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The Washington times., 1932-10-13
Cost Restrictions
Are Ignored

But there is another diff
ference, Mr.. Hoover COM
planned of the Democratic
bill that it built expensive
postoffices in small towns,
The bill actually provided,
as Speaker Garner says:
THAT not more than $35, 900
should be expended for a
postoffice in any city with
annual postal receipts be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000
and not more than 100000
in a city with receipts be-
tween $1,000 and $20,0O0."
Well, what has Mr.. Hoover,
who so hates a "pork bar
REL" provided in his plan'
Mr.. Mills in his statement
says:
With few exceptions all
the projects herein author
ICED have limits of cost Of
less than 100000"
And where are these prof.
ects? Garner answers, after
an analysis:
"As over so per cent are in
cities of less than 5000 popu-
lation, and several are in
towns Of less than 1000, the
authorization would indicate
that the Administration has
no desire to be hampered by
cost restrictions such as the
Democrats proposed
So the hypocrisy of Mr..
Hoover's pork barrel"
demagogy is apparent.
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

BOOK called ELSIE ROBINSON
THIS COUNTRY OF YOURS"
You'll be surprised when you
read that book. Maybe you'll
me mad. One thing sure-it
will make you think. This para
graph, for example:
THE ANCIENT VIRTUES
ARE NO LONGER TAUGHT
IN OUR COUNTRY. chill
DREN ARE NOT REARED TO
THE STERN CHANT OF
GOODNESS. THEY CLIMB
HAPHAzARD INTO ADULT
LIFE. THEY ARE NOT I'M
MORAL. THEY ARE SIMPLY
WITHOUT MORALS, SAVE
FOR THOSE INSTRUCTIVE
AND DEFENSIVE MORALS
WHICH SURVIVE UNCONSCI-
OUSLY FROM MORE HARSH
LY ORDERED GENERA
TONS"
Is that true? Is goodness no
longer important? Has SMART
NESS become more desirable
than rightness? And is that the
real reason behind the crime
wave; behind the hardness and
vulgarity and greed of our pres
ent life?" We've blamed it on
prohibition, or on the influx of
foreigners" with different
ideals. But is the real reason
THAT .lMERICA DOESN'T
VALUE GOOD NESS ANY
MORE?
The Stern Chant
We valued goodness once.
That "stern chant of goodness"
do you remember it? Can you
forget it! There it was, behind
everything, when you and
were children.
Behind all the laughter and
weeping, the dreaming and
rebelling; behind all the in
evitable shrill clamor of youth.
There it was, clear as a
commanding voice, firm as a
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

give one a clue to the fast
stepping pace of Singapore.
Most of the general merchan'
dising in Singapore is carried on
by the Chinese who constitute
about 80 per cent of the in
habitants. The Malay is
naturally lazy, doing domestic
jobs and acting as rikishaw men,
although in stature and ply.
sique he is superior to Chinese
of the same class doing the same
jobs in other places. Some of
Singapore's wealthiest residents
and Chinese have built for
themselves glamorous palaces
that are show places.
The life of Singapore centers
round Raffles Place. And, of
course, the Raffles Hotel has
played its role in many a novel
and short story. The very name
has a romantic ring. One of the
lovelieSt drives is out to the
Botanical Gardens, three miles
from the city and established
by the ubiquitous Raffles.
Avenues of richly foliaged
trees. lakes on which the lotus
and the lily lazily float in all
their opulent beauty, thousands
of gorgeous tropical plants, the
whole garden bisected by beauti-
fully Handicapped avenues makes
an unforgettable picture. An.
other lovely drive is the Con-
naught Drive. It follows the
line of the seashore, and large,
tropical trees give a welcome
shade and relief from the sun.
Those who are really inter.
ested in the flora and fauna of
Malay usually make a return
visit to the Raffles Museum
and Library,
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

Administration the privilege
of designating where these
projects should be located. "
In other words, the
House, having relief and
not politics in mind, passed
to Mr.. Hoover the distri-
button of the "pork. " And
that Mr.. Hoover, who hates
"pork barrels" accepted.
Thus the new game was
in Hoover hands, and he
and Mr.. Mills determined,
with the autocratic power
given them, to make no use
# the powers granted them
to give employment to des-
perate men. Months passed
without a wheel being
turned. Wagner denounced
the cruelty the inhumanity
of this inactivity; he liter
ally committed between
New York and Washington,
making personal appeals,
Mr., Mills smugly announced
that maybe in October he
would see what he could do.
Meanwhile, with the, third
Hoover winter of human
misery hurrying on and pub
lie Indignation rising, Mr..
Hoover again reluctantly
agreed to start something.
AL Smith reminds us that
not a man has been put to
work.
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
Yet Hoover Agreed
To Spend Pork Barrel"

Meanwhile, Speaker Gar
ner, who knows his business,
continues to analyze the
demagogic Des Moines speech
with deadly effect. Mr..
Hoover, taking his cue from
the financial oligarchs he
serves, described the Garner
bill for public construction
as a pork barrel" We have
already called attention to
the fact that every building
project included in that bill
has been approved by the
Hoover administration. But
Speaker Garner analysis
goes deeper.
The purpose of the bill was
to start something to give
some of the 100000 job
less men employment-for
these millions, with their de-
pendents, represent at least
33,O0O,00O people in dire dis
tress. Mr.. Hover, in 1928,
and again few months be-
fore, had urged something
of the sort. But Mr.. Hoover,
who bitterly has fought
every project for the relief
of unemployment and every
suggestion of using Federal
money to prevent the star
walton of children, changed
his mind when action was
substituted for words.
To secure the Hoover con-
sent and escape the Hoover
veto, the House framed a
compromise M assure de-
scribed by Mr.. Garner:
"The Democrats in the
House were obliged to force
through, over presidential
opposition, an alternative
proposal giving to the Sec
retary of the Treasury auto
cratic power to determine
the extent to which money
should be spent for public
works, and to the Hoover
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

WE have often COM
w mented in these col
umns upon the fact that
almost every time Mr..
Hoover, Mr.. Mellon or Dr.
Klein has given public as
surance that prosperity was
Just around the corner,
there has been slump IN
the market the next day.
Close observers of the value
of Mr.. Hoovers' assurances
have came to- assume the
opposite Of what he says.
Thus, in his Des Molnes
speech, he told us every
thing had been saved by
his magic; and the next day
the market suffered a
slump.
1t appears, however, that
his demagogic claim that
through some miracle OF his
the nation barely escaped
going off the gold standard
has had a disastrous effect.
Senator Carter Glass, father
of the Federal Reserve Sys-
TEN, Immediately challenged
the presidential claim with
the statement that the
danger referred to by the
President had not existed at
all.
But the dollar again is
being assailed in Europe
and because of the dema-
gogic blunder Of a desper-
ate politician facing defeat
in the White House. There
is no other explanation Of
fered anywhere for the fall
of the dollar. The Paris
press gives the Des Molnes
speech, so vociferously ap-
plauded by the organized
claque Immediately after its
delivery, as responsible for
the loss of confidence in the
dollar abroad. Thus the
Paris Midi says:
THE President, seeking
to restore confidence, seems
somehow to accomplish the
opposite result"
And La Liberte says:
What evils can result
from an election!. Presi-
dent Hoover, to recover
votes which seem on the
point of escaping, is, will
ing to sacrifice the dollar. "
The dollar will withstand
the storm raised against it
by the demagogic utterance
of Mr.. Hoover, and the ma
tion will not go off the gold
standard, but the less Mr..
Hoover says the sooner will
confidence be restored. And
the sooner we get rid of such
inept leadership the better.
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
Rubber BillieS
For British Motorists

An English manufacturer advertising rubber tuncheon
-"blly in Amercanwhch he thinks he to British
motorists protection against bandits.
"The truncheOn," says the advertisement, "does its
LOork UeU. 1t does sh0W undue traces and it uUiU
lay out a Without breaking bones, Without she'd
ding blood, and Without the danger of fatal results
The rubber truncheon may be boon in England, where
bandits that police don't carry revover But
doubts that would be worth while adopting country
We advanced that British cousins and it takes
tha" ubbe to lay out of gentlemen the road
small machine gun would be to the point Perhaps
such weapon will be standard equipment Of future
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
WISE WORDS

Music doth all our joys define
And give the relish to our wine.
j. Oldham.
Lie heavily on him, earth; for
he
Laid many heavy loads on thee.
On Sir j. Vanbrugh.
In order to manage an un.
goVernable beast, he must be
stinted in his provender.
Abandon not your old clothes
till you get yourkmew.
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson.

controlling hand, the bedrock
law of fairness and decency.
People must be good. That
was the law. 1t wasn't a re-
ligious law. 1t had little to-
do with ones belief or disbe-
lief in God. 1t was more
like an unbreakable social
code. Like good manners. Like
washing your ears Or raising
your hat.
People must be good. Normal
people were good.
There was no argument about
it. You might arrange the
rest of your life to suit your
self, but you had no choice
in this fundamental matter.
Whatever else you were or were
not, you had to be good.
And if you weren't? Then
there was no excuse for you.
There was no substitute for
goodness. You might be smart
as the devil and beautiful as
Venus, but if you weren't good.
then you we're no good. And
even those who slapped you
on the back had no use for
you.
An Established Matter
Nor was this goodness" a
standard which you could de-
termine for yourself, as we do
nowadays, twisting and trim
ming our acts to fit expedi-
ency, wisecracking with our
consciences.
Goodness was a downright
and established matter, You
didn't make it, and your
father hadn't made it before
I you. 1t wasn't a personal,
peevish whim. 1t was some
thing which had been built by
the struggles of all these fine
men and women who had gone
before-bought by their sacri-
fices.
Goodness hadn't been any
more comfortable for them
than it was. for you. But they
had been good, no matter
what it cost. They had been
good so the race could get
somewhere. And now they
were handing the job on to
you.
So there was something
splendid about goodness, even
if it was harsh; something
that made you feel important; ;
that gave a meaning to life.
A Tragic Sacrifice
But wasn't there many a
tragic, senseless sacrifice for
goodness? Wasn't it often ugly
and stupid and cruel?
yes. it was. And yet, I'm
sure that insistence on good
ress helped human life in
finitely more than it harmed it.
There was something you could
bank on, in a confused and
crowded world of strangers.
There was a common language.
a common understanding, "A
gentlemans word was as good
as his bond"
And there was something you
could hold on to when your own
Judgment went WooZey and ycllr
own backbone turned to water
No matter how stupid you were,
or how sad, or how poor, YOU
COULD ALWAYS BE GOOD.
But now? Life's easier. Mere
exciting. Lots funnier. But ]
wonder if it ever achieves the
dignity. the power, the ultimate
peace that came through com.
mon goodness?
(Copyrlght, 1882. King Features ,
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

Morris Mar
key wondered.
w o n d e red
just how good
modern Amer
ica re a ii y
was. So he
climbed in a
flivver a n d
r a m b ! e d
around f o r
$4,000 miles,
90 king us
over. AT t er
that he put
is cOnclu-
sions into a
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
Mixed Emotions

you, AS long DIS ue ) SudN6
and agreeable, he may be only
playing but where there's
strife, there's hope!
A happily married woman is
one who has stopped worrying
about the state of her hus-
bands emotions and affections
and begun worrying about the
state of his gastric juice.
A kiss is like a midnight
supper-something which one
enjoys at night, but often re-
grets the next morning.
According to a man-about-
town, there is no danger of
mixing your drinks" these
days. A man can start off
with rye, followed by a Scotch
highball and a few gin,rickeys
and top off with a glass of
beer-and find that it's all been
just radiator-alcohol, in as
sorted colors and flaVors.
Nowadays, a mans idea of
The Washington times., 1932-10-13

"The Stern Chant of Goodness"
HAS GOODNESS GONE OUT
OF STYLE IN AMERICA?
ARE HONESTY, DECENCY,
PATIENCE, LOYALTY AND
UNSELFISHNESS OLD-FASH-
THNFn0
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
President Hoover BOtcheS
The Works Again!
D., TTunnzo ~ R01roro
Bv Claude G.. BOUers ,

Author Battles of the Jackson Period THE Struggle
America" Jefferson and Hamilton" The
Tragic Era" and "Beverdge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1932-10-13
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland.

ardent love-making appears to
be to go into the silence, as
sumo an encouraging express
sion, and wait patiently for the
girl to tell him that he loves
her.
Now that women are begin
ming to regard marriage as a
partnership rather than as a
graft, a lot of men are begin
ming to look upon it as an
asset rather than as a liza
bility.
Of course, men made love
with far more grace and ardor
in the old pre-war days. But
then, the wine was better, the
music sweeter and the women
were harder to please.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
BY BURcK

When, in the year 1919, the
teacher and master of Comrade
Sallai, Comrade Otto Korvin, was
led to the gallow, he was accom-
panied by a howl of rage at the
whole of the bourgeoisie, a howl
of rage of all those who are re-
garded as belonging to upper So
ciety." The petty bourgeoisie and
the peasantry we're the firmest sup
ports of the gallows regime. The
workers were inundated, the
Communist Party crushed. How
different is the situation now! In
a short space of time 10000 signat-
ures were collected among the in
tellectuals of Budapest against the
holding of the Summary Court
something unprecedented in Hun
gary. IN town and country hun
dreds of thousands openly cham
pioned the accused. The Summary
Court had to be guarded by
strong force of military and police.
And in spite of everything, Com
munist demonstrations were con-
tinually held, leaflets distributed
and, thanks to the attitude of the
population, hardly any demonstra-
tors or distributors of leaflets were
arrested; in some cases those we're
already arrested were released.
FIGHT FOR KARIKAS
AND OTHERS!
There are other comrades, who
face the same fate. Frederick Ka-
rikas, George Killian and thirty
others were taken to Miskol, where
their trial" opened on August 10.
This trial is also carried on with
the same methods. No news is al
lowed to leak out. The workers of
the United States must keep their
eyes on Hungary! Protest meet
ings must be organized Immediately.
Protest telegarms must pour to
Budapest, demanding freedom for
KarikaS, Killian and the other
heroic workers.
A new time is approaching. The
martyr-d death of Sallai and Furst
VIII not strengthen the rule of
Hungarian fascism, but on the
contrary, will tremendously acceIe-
rate its overthrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Stop the Murder Of
the RueggS!

rt5E verdict of the Marking sentencing Gertrude Ruegg
mprisonmrt Of the Kuointang butchers WI
furious nation Of all workers and OF all hon elements
among he inelectWs5 country
Arrested police Shanghai the Ruegg were turned
Marking lackeys Of Imperialism charged WIN
activities They jail for fifteen months during
torture which
they arranged and carried through
furnished the Brsn ponce
the accused
Marking were
marked by the disregard of the rights OF the
between
npais Marking British imperast in Shanghai coud
OF the la
the Chinese
Marking The trial and sentencing OF these two anti
reacherouS act IN OIL
rals v the Marking hangmn the Chinese The past
FIVE wears uonnang China abundanty proved that no
bloody Chn lacKeyS TO
100000 Chinese workers and
peasants the Kuomnang White Terror on up
zion OF being Communists been devastated and
against enancpated in the growing SoeV
Districts inspired and supported by the
trapalis England France and Japan me
mperasts welcome this hdeouS verdict against the
Rueggs ., -. -. 49,, DEMONSTRATION, If tho heroic
n masses to achieve The Soviet Power in CHINA
continues to grow scoring victories Inc
Ranking Power shaking iackey and their mpea
the
against the Ruges renshcaton OF the bloody W
The verdict is in effect of the tens of thou
7 political prisoners the Marking dungeons ever escape
long 1hey are soon as
patched by O starvation
by Marking
Government and The Only the most vigorous pro
@ mte1ecual throughout the world only tn
aroused Wod save
NanSg pucerS
o The demand the Ruegg should be raised IN
organize meeting protests must
NanIng and their diplomatic representatives. IN TINS
Down with the Ranking aczeys mpialis Demand the
reeace of Gertrude Ruegg!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

studied in the Marx-Engles and
Lenin Institute until he returned
to Hungary for further illegal work.
Alexander Fuerst was born in
Rum in the Pas Comitat in Hun
gary in 1908. After the fall of the
Soviet Republic he joined the re-
volutionary movement, i. e., at a
time when only the staunchest and
best were to be found in its ranks.
He was a member of social de-
mocratic trade union but was very
soon in the opposition. His strug-'
gle against the treachery and OPP
portunism of the social democratic
leaders soon brought him into the
ranks of the illegal Communist
Party where he worked heroically
and rose to leading position. He
was arrested many times. The fifth
time he was arrested was in 1929
and on the evidence of an agent
provocateur he was sentenced to
eighteen months hard labor for
Communist activity. He was one
of those devoted comrades who re-
organized the illigal Communist
Party after the arrest of Zoltan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Sallai, Fnerst in
Many Struggles

The following are short details
concerning the lives of the two
murdered Communists Imre Sallai
and Alexander Fuerst:
Imre Sallai, was born in Hun
gary exact village unknown in
1897. At the age of fourteen he
went to Budapest. Two years later
he joined the Social Democratic
Party of Hungary. During the war
he remained true to the cause of
the working class and organized
anti-militarist work. During, 1918
he was the leader of a number of
revolutionary strikes under the
slogan of "All Power to the So
viets!" He was arrested by the au-
thorities and released by the first
Hungarian revolution which took
place at the end of the year. Com
rade Sallai was one of the founders
OF the Hungarian Communist Party
and carried out responsible Party
work on number of fields.
LEADER OF
SOVIET
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

headed woodpecker lay on the front
path, its wings spread out. The
boys took it into the house. In
the shade it revived. They gave it
a drop of their water; it uttered it's
single sharp scream, batting itself
against the windows that were
always shut now, to keep out the
hot wind that blew the length of
the prairie, and dried the saliva
out of your mouth.
In front of the house the eldest
boy killed a four-foot RATHER that
put up no fight. The boys wanted
to see if it would die before sun
down; it hardly twitched after its
skull was crushed.
Hearing the blows and the boys
shouts, their father came out.
1.-THE drought killed it, like every
thing else,' he raid, mo insult
to your courage, John"
The two boys stood at either side
of their father, locking at the
snake. In their overalls both were
lean, bony and tall, but shorter
than the man. Like his, their hair
was burned white by the sun and
wind, but his had turned sandy.
Their faces were tanned, but
smooth and unwrinkled His had
three deep lines on either side.
One where the ends of his mouth
went down. Two, curving parallel,
on either side, ran to his smooth,
long jaw-bone whose end was part
of the rough angle of his chin.
His long curved nose ended almost
on line with mis- mouth, the nos
trils running back sharply, almost
parallel with the bridge, and lying
close to his face.
His brown eyes had seldom been
afraid. They had never been dis
mayed except by DEATH Both boys
eyes were blue.
THAT shows what the drought
has DONE" he said. "They never
come out of the hills. I remember
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
CRISIS SHAKING
HUNGARIAN FASCISM

But also in Hungary the capital
list sterilization became shaky. The
wave of the world economic crisis
began to wash at the rotten struct-
ure of capitalism. To-day, Is years
after the overthrow of the Hunga-
rian Soviet dictatorship, the crisis
is already shaking the very found
ations' of Hungarian fascism. 1t
has became effectively one of the
weakest links of the capitalist sys-
tenn. In the three years of the
crisis the industrialization process
in Hungary has come to stand
still. The industrial production has
retrogressed. The most important
branches in industry are almost
completely at standstill in the
heavy industry production has de-
clined by so per cent.
The industrial crisis is further
aggravated by the agraraian crisis.
The number of unemployed in in
dustry and agriculture already
amounts to one and million, who
are handed over to starvation
without any relief whatever. The
wages of the workers have sunk A
to 40 per cent. compared with the
year 1927.
The discomfort and the resistance
of the working population is grow
ing. The wave of strikes increased
c0r,S dara hlp in 1921 and ecpacj o IIyy
in the Spring of 1882. The radical
ization Of the masses is also seen
in the coming together in the trade
union opposition of those workers
who are dissatisfied with the re-
formist bureaucracy. Sympathy
with socialist construction in the
Soviet Union and confidence in
the Communist Party of Hungary
are growing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

Anyway, you've got one less
mouth to feed" said Davis, again
over his shoulder.
Everybody laughed.
"a dead COW amt no joke" said
Frances. ]
Everybody laughed again.
PLENTY IN THE STORES X
"Well, the government amt going
to do anything, if you want to
know" said Wardell. cat least, I'm
not counting on it handing me any,
thing. OF course you can look at
things like Mort Davis: we don't
have to feed the cows that die.
On the other hand, they might
feed the babies"
They're stopping credit at the
stores in Paris"
Think they'd give it through the
winter? To all OF us? They've got
to make a living, too"
you mean there amt going to
be nothing to eat?"
There's plenty to eat in the
stores in Paris. All you've got to
have is the money to buy it. In
fact, you can eat like a hog-if
you're a storekeeper," said Wardell.
I'VE only grow the food-when we
can; they sell it. But as haven't
got the money to buy and neither
have you, I guess We'll take it or
starve."
They understood only slowly.
you mean you'd steal it?" asked
an alarmed voice.
II mean that when I'm hungry
like to eat And when my wife
and children are hungry, I'm likely
to take food where I can get it.
If that's stealing, then you can say
like to steal. Does that hurt
your feelings?"
Most of the men had driven over
in fiivvers. A heavier car drew up.
A heavier man got out and came
over