davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montana labor news., 1934-12-20

After that crack, Richberg must be
getting invitations from the Hearst
press to join its campaign to smash
Communism by misquoting Lenin and
encouraging Fascism.
"Fascism," says Hearst himself in
his latest broadside, "is definitely a
movement to oppose and offset Com
munism, and so prevent the least ca
pable and the least creditable classes
from getting control of government"
Lest there by any mistake as to who
these low-grade people are who
threaten to take rulership of the coun-
try away from such high-grade mil
lionaires as himself, Hearst says that
he means the "proletariat," which is a
synonym for the wage-earning or
working class
AS to what Hearst means by Com
munism, he is not-publicly at any rate
very explicit. But recent confiden-
tial instructions sent on his behalf to
editors of his chain of papers give
clue. Members of the American News
paper Guild are not to be fired or dis
criminated against for joining it, these
instructions state, but editors are no.
titled that Hearst regards the Guild as
"Communistic movement" and as
they know their big bosss attitude on
Communism, they are to govern
themselves accordingly"
Anything that in any way infringes
on Hearst's profits is "Communistic"
apparently, even if it be an organiza-
ton SO conservative as the Guild, many
OF whose members cannot even decide
whether they want it to be a labor
union or professional society.
From out of the mountains of gov
ernment research on every possible
phase Of social insurance, the faint
squeaks of mouse are beginning to be
heard. The most the administration
will back at the next Congress, it is
said, is legislation for federal encour-
agement Of state unemployment re-
serves little better than the Wisconsin
plan. There1l be nothing in it for
those now jobless, unless they raise
lot of more hell than they're raising
now.
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checked. Doom was forestalled
again-but for how long?
Again, the story of the year
is marked by Europe'S only his
toric barrier against War-the
balance of power. AS Germany,
raring and rampant under Hit
leriSm, began to undermine the
Little Entente, Frances buffer
against Russia, France moved
toward rapprochement with the
Soviets, as did Great Britain.
The new Locarno pact drew the
iron ring tighter around Ger
many. Roughly, there was again
shaped the entente of the pre-
war days with Italy the joker
william unhappy figure, per-
haps, in view of the dread seri-
business of these issues.
Those little truncated states
made by the Treaty of Versailles
find no amalgam-no synthesls,
economic or political, which will
give stability or peace to Eu-
rope. The Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes nurse their ancient
erudges, unheedful of that false
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No More Ocean Barriers
Flving Has Wiped Them Out

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, flying from Hawaii to Call
forna in fifteen hours gives this intelligent country something
to think about.
At that speed plane from ASIA coulo Te@cn O"Ao" III
approximately two days.
From island in the Pacific between Asia and Hawaii
it could reach California in much less time.
It begins to you doubt that America penoo
isolation" is thing of the past. 49,
The Atlantic barrier The Pacific is not barrier
foreign aggression as they have been hitherto.
New York. Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore washington are
wide open attack from the East and Pacc CoSSt CLUES
from the West =, 49,, o
Indeed Captain Frank Hawkes. recently told Govern
nen aviation commission New York is now vuneraoe from
Asia provided the fiers who made the attempt resolved to
bomb it without hope of getting back
of unpreparedness will dismiss these actS as
alarms propaganda =, ,: co,
We wonder the American people and the American Gov
eminent will also ~ 49,.
If So the people and the Government have some en-
barassng moments future for which they alone WILL be 10
blame r. rI oon+
an ostrich with his head in the sand to read
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is desperately contriving to
stay, if only for day, the
ruin and desolation of war.
The assassination of King
Alexander of Jugoslavia and
Foreign Minister Louis Barthou
of France disturbed pro-
foundly, and dangerously, the
bulwarks which European
statesmen were trying to i'm
pose against new conflict. The
tragedy came a few days after
Mussolini had warned Jugo-
Slavia against insults to italy,"
and II Duce was watching
closely the new accord between
France and Jugoslavia-the
royal visit which might give the
latter country powerful ally.
ANIMOSITIES
Animosities between the two
countries had been famed up
for months. A few weeks be-
fore, none would have pre-
dicted that Europe could with
stand a shock like those Mar
seille homicides, but somehow
it did. Sporadic violence in
Italy and Jugoslavia was
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Knockers or sweater with a hole
in it and says Just fix this
for me, right away, will you?
1t won't take you a minute"
Of course, it won't take a
minute. It will take a DAY!
But optimism is a wonderful
thing.
Another time when a woman
feels mirthful is when a man
rushes in with the cheerful
command, Just throw a few
things together into our bags.
Don't go to any trouble-it's
only for over the weekend.
We can just about make the
train"
Haw! ANY trouble" mean
ing making a mental list of
all the things one simply
MUST have and cannot do
without when away from home;
going through the house with
a fine-tooth comb to find
things, assembling all his eve
ming clothes, finding the right
stockings, shoes and acces-
series for at least two costumes,
and finally getting everything
into the grips with the right
things on top.
Oh. yes, it makes a woman
lust CHOKE with laughter
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from the goVernornSlp ana run
for another office is blamed for
a large percentage of votes that
went against him.
But the politicians Gin the
know" say that that Baltimore
man cost him more ballots than
the fact that he had been in
office too long,"
From all indications now q
dog fight is developing among
the men who want to lead the
party.
Up in HdgerSto1Un, a juriSt
thinks he should be the leader.
In Baltimore, at least three
men are convinced that the
HdgerStol71 Judge is not the
man because each one of them
is positive that he and not the
HGgerStoWn man is the man
of destiny.
AS the squabble progresses,
and it progresses quietly now
with trouble in the offing, the
real men in the Democratic
party in Maryland are worried.
They fear that the leadership
fight is going to cost time and
harmony before it is over.
And they say that unless
these men come to a fair under
standing promptly and for the
benefit of the party things
won't look so rosy four years
hence.
big" Jim Farley announces
that he 1UiU retain his post as
leader of the Democratic ma.
tiondl committee.
And folks agree that by the
looks of the results of last
Tuesdays election none can
challenge his position.
1t has been a laughing matter
with Big Jim, this business of
giving up that job. He has
talked about it and perhaps has
given people the impression that
he might resign after this cleo
ton.
Those Who kne1D him, ho1U-
eUer, kne1D that Jim Wouldn't
giDe up that post Without a
terrific struggle.
He merely talked in such a
way that wouldn't cost any
votes. And Jim has a faculty
for talking that way that is not
possessed by many men.
Jim feels, and all persons
around him feel, that he has
done a good job as chairman Of
the Democratic committee.
Tuesdays result convinced
them that the voters didn't mind
the fact that he was Postmaster
General and chairman of the
committee, too.
And right now there are few
men in the Democratic party
who would attempt to change
his view that he should stay in
both jobs.
copyright, 1884. The Washington
TlmeS)
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Starve him, turn him vicious,
drive him mad. But the most
dreadful and lasting injury it
can inflict is to TURN HIM
INTO A DREAM ADDICT.
But dreams are pleasant
things-they make life easy.
How can they harm anyone?
They harm because they ARE
pleasant. . because they DO
make life easy. So easy that
they gradually cut you off from
all life-makir1g you unable to
face reality.
Do you know anything about
dope addiction? Here's hoping
you don't-and advising you
never to learn.
Dope addiction is the ghaStll-
est hell on earth. There is no
shame as awful, no suffering as
dreadful. Then why do people
become dope addiCts?
Because it's pleasant - it
makes life easy.
MEAN WELL
Dope addlcts aren't usually
vicious people. They're worried
people tired, sick, sensitive, be-
wildered people. They mean
we'll. They want to make good
in life R11t lifa'S a tough baby
to tackle-and they haven't
what it takes. They go to
pieces when the whistle sounds.
And So
They try to find something
that will help-something that
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daily invites few people to
stay for Sunday dinner or sup
per without even looking for her
signals, and tells her not to
go to any trouble" but just to
let them take "pot-luck."
"Pot-luck" meaning the open
ing of innumerable cans, the
hurried assembling of manifold
makeShifts, the marshalling of
fresh linen, the soiling of end
less dishes and the ruination of
the cooks afternoon off.
A hungry Sunday night crowd
can eat their way through a
weeks staples, wreck a woman's
nerves and leave the place look
ing as a SpeakeaSy used to look
after a raid.
But you can't quench
mans hospitality - especially
after the second cocktail. He
is so cordial! Besides, man
has a secret conviction that a
house runs itself, and that
what he used to call "woman'S
work" is just fun, like going
camping or playing golf.
THE smile that is Sadder
than tears" is that on a
woman's face, when she hears
her husband urging the de-
parting guests to be sure to
run in again, soon. ANY
time!"
It makes her laugh-ha! ha!
Just like that-when her liege
filings her a torn pair of
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Listen, World!
Blu Elsie Robinson

will steady their CoWardice,
strengthen their weakness. Dope
does. For little while. Dope
makes them forget their handi-
caps. Wipes out all the rough
spots in the picture
Presently the poor addict
can't face ANY difficulty with
out it. Any contact with real
ity becomes torture-the touch
of cold water on the shrinking
skin, the touch of a brisk word
on the shrinking spirit.
Dope turns man into a rag.
So do dreams-if they become
an addiction.
You can do with dreams ex-
actly what you do with dope:
Buck yourself up. Wipe out all
the tough spots.
Forget drearineSs and discour-
agement-nagging monotony-
criticism and competition.
everything that may possibly
end in humiliation or failure.
You can make life what you
wish it to be WITHOUT ANY
EFFORT ON YOUR PART
when you're dreaming or when
you're doped.
And the process is so pleas
ing that presently you can't
endure to face real life at all.
FRESH START
Cry babies. boosters, DULLES,
1oafers-they're all dream ad-
diets. If you could step into
their secret thoughts you'd find
them all gummed up with
pretty day dreams.
They don't think those day
dreams are harmful.
They don't believe that they
have any connection with their
failure to get along with the
rest of the world.
But they have. They're the
reason why they ARE failures.
LAS a man thinketh, so is
he" If you duck all the rough
stuff in your private thoughts,
you'll also duck 'em in your
public chores.
You can still win if depres-
sion makes you ragged, hungry,
homeless, friendlesS. For you'll
still have the makings Of a
fresh start in yourself.
But look out for day dreams!
If they get you, you're SUNK!
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Struggled Aliens
Put Them Out

The story of the 80 struggled into New Jersey from
China revealed by Federal narcotic agents. who found 10 OF
them in dismal dirty cellar ranks with the most horrible
tales of early slave trade from Africa.
Four of the Chinese who sick thrown overheard
from the slave ship.
But what concerns us now that 16 of the Chinese
still at large.
Their presence and that of nobody many others
type shores further proof that cannot
protect ourselves unwecome immigrants only through
keeping them out We must also seek them in midst and
put them out.
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Picayunish palaver is the
trouble.
1t started out, they say, be-
cause of a certain jealousy
among some of the boys as to
who was going to rate the best
with Administrator James A.
Moffett. They all wanted to be
teachers pet and fought among
themselves for the lead.
Petty, underhand tactics fea-
tured the affray and the situa-
ton has gone from bad to
worse.
Judging By some OF the de-
velopmentS, a fen of the men
in key positions failed to real
ise that they had passed the
stage OF adolescence.
They seemed to think they
had to knock the chip oft the
shoulder of some cO-WorEer IN
order to be impressive.
Internal strife in the i'm
portant Housing Administration
is not pleasing to the real men
of the Democratic regime who
control all things.
Much depends on the success
of housing and the fact that a
few so-called men can't forget
their childish days doesn't set
we'll with the White House.
1t all depends on the key
men of the Housing admins
tration, they say. They must
settle down to real business or,
according to all reports, they
are to find themselves search
ing for positions elsewhere.
Lack of leadership in Demo-
cratic ranks in Maryland is
forcing development OF Sc
riouS situation.
The defeat of Gov. Albert C.
Richie is being commented on
in private and the reports are
that a certain well-known Balti-
more "bOsS'', who now would
like to be leader, failed to so
down the line for Richie.
Ritchie's failure to step aside
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bitter, broken
people. But,
of them all,
the n! o S t
tr a ic are
fro m THE
REAMERS
from men
and women,
b Us a n d
girls, who've
t urne d to
dreams as an
escape.
Hard times
can do plenty
of bad things
To q human
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Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill
By T. E. Powers

dawn at Versailles when the
League of Nations was to form
1.-The parliament of mankind"
Europe, outside of Germany,
fears Germany's "Mittel Europe"
schemes. 1t is the great Rosen-
berg state plan, devised by that
strange, febrile, Russian-born
adventurer who is the master OF
German statecraft. 1t would
bring back to the Reich those
minority peoples allotted to the
new states under the Treaty OF
Versailles. It would build Ger.
many to a nation of eighty mil
lion persons. 1t would seize for
the Saar coal the Lorraine iron
deposits. 1t would integrate
Germ any, economically and
politically, and give it dominion
over Europe. It would give it
industrial dominion over a good
slice of the world, in fact, as
German steel technology needs
only the thrust Of this Lorraine
iron to make it formidable and
perhaps triumphant in all the
great markets of the world.
Behind Hitler, behind all his
yappant eXpounders Of race
hatred, there are the memorable
figures of Thyssen, Rochling,
Wolff and the other great steel
masters impelling their political
puppets, with deadly resolve,
into whatever issue Of war or
peace may hinge on coke and
iron.
BEST CURE
Disarmament is a casualty Of
the year and the day which
marks the futile sacrifice of ten
million lives. The year has
marked again Japan's world
thrust for markets and raw
materials, the renewal of that
world oil-argument-always
loaded. And, of course, in most
parts of the world, democracy is
a casualty.
Here in America, we have just
come through an election IN a
year of deep and dark uncertain
ties, year of contention be-
tween powerful forces which, IN
Europe, under similar condl-
tionS, would rip the lid off gov
eminent. With one exception,
there has been no violence. Ma
hatma Sinclair, after a lot OF
feverish talk, was sidetracked
according to Hoyle, and not
with a gun. There has been no
interference with the press, with
public speech, with private ut
terance. Defeated candidates
send kilograms of congratula-
lions to the winners. There is no
housekeeping and no barricades
in the streets.
If this seems SNUG, in view OF
GIlG 1SdI d11S1 VI 1oONJ AAA SAA WV
it is not so meant. None can be
so unfeeling as not fervently to
hope that Europe will yet find
the ways of peace, but we over
here are entitled to take stock OF
our institutions and to conclude,
perhaps, that our democracy,
with all its ills and failures, is
the best cure for gun-totins, the
best long-run solvent Of poison
Gus hatreds, the best amalgam
of human aspirations yet de-
vised by this little crying baby
of a world"
And, in my opinion, we are
justified, too, in staying over on
this side of the pond. We can
keep quite busy and happy here
for long time yet-once We get
under way again.
Copyright. 1894 by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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On the sixteenth anniversary
of the armistice which ended
the most disastrous war in his
tory, Europe is just as peaceful
as market day in Ballybunion.
They Swore off war and formed
the League of Nations. It
didn't work. They're back to
the old balance of power. 1t
was the breakdown of this
equilibrium which brought the
World War, as it launched
world strife in the days of
Louis XIV and Napoleon.
Fanatical nationalism in
creases. We are "as we were"
But, perhaps one should say
they" instead of we" for,
Uncle Sam is viewing these old
dynastic and economic blood
feuds with more and more cold
detachment. There's been grief
enough this last year, and now
the trouble-shooters are rush
ing all hands to the Saar Val
ley, hang-n Ill of old war
hatreds, poison fount of Eu-
ropes economic bloodstreams.
On January Is, 1885, half
million miners, a racial and
political hodge-podge, doped,
suffocated and belabored with
frantic propaganda, will vote
on what is to become Of the
great coal deposits which are
the nub of the argument in
all Hitler's outreach for con-
tinental dominion.
TROUBLE SOURCE
This international plebiscite
will decide whether the Saar
Valley is to go back to Ger
many, be picked up by France
or remain under the League of
Nations. Tall, shrewd, long
nosed Godfrey G. Knox, the
British chairman of the govern
ing commission of the Saar, is
sitting on the lid of the witches
cauldron.
If Germany wins, there's a
grand boost for Hitler's "Mittel
Europa" and more filters in
France. If France wins, the
effect on Germany is sure to be
much like that of a bunch of
firecrackers tied on a nervous
dogs tail. If the Saar stays in
the League, there still will be
encysted in the life tissue of
Europe an unfailing source OF
infection. From this distance,
the only answer seems to be
that sealskin pie should be made
with the furry side out. We
leave it to Bugs Baer.
During the year, they got a
nice running start for this main
event in the Saar Valley. When,
on June 80, Hitler "purged" his
realm with six-shooters, there
was a shocking reminder that
Europe's haut politique-slicked
up as may be diplomatic ONT
ments-has a low decorating
point. There was blood on the
moon for a few days there,
Then, when the Austrian
Nazis shot little Dollfuss in
Vienna, and he bled to death
alone on Metternich'S sofa;
when Mussolini spoke, with an
iron clang in his voice, as did
United Italy in the late days
of old Metternich; when France
got ready to shoot from the
hip; when the cripple League
of Nations stood impotently
by-then again did all mans
artifice, all his deVising, "ebb
and sink and Sadden"-in
Kipling's line.
The imponderables of this
League of Nations were as
chaff before the wind. 1t is
an equation of power, and not
OF morality, with which Europe
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able trouble.
1t may be,
b e f ore the
thing is over,
that a general
Shake-up will
be necessary
u n | eS S the
ones at the
top re a re
I II e y II a V e
p a S S e d the
stage of boy
90 a n d
that they are
expected t o
have a GER
tain amount
Of dignity.
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when a man tells her how
simple" it is to do these little
things and wonders why she
makes such a fuss about it,"
Not all husbands are so
naive, of course, especially after
a few years of marriage. A man
gets home-broken or marriage
broken or something-but it
takes a lot to kill his optimism.
And some wives live the life of
a fireman from the altar to the
grave.
Copyright 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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The first thing that a student
has to do is to get rid of the idea
of absolute ownership.
Williams.
Wit in the letter will pirate,
but wisdom speaks in a post
script. -CIough'
Our patience will achieve more
than our force, Burke.
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Words of Wise Men

For hope shall brighten days
to come, and memory gild the
past. Moore.
Opinions are a great care and
a great trouble; but still they
are acquisitions.
Few envy the consideration en-
joyed by the oldest inhabitant.
Emerson.