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Thursday, May 27, 1937

FEW TEARS FOR MRS TIERNAN

Mrs. Tiernan, Brookhaven fili-cide, arrested Tuesday, May 18 and to be tried for murder in the first degree, said Thursday May 20, "when I die I want my casket covered with flowers."

No longer does she read the mush love magazines but seeks sedatives instead. George Christie, the subway pickup for love of whom she killed her daughter Helen, 7, and attacked her son, Jimmy, 5, awaited his turn to testify in the Grand Jury Room in the Riverhead Court House Tues-day, May 26.

Two days were required for the reality of her crime to culminate in her brain. The mind is sometimes slow to catch up with the deeds of one's hands.

Human character being what it is, crimes are understandable; a most difficult point to understand is why they are performed with such colos-sal ineptitude, such sublime indif-ference to the law, such inability to comprehend the Future.

Mrs. Tiernan, as well as the Gladys MacKnight case is an example of supreme criminal bungling. Women certainly make clumsy murderesses!

FRANKENSTEIN-NEW MODEL The Last Night

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT UPHELD

Two of the most important pro-jects of the Roosevelt administrat-ion were approved Monday by the Supreme Court. The Federal unem-ployment insurance provisions were upheld by a 5 to 4 vote, and the old age pensions were passed by a 7 to 2 vote.

The unemployment insurance leg-islation is aimed to lessen the ef-fects of periodic unemployment on the economic structure. The Supreme Court's approval of the unemploy-ment insurance provisions was ex-pected to cause a study of the mech-anics of the decision in an effort to achieve other New Deal objectives.

Justice Cardoza emphasized the need for unemployment relief dur-ing the depression, saying, "The social security act is an attempt to find a method by which all these (Federal pr State) public agencies may work together to a common end.

"If Congress believed that the general welfare would be better pro-moted by I'elief through local units than by the system then in vogue, the co-operating localities ought not in all fairness to pay a second time."

The BarbaVians According to Senor Gasset, "The

days are numbered of the man who lives exclusively on his income and hands it down to his children " It is an often expressed opinion that the masses, having been taught how to read and write and been permitt-ed to vote and otherwise exert pres-sure, will as a result of these cap-acities develop into a race of un-scrupulous barbarians, desirous of voting themselves into machine-age enjoyments and luxuries. This dark sentiment was expressed recently in the editorial column of the Daily News, and the alleged tax-evasions of Pierre S. du Pont was cited as evidence that Mr. du Pont "was no different from the mass-man in the matter of desire for money and pow-er."

Mechanicalia This latter statement was the

point of the editorial. As we see it, money is merely a medium of value. Since the earliest glimmerings of civilization, money has been a unit of exchange. The Indians had wam-pum. But money like mechanicalia is convenient and useful, as long as it is kept in strict control and is un-derstood completely by all who use it.

Currency Without Backing Gold, at present, is our standard

of value. Currency is issued without gold backing. According to reports, there is little over a million in gold in the U. S. vaults, and yet the coun-try is flooded with paper dollars without gold backing. This flux of money without gold backing is apt to taint its possessors and would-be possessors with undue greed, with false power, with megalomania; how can we be sure that the complexities which the wide-spread influence of these green slips have caused are desirable?

Frankenstein—New Model The Frankenstein story is an old

one; the man-made monster who des-troys its maker, the robot who kills its inventor. The point of the story, in relation to modern civilization, is obvious. Mechanicalia, if partly un-controlled as it is now, will become

000 a year; one-third of a nat-ion of 130,000,000 people ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed—Is it safe? Such maladjustments have produced vio-lent revolutions."

Imperialist Hypocrisy When a people is too spineless to

revolt against oppression, they be-come appropriated by some stronger imperialist nation vide Egsrpt, India, Palestine. If a race stays submissive to its kings and its priestcraft, ev-entually it becomes a tool of profit for a more powerful country. This form of exploitation is called "En-lightening the heathen" or "bearing the white man's burden."

Therefore it would seem that re-volt by those unprivileged for the essential privileges of life is, in the end, a force in the direction of hu-manity's betterment.

Wagner Act As a step toward this goal, con-

sider the Wagner Labor Relations Act. This Act .purports to safeguard commerce from injury, impairment, or interruption. . . .by removing cer-tain recognized sources of industrial strife, by encouraging practices fun-damental to the friendly adjustment of industrial disputes. . ^."

Right To Bargain and Strike "Employees," acording to the Act,

"shall have the right to self-organi-zation, and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing." This is a long-due mea-sure in recognition of the rights of labor. The consensus of opinion a-mong authorities on labor relations in regard to the Wagner Act seems to be that, as long as no counter-measure is passed inhibiting in any way the worker's right to reject a bargain by striking, this Act offers an opportunity to labor "to organ-ize even more thoroughly than the workers of France and England and Australia, and to establish more friendly and efficient plant relation-ships for employers."

Toward Fascism? For those who ever so often raise

a Red Scare cry, it might be inter-esting that according to a speech made by Senator Borah before the Senate, Fascists are more active

an ungauged and dumb force of pow- than Communists in this country. er, capable of indiscriminate des-truction. Money, too, if unchecked, will turn, like the monster, and crush and annihilate its creator.

Inequality The above-named editorial con-

cisely points out a few facts in re-gard to the present distribution of wealth, that is power, in these words: "Du Pont with a take of $32,000,-000 in one year; the President of the

This is worth - thought. President Roosevelt assuredly is trying to in-vest himself with more and more power; but why shouldn't he, if, as he thinks, he can do the job better than anyone else.

In connection with this matter: are Communism and Fascism really alternatives? Both seem to offer dic-tatorships of a sort, and to curtail whether for good or ill the liberty

United States with a .-salary of $75,-1 of the individual.

MEMORIAL DAY

Butcher: "I can't give you any more credit, sir. Your bill is bigger now than it should be."

Customer; "I know that. Just make it out as it should be and I'll pay it."—Toronto Star.

Hens that fail to respond to good feeding and management during the summer should be disposed of prom-ptly. Non-layers of all ages should be carefully culled out of the flock unUl September 1.

During the Civil War, a number of Southern women began the loving custom of decorating the soldier's graves with flowers. They decorated not only the graves of their own men, but also those of the Norther-ners who had met death in the South.

Three years after the war. Gen-eral Logan, at that time Commissio-ner-in-chief of the G. A. R., issued an order that the 30th day of May of that year be set apart for placing flowers on the soldiers' graves. Var-ious states in the union followed the custom, and soon Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, was made legal by state action.

The custom has now 'been ex-tended to include not only the graves of soldiers, but of all the loved ones who have passed beyond the Great Divide. Flowers are one of the most beautiful manifestations earth can show, and are therefore a fitting tribute to those who, though no lon-

LAMENT

I feel so sorry for the fish Who play all day. But can not really do what they wish. The sea is very nice And free For clams. But for the horseshoe

and his mate Isn't it a shame It is so un-private? For everyone who takes a dip Can chase an eel who has a date. And those long arrows some call oars Disturb so oft The jellyfish' amours.

About 15 per cent of American farms are using electricity, in addit-ion to those which have their own home lighting plants.

"The Last Night," an Amkino production, is a profoundly stirring account of Bolshevik activities on the eve of the October revolution in Moscow. An effective corttrast is made between two classes, the bour-geoisie and the labor class, as re-presented by Leontiev, a wealthy manufacturer and Ziakharkin," the poor father.

Probably the most realistically presented and effectively played char-acter, however, is his wife, M. Yar-otskaya, who symbolizes simpler, human values in contrast to the pol-itical values of the reds and whites, alike. Phrased skeletally, the theme of the film might be said to be, "For men must work and fight, and wo-men must weep—" All sorts of var-iatiohs are possible on such a theme.

The figure of the mother indi-cates weaknesses and strengths in the characters about her, points to the aim of the Bolshevikii, finally acts' as the deus ex machina who resolves the crisis and confusion in a superb scene by walking down a railway platform, to a train filled with enemies or friends, she does not know which.

This resolution of confusion is necessary to bring the film to an artistic end, and it is only a resolu-tion in that sense of the word. The Bolsheviki march foward victorious over the military contingent at the Brianskyt Station, and the mother rouses one sleeping laggard. "Ge,t up," she says, "You will be late. Go follow your detachment." "Where are we going?" he asks. "We're go-ing to the Kremlin, to take the land," and the film closes.

Some of the scenes are extremely exciting, with the sense of high dra-ma and intricate intrigue peculiar-ly Russian. The picture is consist-ently realistic. Perhaps the interest could have been heightened were a few of the straet-fighting scenes omitted; sometimes one wonders: What is all this fighting doing? What is it really about? It seems to be taking place somewhere behind the canvas sheet; one might almost forget for a moment that there is another set of values entirely from those incorporated in Last Night— the values which Yarotskaya repre-sents, a conception of the futility of conflict and the necessity of ser-vice.

red and twenty seven persons who were left on Roanoke L-jland by Governor White when he sailed back to England for supplies. ^ ^ •

After three years he return^n to find absolutely no trace of the col-ony he left behind. Their fate has remained shrouded in mystery. No^ white man ever saw them again.

Medical treatment is responsible for one more beauty discovery. The new vacuum cups now being usedf with great success as part of the reducing treatment at the salon in a Fifth avenue department store have long been used in hospitals as a means of starting circulation in , treating bone fractures.

Reducing, it is claimed, automo-tically took place whenever the vac-uum-cupping treatment was given at the hospital to get the blood cours-t ing freely in fracture cases.

The larger sizes of vacuum are used on shoulders, thighs and the calf of the leg. Foa* ankles, which are notoriously hard to get* at, they use a tiny glass tubular model that operates on the same principle. The whole treatment con-sists of about ten minutes of cup-ping on the strategic spot in con- • junction with time under the heat-ray machine to induce perspiration, and a body massage, since circulat-ion must be encouraged over the en-tire body as well as in the part to® be reduced. At the end you get a shower or an alcohol rub. And they report miraculous things in lost in-ches.

FOR THE LADIES

A week without Wallis would be wasted, so here are two interesting items. When Edwai'd of Windsor makes her his queen on June 3rd, he will place on her finger a wedding ring of Welsh gold, similar to those worn by other wives of Britain's royalty. Meanwhile, to calm his jangled nerves, and (beguile the sleepless hours, Edward has resorted to knitting! As a result, it is said, he has presented his finance with a sweater, in wool of the new "Wally blue" shade, fashioned entirely by the royal hands. Query—do you ima-gine it fits?

THE DEATH OF JOHN ROCKEFELLER

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Abont 30 kinds of vegetables are commonly grown in New York state, though many families do not have more than 12 or 14 kinds. Try one

ger visible to us, still live in our 9r two kinds » year. • ^ hearts.

For some time, there has been talk of an issue of a "mystery" stamp by the Post Office Department. Now, the New York Sun tells us, the sec-ret is out. The new stamp is to commemorate the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, the first white child born of English parents on the con-tinent of North America. This event is to be celebrated this year on her birthday August 18 on Roanoke Is-land, the place of her birth. Her parents were members of the "lost colony," numbering about one hund-

With the death o • -^ur'i^y of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., ?t the adva^^d , age of 97, an- almost legendary fig-ure has vanished. In this 'hTHied era, it seems unlikely that a'lother indi-vidual will ever amass the colossal fortune which was his before he com- , menced his Avidespread benefactions,

Mr. Rockefeller has been given the credit of having given away more money for the improvement of man-kind than any one else in history, ^ not excepting Andrew Carnegie. His is the Rockefeller Institute the Rock-efeller Foundtition, land the Gen-eral Education Board, all establish-ed since 1900, and to which he gave a total sum of approximately 372 mil-lion dollars. Other benefactions br-ing up the total of his gifts to more than 530 millions.

The almost unbelievable wea possessed by this spectacular capt of industry can only be compared to that held by the absolute sover-eigns of antiquity; such as Cleopa-tra, for instance, who derived a thrill by dissolving priceless pearls in wine and drinking it; or Croesus, whose thousand roomed palace was crowd-ed with millions of golden objects studded with precious jewels; or Midas, whose admiration of his child's golden ringlets induced him to cover her entire body with prec-ious gold leaf. As a result of which, the skin being prevented from per-forming i ts proper functions, the child, of course, immediately died!

Under a capitalistic form of soc-iety, the wealth level must necessar-ily always be uneven. Only under an absolute communist rule can the money makers be held down to the level of the money spenders. Wheth^ such a drab level would be conduc^B welfare of mankind is, of course, a to the welfare of individual opinion, while one may be thankful that a-mong the billion dollar class are found men who are willing to donate foi-tunes to the betterment of less fortunate breathren.