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The Washington times., 1932-09-22

WOA ACO q IL "
dreamed together, and out Of
their struggles and dreams.
they made the Constitution.
which they believed would keep
America a democracy forever.
But is America a democracy
today? Most of us think it
is. We like to think it is. But
our War Department comes
out straight and repudiate5 all
such sentimental nonsense.
Will Not Work?
The War Department says
flatly that democracy won't
work; never has worked, and
there's no use in trying to
make it work.
In General Staff's training
manual No. 2OOO-25, on "Citi.
zenship," which every soldier
must study, the following state
ments occur:
DEMOCRACY IS THE d.
RECT RULE OF THE PEOPLE
AND HAS BEEN REPEATED
LY TRIED WITHOUT sue
CESS.
DEMOCRACY RESULTS IN
MOBOCRACY, DEMAGOGISM,
LICENSE, AGITATION, DIS
CONTENT, ANARCHY"
That is what the American
War Department believes about
democracy. That is what it
teaches American soldiers.
That is why we are using
State militias and Federal
force instead of arbitration in
dealing with striking miners,
male and female mill hands.
picketing farmers, lobbying vet
erans who are demanding jobs,
higher wages, better living con-
ditions.
That is also why a few pow
erful citizens are making the
plans and running the works
and manipulating the money
of America, while the rest of
us just tag along.
Now, of course, this isn't a
democratic way of handling
things. 1t is anything but a
democratic way. 1t is the way
dictators and kings handle
things. But the few powerful
citizens should not be blamed
because of that.
If they are running things to
suit themselves, it is because
we're letting them.
Voters to Blame
If they have changed Amer
lea from a democracy into a
what-have-you, it is because
you and I and the rest of the
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

cowardly method of using a
club on their employees.
These "Tariff Facts" are
most interesting, though
many are a bit absurd in
the light of realities. The
purport of them all is that
the Grundy tariff, forced
upon us under the presi-
dental lash, in response to
Grundy's statement that he
had raised a million dol
lars for Hoover's election
from among my people, "
has kept up American wages
and kept American workers
on their jobs. The answer
is that under the highest
tariff we ever had, there are
more millions driven from
their jobs than we have
ever known, and that wages
have been forced down be-
low the level of many years.
If the higher the tariff, the
greater the employment,
and the better the wages,
100000 jobless workers
will want an explanation of
our present day.
The Grundy tariff is not
a "protective tariff. "
Henry Clay, Blaine or Nc
Kinley would not recognize
it as their child. It is
prohibitive tariff which has
destroyed the foreign mar
ket for the disposal of the
surplus of our factories and
fields. American working
men who once worked in
factories, making the prod
ucts for the foreign markets
we have lost, are now on the
street-2,5OO,OO0 of them.
That is how the Grundy act
has protected them. And
those who still have jobs
have had their wages cut
and now Mr.. Hoover can
think of no better plan than
to make those having jobs
divide their jobs and their
reduced wages with others
who are jobless; and this
means a policy to reduce all
the workers to a common
level of hopeless poverty:
and that is called "protec
tion!"
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Three-Minute Journeys
By Temple Manning,

The excursion to Maggiore is
an all-day affair, a day OF con-
stant delight. A steamer or elec-
trio train takes us to Ponte-
Tresa-the frontier between
Switzerland and Italy. Then
there's a short rail run to
Luino and then we board the
lake steamer tU a land of en-
chantment.
Visit Isola-Bella and you'll
never forget it. The wonder
full gardens and palace of the
Borromeo princes will leave an
indeIible impression on your
mind. Coming home, this
excursion takes you through
Stresa and Luino. Another
grand excursion out of Lugano
is to Monte Generoso. Rail
road or steamer takes us to
Capolago, then the mountain
railroad to Bellavista and its
wonderful Alpine Gardens and
then up higher to the Kuhn
Hotel. -
The summit of the Generoso
is $500 feet and there are
hotels and villas set in the
most exquisite gardens abound
ing with flowers and very rare
butterflies. The view from
Generoso is one that is worth
coming a long journey to see.
One of the most popular trips
out of Lugano is to Lake Como
with stops at Bellagio with it's
Villa Serbelloni. Cadeannbia
with the Villa Carlotta and
Cerobbio with the famous villa
d'Este with gardens that are
unsurpassed.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

Naturass much interested in the creature put before
you here It is very animal of all the antelope
tribe never alive any menagere in Europe America
This specimen captured by English officer to
be gentle raised with the greatest in the hopes
that may reach the London Geological Garden alive
The second picture shows how the delicate antelope is
nouished fed by goodnaured that at the same tme
is nursing its calf.
you look carefully just under the bongos neck in the
lower picture in this column you will the foreegs of
calf being nused by its mother the other side busy day
for the kind
You will notice also the cows hind legs fastened to-
gether tethered to keep her from kicking the precious
bongo stands at her head to make that she will
swing her horns and the animal that she nourish
ing.
The interesting thing about these pictures especially
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

voters don't really want q
democracy any more.
Or do we?
What sort of a Government
do you really want?
What sort of a Government
do you really think you have?
Do you realize how little you
really do know about your Gov
ernment? Do you think you
should know more about your
Government?
Or do you agree with the War
Department that it is impossible
to have a government "for the
people by the people"
Do you think we should
frankly admit that democracy
has failed in America? Do you
think we should openly agree
to let a few powerful citizens
run things for the rest of us
and honestly confess that a
monarchy is better for America
than a democracy?
Or do you still believe in our
fathers brave dream of democ-
racy? Do you still believe that
every American citizen should
have a direct "say" in his own
Government, and that the needs
of the poor and the stupid are
as important as the needs of
the rich and the wise, and their
rights as sacred?
Ask yourself these questions.
Answer them. They are terrific
questions.
America is at the crossroads.
The future Of America and the
destiny of the generations yet
to be born depends on the an
swers you will make to these
questions this year.
Copyright. 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

smile, every day in the week.
She can have them standing in
line, waiting patiently for a
casual pat on the head or a
CLINT of friendly response in
her eye.
They will hang around dog
gedIy until she finishes dane
ing with another man or play
ing a foursome or repleniShing
her make-up-and then come
running like little Fido at the
first whistle.
They will cheerfully accept
her gentle turn-down or her
weakest alibi for breaking a
date-and call up again, next
day, just as though she had
pinned a medal on them and
kissed them on both cheeks.
They will run errands for
her, let her order them about,
and think they are specially
favored when she permits them
to do odd jobs around the
house.
While the girl who is always
ready and waiting at the other
end of the telephone, always
bubbling over with cordiality
and warm-hearted response, al
ways prompt for a date, always
ringing them up and always
sweeter than sweet, has to
COAX them to come around
and play with her.
A man understands a girl
who "treats men as a man
treats women"-casually, gaily
and lightly. His love will bios
som like the rose under a wo-
mans cool, sweet indifference;
but it seems to shrivel right
up under the warm actinic rays
of her encouragement. He pre-
fers a "No-girp' to a eyes
woman" any day.
All of which is very hard
on a normal woman, whose one
delight in this life is to mother,
coddle and PLEASE some man,
to be frank and honest and
generous with him; to do
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

everything she can to make
him HAPPY. Because women
are naturally tender, responsive
and unselfish in love; and they
can only be hard-boiled, when
they are NOT in love.
1t is a terrible cross to a
woman, to face the fact that
the only man, of whose re-
Sponse and devotion she can
be perfectly sure, is the one
to whom she is a little indif-
ferent-and whom she can,
therefore, treat "as men treat
women"
But the author of that il
Illuminating statement has
written a bookful of philosophy,
in seven short words. The
only question is, can any
normal girl treat men as men
treat women?
Copyright, 1892. King Features
Syndicate 1nc')
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
A Blow to Ambition
England Dampens Poets Ardor

Harry Browning is poet of the ozarks. His is
known throughout the blue and green hills Of his native
Arkansas. ..... ........... ..........,..
But he was fired with ambition: he wanted get
education And he picked Oxford, in England the
university where for eight months he would delve into the
literature of the Old Country ..................
For months he saved scrimped and endured poverty
which no novelty folk of the Ozarkto enough
for the trip and the course ...........
the British Consul in New York. refused to visa his
passport because he had too little money to live in England
for eight months
We do know how good poet young Browning is but
we do know that he has determination. vision. ambition
We suspect that somehow he would get in England
and finish his course without being burden to John Bull
He would do it by sheer WILLPOWER AND DETERM1
NATION.
He might starve-but he would ACHIEVE HIS PURPOSE
Eng land need not worry about such visitors coming to
her shores.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Seek to Coerce
Factory Workers

Driven to desperation by
the revelations from Maine,
the Hoover High Command
will bear watching in its
methods. Wall Street has
summoned Elihu Root from
his retirement. And we may
look for an intensification of
the under-cover campaign.
The National Association of
Manufacturers, sadly de-
pleted in membership, secret
ly is proposing a plan for
the intimidation of the
workers. 1t has sent a letter
to all it's members, inclosing
sophisticated tariff tracts with
this suggestion for their dis
tribution:
1.-The Tariff Facts in
closed are part of a series of
twelve, being issued, one a.
week, for twelve consecu-
tive weeks, for distribution
through pay envelopes, or
other practical use"
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

Lugano is one of the jewels
of Switzerland and it comes by
it's reputation honestly. For it
really is a gem Of a place with
it's glorious lake and its proxim-
ity to Locarno, and Lakes Como
and Maggiore. There's every
thing in Lugano.
The town is quaint and hand
some, and it is prosperous and
well-kept. There is Kursaal that
really is a Kursaal and the
bathing beach known as Lu-
gano-Lido takes a lot of beat
ing. Near the beach is the Pub
lie Park that is just about as
beautiful as any park could be.
OF course, most of the inter-
est in Lugano centerS around
the lake. AS we'll as the Lido
beach, there are plenty of other
bathing beaches, but of course
the Lido is the thing. Boating,
sailing and fishing are all pro-
Vided for and things don't cost
a fortune in this little paradise.
There are arcades of shops and
a lakeside promenade that is
really a joy.
The climate is perfect and
so flowers bloom everywhere.
Stand by the Morcote Church
and look down over the lake
and town. 1t offers a beautiful
spectacle, a panorama that al
ways offers a new aspect.
Really, it is impossible to write
about this part of Switzerland
without becoming dangerously
lyrical.
Lugano is a great place as a
base Of excursions to the lakes.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Tariff Sends
Factories Abroad

Now this tariff barrier,
which shuts the products of
our factories out from for
eign markets, is ruinous for
the small factory; and for
the workers; but the greater
corporations who make the
backbone of the n. NJ. A.
are planning to prevent the
reduction of their profits by
building branch factories in
other lands. They have built
literally thousands Of these
in Canada. The Steel Cor
poration has one of its great
est plants there; so has Mr..
Melons Aluminium Com
pany of America. They have
them in France, in England,
Ireland and elsewhere.
Note how this tariff pro-
tects American labor: Ameri-
can money is paid as wages
to low-wage foreign work
ers; and these foreign work
ers who get the jobs Of
which the Grundy act has
robbed 100000 American
workingmen spend this
money with foreign mer-
chants.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

the first picture the revelation of marvellous ingenuity with
which protects her creatures by making hard to
them at distance.
Nothing could conspicuous in city street than
tiger with stripes the other hand in jungle where
the yellow grass and brush stand up straight presenting
mass of yellow stripes tiger is practically invisible few
feet distant which unfortunate for the native of whom he
makes meal.
Similarly, this bongo standing against the landscape in
which he lives with his stripes running perpendcuary is
very difficult unless you happen to upon him.
see him in motion.
If he stands still you don't him at ALL That why
1t is so difficult to catch one
The tufts of hair standing up high his backbone which
puzzle scientists add to the difficulty of finding him. they
look so much like the grass of his native land.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

TOVERNOR ROOSE-
" VELT'S Salt Lake City
speech on the railroads has
been a distressing disappoint-
ment to his foes, who had
hoped for the submission Of
some wild panacea for the
cure of railroad ills. Instead
he made a constructive
speech, conservative as rea-
son, but daring enough to
offer a program which the
widest imagination of the
most incorrigible liar cannot
twist into a radical or dan
gerous attack on property.
Meanwhile, as he makes
his triumphant progress
through a section that has
been the victim of govern
mental discrimination, Elihu
Root is to be dragged from
his retirement to make a
radio appeal for "four years
more of Hoover. - Nothing
better could illustrate the
desperate fear of the dying
regime of the "Best Minds. "
When Mr.. Root speaks we
shall know precisely what
Wall Street thinks; we al
ready know what the mass
of the people, including the
average business man, think
of Wall Street. And the for
gotten men of America, who
are numbered by the mil
lions, long ago reached their
own conclusion about Mr..
Root. They know that in
variably he has spoken as the
defender of what Theodore
Roosevelt called ."predatory
wealth" and just now
neither the cause nor the
spokesman is likely to create
any wild enthusiasm on the
Western plains, nor in the
industrial centers of the
East, where millions are de-
MED their inalienable right
to work.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Tariff Prohibitive
Not Protective

The tariff act which the
Grundy act displaced was
high enough; there was no
economic common sense in
the building of a higher
barrier; public sentiment
was overwhelmingly against
it; two-thirds of the Re
publican papers opposed it;
great numbers of manufac-
turers, including practically
every automobile manufactu-
ing company, protested that
it would ruin their foreign
market; and more than a
thousand leading economists
pleaded with Mr.. Hoover for
a veto, in an open letter
showing that what has hap
pened would inevitably oc-
cur. The Grundy prohlbl-
tive-not protective-tariff
act has driven 100000
workers into the street and
brought distress to their
100000 dependents; it has
forced a reduction in wages
paid; it has lowered the
American standard Of living.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Grundy Tariff
Made Men Jobless

Through pay envelopes!" !"
The same old game in the
same old way. The same
subtle intimidation. Men can
be jailed, we believe, for
now attempting what has
been done in the past to
coerce their workers in their
voting. But the insinuative
method of intimidation is
still permissible, perhaps.
There are great numbers Of
manufacturers, many no
longer members of the N. A.
NJ, who will refuse to be a
party to this underhand and
The Washington times., 1932-09-22

p eople for
the people"
Y e t, h a S
d e m o c racy
e yer b e e n
successful in
America?
Our faith
ers thought
it was. They
met together
as brothers,
Door men and
rich m e n
alike. They
f ou g ht and
SyyN~lyoI q ~ n
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Intimate Touch
With Hoover?

The message from Maine,
indicating a veritable land
slide, may even drive Mr..
Hoover from his weekend
parties in the fishing camp
of Rapidan; for a Western
tour is now being urged
upon him. He will be as
founded to note the devasta-
tion of the farms under the
ministrations of his policies.
Will Hays thinks the tour
would be good because
"there is always benefit
from an intimate touch be-
tween the candidate and the
voter. " Many ribald souls
will chuckle at the thought
of an intimate touch" be-
tween the average man and
Mr.. Hoover.
There has been no such
intimate touch during the
last four years.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
A COwardly Attempt
At Intimidation
Bu Claude G.. BOUers :

Author of the Jackson Period The Struggle
For Democracy America" Jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
By T. E. Powers
The "NO-Girl" And The
"YeS-WOman"

The "NO-GirP' And The
"YeS-WOman'
The most intriguing line I
have read in a long while, is
that which heads the advertise
ment of a new book by Alan
Brener Schultz.
"She treated men as men
treat women" it runs. And ap-
parently she got everything
she wanted or went after in
life. But, HOW did she treat
them. Did she bully them one
moment, pet them the next,
and forget them, the next? I
must read that book!
Funny, but the one thing on
earth that a man can't seem
to stand from a woman is uni
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The Washington times., 1932-09-22

form and continuous good
treatment. It frightens him in
the beginning, gets on his
nerves in the end and bores
him most of the time.
The girl who has learned to
"treat 'em rough" in a care
less, kindly good-natured way,
can turn them away with a
The Washington times., 1932-09-22
Can a Democracy Succeed?

Can a democracy succeed?
That's a queer question to
ask in America, isn't it? For
America is theoretically a de-
mocracy-a government by the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
COL. ROBINS
 FOUND LIVING
 IN LONELY HUT
Said. to Have Amnesia But He Had Clippings From Papers That Told All About Himself

Copyright 1882 By United Press) Whittier, N. C.. Nov 19-UP)- Colonel Raymond, Robins, an in- ternational political figure and noted prohibitionist, is on his way back to civilization after an ab- sence of two months during which he was believed kidnapped or killed.
 The militant prohibitionist, miss ing since September when he was on his way to visit President Herbert Hoover, was discovered by fedreal officials in a shack which he had used as his headquarters while prospecting" for gold in the North Carolina mountains.
 Indications were that Colonel Robins was suffering from q strange phase of amnesia. which leaves certain faculties clear, but which clouds other mental pro- cesses. s
 Identification of Colonel Robins. whose identity was not so com- pletely lost but that he made q name for himself in this mountain country as an orator favoring the republican party and prohibition. was madeby a nephew, John Dreier, who, was called here by federal officials. ss
 Robins was known in this re- zion as Reynolds Rogers" the
 (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
President Summons Them Unexpectedly
 Over Great Deficit
'kIvEL|S0N IN AT TACK ON
 ROOSEVELT
He Gained Much NotOriety Around Waterbury One of SpOkesmen Who Insulted Gov Roosevelt


 Milton Stone of schenectady, N. r., who with Sam Weissman and Richard Sullivan of New York yes- terday appeared before President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at AL banya and demanded immediate unemployment relief and protec- tion for the hunger. marchers" along their route to Washington, D. G. is none other than Water bury's own former communist orator, Meyer Kivelson. For some time he has been conducting his communists activities under the new m0nicker. Kivelson, Tor Stone as he now wishes to be known; appeared with | weissman and Sullivan and he and f-Wefssman were the principal speakers at. the president elects executive mansion. They demand ed $50 from, the federal govern ment for every idle person. the ap- 'propriation of s10O,000, 900 for the state's jobless, the use of armories for the marching "hunger army" and a promise that they would not be .molested by police along their line of march.
 fContinued on Page 2.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
LIT TIE FLOWER
 AN NJ V FRS SARY Y
 IS TO-M0R

Lesieux, France, Nov 19- (UP)-The 45th anniversary of tho day on which Thercse Martin, 14-year-old Norman girl journeycd to. Rome to ask permission of Pope Leo XIII to become u CarInelitc nun, on her 18th birthday. will be eel { ebrated here t0-inOi.rOw.
 The pope granted q request. Twenty-Five years after the girl died, she became Saint Thercsc, known throughout the Catholic world as tlle Little Elowerr Saint Theresc died mt. the age of "A in the Lisicux Carmclite convent not far from her childhood home. Her sister is the present mOth- CT superior of the convent. Saint Thcrese was canonlzed in 1925, n rare occurrencc, as canOn:xation often comes cen- turtles after death. s.s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
GERMAN POLICE
 DOG COULDN'T WHIP THREE
He Could Always Beat Off One Bandit, But They Ganged Up on Him and Killed Him

Chicago, Nov l9--( UP There have, been many robberiess in the neighborhood of 5236 Fullerton avenue,9 but Benjamin Schultz and his wife always felt safe in their bakery at that address because Max their German police dog. was with them.a
 Once a bandit tried to- rob Schultz and his wife. Max drove the bandit away.
 Last night the Aunderworld ''ganged up on Max. Instead of sending one bandit, it sent three. Max, however, was no respector of odds ,ssss, 4 For a moment the battle was a hard, one. You can decide for yourself who won. The bandits shot and killed Max, but his attack was so fierce they fled without even attempting to get any loot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
LAWYERS ARE SEEKING THE
 COURT PLUMS
SUICIDE WRITES AS DEATH FROM GAS
 WAS NEARING

Camden, N. J.. November .'l9 (UP) The body of Isaac w. Eason. Jr., 26. who turned on the radio and wrote a note to his father explaining What dying by gas feels like. < was found today in the gas-' filled apartment which he shared with his father. X.
 He had left three notes to his father. one telling his experi- enee and reaction as death came nearer to him.
 One note timed ll:30 p. m. warned his father to stay away from the apartment. because "The gas you smell might do. you, harm"
 The time is now l2:o6 a. fi.V. another note read. Nov l will try to tell you what dying by gas feels like. The first pain is in my left kid neY = not bad-a dull pain. I'm leaving the radio on and the pain is now in the lower part of the left lung.
 '1t is now 12:l5 a. m. It won't be long now. Tell auntie and Robert. that I will always love them. And dad don't worry about me. It was signed: Il. w. E., Jr."
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-19
JIMMY WALKER | REACHES EUROPE
 ON BUSINESS
Arrives in Naples and ] Betty Compton Was One
 of Party, Who Toured
 the City

Naples. Italy. Nov 19-CUP)-- James J. Walker. former mayor of New York, arrived to-day on the liner CoDte Grande, declaring he is visiting Europe purely on bus- mess" s
 II have several undertakings l hope to. complete" Walker said, !, He was in high spirits. laughing and making wisecracks.-
 Betty Compton. New York 5musi- cal comedy star, and the former mayor were in party which made an automobile tour of Naples be- fore returning to the ship. Walker wore light camels hair eovercoat, a light knitted vest and a brown suit.