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The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Time for Children's Rebellion
Against Their Elders

ents or guardians to make him
a fit member of human society.
And it is the parent and guard.
ian who are to blame for the
present crop of youthful gang
Sters and hoodlums. They may
never have thought of 1t from
that angle. Well, I am not tell
ing them.
During the last three weeks.
for lack of anything better, I
have been patiently listening to
the terrible stuff that comes
over the radio. Here and there g.
serious piece Of music bestowed
upon us by Stokowski or our low
able friend, Walter Damrosch.
Once in q while a grand and
glorious bit of Hungarian mu-
sic, somewhere totally unex-
pected find, like that Carla
Romano, about whom I know
nothing else but what has come
to me over the air.
The rest was terrible. Un'
cultivated voices, bad enunc1a-
tion, cheap diction and cheaper
ideas. But it was at least per-
fectly harmless. The moment,
however, that children's hour
was announced. the stuff be-
came positively vicious. V1o'
lence and kidnapping and mud
derous assault-and all done
with a very cunning under
standing of the children's true
mentality. But never an at
tempt to change that men,
tality from it's natural cruelty
towards something higher Or
better.
A WAY OUT
A complete commercial sell
out to the mass mind Of nine
or ten. From any educational
angle, the very worst thing
that could possibly be concocted
by people who will sacrifice the
entire youth of the nation. pro-
vided they can make an extra
sale of the goods they want to
dump upon the market.
We hold crime conferences in
Washington and all the peda-
gogues in the world, from MRS.
Roosevelt to DR.. Cadman, re.
gret the criminal tendencies OF
the modern world which, so
they foresee (and quite cor
rectly), can only end in q COM
plete breakdown of our pres
ent form of civilization. Brother
Keppel and his Carnegie 1nsti.
tute ask what is to become OF
our colleges. The courts 40
not know how to handle the
vastly increasing amount OF )u'
venile crime.
I can see only one way out.
A rebellion on the part OF the
children themselves. For strange
things are happening these
days in the world Of the next
generation, and we may see
another children's crusade. But
this time they will not march
upon a Promised Land two
thousand miles away. This
time they will turn against
their elders, who betrayed
them.
Copyright. 1891. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Bankers have expressed the
view that the tax discouraged
many small checking accounts.
With their own charges for ac-
counts, bankers found that tho
Government tax was a bit too
much for the small customer.
big" clients, using checks to
meet p1yrollS and bills discoU-
cred that the tar cost them q
terrific amount By the end OF
the year in days Dhen large
corporations Dere cutting Sdld.
rieS, reducing dividends and
m Gking other forms of re.
trenchment in order to Keep
som e here in sight of the
"bldck."
Elimination of the check tax
Is also advocated because those
who feel its weight say that it
is inequitable and is a penalty
on those persons who follow
the advice of the President and
use banking houses.
They object, they say, to at
tempting to follow the wishes
Of the Administration by using
banks in turn to be taxed.
In ddmoniShinq young Rush
D. Holt, of West Virginia, not
to attempt to take his seat in
the Senate until he reaches
the ripe old age OF 80 years,
Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
OF Arkansas, Majority Floor
Leader. takes q load oft many
q senatorial mind.
Members who we're perplexed
as to how they would vote II
29.year-old Holt tried to take
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

eventually destroy ones ca
pacity for feeling.
DARE TO FEELi Dare to
feel vividly, deeply, about every
thing. Dare to feel, no matter
how much it costs or how
gravely it may involve you in
consequences. Dare to expose
yourself to circumstances which
will force you to feel.
Do not dodge such c1rcu1n-
stances-do not try to laugh
them off. Do not let anyone
persuade you by jeers or warn
ings that it's foolish to feel"
You wouldn't argue about
breathing, would you? You
know that breathing Is essen
tial to life-that you must do
it at any cost-that you will
die without it. But feeling Is
equally essential to life.
Just as you need oxygen for
your bodily health, so you need
feeling to burn away your men
tai waste. cleanse or change
your mental currents.
No human being can live
sanely or strongly who does not
in the course of each day feel
the fierce sweep of the tides of
emotion through his mind.
DARE TO FEEL! Dare to re-
joice and despair, pity and rebel.
No matter how limited your
life, how prosaic your program,
dare to get excited about it.
Dare to feel dramatically about
everything you are, or do, or
have.
PRIVILEGE
Dare to feel, regardless of age.
AS the years go on, 1t will be-
come harder. Laziness and eau
ton will creep upon you. SO
will smugness. People will no
longer challenge, or criticize you
as they did when you we're
young. You will be exempt and
protected from many things.
You will get by on your rec
ord," and violent feelings will
no longer seem wise or neces-
sary. But they are really more
needed than ever before in your
life. They alone can RESALT
you and RENEW you and main
tain your contacts with the
world Of living men.
DARE TO FEEL! It is your
highest privilege and deepest
necessity. That alone makes life
worth living. Even though you
had the long years of Methuse-
lah, the wealth of Croesus, the
brain Of Solomon, your days
would be a desert If you could
not feel.
Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Gk1IOUCs
All Of which sounds very
clever, but is actually the most
cockeyed foolishness. 1t Is true
that feelings are tricky things,
apt to mess up life plenty.
People who permit them
selves to be swayed by strong
emotions let themselves in for
plenty of grief and trouble
but they also let themselves
in for excitement and Joy and
endless adventure. For tIel-
ings are the stuff of which
life is made.
FEELINGS RULE
Thought is an excellent thing.
But life is not rooted in thought,
nourished or sus in e d by
thought. Thought will not keep
YOU eager and excited about
yourself, your fellow man and
life in general. Only feelings
can do that. All kinds Of feel
1ngS. Dangerous as we'll as saAo
feelings. Unhappy as we'll as
pleasant ones.
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE,
YOU MUST FEEL.
YOU LIVE IN AND
THROUGH YOUR FEELINGS:
YOU LIVE AS MUCH AS
AND WHEN YOU STOP
FEELING, YOU DIE, EVEN
THOUGH YOUR BODY MAY
LINGER ON FOR YEARS.
But feelings are natural
people can't stop feeling" you
say.
Yes, they can. 1t is possible.
by developing ones interest ana
imagination, to increase ones
feelings. It is just as possible,
by giving way to fear or selfish.
ness or conceit, to diminish and
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Hendrix Willem van Loon

endowed with certain majestic
qualities, have only tended to
turn him into an insufferable
tyrant.
Small children are little un.
tanned savages, with all the
cruel and murderous instincts
Of the real article. 1t is only
after an intensive training Of
some fifteen to twenty years
that he or she cit would be
more correct) begins to resem-
BILE a civilized human being.
Left to himself the little angel
would like nothing better than
to revert back to his Neander-
thai ancestors of 10000 years
ago.
It is therefore up to his par
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

here, most
wonderful uf
all, a real
military aero
pl a n e dat
flies trou de
room q n d
drops real lee
tie pombs vile
1t ees flyin'. "
And that,
so help us,
came aflying
through the
air last Sun
day morning
to delight the
AAAAAn ~
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

tions a n d
while on the
track Of his
quarry lie t S
fly a fe W
shots at Sec
retary Of La
Dor Frances
Perkins.
When Tink-
ham makes
the assertion
t h a t the
United States
h a 8 b e e n
drawn into
the League
nv "trfckery
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

1'7Ir O buL o II
ago young Rush indicated that
he would not attempt to take
his seat in the Senate unless
older members advised him to
seek the privilege.
The Democrats will not need
his vote at the next session.
Holt can have the privilege
Of the floor and can attend to
the needs Of his constituents.
Furthermore, by not seeking
his seat he can save the Demo
Gratis the trouble Of violating
on q ticklish Constitutional
question.
1879. Tbs waehtnEton Ttnesl
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Z
seriously. We
laugh at the
eye : rollings
and hand
wringings Of
1888. w h a t
crude, child
ish antics!
Mature peo-
p | e we're
SuEG- SAAOuAN
not give way
to their Feel
ingS should
not even have
'em. Mature
people should
THINK not
Elsie RablnsOn
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Not Too Busy to Play
Even in the White House

President Roosevelt of the busiest in the country
keeps himself in excellent physical condition His doctor
he is in better shape than when he entered the White
House.
How does nuy the old idea that occupancy of the White
House crushing physical responsibility? How does he work
80 hard, and yet keep so we'll?
By closely following varied routine which provides regular
time for rest and raxaton and by varying the daily grind
with exercise and amusement.
Busy persons who let themselves get down. please note
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

his seat be-
fore attaining
the Constitu-
t on al age
limit. KIN ow
t h a t H oil t
probably will
heed Robin.
sons advice.
Th e con-
tinued specu-
lation as to
what H OIL t
W o ul d do
caused CO n
S i d e ra b | e
worry.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, J.

A House of Representatives
big-game hunter is doing q bit
Of sniping.
Representative George Holden
Tinkham, of Massachusetts,, is
shooting at the League of Ma.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

''Und den We hat someding
ferry nize for leetle poys. A
machine gun dat sounts like de
real ardicle. Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta! Und
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Our Noisy Ghosts
By Robert Benchley

appear at a window for a Sec
ond and then disappear. Once
in a great while they clank a
chain or two. but not in a
spirit of mischief. You can't
help clanking a chain If 1t Is
attached to you.
The chief characteristics OF
a ghost who has attained a cer-
tain amount of dignity are re-
preston and beauty. All the
lady ghosts are tall and sad,
and the men seem to have gone
to some good school. Our mod.
ern ghosts wouldn't be tolerated
in one Of those old castles for a
minute.
And you will notice that the
twentieth h century t1n-pan
throwers and bed-bouncers never
show themselves. If we could
see them, I'll bet they wear
turtle-necked sweaters and caps.
They probably know that, once
they let anyone catch sight OF
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

One mans wickedness may
easily become all mems curse.
-Publius.
Our discomfort is from com.
parison.-Norris.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Words of Wise Men

It is better not to live at all
than to live disgraced.-So-
phocleS.
No nation was ever ruined
by trade.-FTanklin.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
Another European Crisis?
Magda Lupescu Gains 80 lbs.

Titan haired Magda Lupescu, uncrowned queen of Ru-
mania, has gained thirty pounds in year.
Dieting ladies will sigh sympathetcay Historywriting
men pause and wait What will be the effect? How will the
change Bbis figure change events? After ALL such little
things since the beauty Of Helen Of Troy caused thirty
war; have turned out to loom large in history.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

~ H street, Northw C.
George Preston H 'E.; s.S.;. .S;:s. DS:is .s business '''''
A CHEEKY Greeting
From Mr.. Blanton
The other day the newspapermen listed the Congressional
Directory received cordial greetings and friendly feca
Christmas from Representative Thomas L.
Blanton of Texas
Since the greetings were the stationery of the
Congress the United States probably not altogether
keeping for the watchdog Of the Treasury to make
them the for daibe against the people Of the
District of Columbia.
"This city has begun its annual campaign force a
large Federal contribution to its ciOc expen'c' LOins
here self-intcres Without the fact, SiOe you
perverted UeW."
Pleasant greetings those are! But Representative Banton
follows them up with lengthy statement Of what he says the
District Commissioners admitted hearings
the District appropriation bill last week.
We're glad to get this preview of the hearings before
accepting the Commissioners admissions listed by Mr. Blan
ton we think we printed report of their testimony
However it might be helpful brief discussion of
the points which Mr. Banton says the Commissioners
mitted particularly since Mr. Blanon undoubtedly will insist
that they made the admissions.
Mr. Blanon saws that the Commissioners admitted that most
Of the paved Streets bridges schools hospitals courts water
system system etc. were acquired and constructed
when the United States paid half of their COST"
that many of these projects completed when
Che Federal Government bearing its just proportion Of ex
penses decreed by Congress BUT THAT ARRANGEMENT
BANKRUPTED ITSELF TRYING TO MAINTAIN A Ma
T1oNAL CAPITAL FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE.
The Representative then that the Commissioners
itted" that the United States has spent $2O000OOO in Wash
ington its permanent buildings, THIS ONLY SHOWS
THAT THE UNITED STATES WISELY DECIDED TO
BUILD INSTEAD OF PAYING RENT.
Mr. Bantons next greeting talks about visitors spending
$50000000 in Washington in 1884 Despite this expenditure
he says the Comm oners admitted that had to spend
$130000OO relief Apparently with the visitors
spending freely the city sesupporng because of
Federal limitations on local activity
The rate according to the next admission still $3.50
real estate We think that high but Mr. Banton should
recall that he wanted cut to that figure his in
sistence. NOW HE CR1TICIsEs BECAUSE IT Is TOO Low
Assessed values according to the next admission" lister
have by the last years YES
AND REALTY VALUES HAVE DROPPED MORE THAN
THAT.
The gasoline tax is two cents. YES AND THERE IS
SURPLUS IN THE GAS TAX FUND.
No income tax inheritance monthly charge
is the next "admission." WE DON'T NEED OR WANT AN
INCOME TAX inheritance tax would out of Federal
revenues and the SEWER CHARGE IS PAID OUT OF GEN
ERAL TAXATION.
The "admissions list number of other Government
ices which described as being free" THEY AREN'T
FREE. THEY ARE ALL PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS
Mr. Blanton says he 1.-THE above offset city propa-
ganda and concludes with again wishing for you and yours
the very best in 1886"
THE SAME TO YOU MR. BLANToN.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

It's fashionable to be indif- I
ferent nowadays. Wise Ones
aren't sllnnosed to take things
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
OLD FAVORITES
InUictus

InUictus BY William E. Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black the pit from pole to poe
thank whatever gods there be
For my unconquerabe soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
have not WINGED nor cried aloud
Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed
Beyond this space of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll,
am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
TReaders inved to send to the editor their suq-
tesons of old favortes among the poems for repring
In this Space)
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

Mr. Banon says he cites the above offset city propa
gand and concludes with again wishing for you and yours
the very best in 1885"
THE SAME TO YOU Mr. BLANToN.
The Washington times., 1934-12-27

The "admissions list number of other Government
ices which described being ''free THEY AREN'T
FREE. THEY ARE ALL PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
NY. Furriers
Drive Scabs
From Market
LOvestOneites With the
Cops Attempt to
Break Strikes

NEW YORK, April 10. - Thou
sands of furriers stormed the mar
ket yesterday in two demonstrations
against the bosses and their agents
of the Joint Council and the Love-
stonites.
The first demonstration was on
the picket line in the morning, when
detectives, gunner and a few misled
Yipsels were bringing strike break
ers to the Bader e. kaufman shop
$50 Seventh Ave, against whom the
Industrial Union has been conduct
ing a strike for the last few months.
The mass of furriers met the scabS
and their protectors with such de-
termined resistance that they had to
fee, From there the mass picket
line moved over to the Zimmerman
g. Sher shop, $50 West Both ST.,
where the notorious Lovestonite,
Weiss CTurk, at the head of a
strong police force, brought in daily
few scsbs.
The LOvestOnite, Weiss, having
such strong police force behind
him, was very provocative. A
clash broke out and, despite the
riot call for more police and detec-
tives, the thousands Of furriers
succeeded in driving away the
scabS and the LovestOnites from
the Market. Five workers and
three of the Council gunner were
arrested.
At 2 o'clock today the Union is
calling an Open Forum to organize
big committees to stop overtime and
work on Saturdays
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
2,OOON.Y Photograph
Messengers Strike
Against Slave Pay
Vote for Strike After
Demands Are Refused
by Company Officials

NEW YORK.-TWo thousand tele-
graph messengers, employed here by
the two major companies, Western
Union and Postal Telegraph, and
led by the militant Telegraph Mes
sengers' Union, walked out on
strike this morning in protest
against the miserable slave wages
and conditions under which they
have been working. The strike ac-
ton was unanimously voted for at
a mass meeting held last night after
demands for a $15 a week minimum
wage and better working conditions,
which were presented to the officials
of the telegraph companies yester-
day for an immediate and definite
answer, we're refused.
The messengers, most of them
young boys, have been earning as
little as 81 a week, working in all
kinds of weather, They are strik-
ing for union recognition, minimum
weekly wages of SIS for messengers
on foot and $50 for messengers, who
have to provide their own gas and
oil, in automobiles, free insurance
for bicycles, free uniforms and other
equipment, carfare for ten blocks
and over, preference to be given
messengers when positions as clerks,
operators, ETC., are open, and recog-
milton of all Office committees.
Last week the telegraph mes
sengers of Cleveland, Ohio, went out
on strike and won wage increases
which ranged from IS to 20 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

Continued from rage IL
istration we have known or heard
Of"
As dawn broke. we handed them
bandageS we brought along for Bills
tered feet. They passed them first
to Ebert Lahue, slight young sea-
man. He had walked the last five
miles barefoot
They swung into the open road
singing. They we're too buoyant to
wait for the breakfast coffee the
business men had promised Ne
gro and white. they marched two
by two. And they flung out to the
quiet wayside sturdy Stand
'em on their head-Stand EN- on
their feet. Seamen, seamen, can't
be beat"
They would reach Washington
sometime late today. They would
go to the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration and to President
Roosevelt to protect against three
weeks futile efforts by Federal,
State and City relief officials in
Baltimore to break up the Seamen's
Control and give absolute power tc
Harry Greenstein, State Relief Adj
ministrator in Maryland.
We've been fighting TO get con-
troll Of our own relief for more than
two years, Leonard Patterson
young Negro seaman told me- we
got it last January, and we're go
ing to keep it. A few weeks ago
the relief officials brought down g
fellow and said he was in charge
But he was king without power
The seamen Just told him, I'VE only
recognize our own subcommittee.
Patterson. OF the Seamen's Sub
committee elected by the rank anc
file to run the relief project, wa!
one of the three leaders Of the
marcia slow-spoken young mar
who could bring every seaman to at
tention by calling, Hey, guys The
other leaders were James Kennedy
who checked the accuracy Of ever!
figure he uttered, out of experience
as director of the clothing depart
ment Of the Seamen's project; ant
Walter Tack. the clean-cut younl
leader from the M. w. I, U.
The marchers stood around sew
eral dying campfres on the we
green field. Here they had stopped
at midnight, about a mile this sid
of Laurel. They had marched thi
distance, resting 10 minutes at so
minute intervals, since 3 pm. Sew
eral times they were overtaken b.
automobiles bringing coffee in mill
cans-coffee from cars sent to over
take them by the business men
Most of their shoes were broken b,
the march. but they didn't seem t,
notice, standing on the wet ground
Are you tired?" asked one,
Don't you know?" he grinned
"Seamen are used to walking, Of
the decks, or on the beach?" T,
be on the beach" is to be unem
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
JuggIe Shoe Vote to Spike
BiedenkaPp Victory
Lovestoneites Aid Mackesy Clique to Violate the
Union Constitution and Count Out Bedenkapp

NEW YORK-Deliberate viola
ton Of the constitution and jug
Cling Of votes by the Inspectors
Committee of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union resulted in
declaring William J. NIackesy elect
ed as general organizer of the union
in the place Of Fred G. Biedenkapp,
who was originally elected and re-
ceived the highest vote.
A report has just been issued by
the Coordinsting Committee Of the
union, after a reelection in one
local of the lasters in Boston, by
means OF which the original vote
of the membership is distorted
in order to displsce Biedenkapp.
Originally Biedenkapp received 4,30t
votes as against Mackesy's 4.213.
The statement OF the Coordinating
Committee declares that Mackesy
received ABB and Biedenkapp 4,O9O
A. Silver, representative of the
New York local Of the union, rep
resentative on the Inspectors Com
mittee in a letter to the Coordinat-
ing Committee protests against the
Juggling of the votes and the viola
ton of the union constitution.
Several acts of the election in
spection committee have been clear
~ in violation Of the very spirit and
of the rules and regulations of the
constitution" says Silver in his
letter.
Engineer Re-vote
The violations refer to the fact
that according to Article Gection
7 of the constitution, the duties Of
the election inspectors committee
is only to count the ballots Instead,
the election inspectors committee
ordered a new election in the last
ers local. They thereby switched
the whole results of the vote. Not
only that, in counting the ballots
in other locals, they deliberately
switched votes cast for Biedencapp
to Mackesy in order to swing the
election to Mackesy.
Silver declined to sign the ma
iority report of the committee, and
| in the name of the New York local
registered his protest against the
overt acts, and held that the entire
election inspection is unconstitu'
tional,