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The Washington times., 1934-02-20

hEEH1NG NAGAA1NEs
Are you the complacent Aver
age Citizen who believes, with
never doubt, that America
is the greatest place on earth
for families? Do you boast that
motherhood is reverenced more
highly here than in other ma
tions; that we give our babies
better breaks?
You probably are, and do.
In which case you'll snort the
idea that anyone should con-
slider it a crime for financially
insecure young people to have
babies today in these United
States. But don't snort too
soon!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TT
COSTS TO HAVE AN AMER
ICAN BABY TODAY: NOT
ONLY IN MONEY, BUT IN
DEATH RISK TO TIL E
MOTHER AND CHnD-IN AN
GUISH TO THE FATHER-N
MENACE TO THE HOME?
The answer is ghastly, and
Shames us in the eyes OF the
world.
TT COSTS MORE. IT'S A
MORE DESPERATE RISK, TO
HAVE A BABY IN AMERICA
TODAY THAN IN ANY OTHER
GREAT NATION.
In spite Of our great wealth,
power, scientific advancement
in spite of our elaborate and
magnificent institutions we
lose more mothers needlesSly, in
childbirth, than any other civil
lied people.
EVERY BABY NEEDS A
MOTHER" says Genevieve
Parkhurst, YET OVER 100000
AMERICAN BABIES HAVE
BEEN LEFT MOTHERLESS AT
BIRTH DURING THE LAST
THIRTEEN YEARS. AND THE
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
OF THESE DEATHS WE'RE
SHOWN, BY RECORD AND
ADMISSION, TO HAVE BEEN
PREVENTABLE!
No, it wasn't the fault Of the
mothers, though the mothers
own ignorance, laziness and
cowardice often contributed to
the tragedy. The medical fra
ternity admits that it is re-
sponsible for at least GIL per
cent Of these deaths-with hos
pita1s and ignorant or careless
midwiveS sharing the blame.
BUT THE ONE MOST RE-
SPONSIBLE IS NEITHER DOC
TOR, NURSE NOR MIDWIFE.
IT IS THE AMERICAN VOTER
THE COMMON CITIZEN,
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
Bring Out the Facts
Officials Are Barred

i Officials Are Barred ~
The citizens of Washington individuals and through
their organizations face the immediate and paramount duty
of presenting congressional committees the urgent needs
of the public school system.
Those needs many and mounting daily.
UNDER THE PRESENT CUMBERSOME AND ABSURD
LAW THE VERY OFFICIALS WHOM THE TAXPAYERS
PAY TO OPERATE THE SCHOOLS ARE BARRED FROM
PRESENTING THOSE NEEDS IN FULL BEFORE THE
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE AND
SENATE
It therefore devolves upon interested citizens to put up
the best fight they their children are to have the full
advantages of modern system of education
The superintendent of schools members Of the Board Of
Education and the District Commissioners unable under
the law to go the Appropriation subcommittee han
ding the District bill and fully outline the needs of the school
system
This situation arises under the provision of the budget law
which prohibits officials from going beyond the recommends
of the Bureau of the Budget in asking for appropa
tons.
This year the Importance of getting the school story fully
before the committees is exceptionally important.
several years the schools have been getting along
starvation appropriations with virtually provision for the
growth and expansion of the system through the building Of
schools.
When school officials canvased the situation last
they submitted estimates to the District Commissioners The
dsregded the recommendations Of the school
officers and sashd those estimates by hundred Of thousands
Of dollars
These slashed estimates were then the Bureau Of
the Budget
THAT FEDERAL BUREAU, HAVING NO INTIMATE 1MA5T
LOCAL CONNECTIONS, sLAsHED THE ALREADY
sLAsHED ESTIMATES BY ANOTHER MILLION AND A
HALF DOLLARS
school estimates before Congress do not in the
degree represent the needs Of the school system
determined by the officials charged with conducting the
system.
Yet these school officials cannot before congressional
committees and tell their full story going back to the esti
which they originally submitted to the Commissioners
The they do to justify the appropriations rec
commended the Budget Bureau They cannot ask
full appropriations which transmitted to the Budget
Bureau by the District Commissioners.
Under these circumstances the duty of our citizens
They ask the chamen of the Senate and House sub
committees which handling the bill for hearing on the
needs of their respective communities And further they
should ask those camen to permit school officials to give
them the full facts the school needs dregardng the
bar set the budget law The chamen have the power
to do this and should do it.
THIS SITUATION, UNDER WHICH ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICIALS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE PRO
HIBITED FROM OUTLINING THE NEEDS OF THEIR OF
FICES TO CONGRESS, ONCE AGAIN EMPHASIZES THE
DEsRABnITY OF REMOVING THE DISTRICT BUDGET
FROM THE CONTROL OF THE BUREAU OF THE
BUDGET,
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

range, a stray 1ce-pack is COM
ing hurtling through the air.
either by design or chance, and
that I am going through the
humiliating experience Of being
an older man hit by a small
boys SNOWFALL. And on the
right side of the neck, just be-
low the ear.
So, when it comes time for
me to Chamber onto the barrl-
cade, I suppose that I shall do
so, but it will be with my
right shoulder hunched up
against the inevitable missile,
which, am afraid, will not be a
SNOWFALL. Until then, I keep
under cover as much as pos
Sible.
Articles By Robert Be11chIey
appear each Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday.
Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
More Poverty, Less Plenty?
A Disquieting Theory

There is much food serious thought in the report of
Columbia Universtys special committee which for than
year studying problems Of economic reconstruction
particularly in its criticism Of the NRA.
The committee while approving general aspects the
Deal warns against tendency Of the NRA to favor
striction output Of industry The report quite apty
remarks that such policy would long continued make
general mpovershmen and would solve the problem Of
poverty in the midst Of plenty by removing the plenty
Output factories and farms too great long
are Americans who haven't enough of what the fac
tories and farms produce Temporary adjustments may be
necessary to the wheels Of business turning properly again.
but the Columbia University professors quite wisely point ont
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
ONCE-OVERS

nature do not come from o
tagged and weary brain.
There will be less close appn-
cation and less careful work
when you are dead for sleep"
and that means you make more
mistakes or errors.
In fact, most of the tragedies
constantly may be traced to
those who, through lack Of rest
or some other mind-affecting
circumstance, have not full pos
session of their senses.
Plan to improve your mind,
for that is commendable, but
don't do it at the expense of
physical and mental well-being.
Get the hours Of sleep your
system requires and make real
improvement.
lcopyriEhk 1aa& .JqS EAaeeD
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
Pardon Prohibition Offenders
Except the "Big Shots"

of Federal with the Supreme Court decision that repeal
voided all the various prohibition enforcement acts.
Though the Federal courts will not be entirely relieved Of
LIQUOR cases. since will be continued violations the
laws they nevertheless freed Of Of the great causes
of congestion which hampered them much in the past
It also good that Attorney General Cummings plans
deal lenenty with petty offenders who convicted when
the volstead law in force and in prison.
When they have been guilty Of noral turptude but
merely of infactons of law which most Of the country
breaking why commute their sentences at pardon
them outright?
That would be only fair to the and would also tax
payers the money which costs to keep them locked up
The bg shots must be kept behind the bars for their full
terms
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
"Stream-Lined NudiStS"
Next Summer

Womens fashions for next Summer bid fair be fancy
free and foooose in the literal interpretation that
time -honored phrase.
sort Of exotic streamned modified nudsm is the deci
zion Of the designers who in comfortably steamheated work
shops rackng their brains to find ways satisfying
feminine demands for hot-weather fashion fancies
Legs will be almost much in evidence city
beaches Skirts will be split at the side above the and
in sports models they will be split up to the waist
Evening gowns will have stiff arpane wings Buttons will
be made of such tropical stuff ebony straw and sin
there isn't enough material to make description possible
Of the mannins yet unconveted to nuds bushed
much when they the bathing suits that the buyers
fhoughS theZ had fresh cosa Of neW MnbnEu. --..,.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

1Q6Te was uTdHld LIlo Quiet
night in Boise, Idaho-strange
drama-with an old man as
the only character and in the
strange setting Of the First
Methodist Church Of the city.
The old man, one Of the worst
killers in the annals of Amer
lean crime, mounted the steps
Of the pulpit and from it de-
livered a sermon, taking as his
text: what Christianity Has
Done For Me-" I would like to
have been there to hear him.
But I would have preferred
another subject and that, his
life story. For Harry orchard
could tell one that would make
hair stand on end.
1t is % years now since the
doors of the Idaho State
Penitentiary closed upon him
with this sentence Of the court
still ringing in his ears: And
you, Harry orchard, shall be
delivered to the sheriff and on
the date appointed shall be re-
moved to the public gallows
and thereon hanged by the
neck until you are dead! dead!
dead!-and may God have
mercy on your SOUL"
Bloody Story
Born in Ontario of English
parents in 1866, he drifted into
Michigan as a cheese maker.
ShiftleSs and failure, he pulled
up stakes, went West, and
reached Idaho in 1896, an inof-
fensive looking fellow Of 80,
short and slim, sandy of hair
and mustache, with round,
ruddy cheeks. The Rocky Noun
tain States in those days were
the center of the most desperate
labor warfare that the United
States has ever known.
Three years before the West
ern Federation Of Miners had
been organized in Butte, Mont.
It took in all the coal mines west
Of the Mississippi, as we'll as the
goldfields which had just been
opened in Cripple Creek, Col.
Active in the works ranks was
a strapping Westerner, William
Dudley Haywood, better known
then and thereafter as Big Bill.
Surrounding him was a rem
nant of the villainous Molly Ma
quire brotherhood, desperate
men who had escaped the round
up in Pennsylvania.
There are few worse pages
in American history than those
which tell the bloody story Of
the ten years in the Rockies
between 1893 and 1903. It
was capital against labor and
terrorism against authority,
with the climax coming when
Harry orchard skulked up to
the railroad station at Inde-
pendence, Colo, and planted
a charge Of dynamite. He
set it off, blew the station into
bits and 13 men into eternity.
He did more-he wrecked the
Western Federation Of Min
ers.
Two years later, in 1905, a
group met in Denver to plan
a desperate deed which might
bring about a rallying of the
radicals. Harry orchard was
sent for-Orchard the killer
and he accepted the commits
sion to go into Idaho and as
Sassinate Frank Steunenberg,
who, as governor Of that State
years before, had brought in
the troops to quen the fed
Grafton.
Orchard already had II
murders on his list and yet,
for all Of this, had some
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

MALE OR FEMALE, WHO
RUNS THIS GOVERNMENT
AND SAYS WHAT SHALL OR
SHAN'T BE DONE WITH IT'S
FUNDS.
YOU AND I, AND ALL
OTHER VOTERS-WE ARE
RESPON SIBLE FOR THE
DEATHS OFTHOSEMOT
AND THE MANNED LIVES OF
THOSE BABIES.
We take particular good care
Of our live stock, our fruit and
our vegetables in America. We
know that our health and we'll
being, our very life, depends on
such products. So, while we be-
Ieve that the various States
should have a right to run their
own affairs as they please in
most respects, we do not leave
these most valuable treasures to
the exclusive protection Of the
States.
For we know that States may
be as stupid, as greedy and care
less as individuals. Therefore,
we have FEDERAL LAWS,
backed by vast Federal appro-
priations, that guard our or
chards from blight, our live
stock from disease.
But our babies-they're diff
ferent. We love babies. We
make idiots Of ourselves over
them. When other arguments
failed to move us we leaped,
red-eyed, into a European war
because Of a horrible report that
Germany was abusing Belgian
babies.
But when it comes to making
babies a government matter in
America-protecting them and
their mothers by federal laws,
federal funds-Nix! That's
going too far! Hogs-they're
something to worry about. But
the babies, bless their useless
little hearts, will just have to
take their chances.
No, this isn't sob sister stuff.
It's cold fact. For years really
great Americans have fought to
right this wrong. In 1921 it
seemed as if they had sue
ceeded. Congress passed the
Sheppard -Towner Bill. Under
this bill the Federal Govern
ment agreed to give $4,000
for maternity aid to each State
making an equal appropriation
from its own funds.
Forty-one States and Hawaii
fell into line. Then out into
the darkened places Of our
land-into congested slums-
into areas where, for hundreds
Of miles, there was no aid for
mothers-the nurses and trained
midwiveS went. Clinics were es-
tabliShed. Instructions were
mailed. The worlds most shame
full death rate began to drop.
BUT, FROM THE FIRST,
THE DOCTORS FOUGHT THE
IDEA OF SUCH FEDERAL
INTERFERENCE THE
GREEDY POLITICIANS FOL-
LOWED ENTHUSIASTICALLY
AFTER.
Five thousand per State for
the babies? Absurd! Five mil
lion for pork barrel profiteers,
if need be-but not five cents
for the kids! So the Sheppard
Towner bill was killed.
And noW-are you so sure
that it ISN'T q crime to have Q
baby In America?
(cppgTtghb 1884, KIRGc EAaAAeS
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The Washington times., 1934-02-20
The Human Side of the News
Orchard, the Killer, Broken by Silence
By EdWin C.. Hill

scruples about his work. For
example, he didn't kill Gov.
ernor Peabody of Colorado be-
cause he feared that he might
injure the governors two
daughters in the doing. Again,
he had refused to wreck the
train carrying 218 persons from
a military ball, and when
others tried to wreck it Or
chard warned the conductor
and averted the tragedy.
Yet nothing could have been
more cold-blooded than his
murder of Frank Steunenberg.
The ex-governor had been in
retirement from public life,
living quietly as a sheep far.
mer in the hills of Idaho.
orchard, with an accomplice.
went after him. Twice acci.
dent thwarted assassination
and, as the weeks dragged on,
the accomplice got cold feet
and left it all to orchard.
More weeks went by and
Christmas Day came along.
Orchard stole out to the Steu.
nenberg home and, working
furtively, placed a bomb by the
wooden gate. On a post above
he set a small bottle, to the
cork Of which he had attached
a string. The other end Of
that string he fastened to the
gate. Frank Steunenberg came
along, pushed open the gate.
The string, now taut, released
the cork. The acid from the
bottle dropped on the bomb.
The bomb exploded.
orchard was back In his
hotel room, miles away, when
news came Of the assassination.
Well, he unused in macabre self
satisfaction, that job was done
and they would never trace the
crime. But he was mistaken.
One man, far away in Denver,
read the riddle of the murder
of Frank Steunenberg. That
man was James MCFARLAND,
detective extraordinary.
On New Year Day, 1906,
MCFARLAND caught up with
orchard and carted him off to
the penitentiary at Boise. The
prisoner was defiant, confident
that he was secure as long as
he kept silent. So MCFARLAND
kept silent, too. He put Or
chard into the silence Of muir
derers' row, gave him a fine
bed and the best Of food-and
let him alone.
Life Imprisonment
Not a word was spoken in
Orchards presence the first
day, nor the second, nor the
third, the fourth, the fifth.
That trial of silence proved
effective. orchard began to
brood. He sent for MCFARLAND
and an Episcopal clergyman,
and for three days he talked,
pouring out the story of 10
years Of murder. He was tried
and sentenced to death.
Big Bill Haywood was ac-
quilted, despite the fact that
the counsel for the prosecution
included one William Edgar
Borah. Haywood came East to
be the leader Of the Anarchists
and Communists, to form the
I. w. w. later, and finally to
die in the Russia Of the Boil
Sheviks.
Orchards death sentence was
commuted to life impriSon-
ment. He left the world %
years ago at the steps of the
gallows. He returned to it the
other night for two short hours
at the steps Of the pulpit.
Copyright, 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

part. I know that I should be
hit, and exactly where.
This conviction Of vulnera-
bility on my part comes Of
years and years Of being hit in
exactly the same spot by flying
missiles-up until now, chiefly
Snowballs. Ever since I was
old enough to go out alone into
the snow I have always been
the one who got hit on the side
Of the neck, just back Of the
right ear.
It made no difference where
the snow fight was. If it was
on the next block, behind a
house, and I was simply walk
ing along on my way to school,
somehow a large SNOWFALL
would weave its way around
corners and through an alley
and land just back Of my right
ear, where it would disintegrate
and slip down under my collar.
Next to the feeling of being
spanked, the feeling Of a snow
ball hitting and going down my
neck is the most familiar Of
childhood.
OF course, when I was so rash
as actually to be taking part in a
fight myself, 7 took it for granted
that 1 was going to be hit there,
and engaged in my end OF the
war-maneuvers with my right
shoulder hunched up in antict-
patton, thereby making myself
one of the least efficient marks
men on my side. And, if some
one in the opposing army didn't
manage to catch me on my
Achilles heel, one Of my own
mates saw to it that his arm
Slipued or that he miStOok me
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
Give Your Mind q Rest

Give Your Mind . Rest
You may be spending many
evening hours in study Of mat
ters relative to your business or
daily work or in gaining knowL
edge in a broader sense.
Each morning finds your
body sluggish and your mind
dull from lack Of required rest.
In such circumstances you
have not benefited from your
hours Of study.
To be wide awake on your
job is the really important
thing.
When you are not mentally
rested you make many errors be-
cause your brain works too slow
ly to keep up with your nervous
haste.
SaaanANt&oaR AZ an nEiainAA
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

wife and huS-
band told
Miss H az e |
Corbin when
they came to
N e W York
M a t e rni ty
Center to dis
Guys thei ir
coming baby.
Ge n e vi e v e
Parkhurst is
passing their
q u e S t i o n
along in the
February is
sue of GOOD
II O u S E.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

I would be much more &C
tive in rioting and picketing
than I am, If I were not so abso-
lutely certain Of being hit on
the side Of the neck with a fly
ing missile. This is not just
fraidy-cat guesSwork on my
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
Is It a Crime for Common Folk!
To Have a Baby?

Everyone acts as if we were
committing a crime!"
That's what a worried young
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-08-02
Gold Wanted

The undersigned is willing to pur'
chase old pieces of jewelry, old watches
and any and all articles made OF goio.
Persons demonstrating gold may co ne
10 Mikes Grocery, 1t makes no dlIIer.
ence as to the size or the auantlty OF
nieces. We pay the highest prices for
all articles of gold.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-08-02
Reward

reward of ST. 100000 Danish West In
dianCurrenev. is open to anyone that can
oive information leading to the appre'
hansion and conviction of the person or
persous that caused the fire at NOS
80 Strand Street Christiansted on June
3, 1884 oo ,,n,n
JOSEPH ALEX AMBER
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
GRAND PRIZES ARE AWARDED AT LAST
 OF CARD SERIES

With grand prizes for the series of Rebekah Lodge card parties awarded Wednesday evening. the lodge members entertained with their final party of the season at the I. O. O. F. Hall which was their annual White Elephant" event.
 There was a good attendance with thirteen tables of contract and auction bridge, whist and pinochle in play Following the exciting announcement of prize winners and their presentation, appetizing refreshments were serv- ed by the hostesses. Mrs Katherine Hooker headed the committee in charge and was assisted by Miss Edna Smith and Mrs. E. J. Blake.
 Prize Winners
 Winners of the grand prizes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
SOVIET COMEDY IS FEATURED
 THIS EVENING
Ballets and Art Players oi Moscow Take Part in
 'Marlonettes, Uptown

Chief characterizations and num- bers of "Marionettes", new Soviet film which opens tonight at the Uptown, are contributed by the Moscow Art Players and the Lenin- grad and Moscow Ballets.
 L. M. Leonidoff, already we'll known to American theatre and cinema goers for his role in 'The Brothers Karamazo," and in the film "Czar Ivan the Terrible, " makes his first appearance in the sound films in ''Marionettes.. It is a refreshing Soviet comedy about a monarchist coup de'etat in the land of burlesque.
 Legion Show Friday
 Forgotten Men" official World War picture will be presented at the Uptown Theatre Friday under the sponsorship of the Afford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Le- zion. The object of the Legion show is to assist in raising funds to pay for the Dugout's new oil heating plant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-06
HOLLYWOOD IS BACKGROUND OF
 CAPITOL FILM
Bottoms Up'' with John Boles and Spencer Tracy
 Is Delightful Romance

Bottoms Up" is rare entertain ment. Buddy DeSylva has shown an admirable restraint in his use of songs in this romance, which opened last night at the Capitol Theatre. Despite the fact that he is himself a songsmith, he has con- centrated on the story and brought in songs only when they worked in logically It is precisely this con- centration on the story that makes Bottoms Up" such delightful screen fare.
 And this is not to minimize the quality of the songs There are four destined to become hits: Waiting at the Gate for Katy" Turn on the Moon," Little Did I Dream" and I'm Throwin' My Love Away
 John Boles is at his melodious best as the singing movie hero. Teamed with him is Pat" Pater- son, charming English girl who can both sing and act-and does.
 
 Comedy roles are capably handled by Spencer Tracy, Herbert Mundin Sid Silvers and Harry Green. Thel- ma Todd has a good opportunity as the yillainess.
 The story pokes pleasant fun at the bluff of Hollywood. Tracy, Sil- vers and Mundin help Miss Pater- son put on a swell front so she can crash the golden gates of the movie capital The fact that she succeeds when she gets inside and then falls in love with her movie hero helps the plot along to an entertaining climax.
 DeSylva and his director, David Butler, have kept a light touch all the way. The result, as we said at the beginning, is rare entertain ment.