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The Washington times., 1931-08-10
By Claude G. Bowers

farms of thousands of acres
cultivated by machinery and
with little man power neces-
sary. Most city folk nod in
acquiescence and with no
thought of the human problem
involved.
Farmers Will Move
to the Cities
It is said that these dis
possessed farmers will move
to the cities with their fam.
lilies and find work in the
factories that are now over
manned, with millions unem-
ployed. The labor market will
be swollen to that extent.
And the conservatives Of the
country who preach the savage
doctrine of "let well enough
alone" have no appreciation Of
what this will do to conserva-
tism. That which they call
''radica1ism" flourishes in the
cities and in industrial centers.
For generations we have been
: assured that socialism can
never take possession Of
America because Of the Con
servatism" Of the farmers.
The shift from rural to urban
is certain to have a distinct
effect upon our political life.
It will become more radical.
And unless the factories can
absorb all these millions Of
disposeSSed farmers, it may be-
come dangerously radical. The
conservatives, indifferent to the
farmers plight, have no
thought Of this phase. Perhaps
the trouble with most reac-
tionaries is that they have
no thought at all; only an
appetite.
Farmers Must
Help Themselves
What, then, is the matter
with the farmers? Is it hide
bound partisanship?
Is it that, even in dire dis
tress, they have lost the knacE
they once had Of organizing
and marching all one way?
Is it because Of an unthink-
able gullibility? Because they
are still willing to listen to
Capper and Curtis? Because
they have no power of initia-
tive? Or have the inferiority
complex?
We are informed from the
West that the agricultural sec.
ton Is boiling over with in
surgercy and that unless some
sincere effort is made to save
the farmers, as well as Europe,
those in power will mot carry
a county in the farm belt.
But we heard that In 1928.
Perhaps it is true; but we
must be convinced by the re-
turns.
It is true that the farmers
must help themselves; and
one way Is to vote for them.
selves and against those who
are Indifferent to their plight.
The Washington times., 1931-08-10
TIMES TEST

Fill each blank:
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which has attained worldwide
celebrity is the --.
2. The airbrake was invented
3. The belga is a form Of
---- currency.
4. The principal !. money
crop" Of Virginia is
S. A Slaughterhouse may also
be called an
. 8. was the found
er Of Rotary Clubs.
2. The nobility of
kept their hats on in the pres
ence Of their King.
8. The Palace Of Caiaphas Is
Q. -- was the trans
lator of Omar Khayyam's Rn.
baiyat.
10. Dore' was a famous
French -.
Match correctly:
IL. Geo. Eliot c. L. Dodgson
~. Ella Marian Evans
l3. blackboard w. r. Cody
IA. L. Carroll Edward Teach
IS. Buffalo Bill Charles Lamb
.tAnswerS on Magazine PageI
The Washington times., 1931-08-10
Kiosk Goes on the Blink

The fact that the Weather Bureaus kiosk Pennsylvania
Avenue went the blink the other dayome say
by the heaneed diminish faith in that institution since
il has been repaired.
The average the street during this hot has
had faith in the kosk figures than the
Weather Bureaus official readings secured under the most
satisfactory conditions Of shade Pedestrians could better
off, though, if they did not stop look at kiosk figures
These never help to cool anybody off.
These weather sharks have tried hard to comfort heat VIC
Tins with Consong figures this temperatures
refuses to be consoled. It knows its heat
Washington, though has not had occasion to like
other places exceptional heat Many big cities the
country have had conditions than had Believe
It or not. It's the truth.
The Washington times., 1931-08-10
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson.

You are not "a man" or "a
woman" You are a man AND
a woman.
Your body may be male or
female, but your mind is a
M1NGLING OF BOTH SEXES.
You were not born of one
sex. You were born Of the
mingling Of two sexes. For the
first period of your prenatal
life you had no sex. It was
impossible to tell whether you
were boy or girl. Then grad
ually you developed certain sex
distinctions. But your body
was still a mixture of the
father and mother patterns.
When you we're born they said
you had your mothers eyes
and your fathers forehead. If
they could have looked deeper
they would have seen that your
spirit was equally divided be-
tween the male and female.
You were mentally and emo
tionally man-woman.
Why They Do It
That Is why some little girls
hate dolls and play with foot
balls, though they may be
feminine" in every other re-
spect. That is why some little
boys hate to dig pirate caves
and love to cuddle teddy bears,
to the CONSERVATION Of their
bewildered parents. And you
are quite as bewildered by these
Inconsistencies In yourself, now
that you are grown.
Sometimes you feel as a man
is supposed to feel. Sometimes
you feel as q woman Is sup
posed to feel. I say supposed"
to feel because we have at
tached our own notions to
human feelings. We have de-
cided that men feel and think
in certain ways and that
women feel and think in GER
tain ways. AS a matter Of
fact, they do nothing Of the
sort. There is no such thing
as "a man mind or "a woman
n1ind'-"a man nature" or "a
woman nature" There are
only man-and-woman minds,
man-and-woman natures.
The Washington times., 1931-08-10
Docility of the Farmer

mortgaged, scientifically tended,
who were leading men in the
community-men of substance.
Writer Draws a
Sad Picture
Within the last three years
three of them have committed
suicide, and one has died from
worries because all were ruined
by farm conditions. Cases like
these can be indefinitely multi
piled in the farming country.
Dreadfully cold economists
tell us that machinery is ruin
ing the farmer: that the small
farm of a hundred or a hundred
and twenty acres will no longer
be profitable and must go;
that instead we are to have q
comparatively few enormous
The Washington times., 1931-08-10

prosperous than any other in
dustry?
The Farmer Faces
the Worst Year
And yet the farmer faces the
worst year he has ever known.
He has more wheat to sell and
there has been no buying Of
the wheat he had left over
from last year. The price of
the product has struck bottom,
and with the creditor pushing
him to settle, he will be lucky
to have enough to meet sheer
necessities.
We have in mind one little
county in the Middle West
where IS years ago, and for
years before, there were four
farmers with large farms, un-
The Washington times., 1931-08-10

With the farmers facing ruin
1t remains one Of the political
mysteries why their docility
under oppression is so invari-
able. It is estimated that as,
many as 800, 900 will be dispos-
sessed by their creditors this
year, and half a million lost all
they had last year; and yet the
politicians are but little con-
cerned about them. = ..
Their docility has been so pro
nounced, and almost unvarying,
that it is assumed that no mat
ter what happens to them they
d will vote for the status quo.
Most of them in the great agri-
cultural States Of the West are
expected to vote against the
Democrats next year to prevent
the disturbance Of their prosper
ity. r> :.
Voted Their
Gratitude =
They were In a bad way
three years ago, and they had
been kicked all over the COW
lot by those in. power and
driven from the door Of the
Kansas City Convention by the
clubs Of policemen; but they
went like little men right up
to the polls and voted their
gratitude for the treatment.
Next year Mr.. Hoover knows
that Senator Capper, their
spokesman" will tell them that
everything is quite all right.
Has not Mr.. Legge, placed by
the President at the head of
the Farm Board, despite his
well known indifference to the
farmers wishes, just told them
that they are now out of the
valley Of the shadows and more
The Washington times., 1931-08-10

name which the oness lacks the larger tu Of the male
elephant the heavier neck powerful horns OF the bull
the magnificent tail Of the peacock the fiery decoration OF
the turkey gobbler.
In all Of that wse The idea was to make the
female nconspcuous that the enemy not noticing her. might
attack husband while she attended to the important ou
ness of looking after her young ones.
With human beings Just the other way. Women have
the decorations silks satins big hats ewey lip STICK men
of our day dress plainly the female turkey
Nature dea perhaps is to keep working hard They
must work hard to keep up with female fashions.
The Washington times., 1931-08-10
District Auditor Donovan

The forty years Of service in the District government by
Major Daniel Donovan District auditor been that many
years Of conscientious public work by efficient faithful
poy whose abilities energies and good have taken him
near the top in municipal positions.
District people indebted to Major Donovan for his
and Judgment before House and Senate committees handling
District appropriations There is conflict between the
bodies Of Congress District fiscal policies yet Major
Donovan preserves the good will Of both bodies and earnestly
seeks to steer the Congressional mind toward fairness for this
city
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
Legends That Live in
Hearts of Irish People

Ireland is storehouse Of quaint
legends and superstition. Most Of
the Irish lakes have legend to thier
name.
Tough Foyle, according to tradi-
ton, Is in the wrong place.
This is it's story:
In olden times there were two
weird sisters, skilled in black magic.
one of whom dwelt distance from
the lake. One day this sister said to
the other, LET me have the loan Of
your silver lake until next Monday"
So the other, being young and
trusting, obigingly rolled up her
lake, and sent it over the hills and
valleys to her sister.
Monday came and passed by; the
lake was not returned, so the dis
consulate witch sent for 1t. But her
sister was in high glee because she
had foiled her trusting relative. She
replied that she intended to keep the
lake until the Day Of Judgment.
1t is said that the vast hollow from
whence the lake was taken can still
be seen in Connaught, waiting, naked
and barren, for the waters that will
never return.
Deep in the water at the head Of
Tough Corrib stands an ancient cas-
tie. Legend says that this castle
was built in one night by cock and
a hen; but actually it was erected by
Roderlck O'Connor, the last king of
Ireland.
| Peasants say that at times strange
lights flicker through the ornate win
dows of the submerged castle, and
fleet of boats-filled with quantity
/ dressed men-patrols the lake.
They row about until the cock her
aids dawn, then they instantly vanish.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
Imitation Stradiyari

Since 1t was reported several
weeks ago that n Tazewell county
(Virginfa) man had genuine Stra-
divarius violin for which Roanoke
musician had offered $4,000, more
than two dozen genuine Stradiva-
riuses" have been discovered in
southwest Virginia. Until Il few
years ago 1t was not against the
law in Germany for violin makers to
put labels with the name Of Stradi.
varius on them in the inside Of ev-
cry instrument they turned out.
Travelling agents evidently sold
great many OF these cheap violins In
the mountain district.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02

Readily obtained at any drug
store, the genuine easily identified
by the Chas. H. Fletcher signature
and the name Castoria on the
wrapper like this:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
FOR COLDS
ALKAL|N|zE
YOUR SYSTEM

Doctors everywhere are prescrib-
Ing this new treatment for colds:
Begin when you feel cold COM
ing. Take a tablespoonful Of Phil
lips Milk of Magnesia, morning,
noon and night, the first day. Do the
same second day. Then only at night.
Colds reduce the alkalinity Of your
system. That's what makes you feel
achy, feverish, weak, half-sick. Phil
lips Milk Of Magnesia is alkali in
harmless, palatable form. 1t checks
the symptoms Of colds by restoring
the alkalinity Of your system.
Relieves sour stomach, indigestion,
gas, over-acidity. All drugstores.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
.I|i1'I|BlI
$500

with very large and most imposing
lady. The meal went forward in per-
feet silence until the coffee came on,
when Mr.. CreePs table mate, after
lighting cigarette, leaned forward
alphabetically.
pardon, me-" she asked, "but is
my smoking offensive to you?"
"Not at ALL" Mr.. Creel assured her.
"But," he added, there was some
thing that did shock me quite lit
tie. When l entered the dining car,
not single woman got up out Of
her chair" Golfers Weekly.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02

Arthur A. Ballantine, who has been
appointed by President Hoover to be
an assistant secretary Of the treasury
to succeed Walter e. Hope. Mr.. Bal
antine is a native Of Ohio and has
been practicing law in New York city
for the past ten years.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
Eskimos Use Airplanes

Eskimos are now bringing their
furs by airplane as far south as Ed
monton. Alberta, directly from the
vast trapping regions OF the Arctic.
Formerly they had to store their
catch through the long winters and
take their furs out in the spring to
local trading points to be sold for a
fraction of what they are now get
ting in markets closer to civilization.
The average cost for renting an air.
plane for the round trip Is about
1915, but often one good pelt will pay
for that.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02

Fewer enthusiasms, the more peace
of mind.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
Politeness Preferred

George Creel, the eminent writer,
while on trip between New York
San Francisco, found himself seated
In the dining car at the same table
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
washington news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers
THE MARKETS
Portland

Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, SIC; soft white, western white,
Gee: hard winter, northern spring,
western red, CSC.
Hay-Buying price. f. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, s14@15; valley timothy $50
1850; eastern Oregon timothy, SIT;
clover Sill; oat hay, S12; oats and
vetch, $12.
Butterfat-24@27c.
Eggs-Ranch, 1S@15c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $7.75@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.5O@S.5O.
Lambs-Good to choice, $6.75@7.25.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, 66c; western red, northern
spring, hard winter, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@2Oc.
Butterfat-31c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7.5O@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S.50@S.60.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.5O. a
Spokane IA
Cattle-Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25@S.35.
Lambs-Medium to good, 1907.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02
Wakefu|
restless CHILD
needs Castoris

w E can never be sure just what
makes an infant restless, but the
remedy can always be the same.
Good old Castoria! There's comfort
in every drop of this pure vegetable
preparation, and not the slightest
harm in its frequent use. As often
as Baby has a fretful spell, is
feverish, or cries and can't sleep,
let Castoria soothe and quiet him.
Sometimes it's touch of collie.
Other times it's constipation. Or
diarrhea-a condition that should
always be checked promptly.
Just keep Castoria handy, and give
it promptly. Relief will follow very
promptly; if it doesn't you should
call physician.
All through babyhood, Castoria
should be mothers standby; and
a wise mother continues it in more
liberal doses as a child grows up.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels-Adv.
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
SEATTLE COPS

Chief of Police, William E. Kent of Seattle, is starting out his administrative duties with instructions to his force of law enforcers, that cannot be mis- understood. He lays down the principal of kindly treatment ot prisoners as follows.
 "I have heard many complaints of cossackism and brutality on the part of policemen and de- tectives. I believe that Seattle is freer from this sort of thing than many cities, but am mak- ing it clearly understood that i will not tolerate it so long as am chief.
 Any member of the depart ment found guilty of using brut al methods of handling a prison CT will be fired and will stay fir ed"
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
WAGE RAISES DEPRESSION SOLUTION, DECLARES WOLL

An immediate raise in wages to increase the nations purchas- ing power 50 per cent was cited recently in New York as the sur est cure for depression ill, by Mathew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of La bor, in an addres before the In ternational Longshoremen's Un- ion,
 MT. Woll estimated that there are probably more than 12,OOo- 900 workers in the country eith- CT unemployed or only partially employed. He pointed out that despite the increasing serious ness of the unemployment prob lem, mechanization of labor pro- cesses and the merging of ln- GuStrieS continue to go on, cauS- ing the ranks of the unemployed to enlarge constantly.
 To-day we are convinced" he said, "that an unemployed labor market is of service neither to commerce, industry nor finance and is detriment to govern ment.
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14

Now, the Organic Act gave the people of Alaska the right to elect their own Auditor. Who opr osed that measure? And why?
 This same act gave Alaska the right TO manage our own Pion- eerS Home, and who manages it and who opposes it's direct man. agement by Alaskans?
 This same act gave us the right to direct every strictly territorial activity, and this includes the Fairbanks College old age pen sion funds, indigent funds, and so forth. Yet that element which always demands a full Terrlto < :al form of government" is most active in it's effort to withhold those activities and duties from Alaskans. And why, pray, should not the Auditcr function in a strict way, as does every Auditor in every state? Why should not he be check upon the Terri torial treasurer, upon the funds ot the Territory.
 And those proponents of a
 full Territorial form of goveln- ment," where are they when the present form of political anton on1y is slowly but gradually be- ing taken from the people. Le' uS cult talking home rule unC we have learned to use and d( use the powers now conferred upon us by virtue of the Organic Act.
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
captive period. The conserv

captive period. The conserva- tive in politics and in business is altogether of different type. He knows a good thing when he sees it, and does not propose to let it escape his grasp.
 He knows full well that it is better to be on the inside of the ring than on the outside, and he antagonizes every movement intended to give the common man a chance. He is strongly of the belief that privilege for the few is preferable to justice for all, for he happens to be of the few.
 In plain terms his eye is on the buttered side of the bread. Perhaps it is human nature for the man who has been raised with silver or a golden spoon in his mouth to object to it's re- moval. Occasionally, there is a man who, with opportunity to enjoy all the fruits of privilege,
 deliberately sets about to share ii with those who arc not so for tunate. Such a man has tapped
 the true source of happiness. But he will never be under stood by the conservative, who
 will be dead sure that either he is weak in the upper story" or else he "has something up his sleeve" The conservative, whetn
 CT in politics or in business, while sharp enough to look out for number one, has never ac- cuired that broad vision Of life
 that makes it a delight to help raise the weaker brother,
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
RESOURCES AND
 REPRESENTATION
Anchorage Times)

The suggestion made at Doug las recently by Frank Foster, who lately has moved from the Third to the First Division, that there is need of a change in dl- visional representation because the First and Third Divisions have more population and pay more taxes than do the Second and Fourth Divisions sounds much like the agitation that has been going on in Juneau since the very early days of the Terri tory. Long ago it was argued by Juneau politicians that be- cause most of the timber sales were made in the First Division, most of the money realized from such sales should be expended in the First Division, to the eXclU- slon of those Divisions not pos sessing saleable timber. And now MT. Foster advances the ar gument by inference at least, that revenues from the fisheries
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
THE CONSERVATIVE

Always has he been in evil e-since before the war, in Roman times, and in the old Stone Age. Left to his own ini- tiative, he would still be making fire by rubbing together two sticks, or by striking iron with a fiint-if, indeed, he had advanc- ed that far; for it was no con- servative who first struck fire.
 His eyes are seemingly in the back of his head, for he has a much keener view for the past than for the future, being very much satisfied with the Golden Age of his own boyhood.
 Sometime in early manhood his brain crystalized, and whatev- CT knowledge has been devel- Oped in the world since that time is for him taboo.
 If he acquired a medical edu- cation before the development of the science of bacteriology, he cannot speak in too much contempt of what he is pleased to call the "germ theory" If he could altogether discredit his senses, he might also refer to the typewriter, the automobile, the linotype, the airplane, and the wireless as "theories;" for they did not have these things when he was a boy.
 He makes constant and des- perate effort to maintain the va lidity of his ideas, and to this end, he ignores much that has been learned later than his re-
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
HOME RULE AND SOME OF
 ITS PROPONENTS

During the past several elec- tion campaigns, certain political elements always insisted that the powers given the people of Alaska in the government pro- vided by Judge Wickersham's Organic Act were so meager, so much less than those given the people of other Territories, that we have not real Home Rule, and will not have until Congress can be induced to give us what Pres ident Taft and President Wilson called full Territorial form of government"
 Now, this limited" law gave Alaskans the right to elect 8 Territorial Treasurer. Can any person justify the demand for a ''full Territorial form of govern ment" yet oppose in every man. ner shape and form election of a Territorial Treasurer and a Territorial Auditor? Can any one justify the efforts of the last Legislature in it's effort to abol- iSh the office of Territorial Aud itor?
The Alaskan., 1931-08-14
THE TRoLLERs LIKE IT


 The trollers are prohibited by the Bureau of Fisheries from fishing for. taking or killing salmon flor sale or barter" from o'clock Saturdays till 6 o'clock Monday mornings. That is the law and the law must be respect ed by the beach combers and herring chokers. The. dignity of the law must be upheld-by the Bureau of Fisheries, and it is by forcing the. trollers and sein- CTS to. observe this law. But the law was evidently not made for the trap operators. From the way the Bureau of Fisheries W:nks at the violations, one can- not. but wonder if the "sinews of war" greases the way.