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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-28

pledge to the flag; song by the
girls group; song by boys
group; song by the girls chorus;
one by the entire class; the Amer
ican creed, recited by the class;
presentation of the class and di-
plomas; class song.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-28

This three piece suit of water
marked wooden is ideal for week
ends in the country. The ensem-
BILE includes a slimly tailored skirt,
box jacket and full-length top
coat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
Note These APEX Features

Fully Enclosed Gear Case
Gears Running in Oil
I HIP. Splash-Proof Motor
Sturdily Constructed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
80 Wanted to Buy

HIGHEST CASH PRICES-Paid i'm
mediatey for old gold iewelrv. watches
bridges. teeth. Licensed by U. S. govern
ment
STANDARD GOLD SMELLING co.
1913 LEMCKE BLDG. Cor Penn & Market
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08

Glistenirg Porcelain Tub
High 3-Vane Agitator
Safety Release Wringer
Cushion Wringer Rolls
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
FINAH cIAL

So Personal Property Loans
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

double -breasted coat which but
tons well over the wound, or,
still better, I can don a soft
shirt and be my old self again.
Hail, summer! Hail, soft dress
Shirts
(ArticleS By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, ThurSdGv'
and Saturday.
Copyright. 1894, King Features
syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
Public Works Loans
'H0ULD BE LIBERALIZED.
District Needs Projects

District Needs Projects
The reported dsncnation the Public Works Adminisra
ton advance the District the money needed local
projects addition to funds sought for the sewage dis
posal plant will it is hoped be
The enabling the District borrow the funds provides
in addition to the sewage disposal plant for loans for
Struction Of tuberculosis hospital addition
Ganger Hospital and for construction Of wall around the
Districts model reformatory at Lorton.
All three these latter projects urgently necessary
Administrator Ickes said feel he will not have enough
money grant the District the full $1o7oooo authorized
the enabling act.
In the effort obtain the full loan authorized Senator VIII
telling point.
The Senator directs attention to the fact that millions Of
dollars previously advanced earmarked by the Public Works
Administration for loans to municipalities being returned
to the administration because Of the inability of the munich
paes to finance their share the projects contemplated
when the loans originally authorized.
This should leave Administrator Ickes with much bigger
loan.
Also it should emphasize to the Administrator that there is
danger that the District will be able to pay back the
money which borrows carry the projects to their u
mate completion.
The enabling District to borrow makes especial
vision for repayment Of the loan through segregation of
Of the local taxes collected annually.
THE MERITS OF THE PROJECTS CONTEMPLATED IN
THE ENABLING ACT ARE so SELF-EvIDENT THAT IT Is
BELIEVED THAT ADMINISTRATOR ICKEs IS BEING DE-
TERED FROM GRANTING APPROVAL TO THE FULL
LOAN ONLY BECAUSE HE FEARS SHORTAGE IN HIS
FUNDS. THE ANGLE RAISED BY SENATOR KING
SHOULD ELIMINATE THAT ONE OBJECTION
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
Government Leave
Standardization Needed


The recent opinion Comptroller General which appar
emily makes the leave privileges Of employees of emer
gency units directs attention of the serious
faults Federal civil service That the variance and
discrimination matter Of leave with compensation
many years this problem has existed but has become
more acute recently with various interpretations Of
legislation with the springng up of mushroom" units
which operate without the restrictions the protection thrown
around old line agencies of the Government.
There almost many variations in the leave privilege
as there are bureaus of the Government.
has come to be generally believed by the taxpayer that
all Government employees enjoy the privilege Of thirty days
sick leave and thirty days annual leave
Unfortunately this is far from the truth
Some few units may grant their employees this humane
logical privilege but by far the greater number give less
leave and many employees Of the Government have leave
privilege at ALL
IT Is THIS WIDESPREAD M1sCoNCEPT1oN OF THE
LEAVE STATUS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHICH HAS
CONTRIBUTED HEAVILY TO THE BELIEF ON THE PART
OF SOME THAT ALL FEDERAL JOBS ARE s1NEcUREs
AND THAT GOVERNMENT employees DO NOT EARN
THE SALARIES THEY RECEIVE.
laborng this msconcepon have the idea that
Government employees stay away from their jobs the
Of the slightest indisposiion charging up the time to sick
leave. They likewise believe that all Government employees
abandon the National Capital the time for at least
month to enjoy long period of rest at the taxpayers
pense
As matter Of fact even in those agencies which grant what
might be liberal sick leave privileges the leave rarely
there instances which employees who
seriously i'll have been unable to obtain the leave
sary to allow for proper recovery.
agencies varies greatly and the amount of time allowed for
vacations generally less than allowed in private industry
business ....
IN THE INTEREST OF EFFICIENT CONDUCT OF THE
NATIONS BUSINESS BY SATISFIED STAFF THE
LEAVE PRIVILEGES OF THE VARIOUS AGENCIES
SHOULD BE STANDARDIZED. AND 1T GOES ALMOST
WITHOUT SAYING THAT IN VIEW OF THE MODERN
CONCEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, LEAVE PRIVILEGES
SHOULD BE L1BERALIZED
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

had no mandate from the
American people to throw
away the Philippine Islands
now or later upon the terms
fixed in the Philippine act.
This reckless commitment
was made under the pressure
of d coalition of special inter-
ests, headed by group of sugar
lobbyists.
And within few months
after this law was passed, the
same Congress broke it's own
promise to the Philippine people
made in this very bill by i'm
posing upon one of their chief
products a prohibitive tariff.
Congress by the Philippine
act had authorized the importa.
ton of an annual quota of two
hundred thousand tons of COCO
nut oil to be shipped to the
United States until the Flag was
finally hauled down at Manila
ten or more years hence.
Cuts Tax Revenues
President Roosevelt in a Spe-
cial message to the Congress
pointed out that to change this
or any one of the economic pro-
visions of what amounted to a
contract between the Seventy
third Congress and the Philip
pine people would reflect dis
credit upon ourselves"
But the same lobby which
drove the so-called Philippine
independence bill through both
Houses of Congress was able to
compel the same Congress to
disregard the appeal of the Pres
ident and impose a prohibitive
tariff on Philippine coconut oil.
This tariff will mean several
million Filipinos who are de-
pendent upon this industry for
a livelihood will be threatened
with restitution. 1t means that
80 out of 40 provinces will sui
fer the Gripping Of their first
or second industry. This will
involve a tremendous loss Of
tax revenues to the Philippine
government and neceSsitate the
closing of many Philippine
schools and the diScontinuance
or curtailment Of other vital
governmental services in the
islands.
No Congress was ever guilty
Of a graver betrayal of trust.
No Congress ever treated a de-
pendent people with such
cruelty or its own word Of
honor with such contempt.
What the American people
think about this, they will have
a chance to say on election day
next November, but the Philip
pine people have no voice in
the matter and they can only
rely for justice on the passion
for justice in the hearts Of the
American people.
Copyright, 1894. by The Washington
Times Coz
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

mings had asked for more
agents, armored cars and the
like. The reduced appropriation
will interfere with those plans
somewhat. At present, however,
it is not known where the cut
will be applied, but it is probable
that the armored cars will be
omitted or reduced in number
and that fewer agents will be
put to work.
The strange part Of it all Is
that Congressional committees
have a habit of asking assist
ance from justice agents despite
the fact that there is a scarcity
of the investigators for crime
work because Congress reduced
the appropriation.
At the present time when
criminals are upsetting law en-.
forcement throughout the coun.
try, people fighting crime say
the Congress might we'll have
spent more money to cope with
gangdom.
Representative Clarence Nc.
Leod, youthful Republican Of
Michigan, has announced that
he is a candidate for governor
of his State.
Mac" first came to the
House in 1920 when Is years old
and was the youngest member
ever elected until that time. His
election was won overWhelm-
ingly as voters went to the polls
to favor the youth who had
shortly before returned from an
honorable career in France in
the World War.
Since he arrived at the Capt.
tOl, Mcleod has been one of the
most energetic members and in
the last session made a gallant
fight for bank pay-off legiSla-
ton that won him acclaim
throughout the Nation.
Opposed on that legislation by
venerable leaders who reSorted
to every possible parliamentary
trick to defeat him in his efforts
to secure action on his bill, NC
LeOd, nevertheless Outwitted
them on almost every point.
In the event that he Is
elected to the governorship Of
Michigan it will be a great
feather in his cap. But, on
the other hand, those who
know him and his work here
believe they would be losing
one of the finest young men
who has served in the House
in recent years.
Heading west on a speaking
campaign Postmaster General
James A. Farley plans to stop
off at Reno, Nevada.
Why big JIM" who is the
Administration dispenser of
patronage selected the spot
where so many separations are
granted was a question Of spec
ulation for some time.
1t is reported, however, that
Jim believes those Reno judges
may be able to divorce him
from some of the job seekers.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

struggle with dress shirts, a
struggle of such intensity and
long duration that I have been
asked to write it up under
STRUGGLES" for the next
edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
For am what is known as A
bender" in dress shirt circles.
This corresponds to q "bleeder"
in the medical world. One
touch, or even so much as one
step forward, and my shirt front
bends. BY the end of an eve
ming, I am lucky if it is still but
toned and covering any portion
of my chest.
I see all the other boys with
their shirt fronts in immaculate
flatnesS after an evening of
wrestling, and I sometimes go
into a corner and cry softly to
myself at my affliction. I have
asked my friends what kind of
shirt they wear and how they
put it on.
I have even borrowed theirs
for a try-out and induced them
to help me into it. And in three
minutes it looked like the sur
face of the Merrimac River when
the ice is breaking up.
hope that nobody, on read
ing this, will try to recommend
for me. I am past experimental
ton. I have tried shirts that
you get into from behind, like
an old-fashioned StevenS-Dur-
YEA.
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
Congress BetrayS Philippines
In Independence Act
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

History's verdict will hold the
late and unlamented Seventy
third Congress to an inescap-
able accountability for many
sins of omission and commits
sion.
There is nothing worse in this
bad record than the cowardly
betrayal by the Seventy-third
Congress of the nations reSpon-
Sibility for a dependent peoples
outside continental United
States.
When the Seventy-third Con-
gresS enacted into law the So
called Philippine independence
act, it broke every promise ever
made by the American people
to the Philippine people. 1t
shirked before the world a
grave responsibility in the Far
Pacific. It attempted to bind a
subsequent Congress to with
draw American sovereignty from
the Philippine Islands 10 or
more years hence.
In the meantime, by this leg.
islation the Congress left the
United States with a response
bility before the world for the
Philippine Islands while de-
priving the United States of the
authority necessary to discharge
that responsibility with fidelity.
If a subsequent Congress
carries out this commitment,
which the Seventy-third Con-
gress had no constitutional au-
thority to make, it will ad.
vertise the American nation
before the world as a shrink
ing nation and no longer a
growing one.
Lobby Forced Act
Hauling down the flag over
the Philippine Islands will
mean abandoning American
sovereignty over that archi.
pelago. It will mean giving up
one hundred and fourteen
thousand square miles of Amer.
lean territory-territory that is
as much American in title as
is any State in the Union.
Spain coded sovereignty over
the Philippine Islands to the
United States by the Treaty
of Paris. These islands then
became American territory.
They number more than
three thousand islands and
islets and total in area as
much as the New England
States and the State of New
York combined. or only seven
thousand square miles less
than the area of Great Brit.
ain.
Nearly fifteen years ago their
total wealth was estimated at
five billion five hundred mil
lion dollars. and their value
to the United States now is
even greater than it was then.
The Seventy-third Congress
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
SUMMER SHIRTINGS
BY Robert Benchley

I have tried shirts that went
on over my head Naturally,
after I had got my hair brush
ed, and once got caught in one
of them, like a rat in trap, and
had to have it cut away from
my head. have tried shirts
that button like coat, and
shirts that come already but
toned which were laid on me,
like armor plate on a battleShip,
with rivets. They all bend in
from three to six minutes.
I have even had shirts made
for me with tails so long that I
could gather them around my
ankles and use them for socks.
French shirts, Gin particular, are
built on the funny-suit" prin-
ciple, and can be used as an
aviator's flying rig if necessary.
Il hate to think of an occasion
on which it would be necessary,
however,
The only difference that I
have noticed in any Of them is
that, in addition to billowing,
some of them have too short
bosoms, so that they don't meet
my waistcoat. This gives an
ignorant appearance, as well as
an untidy one.
In the winter, I spend most OF
an evening trying to pull my
coat together over my shirt
front until the bending has
reached a point too near my
neck to be hidden. In the sum-
mer I can wear a good, roomy
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

I hope that I give no offense
in saying that, as a season, I
am not partial to summer. I
perspire on the back of my head,
do not shape up we'll in sports
clothes, and have hay fever. I
also hate daylight saving.
But there is one relief sum-
mer brings which is boon to
me personally. 1t gives me a
three months respite in my
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
By John Snure, Jr.

Assistant Secretary of Com.
MERGE John Dickinson is await
ing the report of his investi-
gators.
They are delving into the &C.
tivities of employees, particular
ly those of the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Com
merce.
When Dickinson sought con-
firmatiOn of his prOtege DR..
willard ThOrp as director Of
the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce he became
frightfulIv irked when he
learned that some workers in
the Department were opposed
to the former Amherst pro-
feSSOr.
After the Senate Commerce
Committee rejected T'horp, Dick
inson sent his Investigators to
find out who had opposed him
among the employees.
His particular ire was d.
rected against H. Russell Amory,
colorful assistant director.
Whispers had fallen on Dickin-
sons ears telling him that
Amory had taken part in the
opposition to Thorp. Actually,
Amory was the victim of a
whispering campaign but Dick
inson decided to set his investi-
gators at work.
The inquisitors have been
working for some time but so
far, no report has been made
public and the employees are
again whispering that Dickin-
son will publish the report only
if it indicts Amory.
That, surely, cannot be true.
Dickinson, certainly would
not stoop to such tactics. Re-
gardlesS of whether the report
indicted Amory or not Dickin-
son would publish it. He, in all
fairness, would wish to exoner-
ate Amory when the time comes
for his generation.
In order that things might
run smoothly at the Bureau
again, however, officials say
Dickinson should rush the re-
port along so that all con-
cerned might settle down to
normal work once more.
The Department of Justice an
nounces that it will offer re-
wards for the capture of public
enemies.
Such news may be gratifying,
but on the other hand, certain
opponents of crime believe that
the department would be more
effective if Congress had not
reduced its appropriation from
the amount requested.
The department suggested
that $2,916,400 be allotted for the
purchase of equipment, rewards,
and other features of the crime
war. Congress saw fit to reduce
the amount to $2,212,75O.
The slash of $703,650 is ex-
pected to seriously cramp the
style Of the gangster-getting de-
partment.
Attorney General Homer Cum
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
The Human Side of the News
Century of PROGRESS Forecasts Future
Bu Edvin C.. Hill

That astonishing show at
Chicago, which combines the
visualized progress of scientific
research with the stirring and
amusing ballyhoo Of Coney
Island and the rural simplicity
of a county fair is, after all, a
great deal more than a show.
For the exposition gives us
more than a hint Of what the
future will contribute to conve-
nience, comfort and luxury; to
hygiene and health: to mans
eternal effort to get the better
of Mother Nature. Its prevail
ing note is modernism, toned
down somewhat from the fam
boyancieS with which the COM
ing period was introduced, but
distinctly modernism just the
same.
No one can survey and study
the Century of Progress Expo
sition without being struck by
that salient fact. It is modern
and it is thoroughly American.
According to audit, 22,565, 1859
visited the fair in 1888. The
modern style of architecture
and the dramatic presentation
of colors has recorded for 1888
an important change in the
arts.
American Modernism
Architects, artists and en-.
gineers worked conscientiouSly
and long to give us a true ex-
preston of American modern
ism. It is not strange then,
that since the opening of the
fair last year, many millions
Of persons have put their &C.
cumulated impressions to work
on their immediate environ
ment, the home.
Retail stores and manufacture
ers of building materials, house
hold equipment and furnish
ings, report increasing sales of
articles recently designed in
the modern style. Only in the
last year have industrial design
ers carried modern forms and
colors successfully into mass
production with a frank ex-
ploitation of synthetic ma
terialS.
The man-made materials have
furnished fresh inspiration to
artist and industry alike who
have developed many labor and
time saving devices with char
acter of their own. The last
year has brought the stream
line, not only to automobiles,
but to trains, clothes and the
small house. Those dozen or
so very attractive small houses
along the lake front present so
many new ideas and innova-
tions for comfortable living it
is impossible to list them. They
have, collectively, helped to
make permanent heretofore
feeble attempts to launch an
American expression Of modern
architecture and house furnish
ing.
Too, they have helped us de.
termine the good from the bad
in modernism. The chaSte sim
plicity of the designs in general
has put far behind us those
flambuoyant cabbage-roses of
Paul Poiret, once considered
very modishly modern. History
points through all the great de-
pressions that only the useful
was considered beautiful, but in
the up grade to prosperity lux
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
Words From Wise Men

Be ignorance thy choice
where knowledge leads to woe.
-Beattie.
We that live to please must
please to live.
Circumstances alter cases.
Halliburton.
Conceit in weakest bodies
strongest workS.-Hamlet.
The Washington times., 1934-06-26
J Forecasts Future

uriousneSs and grace was de-
sired as well.
We cannot forecast the future
Of our present expression Of
modernism, but it is safe to ex'
pect an evolution Of curves and
extravaganza. The long-desired
wave OF small home building
should produce many modern
style houses as room-form must
be in step with the fast-growing
demand for modern furnishings.
1t was appropriate that a dis
tinguished architect, Harvey w.
Corbett, one of Alfred P. Sloan's
800 prophets of progress, should
have used the Chicago Century
of Progress Exposition as the
forum for his prediction Of what
the modern, small home of the
future will be: "a house more
beautiful, more permanent, more
varied in plan arrangement,
erected and ready for occupancy
within week from the time the
order is placed"
And a manufacturer, L. R.
Smith, speaking from the same
platform, on the same general
subject of interest to so many
millions, was even more Spe-
cific in his confident predic-
ton. For he promises a five
room house - equipped with
every article of furniture, linen
rugs, kitchen utensils-with a
garage and lot with all improve
ments, such as sewers, pave
ments, sidewalks, lawns and
trees, which can be sold to
workingmen for $4,000, allow
ing adequate time-financing
costs and every similar type Of
expense.
Attendance Grows
And modernism will have
strong play in the office build
ing Of the next century or per-
hapS of the next few years.
For William r. Seigle visions
an office building which will
be a shell structure only, with
fabricated interiors designed
for the particular needs and
wishes of the tenants. Young
America likes and understands
modern design. It has cult
waited a taste for indirect light
ing, for straight line and the
vitality of color. Traditional
styles hold less and less inter-
est for the coming generation.
as it represents the taste of a
passing one.
Retail sales throughout the
country reflect the acceptance
of the modern style. During
the past year approximately Z
per cent of all furniture and
over IS per cent Of all house
hold equipment. fabric and
small articles sold, were Of re-
cent modern design. The 1894
exhibits of arts and crafts pre-
sent a high artistic standard.
not only in the luxury class,
but in articles for everyday
use.
And, from the increasing
daily attendance at the fair,
next year an even greater num-
Der of people will be impressed
with good American designs
and will prefer to buy articles
of good craftsmanship to in
ferior ones now available at the
same prices. -
Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

The most utterly lost Of all
days, is that in which you have
not once laughed-Chamfort.
A cunning woman is a knav1sh
fool.
All me, how weak thing the
heart Of woman is!
A schoolboy's take, the wonder
Of an hour!
The Washington times., 1934-06-26

published 1871
n gtreetN G.
y T. Fitzpatrick
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-17

that his actions represent in all truth the will of the German people
 It wasn't necessary for him to have called the election He is a law unto himself and to Ger many. As Edwin L. James writing in the New Times recently said: He is the complete boss, in form well in fact
 Ratification, therefore will not be an impressive action to other nations. It will not alay the fears of France England, Italy and Austria. Consequently the ring of steel with which they have surrounded Germany will not be broken, at least for time. They and other nations will watch every Hitler move with much attention after the election Sunday as they have been doing since he assumed the office of Reich Chancellor