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The Washington times., 1934-09-01

YOOSVVVJVVOs
Each district is not to have a
post office, as intended, but
those that are to get them are
witnessing one of the fastest
building programs ever under
taken.
Sites have been arranged for
several hundred of the buildings,
which will be set up at an aver
age cost Of $S5,OOO. This buSi-
ness Of selecting sites has left
some gall, however.
In each community several
sites have been available and
the selection of one site has not
been honey to certain real eS-
tate minded folk. However, the
purchases continue.
The PoStotfice Department,
1Dorking tDith the Treasury, eSti-
mates that tUithin a month ac-
tMGl construction WiH be under
pGy on SeDerGl projects. And
they say that despite the usual
red tape Uork tDiI be hGStened.
Completion Of almost 700 new
p0StOffiCes as planned VIII be
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of crime arose all over the land,
to heights hitherto known in
America.
Seriously, it may be very
much doubted if we, living in
1884, in an age of gangSters
and racketeers and machine-gun
banditry, have anything to en-
dure half so evil and dangerous
as the crime conditions which
existed in the United States for
some 20 years after the Civil
War.
It was those conditions which
led, of course, to a long series
of sensational express robberies
and train holdups, which pro-
duced Jesse and Frank James,
and Cole Younger and the Dal-
ton boys. It was those condi-
tions which gave the Pinkertons,
Americas most famous private
detective agency, their first
start, by solving Git was a young
Scotchman. Allan Pinkerton,
who did it, the mysterious dis
appearance of a package of
money from the Adams Express
service between Montgomery,
Ala, and Atlanta, Ga.
It Is interesting to learn that
the first train robbery ever per-
petrated in the United States
was committed in southern In
diana, near the city of Seymour,
by the Rene gang. That was on
October 6, 1866, on the Ohio &
Mississippi Railroad. The James
boys came along later, they and
their pals, the Youngers. There
has been so much controversy
over Frank and Jesse James,
over the question as to whether
they were plain, brutal, MUIR
derouS robbers, or Robin Hoods,
as much sinned against as sin
ming, that the opinion of the
author is interesting.
He finds that the James
brothers were normal, happy
country boys, such as were
found in all frontier and back
woods settlements of the period.
But they grew up in a rough
and brutal country and era.
Both Frank and Jesse were
abused and maltreated by Fed
eral soldiers and Sympathizers,
their connections being South
ern and Slave-sympathizing
On the other hand they were
killers, Jesse especially, and Mr..
Harlow makes no attempt to
palliate their crimes. He
merely writes them down as
creatures of unhappy circum-
stances. They we're, as a mat
ter of fact, singularly popular
in their Missouri and all
through the West, so much so
that although they were pur-
sued for 16 years they were
never even arrested.
They were immune from cap
ture because they had so many
allies, active and tacit, high
placed and respectable, as well
as outlaws.
(copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1934-09-01
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure,

, enough to disturb the aplOmb
of even SO cOmplacent a gentle
man as Mr.. IckeS, who has
heard the complaints swarm
like the western grasshOppers
about the dilatOry tactics of his
own PWA.
In the much-discussed Fed
eral Housing Administration, re-
ports are current that T. B.
Hewett personnel director who
replaced Bennett Schauffler
amid much controversy, may
also be replaced.
SchauffIer went out after a
conflict with officials who dis
approved of his methods.
But the cry went up that the
appointment of Hewett to sue
ceed him was the work OF the
patronage patrons who wanted
to open the doors to deserving
Democrats.
1t wGS said at the time that
Emil HurjG and Postmaster Ga1I-
erGI Farley didn't care TOR
Schauttler'S appointments. This
WGS denied and the Housing Of
ticialS said the personnel officer
declined to listen to suggestions
relatiue to the handling OF Gppl1-
cGntS.
So Hewett was appointed to
solve all problems.
Now, they say, Mr.. HeWett
fails to fit the niche.
Handsome Harry Hopkins, our
relief expert. returned from Eu-
rope the other day and came
back to Washington to find him.
self in need.
When Harry and Mrs. Hop
kins left New York he came
here. She went to New Hamp-
shire.
Their baggage was similar
and Harry seized bag which
he thought was his.
Picture the perturbation OF
Mr.. Hopkins when he arrived
in Washington and discovered
that instead of his clean linen.
the bag was full Of lacy things
belonging to Mrs. Hopkins.
Copyright 1884, The Washington TimssI
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Mr.. Dern BalkS Politicians
By James T. Williams, Jr.

} in his dignified reply to the
insulting demand from Con-
gresham Rogers, and the Con-
gresham who joined in this un-
American proceeding, their re-
port was mot limited to an in
dictment, but in effect finds the
accused guilty, fixes the SEN
tence and calls on the Secretary
of War to execute it,"
OF course, this is exactly what
Postmaster General Farley did
last winter, when he cancelled
all domestic air mail contracts
without giving the American
citizens who held them a chance
to be heard in their own de-
fense.
And Attorney General Cum
mings resorted to somewhat the
same procedure a few months
later, when he broadcast his al
legations against the former Sec
retary of the Treasury, Mr..
Mellon. before the latter was
given a chance to be heard in
his own defense.
In the case of Mr.. Mellon,
however, a Federal Grand Jury
went to his defense, by refusing
to indict him.
In the Secretary of War, how
ever, those who seek to over
throw the government of the
Constitution by supplanting a
government of laws with a gov
ernment of men are dealing with
a different kind of an American.
He has effectively demon
Strated this fact In his refusal
to purchase the favor of the
House Committee on Military
Affairs, or of it's subcommittee
by sacrificing an Officer of the
Army whom Mr.. Dern believes
is entitled to a presumption Of
innocence until he is proven
guilty before court of law.
Power of Removal
AS a matter of fact, the Sec
retary of War has no authority
under the law to remove the
Chief of the Army Air Corps,
or the chief of any other branch
of the Army, except in execution
of sentence following his con-
viction by court martial. Only
the President has the power of
removal of a chief Of branch.
The fact that President Roose-
welt has refused to execute this
power, in the case of General
Foulois, would seem to be pretty
good evidence that he is as dis
gusted as Secretary Dern, with
the attempt of a subcommittee
of the late and unlamented
Seventy-Third Congress to sur
render any American citizen
be he soldier or citizeu-to the
punishment of a moo. whether
it be a mob of people or Of
politicians.
Copyright. 1894, The Washington Time
This is the last of the series
of daily articles by Mr.. Williams
until his return from a uiSit to
the Far East in October.
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President Roosevelt shares
with the country the good
fortune of having in his Cabi-
net a Secretary Of War with
the faith to believe that the
government of the Constitution
is "a government of laws and
not of men, and with the
courage to follow where that
faith leads.
Secretary Dern was put to
the test recently, when a sub
committee of the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs de-
manded that he Immediately
remove from office the chief
Of the Army Air Corps, Major
General Benjamin D. Foulois,
upon unproven and sweeping
allegations made against him
by the subcommittee.
Insult to Injury
This demand was published
from the Capitol before it was
received by Secretary Dern,
and the allegations brought
against General Foulois attack
not only his competency as an
administrator, but his integ-
rity as an officer and a
gentleman.
BY way of adding insult to
the Secretary of War to the
injury attempted to inflict upon
the Chief of the Army Air
Corps, this subcommittee in
simulated that unless its demand
was complied with, Secretary
Dern could expect no additional
appropriations for the exran-
sion of the Army Air Corps.
When the sub committees
extraordinary allegations were
referred by Secretary Dern to
General Foulois for comment,
the latter promptly appealed to
the subcommittee for a chance
to see the evidence, that he
might prepare an answer to the
charges or ask for a court of
inquiry. His appeal fell on deaf
ears. It went unanswered for
weeks-finally it was formally
denied. And all this was done
by a subcommittee of the
House Committee on Military
Affairs, presumably with the ap-
proval Of the chairman and
other members of that commit
tee.
Secretary Dern was quick to
see that something far more
vital than the expansion OF the
Army Air Corps, or even the ap-
preparation requisite for the
support of the Army, was in
volved in the issue raised by
Congressman Rogers of New
Hampshire and the members of
his sub committee.
Secretary Dern saw that to
surrender to the demand of this
subcommittee would in effect
put the seal of approval of the
Secretary of War upon the con-
viction and punishment of an
officer of the Army without his
day in court. AS Mr.. Dern said
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who are perfectly sure of their
love and who are earning enough
to SubSiSt on, wait until all the
glamour has worn off their ro-
nance before signing the neceS-
sary slip of paper and beginning
life together?
Marriage may be an economic
problem; but it is one which is
easily solved in these days, when
two pay envelopes can blossom
where there used to be only one,
and when a wife can be an asset
financially, instead of a liabil-
ity. The modern bridegroom
doesn't have to listen to any of
that Observation-Disclosures
ter-in-the-style-to which she is
accustomed" stuff. with which
poor grandfather was tormented
and bullied.
These are grim days, when
the sooner a girl realizes that
she was not born to be a
household pet or a parlor orna-
ment, but to be some mans
TEAM-MATE, the happier
she'll be. The days of the mol
lusc, the toy-wife and the
harem-wife are overland the
sooner women face that fact,
the better.
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The Odyssey, Please
Says Young America

Says Young America
During all this talk about gangster movies and their e
feCts on children bright mind in the moving picture
industry decided to ask the children themselves what sort
of film they liked best
The answers make you think more highly of juvenile
Intelligence than, perhaps, you did before
Among the stories they enjoyed most on the screen or
hoped to see sometime, were "David Copperfield -
Treasure Island, "The Little Minister" "Ivanhoe" "
"Gulliver's Travels and "The Odyssey"
The youngsters who were polled New York school
children between the ages of eight and fifteen
They had violent preudices against gangster pic
tures but they preferred those listed above.
We think their choice does them infinite credit and
shows better taste their part than the average
adults.
Well, perhaps if live long enough, We'll grow up to
our children's level some day.
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which sent a crime wave rolling
through that State and on
eastward, quickly followed by
other golden billows from Colo
RADIO, Idaho and Montana, and
a silver wave from Nevada, Colo
rado and Arizona, all minister
ing to cupidity and the lower
passions. And then the Civil
War came on, further to break
down moral fiber, and a surge
The Washington times., 1934-09-01
T 1uman Side Of the News - ByEdwm

to tell the tale of that particular
habitation, noting whatever of
Saintliness there may have been
and all of the sinfulness which
existed in ample plenty.
To this writer his chapters
on train robbery, the James
brothers and the pony express
are the most fascinating plums
in the pudding. It was the dis
covery of gold in California
The Washington times., 1934-09-01

Mr.. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary
of Interior and pOtentate of
PWA, might we'll be jealous of
the rapidity with which the
Post Office construction pro-
gram under the Treasury is 60
ing along.
The dilly-dallying of PWA is
a sorry contrast to the Post
The Washington times., 1934-09-01

One comes across a book now
and again whose reading makes
one wonder if the American
breed has changed as well as
the times it lives in. "Old Way
bills" is such a book. 1t
raises the question immediate
ly as to whether American men
and women of the present day,
and especially the men, could
face danger so gallantly, en-
dure hardship so uncomplain-
ingly, as the folk who were
building up this country in the
fiftieS, sixties and seventies. thet
blazing period when the great
Westward tide was setting IN
and a new empire was being
created on the sunset side of
the Mississippi and the Mis-
souri,.
"Old Waybills" ID. Appleton
Century Company is the ro.
nance of the express companies,
so the author, Alvin F. Harlow,
tells us.
The whole picture is there Of
one of the most interesting So
cial cycles the world ever knew,
that which transformed all Of
the United States west of the
Father of Waters from a mere
hunting ground of the Indian
and a feeding ground of the
buffalo to the rich granary Of
the nation.
AS the express companies
grew, grew the nation. Their
development was so definitely
interviewer that this special
epic in transportation is a large
chapter, and a thrilling chapter
in American history. Until re-
Gently a unique private enter
prise, the express system was
synonymous with continental
expansion.
From the earliest beginnings,
when pioneering expressmen car
ried parcels in paper bags. to the
airplane shipments of today, the
whole panorama is spread be-
fore us, with especially exciting
and romantic chapters on the
famous highway robberies and
robbers, the Overland Mail, the
Pony Express, stage coach rob
berries and train robberieS.
The great moguls of express
in the old dayS-Ben Holiday,
William F. Harndon, Alvin
Adams, Henry wells, william G.
Fargo-live again in the pages
of Mr.. Harlow's enthralling
book. ,.-....
Splendidly documented and
indexed, copiously Illustrated,
this recent product of the D. Ap-
pleton- Century Company should
give pride as well as profit to its
author and publishers.
There is scarcely a famous
character of the old West who
does not swagger through it's 488
pages, for Mr.. Harlow, following
the great, numbering freight
wagons of Ben Holiday and
Russell-Majors over prairie and
mountain pass, paused long
enough at every worthwhile stop
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OF + ice
program,
W h i ch
origin a J.
ly co.. n
tempt a t.
e d tn e
construc-
ton of a
pos t Of
flee e in
e v e r y
Congress
S ! o n q |
diStr c t,
W i tn a
total eX-
p e n d j.
t ture Of
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By Nelson Harding

Then, swiftly shifting to the throat,
That former friendly clasp
May change into strangle hold
In unrelaxing grasp.
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b
n StFestH HaFthW0 d. O.
q. g. FitEpati editor
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Copyright, 1894. by King Features
tiouS young lovers expect to buy,
one-half so precious as the
golden youth they sell. For,
long-deferred marriages are only
dead sea fruit.
Syndicate, Inc.1
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Selling Out Love


Our grandfathers and grand
mothers made the mistake of
keeping their best clothes for
Sunday and their best linen and
silver locked away in the closet.
But they did not make the mis-
take of keeping young love on
ice or deferring marriage, until
their hearts had atrophied or
their arteries had begun to
harden.
This modern custom of de-
ferring marriage until you can
afford a smart car or a show
wedding or a honeymoon trip, is
just cheating yourself out Of
life's greatest adventure-young
love! Why should two people,
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

The woman who is not will
ling to face poverty and Strug
gle with a man, in these days.
is not the wife for THAT man.
The man who is too selfish to
sacrifice some of his bachelor
luxurieS and amuSementS in
order to marry a woman is not
the husband for that woman.
There is not enough LOVE in
their mutual bank-account to
marry on. They will always
be loVe-pauperS.
The girl who is putting off
marriage until she finds a mil
lionaire will have to buy a
microscope with which to look
for him. Because millionaires
are becoming scarcer and
Scarcer. And most of them are
old enough to creak at the
joints, anyhow. BY the time
a man makes a million, he is
usually too busy counting his
calories, worrying about his
blood-preSSure, and thinking
about his stocks and bonds and
golf score to be a very thrilling
and ecStatic bridegroom.
It is far easier for two young
people, who are glamorouSly
and rapturously in love with
each other, to bear poverty to-
gether than it is to bear it
alone. If you miss the spring
time of life together, you are
missing something that will
never return-life's highest,
sweetest and most dazzling ad.
venture!
II sometimes wonder what the
vintners buy-one-half so pre-
clouS as the thing they SELL"
chanted old Omar. And some
times wonder what these eau
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Copyright, 1894. by King Features
tiouS young lovers expect to buy,
one-half so precious as the
golden youth they sell. For,
long-deferred marriages are only
dead sea fruit.
Syndicate, Inca
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-10-19

full memories, Stephen. Let's try to
keep them. Let's try to forget the
other things-the things we couldn't
agree about"
She saw that he was moved; he
well . this doesn't have to be
final, does it, Lydia?" he said.
She was too much startled to speak,
sion, which was like Steve now, unhap-
py and puzzled.
"But, Stephen!" she said, at last.
you've agreed"
II know!" he said. II know. OF
course, I've got to agree, if you've made
up your mind. But I've been thinking.
If you were willing to make more al
lowances-"
IT tried"
"You-I admit you've got finer tastes
than I have, and all that, but-well,
you know, Lydia, you were a little SUI
perior sometimes, and no n likes
that"
you're unfair" she said, quietly.
"Why do you call it being superior be-
cause I couldn't like everything you
liked?"
"You never liked anything I liked"
he said.
But did you ever try once to care for
my things?"
IT couldn't" he said. IF you have
MT any taste for music, and 50 on, you
haven't, that's all"
"But why should I be the one to
make all the adjustments? Why should
YOU think it's easier for me to change
than for you?"
"Well, women are more adaptable"
he said.
"That-" she began, and stopped,
shocked to realize that they were very
| close to a quarrel. The same old thing;
the same old mulish look on his face
He had taken up his hat; that was
what he had always done, run away
from whatever he did not like.
There was a long silence, which was
broken by the sound Of James voice
outside.
"say, Pete! How'd you like to take
some Of that elephants a to school
and get old Bronson to taste itP I bet
you-"
"shut up, you poor fish," said Steve,
and James was silent.
"Steve," said the voice Of the red
haired Pete. "Who was that Teller
that came to your house to lunch to-
day?"
"Ol Just some one my mother
knows" Steve answered casually.
Mrs. Porter, standing near the win
dow, glanced hastily at her husband.
He stood, hat in hand, listening, and
she saw that his dark face had gone
pale.
That's a swell little sports model
he's got" Pete resumed. docs he ever
take you out in it?"
HE lives in New York. He's going
back, right away" said James. "Come
on over to your house, Pete. You said
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Joe Markham Of Butte, was e
elected chairman of the Montana
state boxing commission at its meet
ing held at Helena recently; Oshey
Devine Of Great Falls, was elected
vice-chairman; j. A. Livingston of
Butte, was reelected secretary and
Kirby Hoon of Helena, was elected a
member of the board of governors Of
the National Boxing commission.
The boxing commission approved
the Hubert Denis-Kid Vaught fight
scheduled for Bozeman on October
20.
As the commission has received
many complaints about the way
wrestling matches are being conduct
ed in many Montana cities, the at
torneys for the commission looked
the matter up and announced that
the boxing commission has no juris-
diction over wrestling matches and
nothing whatever to do with them.
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boys rudeness, by his sulky silence all
through the meal.
When they had finished, Stephen
went over to the window.
That's the place I mean, Lydia" he
said. There in the corner, where those
vines are. That's the logical place for
your garage"
I'VE going to have a garage?" asked
James.
"But that's where my sweet peas
are!" cried Lydia.
No one heard her. They all went out
into the garden, and down to the cor
ner where the delicate little flowers
stirred in the breeze.
"You ought to have a concrete floor"
said Steve.
1t wa the first word he had spoken,
but his father answered him easily,
without a trace of resentment. There
they stood, those three, discussing this
garage, the best sort of a to buy for
her! It seemed to her significant that
Stephen should have chosen just this
Gte, where her favorite flowers grew.
1.-THE boys are just like him." she
thought. "Perhaps-they'd have been
happier with him"
Stephen glanced at his watch. It'll
have to be going along" he said.
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He turned toward the house and she
went with him, but the boys remained
in the garden.
well . " he said, with a sigh,
when they were in the sitting room
again.
She wondered why he sighed; from
relief, was it that his visit was over?
Tn sorry the boys didn't behave
better" she said. I'D like you to know,
Stephen, that" it was q difficult
thing to say-"T'd like you to know
that they've never heard-and never
will hear-a single word of-criticism
about you from me-"
%, I trust you for that!" he said.
"Only-" he paused. Tn sorry-it's
turned out like this"
I'm sorry, too" she said, a little
~unsteadily. I'VE have so many beauti-
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She did not speak again for a long
time. She glanced about her at the
room, dim and cool; at the piano, the
books, the flowers; she thought Of the
garden, Of the gentle summer days that
had so delighted her. And all this
seemed to her somehow faded and mel
ancholy, shadowy, like this friend
ship" she had offered Stephen.
ut was because I didn't really want
to let him CO." she thought. 1T wasn't
his sort of life. This month has been
just a dream, how I'd miss him when
I walked up. I went away from him,
but I wouldn't let him go. And the
children"
She remembered and would never
forget the loyalty of her children. She
had confused and troubled them, she
had forced them to face a problem be-
yond their comprehension, and they
had not blamed her. They had been
utterly faithful, and Stephen had been
faithful, too. "I've got to agree, if you
we made up your mind" he had said.
That was the way he took it.
"He doesn't understand" she
thought. "He can't. He's going to give
me a car, and all the other things I
don't want. But that's his way of be-
ing faithful. I've been cruel to him,
to all three of them. And their loyalty
is the loveliest thing I could ever have.
Stephen!" she said aloud.
He turned, and there was Steve's look
OF his face, dazed, miserable, resentful.
It made her cry. She wanted to speak,
but her throat, CONSTRUCTED; she could
only look at him. When he saw her
in tears, he caught her in his arms.
Lydia" he said. Lydia, I'll try . :"
IF we both try" she said.
He was stroking her hair with a
gentle, unsteady hand. She could see
that he was still unhappy, still puz-
zled.
II want to be different he said
"Only-"
IT don't want you to bel" she said.
II will be, thought" he assured her
vehemently. Look here! I've sublet
the flat, you know. Lydia, would you
like it-would it make you happier-it
I came here-stay here with you this
summer"
eyes, it would, Stephen!" she cried
holding him tight.
LYDIA" he said, you're going to see
that I'm-different. I want you to be