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...governor Allen nevertheless does not take the view that the Supreme Court's decision renders the Industrial Court powerless. Said he: " I rather expected an adverse decision because I believe when the Industrial Court took the action in question it was placing that section of the law on thin ice. . . . There was no question of emergency. The whole Kansas law was written around the emergency point. This does not take away from the Industrial Court any of its anti-picketing powers nor the power to make wage decisions in an emergency...
...opposition with General Wu, who never liked him anyway. General Wu then wrote to his friend General Shen Hung-Yung, Tuchun of Kwang-Tung province, and suggested a little war on Dr. Sun. This is still going on. Throughout the squabbles of the Tuchuns the Peking Government has been powerless to interfere and to collect taxes...
...Government, once more collided with the Secretaries of War and Navy. He ruled that allowances to " indigent parents " of army and navy officers are illegal, and made his ruling retroactive; so some officers will have thousands of dollars deducted from their future pay. Secretaries Weeks and Denby are powerless and must wait till Congress reassembles to get relief for their subordinates. Mr. McCarl's ruling was based on the fact that in some cases the privilege had been abused to get extra pay for officers whose families are well...
...Wireless Salvation. Cardinal Dubois, Archibshop of Paris, is a radio enthusiast and has a receiving set in his Archiepiscopal Palace. But he thinks that radio is powerless to save souls. " Broadcast sermons cannot be expected to convert anyone. Wireless is too dry and cold to have an effect. Personal magnetism is lacking...
...Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell and Maria" has put his back against a steam roller; but he will have plenty of assistants. The surviving individualists are preparing for a finish-fight...