Shrine Holds Annual Convention in Seattle
Thousands of members of the Shrine from every state in the Union gathered in Seattle for the order’s
recent convention. Photo shows Medina patrol of Chicago in a street parade. Before the close of the con
vention the delegates voted to continue the charitable work of the Shrine in maintaining hospitals in various
cities for the care and treatment of crippled children.
Splash Stars Represent Uncle Sam in Olympics
Athletes of World
Gather in Berlin
For Historic Games
Four of the mermen who repre
sent Uncle Sam in the diving
events at the Olympic games in
Berlin. They are, left to right,
Dick Degener and Elbert Root of
Detroit, Marshall Wayne of Miami,
Fla., and A1 Green of Chicago.
Leading athletes in many sports
from the United States and other
countries have gathered in the
German capital for the contests.
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RAILROAD QUEEN
Honors as “Railroad Queen”
went to Miss Marybeth McGurk,
eighteen, of Chicago, during the re
cent celebration of railroad week.
Three Sets of Twins in Succession
Three sets of twins in succession have been welcomed to the family
of the Andrew Jackson Robertsons of Walla Walla, Wash. Born in 1933,
1934, and 1936, only the youngest pair were of the same sex.
Government’s Slice From Loaf of Bread
Members of the Conference of National Bakery Executives meet
ing in Chicago were shown by W. E. Long how big a portion of a 15
cent loaf the federal tax collector gets. Taxes take that part which
Mr. Long holds in his right hand. Members of the conference agreed to
place on bread wrappers the jxact amount of tax levied against each
loaf, to acquaint the American public with the tax problem.
| ROCKEFELLER IS 97
Declaring that he would live to
be one hundred, John D. Rocke
feller celebrated his ninety-seventh
birthday recently at his estate at
Lakewood, N. J. The aged philan
thropist observed the day in his
usual quiet manner.
$64,000,000 Triborough Bridge Is Completed
The massive Triborough bridge linking Manhattan, the Queens and the Bronx, which was recently dedi
cated by President Roosevelt. It was built at a cost of $G4,000,000 by the PWA. Photo shows one of the main
•pans in this great chainwork which ii second in size to the Golden Gate bridge in San I rancisco.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America who has refused to appear for trial
before the American Federation of Labor. 2—German troops boarding a train to cross the Polish corridor,
now regarded as one of Europe's danger spots. 3—Scene at convention of Townsendites held recently at
Cleveland. Dr. Townsend, founder of the old-age pension movement, is seen in the middle.
Water Now Rushes
Through Sluiceways
of Norris Dam
Water is seen being let through
the sluiceways of Norris dam, Ten
nessee, for the first ime since the
dam gates were closed to Great
Norris lake, immediately after the
dam was completed. The gates
were opened to raise the Tennessee
river to its normal level, thus pro
viding transportation and increas
ing power production at Wilson
dam. Muscle Shoals. Norris dam
cost about $33,000,000 to build.
Six Alarms Sounded for Baltimore Factory Fire
Most of Baltimore’s fire fighting apparatus was called to battle a conflagration in a factory which fol
lowed a terrific explosion.
“Boy Orator** Seeks U. S. Senate Seat
Defeated Gore
in Primary
in Oklahoma
Rep. Josh Lee, the “boy orator”
who defeated blind Senator Thomas
E. Gore in the senatorial primary
in Oklahoma. He took issue wih
the anti-New Deal views of the vet
eran who had represented Okla
homa from statehood in 1907 until
1920 when he was beaten. Senator
Gore was called out of retirement
six years ago by a heavy vote.
Birds Eat Roast Bugs
Yosemite National Park.—Park
rangers say birds no longer seek
worms. They wait till motorists
arrive, then sweep down and pluck
the hot roasted bugs from radiators.
YOUNG EDUCATOR
The Rev. Francis Kelley, 34, new
ly appointed president of Seton Hall
college, South Orange, N. J., Is the
youngest college head in the United
States. He was formerly head of
the college’s philosophy department.
Refugees From the “Dust Bowl” Seek New Homes
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Penniless, without shelter and looking for work these refugees from the drouth-ridden “Dust Bowl”
have become squatters along the highway near Bakersfield, Calif. There are 22 in the family which came
from Oklahoma.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Childhood
Tugwell's Lillie Girl
Holland Buys Planes
Rev. Webber Knows
Childhood lasts longer in France
than in America and it is real child
Arthur llrlnhnne
hood. Boys in
their teens, writ
ing letters, call
their fathers
Cher petit pap
pa, “Dear little
papa" — imag
ine that from an
American “prep"
school.
Little French
girls play inno
cently with Toto,
their little dog.
hardly knowing
that such things
as francs exist,
when much old
er than Assistant Secretary Jug
well's intelligent young daughter,
Marcia, aged twelve, who, in part
nership with her friends, Mary
Frances Cot|rell and Joyce Hel
mick, organized “a laundry for
washing dogs.” They advertised:
"Small dogs, 30 cents; middle-sized
dogs, 35 cents; groomed and
washed. Dogs not good-natured
must be sent with muzzles, and we
cannot wash large dogs.”
Too bad that parental severity
broke up the dog laundry. It had
announced working hours “10 a. m.
to 5 p. m. on Saturdays,” the stu
dious little girls’ only holiday, "all
hours ufter school on other week
days.”
What a good example for govern
ment enterprises: the little girls
really meant to work to "groom
and wash” the dogs, not merely
stand around and collect the 30
cents.
Plucky little Holland and her
wise queen seem to have decided
that the 1914 "war to end all wars”
did not finish its lob. Holland went
through the big war safely, selling
butter, cheese, eggs, not disturbed,
not making any bad $10,000,000,000
loans.
Now Holland is buying 13 heavy
bombing planes in Baltimore,
spending $1,500,000 for the 13, and
spending many other millions for
other killing machinery.
That means work and wages in
Baltimore; it may mean poison gas
and death for some of Holland's
neighbors.
Foreign countries read every
thing said about them in America;
not that foreign countries care
what Americans think, or attach
importance to American opinion,
as such; but America has money,
raw products, and governments
that are sometimes whimsical,
changeable and boyish.
Europe, Asia and Africa watch
with equal interest statements of
Americans that count and more
numerous Americans that float
like feathers in the air.
One simple - minded Russian
pointed with pride to the statement
of a clergyman in our Union The
ological seminary.
That gentleman. Rev. Charles C.
Webber, has a plan for a better
government, not based on the text
about rendering unto Caesar that
which is Caesar’s. The big idea is
to take away what is Caesar’s.
Eight hundred young people
were told by Reverend Webber:
“God, who is not content with
things as they are, is a revolution
ary Being, constantly seeking to
make all things new.”
Rev. Webber, “recognizing this,”
about God being a revolutionist,
has a plan to help God in his ef
forts; a plan as simple as A, B, C,
Capitalism, he says, must be abol
ished. Rev. Webber wants a
planned and planning social econ
omy in the United States. Under
the Charles C. Webber plan, peo
ple would own and manage such
things as industry and property;
no money would be spent for war,
and youth would rule.
Those brought up with the old
fashioned idea of God might ask
Rev. Webber, respectfully: “If God
really is a revolutionary ‘constant
ly seeking to make all things new,’
why does He not carry out His will
and ‘make all things new’ every
few minutes? Can it be that He
needs the help of Rev. Webber?
Lenin and Stalin got along without
that .help.”
Also arises this question: With
capitalism abolished, who would
build the churches, the Union The
ological seminaries, and pay sal
aries to Rev. Webbers for reading
the mind of the Divinity?
Dean Swift should have known
Rev. Webber when he -vrote his
tale of a tub.
France calls Paris the “aerial
port of Europe,” proudly. In Amer
ica the still prouder title “Chief Air
Traffic Port of the Whole World” is
claimed by Miami, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Chicago, Cleveland, and
with a great deal of reason by San
Francisco and Oakland, thanks to
the magnificent bay, and to the fact
that the greatest air line, running
from America to Asia, starts from
that neighborhood.
© King Featuros Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service.
