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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-01-11

IS, ahol ! juniusi kora ineleg.
ben AZ apr6 vilagtalanok eppen
az udvaron tanyaztak, OFT alltak
sorba ! Macy III latogato el6tt.
A kegyelmes minister maj
eppen hozzakezdett volna, hogy
mondjon valarnit, bizonyara ma
gyon okosat, ! yak gyerekeknek
mikor 4 mellette allo kepviseld
hirtelen megsz6lalt:
Mini, Oft jonnek a titok-
zatos idegenek.
"A ebuzafoldek fel5l, az udvar
hatuljanak iranyab6l csakugyan
akkor erkezett harom vandor q
susogo jegenyek ala. Hosszu, fe-
her kontos volt rajtuk, valami
porkoppeny fele Is labukon szi-
jakon felcsatolt scandal. Ak
el6ljart, kozepes, szikar ember
volt, hosszu, hatraomlo hajjal,
sz6ke szakallal, amelybe lagyan
olvadt be puha bajusza. Szelid
kek szemei vegtelen szomorusag
gal csak a vilagtalan gyerekhadat
nezte akkor is, mikor mar le-
tilt a jegenyek allan levo pad
kara. Jobbrol-balrol ket tarsa
telepedett melleje szotlanul Is
ugy latszott, mintha csak nez-
nenek a sen1misegbe.
A kegyelmes minister, akit
a hosszu parlamenti gyakorlat
megedzett minden meglepetessel
szemben, suttogva mondta
kepviselonek:
Elobb vegezziink a gyere-
kekkel.
Es elmondta ekes szoval mind
ait, amit az allan leend6 poll
garainak holtuk napjaig tudniuk
kell. Hogy az allan jo es gond-
ia rninden enberere kiterjed. A
yak emberekre is. Ime, lit annak
a bizonysaga, az iskola, ami a
vakokkal is megismertet alapo-
san 1nindent, meg AIT is, amt
mem latnak. Igen, az allan jo
es AIT akarja, hogy az emberek
ne fnaradjanak tudatls lsnpk, ha-
nem ismerjek meg a dolgok iga-
zi voltat. Ugy, ahogy a dolgok
vannak igazaban, mem pedig ugy,
ahogy azokat rosszlelkii alprofe-
tax szeretnenek az emberekkel
a1foldi vakok allami iskolajahoz
elhitetni. Eek elleneben vedi
az allan leend6 polgarait isko-
lakkal Is tanitokkal, alik az igaz
sagot csepegtetik a gyerekek
lelkebe.
A kegyelmes miniszter csak
idaig jutott, inert ennel a szonal
a jegenyefak al6l mely, Greg ha-
rangra emlekezteto kongasu
hang zugott fel IS kerdezte:
Mi az igazsag
A jobbr6l iil6 idegen sz6lalt
meg, aki legoregebb volt a ha-
rom koziil. Eles metszesn, sas-
szeru Ora, torzonborz szAkalla,
eres-csom6s, gorbedz0 ujju ke-
zei fel5l egyszerd hakszmestert
gyanithatott volna bel6le az EN-
Der. arnint ujra kerdeste:
Mi az igazsag?
A hosszu parlamenki gyalor.
lattal BIRD kegyelmes sminiszter1
kozbesz6las mar nem Izayarhatts
meg. Melt6sagos lassAsaggal IN
dult padon ;il6k HE IS le,
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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-01-11

Beteljesedctt rajtuk haragos
renat6 szigoru itelete:
Megtorlom az apak biineit
unokakban hetediziglen.
akoknak szulettek. Hajnal
Hes derengesebol a ragyog6
4 korongjanak sziileteset soha-
littak. csak eltetado melegs-
B ek n0vekveset ereztek. Holdvi-
Il fgos ejszaka regenyes baja fe-
q l6l csak annyit tudtak. hogy ak
B kor hiivosebb van Is nagyobb a
6end. Mem az a csend, amt a
t6k ismernek Is amely fel6l a
uapkelte el6tt leshelyen allo va
4 ksx borzongva, elfogultan me-
III: q
Olyan csend volt, hogy a
S Z 4
y q, u,agasban, tovahuzo maganos
q q adkacsa 1szarnyainak suhogasat
!; !; lallottan, !
akoh s9amara nincs ilyen
ese id sohase. A yak mezei
I'd Ike konnyii labanak sufana-
s gondtalan, legeleszo 10 pa
max nehez dobbanasa gya-
"a. hallja. Fiiszal zizzenese,
IS falevel zorgese szinte do
pergese vakok eles fllenek.
fe nond a vaknak, aki an
sziiletett, hogy ROSA pi-
ssss II ~ u q. @sss
vaknak minden fekete.
Ne mond a vaknak, hogy az
< csak ket lab mely es hat
ID. szeles.
vaknak 1lincs merteke. Anig
sscs ameddig karjaval eler, addig
van, amit mem er ell, az mar
mines.
Ne mond a vaknak, hogy ez
\ szsp Is, AZ meg csunya.
IA yak csak lelekbeli szepse-
geket ismer. Az ijeszto lepras
torz, aki keen fogja Is az ucca-
keresztezesnel atvezeti mask
oldalra, a vaknak sep, inert
leikeben is.
sta sg &c aatsS y valg7
4 q; fssriaat. met esak karara
Is.ntel q wax masksat iat. alsa,
Iat6, inert csak gondo1ataval
yIft.
Es ekkor lon, hogy a Minden-
hat6 buntetese folytan nagyon
elszaporodtak legyen a vakok
y Alfoldon Is a kozigazgatas.
amely szamontart minden en-
bert, latot IS vakot, ker6 szoval
fordult a rnagas kormanyhoz,
gondolvan: sE.
"A magas kormany az, aki
i fold kereken listen munkajat
ytgzi. Taplalia az eg madarait
IS ruhazza mez6k liliomaits,
tehat vessen gondot az Alfold
vakjaira is.
NJ kegyelmes MINISTER elol-
vasvan i kozigazgatas ksreset,
d lexte annak jogos voltat IS
osszusan dormogott:
q Ejnye no, mikor 4 tanyai
d a issolakat szerveztiik, vakok-
ma egtszen megfeledkeztiink
edig hat a sok csodabogar ko-
i5;ft vakok is vannak Is nekank
zolr6l IS kell gondoskodnunk.
kllitsanak ennelfogva az Alfol-
6n iskolSt i vakok rssz9re.
s miycl ! kegyelmes ninisz-
u olyan IL. akivel nem tana-
kukoricSzni, kiszalltak
prnban ~ Alf6idre tanult epi-
tanu1t mkrnok0k Is IA
"A iparosoI, meg tanulatlan
Ir6a akmosok, akilnek kcze nyo-
Evening star., 1934-04-28
One ''Revolution" by
Tugwell Commended
To the Editor of The Star:


note newspaper article, or let
ter, saying that Undersecretary of
Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell is
heading revolution" in the United
States. I personally have knowledge
of one revolution" he headed effec-
lively and successfully, viz: A brick
layer, member of the A. F. of L. and
it's Washington branch, was appoint
ed as a bricklayer on Government
improvement work, Beltsville. Md. at
$110 an hour. Alone he started brick
work on a new building. At end of
his first weeks work he was handed
a pay check at the rate of 80 cents
per hour. He protested against the
80 cents per hour, saying: II was
employed at $110 per hour" to no
effect. Needing the money, having a
wife and baby, he cashed the check.
On his second week of employment
on the new building two other brick
layers were sent to assist in the work.
After two days these two men were
withdrawn and put to work assisting
carpenters. At the end Of the Sec
ond week the original bricklayer, who
was still on the job, was handed
second pay check at rate Of 80 cents
an hour, while the two men who were
sent to assist him and who worked
laying bricks but two days were paid
$1.10 an hour for their work, both as
bricklayers and assistants to carpen-
tiers. Again the original bricklayer
protested to no effect.
My son brought the bricklayer to
Evening star., 1934-04-28

The jury, too, must carry its share of
the blame. What manner of men are
they, it might be asked, who think
of a child's services" as being SO
inconsequential? They should have
remembered that services include
other things than physical labor-a
smile of greeting, peal Of laughter
or a shout of joy also might mean
something to a parent; something
that all the money on earth could
not buy.
Perhaps a larger problem is dis
closed by this story from Upper Marl-
boro. 1t may be that human life is
becoming so casual, so cheap in the
estimation of the mean and selfish,
the cynical and fatalistic, that the
rest Of the population may be obliged
to adopt drastic methods Of correc-
ton. The slaughter Of a child is an
event which men worthy of the name
cannot contemplate with equanimity,
and sophistry about so sacred treas
ure as children is an abomination
which no sel-respecting community
will tolerate.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
More Silver.

President Roosevelt, according to a
group of Democratic House members,
is willing to have the amount of silver
reserve behind the Nations money
increased until it stands in relation
to the gold reserve as 80 to 10. At
present the ratio is IL to 88. Under
the agreement entered into at the
London Economic Conference a year
ago, relating to silver, it was decided
that the reserves against a nations
money should be deemed correct if
they were rs per cent gold and 25
per cent silver, with proviso that in
times of emergency the ratio could be
shifted to 10 per cent gold and 80
per cent silver. It seems, therefore,
that the President Is willing to follow
the proposal laid down at the London
Conference. However, the President
has indicated that the silver reserves
are to be built up gradually. and as
the administration sees fit, rather
than that there should be an imme-
diate entry of the United States Gov
ernment into a huge silver purchase
program. It Is said that he Is as
strongly determined against manda-
tory silver legislation that would COM
pei the Executive to the purchase Of
silver on a huge sca& whether he
Evening star., 1934-04-28
The Value of a Child.

A Maryland boy, eleven years Of
age. was killed in an automobile acci-
dent. His parents sued the driver re-
sponSible for the crash, demanding
five thousand dollars for the loss of
their son. When the case came to trial
in the Circuit Court at Upper Marl-
boro the judge instructed the jury to
remember that under the State law
damages resulting from the death of
a member of the family are limited to
the actual value of the services he
performs" and the jury, so directed,
returned a verdict in amount of one
fiftieth of the sum asked. AL of
which suggests that the legal price of
q childs life is less than many may
have supposed.
But will the father and mother be
satisfied? He who waited and longed
for q son to carry on his name-what
part Of his sorrow will hundred dol
lars assauge? She who bore and
nursed and protected the little lad
will even a single one of her tears
be dried by a hundred dollars? Let
the average man or woman answer:
What other parent similarly situated
would believe that elementary justice
is represented in such a scale of
award? Who would barter his own
flesh and blood for such a pittance?
However, it is not the Legislature
alone that Is at fault r the matter.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

see me. He still had his last pay
check, uncashed. He told me that
after his second protest he was laid
off, but on that same day two new
bricklayers were employed at Belts
Vile. I wrote the facts. as given to
me, to Prof. Rextord Guy Tugwell,
who at the time was not the Under
secretary of Agriculture. Suggested
he have my statements checked up"
and If found to be true to have this
injustice. wrong, righted. Within a
week received a letter from Prof.
Tugwell stating he had directed a
pay check for the difference between
s1.10 and 80 cents per hour to be
issued to this bricklayer for every
hour he had worked. I personally
know Of this revolution of justice
and right of now Undersecretary of
Agriculture Tugwen.
There is also another administra-
zionist Of justice and right, Secretary
Ickes Of the Interior Department, who
ordered the reinstatement and pro-
motion to a higher Federal position,
Mr.. Gladis, unjustly. wrongfully dis
missed from his previous Federal
position. If these two administration
officials are revolutionistS, may they
continue their revolutions, for their
rank and file now consists Of 80 and
9 per cent of the American people,
I'm confident. w. E. RYAN.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
deemed it wise or whether the plan

deemed it wise or whether the plan
worked well or not.
1t is quite clear that If the ratio
Of silver back of the Nations money
were jumped at once to 80 per cent.
in view of the very large gold supply
in this country held as reserves, the
Government would have to acquire q
tremendous new stock of silver imme-
diately. Senator Thomas of Okla
homa, ardent silverite and inflationist,
holds that the amount of silver neces-
sary to shove the ratio to 80 per cent
of the metal reserves against money
in this country could not, indeed, be
purchased. If such program were
entered into, he said, it would push
the market price Of silver to heights
not reached for years, to $l29 an
ounce or more.
In other words, the program of
bringing the silver reserves back of
American money to ratio of 80 to
10 with gold reserves would be en-
tirely satisfactory to the silver people.
The trouble is that they do not be-
lieve that anything of the kind Is
going to take place. For that reason
the silver bloc continues to voice its
demand for mandatory" legislation,
which would force the Presidents
hand and compel him to buy great
quantities of silver in an effort to
remonetize the white metal.
The President, on the other hand,
has declined so far to permit him
self to be forced into such a posi-
ton. He is willing to take such
"permissive" legislation as the sill
verites and inflationists send to him
though even In that case there is a
limit beyond which he would not
care to see Congress 60. He is not
compelled to make use of all the per-
misSive legislation enacted. Indeed,
he already has permission to do many
things with money and currency
which he has not done.
The silverites and inf1ationists are
clamoring for showdown on this
question Of mandatory legislation.
But when that showdown comes, If
it does come, the President, it is
believed, will hold the upper hand.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Arguments Over Gold and Silver
Confuse Modern Finance Problem

To the Editor of The Star:
The careful and informed thinker
on our monetary problem must rec
ognize the serious deficiency in the
program of either the statutory infla-
ZIONIST or those unreasoningly opposed
to any change in the scheme of opera
ton that creates the recurrent need
and demand for statutory imitation.
This deficiency lies in the failure
to provide against recurrent inflations
that are not statutory and which re-
suit in reactions to def1ation and hard
times, with consequent and inevitable
demands for statutory initiation. When
the latter becomes necessary 1t is be-
cause previous imitation through the
banking system under the control of
private and political interests has de-
veloped a price structure with fixed
charges that cannot be either sus-
tanned nor yet equitably readjusted
under any feasible plan proposed or in
use, much less the stereotyped pro-
ceeding of bankruptcy. The resulting
inequities in distribution of income
and wealth give rise to every possible
degree of alteration in theory and ex-
Fermentation in attempting remedies
Arguments over gold and silver are
irrelevant and serve only to confuse
this underlying problem in modern
finance.
Private or political or semi-political
bodies, such as the Federal Reserve
Board, can furnish no assurance that
discretion may not turn to indiscre-
ton when private or political motives
become dominant, even though there
be an adequate implementation for
control-which is not the case. DR.
Goldenweiser, economist for the Fed
eral Reserve Board, freely acknowl-
edged this before the Agricultural
Committee of the Senate in hearings
on the Dies silver bill The urgent
need for remedying this situation
Evening star., 1934-04-28

seems hardly to be gainsaid. But
how?
The writer suggests the abandon
ment of the mesalliance between pri-
vate banking and the public budget,
by setting total taxation by statutory
formula Especial tax legislation to set
only the character. not the total ex-
tent of taxation) to meet budget ex-
penditures only at a given, legalized
price index. The formula should pro-
vide for progressive lowering of taxes
and the use of publicly instead of pri-
vately free money when price levels
fall, with raising of taxes when price
levels tend to rise (quite the opposite
of the La Toilette Mellon theory of
higher taxes in depression and lower
taxes In boom timeD, so as to with
draw money or credit from circulation
and control imitation.
There is no logical reason why
money SO withdrawn should continue
to exist on the books of the Treasury
as sinking fund" to limit the use
of money when necessary to sustain
price levels, for it is only a price index
that can serve as criterion to ade-
quate limitation and control Of inf1a-
ton or deflation. No fixed, static
amount of money and credit can serve
the fiuctuating needs of business, and
if price levels (not individual prices)
are maintained at a relatively constant
level, no one can be cheated by the
issuance of new interest-free credit
(money) by the public for its own
use instead of by private interests, as
in our traditional banking system that
cannot and will not maintain price
levels while using such new money as
basis for interest-bearing loans"
Why continue to endure the con-
slant threat of traditional banking
methods to create imitation and defla-
ton that throws the legitimate profits
Of industry, thrift and intelligence into
the hands of spectators and poll
t1cians? ALDEN A. POTTER.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Calls Speaker Rainey
Chief Wrong Cuesser

To the Editor of The Star
The history of our country shows
both Of our political parties always
have in their ranks a prognosticator
OF coming economic and political
events. They are sometimes right and
sometimes wrong.
With no personal or political animus
or prejudice. and without questioning
his sincerity of purpose, I nominate
the Hon. Speaker of the House Of
Representatives as the champion
wrong guesser of this era. The gentle
mans uncanny inability to foreteu
what is going to happen is so marked
that 1t almost amounts to genius.
NO one would deny that he is ex-
tremely close to the administration.
If that fact doesn't help his batting
average on forecasts of legislation
and its effects on business, what
earthly chance has the average in
dustrialtst and business man to guess
correctly and plan his business with
any degree of certainty?
Shortly after the last presidential
election, I had the pleasure of hear
ing the Speaker address the Washing
ton Board of Trade at the Mayfiower
Hotel. How well do I recall the
sonorous phrases as they rolled ma
jestically throughout the ball room
that night.
Prophecy number one was something
to the effect that the expenses of
Government operation were to be cut
to the bone. I believe he really
thought so. Any one who has the
heart to study the Governments ex-
pense sheet for the past IL months
will testify that was bad guess number
one.
Then the little matter of taxation
| claimed his attention for a brief mo-
ment. AS recall it almost his exact
words were: Whatever is or is not
done you may rest assured there will
be no new taxes levied. The Amer
ican people are in no mood to stand
for more taxes" "Hurray! Hurrayl"
was the vociferous greeting to bad
guess number two.
Imitation, in his estimation. was too
ridiculous to even discuss. He would
not insult the intelligence of such a
flne body of men by going into the
matter. If that was not bad guess
number three it comes perilously close
to it.
I am in fear and trembling that
some one will interview the Speaker
on the subject of representation in
Congress for the District of Columbia.
If he should ever prophecy that we will
eventually win the right of franchise.
shall Immediately kiss good-by to
my hope Of ever voting.
I understand this gentleman owns
one OF the largest and best stocked
farms IN the State of Illinois. II he
should even become inoculated with
the vice of betting on the race horses
what on earth will the bookmakers
do with all the horses and COWS and
sheep and hogs that will inevitably
fall into their hands?
The Speaker could with good rea-
son, retort that failure to call the
turn" sometimes has its reward-for
he has just been Overwhelmingly re-
nominated for Congress.
8. H. MUMFORD.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
To the Editor Of The Star;

Now that the c. w. A. is about to
become matter of memory only, it
is not out Of place for one who has
marks about its role during the past
Winter and its possible resurrection in
the future.
When it was started its slogan, as
stated by one Of the District Commits
sioners. was that anybody who wanted
work would get it, regardless of need,
though those needing it most, like the
people on the charity lists, would be
taken care of first. Now that was an
innovation" entirely different from
the Hoover slogan that nobody shall
go hungry, which has been the meth
cd used in the past. and which. I'M
fortunately, was heard again when
the c. w. A. ended 1t was a real
new deal" that seemed to promise
the end of the age-old charity" game
and substituting some work" with
some pay" for everybody and no ques-
tions asked. Both work and pay were
found to be available, because those in
charge made a sincere and determined
effort to find both. and the system
could have been carried on indefi-
nitely and successfully had not one
mistake been made, which was the
cause of every pitfall the c. w. A. got
into, though the motive behind it was
good. That error was the principle of
paying "the prevailing rate for the
kind of work, as classified" The re-
suit of this was that one C. w. A.
worker, by the mere trick of being
classified for higher rate, was get
ting twice as much for doing the same
half the pay, which not only used up
money that could have been used to
employ another unemployed man, but
1t gave rise to favoritism, graft, the
Turing Of people from private industry
to better-paying C. w. A. work, the
rush of wives and other members of
regular Government workers into the
c. w. A., thus keeping thousands of
unemployed out of what was intended
mainly for them.
Had the C. w. A. adopted a strict
universal wage as low as the mini
mum N. r. A. wage, say SIS week
for 30-hour or 24hour week, for
every C. w. A. worker, regardless of
the work performed, whether clerk.
supervisor, administrator or laborer,
without any exception whatsoever, all
the evils that crept in would have
been avoided, and the appropriations
would have lasted twice as long, at
least, and more unemployed would
have been helped, as such people only
would have cared for s15-a-week jobs.
The idea of using relief money to pay
$35 a week to thousands of artists and
other c. w. A. workers because of
their being classified as engineers, ad-
ministrative or supervisory heads, was,
to say the least, ridiculous and ruin
GUS to the whole c. w. A. program.
Not that these people did not deserve
the high wage-they deserved it fully,
but not out of relief money, intended
to provide the bare necessities Of life
for millions. It was just taking the