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The Washington times., 1934-07-06

Congress is chiefly to blame
for the fact that our military
air force, instead of being equal
to the strongest, is today third
in strength among the military
air forces of the world.
Congress is to blame, pri-
marily, because it is charged
by the Constitution with the
duty of providing for the ma
tional defense. When it fails
to make this provision, it falls
short of it's constitutional obli-
cations.
Congress is to blame, second
arily, because it has not even
carried out it's own established
policy for the upbuilding of the
Army Air Corps. 1t has failed
to make appropriations essen
tial to the execution of its own
program for this purpose.
Adopt Policy
In 1928, the Lassiter board
a board of Army officers
headed by Maj. Gen. William
L. Lassiter, U. S. A.-Was ap-
pointed to find out and recon-
mend what should constitute
the proper strength and organi-
zation of an effective air SER
vice for the regular Army,
what it would require in
material and personnel to per-
form its missions in peace and
war. This board was also
charged with the determination
of the best means of develop
ing this personnel and mate
rial to the maximum standard
of military effectiveness.
After an exhaustive study OF
the problem, the Lassiter board
submitted a secret report to the
Secretary of War. Up to that
time, it was the most intelligent
report that had been made ON
the needs of a modern military
air force.
It was realized that to create
such an air force would take
time and that the cost of the
creation of such a force would
be prOhibitive unless spread
over q period of years. This
board acknowledged the fact
that the aircraft industry,
which the wreckers of the Fed
eral airmail last winter seemed
bent upon destroying, needed
o reasonable number of years
i'm which to establish itself ON
q firm foundation.
For these and other reasons,
this Lassiter board of II years
ago recommended the adoption
by Congress of a continuing
program, extending over Pc
riod of 10 years for both mate
rial and personnel.
The report of the Lassiter
board was promptly approved
in principle. It's recommended
tions were the goal toward
which the War Department ad-
dressed it's efforts toward the
upbuilding of our military air
force.
The Morrow board of 1925,
the establishment of which was
one of the wisest acts of Presi-
dent CooIidge'S administration,
restudied the problem of avia-
ton in it's relation to national
defense. It came to the con-
clusion that 10 years was too
far to look ahead, so many and
rapid we're developments in the
aeronautical world. It there
fore recommended a five-point
program for the upbuilding of
our military air force. in the
The Washington times., 1934-07-06
Congress Is to Blame for
Inadequate Air Force
By James T. Williams, Jr.

belief that at the end of five
years a second five-year pro-
gram should be inaugurated.
This sound reasoning of the
Morrow board appealed to the
Federal Government. It's recon-
mendations were adopted at
both ends of Constitution
Avenue. They are the founda-
ton of established policy for
the upbuilding of the Army Air
Corps. And for the last eight
years the Army has been work
ing toward the completion Of
this five.year program.
But Congress in recent years
abandoned its own policy.
Under both Republican and
Democratic administrations that
have come to power since the
Morrow board made its report,
appropriations. for the five-year
program have fallen short of
the schedule fixed by the Con-
gress which adopted that pro-
gram.
They began falling short
while Mr.. Hoover was Pres
ident. Last year President
Roosevelt. who began his ad-
ministration by trying to bal
ance the budget, impolnded a
large portion of even the small
sum appropriated by the pre-
vious Congress for the Army Air
Corps.
Falling Behind
Thus each year the five-year
program, which was formulated
to give this country an effective
military air force, has fallen
further and further behind, be-
cause Congress refused to ap.
propriate the comparatively
small sums necessary to carry
out this program and because
last year part of the money ap-
propriated was not spent for
IAA0U pN4 HOoC'
Meantime, millions of dollars
are being spent for all sorts of
public works. These expendi-
lures are creating jobs, but
many of the projects for which
the money is being expended
could either be postponed or
abandoned altogether without
serious disadvantage. to the
country.
Work in the building of air.
planes, engines, radios, instru-
ments and accessories of all
kinds. work in turning out am
munition supplies and equip
ment of all kinds for the
Army Air Corps will create
jobs and provide employment
just as quickly as will work
on many projects now under
construction that are either
less urgently needed or not
needed at all.
Copyright. 1884. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-07-06
Tax "ReViSiOn"
Contains Many Dangers


The old revising the Districts tax laws is again
being revived and is heard from many sources
In all Of the discussion there much reference to more
equitable distribution Of the tax burden and relieving the
disprportionate share which real estate called upon
to pay.
That is all very WELL District citizens have learned to
their sorrow that whenever proposed revise the local
tax burden what actually happens that tax burden
increased
The projected nkering with the schedule would no doubt
be welcomed by all it actually to result in more
equitable distribution Of the burden within the present totals
Of
IF, THROUGH SENSIBLE REVISION OF THE scHED
ULEs, MEANS COULD BE FOUND TO ASSIST THE HOME
OWNER AND THE HOME BUYER, THE RESULT WOULD
WITHOUT QUESTION BE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE
CITY.
But Washngtonans may well face the fact that when
Congress starts out program of tax revision for the Ma
hona Capital will start out with the fundamental miscon
cepon that residents of the District do not now paw enough
taxes
Any of taxes that established by Congress for
the District will be set IN ADDITION to the present
AND THE MONEY WHICH WILL BE PRODUCED BY
THE NEW SOURCES WILL BE UTILIZED NOT FOR THE
PURPOSE OF CUTTING DOWN THE TAXES OBTAINED
FROM EXISTING SOURCES, BUT EITHER TO CUT DOWN
THE PRESENT INADEQUATE FEDERAL SHARE IN THE
UPKEEP OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL OR TO LEAD THE
CITY INTO UNNECESSARY AND WAsTEFULLY Elk
TRAVAGANT ENTERPRISES
That the type of revision that is that the tax
payer will get if the present talk persists
We do not wish unduy suspicious the record
would bear out the fact that the District stands get
only good healthy tax increase out Of any revision plan.
IF OUR FRIENDS ON CAPITOL HILL WANT TO HELP
THE HOME OWNER BY REDUCING HIS TAX BURDEN
THE WAY Is SIMPLE ALL THEY HAVE TO DO Is TO
ORDER THE TAX RATE ON REAL ESTATE CUT. THEY
CAN FOLLOW THAT UP BY HOLDING DISTRICT APPRo
PRIATIONS DOWN, ALLOWING ADEQUATE FUNDS FOR
NECESSITIES AND CUTTING OUT THE "FRILLs"
District residents should not be led along the false vsta
tax revision program while actually they would be travelling
highway made bumpy by and increased taxes.
The instance of the Mape committee and what tried to do
in the matter of revising local taxes all too fresh in the
minds of Washingtonians.
That committee apparently appointed to make an i'm
partial study of the fiscal relations Of the District and Federal
Government. IT STARTED IT'S DELIBERATIONS ON THE
PREMISE THAT WASHINGToN1ANs WERE NOT PAYING
SUFFICIENT TAXES
From that premise easy for committee figure
what should be done decided to the Federal share and
impose four taxes upon the District.
Fortunately the efforts of that committee defeated but
they defeated only after bitter struggle
The present tax revision effort strongly of the
Iapes committees activities.
The Washington times., 1934-07-06

tions, on pro rata expense
basis, agreed in a convention for
the Safety of Life at Sea to
patrol the swirling area of the
Newfoundland Grand Banks
during the season when the
glaciers "calved." This is the
season when ships steer a north
erly passage to Europe.
It was agreed that America
should furnish the ships, and
American sailors man the cut
ters. Due to their courage and
skill, aided by the inventions of
science, icebergs have taken no
toll of men or ships since the
waters closed over the grave of
the Titanic. Tourists travel to
the Old World Safeguarded
against this ancient enemy. The
sea monster is no longer a
threat-because of the ice
patrol.
Old Bill passed on the other
day. and they gave him fine
Send-off in London with long
notices in the newspapers, all of
whom recorded how Bill had
given a leg for His Majesty, the
King, and because of which they
had to invalid him home from
the front line in France.
Only a pigeon was Old Bill,
named after the famous char
acter of Bruce Bairnsfather's
war cartoons. Yet, he was of
a tribe which played a most in
teresting part in the grand
carnage Of 1914-1918. All the
warning powers used them to
carry messages, and all alike
have paid tribute to them.
Pigeon Heroes
In Budapest, for example,
there is a monument to the 100
pigeons which served with the
stro-Hungarian armies. Out
side of Paris another stone com.
memorates the birds which car
ried the famous message from
Rheims, getting through the
call for help where every other
human agency had failed, and,
thereby, playing a decisive part
in the war.
Here was the picture: The
armies of the German Crown
Prince hammering away at this
most strategic point in the
French line. Major Raynal,
commanding a small French
force in Fort Vaux, marked the
line of the least resistance. His
position was desperate and his
commanding officers were not
fully aware of it. How was he
to get word to them? Just in
one way. He penned this note:
1--WE are holding on. But we
are subjected to a fierce attack
1 by gas and flame throwers.. We
need assistance. Establish
visual communication by way of
Souville, which is not replying to
our signals. This is my last
pigeon"
The gas, shells, shrapnel and
flame throwers could not stop
that tiny. winged messenger.
Off he flew, straight to the
French command, and help
came to Raynal and his men.
The American Signal Corps
has many such stories, and down
at Fort Monmouth, in New Jer-
Sey, where the Army trains its
pigeons, there are inches OF
honor for the stuffed and
mounted heroes Of the pigeon
corps, such as the famous Cher
Ami of the Lost Battalion.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate Inch
The Washington times., 1934-07-06
The Human Side of the News
Ice Patrol Guard Atlantic's Traffic Lanes
By Edwin C.. Hill

Few tourists travelling the
short northern route to Europe
know that while they are pitch
ing quoits on smooth decks. or
leisurely slipping whisky sours
at the ships bar, while they
sleep securely in their beds, or
stretch at ease in their steamer
chairs watching the disk of the
moon silver the path of the
ships course, that their safe
passage is vouchsafed by a
handful of dauntless men, pa
trolling the waters in observa-
ton cutters. These are the
men of the ice patrol.
Monstrous 1cebergs
The ice patrol is the traffic
cop of the deep. From March
/ to the end of June the cut
ters of the ice patrol plow
through the heavy waters off
the coast of Newfoundland. Day
and night they patrol one of
the most dangerous zones of
the sea, a zone filled with mon
strous icebergS that move across
the traffic lanes of passing
ships with uncanny silence and
demoniac power.
These icebergs are enormous
fragments dislodged in early
spring from the parent glaciers
of Greenland. The glacier has
"calved," say sailing men. They
are huge of bulk. weighing half
a million pounds or more, with
three-quarters of their volume
hidden treacherously beneath
the surface of the sea.
AS if attending some weird
Peer Gynt convention held in the
castle of the ice king, these un-
canny monsters Congregate by
the hundreds where the Arctic
currents of cold water meet the
waters of the warm Gulf Stream.
Vast eddies form and swirling
whirlpools suck sailors and ships
into their vortex. Before the
days of the ice patrol, attempts
were made to dynamite the
bergs, but this method of de-
struction was abandoned because
of the danger to those who
planted the dynamite in the icy
sides of the berg and because
frequently the berg rolled over,
hurting men and dynamite into
the icy sea.
Now the Sleepless ice patrol
covers that wild section Of the
sea known as the Grand Banks.
They warn ships by radio of ap-
preaching danger. Their power
full lights search out the ice.
bergs before they reach the
ships lanes. The long beams
write warnings on the sky.
Science and the spirit Of in
trepid men are more than a
match for the enemy. The num-
ber of icebergS in the critical
area differ with the season. The
normal number in the shipping
area is about four hundred. But
when there is a phenomenal
thaw, as in 1929, some thirteen
hundred bergs drifted down
from Greenland; great frozen
islands.
In 1912, the Titanic. with
hundreds. Of lives aboard, sank
in the North Atlantic after an
iceberg had plowed the ships
steel sides. It came without
warning in the early morning.
looming up. green, monStrous.
There was no ice patrol to warn.
A storm of protests arose against
the lack of safeguards in this
zone of danger, and out of the
storm came the still, small voice
of science. Came the ice patrol.
Thirteen Of tho leading ma.
The Washington times., 1934-07-06
WISE WORDS

Too dull for laughter, for
reply too mad.-Pope.
I never think I have hit hard
unless it rebounds.-Johnson
With thee conversing I for
get the way.-Gay.
Brevity is the soul Of wit
Shakespeare.
A happy bridesmaid makes .
happy bride.-Tennyson.
What is best is cheapest. -oa
The Washington times., 1934-07-06

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Strike-Breaking Mellon
Aluminium Firm Begins
neutrality-suspicious.

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa, Sept.
20.-Andrew Melons Aluminium
Company of America, havin g
broken the strike of their employees
Aluminium Workers Union, with the
cooperation of A. F. of L. mislead-
ership under Boris Shishkin and
Dave Williams, today is taking steps
to complete the defeat Of the work
ers by organizing a company union
A meeting is being held in the
Odd Fellows Hall, New Kensington,
at which the company union will
be launched, its way already paved
by the agreement" dictated by the
company, which the A. F. of L.
forced down the Threats of the
strikers.
The new company representation
plan," patterned substantially along
the lines Of the U. S. Steel Cor
poration's company union, is being
constructed around the nucleus of
company stools who were behind
the back to work" movement
which attempted to split the recent
strike, led by Don Hageman, Ken
meth Cope, George Brakeman and
their group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
General Strike Voted
by l,5OO NY. Workers
In Custom Tailor Trade

NEW YORK. "A recommendation
of the shop delegates meeting for
a general strike of custom tailor
ing workers, was unanimously
adopted by 1900 custom tailors as
sembled in Irving Plaza Hall on
Monday, after they heard the re-
ports of Oswaldo, organizer, and
Alexander Hoffman, national secre-
tary of the Custom Tailoring
Workers Industrial Union of New
York.
The meeting instructed the execu-
tive committee of the union to i'm
mediately make plans and begin
preparations for the strike. The
main demands of immediate aboli-
ton OF home work, the 36-hour
week, for a living wage and for the
recognition of the union of the
workers choice, were adopted.
An open air mass meeting held
Tuesday on the corner of Fifth
Ave. and 44th St., at which 1000
workers heard Oswald and Hoff-
man, applauded the decision for the
general strike and the demands, the
union announced. This, according
to the announcement, is one of a
series of meetings to be held on
Fifth Ave. between And and seth
SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Writer Points to Increase
Of Negro Workers
in Strikes
By Bill Dunno

Last April, when the wave of
union organization and strikes was
involving additional tens of thou
sands of workers, the Communist
Party published an analysis and es-
innate of the situation and pro-
gram of action based on the de-
velopments of the past year in the
labor movement.
The Trade Union Unity League,
in connection with the attempt to
put over the Wagner Bill, sent its
representative to the hearings on
the bill before the Senate Commit
tee on Labor and Education, and
there made public it's estimate of
the new developments together with
its program of action.
These estimates of the trend in
the ranks of the working class and
the program, based upon detailed
knowledge and actual experience in
the mass struggles, are of primary
Importance now because of the still
wider development of the labor
movement and the tremendous sig
nificance of the class battles which
have occurred since last April-and
because of the 54th Annual Conyen-
ton of the American Federation of
Labor meeting in San Francisco for
its initial session on Oct. l.
Summed up, the estimate referred
to above included the following vital
points:
Increasing Contradiction shown
l. The / Increasing contradiction
between the decreasing income of
the working class, increased produc-
ton with fewer workers, the grow
ing concentration and Capitalization
of capital growth Of monopoly the
huge increases in profits, and rising
prices-the economic basis for the
pres mt organization movements,
wage demands and wave of strikes.
2. The growing contradiction be-
tween the pretensions of Roosevelt
and his N. RIA. as friend Of and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
1000 Protest
Police Attacks
In McKeesport

McKEESPORT, Pa, Sept. 20. =
Since the brutal police attack upon
International Youth Day demon
strators here, Mayor Lysle has been
flooded with protest resolutions, tel
egramS and phone calls.
Several delegations visiting him
with protests found him surround
ed with police armed with riot guns
and gas bombs.
On Sept. IA, 1000 workers dem
onstrated here against the breaking
up of the Youth Day Rally and
other violent attacks on the rights
of the working class, against devel-
oping fascism and war.
Speakers chained themselves to
lamp posts to prevent their arrest
and removal by the police.
The meeting passed resolutions
demanding the right of free speech
for McKeesport workers, and that
the police Internationally release
Phil Frankfield and Jimmy Egan.
A local anti-war conference will
take place here Sept. 30, to be fol-
lowed by section conference which
will help prepare for the celebra-
ton of the seventeenth anniversary
OF the Russian Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Haywood Will Speak
AT Boston Meeting

BOSTON, Sept. 2O.-Harry Hay
wood, general secretary of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and an authority on the Negro
question, will speak on THE Road
to Negro Liberation" tomorrow eve
ming at the old Dudley Street Opera
House, 113 Dudley Street.
This will be Haywood's first ap-
pearance in Boston and the widely
advertised meeting is expected to
be well attended.
Other speakers on the program
viii be Sidney Bloomfield, district
organizational secretary of the
Communist Party; Mrs. M. Cravath
Simpson, a member of several or
CARNATIONS of Negro women in New
England, and Donald Burke, secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
Tense in New England.
Eugene Gordon, president of the
George Borden Branch of the
League Of the Struggle for Negro
Rights, under the auspices of which
Harry Haywood is to be presented
to the Boston workers, will be
chairman of the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Artist Jailed
For Assisting
Iron Strikers

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept 2O.-A
mass movement to defend the
workers arrested in the strike
against the Geuder and Paeschke
Company, large metal shop here,
Is getting under way rapidly. A
focal point of the campaign is the
defense of Santos zingale, we'll
known artist and teacher and mem
Der of the John Reed Club of Mil
waukee,
Police have gone to the extent of
breaking into homes of workers
without warrants and arresting
four workers, taking them to Jail
under penalty Of beating.
They were held without charges.
The following day being Sunday a
special session of Circuit Court was
secured by their attorney and a
writ of habeas corpus that had been
obtained was sustained by the judge
and they were supposedly free.
Twenty minutes before the favor
able ruling on the writ, however,
Mosher, the assistant district attor-
ney, drew up warrants sworn out
by the police on framed up charges
carrying three-year sentence.
When the workers were still in
court they were arrested on the
warrants and thrown into Jail. They
are now out on bail.
The police are particularly venge-
full in view of the fact that recently
during a police attack on the
Geuder, Paechke picket lines a
patrol wagon was tipped over.
The International Labor De-
Tense and the John Reed Club of
Milwaukee call upon all organiZa-
tions and individuals to send pro-
tests to Mayor. Daniel w. Hoan,
District Attorney label and Judge
Hedding of District Court, against
the Milwaukee police breaking
into workers homes, against the
obvious frame-up of Santos Tin
gale and the three ether workers
and demanding the immediate
dropping of all charges against
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Chinese and American
Workers Hit BETRAYAL
By Chang Government

NEW YORK.-Two hundred Chi
nese and American workers cheered
speakers of the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League and the Chinese
League Against japanese Invasion,
who called for a united struggle
against Japanese imperialism and
its agent Chang Kai Shek at a
meeting Sunday afternoon at Mott
and Bayard Streets.
A telegram protesting the be-
trayal of the Chinese people by the
Marking government was sent to
DR.. Alfred SEE, Chinese Ambassa-
dor in Washington. The workers
adopted resolution supporting The
National Armed Defense Commit
tee headed by Madame Sun Vat Sen.
The speaker of the veterans Or
ganization emphasized the impor-
lance of the Chinese liberation
movement as a strong factor in re-
tarding imperialist war in the Far
East, especially attacks by Japan
against the Soviet Union. Workers
responded to the speech of Liu, of
the Chinese League, by shouting
anti-imperialist slogans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
Smelter Workers Win
SO Cent Pay Increase
After 4-Month Strike

Butte, Mont. q. PO-On strike
since May 8, Buttes 5000 copper
miners and engineers have finally
knocked the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company off its high-horse.
The company has offered a SOC
wage increase, recognition of the
Butte Miners Unicn, affiliated with
the International Union of Mine,
Mill & Smelter Workers, and has
agreed to abolish certain vicious
clauses of the contract system. It
has, however, refused to concede a
30-hour week or guarantee full-time
work.
Miners and engineers are to vote
on acceptance of the agreement.
During the four months of strike,
about 500 strikebreakers and gun
men were employed to keep pumps
working and to police the mine
yards.