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The Washington times., 1933-01-27
How It
Started

We have in mind an in
stance where there should
have been a filibuster. In
1900, the Federalist Party
was swept from power over
whelmingly in the great
rising Of the people which
carried Jefferson to power.
The Federalists, long in
power, devised a plan to
care for their lame ducks
at the public trough, and, at
the same time, build up a
barrier in the courts against
the will of the people. This
was their program for the
lame-duck session just be-
fore jefferson was inducted
into office. So they passed
the judiciary bill, creating
numerous new judgeships,
and proceeded to pack the
bench with the most viru-
lent partisans in the few
days intervening between
the passage and their re-
linquishment of power.
AS late as 10 o'clock,
some say midnight, on
March 8, these commissions
were being made out in
hectic haste and passed out
to the lame-duck judges.
John Marshall, then Secre-
tary of State, was busy at
this job-the most unworthy
and indefensible in his
career.
The Jeffersonians would
have been justified in fill
clustering - more, it was
their duty-to resort to the
most stubborn Of filibusters,
for here was a clear attempt
to thwart the expressed will
of the people.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27

THE Norris Amendment
i to the Constitution, end
ing lame duck Congresses,
and making the Govern
ment more speedily respon-
sive to the public, has been
adopted with the vote of
Missouri. This is a great
vic tory for democracy.
Under the old system, in the
absence of an extra session
of Congress, men elected to
Congress on issues Of press
ing Importance have not
taken their seats for more
than a year after their cleo
ton; and during the inter-
val for three months a Con-
gress, that often has been
repudiated, has continued to
function in defiance of. the
public wish or interest.
And yet, sensible and
American as this amendment
is, it has required 10 long
years of persistent effort,
under the leadership Of
Senator Norris, to make the
change.
It is significant that the
Norris Amendment could
not get a vote in the House
under it's erstwhile reaction
ary domination. The late
Speaker, Mr.. Longworth,
backed by his party, pre-
vented it; and it was not
until Mr.. Garner became
Speaker that the decks were
cleared for action.
The sanity for the amend
ment and the stupidity of
the old system has made it
difficult for the public gen.
orally to understand the
stubborn resistance to the
change now made. Senator
Norgis has explained.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
BOrah Wants nHOneStDOllar
Go 10 Won ond Manv of Them


Senator Borah says we need an honest
dollar meaning "a dollar not so hard get" The value
Of dollar and of the things it buys are too far apart
Something will be done about the dollar and it can't be
done bv taking in taxes the few dollars remaining in crcu
lation
poem by "Senex," American abroad, includes q
line about American mills that turn out not goods but men,
Our mills will take in and turn out goods until
money is provided to buy the goods.
Now industrass cannot sell their products and banks
cannot lend their money.
Governor RooseveIt's visit to Muscle Shoals
and plan let the people operate their plant
for benefit of those that BUY and fertilizer carries
speculation everywhere and rejoicing with predictions Of
new American industrial empire and the transformation
Of the whole Tennessee River basin"
Private ownership of public necessities built up kind Of
prosperity exploded in 1929 Perhaps better kind
be built another pn running natural monopoes for
the benefit of those that buy and instead Of those that
exploit and SELL Any port in Storm even Government
ownership port.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, dead in Paris at 80,
will be remembered thanked for the real serious work that
she did in the of woman suffrage.
A friend said to her.
The King of France made his mobiles wear potato
in their buttonho help Parmenr who brought the potato
to France After that humble Frenchmen began eating the
potato that they had scornfuy rejected you and Mrs
Mackay and few others will the suffrage bios
III
interest itself in woman suffrage"
Yesterday, in spite Of strenuous and some-
what puzzng objections by members of the Reconstruction Fl
Corporation the people allowed to know through
Congress how of their hundreds of millions have been
distributed to help the deserving
Mr. Dawes bank in Chicago got $90000O and did not have
to close The San Francisco Bank of America got
and the Bank of Italy Mortgagg Company San Francisco
got $S00O0,0oo.
Railroads were authorized to borrow two
hundred and twentyfour millions and ELEVEN THOUSAND
OTHER LOANS made authorized of them quite
small
There proof that any of those loans unwisey
made and they made in good faith
But the farmer watching his cattle farm sold
mortgage foreclosure the little business with his
in his months failures, wish that they had fairy
godfather in Uncle SAM
Today many are startled to see the Govern
ment handing barely TWO BILLIONS over considerable
period to help AMERICANS
Nobody paid attention when the Government handed out
TEN BILLION to help foreign nations that other s
throats in war
That's the difference between and psychology
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
WISE WORDS

There is only one way to get
ready for Immortality, and that
is to love this life, and live it
as bravely and faithfully and
cheerfully as we can.-Van
Dyke.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27

OONCu a 4OV9
B 70 k e n my
heart be-
ca u s e Of
it
B u T L M
PROUD!
I've tried and
failed
A n d be e n
laughed at:
Fumbled and
fibbed
nd b e e n
shown up
S TILL I'M
PROUD!
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
The New Amendment:
Lame Ducks Dead
Blu Claude G.. BOUerS

Battles the Jackson Period "The Struggle
Democracy America" Jefferson and Hamilton" "The
Tragic and "Beveridge and the Progressive Era"
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
Lame Duck Sessions
Of Congress

Ad11e OuCh 0SSS1OAS
Of Congress
The lame duck sessions of
Congress have worked in
perfectly with the strategy
of the reactionaries. Thus:
Vicious legislation in the in
terest of privilege has failed
many times because the
members of Congress, know
ing the hostile attitude of
the voters, have been afraid
to pass it and Immediately
face their constituents at
the polls. The old Mark
Hanna ship subsidy bill,
which was promised in 1896,
passed the Senate but failed
in the House. The reason is
clear: the Senators or two
thirds of them, did not have
to face the people, directly,
or through the legislatures,
soon afterwards, and the
people soon forget. But
members Of the House did,
and however much they may
have been inclined to sup
port their leadership, they
had no disposition to af-
front the electorate On the
verge of an election or with
in a year Of it.
But a lame-duck session
follows Immediately on an
election, and sometimes
great numbers of members
have been repudiated by
their people. They are in
dependent of public senti-
ment. Often they are de-
fiant Of it. Thus the at
mosphere is created for the
passage of unpopular meas
ures. In the event the
President favors unpopular
legislation the conditions are
perfect to put it through.
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson
I'm Proud!

I'm Proud!
I've lived a lot;
Made a mess of most of it
YET I'M PROUD!
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
Keep Your Eye On the Ball =

Keep Your Eye On the Bal
Nearly every woman thinks
that she has been cheated, in
life-that she would have been
far happier if she only had
chosen a different career, or
different husband or a diff
ferent destiny.
Yet, never before in the
history of the world have
women had such wide choice
of careers, of aims, Of pleas
The Washington times., 1933-01-27

flowers, these do not all grow
in the same garden.
A man concentrates on the
one Big Thing in life he wants,
whether it's money, fame, art
or just ease and amusement
and he usually gets it. A
woman scatters her forces on
a thousand little things-and
then wonders why she has
failed in the only thing worth
while.
She cannot keep her EYE
ON THE BALL! Whether it's
in a game, in business or in
love, her attention is always
wandering off on a detour.
While she's playing cards, she's
carrying on a snappy conversa-
ton; while she's in church,
she's mentally re-draping the
dining room; while she's taking
letters, she's thinking what nice
eyes the boss has; and while
she's flirting with one man,
she's dreaming of another.
She mixes gossip with bridge,
romance with her job and van
ity or cupidity or coquetry with
her love! And all she gets is
HASH.
Keep your eye on the ball!
If you want love, go after it.
But, don't look for a limousine
and the Leeds pearls along
with it. Most men who can
give you French dinners, dia-
The Washington times., 1933-01-27
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
By T. E. Powers

flowers, these do not all grow
in the same garden.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21

Judges of the queen contest
Mayor John T. Rice, A. H. Keller,
w. c. Costello, Mrs. A. B. Hanson
and Ray Edgar-after considerable
balancing OF all that is taken
into consideration in choosing a
queen, finally decided on Miss
Carmen Engebretson, nine year old,
the Meloland school entry, as the
queen. She will be crowned at $50
tonight at Sixth and Main streets.
Second place went to Miss Vir-
ginia Sue Tackett, 13, of Wilson
school, Ell Centro, and third place
to Miss La Verne Anderson, CAL
exico, Central Union Junior Col
lege entry.
So close was the contest that
the judges decided to award ad-
ditional prizes to winners of Sec
ond and third place. They will be
given tonight when the queen is
crowned.
Much applause greeted the Har-
ding school entry, Shirley Kline, a
petite little miss who was enthroned
on racing sulky, drawn by group
of her Schoolmates, StalWart little
men who acted as her escort. Bet
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
FALL OPENING PROGRAM
At Sixth and Main Streets

At Sixth and Main Streets
Judges Reviewing Stand-Parade. 80 to 2 80
Selection OF Queen. ........ ............ 2:3O
Concert-El Centre City Band AS to 80
Jimmie Roberts Hawaiians - 3 80 to 3 AS
Wooda Blesy Dance Studio-Prestnts
Students 100 to :15
Leonard Smith, Earl OFT (saxophone)
Virginia Lee Jones (voca) ............. AS to is
Howard Pitts (saxophone), accompa-
MED by Anna Lee Rapson. ............ is to as
w. A Payne Orchestra 100 to 6 :15
Bob Rice Orchestra ................)
Iva Rea Skipper, Virginia Cosby,
vocal. $40 to 7 100
Dick Hockett Dancing School presents
Abel Sisters, novelty dances........)
M. A. Wilson, bicycle acrObats. 100 to Z :l5
Ann Willingham (Caexco) Dance }
studio, accompanied by Francis }
Leonard orchestra
Numbers
Harlem Strut-Jane Hampton }
and Joyce Dancer r..................
Shadow Waltz-Ann Willingham }
Hungarian Gypsy Dance-Wilhel-) 800 to 8 80
nina and Marguerite Pada)
and Olga Hernandez. }
crObatiQue-ROsemary Sisson...
Petting in the Park (rhythm tap
Ann Wllllngham. a. A...........) }
Military Tap-Jane Hampton and
Joyce Dancer; Mrs H. A. Jarvis,)
accompanst ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Coronation of Queen. ..... 200 to 9:15
Drawing of Prizes After
At Fifth and Main Streets
Mexca Military Band Concert 2 80 to :OO
Imperial Valley Swiss Band Concert. 80 to 100
Jimmie Roberts Hawaiians .......... 5 as to 100
Wooda Blesy Dance Students ......... 80 to :45
VIM. A. Payne Orchestra 20 to 40
Bob Rice Orchestra. estra...........,......-......-)
Iva Rae Skipper, Virginia Cosby, vocal)
Dick Hockett Dance School presenting) 7:15 to 40
Abel Sisters, novelty dances.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
NIX RH~>'
o,s,s nsHaash, Syndicate. lsA
GIVES
NEW TWIST To
SENATE PROBE
By LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspond

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-A let
ter purporting to have been signed
by Harvey c. Couch, a director OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corpor-
alton, relating to transactions in Sc
curities of the Seaboard Airline rail-
road, may lead Couch to the wit
ness chair in the senate stock mar
ket investigation of the Chase Ma
tional bank, the United Press learn
ed today.
The letter found by senate inves-
tigatorS was said to be written on
stationery of the RFC. 1t was ad-
dressed to c. w Mccain, chairman
of the board of the Chase bank,
and referred to previously undis-
closed discussions of transactions in
Seaboard securities.
The United Press asked Couch by
telephone whether he had written
such letter and whether he de-
{ sired to appear before the commit
tee to discuss the transactions to
which it referred. He denied know
ledge of the communication.
Il haven't written a letter and
haven't anything to say" Couch
said. Il don't know anything about
it,
Couch was one of scores whose
names appeared on so-called bar
gain or selected stock lists of j. P
Morgan and company.
The Seaboard securities to which
the letter referred slumped with col
lapse of the market and now are in
default. During the Dillon, Read
and company investigation Couch
was revealed as having borrowed
100000 from the bank on Jan. 16,
1928, and as of Dec. 81, 1881 still
owed $150,000.
The inquiry was in recess today III
the midst of Albert H. Wiggin's tes-
timony of how he participated in
SyndicateS or pools to pass his
Chase bank stock on to the public.
He was head of the bank during the
operation of these trading accounts.
Investigation of his personal finan-
cial operations will be interrupted
Monday by inquiry into Cuban loans
made by the Chase national bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
COUPLE
WE'D IN EAST

RYE, N. Y, Oct. 81 U.P) - Joel
McCrea and Frances Dee were Mr.
and Mrs. McCrea today following
their sudden and quiet marriage
last night by the Rev. George A.
Bronson, of the Rye Methodist
Episcopal church.
The Rev. Bronson said that
someone rang his doorbell last
night shortly after dinner. He ad-
mitted a couple who announced
they wanted to be married and
produced a license obtained earlier
in the day in New York City. They
gave their names as Joel McCrea
and Frances Dee, ages 81 and %
respectively, and New York City
addresses.
The minister said that nobody
was with them and witnesses were
obtained on the spur of the mo-
ment. After the ceremony the
couple announced they were going
on a short trip through Connect
cut, sent a telegram to the RKO
office in New York announcing
that they were happily married,
and departed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
LEADER Of FARMERS STRIKE
GIVES REASONS FOR ACTION
m ~ ssai.s a O.

M ~ sh<Sa a< a H1
until the farmers patience is ex-
hauSted and he now proposes to
use the only remedy left to him.
that is, to strike and refuse to serve
society until justice is conceded him.
The condition of the farmer has
not just happened, but is a part
of a program planned and carried
out to make him a peasant, a slave
to the financial and industrial in
tereSts. This became apparent in
1920 when the federal reserve bank,
an institution that exists in direct
violation of the constitution of the
United States, commenced a cri-
minal discrimination against agri-
culture by refusing banks the re-
discounting privileges that extend
ed credit to the farmer.
From that time until the present,
he has travelled the road to bank
ruptcy until at the present time and
with present values he has no equity
in either land or personal property
The farmers, almost unanimously
supported President Roosevelt fully
behaving he meant what he said in
his prediction campaign, only to
be deceived, and while promised a
new deal" they find the deck
stacked and the same cid bunch OF
dealers.
The farmers have never asked for
themselves any consideration that
they are not willing and glad to
concede to other groups. The fun
damental demand of the Holiday
Association is cost of production for
the products of our farms that are
consumed in this country. Every ef
fort to have this fundamental right
conceded has been defeated and this
demand is fundamental. Unless the
farmers can obtain production costs
for their product, bankruptcy IS
inevitable.
Agriculture, which is the greatest
and the basic industry in the ma
ton, has not been conceded the
right to have its own code and be
recognized by the NRA the same as
other industries Instead, the ad-
miniStration has assumed that the
farmer was an incompetent imbe-
cile who required federal overseers
and if the present program of the
administration is carried out, it will
mean a horde of federal employees
for the farmer to support; with no
correction OF the system that has
wrecked agriculture and that may
destroy our republic.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
ND DICTATOR
REQUIRED BY
THIS NATION
President Roosevelt Predicts
Rapid Recovery If Coopera-
ton Given.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON COLLEGE. Ches-
tertown, Md, Oct. 81. - President
Roosevelt today predicted national
economic recovery in a shorter
time than "the five or 10 year
plans of dictatorship
The PreSiden: spoke at historic
Washington College where he re-
ceived the honorary degree of Doc
tor of Laws.
~ believe,'' the President said,
in this country, which has not got
a dictator, We can move further in
shorter period without naming a
definite length of time.'
The President whose speech was
eXtemporaneouS, pleaded for COOP
Grafton Gin carrying forward a
program looking to national reha-
bilitation.'
DR.. Gilbert Wilcox Mead was
inaugurated as the 10Th president
of the college at the same exer-
cises before a distinguished audi
ence which included besides the
President, Gov. Ritchie of Mary
land.
DR.. Mead placed about Mr..
Roosevelt IS neck the purple stole
denoting the new honorary degree.
81 do not Think Mr.. Roosevelt
said, 81 could say anything that
would be adequate after the splen-
did word from the new president
of Washington college. He has
spoken of today. He has spoken of
tomorrow But in coming here I
cannot help but recall the past.'
Asks Cooperation
Mr.. Roosevelt then made a brief
appeal for cooperation, citing the
difficulties that confronted Wash
ington, America s first President,
who was the first person to receive
the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws from this college.
eff we could provide in this ma
ton for an adequate education for
everyone, then the security of the
country would be safeguarded, the
President said.
"Today we are making many
changes in method of machinery
of life. Not only in government
but in every phase. But we are
maintaining the old principles of
boyhood
There is a tendency to lose
sight of the forest for the trees.
There is tendency to magnify the
little changes and forget the prin-
ciple. We have accomplished much
in the last few months, but at the
same time, we cannot obtain the
goal in a few months.'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
READ ARRESTED
IN THEFT CASE

OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 81. U.P) -
Alfred E. Read, Jr., former broker
and a prize fighter for one round,
was held under $500 bail today on
the petty theft charge entered by
Claire Windsor, blonde screen ac-
tresS.
The warrant claimed. Read had
"stolen' $11 from Miss Windsor
who was the unsuccessful defend
ant of an alienation of affections
suit instituted by Read IS estranged
wife. The jury returned a $4,000
judgment in favor of Mrs. Read.
The former broker promised to
make sensational revelations -
about Miss Windsor if he was ar
rested on the theft charge. But
when questioned, he referred re-
porters to his attorney, Wilbur
Pierce, who he said will make my
revelations public.'' Pierce was 81
lent.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
SOVIET CONSUL
ASSASSINATED

LWOW, Poland, Oct. 21U.P)-Al-
eXander Najlov Soviet consular Of
ficer, was assassinated and another
consular official was shot and
gravely wounded in the Soviet con-
sulate here today by visitor whose
name police refused to reveal.
The man who fired the shots,
when arrested, told police that he
wanted to asSassinate the Soviet
consul as a protest against the SUI
feringS of the Ukrainians under the
Soviet regime.
Although police withheld the
identity of the assassin they stated
that he belonged to a Ukrainian
terrorist organization which has
wide ramifications in both Poland
apd the Ukraine.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21

ty Boop' Of movies has a rival in
Shirley.
Much credit for the success of the
parade goes to John r. Robertson,
Leo Madden and Bill Hinderks
the committee ii charge, who work
ed like Trojans to put it over and
did swell job of it.
On behalf of the general commit
tee in charge of the festival, Robert
Hays, secretary Of the Ell Centro
Chamber of Commerce, expressed
qualification that 4he honors of
queen had gone outside the city and
the committee was lavish in its
praise of the Meloland entry as we'll
as the other entries, all of whom did
their part in making the parade
such a splendid success.
Street entertainment will be con-
tinuous throughout the afternoon
and evening, terminating when the
stores close at o'clock tonight, af-
ter which the queen will be crown
ed, prizes and merchandise award
ed, and the festival officially de-
clared at an end
Merchants and business houses
who cooperated in the festival re-
ported plenty of business this af-
ternoon, following the conclusion OF
the parade. The oft-heard injunc-
ton to Buy Now" in support Of
the President and the NRA, was be-
ing needed by Ell Centre district
shoppers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-21
FILE CODE FOR PAYMENT OF
DUMB MOVIE STARS (AN|MA[) }

movieland S casting directors who
viSualized the prices they must pay
if they continue to pour forth ad-
ventures of "Tarzan" and Trader
Horn"
The application for the code was
filed by the Domestic Wild Animal
and Equipment Rental Industry,
representing five companies and
employing 40 men.
The hours of work don't bother
the animals, but they must be sure
of steady food, the code application
related.
Kangaroos, cheetahs, binturongs,
peccarines, skunkS, aardWolfS, pacas,
barbarussas, even the slow loris de-
mands his pound of the flesh. Pre-
ferably in good coin of the realm.
The Cheap Rats
Waiting mice will work for so
cents day. Guinea pigs for a dol
lar. But pythonS and boas work by
the foot. A python under 20 feet
in length commands S75 a day. Be-
tween 20 and % feet, $100 and over
% feet, $125. Boas range from $25 to
$35 q day. Non poisonous snakes
will receive SIS, but rattlesnakeS
must be paid $40.
The higher-Salaried brackets,
equivalent in stature with directors
and supervisors. are occupied by the
giraffe, $500 day; rhinoceros, $500;
Important, regular and pigmy; and
gorillas, 5000. Unframed lions bring
$40 a day but trained ones are $l00.
Cubs are so cents apiece.
For $25 a day, you can rent a
gazelle or kangaroo, a binturong
or an African porcupine; sea lion
or wombat
For $50 a day you can obtain a
barbaruSSa, an ichneumon (Some-
times called a mongooSe), a wart
hog or two siX-foot alligators. The
aardvark comes at $l00 a day but
the aardwolf at $3.50. They are
equally ugly.
personally, we'd take a dingo at
$40, a slow loris at s. or even paca
at $40.
The skunks, by the way, at $3.50
a day, are guaranteed.
What's q moufflon, you ask?
Gosh, we don't know.