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The Washington times., 1934-05-29
Go the Whole Way!
Recovery Locked In Vaults

With the bank deposors amendments to the steaga bill
good faith Congress should 60 forward in
the effort lift the closed bank incubus off the back of the
recovery movement.
THE BURDEN WOULD BE LIGHTENED BY FINAL
ENACTMENT OF THE PENDING MEASURE BUT IT
WILL NOT BE ELIMINATED UNTIL THE MCLEOD FULL
PAY-oFF BILL Is ON THE STATUTE BOOKS.
Under the bill which has passed the House approximately
thousand million dollars would become available for pur
chasing the assets of the closed banks
That amount would, of course be tremendous stimulus
to recovery.
It would likewise be tremendous aid the ten million
thrifty citizens who their life savings engulfed in the
bank collapse
BUT EVEN THE ENACTMENT OF THIS MEASURE
AND LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION OF 1T AFTER EN-
ACTMENT WOULD STILL LEAVE MANY OF THESE
CITIZENS WITHOUT THE RELIEF WHICH THE GOV
ERNMENT OWES THEM BECAUSE OF ITS COMPLETELY
IN THE ISSUANCE OF FALSE STATEMENTS AS TO THE
soUNDNEss OF THE BANKS.
The amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act
would pepeuate the unfortunate receivership system
That system is described by many racket
Certainly is not helpful condition because the receiver
ships highly expensive and their must be borne
by those least able to bear 1.-THE depositors
The petition to force vote the Mcleod full pay-of
plan, which would eliminate the wasteul recevershps will
completed early enough give the members of the House
the opportunity place themselves to whether
these costly receverships should be perpetuated
That petition lacks only few make it effective
AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE MEMBER
SHIP OF THE HOUSE HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT 1T
BELIEVES IN DEALING NTELLIGENTLY WITH THE
CLOSED BANK SITUATION. CERTAINLY ENOUGH
MEMBERS OF THAT MAJORITY WILL INDICATE THAT
THEY WISH TO GO THE WHOLE WAY BY CoMPLET-
ING THE MCLEOD BILL PETITION.
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
Wheeler-HOWard Bill Will
End Grating On Indians
Ru TnH1pe r. WJIinn1s Tr
By James T. Williams, T.

If President Roosevelt has his
way, the New Deal will be ex-
tended to include the American
Indian before this Congress ad-
iourns. So strong a public SEN
timent has been manifested in
favor of the Wheeler-Howard
Indian rights bill that the
leadership of both houses would
be foolish to finch before the
opposition of few special in
tereStS.
AS amended in committee,
the Indian rights bill provides
for the Indian these major
benefits: :'--.
It extends the existing pc
riod of trust upon Indian lands,
with the elimination of taxa.
ton, for an indefinite period;
1t restores to the Indians
their misnamed surplus land,
which had been thrown open
for homestead entry;
It prohibits the sale of In
dian lands to the white man.
Long Exploited
All true friends of the Indian
have long enthusiastically en-
dorsed these additional safe
guards for Indian rights. The
only opposition appears to come
from certain special interests
that have long exploited the In
dian upon the apparent theory
that he has no rights which a
white man iR bound to respect.
The Indian rights bill pro-
videS for the appropriation of
two million dollars a year for
the purchase of land especially
for the use of landless Indians.
It provides also an appropri-
alton of $40, ,0OO,O 900 to be used
as a revolving fund from which
loans can be made to the
Indians for promoting their
economic development.
For Indian education this
human and highly meritorious
measure provides $25O,0O0.
And even more important is
another provision of the bill
which requires that any In
dians who meet the qualifica-
tions for positions in the In
dian Bureau must be given
preference work over politicians
and their favorites, who have
so long exploited the Indian
and trampled upon his rights.
Thus, between the educa-
tional opportunities which will
be opened up by the Wheeler
Howard bill and the manda-
tory Indian preference, the In
dianS themselves can look for
ward to the encouraging re-
sponsibility Of gradually TAX
ing over all the work Of the
Indian Bureau.
Indians will also be permit
ted under this legislation to or
ganize corporations to carry on
business activities and develop
ing their natural resources.
This will enable the tribes to
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Traffic Cooperation
A CRYING Need

"These regulations haUe been established for the
transact necessary business these streets"
This sentence from the traffic proclamation District
Commissioners does not voice idea but reterates
thought that is frequently overlooked by motorists
Automobile drivers particularly those who afoul of the
regulations to believe that the traffic rules promul
gated simply to hamper and hector them.
They continually feel resentment being asked drive
park in certain manner yet when ese by failing
obey the regulations inconvenience hem they
sentful.
Traffic regulations after ALL merely code subscribed
by overwhelmingly majority of drivers with the object Of
making automobile operation safe and pleasant
They not attempt the part Of self constituted
group to impose ideas upon the majority.
A GREATER SPIRIT OF COOPERATION ON THE PART
OF ALL DRIVERS AND THE ELIMINATION OF THE FEEL
ING OF PERSONAL RESENTMENT WOULD 60 FAR TO
SOLVE THE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS OF THE CITY.
THAT PROBLEM WILL NOT BE SOLVED BY HAVING
A FEW, OF EVEN A FEW HUNDRED OF THE THOU
SANDS OF MOTORISTS DO AS THEY PLEASE
It will not be solved by each of the many groups motorists
seeking to obtain personal advantage and personal preference
in the matter of regulations
The city is attempting system of parking control
In the business section has recently abandoned das
tic experiment along the line.
The present scheme apparently reasonable than the
which has been abandoned.
But this modified proposal cannot succeed unless all Of
the drivers cooperate to the fullest extent.
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). MyleS Keogh's horse, Co
manche, was left alive. And
only Custer, in Difference to
his bravery, was left unscalped:
The news of the battle came
to Mrs. Custer in most remark
able fashion. Two hundred
miles from Little Big Horn
on that afternoon of June 25,
Gen. George Crook walked into
the tent of the friendly Sioux
scouts who were attached to
his cavalry unit.
Crook had a mighty in
fluence with the redmen, so
much so that they had in
itiated him into their Soldier
Lodge" a most exclusive and
secret body. But on this oc-
casion there was silence and
sullenneSs for the white man.
Puzzled in the extreme, Crook
returned to his own tent and
sent for the chief of the scouts.
It was not until he invoked
the fellowship of the Soldier
:. Lodge that he got the Indian
to speak. And the words of
the Sioux were these: yellow
Hair Custer and all his soldiers
were killed on the Little Big
Horn this morning" General
Crook believed, even as he
marveled at the information.
1t was utterly impossible to
conceive how this Sioux was
able to tell him what had
taken place but thee hours
before and 200 miles away.
No relay of horsemen had car
ried the news.
He would have known if
such had been the case, and
on the other hand, it would
have been humanity impossible
for the courierS to bridge the
roadleSs tract of mountains
and plains within such a short
period of time.
Indian Telegraph
q But Crook knew, if he could
not explain. the mysterious
means of communication among
the red men which the whites
Of the frontier called THE In
dian Telegraph"
The Sioux scout would tell
Crook no more, perhaps he
could not. However, he had
told enough to prompt the gen.
eral to dispatch a courier to the
far away Union Pacific rail-
road with a telegram to Mrs.
Custer informing her of the
tragedy.
White markers in the hills of
Montana show today where Gus
ter made his last stand and the
bodies of the men of the Sew
enth Cavalry lie in the Custer
National Cemetery. The two
edged Toledo saber of their COM
mander is in the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, and
carved on it in Spanish is the
epitaph of yellow Hair: do
not Sheathe me without honor"
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate. Inc)
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
The Human Side of the News
Museum to Preserve Clusters Last Fight Relics
BIZ Edu'in c.. Hill

In n-,effort to comply with
the will Of Mrs. George A.
Custer, who died recently, pa
triotic societies in Montana
and Wyoming are seeking to
establish a national museum on
the battlefield of Little Big Horn
where her husband, the famous
Indian fighter, made his equally
famous last stand.
Only the episodes of the Alamo
and the, Lost Battalion of the
Argonne are comparable in our
history to the tragedy Of June
25, 1876, when five troops of the
Seventh United States Cavalry
were wiped out to the last man
by an overwhelming force Of
Sioux and Cheyennes up there
on that little river in Montana.
The widow of their general
survived him and the battle for
fifty-seven years, and it was her
last wish that his accoutrementS,
uniforms, photographs and SOU
VenirS Of, the frontier wars
should be preserved in museum
on the site of the engagement.
yellow Hair" ..
yellow Hair" as the Indians
called the dashing caValryman
from his long golden locks, was
in command of part Of the
force Of 1000, which General
Terry was, leading against the
Sioux and the Cheyenne, braves
who had taken to the warpath.
The trouble had been started
by Sitting Bull. a medicine man
of the Sioux who was known IN
his own tribe as "a great coward
and liar with q big head and
little heart" 80.
There exists even today a
widespread belief that Sitting
Bull led the Indians. The fact
is that he was no warrior at all,
but was back with the squaWs
while Chief Gall and Crazy
Horse and Rain-in.the Face dlo
the fighting.
Terry sent Custer ahead to-
locate the Indians and while his
instructions were not definite,
it does appear that be did not
intend that the small force OF
cavalry should risk a pitched
battle. But coming upon the
enemy, the impetuous Custer
paid no heed to the warnings Of
his Indian scouts and prepared
for. the attack.
He divided his force into
three parts, sending Major Reno
across the river to attack from
the rear, leaving Captain Ben
teen on his left and behind with
the pack train because Of the
hilly country, while he himself
with 20T men made the frontal
attack. Reno was repulSed,
driven back across the river and
forced to entrench on the
bluffs. ...... D.. =
The full force - Of the 5000
frenzied warriors was turned
upon Custer, and only Capt.
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
By John Snure, Jr.

In the printing act of Janu'
ary IL, 1895, it is provided
that:
"The Joint Committee on
Printing shall take all needed
action for the reduction on
unnecessary bulk"
The provision applies to the
Congressional Record, that
document in which is printed
the activities of Congress.
Congress will conclude its
session before long and State
primaries will begin.
In the closing days of the
session the majority Of men,
bers of the House who are up
for reelection will insert flow
ing phrases, voluminous para
graphs and lengthy speeches
in the Record to be "franked"
and sent home for the edifica-
ton of their constituents.
House members have a privi-
lege which the Senate does
not possess. Members may
speak for moment and then
secure permission to "reVise
and extend their remarks in
the Record" SO that brief
speeches may appear as lengthy
treatiSes on subjects with which
they may or may not be ac-
quainted.
The average cost per page for
printing of the Record is $50.
The bill is paid by the tax
payers.
Had the authors of the print
ing act been far-sighted they
would have written:
'"The joint Committee on
Printing shall take all needed
action for the reduction Of un-
necessary bunk"
Missing from familiar haunts
around the Capital is DR.. Otto
Vollbehr.
At the present time the emf
nent doctor is in California.
DR.. Vollbehr should be enjoy
ing the California climate.
He once sold his $4,000, 900
collection of incunabula ~includ-
ing the famed Gutenberg Bible
to the Government for the sum
of $1,5O0.O0O as provided in the
Collins bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Ross Collins of Miss
iSSippi.
Exceedingly interesting was
the fact that after DIR. VOllbehr
sold his collection Of rare books
to the Government for 81, 500, 900
he issued propaganda advOcat-
ing that war debts owed to the
same United States government
be scaled down.
Rumors have been circulated
of late that Postmaster Gen.
eral Jim Farley would oppose
the reelection of Senator Royal
S. Copeland (D) of New York,
chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee.
Such reports are without
foundation.
Recently, Senator Copeland
inserted in the Congressional
Record a speech made by Far
ley in a long-distance telegraph
address to a New York KiWanis
Club.
While this incident, of itself,
does not necessarily indicate
friendlineSs between the SEN
The Washington times., 1934-05-29

atOr and the Postmaster Cen
eral, there are other circum,
stances which indicate that ru-
mOrs Of Farley opposition 70
Copeland are based on myth.
Copeland's record speaks for
itself. And Postmaster General
Jim Farley will not oppose his
reelection.
Extensive debate preceded re-
cent passage in the House Of a
bill to make the Florida Ever
glades a national park.
AS is customary when legisla-
ton is under consideration,
the House by parliamentary
procedure, resolved itself into
a Committee of the Whole
House on the State OF the
Union to discuss and amend the
bill.
Representative Wesley E. Dis
ney of Oklahoma was in the
Speakers chair acting as chair
man of the committee when the
bill was considered.
When the committee conClud-
ed its consideration and again
resolved itself into the House,
Disney reported to Speaker
Rainey that he wished to CON-
mend the membership because
in the entire debate.
"There was no mention Of
1egaliZed murder or the brain
trust"
1t was probably the first time
in debate that no member of
the House had used one Of its
two stock phrases.
When Senator Smith W.
Brookhart of Iowa was in the
Senate he sought to remedy ma.
tional ills.
His daughter Florence grad
uated from George Washington
University Medical School this
year: Because her scholastic
standing is rated among the
foremost ten, she was given her
choice of where she would in
terne and selected GalliEger
Municipal Hospital.
There is a sincere wish that
she will be more successful
when treating personal ailments
than her father was when he
tried to remedy national ills.
Sensational rumors about &C.
tivities in Detroit involving Hor-
alto j. Abbott, Democratic ma
tional committeeman, who has
resigned his post of internal
revenue collector of the Michi-
gan city, are giving Administra-
ton leaders headaches.
Treasury and Department of
Justice officials have been some
what hesitant about discussing
the case.
At a recent press conference
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., was bombarded
with questions concerning the
Detroit affair.
He tried to answer them but
finally said:
''BOyS. I can't answer that.
This thing has developed so rap
idly it has taken my breath
away!"
It may have taken Henry's
breath away. And it certainly
has some of the Administration
leaders gaSping.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington :
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
When Husbands Run Away
Prosperity Comes Back

Experts who have studied many thousands of
son the last 25 years say that husbands
Cned to stay with their wives and families during depres
sion than during era of prosperity.
Whatever be carfare?-desertons
decrease with hard times and pick up again in better times
Thus in 1928 of the most prosperous years his
tory deseons reached their peak But with the crash of 1929
they steadily down and remained low point until
middle of 1888 Since then they have been increasing again
and the present may expected in few years
back to their former high level
Hence suppose the middle of 1888 will definitely be
known as the turning of the corner"
That may odd way to determine the length Of
depression.
But sounds plausible, anywayand don't know why
husbands should be good index economic conditions
as car loadngs
The Washington times., 1934-05-29

organize for their common vel
fare and to gain experience by
forestry work and range man
agement on Indian reserva-
tionS.
In an effort to pave the way
for passage of this bill before
adjournment, the Administra-
ton has assented to the ex-
clusion of those sections which
have caused disagreement
among various friends of the
Indians.
Among the provisions dropped
from the original bill because
of the difficulty of getting
them through Congress at this
late day are those establishing
Court of Indian Affairs, a
, system of compulsory inheri-
tance of forest and grazing
lands by the tribe, and a sys-
tenn of certificates by which
the Indians could voluntarily
turn their lands in to the
tribe for a proportionate share
in the tribal receipts.
These reforms can come
later. But even without these
features, the Wheeler Howard
bill may well be called a
Magma Charter" for American
native races.
Knockout Blow
: One of the first and best ap-
pointments made by President
Roosevelt after he entered The
White House was that of John
Collier to be Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. Mr.. Collier
knows from long first-hand
study how forlorn and deSper-
ate is the condition of approx
mately 10000 of the nations
Indian wards. They have been
stripped of their last acre Of
land, deprived of hundreds of
millions of their trust funds
and denied modern educational
advantages.
Grating on the Indian vii!
get a knockout blow the day
Congress passes the Indian
rights bill, which President
Roosevelt eagerly awaits the
opportunity to add to the
achievements of the New Deal.
Copyright. 1894. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
WISE WORDS

My own thoughts are my COM
panionS.-Longfellow,
It is better to wear out than
rust out.
The man that bushes is not
quite a brute.
Action is eloquence.
A boy is better unborn than
untaught.-GaScoigne.
Fame is the perfume of heroic
deeds.
. Every man is odd.
The Washington times., 1934-05-29

yourself making the following
common mistakes in everyday
English.
I didn't ought to have went.
Whom am I? (For where
am I?)
Sure, I'll sign. What is it?
My private telephone number
is Begardus 9-476. (This is a
very common mistake.)
He'll Hitler!
Id work. geleddi ompta i'd imny.
(The worst English imaginable.)
You may think that these
little slips, and others like them,
do not matter in ordinary con-
versation. Il make myself
understood, don't II" you may
say. All, but do you?
Napoleon failed to take Mos
COW until it was a mass of
ruins, because he said: TAKE
your time, Joel" instead of
Hurry up. Joel" to the man
who had charge of the army.
Just the difference of three
little words!
A man in Colorado was
hanged for murder because, in
a written statement, he said.
IT did it," instead Of Il didn't
The Washington times., 1934-05-29

do it." If he had known the
most elementary rudimentS Of
English, he wouldn't have made
such u monkey of himself.
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Ino.3
The Washington times., 1934-05-29
FAULTY ENGLISH
BY Robert Benchley

A great many people use
faulty English without knowing
it. Amt you?
How many times, for instance.
have you wanted to use the word
"eleemosynary" and haven't
been able to do without laugh
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-31
MERCHANTS MAY =.
INCLUDE SALE TAX g.
In PRICE, IS RULING

(Continnod from page one) ,pu
of an article manufactured, pro-
duced or processed by the pur-
chaser. -.
Exemptions as to sales tax re-,
main the same. They are flour,
meal, meat, milk, molasses, salt,
sugar, coffee, gasoline, fertilizey,
and such school books as are on
the adopted list. ,'' 10
Reports should be made every
month if the amounts collected by.
merchants are more than $1,000
Otherwise reports may be made
quarterly. To the ordinary con-
sumner, the revised rules and regu-.
lations will not be felt, but the
larger purchasers will be com.
PEELED to pay higher tax on all
purchases not on the exemption
list, it was explained.
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FLORIDA CLUB IS %
ACTIVE GROUP HERE

CONTINUED from uage oneo
Beach: Vale Boozer. West Palm
Beach; Mrs. A. H. Silcox, st. Pc,
tersburg; Mrs. Mabel Gay, St. Pc
tersburg; w. w. Gay, st. Peters
burg; o. T. Bitch, Orange Park.
Miss Anna X. Bitch, Orange
Park; Mrs. o. T. Bitch, Orange
Park: Mrs. Thomas Pollard, jack
sonville; R.. A. Baynard, TT. Lau-
derdale; Mrs. R. A. Baynard, Fl,
Lauderdale; D. E. Billman. st.
Petersburg; Mrs. d. E. Billman,
st. Petersburg; Miss Sally Silcox,
st. Petersburg; Miss Betty Silcox,
st. Petersburg; Miss Thelma Per-
kins, West Palm Beach: Mrs. Per-.
kins, West Palm Beach; Mrs. =.
R. |. Brown. st. Petersburg; Mrs.
Alice Maloof, st. PETERSBURG; Miss
May M. Patchett, Lake City; R.
E. Boiling, Naples; Mrs. Mabel
Boersch, st. Petersburg: Miss
Harriet Van Antwerp, Miami;
Miss Laursen, Dunedin; Mrs. J.
f. Elvin, Dunedin; Mrs. Nellie N.
Benham, Orlando; Miss Mary Nc
Callum, Bushnell: Miss Kathryn
McCallum, Bushnell; J. T. Mccall
lum, Bushnell; Mrs. Claire Kim
brough, Jacksonville: Mrs. D. B.
Simpson, Miami; Mr.. and Mrs,
Hugh Kennedy, Lake Worth;
Thomas Brooks, Orlando; Mr.. and
Mrs. McNally, St. Augustine; Miss
Ingram, Punta Gorda; Miss Eliza
beth Burns, Punta Gorda.
Miss Cora Spaught, st. Peters,
burg; A. A. Clark, Lakeland; Mrs.
T. r. Cowsert, Tarpon Springsss
J. T. Cowsert, St. Petersburg;
Mrs. J. w. English, Homestead;
Miss Emma Dreis, st. Augustine;
N. M. Bynum, Miami; James w.
Ward. Miami; J. E. McCabe, De-
Land; Mrs. Harvey Jared, Miami;
Mrs. N. NJ. Barney, Miami; Billy
Gay, St. Petersburg; 7. D. Tay-
lor, Oak Hill; E. w. LaRoach, CO.
Goa; E. F. Guthrie, Vero Beach;
Mrs. E. F. Guthrie, Vero Beach;
Mrs. Sloker, Daytona; l.. R. Wat
kins, st. Petersburg; Mrs. r. Z.
Watkins, st. Petersburg. and ".
J. Matter, st. Petersburg.
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Mrs. J. Y. Merrill
Is Given Burial

ASHEVILLE. July S1.-Last :
rites for Mrs. ]. v. Merrill. GO. ofs
Fairview road who died Sunday
at her home. will be conducted at
II O'Clock this morning at Fair
view Baptist church, ~ ;,
The Rev. j. C. Cocker and the
Rev. N. B. Phillips will .offjciate.
Interment will be in the church
cemetery. .-''' " '..
Pallbearers will be T. S. Bag
well. Jess Roberts. billiard Spiyey.
Gordon Trantham, Glonn Ledbet-
ter and D. C. Wise. ~.
Mrs. Merrill is survived by her.
husband, a farmer of the Fair.
view section; five daughters, Mrs.
J. D. Gibbs, of Asheville. Mrs,
Loft Trantham, Mrs. Cecil Bishop
and Mrs. Charlie Cauble. of Fair
view, ad Mrs. r. B. jenkins, OF
Biltmore; three sons, Carl Merrill,
of Leicester, Virgil Merrill. OF
Marion, and Zindel Merrill. OF
Biltmore; one brother, M. B. Spi-
vey, of Flat Rock; andl2 grand
children. =.
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BOOTLEG SLAVES

EMINENCE, Mo-. July 81. =
CUP)-The drought has created a
new type criminal in this section.
Ozark moonshiners have been sup
planted by barrel stave bootleg
gers, who steal barrel timber from
Cooperage company land to make
wafer barrels.
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Misunderstanding you keeps US
in business. By having modern
equipment We are in position
to serve you sandwiches and
drinks as they should be.
Minced barbecue now sc. sliced
Toe. Shorty's Pig N Whistle,
South Main street. Come down
and inspect our place at your
earliest convenience. Thanks,
Shorty. "
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WAR WAS ISSUE

LINCOLN, Nebr., July 81. -
The congressional campaign of 20
years ago was recalled here last
night. Sarah T. Muir, Republican
candidate for congress, sought
votes on the pledge she would
vote to keep the United States out
of a European war.