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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-10
Democrats
Swamp q. %. P.
In Landslide
BOURBON CANDIDATES WIN IN
ALL CONTESTS IN NATION,
STATE AND COUNTY

The avalanche of votes Tuesday, on
which Franklin D. Roosevelt rode into
the presidency completely submerged
the Republican party in this state, not
a single candidate of that party who
had a Democratic opponent surviving
the contest.
The Roosevelt landslide carried into
office Homer Bone as u S. Senator:
all six Democratic Congressman from
the state, including Knute Hill from
this, the Fourth District; all of the
Democratic candidates for state offices,
and has blotted out of public life, for
the time being at least, such we'll
known men as Senator Wesley L. Jones.
| Congressman John w. Summers and
Lieutenant Governor John A. Gellatly.
! The magnitude of the Democratic
victory amazed the Republicans and
exceeded the widest expectation of
the most optimistic Democrat.
Both of the Democratic candidates
for county commissioner, Bob Evans of
Prosser and Jay Perry of Kennewick,
were elected by substantial majorities
over their Republican opponents, B. j.
Pacius of Prosser and Harry Hughes
of Kennewick, who were up for re-
election.
In the race for seats in the legis-
lature from this, the 18th district, with
three candidates and two to be elected
w. w. Robbins of Pasco, Democrat,
built up a heavy lead over his two
Republican opponents George Boards
ley of Prosser and Bud Reader of
Roosevelt, in Klickitat county, and was
elected. With all returns in in the
four counties of the district, except
one small precinct in Franklin county
and two in Benton county, Mr.. Reader
had a lead of $50 over Mr.. Beardsley
and will be the other state represen-
tative, as the total vote in the missing
precincts is not sufficient to change
the result.
Charles Stinson of Pasco, Republi-
can, had no Democratic opposition for
state senator for the four counties of
Franklin, Benton, Klickitat and Ska
mania.
Despite heavy rain that fell thru
out most of the day the voting in this
valley was unusually heavy, the voters
coming to the polls voluntarily to cast
their ballots. 1t is estimated that the
three precincts cast between 80 and
IS per cent of their registered vote.
In spite of much scratching, White
R1ufFc coc ct q total of 164 STRAIGHT hal
lots OF these, 88 we're Republican and
rs Democrat. This is believed to have
been the largest Democratic vote ever
cast in this precinct.
Reader and Beardsley, Republican
candidates for the legislature, ran
ahead of their party vote, as did
Hughes and Pacius for county COM
missioners, in the three precincts in
this part of the county. Aside from
these more or less local offices, the
strongest showing made by other Re-
publicans were Congressman John w.
Summers and JudSon F.. Falknor, Re-
publican candidate for lieutenant
governor.
White Bluffs cast nine votes for the
Socialist party, six for the Liberty
party and one for the prohibition party,
while Columbia precinct cast one So
cialist and four Liberty party votes
The vote for the three precincts was:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
SUNNY JIM ROLPH

Even his seyerest critics admit that Governor
James Rolph of California is gentle and kind. And
the gloom Of this winter finds him still living I'D
to his nickname of Sunny jim"
Rolph is playing Santa Claus to 1873 bootleggers
by pardoning them, following repeal of the state
prohibition enforcement law. His pardons will re-
semble graduation diplomas and the dispatches say
will be suitable for framing"
Panied at the thought of hanging men, the Gov
ernor also dispatched his two wardens to watch an
execution in Nevada's little ethal gas house. One
returned sold on the gas method the other pre-
ferred the gallows
Rolph is preparing to recommend not the abol-
ton of capital punishment, but the humane" gas
chamber in place of the rope
Other little acts of kindness he scatters about
daily. One will help the unemployment situation
in his state by putting the public pay roll many
of his friends possible under what captious tax
payers call "the worst spoils system in years"
But will Rolph remember the sixteenth prison
Christmas of innocent Mooney and Billings?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20

under the title. Il Am Fugitive from Georgia
Gang" This was probably the most effective ex-
posure Of the revolving conditions in the southern
chain-gangs which ever has appeared in popular
form, and it helped to inform thousands relative to
this vestige of barbarism.
Then Warner Brothers made film from the
book. This is entitled, I Am a Fugitive and is
showing in leading movie theaters throughout the
land. There has been surprising interest in it
even in the south. The film is probably, much the
best Of all the prison films so far presented.
Nobody view it without being filed both with
cogent and reliable information and with honest
Indignation at these ourages Of every consideration
Of decency and humanity.
BY resuming its revengeful policy just now
Georgia only will help to advertise its own infamy
Far better to admit past guilt and promise improved
conditions.
Whatever happens to Burns, his case has done
more to advertise prison disgrace than anything
else which has happened since Thomas Mott Os
borne began his work in Auburn prison. If he has
to be more of martyr, his martyrdom has been
eminently worth while.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20

and vain betimes, and the white
jacket is real moral power. We
respond to attention, and it does
help us if we are noticed a little.
An actor plays better in the spot
light; a preacher is inspired by a
large congregation. Even the best
workman finds it hard to go on
when he is overlooked.
A white jacket, a black gown,
cap with feather in it, what
does it matter? A very little
thing will make a man marked
man, set him apart as unique, and
in world of nobodies that is all
that is needed.
To be passed over, taken for
granted, or utterly ignored, is
hard to bear; even criticism is
better than indifference. Many a
man has been dismissed for SLOW
emily work when he could have
been saved by putting a white
jacket on him.
1t is encouragement that men
need, and one ought not to sheer
at any expedient which makes a
man feel more worthy of himself.
Copyright, 1882, United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
GEORGIA 10 THE FORE

Georgia seems eager to displace California, MaSsa-
chusetts and washington in calling national atten-
ton to local disgrace in dealing with crime she
is not willing to let well enough alone, but mas IN
sisted upon attempting to extradite Robert Elliott
Burns and to bring him back to the chain gang.
Nv such vindictiveness, Georgia only will help to
prove Burns contention.
Nevertheless it all may work together for good
in the cause of humane education with respect to
the disgraceful conditions prevailing IN criminal
Jurisprudence and penal servitude in the United
States. The Burns case probably possesses wider
range of educational elements than any other Which
has received publicity in our generation.
The facts about Mooney, sacco and Vanzett and
tre Centralia victims drove home certain special
points with deadly thoroughness, but the Burns
case outstrips them all in dramatic power and
variety of experience To follow the matter through
is to obtain no less than liberal eoucatlon IN
American criminoogy.
The case started with the failure of the United
states to take care of a partially disabled she'll
shocked veteran. Burns was arrested in Georgia
for a trivial and apparently involuntary part in
minor crime A man. who not even in re-
mote sense a criminal then imprisoned under
conditions likely to make him one-or worse.
Then he escaped from the chain gang, and, not
being a true criminal proceeded to make good in
surprising fashion in Chicago. He presented every
evidence not only of reformation, but of dis
tingushed professional success in the editorial and
publishing field.
If the main end of punishment-as so many
traditionalists formally contends reformation,
then there was every reason to leave Burns alone
and to rejoice that public charge had been turned
into a credit to himself and the public alike.
But Georgia proceeded to demonstrate that vim
dictveness rather than reformation, is the actual
aim of most criminal jurisprudence and penal adj
ministration. SO Burns was lured back to Georgia
under false promises-prospect of speedy pardon
being danged before him, to induce him to waive
what probably would have been successful fight
against extradition
Then the state apparently went back on its word
and Burns was again consigned to the he'll from
which he had escaped. once again, he risked death
IN its more horrible FORMS and succeeded in break
ing away.
But this time his spirit was shattered and he
could not stage the successful come back which had
followed his first escape The result was that
very successful editor and business man was trans
formed into a broken fugitive The whole aim of
enlightened social policy and criminal science thus
was defeated.
But his brother induced him to publirh his
memorA which we're issued Nv the Vanguard Press
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ME thing hate most in our social system is the
orphans home, And I hate even more the
complacence with which we take it for granted
In our community certain church society whose
members are interested in one such institution do
what they call adopting a child" Each woman
makes some special contribution for particular
infant, buys extra little gifts, and calls it cher
orphan"
But the poor baby, mind you, remains all the
while in the institution. Thus the women are able
to feel noble and the children grow up under the
handicap of system that is neither wise nor kind.
Every baby born in America is entitled to a
home-some place in which he might feel as if he.
and he only, belonged. Under our capitalstic form
of government, if this not be arranged then the
state should argue birth control.
1t is obviously unfair to give our fortunate
children an indivdualistic start in life while we
force the little orphans into the thing We so
roundly denounce- Communistic upbringing.
ME spend countless thousands of dollars in
taxes and charities to care for these children.
But, as usual, our methods are bad
Multitudes of married couples would like to have
child. Either nature or economics prevents this.
They love babies; they want babies, but their in
comes will not stretch to feed another mouth.
Why is 1t not possible for the state to pay the
cost OF an orphans upkeep to foster parents, in
stead of to an institution?
Mainly, I suppose. because this would mean
that some very good political workers might be out
of job. For the very last thing we consider under
our present system of charity is the child But how
We do take of the adult who has served the
cause Of some campaign!
No individual can be blamed for this bad plan,
but collectively We guilty not only of inefi-
cheney, but Of cruelty, so long as We retain IT,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Peoples Voice

WE appreciate the frequent men
W ton of the Wheeler City
Rescue Mission in the open letters
published in the newspapers and
particularly the fact that, so far as
we know, such mention always has
been favorable to the mission.
However, we do not care for nor
approve Of the few instances where
unfavorable comparisons have been
made with other agencies not direct
ly engaged in relief work. 1t is just
as impossible to compare a relief
agency with character building
agency as it would be to compare a
hospital with a public library.
We do not approve of these COM
parsons for three reasons:
First, because we are entirely in
accord and cooperate to the fullest
extent with all of the so-called
character building institutions not
engaged in relief work. We believe
in them.
Second, because, although we are
one of the largest relief agencies in
the city, we also are a character
building agency and believe that
that is our primary object, because
it is the only ultimate solution of
any relief problem.
Third, because, as second thought
readily will reveal, if it we're not for
the religious and character building
organizations, there would be far
more men and women subjects of
charity and the entire relief load
would be tremendously increased.
Our experience has been that by
far the majority of the cases apply
ing for relief are people who have
for some time been out OF active
touch with the church and its various
activities, such as the Y. M. G. A.,
Boy and Girl Scouts, Y. w. G.
A., etc.
H. E. EBERHARDT, Supt,
Wheeler City Mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Human Phone System

THE human body is composed
i of millions Of microscopic
cells. Most complicated of all
these are the nerve cells, or
neurones. They comprise the tel
ephone system of the body.
The brain is a great mass OF
these cells. SO is the spinal cord,
which runs down from the brain
through the central opening Of the
spinal column.
Neurones are distinguished from
other cells by the fact that tiny
processes or flbreS grow out Of
them. These fibreS, some of them
tangled masses like the branches
of a tree, others long, thin fibers
like microscopic telephone wires,
form the connections between the
sense organs, the brain, and the
muscles.
A nerve, such as any Of the
nerves in the arm or leg, for ex-
ample, consists of a bundle Of such
fbers growing out Of neurones in
the spinal cord. Each fiber is in
sulated from every other one by a
fatty sheath and the whole bundle
is enclosed in a sheath. In a very
real sense, nerve resembles a
telephone cable.
1t has been believed for some
years that the action of the nerves
was electrical, that the sensation
of touch, for example, was trans
mitted to the brain by means OF
electrical currents in the nerves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20

oI yet nevertheless and however, with
- condition during which that other
esable gentleman vetoed this
never voted either for against
chance to do -
e bankers Mt into the theory
IMAM the various party leaders
M curry doesn't run for anything it within ability
MIN his perqses slate in an election
I! is true that enough to do so but the DO
tentialiy remains. - - 49, ~
But what can you and do about the bankers?
fucuent column could
IL would cause went to the institu-
uon which keeps what ughngy my withdrew them
as protest against financial fascsm
Don't norman thomas was vited good deal the
p INSISTING curing the last campaign that
Danger OF going into the hands dictatorship composed of bic
00""P0NON " OtS
ms no longer theory.
e OCeo states We are in effect
ho" perfectly well that
o ana IN many the dishonesty men whom
we TO elect public
are without doubt of greater
But have always have no part Of Nssolni
Ia rather 1--we In Italy didn't run on time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20

President Hoovers special message to congress
on war debts should lead to quick revival of the debt
commission Seven debtors already have defaulted.
Great Britain and others have notified us that they
can make no more payments under existing agree
ments
Since congress alone has power to revise the
agreements clearly it is the duty Of congress at once
to provide machinery to weigh the debtors claims
It is our duty to the debtors to hear what they
have to say
It is our selfish duty to ourselves to reach some
settlement to prevent wholesale default
It is our selfish duty also to remove the war debt
deadlock as one cause Of continuing world and Amer
lean depression.
This has been set forth fairly by the President
in his message. For the benefit of those trying to
confuse the issue he repeats that cancellation Is
opposed by him and is not the issue.
He repeats that congress, in permitting study OF
this emergency, would not commit itself to any
change in advance. He repeats that any debt re-
vision should be accompanied by compensating con-
cessons to the United States in the form OF mar
ket benefits and armament reduction.
What more can President Hoover do?
year ago he asked congress to revive the debt
commission for just such emergency as now has
overtaken us. Congress refused.
month ago he asked Franklin D. Roosevelt
to cooperate with him. Mr.. Roosevelt declined.
That paralysis of the American government in
time of crisis, by preventing effective negotiations,
precipitated defaults by seven creditors and the
threat by Great Britain and others of future de-
faults.
Now the President tries again. He tells congress
that if it will set up a debt commission he will
approve; otherwise, he must establish such COM
mission He adds that he will seek the cooperation
of President-EIect Roosevelt.
OF course Hoover commission if it lacked the
cooperation of congress and of the President
elect would be worse than worthless. Not only
would it be without power to negotiate an agree
ment but its very existence would be interpreted by
some in congress as a usurpation and thus imperil
congressional acceptance of any settlement.
This is fully understood in foreign capitals, as
we'll as in Washington.
Mr. Roosevelt therefore, is the key to the debt
issue. AS Presdent-elect he might be within his
theoretic rights to hold aloof until March with the
reported statement that war debts are not my
baby"
But Mr.. Roosevelt, apart from what he may or
may not do after he. enters the White House, has
specific duty as Democratic party leader today. AS
present leader of the party which has absolute con-
troll of the present house and virtual control OF the
present senate Mr. Roosevelt is blocking all effective
debt negotiations.
Doubtless this is not deliberate, but if it were
deliberate it could be more devastating.
We appeal to Mr.. Roosevelt as leader of the domi-
nant party to join with the President in BIZ
partisan effort to create machinery of any effective
kind to deal now with this debt problem, which is
dragging us and the world deeper into depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Not Just Sheer Generositu

ND while have desire attack integrity of the gentlemen
who have taken city bloodess revolution won't
go as lar others the showeng them with COM
plments ~ " I'm
When see B mixers Agree
en rlSklng their
and flame The headline accurate if it read Bankers
Agree Save City
bankers opportunity. - ~
Lincoln Stenens IN his autobiography asserted
seldom rebels against machine rule American municipalities am
sorry ADMIT that ne did not bolster his num-
Der OF We-auhenicated facts
eS1ng crcumStantial preSeniment
1 will he I content myself saving
that not nfrequenty NAV profit under
acnne rule There who
with political - 49,
The bankers have been
need to become politically
were concerned matter of Pounds
OBren elected.
and say Brother you spare dme?"
And let it be forgotten
condition of New York is still
pay extremely profitable dividends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

JAMES BLACK of Scotland tells
~ of a town whose streets be-
came so untidy that its citizens
were ashamed of it. They began
to write letters to the editor" in
protest, but the town council, with
an eye on the tax rates, claimed
that they already had a sufficient
gang of street cleaners.
At last a member of the coun-
Gil hit upon an idea which made
everybody laugh, but it was tried
out, because of its cheapness, and
it worked like magic.
The idea was simple enough
that all scavengers should dress
in white Jackets; and no sooner
was it done than the streets never
were so clean. 1t made the street
cleaners marked men, noticed
and admired, and they had to live
up to the limelight in which they
now worked.
Indeed, they were glad to do
so, because their job, hitherto
drab, dingy and dirty, took on
civic significance and was lifted
into a place Of value.
= =
A LII of us, even the greatest
L n and wisest, are rather silly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
Old-FaShioned Methods Score in T.B.

TUBERCULOSIS is a disease
l. Of long duration in most
cases, and the condition of the
patient constantly is changing.
Tt therefore is difficult to de-
termine the value of any new
form of treatment and before any
conclusions are drawn as to the
value of new method it must be
compared with the wel1-estab-
hshed value Of treatment in a
Sanatorium.
Some years ago 1t was report
ed that the direct application Of
sunlight or Of artificial ultravio-
let rays to the larnyx, when tu-
berculosiS of the throat occurs, is
an exceedingly valuable method.
This condition long has been
recognized as being one of great
seriousness, and cure of even one
fourth Of the cases was considered
to be an excellent accomplish
ment.
For the last six or seven years
the use of direct sunlight in the
treatment Of tuberculosis Of the
larnyx has been the accepted
method.
Now Sir st. Clair Thomson, one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The
IN thought that outsiders do not
understand is common to all
countries. We hold it with regard
to Europeans and they hold it
with regard to us. Frenchmen are
not exceptional, save in the artis-
try and persistence with which
they make use of it, but in that
respect they are peerless.
To let her expert propagandists
tell it, France is the most mis-
understood country on earth. She
is not imperialistic, as other peo-
pie seem to think. Her huge
military establishment m an S
danger to no one.
The only danger in such estab-
lishments is to be found on the
other side of the Rhine, the Alps,
the English channel, or the At
lantic ocean. If she raids a treas
ury, it should be dismissed as a
mere incident of routine business.
M. Andre Siegfried told an Eng
lish audience as much the other
day. France couldn't have mag
nificent plans, or aspirations,
even if she wanted to, he argued.
She is too small and the typical
Frencman is too modest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-20
SCIENCE
Nerves Tested by Radio
BY DAVID DIETz

TINE day may not be so distant
Il when a radio loud speaker
will be part of the equipment of
every physicians office If you
complain that your nerves rasp
or CRATE or squeak, he will hook
you up to the radio and make you
prove it.
The Nobel prize in medicine for
the present year has been award
ed jointly to two British scien-
fists, one of whom is the inventor
of technique by which nerve
can be made to tell its own story
through the medium of a radio
amplifier and a loud-speaker.
He is Professor E. D. Adrian Of
Cambridge university, who shares
the award with Sir Charles Scott
Sherrington, one of the great pio-
neers in the study Of nerve cells
or neuroneS.
BY his experiment, DR.. Adrian
made it. possible to broadcast the
behavior of the nerves of animals
The loud-speaker revealed what
the nerves did when they were
stimulated. He found that a
gentle stimulus set up a mild re-
port in the loud-speaker, while
a strong stimulus resulted in a
shrill sound.
Technically, what Professor
Adrian did was to make audible
the electric currents travelling in a
nerve fiber. In his experiments,
two metal electrodes are connect
ed to the nerve fiber. These in
turn are connected to radio am
plifying tubes which amplify the
feeble nerve currents to the point
where they are able to operate a
radio loud-speaker.