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The Washington times., 1933-06-08
No Taxes

Norfolk is lovelier and richer
even than famed Tahiti. Every
thing grows there-all the fruits
of the temperate and sub-tropi-
cal climeS, and all the vege-
tables. The land Is so rich
and the sea is so generous with
its fish that nobody more than
lifts a hand in labor. Enough
is grown and taken from the
sea to enable them to live
bountifully. All other energies
go to sport, for these descend
ants of the grim British sea-
men who rebelled against the
brutality of the master Of the
ship Bounty and set him adrift
are mad about sport. They have
two golf courses, cricket fields
and tennis courts by the score.
There are no taxes whatever,
few restrictions of any kind, and
for the rest they are the fortu-
nate beneficiaries of a most
amiable climate, the most de-
lightful of sea isles, natural
beauty unsurpassed, complete
freedom from the economic ups
and downs of this machine
ruled world, and membership in
a tranquil and generally har-
moniouS family.
The names Of the old mutt
neers survive in the families of
Norfolk and Pitcairn. There are
many Christians, McCoys, Quin-
tails and Adamses. Now and
then a tourist visits them and
blinks in amazement at the
comfortable simplicity of their
lives and the incredible cheap
ness of living. For $3.50 a
week, a visitor to Norfolk gets
the best the island has to offer,
cleanliness, cheerfulness and
good food. And visitors, with
news of the outside world-a
world as remote as the stars to
the iSlanders-are welcomed like
messengers from Mars.
The story Of the people, be"
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

But there was just one thing
about it all that burned me up,
and always does burn me up,
through I've seen it in every
movie since Mary P1ckford flip
ped her first curl, and Lil'yun
Gish Kicked her first hiccough,
and Charlie Chaplin took his
first custard pie on the chin.
I refer to the Lovely Heroine
And I refer HARD!
The Lovely Heroine was, Of
course, the Boss Beautiful Baby
Girl. Now I am not acquainted
with this particular star in pri-
vate life. She may well be a COM
bination of Minerva, Catherine
the Great, Lady AStor and the
late, lambaSting Carrie Nation.
But in her impersonation she
had all too obviously the intel
igence quota of a sand flea
and the general disposition of
a dose of hives.
In short, she was just about
as stupid, silly, vain and dog
gone useless as they come. Yet,
in order to make a movie, she
and the Swell Cop had to go
romantic and tie up his Drawn
with her billions.
But not right away, dearie.
Oh, my goodness, NO!
Our movies may be all they
say they are but they haven't
sunk YET to the point where
they'll allow a decent, husky,
honest, outstanding young Amer
lean male to be welded, just on
his merits, to the daughter Of
a Gas Trust.
Gracious me; I should say
HE MUST FIRST BE
ELIGIBLE.
And, outside Of being a Real
Egg with plenty of brain and
backbone, how must he be
eligible?
Well, CT course he must have
"background"-be "the right
sort of person" Oh, yes; know
this is a democracy. But don't
be silly! We can't let just
Any UpStart marry one Of our
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

any Congress under any Admin
istration since the war with
Spain that the Honolulu oil
garchy did not approve.
II President Roosevelt finally
gets authority from Congress
to give Hawaii a real Governor
he will succeed where every
President since Hawaii was
annexed has failed, with one
exception.
Woodrow Wilson, when he en-
tered the White House, defied
the same Honolulu oligarchy
that is now opposing President
Roosevelt. Mr.. Wilson appoint
ed as governor of Hawaii an
American of his own choosing
-Lucius E. Pinkham. He hap
pened to reside in the territory,
but he was not a creature of the
oligarchy. And for that reason
he was not reappointed.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
American Gibraltar

The excuse Of the Republican
minority in the House for op-
posing the Presidents request
is to be found in the Repub-
lican platform Of 1882. The
Honolulu oligarchy induced the
Hoover administration to ap-
prove a plank in that platform,
which was probably written in
Honolulu. This plank commits
the Republican party against
any change in the residential
requirement for the governor
of Hawaii.
But the Democratic conven-
ton, which nominated Presi-
dent Roosevelt, refused to in
sert in the Democratic platform
of 1882 the pledge desired by
the Honolulu oligarchy.
President Roosevelt, there
fore, is living up to the plat
form Of his party in asking
Congress for authority to select
as governor of Hawaii an
American who will not be con-
trolled and cannot be ruined
by the Honolulu oligarchy.
And the twenty Democratic
representatives in Congress who
have deserted the President on
this issue have also defied the
spirit Of their platform. Their
action gratifieS the group of spe-
cial interests that has reduced
Hawaii to an Asiatic commun-
ity and made it a source Of
national weakness instead Of an
American Gibraltar.
Copyright 1898. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
Powerful Lobby

It was doubtless estimated by
the Honolulu oligarchy that it
could make or break any Amer1-
can in the islands within three
years who might aspire to the
governorship.
And the ferldal system estab-
lished by this oligarchy is so
powerful that no American citi-
zen engaged in business any
where in Hawaii can afford to
challenge the rule Of the oil
garchy because to do so would
probably wreck his business.
So powerful, also, is the lobby
which the Honolulu oligarchy
has long maintained in the
Federal City that practically no
legislation has been enacted by
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

Glorified Girls, can we?
Therefore, in order for our
swell young cop to qualify" it
was revealed that he came
originally from West Point and
was Really a Gentleman-even
though at present he was work
ing for his living.
And all so he could marry a
perfectly worthless, brainlesS
female, who'd never done a tap
Of honest toll in her life, or
thought a real think - who
couldn't, in herself, have quail
flied as a decent dish washer,
and who should, judged by HER
merits, have thanked her lucky
stars if she drew the village
idiot as a mate.
Yet, to be worthy Of her."
any young man had to be a
West Point Graduate, or sim
ilarly gilt-edged.
All because her Papa Had Oil
and she was a she.
And that's the sort Of tripe
we democratic" Americans ask
for and stand for, not only in
our movies but quite as enthus-
iastically in our private lives.
For, let's not kid ourselves
we're that way in our own
humble homes, as well as in our
fabulous flickers.
Our girls may be whatever
their dear little hearts desire
BUT THE YOUNG MEN
WHO GET THEM MUST
QUALIFY!
And I'm asking you-why?
Why should useless young
loafers and parasites be toler-
ated just because they are femi-
nine? Why should it be con-
sidered so cute for Sister to be
a Moron and General Nuisance
and SO frightful for Brother to
be one?
AND WHY SHOULD DE-
CENT, INTELLIGENT YOUNG
MALES BE EXPECTED TO
PERFORM SUCH HEROIC
SERVICE, AND KEEP ON
PERFORMING 1T, FOR THE
SAKE OF WINNING YOUNG
FEMALES WHO AREN'T
WORTH WRAPPING UP TO
TAKE HOME?
I rest my case. And, regard
less of your opinion, I consider
it a pipe.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

Word comes from the faraway
seas, from the lands of the
mutineer-from the two islands
of Norfolk and Pitcairn-that
no depression has visited their
part of the world. They can't
comprehend what is the mat
ter with the rest Of humanity.
Theirs are the isles Of the
blessed, lands Of milk and
honey, where no man, and no
woman, either, is destroyed by
the weight of work." as the
Irish have a way Of saying.
Few more interesting dots Of
land exist anywhere in the seven
seas than these isles Of plenty,
the home of 1000 descendants
of the English sailors who fol-
lowed Christian Fletcher in the
historic mutiny on the British
ship Bounty in 1889, the year
the United States became a ma
ton, and their Polynesian wives.
Seven hundred Of the progeny
of the Bounty mutineers live
on beautiful Norfolk and 800
make their home on Pitcairn.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
Human Side of the News
Lands of Milk and Honey
.Bu Edwin C.. Hill

ginning with the strangest mu-
nifty in the annals of the sea.
goes back a long way. The
sloop-of-war Bounty was max
ing her way from Tahiti in
April, 1889. Her captain was
a saVage-tempered officer named
William Bligh, a man of un-
comfortable passions. Day after
day he tyrannized over officers
and men. The worst type of the
old-time British naval officer,
who treated his seamen like
slaves, his ship was a hell of
cruelty from sun to sun. Mems
backs were cut to ribbons at the
whim of the brutal captain.
Men were thrust into the dark
hold, chained among the rats.
Up and down the ship Captain
Bligh ragged like a madman.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
Words From the Lips of Wise Men

A fool always finds a greater
fool to admire him.-Boileau.
One gives nothing so literally
as advice.-La Rochefouchauld.
But misery still delights to
trace its semblance In another's
CaSe.-Cowper.
A moral, sensible, and well
bred man will not affront me,
and no other can.-Cowper.
BY agreement small things
grow: by diScord great things
go to pieces.-Sallust.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

bombing to
set your hair
on end, and
a R e g ular
Egg Of a cop
who became
Chief Trou-
BILE Shooter
for the Main
Squeeze.
ALI of which
was fine n
d a n d y. I
could have
loved tn a t
cop myself,
a n d m e
turned fiftYl
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

In agriculture If you do one
thing late, you are late in all
things.-Cato.
No architecture is so naughty
as that which is simple.
-RaSkin.
Ambition! powerful source OF
good and ill!-Young.
Anger is a sort Of madness.
Horace.
He who has felt nothing does
not know how to learn any
thing.-RouSSeau.
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

This TOmmyrOt About Girls
I went to see a movie last
night.
In most respects it was a
pretty swell movie-the story
Of a price war between big oil
companies with plenty Of fire
fighting, dynamiting and plane
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
With cruel teeth and dreaded bite
That make the boldest quake
It wildly, blindly runs amuck,
Destruction in its wake!
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

lieve his misery. But instead,
he either tries to whistle it
off-or goes into the library
and shoots himself.
II a woman can sit in the
smoking-car and go about with
stale cigarette smoke clinging
to her hair, why can't a man
take perfumed baths and squirt
narciSSus or "Love-kiss" or 'Bou-
quet d'amour" all over himself,
without feeling that he is guilty
of a shameful feminine weak
ness? Why is an aroma of gin
and tobacco so much more
manly than the fragrance Of
violetS?
If a woman can boast Of her
golf trophies, her swimming
championships and her flying
records, why can't a man brag
of his cup-cakes and the way he
loves to putter around kitchen
cite? The best cooks in the
world have been men, from
OScar-of- the Waldorf down.
Most pathetic of all, why is a
man so restricted in his love OF
color and beauty? No woman
ever loved bright colors as pas
sionately as a man does. But,
even the most daring and dandl-
fled man can only blossom out
in his favorite shades around
the edges. And, if he has the
temerity to go in for ensemble
effects, such as shirt, tie, socks
and handkerchief to match, he
gets fearfully razzed by his own
sex and is set down as a
dandy"
A man should enjoy the right
to indulge his aesthetic tastes
at ALL times! And there's no
reason why he should go around
looking like black crow, when
he yearns to be a bird Of para
disc.
There really are lots of men
who would rather "stay at home
and read a book" than go to a
prize-fight or a baseball game
or a poker party; and lots of
men who prefer concerts and
~ Ns7~At& y
% Ne" lCLIIn
= $;Ss'si sipSl@
s.. EA5sf2A4iGI ~
art galleries to leg-shoWS; and
lots of men who would like to
cover their bald heads with be-
coming toupeS, just as women
cover their gray hairs with trans
formations. But they wouldn't
dare ADMIT it! They're too
tinid to assert their rights! =.
(Copyright, 1898, King Features
-
The Washington times., 1933-06-08
The Tinid Sex

When a woman wants any
thing she talks, howls and bat
ties for it until somebody gives
The Washington times., 1933-06-08

There really are lots Of men
who would rather "stay at home
and read a book" than go to a
prize-fight or a baseball game
or a poker party; and lots of
men who prefer concerts and
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
JUSTICE SLASH
COST JOBS

Plans of the Department of JUS
tice and the Department Of Labor
for reducing their forces will bear
heavily on the staff Of the former,
but notso severely on the latter, it
was learned today.
Attorney General Homer s..
Cummings announces that he
must save S7,600,050 from the
actual appropriation of SAL ,550,-
050, and that dismiSsals and fur
1oughs will be necessary to accom-
pltsh this. About half the savings,
he said, would be accomplished
through the merger of the Bureau
OF Investigation and the Bureau
Of Prohibition.
Those employees who can most
ready be spared will be let go, he
announced, and the cuts will af-
feet both the Washington office
and the field. Employees without
civil service status will be dis
missed first.
Secretary Perkins is assured
that she can effect a saving Of
$2,e90;000 in the Labor Depart
ment with few personnel cuts.
She expressed the belief that con-
solidation of bureaus will be suffi-
cient to make up for the sum cut
from the department appropria-
ton.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
DR.. Kerekes Sails
To Lecture Abroad

DR.. THOR Kerekes, professor Of
history at Georgetown University,
has sailed for Europe, where he
will lecture at the University Of
Vienna on American foreign rela-
tionS.
A former private tutor to the
grandcl ildren of Emperor Franz
Josef of Austria Hungary, DR..
Kerekes left his native Hungary
after the World War and came
to the United states. He became
a citizen ir 1881 and for seven
years has taught at Georgetown
University.
The Washington times., 1933-06-23

Mixed bathing at public beaches
was condemned as un-Christian
by Prof. C. P. Crager, general
conference educator, at the Poto-
mac Conference of Seventh Day
Adventists meeting on the Wash
ington Missionary College grounds
yesterday.
The bathing suits worn today
are immodest and indecent, he
said, and bathing should be
sanctioned only among family
groups.
He was joined by the Rev. C.
L. Bond, young peoples leader,
who characterized the modern
dance, theater and literature
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
Adventist Educator Calls
Bathing Suits Indecent

now flooding the land" as de-
moralizing.
He said:
"The individual who INDUCES
in them, though protesting to
be q Christian, will sooner or
later find himself fully in the
camp Of Satan"
The Washington times., 1933-06-23
2 Victims of Plane
Crash Are Identified

SAN DIEGO, Cal, June %
0.N.S0.-Two victims of an air.
plane crash today were identified
as Ensign M. E. Vorhees, 27.
Findlay, Ohio, and J. A. Sheridan,
81, Bridgeport, Conn.,, who were
attached to the United States
Navy air station here. They were
killed when their plane fell near
Descanso, As miles from here,
! during naval air maneuvers.
Evening star., 1933-10-22

surely be conquered and once wrested from
England it would never be restored
This country needs a war" he wrote to
Henry Cabot Lodge at that time; but, alas he
saw that ''the bankers. brokers and anglo
maniacs generally were in favor of peace at
any price
Theodore Roosevelt continued to be Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy for only little more
than a year. Then he resigned that Office to
Evening star., 1933-10-22

Cleveland twisted the British lions tail in the
Venezuelan boundary dispute. T. r. was eager
for war with Great Britain.
American cities may possibly be bombarded,"
he said but no ransom will be paid for them.
1t is infinitely better to the cities laid level
than to dollar paid to any foe to buy
their safety. Moreover, a great many of our
friends seem to forget we will settle the Vene-
zuelan question in Canada . Canada would
Evening star., 1933-10-22
BY HENRY ". LAWRENCE,


Professor Of History and Political
Science, Connecticut College,
I N 1905, Theodore Roosevelt boasted of his
achievements in building up the United
States Navy.
When I became President three years
! ago I made up my mind that should try
for fleet with minimum strength of 40
armorclads' he wrote land though the dlffl-
Guilty of getting what I wished has increased
from year to year, have now reached my mark
and we have built or provided for 28 battleships
and II armored cruisers. This Navy puts us a
good second to France and about on par with
Germany; and ahead of any other power In
point of material except, of course, England
Such contentment with third or fourth-rank
American Navy seems hardly Rooseveltian to-
day. but Theodore had fought hard for this
much.
The fight began in earnest when he first be-
came officially connected with the Navy-as
Assistant Secretary, nominally, though his
chief, John D. Long, sometimes felt bit un-
certain as to which of them was really IN
charge. He scarcely dared leave his office for
a day, lest his irrepressbe young assistant
should seek to give the Navy some exercise by
starting war.
About week after the battleship Maine was
blown up in Havana Harbor. Secretary Long,
worn out by the tumult of preparation, did risk
taking an afternoon off to get little rest. AS
Acting Secretary, even for few hours, Ro0Se-
welt found a chance to release many of his
suppressed desires.
I ONG'S diary relates that "the very devil had
l. seemed to possess" his young assistant
81 find that Roosevelt in his preciptate way.
has come very near causing more of an explo-
sion than happened to the Maine he wrote
"Having authority for that time as Acting
Secretary he Immediately began to launch
peremptory orders: distributing ships, ordering
ammunition. which there is no means to move
to places where there is no means to store it.
-. Sending messages to Congress for lmmedl-
ate legislation authorizing the enlistment Of an
unlimited number of seamen He has gone
at things like bull in china shop
1t was like Theodore to insist on having
bully time, even in china shop Moreover, ne
had long been dead set on having some kind
In the summer 1897 he had spoken his mind
on the subject in an address before the Naval
War College at Newport. assuring his hearers
there danger of an oVerdeVelop-
warl1ke spirit
"The danger said he, lis of precisely the
opposite character. :. No triumph OF peace
is quite so great as the supreme triumphs OF
war The courage of the soldier the courage
of the statesman who has to meet storms which
can be quelled only by soldierly virtues-this
stands higher than any quality called out
merely in time of peace" Accordingly he
pleaded for strong Navy, mot merely for
defense"
few years before this. when President
Evening star., 1933-10-22

lead his Rough Riders into the thick of the
fghting-an act which everybodys foresight
condemned severely at that time, and every
body's hindsight now approves.
RooSevelts chief. Secretary Long, later ad-
mitted: Roosevelt was right. q. His going
into the Army led straight to the presidency"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for seven years. When
the United States entered the World War, he
felt the urge to resign and get into the thick
of the fighting, but the need for his skilled
service in managing the Navy he had so largely
recreated kept him on the old and less spec
tacular job Assistant Secretary.
DERSONAL adventures toward the presidency
were decidedly not permissible at the mo-
ment when the allies seemed about to lose the
war through lack of naval strength enough
to curb the German submarine campaign.
Roosevelt of the few who knew the
terrifying situation.
Admiral Sims had been sent over to get the
1owdown the submarine sinkings, and the
ghastly figures almost sank him.
1T is expressing it mildly to say that I was
surprised by this disclosure he wrote. Il was
fairly astounded for I had never imagined
anything to terrible"
Said his informant, Admiral Jellicoe: "Yes,
IL Is Impossible IOT US 10 go on Wlun the war
if losses like this continue
Then it looks as though the Germans were
winning the war" remarked Admiral Sims.
"They will win" replied Admiral Jellicoe,
"unless can stop these losses-and stop
them soon."
rs there no solution for the probem?" in
quired Sims.
Absolutely none that we can see now" was
Jellicoes answer
The solution proved. in part to be submarine
chasers, more and more of them, to convoy the
menaced Ships and submarine chasers were
just what Roosevelt had been urging on the
American Navy.
AN eminent American historian writing In
1921, before it so common to sing the
praises of F. D. r. has this to say about his
services to our Navy: Largely owing to the
efforts of the Assistant Secretary, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the months Immediately preceding
the declaration of witnessed strenuous
preparations TO render aid to the allies in case
the United States should participate"
Following is fuller account, and a
partisan1y friendly one, this second Roose-
velt's career in building up the American Navy.
"Six weeks after his 3lst birthday, Roosevelt
took the oath of office. and from 1913 on he
personnel the navy yards and docks. and the
purchasing of supplies. He inaugurated every
sort of reform, from forcing the 'middieS' 10
learn to swim to breaking the organized system
by which steel and other manufacturers sold
materials to the Navy-at their own price.
HE turned the navy yards from white ele-
plants into busy manufacturing plants within
q few years, saving the country many milhoa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-05-11
News Events Of The
Week From BrOOkviHe

Brookville, May 9-Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Peterson of Golden spent
Wednesday evening visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Petersen:
Leonard Jensen accompanied by his
father-in-law, John Garriock of Eden,
were business callers in Franklin
Monday.
Miss Veron Eischen accompanied
by her mother were shoppers in
Sleepy Eye Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Jensen and son,
Kenneth, spent Wednesday evening
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Wolf near Golden.
C. D. Thompson of Redwood Falls
was caller here Saturday.
Alfred Thompson of Franklin ac-
companied by Vernon Christensen
trucked load of stock to South St.
Paul Thursday.
Miss Mildred Wilcox spent the
weekend with friends and relatives
in Redwood Falls.
Herman Potter and son, Kenneth,
were callers in Springfield Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. James Nelson spent Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. c. j. Thompson
at Clements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Madsen of
near Golden spent Sunday at the
parental ]. P Jensen home.
w. H. Schultz and Mrs. Vernon
Schultz were shoppers in Sleepy Eye
4; Saturday.
The A. club held its regular meet
ing at Golden Friday night when all
new members were initiated.
Vernon Schultz accompanied by w.
H. Schultz called at the N. c. Jensen
home near Morgan.
Everett Jensen of Home township
is helping at the H. C. Jensen home.
Hans Hansen was business caller
in New Ulm Monday.
Glenn;s Schultz accompanied by
Miss Lydia Bondo of Sleepy Eye
motored to New Ulm Friday to visit
with Miss Edna Lamp who is a pa
tient at the Union hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Jensen were
shoppers in Morgan Monday after
noon.
A large number of friends and re-
/ latives gathered at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. NeIs Petersen to surprise
them on their silver wedding ami
versary.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. William Engelbrupt
of Morgan spent Tuesday with their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. P. Jensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Wolf of Cob
den spent Thursday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Jensen.
| Mrs. Ida Christensen was a shopper