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of the taxpayers money in Lawful
way.
Of course, this must be kept or
the q. t., and I also believe Mary
Kinder should be warned about the
kind of clothes she is wearing, for
surely they won't let her get by
without searching her.
believe the cheapest way out
Of this for the taxpayers would be
to get John Dillinger a silk hat ano
give him job in a bank. 1t
wouldn't take as much to keep him
there as it does to buy new cars
for him and pay all of the lawyers
and cops for investigating and Wis
iting all over the country.
Matt Leach hears Dillinger is in
one state; then we pay his way for
tour Of that state. Of course,
Matt goes after Mr.. Dillinger has
left.
Then some one sees Dillinger
about four states away, then we pay
for another tour.
I believe it would be cheaper to
fix up a house on wheels so they
can take their families on some of
these trips.
I don't believe Dillinger is half as
mean as a politician that would sell
out to some light company or water
company or several others that We
are forced to pay a high per cent on
their investment and they appraise
it for more than they have in
vested. I believe it is time for the
taxpayers to take this in their own
hands and put a stop to it.
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BY George Gold Hine

ny OcOIsc OOlu nine
Now that the senate has passed
the La Toilette amendment, further
soaking the rich for the relief of
the unemployed. war has been de-
clared without stint or limit" In
The Times we see that Westbrook
Pegler has heard from his masters
when he tears the mask from the
born bunglerS, yawners, winners,
guzzlerS, moocherS, incompetents,
boss-haters and four flushers who
haven't the vision or technic to
steal money on a vast scale"
These Hoover refugees, includ-
ing dependents, number between
forty and fifty millions, increaS-
ing as savings are exhausted and
the bounty Of relatives and friends
comes to an end. The actual num-
Der will never be known as many
will not subject themselves to what
has been described as the con-
temptuouS inquisition of relief.
In this blanket indictment by
WI L tS46I, OI4S CdIl IedU CIlS SlIeII
thought OF his masters. The SOlu-
ton is not a new war-too expen-
sive. 1t is not a massacre by
soldiers and policemen - that
might get out of hand. And it is
not germs or pestilence-they
might take the wrong people.
What could be more quiet, mex
pensive and discriminating than
to put poison in the relief basket.
In these thoughts, written and
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MODELS OF SERVICE

nR r. A. MILLIKAN, famous scientist
took occasion in speech at Little Rock
Ark, the other day to pay tribute to the men
who operate the nations filling stations
and said publicly something that great many
motorists have already said privately.
Filling station employees, says the great
physicist, have improved the manners and
the courtesy and the consideration of the
American public more than all the colleges
in the country"
1t is doubtful if there is a motorist in the
land who would not indorse that statement.
Few men anywhere show such unvarying
politeness, helpfulness and efficient good ma
ture as does the man who handles the gaso-
line pump. It's time he got a bow or two.
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PegZer Branded Echo of Masters Voice

obvious between the lines, we
recognize a phenomena described
by H. G.. Wells in his book, The
Shape of Things to Come" Here
we find the exhibitionist and his
masters classified in these words
Hatred is morbid, infectious
and preventable repulse to which
the mammalian cerebrum is
prone. Acute attacks may run
together into a chronic condition
of vindictive disapproval. The
patient disapproves of his fellow
creatures and grudges them hap
pineSS."
Hence, it would be useless to try
to prevent this phenomena from
dragging its filth across the pages
of American newspapers, whereby
they become, as Wells writes:
mot so much a news sheet, but
a poison rag, every day injecting
the public with fresh suggestions
Of suspicion and resentment"
If by chance any Hoover refugees
actually do possess any of the
vision and technic of their betters,
they could display it to marked
degree by writing their congress-
man urging him to support the
LaFOllette amendment. Then they
could sit back with further vision
and technic and watch him vote.
Louis Ludlow would be delighted
to know their views. And no doubt,
Delbert Wilmeth, who probably
will be his able opponent, would
be delighted to express his views.
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"a CITIZEN" HE'S
TELLING YOU

BY E. S. Workman
In answer to "A Citizen" writing
in your Message Center on Return
to sane living and solve all your
problems:
I wonder if this fellow is really q
citizen or a backwoodsman who just
came in on a visit and thinks radios,
automobiles and washing machines
are luXurieS. Don't you suppose
electric lights were rather hard on
him for awhile?
He probably jumps in his trusty
old oXcart and goes down to the
creek to watch his wife do her
washing. When he wants music, he
listens to the wind singing through
the trees and underbrush.
This citizen must be one Of two
kinds of Yellowstone who has never
tried to just live or one who has
everything in the world himself but
wants to tell the average class all
the things they can be satisfied
without.
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BELIEVES $500 FAVOR
THE TINES STAND.
By H. Hughes

BY H. Hughes
More than $500 men and women.
who are out on strike, will agree
with me that The Times is the only
local paper which will not sell oft
the wage earners of this city for an
advertising contract.
In reply to the article, which was
sent, supposedly, by a Real Silk
Seamer, I must say that it sounds
very much like the soft soap"
which the Real Silk management
has been putting in the E. NJ. B. A.
Builder for years. Trying to fool
the workers to keep them from join
ing N body and affiliating with a
bonafide union, composed Of their
fellow workers throughout the coun-
try, to present a united front
against wage cutting manufacturers
and profit grabbing capitalists.
The fact that approximately only
twelve out of 500 knitters employed
are scabbing on their fellow work.
ers, is proof enough that Good
mans big happy family is not sat-
isfied with the way the Employees
Mutual Benefit Association COM
pany Union), has protected their in
tereSts.
I feel sure that until the man
agement agrees to recognize the
rights of the workers, production
Will remain at a standstill.
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COST OF ALPHABET
MADE TARGET
BY C. R. Edwards

BY G. X. Edwards
Mr.. Thumma seems to think that
he represents the majority of the
public, to hear him rant. Why go
back to Rome and Nero's fiddle to
find something to blame on Roose-
welt? Just let these words filter
through that nimble brain. Mr..
Thumma, and other Economy
League adherentS:
"A Bill to Preserve the Credit Of
tt United States and to Balance
the U. S. Budget?" What does that
imply? That the 465 millions of
dollars that the federal government
was paying the war veterans and
poStoffice employees which were
stolen from them by the so-called
Economy Act" mentioned above,
was putting the credit of the U. S.
treasury in jeopardy.
How could that be the case when
a few months later the alphabet
factory started to put out a few
hundred millions here and a few
billions there?
Surely the budget must Of been
made of rubber to have taken care
Of fifteen billions, when by the gov
ernments own figures only 260 mil
lions was the amount finally taken
from the veterans and postoff1ce
employees.
And, Dear Mr.. Thumma, please
don't quote the American Legion
speech Of President Roosevelt at
Chicago, for that only g6es one
point farther to prove to what de-
gree Of appreciation he holds the
American soldier who offered his
life on the battlehelds to keep the
home fires burning for the brain
trust" the Economy League and
quite some few Of the eX-national
commanders of the American Le-
gion, who have sold out their COM
radeS as recorded in the Congress
sional Record.
In his veto message he made his
sentiments plain when he said in
substance, 1T isn't the money out
lay, but the principle involved"
That put him on record as being
on par with the Economy League.
Wouldn't it be just for the dis
abled veteran and his dependents
to share the benefits dispensed by
the federal government as we'll as
the farmers who are paid SO much
an acre to let their land stand idle.
or a bonus to kill of so many of
their little pigs, and to curtail the
production Of milk?
When we disabled ex-soldiers,
physically unable to go to the CCC
or the PWA for succor, have to take
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our little pittance and stretch it out
to cover the increased cost of living
as per the 59-cent dollar, there
must be something amiss when the
federal government drops the dis
abled from the rolls only to be
added to the local roll of indigents
to be taken care Of by the country.
You, Mr.. Thumma, talk of the
vote on May g. Just forget that
date, but keep your eyes on the No
vember election. That's what caused
the feeble body of congress-" as
you called it, to override the veto,
and please remember Frederick
Van Mugs was elected for six years
so his vote to uphold the Presidents
veto didn't mean a thing as he still
has nearly five years of his term to
serve before he will have to remake
unfulflled and broken promises to
his constituents back here at home
in order to keep drawing his salary.
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HIGH PRICES BRANDED
RECOVERY OBSTACLE
By B. P. Brown

By B. P. Brown
Last June I wrote you stating we
would never break the depression by
higher prices, and I am still of that
opinion. I think there is a better
way than the NRA. This country is
known to have an abundancy of
natural resources, such as iron,
lumber, coal and oils. that should
belong to the people. But they are
all monopolized by capitalism.
Let the government take over
these resources and give the raw
material to industry. We have to
sell cheaper goods in order to give
men jobs. We have the resources,
the machines and the workmen.
It's shame people can't have
cheaper goods in their homes.
could name hundreds Of articles
such as gas ovens and electric re-
frigerators. How could a farmer
buy them at today's prices?
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LOBBYING OFFICIALS
HEALTHFUL reforms in politics are hard
n = to win

to win.
President Roosevelt spoke courageously
about taking party politicians out of the lob
bying trade in Washington. Several Demo-
cratic national committeeman resigned their
party jobs to avoid the appearance of exert
ing back-door influence at government de-
partmentS. Several bills were introduced in
congress to divorce, as far as may be- the
Democratic partys politics from the opera
tons of the government
Yet, this week when Senator Borah tried
TO call up his bill that would prohibit SEN
ator-laWyers from being used by persons or
corporations pushing claims before the gov
eminent, it was only the vote of Vice-Presi-
dent Garner that broke the tie and permitted
the measure to be laid before the senate,
Even then flibustering senators delayed final
action. In that vote. seventeen Democratic
senators voted to take up the Borah bill,
twenty one voted against it, and twenty-five
did not vote at all.
Obviously Mr. Roosevelt must exert his
influence in the senate if the Roosevelt reform
is to be accomplished.
The President and Mr.. Farley both have
been embarrassed in the present air mail con-
troversy because it was the Democratic ma
tional chairman who, as postmaster general,
Cancelled the contracts. Whatever the other
pros and cons Of that controversy it is GER
tain that less criticism of a political nature
would have resulted if the postmaster general
had been solely that, and not also head of
the party in the nation and in New York.
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a0hoLy disapprove of what you say and 10W
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItaire

I being consist in money and it's APP
plications this is not strange in a
general view OF affairs, that any hui
man-high official or otherwise
should follow the drifting current
| of an irresistible stream flooding
all life, but it is strange, and strange
with any and all, that We should
arraign and condemn in others the
very things we are doing ourselves,
and with no excuse or explanation.
The high official in attaining
height has not abdicated his place
Of individual responsibility, and it
is alone the acknowledgment OF the
common share of social responsible
ity that rescues us from confusion
and disorder.
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Height

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
For I am swathed in colored scarfs
of ecstasy;
Wrapped round and round.
A willing prisoner am I;
Self-chained and self bound.
For I am stepped in colored scarfs
Of ecstasy.
I am a fame: am a fire.
Mad with the smother Of these
colors
I shall climb wilfuIy to the peak
Of your desire.
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AIR FORCE PROBE

DERMANENT solution of the air mail tangle
will apparently be left for the next con-
gress. Considering the complexity of the stu
ation-the charges arising from the old regime
and the accidents common to the new one
this Is just as we'll, for the whole affair needs
more study and discussion than the present
congress can give it.
But there is another angle to the thing
which ought not to be postponed too long
That il the little matter Of finding out just
what. If anything, is wrong With our army
air service.
Now that the first heat of passion engen-
dered By cancellation of the mail contracts
has cooled little, it is easy to see that too
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ROOSEVELT'S BOOK
PROMPTS WRITER

By James Paxton VOORHEES,.
1t is very difficult thing for the
average citizen to understand the
justice underlying the labors Of one
in high official place, whose des-
TIMES have led to practically leader
ship Of the welfare Of millions of
people, authorizing a course involv-
ing a profit far in excess Of average
in his own interest, and quite on a
par with the principle of oyercom-
pensation, he has written a book to
expose.
A book in the interest Of a ma
tons citizenry that, at an excessive
ly high price and unusual royalties.
will enrich the high official. In our
present state Of ideas that all our
solutions Of the problems Of well
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The Message Center

(Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or leSs.)
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diplomats were present en- masse to say


II good-by
The entire Soviet Russian embassy staff at
tended. Ambassador Troyanovsky in a black
hat and slate-colored gabardine topcoat pumped
his colleagues hand enthusiastically, waved his
hat as the train left.
Mrs. Troyanovsky, wearing a beige coat
trimmed with rabbit and a picture straw hat.
was surrounded by embassy attaches, as she
peered at Muhtar through her twinkling pince-
nez
Minister Faik Konitza of Albania looked quite
the country gentleman in bowler hat. wearing
a checked tie and gray spring suit of lozenge
pattern. walking stick swung jauntily from
his arm.
In russell brown double breasted coat, the
Egyptian charge d'affaires Khalil Bey. lamented
the departure Of Muhtar Bey.
CT have lost weight" he remarked, paren-
thetcally).
Mrs. Elizabeth Tate, secretary to his Turkish
eXcellency, was a symphony in light green. Her
darker coat was trimmed in kolinsky. Her prac-
tiGed eye ran swiftly over the throng of bowling.
gesticulating diplomats:
Every important ambassador is here" she
murmured.
She forgot one The German ambassador,
DR.. Hans Luther, was nowhere to be seen.
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR ROSsO (who looks
i as if he takes a bath three times day)
glistened in the pale sunshine like glass of
sherry.
The French ambassador, Monsieur de La
bouaye, gayy swung his walking stick
"Bonjour, Monsieur!" remarked a voice in
excellent French.
Laboulaye looked up-very far up, and espied
Sir Ronald Lindsay. the British ambassador,
towering above him like huge oak tree
Sir Ronald was a miracle in brown. Brown
oxfords, brown socks, brown suit, brown tie, a
new brown hat shading his eyes, a brown walk
ing stick and brown gloves
The big Britisher-now the new dean of
diplomats-took Laboulaye's arm and they
walked down the platform, talking the very
best French
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Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABELL

NTHITE-MUSTACHED, cultured Ahnlet NTuh-
w tar, ambassador of Turkey and dean of
Washington diplomats, departed day before YES
terday for home to become a member of the
Turkish parliament.
Scores of friends were at the station to see
him of. The train platform was jammad with
ambassadors, ministers, charge d'affaires and
lesser diplomatic luminaries.
In the pale sunshine Ambassador Muhtar.
dressed in green, wearing pearl-gray spats, silk
handkerchief peeping from his coat pocket,
looked, as always, distingushed-but sad.
NE moubliez pas!" Don't forget NELL he
kept repeating in French.
To one man who said to him: mo ambassa-
dor can ever replace you," tactful Muhtar quick
ly rejoined:
My successor is a splendid gentleman"
Hats were raised aloft, arms were waved. as
the train drew out, Muhtar standing on the
steps of the Pullman. The last thing one saw
was his pearl-gray spats
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A D. A. R member from Hartford Conn.
says We should deport all aliens, arguing prob
ably that steam ShovelS can do the ditch dig
ging now
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MORBID HUMANS

TT is almost impossible to understand the
L power that morbid curiosity can have over
human beings.
When that poor, kidnapped baby was buried
in Chicago recently a mob Of 10000 people
tried to set into the chapel where the services
were being held. Thousands of them &C
cording to press dispatches, swarmed up on
nearby autos and housetops to get a look at
things. Many Of the funeral wreaths were
torn in pieces.
Women. according to one dispatch, fought,
scratched, and pulled hair attempting to reach
the entrance. Friends and neighbors of the
dead baby's family were showed to the rear"
A display OF this kind is just about enough
to make one disguised with the whole human
race.
1t is too bad that the people who were in
this mob can not get an understanding of the
horror and disgust with which all decent
people look upon them and their antics
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Ten out Of nineteen prisoners on hunger
strike at Holmesburg, Pa. quit at the end of
week, when they got hungry.
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The Omaha guide., 1934-10-27
PARALLELS AND PROVERBS

There are thousands who can give
personal testimony to the correctness
of this proverb. There are many
things which one a learn only "in
the school of experience" But the
benefits to be derived from experience
depend upon two correlated factos-
Someone enlarged on the maxlr
and made it read, Experience is the
best teacher if you don't pay too dearl
for it," And ais n may pay for an
article an amount out of harmony
with its value, it is possible to make
experience profitIets by making it too
expensive. An Illustration of failure
to profit lies in the conduct and the
unfortunate circumstances of habitual
criminals. Yes, experience is profit
less if we pay too dearly for it; and
if we fail to heed and practice the
lessons taught by it.
The Omaha guide., 1934-10-27
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1884
SKINNED MILK r
BUSINESS

Takes are high-exorbitantly high-now. And if
some public officials have their way, they will
be higher in the near future.
The case of New York is one point. 1t is pro-
posed that a gross receipts tax, and a municipal
income tax be levied ON all business in the metro
polls. The latter would be fixed at Is per cent OF
the tax paid the federal government.
City officials justify their demands on the
grounds that the city's income is no longer equal
to its outgo. No one knows what will happen to
New York business if these new proposals go
through-but it takes our seer to forecast that the
effects will be adverse, that businesses will re-
trench, or move away, that people will lose their
Jobs, that investment income will drop or disap
pear. that New York will find that hard times can
become still harder.
One does not have to be an alarmist to say that
present tax policies, which extendi through every
from Of government, are driving slowly, but In
exorably, toward national bankruptcy. During year
in which national income has dropped, the cost OF
all goverment-local to nationalhas steadily risen.
Depresson has spurred the growth OF bureaucracy
the extension of political activities and official
spending. M
1t is high time that public officials reverse their
thinking process and figure out not how income
may be increased to meet excessive expenditures.
but how expenditures can be kept within the
bounds of reasonable tax income.
We cannot nourish employmentsustaining in
dustry if we allow politics to fatten on the cream
and leave business only skinned milk.
The Omaha guide., 1934-10-27
SERVE
IN MANY WAYS

I Some of the most important activities of pro
gressive farm cooperatives deal with problems not
directly related to the buying and selling Of agri.
cultural commodities.
These problems include such matters as none
tary policies, taiffs, commodity prices and all man
ner of government legislation. The farmer, in COM
mon with all other producers and workers, is Wit
ally affected by national and international econo-
mic trands and policies. His farm, so far as this
is concerned, is no different from a bank, a serv-
ice industry, a life insurance company, or any
other institutions-in the long run, he will fail or
succeed to the same degree as other endeavors,
here and abroad, fail and succeed.
The great farm co-ops have given the farmer
something he cannot obtain for himself as an in
dividual-experts who work to- make his influ-
ence, his wishes and his interest felt. In doing
that they have been extremely successful-farm
leaders have been called in during the writing of
important legislation Of various kinds, and the
completed bills contain valuable features that they
suggested.
Thus, the farm coop serves IN many ways-and
the thousands of progressive farmers who make
successful cooperative associations possible are
building stably for the future.