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The Washington times., 1934-11-17

GordonS, and Henry P. Fletcher
he once was the real working
power of the entire organiza.
ton, are still there. Two Sec
retaries complete the roster.
All others have gone, includ-
ing one secretary who had
worked for 13 years with the
G. o. P.
Lack of funds, lack of hope,
and lack of interest caused the
organization to effect retrench-
ment.
Up in the spacious offices
Which once housed a score and
more OF 1UorkerS all is quiet,
noW.
There has been created, how
ever, an erroneous impression.
Some wits have said that the
quietest place in the world on
last election night was the Re-
publican National Committee.
That is an untruth.
Election night the head
quarters was the scene OF
rioting.
Pent up nerDeS, overwork and
toll had their effect.
A fight started. 1t developed
into what might have been
termed a freefor-all battle.
So, instead of being the
quietest place in the world,
the Republican National Com
mittee was plenty lively.
Regulations for Government
workers produce strange results.
In the Veterans Bureau
1DomGn Uho had been i'll SUBJ
mitted a "slip" in explanation.
On the paper she 1DdS expected
to explain the reason for her
prolonged absence.
After filling in various lines
she intended to write:
II have been in bed with q
hot water bottle"
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

Federal agents, creeping
through the night, approach an
abandoned house in a lonely
region of northern New Jersey.
At a signal, they dash forward,
smash down a door, overpoWer
a Negro guard and descend to
a cellar. foul and dank. And
there. in chains, are 18
wretched, frightened half.
starved Chinese.
They are part OF a "consign-
ment" of 33, smuggled in from
China at a thousand dollars a
head by the Chinese slave ring
of the United States. The ring
loses 1S thousand dollars at a
stroke, but cares little. The 18
thousand dollars will be
charged up to profit and loss,
and the profit far exceeds the
loss.
How many Chinese coolies
are smuggled over the borders
of the United States every
year by this Shrewd, wealthy,
powerful slave ring not even
the Federal agents know, but
the agents are necessarily on
the alert, necessarily on the
chase. Now and again they
make a haul and deliver
blow to the slave ring, but it
is good deal like fighting a
shadow.
IN BONDAGE
The method of the slave ring
is to ascertain in China what
human cattle are willing to take
a desperate chance, no better
than even, that they will live
or die, to get free of the miseries
and hopeleSSneSs of China and
get a chance to enter America.
The volunteers once secured and
herded at a convenient place,
the ring, through semirespec-
table agents, hires a steamship,
puts up the necessary cash, at
one thousand dollars a head
(paid in advance always) and
leaves it to the steamship cap
tain to make delivery as best
he can.
When the plot succeeds, as in
many instances it does, the SNUG.
gled Chinese become, literally,
the slaves of the ring for a
period of years, from five to ten,
until they can pay themselves
out of bondage with heavy in
terest.
This subject of human slavery
in modern times keeps bobbing
up in the news. A five-year-old
girl slave is bought in China
for $2.40 American money. In
Arabia parents sell their eight
year-old daughter into twenty
five years of forced labor for
$125. These are not isolated
cases. They are the common
everyday occurrences brought to
the attention of the League Of
Nations and the Vatican.
A vicious form of the traffic
is the kidnapping of natives in
Eastern Africa and their trans
portation across the Red Sea
for sale to Arab masters. A
French explorer, Joseph Kessel,
related how, while travelling re-
Gently in the interior of Abys-
sinia. he witnessed the seizure
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

nor hear the strange mumbling
and murmuring, whispering and
muttering which goes on all
about you.
One thing only fills your
whole being. lies before your
eyes in a red mist. .Seeps into
your noStrilS. .drips upon you
from the trees - BLOOD.
Observation-Disclosures dread
full draining of your severed
hands.
You are M'Kato. filled with
darkness, filled with fear and
agony and a hate that will last
through all your life until-at
last-it finds an awful peace.
You are no longer Bill
Brown-Mary Smith-living in
Leonia, New Jersey-or Fresno.
California-or Peoria, Illinois,
Seeing the same old scenes
thinking the same old thoughts
making the same old gestures
all the days of your life.
You are M'Kato-Congo say
age-living amidst dark and
dreadful beauty thinking
thoughts that white men forgot,
using powers white men lost, q
million years ago. At the flir
of page you are M'Kato-
LOST SELF
And where may you find that
page? In a book. But such q
book. BLACK GOD"-that'S
what D. Manners-Sutton, who
wrote it, and LONGMANS,
GREEN & CO., who published
it, called this story of M'Kato.
But actually it is - story
of black MAN-of all darkness,
the fear and hate, the greed
and agony and bewilderment
that have lived and still live in
the hearts of human beings.
The Congo - Africa New
York, Chicago, Denver, San
Francisco, U. S. A.-they're a
long way apart, IN miles. BO1
IN HEART BEAT, THEY ARE
ONE. And YOUR fear is
M'Kato's fear. And M'Kato's S
hate is YOUR hate.
Sick being the same person,
doing the same things? Then
turn a page-and find your
lost self. Go away-go back
find the things you have lost.
THEN COME BACK WITH
YOUR EARS OPENED, YOUR
EYES FRESHENED, YOUR
HEART QUICKENED BY TIE
TOUCH OF YOUR OLD, LOST
SELF.
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.l
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
nan Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

through the efforts Of leading
American whites, including
Henry Clay, thousands were
sent over from the United
States, who, setting up their
state, named the capital Mon
rovia after President James
Monroe.
Today their descendants, the
ruling class, stand indicted by
the League Of Nations for the
treatment. of the natives, and
Liberia has been threatened
with expulsion from that body.
Three years ago a commission
from Geneva investigated Lbe-
ria and presented report which
revealed bloody raids on
villages, the seizure of men,
women and children, torturing,
burning, beating and every i'm
aginable outrage. Promises
were Immediately forthcoming
that these conditions would be
remedied, but they were not
kept.
Rather, one Of the blackest
marks of treachery in recent his
tory is the slaughter of the Kroo
tribesmen by the Liberian SOL
diery after the Kroos had been
prevailed upon by the League OF
Nations to surrender their arms.
One Kroo village was chased
into the winderness, and three
of the natives were eaten by
leopards. This was the last
straw for the league.
BLACK MARK
Captain Anthony Eden OF Eng
land bitterly arraigned the Ii
berian government and laid the
whole mess at the door Of the
United States, since this country
was responsible for the founding
of the Liberian republic. Secre-
tary of State Hull is working now
on the problem and he has a sug-
gestion from a correspondent OF
the London Times who recently
travelled to the country.
This proposal is to set apart
the descendants of the American
freedman, pay them each SOU
and then have some country
take a mandate over the re-
mainder of the population.
One must come in contact
with the slave traffic to realize
its enormity, such as did the
Maharajah of Nepal, who in re-
cent years freed $4,000 slaves
and said in so doing:
picture to yourselves happy
slave family, comprising the nus.
band, the wife, and a Six-year-old
daughter, and a baby boy at the
mothers breast. But their hap
piness is not to last; the master
has sold them. His avarice has
blunted all the feelings of SYM
pathy in him. The mother goes
one way and the father, with the
daughter thrown in as a make
weight, goes the other, the two
perhaps never to meet again.
Think of the parting scene, di.
gest it we'll in your mind and
draw what moral you can"
(Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Inca
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Charity Brings Returns
Even in Hard Times

The depression which seemed at first seriously threaten
the great funds established by rich for the benefit Of
charity and education, has been thrown for loss
Fourteen funds including the three Rockefeller worth
S1560000 the four Carnegie ones worth $158000000 the
Russell Sage Mlbank and others, making grand total Of
00 actually increased in value this year. The julius
Rosenwald fund jumped 205 per cent
It's interesting note that capital investments main
tanning their own but interesting to think that
country there such vast available from Svae
fortunes for public charity and education
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

No man comes so near the
gods as one who shows protec-
ton and kindness to men,
Seneca.
Surprise is so essential an IN.
gredient of art that wit will
bear no repetition.-Smith.
Revolutions never go back
ward.-Phillips.
Justice renders to everyone his
due.-Cicero.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

and no beauty treatment can
make her eyes shine, like the
tenderness in a mans gaze
when he looks at her.
He can make her feel young
and attractive and altogether
desirable-or shop-worn and out
of date. He can make her feel
like a cute and frisky kitten
or like IAN old horse that ought
to be shot"
It's all in the light in his
eyes-which is either one of
warm admiration and approval
or a cold north light of indif-
ference and disapproval, that
makes her shrivel up inside and
feel twice her age.
A woman sees herself in a
mans eyes as in a full-length
mirror: and he can cover her
with a flattering rose-glow of
admiration or turn a critical
glance, like a searchlight, on
her which will fill her with an
inferiority complex.
She can feel the tender, proud,
poSSeSSive look Of her husband
all the way across a ballroom,
even when he is dancing with
another woman: or she can be
painfully and acutely conscious
of the fact that he is coldly
sizing her up and marking her
down. even when he is court
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

somewhere-do something diff
ferent! But not a chance.
Why, the grocer hasn't been
paid for three months. And
the landlord
Well, what of it? That
needn't keep you from getting
out of your old life into a new
one. All you need to do is
turn a page-and there you
are!
There you are in strange,
yelled world you've never seen
before-with beauty calling and
mystery murmuring and terror
plucking at your elbow. And
you are no longer Bill Brown
busted broker. Or Mary Smith
disgusted housewife.
TURN A PAGE
Suddenly, amazingly, you are
young M'Kato, striding-naked,
black and desperate - through
the darkness, with your bleed
ing arm stumps thrust out be-
fore you. You have made your
way through the uncleared land
behind the plantation-you have
left the Steaming swamps-and
now you are in the jungle and
It is heavy with dusk mist
and the perfume of the tree
orchids is overpowering there
are fireflies, darting about like
so many falling stars. and
from bough to bough of the
trees overhead monkeys swing,
chattering and screaming and
throwing down leaves and tWigs,
spitefully, upon your head.
But you do not see any Of
it nor smell the orchids.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

Every day
there are at
least a dozen
letters lik e
that. H o W
O f t e n you
could h a v e
written one
of t h e M
p a r t icularly
in t h e S e
dreary d a y S
when moth
ing new ever
seems to hap
pen. If you
CO d only
trav 90
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Faulty Parole System
Another Glaring Case

The District is learning something about how the Board Of
Indetermnate Sentence and Parole functions
And it isn't altogether pleasant knowledge.
The latest example of the boards activities the case OF
sentenced to ten years, who hao lengthy criminal
record who had been previously paroed and who has now
been released after serving slightly than two years Of
his latest sentence
This case in our opinion amply jusies the attacks which
have been made upon parole system it operates and
it completely the position which The Times has preV
ouy taken urging the Parole Board to suspend the grant,
inc of paroles until an opportunity be given Congress to
PLUG UP THE HOLES IN THE PAROLE Law
At the present that law wide open that horse
and wagon could be driven through it.
T. has served to remove fear punishment from the mind
of the habual criminal and has convinced him that no mat
ter how long may be imposed him by court
that sentence will be reduced comparatively few months
bv board which DID NOT HEAR THE EVIDENCE UPON
WHICH HE WAS CONVICTED.
When this bill was pending Congress in 1882 Mr. San
ford Bates the Bureau of Prisons OF the Depart
nent of Justice told the House District COMMITTEE:
cit is Just another step in the direction OF moder"
oenoIoeicu[ advance look foruOard to the time Uhen
parole This is leniency, but simply net" system
of discharges"
Well, it appears that Mr.. Bates was about right
We haven't reached the time when "every man committed
to prison will leave under parole but we apparently have
reached the time when TOO MANY who have been cotteo
are leaving prison under the parole system
There is type of prisoner who deserves the
which is offered by the parole law.
The first offender the victim Of circumstances the man
who obviously can be rebuilt into dependable citizen the
tvne Of man for whom the law intended.
And with that there can be little quarrel That type de-
serves assistance the community deserves the bene
which will from rehabitating that sort OF person
Rut the law is faulty misapped when it becomes the
excuse for freeing after short period Of imprisonment the
hardened criminal.
Take look at the of the latest beneficiary OF the
parole system His record starts in 1921 Within ten years
he had faced fifteen serious charges
Tn 1897 he was sentenced years in the pentenary
He was paroed this sentence in 1881 Less than year
after he was pared he again sentenced for ten years
~ rohherv charge OF this served about two years
and q half and now HE IS PARoLED AGAIN.
This is glaring case. It to public attention
the SPOTLIGHT is being turned the parole law and
its workings
There are probably other cases just as bad.
Unless the law altered repealed there will probably
he additional cases of the sort.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

can make him feel awkward,
small, ashamed, stupid and alto
gether hopeless.
She can fill him with pep,
self-confidence and self-compla-
cency-or with doubt, fear and
a bitter sense of inferiority.
Criticism is a whip-but love
and admiration are a tonic, a
stimulant and a draught from
The Fountain of Youth. (What
is LOVE, anyhow. but admlra-
ton raised and intensified to
the highest degree?
And the only perfect marriage
is a Mutual Admiration Society!
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate 1nc.l
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

of a small girl by the slave
dealers.
She was tending a herd Of
goats in the mountains when
they stole up on her, enveloped
her in a sack, and started to
carry her off. The Frenchman
interceded and after some bar
gaining was able to buy her
freedom for $3.50, although the
slavers had told him they could
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Words of Wise Men

Discomfort is the first step in
the progress Of a man or a 4
tion.-Wilde.
Oh, the love of a mother, I
love which none can forge.
Hugo.
After a good dinner one C
forgive anybody. even or
own relations.-Wilde.
All men desire to be immoI
Parker.
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

The Repub-
lican National
Com mittee,
once a mighty
grOu p, h a s
been reduced
SO its person
mel consists of
five persons.
Chairman
H e nry P.
Fletcher heads
the list, al
though he sell
dom fingers in
Washington.
The Bennett
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWland

eously wrapping her evening
coat around her shoulders.
The admiration and attention
of other men can pep up a
woman's vanity and make her
feel young and blooming for a
few hours; but a word or a
glance from her husband can
"take it all out of her" on the
way home.
And men are not so very diff
ferent from women, in this re-
spect. The average man loves
the woman who "babies" him,
makes him feel like a boy and
at the same time loudly sings
his praises to the world and
protests that he is Natures
Masterpiece and a Mental Giant
among mere men.
It is pretty hard for anybody
especially a mans wife. to make
him feel OLD. Not even his
arteries can do that! Every
man is born with what he fan
cies is the gift of eternal youth.
But q woman can make her
husband feel brave, young, capa-
BILE, highly intelligent and alto
gether worth while. Or she
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
What Every Wife Knows

What Every Wife Knows
The youngest married couple
I met, this past summer, were
celebrating their Golden We'd
ding. They were dancing to
the radio and every now and
then, the Old Boy would steal
a kiss from his Old Girl, on
the sly.
The greatest beautifier, the
most effective youthifier any
woman can have is a mans
love and admiration. No sur
geon can lift a woman's face
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Economy, the by.wOrd Of the
Republican leaders, has been ap-
piled to their own organization,
The Washington times., 1934-11-17

get 5000 for her from an Arab
dealer.
Ironical, to say the least, is
the status of Liberia, the Negro
republic on the west coast of
Africa, in regard to slavery.
Here $4,000 enfranchised Ne
groes of American origin rule a
million natives. Liberia was
conceived as a haven for freed
slaves back in 1920, and,
The Washington times., 1934-11-17
Get Away From ''The Sam
Old Things!"

II think I'll go crazy if I
don't get away from saying and
doing and seeing the same old
Nogales international., 1934-10-13
Early Baseball

The distnctively American game OF baseball had
its first crude beginnings about 100 years ago, and
the first attempt to develop the game is generally
credited to Abner Doubleday of Cooperstown N. T.,
in 1889.
In the early days the ball was extremely "livey,
being made of two and half ounces Of rubber COW
cred with yarn and leather, and scores ran high. In
the first intercollegiate game, between Amherst and
Williams colleges, on July 1, 1859, Amherst won by
the score of 66 to 80. The game lasted rs innings,
however, and there were 13 players on each side.
The first professional team the Cincinnati
Red Stockings organized as an amateur club in 1866,
and becoming professional outfit in 1869 in that
year it made tour Of the United States meeting To-
cal amateur teams winning Sc games and losing one
during the season. averaging AZ per game, while
it's opponents averaged 10.
The first pitcher to throw a curved ball was Ar
thur Cummings, who introduced the innovation in
1866.
The oldest professional baseball league is the Ma
tional League, organized in 1876 with eight teams:
New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville and Hartford The American
League was formed in 1900 the original clubs being
Chicago Buffalo, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit
Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis
It is just so years since the first "worlds series"
was played, when Providence, champions Of the Ma
tional League defeated the Metropoians of the old
American Association, winning three out of series
of five games
Nogales international., 1934-10-13
Pay Up And Improve Conditions!

If everybody in Nogales having all income would
make real effort to pay up their bills conditions here
would be improved
We know of some persons-and some who are
drawing fat salaries and getting their pay regularly
Zach ronth-who are the toughest birds in the world
10 separate from dollar.
A few of these persons refuse to kick in when
bills are presented yet they throw away hundreds of
dollars annually and put up the excuse, pm broke
when confronted by bill collectors. Naturally any per-
son living beyond his means win be broke
Nogales international., 1934-10-13
Mailing A False Report

A certain Democratic county candidate IS report
ed to have said that Il am opposed to the County
Democratic Committee making any contribution to
newspapers
Such statement, coming from Democrat, ma
turaIly has wrongfuly created the impression that
The International the only Democratic paper in San
ia Cruz county, has asked for a contribution
Ipects
This paper has been in existence now for almost
10 years and never in that time has it received
Ia contribution sought one expected one, from the
county committee any other organization or III
dvcual and never has It sold dollars worth OF stock
Contributions may have been made to former Demo
cratic papers BUT NOT THE INTERNATIONAL.
The international has printing and advertising
space to sell Through those sales, and circulation
ceipts, make living So long we never &C.
cept contribution just SO long will we always be in
ia position to censure any individua1 Democrat
otherwise. WE ARE UNDER OBLIGATION TO NO
ONE and it shall always be the policy of The Inter
POLITICIANS AND OTHERS
NEEDING PUBLICITY TO EXPOSE THEIR CON-
DUCT
Many strong words are necessary to bolster up
ia weak argument.
Stratosphere explorers too confirm the idea that
there is plenty Of room at the top
Some motorists are so intent OIL looking at the
Iscenery that they suddenly become part Of it.
A Turkish woman admits being 130 years old.
And neghbor ladies doubt agree that she looks 49,
An Iowa professor says there are five kinds of
Idumbness. He must have been associating with five
economists
A schooboy parsing the word trousers, de-
Icared it to be an uncommon nown singular at the
Itop and plural at the bottom
An exchange in an editorial headline asks the
Iquestion, 'Do Poets Die Young" Our private inves-
tigator informs that, unfortunately the worst ones
do not.
We read that the government has taken over the
hides of cattle killed account of the drouth It al
so appears to have designs on the hides of the tax
payerS.
Nogales international., 1934-10-13
Deserving OF Reelection

Onlv three Of the major Democratic canoho3eeS ,oe
in this county have opposition at the November ee'
'i0'i' The three are County Attorney E. R. Thurman
County Assessor Harry Y. Farrior and supervisor
John A. Jones.
Thurman, Farrior and Jones deserve to be re re-
elected for the reason that each has proven very
ciont in office. -
These gentlemen are not the sort who can be
h]uffed or buldozed They conduct their respective
offices impartially fair to ALL and irrespective OF po
htical affEation.
No mistake can be made in rejecting Ihurnan'
Farrior and Jones.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-04
STUDIES.
PERMANENT POLICY
Relief and Finances Get Atten-
ton at Little White House
as Chiefs Gather

Warm Springs, Ca, Dec. 4.-F-
President Roosevelt carefully can
vassed the vital parts Of the impend-
ing permanent New Deal Tuesday as
he neared the close Of his pleasant
study period In his "other home"
A new public works program OF
heavy proportions to make profitable
work for the unemployed until pri-
vate industry can take up the slack
appeared certain out Of significant
conferences ct the little white house
Primary consideration appeared
focused on this new relief program
Tuesday with Secretaries Morgen-
than and Ickes. Harry Z. Hopkins
relief administrator. and Rexford G.
Tugwell. undersecretary Of agricul-
ture, remaining about the conference
table.
Mr.. Roosevelt also looked forward
Tuesday to welcoming into his Warm
Springs family Postmaster General
Farley, chairman Of the Democratic
national committee.
The president, who Is taking things
very leisurely here while looking over
the national situation, kept his own
counsel and there was little prospect
Of any announcement Of . program
from him before congress convenes
In January.