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The Washington times., 1933-06-10
An Unfortunate Bill
But Tax Cut Will Help

The District appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year
finally roned by the House and Senate conerees contains
many unfortunate provisions.
detailed study of the would find sections
to which citizens Of the District object.
The bi however has important feature which cannot
help but assist citizens That the elimination of the
sriction tax reduction which previous bills have carried
While the appropriations in the bill have been
position know that the benefit of the reduced expenditures
will be reflected to certain extent least in the bills
Whether will pay for this prospective reduction
exorbant price in the form of curtament of government
services and elimination of necessary functions question
which will not be answered until Administrative officers
completed their plans for carrying out the provisions of the
Aside from the drastic reduction Federal contribution
to $OOO the most unfortunate provisions of the bill
those giving direct control the expenditure millions
dollars of the Districts funds Federal holder
the director of the Bureau of the Budget
Such control should have been left in the District Building
to be exercised by local officials who their whole at
tentlo to the Districts affairs and who far better quail
fled to exercise than office which is burdened with
the most complicated of Federal tasks.
Little benefit is to be obtained however by indulgng in
recrmnaons and in creating additional anmus between the
citizens of the District and the members Congress
prepared the appropriation bill.
There has been far too much that of thing already
It does not promote the welfare of the National Capital
it does the citizens of the Capital good and certainly
does the Congressman good
The important thing for citizens and their organizations
TO remember that other appropriation bills coming It
is their duty to start preparing assist Congress in the
formulation of the next bill.
Not by threats and accusations but by creating reaza
tion that the National Capital place which Congress-
should take much pride do those who live here
permanently.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

With Congress off his hands,
President Roosevelt will pass
the first great test of his Ad-
ministration, only to enter
upon another test of even
more searching severity.
The test of legislative lead
ership, President Roosevelt has
met with a success that sur
passes the record of any other
peace time President in all
American history.
Nothing like the sum of leg
islation, which the President
has demanded and obtained at
the extraordinary session of the
Congress, can be matched in the
records of any other special
session of approximate dura-
ton since the Congress began.
Beginning with the Economy
Act and ending with the indus
trial control provisions of the
euphemistically named ma
tional Recovery Bill" Congress
has surrendered almost uncon-
ditionally into the hands OF
the President manifold authori-
ties and responsibilities which
the trainers of the Federal
Constitution were old-fashioned
enough to entrust to the Sen
ate and the House Of Repre-
SentativeS.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Human Side of the News
Soldiers of Fortune
.Bu EdWin C.. Hill.

one of the most singular careers
it has ever been the privilege of
this writer to follow. Some
where in Lee Christmas lazy
brain was extraordinary apti-
tude for military command and
the leadership of men, and some
where in his indolent body was
a tremendous reserve of energy.
For Is years he was a power IN
Central America, making and
breaking governments and caus-
ing huge embarrassment to Varl-
GUS Secretaries of State in
Washington.
He rose in rank to be a gen.
eral of division, sporting beautl-
full uniforms made in Paris, his
chest covered with orders. And
there was no comic opera gen
eralship about this red-headed
yanqui. He was scrapper
from Scrappersville, and over
the marble-topped cafe tables
down in Honduras and Nicara-
qua today you can hear some
amazing yarns about the stunts
that Lee Christmas pulled in the
heydey of his power.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

A revolution is IN the making
down in Cuba. Up to now the
iron hand of President Machado
has crushed all opposition, but
a big uprising looks close at
hand. This will be good news
to soldiers of fortune in all
lands. Even now, restless young
Americans of my acquaintance
are on their way to sell their
swords to General Machado or
to the insurrectos. They have
got the tropic sun in their
blood, those youngsters, and
they will never get it out this
side of kingdom come.
I have known more than a
few of those rowing, romantic
souls who spent their lives
fighting under foreign flags, but
the most remarkable of all was
Gen. Lee Christmas. He was
an amazing vagabond whom
fortune shoWered with gold and
honors for years, and then
callously threw back into OBJ
scurity. He was a railroad en-
gineer who drifted down to Hon
duras and got job running a
banana train on the Honduras
Central, where this writer came
across him 20 years ago. He
ran a banana train over so miles
of rusted rails that went waver-
ing back from Puerto Cortez
into the jungle and to the
banana plantations.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
President Now Facing
Test of Administration
By James T. Williams, Jr.-

sides the Executive-the Leg
islative, that abdicates, and the
judiciary, which is disrega- led
in this bill"
And Congressman Beck of
Pennsylvania, when this meas
ure was before the House.
avowed the same "out-of,dat=-
dismay when he declared:
"This is -co1omic slavery,
1t destroys not merely the
rights of the States but the
basic freedom of the individual
to engage in lawful occupation.
It concerns both employer and
emplOye, and, in JefferSOn's
words in his First Inaugural,
takes from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned"
These citations from the
great debates of recent weeks
give some idea of how far the
Ship of State has drifted
from it's constitutional path
since the new Congress con-
vened.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Birth of a Soldier

Nothing of the swashbuckler
about him at all. Just a
slouchy, unlettered Americana,
stranded by fate on the Hon
duran coast. Much given to
bacardi rum and the dark-eyed
Senoritas. Hating work. And
then one day twelve little pri-
vate soldiers and general or
so started a revolution. The
ragged little band of insurrec-
tors seized the custom house at
Puerto Cortez for a foothold,
and then sailed out along the
railroad line. They put a few
guns to the red head of Lee
Christmas and described all the
unpleasant things that would
happen to him if he refused to
turn over his train to the army
of freedom and liberty.
Cursing them and all Hon
duraras, he ran the train back
into the hills and into a
hornets nest of federal troops.
Bullets spattered against his
engine cab and whistled past
his ears, and finally he got SO
mad that he snatched up a
rifle and led the charge which
scattered the government forces.
The fat little rebel general
threw both arms about the
lanky Americana, kissed him
resoundingly on both cheeks and
made him a captain on the
spot.
That was the beginning of
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
A Few Standouts

These surrenders of legis-
lative power involve not only
supreme control over inani-
mate things but also control,
without parallel in American
history, over the freedom and
fortune, the happiness and
misery of millions of human
beings.
Here and there, a Senator or
Representative in Congress has
steadfastly resisted pressure
from the folks back home"
from his party leaders, from the
pulpit and the press a:d the
market place, and voted day
after day against the attempt
to put the Capitol in the base
ment of the White House.
Speaking against the delega-
ton of dictatorial powers in
volved in the industrial control
features of the N tional Re-
covery Bill, Senator Borah OF
Idaho voiced the views of these
''irreconcilables" when he con-
fessed to the Senate a few days
ago:
81 am still sufficiently old
fashioned in my views to believe
that there are two other depart
mentS of the government be-
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
ONCE OVERS

) could make a mistake-that of
itself indicates weakness.
Instead of creating the i'm
preston of mental strength,
the opiniated person creates or
arouses the opposite thought.
The one who puts his or her
judgment in opposition to that
of most folk should pause long
enough to realize that the ma
jority should rule and be re-
spected-not the minority.
Should the minority come
into power, as a class, insiStence
is made that the minority pat
tern should be followed without
deviation, squelching initiative
and with no respect for differ
, ence of opinion.
You can't rubber-stamp hu-
manity.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.D
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
One Friend

But the last time I saw
General Christmas was in the
Truro Infirmary in New Or
leans some eight or nine years
ago. He was a shattered old
man, an object of charity,
slowly dying, but crying out IN
his delirium that he must go
back to Central America, 10
the tropics, to the old life, TO
the sun that had got into his
blood. The only friend he had
in the world was Guy Maloney,
who had fought under him on
so fields of battle-Guy Ma
loney who used to be chief OF
police in New Orleans and who
is a general himself now, down
in one of the little banana
republics.
Poor old Lee Christmas, see
ing, as death crept upon him.
all the glowing, glamorous pic
lures that draw these soldiers
of fortune below the Line.
Purple nights hung with stars.
Wide, rolling plains, patched
with the dark green of coffee
and the yellow of sesame.
Bronzed white men riding
through the shadows.
Soldiers of fortune! But it
isn't fortune they collect. In
the end they come to the same
plight, if they stay long enough,
and most of them do. Bullets,
and gray hairs, and bodies
burned out with fever, and colo
charity-or firing squad al
the end of it all! Maybe lts
worth the price, to fall out OK
the Shuffling lockstep OF cities
and the eternal dreariness OF
towns, and place the biggest
bet of all, life itself, upon the
spinning wheel Of chance.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate, JnC.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Petty Tyrants?

With the adjournment Of
Congress and the triumphal
passing of the first great test
of legislative leadership, Pres
ident Roosevelt must now face
that other and more eXacting
test-the ability to administer
the mass of laws that Congress,
in obedience to his mandate,
has meekly delivered at the
door of the White House.
When Mr.. Roosevelt entered
the Presidency a little more
than three m on h S ago he
found in the Federal City only
one petty tyrant-the Comp
troller General, whose multi
tudinous abuses of power the
excavations Of court after
court have only partially
checked.
Only time will tell how many
appointees of President Roose-
velt will, with the dictatorial
powers which Congress has
heaped upon tn e m, develop
into able administrators or de-
generate into petty tyrants
who will share with the pres
ent Comptroller General the
unenviable distinction of max
ing government odious to mil
lions of Americans in all walks
of life.
Gambetta, the great states
man of France, said:
"A party can govern, but
only able men can administer.
Copyright, 1888. by The Washington
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

and make fuss over, never
respond, while those that you
don't particularly care about
will stand any sort of neglect
and JUS hang on forever!
Take those poplar trees that
I've just finished planting in
the wrong place, for instance!
They'll ALL live and flourish
like the green bay tree. "Only
God can make a tree"-but only
fools like me" can plant a
group of beautiful poplars so
that they look like a row OF
wooden soldiers.
And there are those hydran-
geas that planted last year. 80
long as yearned over them with
a consuming passion and nursed
them and coddled them and fed
them everything on the market,
they were absolutely pathetic
and ,,rooped with lassltude ana
indifference.
But the moment I lost inter.
est in them and concentrated
my heart and attention on the
purple iris, 10, those hydrangeas
sprang to attention, got terribly
interested and began to flag
me-like a man you've just
turned down. And when the pur-
Die iris began to blossom the
hydrangeas burst out into a
positive RAGE of pink and
SWORE at the iris. 1t was eX-
actly like inviting your favorite
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
OLD MR.. MARS ANNOUNCING

This little picture from Lord Beaverbrook London Express
is pictorial forecast of the next big even in the inerna
tional squared circle
On the left you the Chinese heavyweight supposed to
have taken the count from the Japanese midget yweght
In the foreground the great old Mars Master Of
Ceremonies and God of War; announcing the next event
Little Japan ready for another fight the left The giant
Russia shaking hands with himself to show friendship for the
crowd, is on the right
Japan the worlds wonder midget shows in his defiant att
tude that he has heard the saying he bigger they the
harder they fall Also he remembers how easily beat
gigantic Russia LAST time.
BUT, and there very large BUT Huge Russia has gone
through training recently Japan and foolish Mars
making the match should remember that the Mado this time
would not meet any weak Russian Gar directed his weaker
grand dukes.
This time Japan would have to fight the real PEOPLE Of
Russia, and it probably would not be easy.
The old saying might be changed this OCCASION read
the bigger they the harder they fall ON TOP OF YOU
However, Japan is wise well courageous and not
need of advice warning The of thus far
has refraned from biting off than it chew, and will
continue in the same wise path.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Opinionated Persons

Have you proven any we'll
founded easons why you
should consider your own judg-
ment so nearly infallible?
It is strange that those who
think their own ideas more
nearly correct than the average
are so often at variance with
the majority.
They congratulate themselves
that they are advanced think
ers, ahead of their time and
so the common run of humans
could not be expected to agree.
They carry their idea of su-
periority so far that even those
who have a right to be con-
sidered equals are thought OF
as deficient mentally.
There is something about the
opiniated person-the one who
will not be convinced that he
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

GIl1S. SAD
One man can't
Get us out of it.
Nor is it the fault
Of any one nation.
America got this way,
All the world
Got this way,
Because we had lived
AS long as we could
The other way.
WE HAD LIVED
AS LONG AS WE COULD
WITH THE BIG FELLOWS
FOOT
ON THE LITTLE FELLOWS
NECK;
WITH THE LITTLE FELLOW
SWEATING,
AND THE BIG FELLOW
GRABBING
THE PROFIT FROM HIS
AND Now WE HAVE TO
FACE
THE DREADFUL CONsE-
QUENCES
OF OUR OWN PIGGISHNESS.
You dream about
Good Times coming back.
Don't you know yet
That for millions
OF drudging men
And discouraged women
And half starved youngsters
There never were
Any Good Times?
For most of the people,
In every country,
There never were
Any Good Times.
WHY DID WE GET THIS
WAY?
THAT'S WHY WE GOT THIS
Way
BECAUSE THE UNDER-DOG
NEVER HAD HIS DAY.
The world always
Got this way
When the Little Fellow
SWeated too long,
And the Big Fellow
Grabbed too much.
Look at Rome!
Look at any people
Who lived on
Slave labor!
When the Little Fellow
Gets too sore,
And the Big Fellow
Gets too soft,
There's hell to pay!
AMERICA HAS BEEN LIVING
ON SLAVE LABOR
Don't kid yourself
That it hasn't!
Ever since
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
Only Plated
Imagine

that those shaving kits for the conservation corps
boys over which such uproar being made contained
among other items nickel plated soap box
nickel plated toothbrush holder shaving brush nickel
plated handle nickep metal mirror and gold plated
razor
was gold plated.
Sending these poor lads out into the wld with toilet kit
that is mostly nickel doesn't seem right
They facing great hardships.
They only get three square meals day. place to sleep,
and $50 month-whch merely twice the money that a.
regular Army private gets.
In common fairness those kits ought to be solid gold
We the taxpayer would be glad to pay
for them.
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Big Business got going,
Millions of men,
Women and children,
Have been suffering
Worse than slavery
In coal mines,
In textile mills,
In cotton fields,
In sweat shops,
In stock yards,
On mortgaged farms
And all the other dead-falls
And blind alleys
Of our industrial system.
Good times?
They never knew them,
Nor their parents,
Nor their grandparents
Before them.
WHILE WE HAD EASY PICK
INGS,
THEY HAD HELL.
How did we
Get this way?
That's how we
Got this way.
BY making easy pickings
For ourselves
And letting the under-dog
Go through hell.
NOW WE'RE GOING
TO SHARE THAT HE'LL
FOR IF THE LITTLE FELLOW
CAN'T PAY.
THE BIG FELLOW CAN'T
PAY.
AND WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Sure, we want to be saved,
But no leader can save us,
Nor taxes and tariffs,
Nor Investigations and sur
veyS,
Nor the falling of
Bank presidents
And other racketeerS.
Even public works
Can't save us.
ONLY WE, OURSELVES,
CAN SAVE OURSELVES;
ONLY A CHANGE
IN OUR HEARTS
AND BRAINS
CAN SAVE US.
Practical brotherly love;
Fair recognition
Of the other fellows right;
Honest admission
That pigging it
Doesn't pay
That alone can save us,
Or save the rest
Of the world.
IF WE WON'T PLAY FAIR
WITH THE OTHER FELLOW;
IF WE INSIST ON
THAT OLD BRUTE CREED
OF DOG EAT DOG";
THEN IT'S BACK
TO THE JUNGLE
FOR ALL OF US.
And then God help
All the Softies!
The Master Minds,
The Better People,
And all the other leeches
Who've lived by the sweat
Of the Little Fellows brow.
For they'll certainly
Get theirs!
What will they get?
Just what they gave.
They dished it out
But will they take it?
Stick around
And see!
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

prize fighter and your professor
of anthropology to tea at the
same time for a pleasant after.
noon.
The only thing to do was to
separate them and put the un-
wanted hydrangeas off in cor
ner somewhere. And there they
are, still growing and trying to
attract attention. Sticking
around like an old bore to whom
you have been kind in a weak
moment. Once you have let a
plant Cor a mani think that you
have a fondness for it, it is as
hard to get the idea out of its
head as to unscramble an egg.
Evergreens are good, solid,
reliable plants, which can al
ways be depended upon to look
proper and dignified. Like
good, solid, reliable men, they're
a little slow, of course, but they
fit in almost anywhere and
never change from season to
season.
Wonder why most women
seem to overlook the good,
solid dependable plants-and
men-and always fall for the
gay, snowy decorative ones,
that go back on you in a few
weeks.
Why don't we concentrate
our hearts and attention on
oaks and ivy instead Of on
lightweights like that frivolous
mountain-pink around the edge
of the rock garden, which bios
The Washington times., 1933-06-10


Into this de-
Spair,
Into this riS-
ing anger
And beWilder-
n1ent.
w E GOT
THIS WAY
B E C A u S E
WE WISHED
1T
ON OU R.
SELVES.
X X X
nm O m q n
didn't
Get us into
~
The Washington times., 1933-06-10
How Did We Get This Way?

You wonder how
We got this way
Into this depression,
The Washington times., 1933-06-10

} prize fighter and your professor
of anthropology to tea at the
same time for a pleasant after
noon.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23
OSSZELOVOLDOZTEK
A VADOROK

Az ejszakai orakban ceg-
ledi korhazban felvetelre jelent-
kezett Fritz Janos geplakatos.
Mikor az orvosok megvizsgaltak,
meglepetye lattak, hogy teste-
mex minden resze te1e van soret-
lovesekt6l ered6 sebekkel es q
bore alatt nehany szaz soret van
Fritz elmondotta, hogy a Bakos
Geza-fele uradalom vadorei min
den ok nelkul Observation-Disclosures
sorettel. A sulyosan seriilt en-
bert korhazban apolas ala vet
TEX. A kiilonos sebesules koril-
menyeinek tisztazasa vegett ella
rast inditottak.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23

Az elmebeteg Elekcs Istvx
aki az elmult evben benzines v1e.
laval majdnem langba boritott1
a szegedi Varosi Szinhazat, 4 MI
nap megsz6kott 4 szegedi cline
gyogyintezetb5l. ovatlan pills
nathan ellopott egy kaveskana1ak
es abbol alkulcsot keszitett ma
ganak; azzal kinyitotta cellaja ~
|tajat Is megszokott. EFT meg
el6z6en magahoz vette egylk
apolojanak telikabatjat Is cip6jtk
is. Eddig mem akadtak nyo-
mara.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23

az id6ket, (vagy a fiatalsagot,
amely elszallt azokkal az evek-
kel.)
De a fiatalabb olvasoim oku-
lasara meg akartam irni, hogy
vannak napok, amikor a bortor
is ezerszer szebbnek latszik a
szabad eletnel Is vannak ejsza-
kak, amikor az ember ezerszer
sirva fogadja meg magaban
hogy egy karej kenyerert meg
egy meleg kuckoert az egesz
dics6 szabadsagot feladja.
Igaz, hogy masnap kisit a
nap, es a tegnapi borzalmak el
vannak feledve. Kiveve azok a
borzalmak, amelyeket lehetetleu
feledni. Olyan meg mem sok
akadt a palyamon.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23
FICYELEM


Az Amerikai Magyar Hirlap
szerkeszt6sege 392 Norwood
Ave alatt van. Minden, a lapot
erdekl6 level, tudositas, penz-
kuldemeny stb. ere cimre kiil-
dendo
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3o2 Norwood Ave.
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A szerkesztoseg telefonszama
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A varosi iroda Ress Music
Storeban, 408 West Federal ST.
alatt van.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23
HALALOSvEGtj vEREKE
DES A KOCSMABAN.

A minap ejjel a harkai kocs-
maban Paar Henrik osszetuzoti
regi haragosaval. Preidl Tofor
es Samu neyi occse bekit6leg
lepett kobe, ami annyira felbG-
szitette Part, hogy kest rantott
es a ket testvert sulyosan meg
sebesitette. Preidl Tofor kimene
kiilt a kocsmabol, de nehany le.
pes utan osszerogyott es meg
halt. Occset a soproni korhazha
szallitottak.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1933-02-23
GYILKoSSAGI KISERLET
UTAN AGYoNL6TTE
MAGAT.

Tarlosi J6zsef tompai lakos
osszeveszett ozv. 10th Lajosnes
val. Felindulasaban vadaszfegy-
verevel ketszer ralott az asz-
szonyra, maid maga ellen fordi-
totta a csovet. Tarlosi azonna:
meghalt, az asszonyt a soretck
csak konnyebben sebesitetteI
meg.