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The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Slum Clearance
Washington's Alleys

recent statement of Public Works Administrator Harold
T. 1ckes sum clearance projects while directed specf
acay at the situation in Washington clearly presents
support the efforts which have here
the years to improve conditions in local alleys
Discussing the purposes Of the Administration in assisting
um clearance projects out of the public works fund.-
tary Ickes said:
The provision of lOuOcOst housing and the clearing
Of slun1s create the best kind of jobs Either BOTH
constructive type of public works as can be
undertaken.
"LouU-cost housing is needed, not only to prOUide
shelter, but to protect the health safety and morals
of people,; and it differs from all other types of
jOb-creatng activities in that it thrOws permanent
buluUark against the social dangers of unemployment
and depression.
"In the permanent economic reconstruction that
must fOLoW the present emergency, the reform of
housing tremendous scale must take first place.
Common dictates that seize the opportunity
offered by the emergency to begin it nOuO."
The Public Works Administrator find slum clearance
project well worthy Of his attention without stepping
ehe confines Of the National Capital
Dsgracefuy insanary conditions prevail in many Of our
alleys According to the police crime is bred in these alleys
Washington has for years been seeking
Ndng modern lowcost housing for those who live
novels and huts of the alleys.
Secretary Ickes should make tour of the alleys.
he does and if he studies the statistics available Police
Headquarters and at the Health Department. he will undoubt
edy find some way to wipe out most depOrabe condition
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Where Mr.. Bennett Is Right
And Where Mr.. Dern Is Wrong

Attorney General Bennett of New York swiftly to
use the new placed in his hand by the Legislature
with which to combat racketeers.
He announces immediate investigation Of the racket
situation in New York City under the authority granted him
at the special session. and declares that where the evidence
warrants he will prosecute irrespective of persons'
Such tactics what the people want, and carried
through will deal the racketer the staggering blow
has received in the city
Furthermore if carried out they will set example to
other city and to State to the
United States Government in the racketeerng
kidnapping and other crimes.
That example is badly needed
Secretary of War Dern for instance speech the
other day about the Scarlet Army Of 100000 criminals
which preys the people, and blamed the people for
doing anything about it.
It would have been to the point Mr. Dern had
planned just what the people CAN do about it and just why
the Government is doing LITTLE NOTHING about it,
The average citizen cannot 60 out and take the law into
his own hands because that is AGAINST the law.
He does however elect officials whose duty it Is EN-
FORCE the this applies to his officials at Washing
ton well those Of his State city village.
The people all right and they NOT Indifferent
crime despite Mr.. Derns views to tho contrary
Mr. Bennett seems to understand that.
Mr. Dern and other high officials should understand it and
accordngy-or the people may fit to replace them
with the kind that WILL
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
"Color" Terms

The racketeer Of today is the
counterpart of the English high
Waymen who danced on Tyburn
Hill. He is no more than the
road agent of the Wild West,
who kept the vigilantes busy
stretching rope. He is kin to
the pirates of the Barbary Coast
and the one-time Malta bands
of Sicily which it took a dicta-
tor, Mussolini, to round up and
remove for all time.
Recently the district attor-
ney of New York, in naive as
tonishment, announced that
racketeering was so prevalent
in the metropolis that it ex-
tended all the way through the
social system from the infants
milk to the octogenarian's fu-
neral.
He could have gone farther
and deeper and said that this
invisible and malicious govern
ment is only the hideous out
growth of the graft and spoils
systems of machine politics. All
this should come out in the
public hearings before Senator
Copeland's committee.
only the other day a prose-
cutting official in New York
stated badly that the failure
of municipalities to deal with
the racketeer was due to the
fact that almost invariably
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Saving the Schools
Repeal Will Help

The finest thing about the repeal prohibition that it
offers the people of the United States way their
schools
Many educators in fact believe that other way
10 the schools except by of the which
repeal will make available to the cities and States
The plight of education is perhaps the most serious single
problem before the country today.
Rigid cuts the funds devoted to made every
where.
In many States the schools have practically ceased exist
In others they operating restricted basis
give their pupils the merest apology for education
In Michigan and Indiana many schools have been forced
to close in winter to the cost of fuel.
In other States tent schools have been organized where
the climate permits because buildings not available
Elsewhere schools have been shut throughout the
and children receive training whatever.
But already with the legazaton Of beer improvement
In these conditions is gradually taking place.
When Arkansas adopted its beer law 70 per cent Of the
receipts earmarked for the school
system.
In Oklahoma, the practice has been adopted.
With this aid large number of the schools of these States
will be kept open this winter.
Without it, they would have had to close
In Louisiana it expected that the tax wskey after
repeal will enable the schools keep open for the full nine
months term
With the present revenues it would have been
10 cut the term to months.
The list States which have ab or will be able to
solve their school problems in this way is long And
the speed with which the nation moving toward repeal
should bring about materially better education conditions this
winter
To rigid prohbitions it may shocking that legal
lied beer and liquor traffic promises the only by which
many children in the United States school,
people, it will the best that be made of the
corruption which have been the fruits of the ILLEGAL traffic
to date.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Responsibility of U. S.
In Cuba Is Plain
BY James T. Williams, Jr.-

which the Platt Amendment
gives to the United States re-
main in force. No President OF
the United States and Nd revo-
lutionary rulers of Cuba can
renounce or repeal either these
rights or these responsibilities.
Thus far the Roosevelt adj
miniStration in dealing with
Cuba has proceeded upon the
theory that it was serving as a
mediator and was not resorting
to intervention. Obviously
many Cubans do not subscribe
to this theory. 1t is question
whether foreign governments
subscribe to this theory.
The record shows that the
Machado government was over
thrown and a provisional gov
ernment installed in it's place
while the American AmbaSsa-
dor, in the nominal role Of me-
diator was in constant con-
sultation with the leaders de-
manding the overthrow of the
Machado government and the
leaders who took part in the
installation of the provisional
government which has just
been overthroWn.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Permanent Treaty

The Platt Amendment was
embodied in the Cuban consti-
tuition on June IL, 1901. 1t was
also made the basis of the per-
manent treaty between Cuba
and the United States.
Cuba consents under the
Platt Amendment "that the
United States may exercise
the right to intervene for the
preservation Of Cuban indie.
pendence, the maintenance Of
a government adequate for the
protection Of life, property and
individual liberty, and for dis
charging the obligations with
respect to Cuba, imposed by
the Treaty of Paris, upon the
United States"
The new revolutionary rulers
of Cuba have proclaimed the
notification Of the conStitu-
tion of 1901. This does not
repeal the Platt Amendment.
All the rights and obligations
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

The word has gone forth
from the White House and the
war Is on against the racke-
teer. The President orders
that no expense be spared, that
every resource Of the Govern
ment be employed, while Con-
gress, through a special COM
mittee of the Senate, is collect
ing evidence and is ready for a
complete expose of a most
vicious and un-American system
which is honeycombing the en-
tire country.
It is one Of the shortcom.
ings Of a democracy that
organized lawlessness should
have been permitted to sprout
up and to mature into such a
menace. Loose laws, 1ncompe-
tent and dishonest enforcement,
open and secret alliance Of
crime with political machines
these have nourished the
cancer which calls now for the
sharp, decisive thrust Of the
surgeons knife.
Racketeering is a colorful
word. In plain, brutal Ian
guage 1t is blackmail and rob-
berry with intent to main or
to kill. just as we seem to
have developed the picturesque
term bandit" to take the place
of the real word, murderer, so
we misname these extortioners
and conspirators and tolerate,
even glorify, them in our fic-
tion and films.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

Conditions in Cuba today pre-
sent a challenge to American
authority and responsibility that
can not be denied under the
law and ought not to be shirked
before the world.
Constitutional government in
Cuba has been overthrown. 1t
is too early to forecast the re-
suit of this overthrow. At best
it means delay in the recogni-
ton by the United States and
other governments Of the revo-
lutionists who have seized
power.
This delay will add to the in
stability, uncertainty and con-
fusion Of the Cuban people
themselves. 1t will add also to
the anxiety of foreign govern
ments regarding the lives and
property of their nationals in
Cuba.
These foreign governments
will look to the United States to
protect not only the rights OF
its own nationals but the rights
of the nationals of other govern
ments, in case the revolution
ary outfit which has overthrown
the provisional government
either will not or can not or
ganize a government worthy the
name.
However much the Roosevelt
administration may hope that
developments in Cuba will not
compel armed intervention by
the United States, the Admins
tration can not withhold such
intervention unless Cuba quick
ly gets a government of the
sort that the Platt Amendment
guarantees.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

reading, you will be amazed
and cry, But how did she
know? These aren't her voices;
they're mine! These are the
questions and answers which
have gone on in me, ever since
I can remember!")
First Voice-What's life all
about?
Second Voice-I don't know.
First Voice-But is life worth
living, if we don't know what it's
all about?
Sc cond Voice-Why not?
The fact that I can't under
stand it is no proof that a thing
isn't worth while. My mind is
a mighty limited affair; there
are so few things which I can
understand. But life's a great
show. Life'S worth while, even
If I haven't the answers.
First Voice-Yes, that sounds
fine. It's grand philosophy. But
you know perfectly we'll that it
isn't enough. You've got to get
more than philosophy out Of
life to make it worth while. You
can't just watch it as a show.
You must have a more personal
interest in it; warmer comfort.
You've got to feel that you,
yourself, have a goal in it, and
some sort of a God who under
stands and cares.
Second Voice. can always
find a goal if I'll look for one.
We're not held back by lack Of
goals, but by our own ignorance,
laziness and cowardice. But
even if our goals prove wash
outs, as they're often bound to
do in these hard times-even if
all my personal plans fail
can still feel proud and excited
about life.
First Voice-How?
Second Voice-By realizing
that I'm part of a tremendous
plan which is going on, in spite
Of depreSsionS. BY reading what
wise and brave men have done
in the past and are still doing.
By realizing that it's up to me
to carry on their example Of
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
CapOne Example

The Capone case IS an ex-
ample. Only the power Of the
Federal Government was su-
preme above that Of this lord
of the underworld. The break
ing up of the fish ring in New
York is another. For years by
intimidation, gangster tactics
and personal violence prices
we're fixed and trade curtailed.
The State and the city could
do nothing or would do Moth
ing. But the Federal Govern
ment came through with 80
indictments.
Nothing less than a great
Federal Secret Service can
stamp out the racketeer. De-
prive him of the protection Of
political rings and he will be
merely a cringing, cowardly
thief. Instead of being on
speaking and golfing terms
with the police officers and
the petty prosecutors and
judges, he will have instilled
in him the fear which he and
his gangs have put into the
hearts of honest but unpro-
tected tradespeople.
He will know that an I'M
seen power will be dogging his
footsteps, a power much more
to be dreaded because it is
invisible. These Secret Serv-
ice men will not be known,
their names never revealed.
The gangster will never know
but that one or two Of them
may be in his own mob.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
And it is the familiarity of the
gangster and mob leader with
the present State and munic-
ipal forces that has done more
than anything to embolden
him and raise him to his pres
ent estate. A supreme, invis-
ible force such as the Secret
Service will put an end to all
this. Let us temporize no more.
Let us do things.
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

courage and fineness. BY think
ing what a swell thing it is,
just to be a human being. SO
I can keep myself going until
my own schemes click again.
First Voice-Yes; t h a t
sounds wonderful. And you can
kid yourself along a lot, telling
yourself things like that. But
you're bound to have times Of
complete bitterness and dark
ness. What then?
Second Voice-Those times
come anyway. You have them
whether you're a success or a
failure. Judas, for all his 80
pieces Of silver, had a blacker
Gethsemane than Jesus. Black
hours prove nothing-except
that we don't know how to
take it.
First voice-But all this talk
about God. If there really
were a God, He'd save you
times like that. You'd. always
feel safe, no matter what hap
pened. But, with all your
smart arguments, you can't
prove there is a God.
Second Voice-No, I can't
prove there is a God. But
neither can I prove there isn't.
So I'm choosing to take a
chance. I'm choosing to act
as if there were Someone who
understands and cares If
there were a Great Plan behind
all this confusion-as if I were
an important part Of that plan.
And I've plenty Of evidence to
back me in that stand, if I
want to look for it. Beauty,
and courage, and love, in spite
of our human selfishness- they
must mean something. I choose
to think they mean God.
First Voice-Sure. But sup
pose you find you're all wrong?
Second Voice. won't find
it until I'm dead-and then
it won't matter. Anyway, I
stand to win. If there's nothing
more after this, all the more
reason for making life as gal
lant an adventure as possible.
If there is no God, all the more
reason for me acting like one.
can't understand or decide any
of the really important matters,
but this much I can do. I can
decide to live my days like a
man, or a mouse. I prefer to
live them like a man, strutting
my stuff as if I had all eternity
to do it in. Then, whatever
happens, I'll have had the best
of it. And, if there's more-it
will all be velvet!
First Voice-But-
Two voices, constantly muir
muring, constantly asking and
answering each other, questions
like this.
How did she know?" you cry.
"Those voices are asking and
answering in me, tool"
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
One Course Open

The record also shows that
American warshipS were sent to
Havana last month as soon as
the Machado government had
been overthrown and that they
remained in Cuban waters until
it appeared that the provisional
government would be generally
accepted.
whether the United States re-
sorted to intervention or only
mediation when its efforts were
rewarded by the overthrow Of
the Machado government and
the setting up of a provisional
government approved by the
United States is for the moment
an academic question.
The question before the Roose-
velt administration is how it
can best discharge the stern re-
Sponsibility assumed by the
United States under the Platt
Amendment which makes this
country the guarantor Of "ths
preservation of Cuban independ-
ence," and the maintenance Of
a government in Cuba ''ade-
quate for the protection Of life,
property and individual liberty"
If this responsibility can only
be discharged by armed inter-
vention, then the Roosevelt adj
ministration has no choice in
the matter. It is only the serv-
ant of the law-the law Of the
Platt Amendment-and the law
is the master of the situation.
Copyright, 1888, The Washington Timed
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
ONCE OVERS

The sentiment strikes a re-
sponsive chord in Mothers
heart.
Women never cease to be
more or less sentimental where
their dear ones are concerned.
And when their life partner,
Friend Husband, remembers to
bring a bouquet to mark the
weekend or some special holiday,
there is a peculiar sort of quiet
joy in that remembrance.
Too many homes are proSaic.
No sentiment, no especial in
terest, no deviation from rou-
tine.
A little expressed kindly feel
ing, a change once in a while.
gives spice and just the right
kind of seasoning to keep home
happy.
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
The Human Side of the News
Racketeering Lives By Political Protection
,By EdWin C.. Hill

wherever one found a racketeer
he also found some petty poll
tical boss as either the rack
eteer's friend or his undercover
partner. This condition is the
reason why Joseph B. Keenan,,
assistant to Attorney General
Cummings, is calling for a Fed
eral detective force such as
England's Scotland Yard, and
it is more than likely that
Congress, in it's next session,
will create such force, for If
it isn't patent to everyone the
Senate investigation will make
very obvious the fact that out
lawry has been allowed to go
so far in our most populous
communities that the State is
unable to protect its merchants
and tradespeople.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

grudged paying a clergyman IS
for tying.
It has reached the point
whore a man is almost proud
Of his bald spot, because it is
at least one symbol Of mascu-
Unity of which no woman cares
to rob him.
Almost anybody can kindle a
flame-but a wise lover. like a
good cook, is one who knows
when the fire is out.
It may be hard to believe,
but the men were just as ardent
in their love-making when the
girls were all bundled up in
petticoats, puffed sleeves and
high collars, and when no man
knew what a row of vertebrae
looked like.
The man who breaks his
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

sobbing and
shrieking Of
life, tn e S e
two voice S
murmur on.
Out of the
bedlam, they
are the only
really in1por-
tant sounds.
C o n S t a n t.
ly, night and
day, they ask
a n d answer
e a ch other,
S o m e t h ing
like this:
{ And now.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Remember Mother.

How about it, old man, do
you remember Mother by pre-
Senting her with something to
show you know that she has
a right to expect favors from
you?
OF course you don't forget
her birthday, but there are
other occasions when she
would like to receive favors
from you.
And isn't it surprising how
pleased she is with a little
plant or a small bunch Of
flowers.
A corSage makes her think Of
her girlhood days when flowers
came more often.
It is not the expense Of the
gift but the thought back Of
it.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

Two Voices in Me-In You
Always two voices are speak
ing in me.
Beneath all the giggling and
chattering, the squealing and
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

dates with you before marriage
will break everything from his
wedding VOWS to your heart,
afterWard.
When a young woman writes
in to say that she has never
seen any perfectly happy mar
ried people, I can only pause to
inquire if she has ever seen any
glamorously happy Spinsters
and old bachelors. If so, there
is a room in every museum for
such rare curios.
What has become Of the girl
who once married "for better or
for worse?" She now has a
daughter who marries for ad-
venture-or alimony.
A man may forgive a woman
for accusing him Of something
Of which he is innocent-but
never for suspecting him Of his
besetting sin.
Nothing makes a woman so
The Washington times., 1933-09-07
Assorted Husbands

Many a man, who looks like
a cipher to all Of woman's
friends, turns out to be what
his wife thinks a 100 per cent
husband.
The Washington times., 1933-09-07

Funny, how cheerfully a man
will pay a lawyer $1,000 for un-
tying the knot that he be-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-28
ANDERsON-FLEsHER

According to the announcements
made this morning, two popular
members of the Kennewick-Pa
younger set stole march on their
friends Sunday when Miss Kath-
leen Louise Anderson, daughter of
Mrs. w. T. Anderson of Pasco, and
Ted F. Flesher, only son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fl. Fl. Flesher, pioneer
-Iem eIem s4oIAeuueN 10 s4uepIse1
ried in Yakima Sunday evening.
After routing out the county clerk
about ten o'clock in the evening.
They were married by the Rev.
Hutton, and Miss Amy Emery and
Lawrence Harwod of Pasco acted
as attendants and witnesses.
Mrs. Flesher is a graduate of
the Pasco high school and en-
ployed as secretary to C. M.
O'Brien, prosecuting attorney for
Franklin county. Mr.. Flesher is a
graduate of the Kennewick high
school and employed in the sales
department. of E. C. Smith Ford
Motor Company. He is chairman
of the Young Mems Democratic
club.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-28

Try and find an encyclopedia to
use since Miss Miller has started
assigning oral speeches to her
senior English class. The books
are already commencing to show
wear and tear.
The seniors were the only class
that reached the fifty percent
mark in the sale of student tickets.
Well, this is their last year to
make showing for themselves and
did their best.
/ wonder how the juniors feel
since they're upperclassmen.
The sophomores have an out
standing member in their class.
Shay Fyfe may be small, but he
is secretary for the sophomores
and manager~o the boys athletics.
The freshmen may think right
now that study period is the time
to develop their personality. Wait
and see what they think after they
take a look at their report cards
the first six-weeks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-28
Future Farmers
By Sam Schuster

The Future Farmers of Kenne
wick high had another popcorn and
candy bar sale at the game between
Kennewick high and Hermiston.
This time they sold more than
usual because the candy bars were
of the best variety and the pop
corn was of good quality.
The Future Farmers are up on
their toes in every way so as to
be able to raise funds in order that
they will be able to make Judging
trips to different places where
they are eligible to enter Judging
contests.
The Future Farmers will have
many ideas of raising funds for
the years to come. They are also
planning on holding many more
popcorn and candy bar sales at the
remaining games, so look for
them.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-28
Development Of Country
Is Aim of N. p. Railroad
CONTINUED from Page u

Continued from Page u
ed the 50th anniversary of the in
auguration of through service and
thus it now is beginning it's second
so years as a transcontinental
carrier.
2 "The Northern Pacific is out
standing in this country as an
agrarian railroad, although strict
ly agricultural tonnage carried by
the railroad is exceeded by tom
mage originating in both forest and
mines," he pointed out. ut is a
fact, however, that, measured by
revenues, the tonnage in the agri-
cultural classification exceeds all
others. The railroads earnings,
therefore, are allied to an unusual