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The Washington times., 1934-07-09
Blanket Indictment
Unfair To Workers

Secretary Interior Ickes f perfectly within
his rights when he castgates the workers his department
who 50 far forget duties and responsibilities to loaf on
the job
BUT THE sECRETARYs POLICY OF DOING HIS CAS-
T1GATING EN- BLOC CREATING AN ENTIRELY FALSE
IDEA THAT THE "soLDIERING" IS GENERAL AMONG
HIS EMPLOYEES, IS MOST UNFORTUNATE
is greatly feared that the story Of Secretary 1ckes
meeting with employees Friday will be used to create the
impression among taxpayers that their money being paid
to unathfu employees who spend their official time reading
with their feet their desks.
respect have for the Secretary Of the Interior
and the Administrator Public Works cannot believe that
that is true statement of conditions WITHIN the many Offices
which come under his control.
Possibly there among his 5000 employees two
who during the recent hot weather. have let down somewhat
on their application to their jobs
Possibly the secretarys observers when set to upon
their fellow workers. found few Of them who began tdyng
up desks and their before the legal quitting time
If these things true the Interior Departments exten
sve detective could have informed the Secretary Of the
mscreans and they could have been dealt with
effectively.
That would have been the logical and natural
That would have been the followed in industry
But the Secretary instead when informed that few Of his
employees ong called in his entire force and proceeded
give black eyes the faithful well as to the unfaithtu
Apparently the Secretary doesn't believe that all OF his
employees tarred with the same brush.
WHY then does he include them all in blanket indictment?
WE HOLD NO BRIEF FOR THE OCCASIONAL LoAFER
ON GOVERNMENT JOB WE BELIEVE THAT HE
SHOULD BE DISMISSED AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE
BUT WE KNOW THAT BY FAR THE LARGEST PER
CENTAGE OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS ARE HONEST,
HARDW0RKING MEN AND WOMEN. THEY SHOULD
BE GIVEN CREDIT FOR THEIR APPLICATION AND IN
TEGRITY AND NOT BE sLANDERED BECAUSE OF THE
FEW WHO DO NOT DO THE FAIR THING.
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My Untold Story
By Robert Benchley

floor of the Playhouse on West
Forty-eighth Street, in the ia
nous Tower Room" Here I
sat all day, amid piles and
piles of old newspapers and
photographs of road compa-
nies of Mr.. Brady's Way Down
East" and typed out stories
about how Bernstein came to
write "L'Elevation," the play
which Miss George was doing
at that time. 1 also wrote
some stories about "T'he Man
Who Came Back" which was
then on the road. The theater
was getting me-" 1 could tell
that.
They didn't like to have me
back-stage much, but I used to
hang around the boX-oftice
quite a bit, as I felt that there
I was getting a little closer to
the smell of grease paint and
"the world Of make-believe."
Mr.. Brown was also very good
company, and had no one to
talk to up in the famous
"Tower Room"
At last, however, Mr..
Browns patience wore out, as
the box-office was very small,
and, finally, on one matinee
day, he asked me why I didn't
get the he'll out of the way.
I had no good answer to this
so went over to the Cape
hart Theatrical Advertising
Agency and talked with Julius
Cohen for a little while.
I think that Mr.. Brown re-
gretted his brusqueness little,
for he was really very kind
hearted, and one Saturday
night he said to me, smiling:
"The show closes next Satur.:
day night. You close tonight"
So that ended by Broadway
career for a while, and still l
had not been Seduced. In all
my stay among "the white
lights" (two months) I had
spoken to only one woman
Miss Healy, up in the office.
She was very nice. AS MISS
George was always very busy,
I had met no actresses.
So far, New York had not got
its talonS into me.
I'm the nert installment, M.
Benchley 1DiH tell OF his Wdr
experiences and the temptations
Which Uent NTH then)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, Wedne@
day and Friday.
Copyright, 1a2t. by King Featufs"
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1934-07-09
Oklahoma NOminateS Strong
Men for Governorship
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Good news goes out to the
four corners of the country from
the people of Oklahoma.
They have just nominated in
the Democratic and Republican
primaries of that State two
strong men for governor. They
have suffered many ills under
Alfalfa Bill" Murray's admin
iStration as governor and obVi-
ouSly are eager for a change.
This was demonstrated by the
result in the Democratic prl-
mary where the winner was op-
posed by the Murray faction.
Ernest w. Marland, whom the
Democrats have nominated as
their candidate for governor. is
an educated man of independ.
ent means and considerable eX-
perience in public life. A ma
tive of Pittsburgh and a grad
uate of the law school of the
University of Michigan, he has
been an independent oil pro-
ducer and royalty owner since
1928.
A Precedent
Never active before in politics,
he was elected to Congress in
1892 from a district which prior
to that time had always been
represented in Congress by
Republican-the only Repub-
lican district in Oklahoma.
Mr.. Marland was supported
in the primaries for governor by
Roosevelt Democrats and Roose-
velt Republicans and is pledged,
if elected, to cooperate with the
Roosevelt administration in CIV
ing Oklahoma New Deal" ad-
ministration.
His Republican opponent, w.
B. Pine, of Okmulgee, is native
of Bluffs, Ill. He has been in
turn farmer, oil producer and
manufacturer. His chief public
service has been in the United
States Senate, to which he was
elected in 1924. He was de-
feated for reelection in 1880 by
his Democratic opponent, Sen
ator Gore, who had retired from
the Senate in 1921 after serving
three successive terms.
This is the first time since
Oklahoma entered the Union as
the forty-Sixth State, in 1907,
that her citizens have nomi.
mated for governor two men Of
independent means who have
already represented the State in
the national legislature-the
one in the House and the other
In the Senate.
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Bu John SnHre, T.

When the adjournment reso-
luton for the second session Of
the Seventy-third Congress was
being drafted, diminutive Daniel
o. Hastings, Republican Sena-
tor from Delaware, who has
been loud in his utterances for
his party Of late, made a bit
of mental calculation.
His final decision was that
when the Senate convened
next January there would be
a few more Senators on the
Republican side Of the aisle.
According to Hastings, the
Republicans would win several
places away from Democratic
majority before Congress be-
came embroiled next year.
He decided that the Republic
ans would certainly win two
seats, had a fair chance to win
four places and might win six.
AS the present membership
is so Democrats, IS Republic
ans and one Farmer-Labor,
the change would have been
most advantageous to the Bull
men or attendants Of the we'll
known Elephant.
From all reports, however,
little Dan was too optimistic.
A Republican leader says
that Hastings was wrong. He
predicts that the change will
be to the advantage of the
disciples of the braying Donkey,
despite the fact that he is a
staunch member of the G. o. p.
His theory is that the Re
publicans will lose at least two
seats, have q fair chance Of
losing four and may be counted
cut of seven.
In the last session, the Demo
Gratis rode rough-shod over the
opposition in most instances
and if they win additional seats
there is no telling what they
will try to put across.
The Republican leader ad'
mitted that he was anxious
about the seat now occupied by
Senator Lee Goldsborough Of
Maryland. Also in doubt, he
said, was the position of sena-
tor Henry D. Hatfield of West
Virginia.
A party feud in Rhode
Island is going to force Sena-
tor Felix Hebert to put up a
strong fight if he intends COM
ing back to Congress next
year.
And the arid friend of the
old Anti-Saloon League, Sena-
tor Simeon Fess of Ohio, is
going to have his work cut out
for him in his coming cam
paign. Two or three others
are in doubt.
If by chance, and the pos
Sibility is rather remote, that
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tuberculosis Hospital
Money, Not Site, Is Question

Money NOL Due, Is NEueSClOH
The difference opinion which has cropped up the pro-
posed the tuberculosis hospital that Washington needs
badly be unfortunate if it delay in obtaining
the authorized allotment the Public Works Administration
There talk of building the hospital in the Blue
Ridge Mountains other site instead Of the
property which the District by and upon which Is
about to complete children sanatorUm.
made clear just who is insisting upon changing the
site upon which Congress several authorized con-
structon of the hospital. .
That possibly ideal but it chosen being the
best available by committee of experts
The advantages the proposed location in the mountains
somewhat dubious 1t is claimed that the climate in such
location would preferable to that of the site nearer the
That may true but there disadvantages which would
offset that claim
It generally recognized that the treatment for tuberculosis
now consists 80 per mental and physical rest 80
cent fresh air. per cent good food and only 10 per cent
climate.
THE PATIENTS WOULD PROBABLY REST WITH
GREATER EASE AND ENJOY GREATER MENTAL CON
TENTMENT IF THEY WERE NEAR THE CITY AND WERE
ABLE TO RECEIVE OCCASIONAL VISITS FROM THEIR
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS MANY WOULD HESITATE
TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF IT WERE LOCATED AT A
GREAT DISTANCE FROM THE CITY.
addition that it would be possible to obtain more readily
the services surgeons if the hospital the CITY,
The important thing is not to squabble over location
however but united front to Public Works Ad
nistrator Ickes effort to obtain the loan which is
essential if the institution is ever to be built.
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The cause Of popular govern
ment would be the gamer
North, East, South and West if
the other "a States which elect
governors in 1884 would elect
men qualified by character and
experience for an office that
ought to be second in impor-
tance once to the exalted office
of the presidency.
What the President is to the
people of the United States. the
governor should strive to be to
the people of his own State.
The governor is the only State
official who represents all of his
State, just as the President is
the only Federal official who
represents the whole American
people in their corporate ca
pacity as a nation.
For the most part the pow
ers of a governor are execu-
tive powers. Theoretically he
has no legislative functions,
but in practice he can, if he
is a strong leader, exercise a
tremendous influence over the
course of legislation.
Certainly in the gigantic
task of undermining the obso-
lete system of county and local
government which inflictS
nearly every State in the
Union, the leadership Of a
strong governor is essential II
the people are ever to throw
off the yoke of oxcart gov
ernment and substitute popu-
lar government for the sordid
exploitation which pork-barrel
politicians have the effrontery
to call government.
There was a natural preju-
dice against the office Of gov"
ernor among the trainers OF
the original 13 State constitu'
tions. This prejudice. as DR..
William Bennett Munro in his
authoritative book on "The
Government of the United
States" explains, was "a
legacy from colonial days when
the governor had to carry out
the instructions which came to
him from England and hence
obtained on many occasions a
reputation for high-handedness
which was not Of his own
making"
Situation Changed
This was the reason why
these original constitutions
made the legislature the pre-
dominant arm of the Govern
ment in all the States and re-
duced the office of governor to
a post Of relatively small i'm
portance.
During the last $50 years this
situation has entirely changed
but there is still plenty of room
for improvement in the type of
men elected to the office Of
governor, even in recent years
in most of the States OF the
Union.
And seldom in American his
tory has there been greater
need in the several States for
the leadership of action which
only a strong governor can raise
up-a leadership strong enough
to force the moderniZing of our
obsolete system Of county and
local government.
Copyright. 1884. The Washington
Times.)
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compromised by borrowing a
hundred from one, two hundred
from another, and fifty cents
from a third. I shall never for
get their kindness.
Fortunately for me, one Of
them also got me a position as
press-agent, which paid twice
as much as my old newspaper
job had paid and threw me at
once into the maelstrom of
theatrical life on Broadway.
Here, at last, it looked as if my
dreams of being Seduced into
some form of wickedness were
coming true. You know that
theatrical crowd in New York!
Hot dickety!
I told Mama that I was
working for B. R. T., as I
didn't want her to worry. To
this day she doesn't know that
was in the employ of a the
atrical producer. Neither does
the theatrical producer.
My office was on the top
The Washington times., 1934-07-09
More Fairgrounds
Safety for Children

The opening of additional Fairgrounds for the children Of
the city during the months should prompt parents to
insist that their children utilize these spaces instead Of play
ing upon the dangerous streets.
Washington is far short of adequate number of play
grounds as rule but the opening of go school grounds by
the Municipal Playground Department will go far to over
this shortage
Well equipped for all kinds of sports the Fairgrounds are
conducted under expert supervision and there
ducement for children to utilize them rather than to have
them create for themselves and for others by play
ing in the streets.
PARENTS WILL DO WELL TO FAMILIARIZE THEM
SELVES WITH THE FAIRGROUNDS IN THEIR NEIGH
BORHOODS, VISITING THEM AND B COMING AC-
QUAINTED WITH THE SUPERVISORS AND WITH THE
WORK WHICH IS GOING ON THERE.
The Fairgrounds have not been established to hamper the
children prevent their enjoying themselves their
whims dictate
BUT THEY HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED TO GIVE THE
CHILDREN THE BEST POSSIBLE PLAY OPPORTUNITY
UNDER THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS
It the parents to that the children utilize them
BY doing they help to prevent many tragic acci
dents which otherwise will blight many homes in the city
before the summer is
The Washington times., 1934-07-09
The Human Side of the News
Politics and Boil Weevil Active In South
By EdWin C.. Hill

It is never too hot for politics
in the Southland. Sizzling days
and sizzling campaigns go hand
in hand, as witness the present
senatorial contest in Mississippi,
where Thomas G.. Bilbo and
Hubert D. Stephens strive for
the seat once occupied by the
noblest Mississippian Of them
all. John Sharp Williams.
Stephens is the incumbent,
but the picturesque and ener-
getic Bilbo has left the Agricul-
tural Administration to the
Peeks and the Tugwells, and
shaken the dust of Washington
from his heels to offer himself
once more to the people of his
State. Stephens, in his IL years
in the Senate, has kept in the
background, while the spotlight
has played continuously on his
senior colleague, the brilliant
Pat Harrison.
Headline Maker
Bilbo, on the other hand, is a
headline maker with his own
ideas, and very often unique
ones, on the affairs of the mo-
ment. Teacher, preacher, law.
yer and editor, he served two
terms as governor, one from
1916 to 1920, the other from
1928 to 1892. His last term
was marked by that classic Incl
dent wherein he dumped the
bills he wanted passed on the
desks of the legislators with
this message: "Sign or resign
with your God overlooking you"
He came to Washington with
the New Deal and was tucked
away in an obscure post. But
they could not hide Tom Bilbo's
light under a buShel of wheat
or a bale of cotton. The learned
doctor and the dirt farmers,
grown expert, sought out a solu"
tion of the farmers problem
along the lines Of curtailed
acreage and export markets.
Whereupon Tom Bilbo called
in the reporters and prescribed
the remedy for the South at
least. why" he asked in his
best rhetorical fashion, "do the
women of America have to wear
silk lingerie and silk stockings.
Let them change to cotton, and
then we will have no surplus"
The Senate, Mississippi and
cotton-they take me back
three years to a plantation
Cedar Grove, in the Yazoo
Hills. We sat and talked for
an hour in the library of that
century-old house, its master
and myself. He was John Sharp
Williams, who had voluntarily
left public life, disguised with
its hypocrisies. Back home in
the Yazoo Hills he had made
bonfire of the documents and
papers of his career.
We spoke Of the giants Of
late past, Theodore Roosevelt,
woodrow Wilson and of the
glamour of the old South. He
reminded me of that grand, old
warrior of StevenSon's tale, who
gave the nights lodging to
Francois Villon, as his steel
blue eyes flashed under heavy
brows and his grizzled mus
tache yelled the humor of his
sensitive mouth.
The case of the HapSburgS Is
different and less hopeful. The
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the Democrats should gain
seven seats so as to increase
their present membership to
81 and the Republicans have
their membership of 35 re-
duced to 20, there would be q
hot time in this old town next
January.
No man in the District gov
ernment has been as active in
the fight against the "kick.
back" racket as Engineer
Commissioner John C. Gotwals.
He has fought this oppres-
sion of laborers who we're
forced to "kick back" part of
their salaries to greedy en-
ployers. There is a good rea-
son for his activity.
At one time Major GotwalS
was in Alaska and had much
to do with the construction Of
the Alaska railroad.
At that time the "kick-back"
racket was widely used in
Alaska and it took Gotwals to
ferret out some of the offenses.
He tells of putting on Old
clothes and going to the fore
men of gangs.
He tells:
II once went up to a fore
man and asked for a job.
"He said / could have a job
IL 1 paid back so cents day.
/ asked to whom it should be
paid and he told me he would
take the money!"
Since that time Major Got
walls has realized the danger
of the racket and has made
every effort to have it out
lawed in Washington.
President Roosevelt visits
Puerto Rico and sees the island
in it's holiday array.
Driven around by Gov. Blan-
ton Winship, he witnesses the
veritable "poor house" at its
best. It is doubtful, friends
of the island say, that he could
see the squalor underneath.
Despite it's potential economic
value to the people of Puerto
Rico, the island furnishes little
toward their well-being. DOM
mating interests, it is said, take
every possible dollar out of the
island so that it's productions
pay the working classes a pal
try pittance.
But when the President ar
rives they dress the island up
so that it is at its best. To
morrow, they probably will
wonder if it would not have
been better to leave off the
decorations and let the Chief
Executive visualize for himself
the horrible conditions which
exist in the Caribbean de-
tendency.
Copyright 1884. The Washington Times
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WISE WORDS

The want of money is the
root of much evil.
An ounce Of patience Is worth
a pound Of brains.
Reading maketh a full man.
conference a ready man, and
writing an exact man.
The empty vessel makes the
greatest sound.
Take the vine of a good soil
and the daughter of a good
mother.
Men resemble the gods In
nothing 50 much as in doing
good to their fellow creatures.
The Washington times., 1934-07-09

one-time empire Of Franz Jo-
Seph, ripped apart by the treaty
makers of Versailles, is given
over to such dissension and tur.
moil as makes any prediction Of
the future like seeing through a
dark glass.
In CONSTRUCTED and crippled
Austria, little Chancellor Engel-
bert Dollfuss clings to power,
suspended perilously between
the Socialists and the NaziS,
with Hitler frowning ominously
just over the border. In Hun
gary, sadly reduced in territory
and resources by the terms of
the Peace of Versailles, Admiral
Horthy holds on as regent.
More Coins
Uncle Sans money-making
plant in Philadelphia is hard
pressed keeping up with the
demand for quarters and pen.
nies being made upon it by
the Federal Reserve Banks.
Depression or no depression,
the mint turns out about
twenty-five million coins a year
in addition to making money
for South American countries
and medals for the Army and
Navy.
Metal bars, two feet long,
four inches wide and an inch
thick are rolled out to twelve
feet in length. stamped and
put through a cutting machine
which produces three hundred
coins g. minute. This seems
quite a lot, but when we are
accustomed to talk of billions
in budgets and war debts, the
sum of one million, one hun
dred and ten thousand, two
hundred dollars is quite in
significant.
yet, IN the last fiscal year,
the mint had to produce three
million, seven hundred and
eighty-eight thousand quarters,
and sixteen million, three
hundred and thirty-two thou
sand pennies to make up that
sum.
In the years between 1929
and 1882 money was not cir
culating at any appreciable
pace and the mint stored up
a surplus. But now this surplus
is gone and the only explana-
ton is the one of better times
and a wider flow of the coin
of the realm.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-07-09

A brother is friend given
by nature.-J. B. Legouve.
He was a coward to the
strong; he was a tyrant to the
weak.-Shelley.
A fault mender is better than
a fault finder.
Art still has truth-take ref
uge therein. Arnold.
OF all people children are the
most imaginative.-Macaulay.
An enemy is a thorn in the
quilt.
When in doubt what to do
don't do 1t.
The Washington times., 1934-07-09
CHAPTER II

OAAf L EN- HI
On being told that I was no
longer a reporter on the
Tribune Chat would be the old
Tribune, introduced by P. T.
Barnum into this country with
great success at Castle Garden,
now the Aquarium) I was in
a quandary, as you may well
imagine. I had been two years
in New York, associating with
a group of men who were, for
the most part, taetotalers, and
had not even learned to drink.
Neither could inhale very well.
I didn't tell Mama that I had
lost my job, as Mama was up in
New England, and I had no one
to go to with my troubles except
several wealthy men who had
offered to lend me money. 1
hated to accept money from
men, however, as you know how
that looks when it comes out in
the papers at the trial. So I
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1H WASHINGTON ss 1917
managing
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-10
monthly wage rate, - . percentage

monthly wage rate. - . percentage
Of the corresponding ls7e rats. "a
have been: In general manufacturing
l0l Per cent, textiles and products %
per cent, machinery not includins
transportation equipment III POI
cent, and In iron and steel 1lo pa
cent. Comparing these debt-payinn
equality wage rates With those &C.
tually received, W find great dispaSi-
ties between the two. Tor tho aver
age employee In each type a indus
try In the order given above. These
disparities were -, 10, q and q per
cent. The average iron and steel
worker, with his % per cent disparity,
has therefore suffered the most II his
debt-paying ability, whereas the
average textile worker With his il
per cent disparity has suffered the
least. All, however, have suffered.
No doubt many who stu need and
are now denied consideration BY the
Home Owners Loan Corporation viii
find It difficult or perhaps impossible
to get along without it, assistance.
To remove the disparity. resulting
from existing working conditions, b.
tween tho debt-paying ability Of the
1876 wage rate and that Of the recent
wage rate, there must b brought
about . proper gelationship among
tho three factors. employment, wage
rate. and cost Of living. The most
effective and promising dActcr for
satisfactory adjustment q employ.
ment. The recent pledges made BY
financial and industrial leaders to CO.
operate with government IN order 70
create employment and expedite re-
covesy are therefore q most hopeful
omen.