoter who was one of those amassers of paper millions In the period of the Big Wind, has stated to Harold C.

Coffin, special United States Commissioner, that he would never have had an action in bankruptcy brought against him if it hadn't been for a golf match he played eleven years agq with Frederick H. Bartlett of Chicago, millionaire of the same vintage, for $25,000 a side. Mr. Andrews can still afford to live comfortably In the balmier end of California. But suppose his troubles had started with a poker game? By ARTHUR M.

HOWE THE embarrassment which a government may sometimes incur by extending hospitality to a deposed sovereign appears in the case of Haile Selassie, now living near Bath In England. The British Government Invites him to send a representative to the coronation ceremonies and Italy is not at all pleased. Rome may even decide not to be represented at the coronation by the Prince of Naples or anybody else. It all depends upon how the Invitation was addressed which, at the moment, is not entirely clear. If the address recognized Haile 8elassie as Emperor of Ethiopia, Italy will feel Insulted, since that title has been assumed by its king.

If Haile Selassie was addressed simply as "His Majesty" the British Government will be able to explain that the invitation was nothing more than a perfunctory gesture of courtesy to a royal exile. T)TJT Haile does not regard himself invitation he calls himself "His Malesty the Emperor of Ethiopia," and adds that "the representative whom His Imperial Highness will designate for this purpose will be announced later." What will happen if the representative insists upon wearing emblems of a toppled empire at the ceremonies nobody knows. One Rome correspondent contrasts "the Intense emotion stirred up in public opinion" with the "very reserved" attitude of official circles. All that a puzzled world may make of it Is that the coronation authorities have laid some kind of a difficulty on their own doorstep. HHHE House of Representatives appears cool and even chilly toward the proposal of Representative Hobbs that the Congressional Record print nothing but the record of business done and the text of speeches actually delivered.

Mr. Hobbs comes from Alabama, a State once rich in orators, which makes it all the more strange that he should now seek to lay Impious hands upon a publication devoted to oratory. Mr. Hobbs' idea that the Record should no longer be hospitable to those who ask leave to print the unspoken word is not original. In the past it has bobbed up from time to time.

Nothing has ever been done about it and perhaps nothing ever will be done. The privilege of printing what isn't said is too precious to be surrendered, and after all the saving contemplated by Mr. Hobbs would be only $173,000 calculated on the basis of last year's oratory. That Is a trifling sum in these days of heavy spending. IN ASKING the Supreme Court to review the impeachment proceedings before the Senate, which ended in his removal from the Federal bench former Judge Halsted L.

Ritter of Florida does what no Federal official ever before attempted, though similar action has been taken in cases of State impeachments. Section 3, Article 1, of the Federal Constitution does not specifically say that there may be no court review of Senate action in impeachment cases, but it does say that Senate shall have the sole power to try all Impeachments." The inference to be drawn from that language and the inference always drawn from It is that no court may interfere with the verdict of a legislative body vested itself with all the powers of a court by constitutinal decree. Judge Ritter's case is a peculiar one In that he was either acquitted or escaped conviction through lack of a sufficient majority against him on six of the seven counts in the indictment. He was convicted and consequently removed on the seventh count which was in the nature of an omnibus charge, alleging that his conduct on the bench had been such as to bring his court into disrepute. In other words, the Senate failed to find him guilty on every Letters From Passage of Eligibility Bill Pressed By Substitute Teachers Association Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The eligibility bill for substitutes In the city school system which Is awaiting discussion in the State Legislature is a matter that should be vitalized Jn the interest of justice.

Our services have been accepted by the Board of Education during the past six years or less and have constantly been Judged satisfactory. In the majority of cases no opportunity has been given us to obtain a regular license and appointment on a permanent basis. The constant failing by the board of examiners of those of us who were fortunate enough to be called for an elimlnative and greatly stretched-out examination (sometimes two years) has made us realize the intention of the board to utilize us to the fullest extent and then discard us. INDEPENDENT SUBSTITUTES ASSN. Brooklyn, Feb.

18. Middle-Aged Employment Problem Deemed of Primary Importance Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: One of the worst practices in our economic system William Weer called attention to yesterday in exposing the utter hypocrisy of Big Business in their howl and condemnation of our President's age retirement plan as to the Supreme Court Justices because in conducting their own business they don't even retire they Just cold-bloodedly fire without pension em ployes little more than half the age of the Judges. As ultimately it is up to the Government to provide for those formerly employed but discharged without pension or other means of support why is it not possible for the Government to bring pressure to bear on capital to make such provision? When capital sees it can no longer get away with its Inhuman economic program it will not be so quick to get rid of men little past their prime or bar men past forty from employment. The time may or may not be ripe now for the Government to step in though capital is not sitting so pretty now under the present regime to bring pres FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937 MAIN OFFICES: Bag! Building Johnaon and adama Scraeta Brooklyn New Tort TELEPHONB MAIH Clajairiad Ada tlAlo -0C0 Washington. D.

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President Roosevelt has made no public statement regarding his proposed Judicial reforms since sending his message to Congress. It is reliably reported, however, that he has held many conferences with legislators for the purpose of persuading them that the plan he has presented is the best to be had. To several persons he has recalled the words of Old Bill, Bruce Balrnsfather's war-time creation, who answered the captious critic of the shell hole where Bill was seeking safety. "If you know where there's a better ole go to it." Mr. Walter Lippman thinks this describes the President's position exactly; that while Balrnsfather's Old Bill got into a hole through no fault of his own, the President Is In a hole because he did not look where he was going.

We doubt that the President feels this way about the situation. It seems much more likely that he was thinking about the hole in which the country finds itself at the moment and that he quotes Old Bill by way of telling objectors to his plan that they should propose a practical alternative to the remaking of the Supreme Court in order to get the country out of Its hole. The quotation Is apt enough, but the philosophy of the President differs considerably from that of Balrnsfather's character. In the cartoons and In the comedy later written by Captain Balrnsfather and Captain Elliott Old Bill was a hardheaded, sensible character. He was fed up with the war, but thought any one who Imagined It would ever end was balmy.

BUI, might have been an American In his outlook. He was determined to make the best of things as they were. He had no idea of taking the unnecessary risks involved in looking for a better 'ole. We are in the midst of a kind of war that in some ways seems almost as terrifying as a military conflict. With confusion everywhere and positive dangers lurking on all sides, it seems much better to take as few chances as are necessary.

We are In a hole; and it is located in a desolate and badly torn up No Man's Land, but it Is easy to imagine worse places. Most of the proposals that have been produced as alternatives to the President's plan certainly seem quite as dangerous as his. Before deciding to venture from our present hole it is well to consider where we may go from here. A constitutional amendment to permit regulation of business and industry would not in itself get us out of a hole. It might permit the wiping out of certain abuses, ktif am cr rlKlo vxaivOa KnU ova V-i all All troubles can be removed merely by passing laws to regulate wages and working conditions.

Certainly the millennium cannot be assured by an amendment to curb the Supreme Court by giving Congress power to pass any kind of legislation it may see fit. We might start by requiring the Federal incorporation of inter- state business. If this cannot be done without changing the Constitution an amendment for this purpose would be In order. But we cannot' expect to do too much In a short time and do It well. Old Bill was a philosopher and knew better than to abandon a place of refuge just because it was a bit uncomfortable.

We do not like to drive in ruts, but on many roads it is safer to stick to the ruts than to try to get out of them. While the going may be slower, steady progress is better than landing in the ditch. Spain's Shifting Fronts. Heavy fighting around Madrid having ceased, with the apparent failure of the insurgent to isolate the capital by cutting the Valencia road, two important military movements are going on elsewhere. One Is the Loyalist attack upon Oviedo, old capital of the Asturias, wheTe a small insurgent garrison is putting up a stout defense.

The fall of Oviedo would have no great effect on the war except possibly a moral one. With its population of 20,000 the city has stood for a month as an insurgent outpost in a region that is predominantly loyal to the government. Asturian miners operating as bombers are leading the assault on Oviedo and their activities are reported to have sit the city on fire at several points. An insurgent garrison held the Toledo Alcazar against a long series of desperate attacks. They were successful because a column moved with all possible speed to their relief.

Up to the present the Oviedo garrison has no relief In sight. The other movement now attracting attention from the war correspondents is the insurgent drive northwest of Valencia. The objective of that is the cutting of the railway that runs along the coast and keeps Valencia in direct communication with Barcelona. It is not a good railway. Its rolling stock has always been poor, but it has been good enough to keep a flow of reinforcements moving from Barcelona and the surrounding Catalonian territory Into Valencia, where the Popular Front government is now established.

A break in this line, unless swiftly repaired, might have serious consequences for the Loyalists. The tenacity shown by the defenders of Madrid in holding on to their vital positions naturally raises Loyalist hopes. The city has been shelled and bombed, parts of it have been ruined, and many lives snuffed out, yet the best the Insurgents have been able to do is to maintain a precarious footing in the outskirts. They are no nearer taking the city than they Copjrnght. Brooklyn Daily Elgli REVIEW CURRIE- was honor from his fellows and the niece of the Governor to wife.

But, then, the men of the sword have always somehow been exempt from the retribution which is visited upon the heads of the civilian sinners. As witness the fate which smote down Forethought Fearing, who had been tempted when alone with Jazan and had fallen. TUT THAT which Miss Forbes burns into a reader's memory is the account of the interference of the colony in the marriage between Totonlc and Johnny the strumpet and how they had put her in the stocks and promised her worse, seeing that Totonlc was already married to Moon Goes. There was no marrying nor giving in marriage between white and red In those days and the Bible came in handy to justify the good men who would have no truck with this passing of the seed through fire unto Moloch. The Puritans may, as their apologists and debunkers would have us believe, have been more blythesome than the school books say; but they neglected few opportunities to do the Lord's vengeance as their parsons directed.

Even Forethought, with his deep self-searching, believed that "the soul of his son was being purified by the agony of the mother's body" and found he couldn't pray for Jazan in her travail because she was in the hands of the Jewish doctor. But enough of this giving away of the story. As if the moving human situations Miss Forbes has created between father and sons, husband and wife and mistress and servant were incomplete, she rushes her reader to the fight with the Indians, a battle fought with the savagery beloved of humankind, no matter what the color of its skin. When man is his most brutish he puts on his shining qualities for armor and sallies forth, a sublime contradiction. So that for all that the Colonists had most grievously wronged and offended the Indians, one roots hard for one's kind under the excitement of Miss Forbes's prose.

Hers is the historical novel in its best bib and tucker, and so for weekend relaxation and refreshment I give you "Paradise." "Paradise," by Esther Forbes. (Harcourt, Brace Co. New York. $2.50.) A Task for Everybody From IInformatlon. Montreal The situation in the United States is practically the same as here.

For some month especially unemployment tends to diminish In proportion as industry and commerce are more active and more profitable. But as the Minister of Labor at Ottawa remarked recently, we should not be led astray by false optimism. There Is no doubt that the economic revival is becoming more and more obvious in our country; there is no doubt furthermore that the number of assisted persona is growing less, but It is equally true that unemployment In Canada still constitutes an enormous burden for public bodies--a burden which should definitely be borne by all taxpayers. Governments, whether Federal, Provincial or Municipal, will continue to provide a means of livelihood to certain unemployed and to assist those who do not work, but It is understood that this can be only a temporary measure in spite of the fact that it has already continued for several years. Little by little this system must disappear, but we shall succeed with that only tluouga the co-operation of the employer.

single specific charge, but threw him off the bench on one couched in general terms. He feels, no doubt, that the circumstances of his trial justify his request to the Supreme Court to review and reverse the action of the Court of Claims which has ruled against him. The chance of his getting a review, let alone a reversal, is so small as to be negligible. VV7HEN an industry working for the Federal Government is affected by a sit-down strike it appears to be in a different category from one which Is working for its own profit like General Motors. There Is no sympathy expressed or implied for the strikers, no protest against the employment of force, no demand for conferences and conciliation.

Eighty workers sat down the other day in the plant of the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, which is under contract to build submarines for the Navy Department. A court issued an order for their eviction and State troopers executed It. Also, the strikers lost their jobs. To men who were only following an example that unlisted official sympathy in Washington and Michigan this will seem to be tough luck. Eagle Readers sure or compulsion to bear but eventually if It wants to check the growth of communism it may have to step In to effect a more workable economic system for the people as a whole the near-middle aged, the middle aged and the old, which compose so large a portion of the unemployed.

Either that or if present conditions as to employment or discharge without cause except for age continues to allow discharge only on condition of a pension. When capital is faced with this option then and only then will it show that it can be human when it has to, WM. VAN DYKE BELDEN. Brooklyn, Feb. 19.

In Tribute to Helen P. McCormlck. dfor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Helen P. McCormick is no more. In a world full of anguish and distress she founded havens of solace and refuge where the forlorn, the oppressed and forsaken could lay down their burdens and find rest, hope and refreshment of spirit.

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command, And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of Angelic Light. Miss McCormick deemed It a privilege, other than a duty, to minister to the wanting personally and doing it in such a way that had a blessedness of its own, with which the outer worldy happiness could not compare. Those who were her friends, inspired by her sacrifice to an ideal, will carry on her noble work and sorrowful with the Immortal Bard say: Good night, sweet prince (ss), And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. RALPH A. SANTORO, Ex.

Dir. Columbia Civic League of Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Feb. 24. Makes Its Choice.

Prom tha Waihlniton Poit.l In an Eastern city the unemployed are sub. sisting mainly on turtle meat supplied by welfare organizations. Press report. Every one to his own taste, of course, but personally we'd Just about as soon work. PASSED By GEORGE A WOMAN TURNED loose upon the warpath in a book of backwoods love and Indians is Esther Forbes in "Paradise," and before she is done heads are tossed over the stockade and legs and arms and Jazan Parre's husband is allowed to die a cruel death in the hands of the redskins.

But they are a stern folk even in their gladness, these Puritans who fight the King Philip's War, and in the end Jazan is to have her Gervase, who has so bravely pulled himself up by his bootstraps that he who began as indentured servant has become a respected man in the community. At least that is what we are left to Infer. Esther Forbes is of Massachusetts parents who loved their Colonial history and who crammed the shelves of their Worcester library with a wealth of source material from the early years of New England's beginnings. You may recall the author's Genteel Lady!" and "A Mirror for Witches," not to mention "Miss Marvel." They should serve as a warrant that "Paradise" would be exciting and an excellent narrative. You will find that it enlivens dates crammed In school and lights up what most of this generation have come to consider a gloomy moment in American history.

Of late it has become the custom to protest that the Puritans were really more cheerful than the fulminations of Cotton Mather would indicate and that their curious custom of bundling was nearer the heart of the people than the hour upon hour of Sunday sermons about hell and damnation to which they condemned themselves each week. And that Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" did them an injustice, for all that there was even the penalty of death for adultery upon their books. Even the witch-hunting hysteria which achieved its most Infamous prosecution in Salem has been condoned as a psychosis of the time rather than of the blind Puritan way of believing that to walk in the fear of the Lord had best be accompanied by a walking in an even greater fear of the devil. Miss Forbes writes of both the godly and the ungodly; of Forethought Fearing, the pious, and of Fenton Parre, the roysterer and gallant among the women; of the branded put upon Christopher Parre and his brother's wife, Bathsheba, and how the Governor had the colony's revenge upon the too free-thlnklng Jude Parre, who in 1639 founded the town of Canaan. JUDE BUILT himself a great house called Paradise and in it he dwelt, raising up two sons and three daughters.

Kit was the scholar and he it was who went up to the new college called Harvard, to get himself Into trouble and be forever after in hot water. For how he came to get the dreadful seared upon him was not of his own doing but rather that of the precious baggage his brother had brought home to be his wife. And because Fenton kept his own counsel the while he tormented Bathsheba until Christopher rebelled and took her away he had something to do with it, too. Thus did proud Jude's failure to order his household and bring to heel his wild sons (to the scandal of the community), while they bring his gray hairs down to the grave In sorrow. But even among the Puritans did the wicked prosper.

Fenton became their great soldier, their military ambassador to the court of King Charles, and while In England he found he was not legally beholden to the lying Beth-sheba at all. The reward for all his deviltry IN.