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The Washington times., 1933-09-11
The Income Tax
"Read and Weep"

The Federal income tax is racket.
Just how big a racket it is nobody knows.
But as a sample of what be done under it you may
be interested in the Of Joseph Apen Federal income
agent charged with soliciting and accepting 900
bribe to help" taxpayer.
This is being tried in the United States District
Court in New York.
Albert Lye Deane president of the General Motors Hold
ing Corporation 175 Broadway has testified that Aperin
visited him on April and asked why Deane had paid
$4,000 due assessment Of almost $4,000 his 1881
income.
said he told Aperin that all his assets in real
estate and he could not obtain the cash.
Alperin then hnted according to Deane that month
grace could be bought for $1,000
"Y0u mean that If giUe you personally 81 900 you
get extension for thirty days?" Deane asked.
Alperin, Deane continued, answered eyes,
Deane said that he then got in touch with the Intelligence
section of the Internal Revenue Bureau and by their advice
paid Alperin the money in marked bills.
Alperin he asserted, assured him that hgherup' in
the Bureau in the deal, and that lit the
tomary thing to do
Aperin arrested by officers Of the intelligence unit
As soon as the money had changed hands
The "higher-up" August Bauer has been charged with
conspiracy and will be tried later.
Whether the defendants guilty innocent must be
determined by the court.
But whether they guilty innocent makes little diff
ference regards the income tax system whole for the
public knows that the income law is ideally designed
promote chcaney deceit and bribery by the big taxpayers
who get away with it, and corruption among officials who
are in position to let them get away with it.
Whatever the facts in this particular case the opportunity
for crookedness is present in ALL
In ALL that E except the of the small income taxpayer
He cannot afford to purchase consideration.
He must pay up fully and promptly his Uncle Sam will
want to know the why
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Save Thousands

It reaches the ship and hov-
ers to the lee side, to get what
ever shelter there is for the
work of rescue. And the crew
of the wrecked ship lets go and
slides down one by one, to be
plucked from the waters by
strong arms.
Next day the newspapers
briefly record another dramatic
rescue at sea by the United
States Coast Guards.
Five thousand two hundred
and fourteen is the total of lives
rescued from peril during the
past years by these American
heroes. Their work is done
quietly. Their men never boast;
they are much too busy. Their
reports Of deeds done at sea or
upon the pounded sands are
coldly restrained. Yet they are
heroes. every one of them, and
365 days of the year. Inces-
sanity, along 13,00G miles of
coasts, trapped with peril, they
await the kissing call of the
wireless to impending death or
disaster.
Putting aside any considera-
ton of the value of the human
lives they save each year, the
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Mexico Embraces Cuban
Crisis Opportunity
BY James T. Williams, J.'

Mexico provides a silver lin
ing to the cloud that darkens
the horizon of American rights
and responsibilities today in the
stricken island of Cuba.
This silver lining takes the
form of a timely demonstration
of the spirit of neighborliness
which distinguishes the Pan
American relations of Mexico.
The crisis in Cuba offered to
Mexico an opportunity for lead
ership that her wise and far
seeing government quickly saw
and embraced.
Acting upon its own volition,
the Mexican government asked
the governments of Argentina,
Brazil and Chile to impress
upon the Cuban authorities the
imperative Importance of main
tanning order and affording pro-
lection to life and property
throughout Cuba.
For two reasons Mexico is
admirably qualified to take the
lead in these representations to
Cuba:
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Millions for Charity
But Nothing for Work

The bill of the city for relief of needy and distressed
residents is constantly mounting.
During the month expenditures for this purpose
amounted approximately $3o00OO exclusive Of the relief
administered by social and charity organizations.
Washington does begrudge the expenditure of
ths money
It stands ready and willing to spend all of its funds
that Congress will appropriate for this worthy purpose
The taxpayers of the city opposed the nggardly
policy of Congress which forces many exist with only
the barest necessities and would gladly increase these xpend
lures if permitted.
But the taxpayers the fact that they
compelled to add to the list Of those receiving charity from
the city while Federal officers seadfasty refuse permit
the District Government spend its money to furnish jobs
to those who are unemployed
Those unforunates who upon the roles of the Emer
gency Relief Committee and the number steadily growing)
would far rather work for their living than receive the pit
tance which is handed them every week.
And the money to give them jobs in the Federal Treas
ury placed there by District taxpayers
All of the logic which has been brought bear upon D
rector c the Budget Lewis Douglas induce him release
the Districts funds for public works has been futile
Mr. Douglas his role the great economizer would ap
pareny rather the District pour out millions for charity
than its dollars spent provide srepect preserving
jobs upon necessary city improvements
More than 10000 families being kept alive by the
funds of the Emergency Relief Committee.
The heads of many of those families could be put to work
If Mr. Douglas would follow the intent of Congress and
lease part of the millions of dollars which have accumulated
the credit of the water and gasoline tax funds Of the
District
That money eventually will be spent for the improvement
Of roads, construction of bridges and for the Improvement
of the water system It cannot be spent for other
pose
Why spend these necessary projects and cut
down the outright relief expenditures?
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Well Qualified

First, because it is the in
variable practice of Mexico to
maintain an uninterrupted re-
lationship with the government
of any country to which Mexico
accredits a diplomatic represen-
tative. Therefore no question
of recognition stood in the way
of Mexico's communicating di-
rectly with the revolutionary
committee which seized the
power in Cuba when the pro-
visional government was over
thrown.
Second, because Mexico, as
the next door neighbor of the
United States to the south and
as the northernmoSt of the non.
English speaking republics OF
the Western World, occupies
a position that admirably quail
fies her to interpret North
America to Central and South
America.
And as the interpreter Of
the common aspirations and
common responsibilities of the
peoples of the three Americas,
the friendship of Mexico is OF
vital value to the countries OF
the Caribbean, to the republics
of Central and South America,
and, last but not least, to the
United States.
This mission of interpreta-
ton, which a combination of
circumstances has entrusted to
Mexico, has long been clearly
realized and highly cherished
by Gen. Plutarce Elias Gales,
whom the Mexican people honor
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Takes Lead

President Abelardo Rodriguez
goes forward in the great ira
dition of General Gales when,
under his leadership, the Mexi-
can government at its own
volition calls upon the princi-
pal powers of South America
to impress upon the Cuban
people their tremendous respon-
sibility in the crisis that they
face.
Mexico felt free to enlist the
cooperation of Argentina, Brazil
and Chile in common effort
to assist Cuba because Mexico
appreciates the sincerity with
which the government at Wash
ington is striving to avert the
necessity of armed intervention
in Cuba.
This appreciation is one Of
the first fruits of that closer
understanding between Mexico
and the United States that be-
gan when General Gales was
president of Mexico and the
late Dwight Morrow was Amer"
can Ambassador at Mexico
City. Mr.. MorroW's successor
in the ambassadorship, j. Reu-
ben Clark, jr., carried forward
the great work of Genera!
Gales and Mr.. Morrow. Ana
as a result, Mexico and the
United States today are eXem-
pltfying in their relationship
what it means for two coun-
tries to be not only next door
neighbors but good nelghoorS.
Whether Cuba can save her:
self without the assistance OF
armed intervention by the
United States, no outside gov
ernment can predict.
But regardless of whether
measures short of intervention
succeed or fail in restoring Or
derly government in Cuba, the
verdict of history will give high
place to the Importance and
significance of the leadership
raised up by the Mexican gov
ernment in this crisis.
This episode should help
citizens of the United States to
realize that the close friendship
today between Mexico and the
United States offers the best
foundation that can be laid for
a better understanding between
the peoples Of the three Amer
leans, with Mexico Sympathe-
tic interpreter of their common
causes.
Copyright 1898. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

them. Mean ELSIE HODANsON
ing what? Meaning the right
to stand on their own hind
legs and raise Cain, if they
don't like the breaks they're
getting.
And T still maintain that
most of the injustice" which
we women are suffering now,
and have always suffered, is
due not so much to masculine
inhumanity, but to our own
lazineSs. stupidity, frivolity,
cowardice, general cussedness
and conceit. And we could
have had a better deal, any
time, if we'd been willing to
pay the price for it.
However, that doesn't mean
that approve of the condi-
tions under which women are
still forced to function, or am
not doing my humble bit to
better them. And, to prove it,
I'm going to print part Of the
broadcast which the D. c. Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs has
compiled, and which Mrs. Hill
has forwarded to me.
do you know that in Okla
homa women are barred by
law from holding any of the
higher elective offices?
do you know that before
Mrs. Ferguson was inducted into
office as the first woman gov
ernor of Texas, she petitioned
the court to set aside her legal
disabilities as married woman,
in order that contracts entered
into by her on behalf Of the
State might not be questioned?
DO YOU KNOW HOW MAR
RIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY
RIGHTS ARE RESTRICTED?
THAT in Florida the husband
can manage and control his
wife's seperate property?
"That in Louisiana only the
husband is privileged to man
age and dispose of the huS-
bands and wife's joint prop
erty?
"That in Michigan, though
the wife paid for property held
jointly by husband and wife,
the husband has the sole right
to the rents and profits?
do YOU KNOW THAT
THE WFE'S EARNINGS MAY
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Half-told Tales

The Coast Guard searches
the sea for distressed vessels
and for drifting distractions,
likely at any time to rip the bot
tom out of a great ship and
drown her people. 1t sends
these perils to the bottom of the
ocean, or drags them to harbor
at a cables end. 1t goes into
the Far North to give to the
lonely settlements of Alaskan
waters and the Arctic Circle the
sure protection that the North
west Mounted Police gives to the
Canadian wildernesS-the pro-
lection and the simple necessary
aids, without which ESkimos
and whites would find life in
tolerable.
Unaided, it saves every year
hundreds of disabled or stranded
vessels with crews and cargoes.
1t protects wrecked property,
after landing, from the ravages
of the elements and the rapine
of plundererS. 1t guards the
great inland seas and waters, as
well, at their dangerous points.
1t constantly fights flood and
famine and fire.
The tale of the Coast Guards
service is almost endless. It is
astounding in variety of &C.
complishment; for it is Uncle
Sans emergency service. To
the Coast Guard are assigned
those desperate and bitter du-
ties that tradition has married
to the doughty corps. 1t even
breaches the gospel and reads
the marriage ceremony in re-
gions where missionaries can
not always go.
Officers and men are sailors,
policemen, firemen, DOCTORS,
magistrates, ministers all in
one, their opportunities expand
ing in different parts of our
vast American domain.
And all who read know that
whatever man can do to stave
off death and mitigate suffer
ing will be done by the cutters
men. Every man aboard that
cutter will stake his life in the
chances of the game without
the hesitation of an indrawn
breath. The annals of the At
lantic carry many tales Of
S u h undismayed accomplish
ment. But they are tales only
half told. They seldom take
into balanced account the &C.
tual deeds of the Coast Guard
men.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
The Human Side of the News
Laconic Reports Hide Coast Guard Heroism
Ru En11ri1, n Hill
By EdUin C.. Hill.

Shuddering, lifting to the
thrust of the sea like fright
ened thing, the ship strains at
the cable that runs far out to
where her anchor clutches at
the bottom, cropping like hand
for a place to cling. The sea
tears at her and tosses her like
a toy at the end of that all too
slender rope.
On deck, a little group of
men are huddled together, their
clothing frozen on them. Cold
has dazed their brains, clutched
at their hearts. Duly to their
ears comes the hollow boom of
an angry surf tearing at the
sandy hillocks of Cape Cod.
They are alone in the center of
a pitiless world of snarling sea.
With every crashing impact the
ship shudders and groanS. The
men know she cannot last long;
but they can do nothing; too
tired to try, too numbed to care.
And then, against the line of
the beach, a little light appears,
glowS brightly for a moment,
and then goes out. Another
flash, and the men turn to one
another with hope in their eyes.
And then a speck comes dane
ing over the high waves, a speck
that lifts high upon a white
crest and then is engulfed by
the sea. Nearer and nearer it
comes, fighting forward stub
bornly against the fury of the
waves, and soon the huddled
group on deck spy the tiny
craft coming to the rescue.
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Public Death Traps
The Old Wooden Cars

Every of the fourteen persons killed the Erie Rail
road disaster Tuesday in WOODEN car.
Passengers in the steel survived with injuries bad
shaking up But the wooden caught between steel
Gar ahead and another behind and splintered bits
Wooden always have been death traps.
The railroads have been endeavoring suppn them with
the safe steel cars.
But because of the pressure Of hard times they have
been able to discard them completely and there still hun
dreds Of them in throughout the country.
And there will be further loss of fe in the Erie COLI
sion, until they replaced completely by steel cars
The Government is lending money in all directions pub
lie works and other needed improvements.
Why can't the Government lend enough to the railroads
That would be public work. and public improvement -
And until the Government does why shouldn't the railroads
be required to label these old Wooden-Rde Your
Own Risk?
Or possibly paint skull and crOssbones each wooden
oar
Passengers would take the hint
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson E

BE THE HUSBANDS PROP
ERTY?
"That in New York State the
earnings of wife secured from
labor under her husbands roof
from sewing, nursing or keep
ing boarders belong to her huS-
band?
do YOU KNOW HOW IN
HERITANCE LAWS DISCRIM-
MATE AGAINST WOMEN?
THAT in New Mexico and Ne
vada all property acquired after
marriage by the industry of hus-
band or wife is their joint prop
erty of which the husband on
his death may leave his half to
whom he pleases, while the wife,
unless she outlives her husband,
may not leave her half to any
one but the husband, not even
her children?
"That in the District of Co.
lumbia there are many discrim-
nations against mothers, grand
mothers, and other female rela-
tives in the inheritance laws?
"DO YOU KNOW WE HAVE
A LEGAL DOUBLE STANDARD
OF MORALS?
"That according to the United
States Interdepartmental Social
Hygiene Board more than 80
States define prostitution as
an an act of the female?
"That in many States, as
Michigan and New York, women
are punished while the men par
ticipants go free?
"That in Texas a husband
may divorce his wife for a single
act of infidelity, but a wife can
not divorce her husband unless
he had abandoned her and is
living in a state Of infidelity?
DO YOU KNOW HOW IN
SECURE ARE THE RIGHTS
OF MOTHERS TO THEIR
CHILDREN?
"That the father is sole nat
ural guardian of minor children
in Alabama, Arizona and Texas?
That in Georgia it is legally
possible for a father to will
away the custody of his chill
dren from the mother?
DO YOU KNOW THAT THE
BURDEN OF ILLEGITIMATE
PARENTHOOD RESTS ON
THE MOTHER?
"That in some States, as Vir-
ginia and Texas, there are no
laws by which the unmarried
mother may demand aid from
the father for support of the
child?
"DO YOU KNOW THAT IN
MORE THAN HALF THE
STATES WOMEN ARE DE-
MED THE RIGHT TO SERVE
ON JURIES?
DO YOU KNOW THAT
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE
STATE IN THE UNION
WHERE MEN AND WOMEN
LIVE UNDER EQUAL PROTEC-
TON OF THE LAW"
And you haven't heard the
half!
So now YOU think-what?
(Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

What do you expect VIII n
you marry an actor or a prima
donna or even a good writer?
A rest-cure? A down pillow?
Placid sailing under an eternal
May moon?
What do you expect when you
marry ANYBODY whose work
demands that he be keyed up to
high tension three-quarters of
the time? Tranquility? Equa-
nimity? A nice, soothing seda'
tive?
In that old play "The Circle"
the hero remarked to the
heroine, "I don't offer you hap
niness; I offer you LOVE"
Love isn't all sweetness and
light and dreaming under t the
moon. Any love that can't
weather a few storms and gusts
of temper-or temperament is
a weak foundation for marriage.
Not all actors and actresses,
not all writer's and artists are
bad-tempered-but they are
ALL highly sensitized. II they
were NOT sensitive and impress
sionable, they would not be
good at that sort of job.
When you marry one OF
these glamorous screen stars
you do not marry him or her
for serenity, repose and relax
alton. You marry him for ad-
venture, for excitement. for a
colorful romance. For THRILLS
not for the rest-cure.
It is usually tragic for one
screen star to marry another
in the same profession. The
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

Most of those evils we poor
mortals know from doctors and
imagination flow.-C. Churchill.
A poor man who has a rich
wife has a ruler, not a wife,
Greek.
He who does a good deed IS
Instantly 1nobled. He who
does a mean deed is by the ac-
ton itself contracted.-Emerson.
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

ri G h is and
opportunitie S
with mem
and sends me
some start
ling laws to
pr We I'm
wrong.
I didn't say
t ey h a d
equal LEGAL
rights, Lady.
But they do
have equal
H U M A N
rights, if they
~7ant to use
AIA~o ARA4~
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
WORDS FROM WISE MEN

Ambition is but avarice on
stills and masked.-W. S. Ian
dor.
A fool always finds greater
fool to admire him.-Boileau
Lying is the first step to the
gallowS.-German.
A pound of pluck is worth a
ton Of luck.-Garfield.
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

electric spark struck out by the
contact of two nervous tenn
permanents hardly makes a
good basis for peaceful domes-
ticity.
A movie actress should choose
a stolid, even-tempered business
man, or a level-headed, under
standing doctor or lawyer, or
even a husky, phlegmatic ath-
lete for her mate. And an
excitable movie actor should
pick his ''million-dollar baby"
from the ten-cent store. Or he
should marry a trained nurse
with cast iron nerves and i'm
perturbable good-nature.
OF course, it's no fun to try
to live with a bundle of nerves,
vanity and temperament. But,
after all, if one party to a
union contributes most of the
color, glamour and romance, the
other party may have to supply
all the patience and common
sense-and lots of unselfishness.
Fifty-fifty!
"Fits of rage" aren't always
rage at YOU. They are oftener
just blow-outs of nervous ten
sion. A prima donna may throw
the vase or the lamp at her hus-
bands head, just because he
happens to be conveniently
near, when she wants to murder
her manager or her publicity
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

Coast Guard saves in property
alone many times its own cost.
1t rescues the shipwrecked by
the best methods human in
genuity has devised. 1t feeds
and clothes and warns them
when it has snatched them from
death.
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

and support as the first chief
of the Revolution, which eman.
cipated Mexico from the bond
age of her past.
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
Are Women Gree and Equal"
In America?

Miss Cornelia Hill says I
shouldn't have claimed that
American women have equal
The Washington times., 1933-09-11

agent or her leading man. And
a movie star may tear up the
living-room furniture, just be-
cause he can't get his hands on
some dramatic critic.
I've known lots of actors,
writer's and screen stars, and
most of them were quite happily
and contentedly. married, and
completely devoted to the placid
stoics who led them to the altar.
Copyright 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1933-09-11
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

To divorce a screen star be-
cause of his temperament or of
his "fits of rage" seems to me
about as reasonable as to give
away a pet dog because it barks,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10
BY GEORGE BRITT
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, May oEret Lobban forghted smalh
of SO who stirred battle last fall and took the
a
imitation
Money has gone after with But without
prang realizing the symptoms Of its health understanding mi
that 1881,
Manufacturing Company
of
price s425 a is
commodities he has buying incud
million of
million bushels of wheat then below 81 100000
hides then $3.50.
The general weighted index thirty commodities
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10

junk piles for $50 apiece, building
and painting a bug" body on them,
and reselling for $1,000.
But it was 1924 when he actually
went into automobile manufacture,
after being himself an automobile
salesman. His friend Manning, who
went with him, had been Gus
toners man in a bond house.
Il noticed him because he was so
kiddish in appearance, and because
he always made money while other
customers lost" said Manning the
other day. They would buy 1000
shares on margin. He bought 100
shares at a time outright. And he
never was squeezed out"
Automobiles were not doing so
we'll in those years, 1922, 1923 and
1924. Indiana was full Of factories
which had gone out of business or
were nearing bankruptcy. Cord
looked over the field and decided the
best chance was Auburn.
THE business counted about ST.
l. 100000 assets, including obso-
lete inventory - outmoded bodies,
tenders and parts-for fully half the
value. 1t owed more than 100000
on notes to Chicago banks. Cord
went in as general manager, having
an option to buy, and in late sum-
mer, 1924, he swung the purchase for
less than $4,000 cash.
In eight months he worked off all
the old inventory. His experience
in car doctoring at Los Angeles
helped with that.
He tinkered up the old shapes
into the weirdest AuburnS ever seen
in America, showed them out at fire
sale prices, and before long was
square with the banks.
In January he brought out his
first real Auburn, direct contra
diction and challenge to every pre-
vailing style. 1t had perhaps the
first straight-eight motor in any
automobile.
1t was low, heavy, powerful. Peo-
pie talked about it and they bought