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The Washington times., 1934-07-31
BY John Snure, Jr.

Milady comes into her own
in this Democratic administra-
tion and some think that the
age of chivalry is with us
again.
Women are named to i'm
portant posts, more of them
are appointed than ever before,
and it seems that the President
and his advisers realize that
woman'S place is elsewhere
than the home.
The reason, as usual, may be
found.
Investigators find that of the
invested wealth of the Nation,
So per cent is held by women.
Men transfer their holdings to
their wives, widows place their
wealth in banks or bonds.
In little Alexandria, Virginia,
$8,000,000 is on deposit by
women.
1t is a wise thing, the Dem
ocratS in control think, to play
up to these holders of wealth.
The Democratic party needs
supporters who have funds.
Women would have had
more wealth but for the losses
sustained when they invested
in comparatively uncontrolled
securities, in ge -rich-quick
schemes, that were somewhat
tolerated in Republican days.
This Administration has or
ganized great corporations hav-
ing securities backed by Gov
ernment funds the latest Of
which are Federal Housing
Corporation debentures.
Women may invest their saw
ings and fortunes in such Sc
curities with a sense of safety.
They won't lose.
And they will, in all prob
ability, be grateful to an ad-
ministration that protects their
interests.
At least, that is what some
Democrats believe.
District Commissioner Aliens
report on conditions of unem-
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this is done the independence Of
Congress is diminished.
To the spoils system to which
Mr.. Farley has tied the Admin
istration is in part due the grow
ing dissatisfaction in many
States over the way in which
various relief agencies are being
administered.
Instead of being run for the
benefit of the destitute, too
many of these agencies are be-
ing utilized under the spoils sys-
tenn sponsored by Mr.. Farley to
build up the national political
machine which he heads as
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee and the State
political machine which he
dominates as chairman of the
New York Democratic National
Committee.
No member of the Cabinet has
been able to appoint anybody
to office without the advice and
consent of Mr.. Farley, except in
the comparatively few instances
where Mr.. Roosevelt has been
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

There is one dec ion which
President Roosevelt ;annot de-
lay much longer whout sap
ping the force of Is leader
ship. He must scrs decide
what to do with Mr. James A.
Farley.
Either Mr.. Farley vii have
to be eased out of tt Cabinet
or he must resign as Hartman
of the Democratic national
committee and as ch;rnan of
the Democratic State commit
tee of New York. Thtcountry
is in no mood to toltate the
holding of these THE posi-
tions much longer by te same
man, even so urbane politi-
clan as Mr.. Farley.
The fact that Mr.. FREY is
directing the course 0 these
two political committeesin the
same day and from tn, Same
office that the American ,eople
are paying him to perfol1i the
duties of Postmaster GENIAL is
chiefly to blame for tn sin
iSter spread of the spoil 3sys-
tenn and the most wantol sac
rifice of the merit syStemthat
men now living have ever Wit
nesseS under any Admintra-
tion.
Pork Barrel Feast
To make the spectacle cen
more obnoxious, Mr.. Farley ~
pears to have made his pece
with Tammany Hall, whse
new leader has begun to pru-
ise that organization new SlisS
of political pork in the fon
of If 'ge grants of Fede4l
patronage at the hands of ts
generous Mr.. Farley. !
To the influence of Mr.. Farla
is attributed the refusal of Coz
gress to protect the numerora
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Whittier Bound, Mr.. Farley?
BY smes T. Williams, Jr.

prevailed upon to overrule Mr..
Farley.
No head of an independent
commission has been able to call
to his assistance anybody whom
Mr.. Farley did not approve, un.
less the President intervened,
which has been seldom.
The absurd theory upon
which this dictatorship of the
spoilsmen of politics has been
set up seemed to be that Mr..
Roosevelt owes his nomination
and election to Mr.. Farley and
his powerful political machine,
and that the President is de-
pendent upon the same political
boss for whatever chance he has
of denomination and reelection.
Already some supporters Of
Mr.. Farley have begun to spread
the story that Mr.. Farley was
blameleSs in the Post Office
scandal that resulted in the can
collation. without due process of
all domestic air mail contracts,
the wrecking of the Federal air
mail, the crippling of American
air transport, and the sending
to. an unnecessary death of IL
of the best and bravest pilots
that ever flew the ColorS Of O
great nation.
According to this impudent
report, Mr.. Roosevelt is to blame
for all of this and was put up to
it by Senator Black of Alabama
and Senator McKellar of Ten
nessee. Mr.. Farley has yet to
deny this version of that unSav-
ory episode, although it has
been widely published.
Progressives Angry
Progressive members of the
Roosevelt administration indig-
nantly deny that Mr.. Farley
made Mr.. Roosevelt President
or that Mr.. Farley and his
powerful machine can unmake
him by preventing his nomina-
tion or reelection.
But as long as Mr.. Farley is
permitted to hold the three
offices of Postmaster General,
chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and chair
man of the Democratic State
Committee of New York, the
progressive members of the
Administration will be COM
PEELED to do the will of the
spoilsmen and halt the advance
of Civil Service reform.
The growth of Federal bu-
ireaucracy in its most perni-
tciouS form will continue until
President Roosevelt decides
what to do with Mr.. Farley
whether to get rid of his serv-
ices altogether, replace him as
Postmaster General or as
chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and chair
nan OF the Democratic State
Committee of New York.
/ The people, North, South,
last and West, are becoming
hnoyed and alarmed at the
fowth of the spoils system.
hey believe that Mr.. Farley, in
de three offices he now holds,
i chiefly to blame for this in
Geasing menace to the public
Welfare.
The Bible says that "No man
an serve two masters" but
Nr. Farley, by holding his
tree offices, is trying to serve
tlree-the people of the United
States, the Democratic spoils-
nen of the nation and the
Iammany Hall spoilsmen in
New York. 1t can't be done,
fd' the reason the Bible gives.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
A Staggering Bill
The Cost of Receiverships

What is the cost of bank recevershps throughout
the nation?
An inkling to the answer to this question which is
plagung the depostors who must pay the bill is to be
found in the figures the cost of receiverships in
Washington.
Here where there are sixteen closed banks being ad
mnistered by nine receivers the cost at the rate
of about one million dollars year.
That is in the National Capital where the Treasury
keep in intimate touch with the receivers and where
the receivers are doing as cheap job as can be
pected
One million dollars year for sixteen banks here. And
there in recevershp about 1900 national banks and
State banks which at the time of closing members
of the Federal Reserve system.
IF THE RECEIVERS IN THE OTHER BANKS ARE
DOING AS GOOD JOB AS THE WASHINGTON
RECEIVERS 1T is NOT UNFAIR TO ASSUME THAT
THE TOTAL RECEIVERSHIP COST FOR THE 1000
NATIONAL AND MEMBER BANKS IS RUNNING
INTO THE STAGGERING TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS YEAR.
In addition to the national and member banks in
cevershp it estimated reliably that there are about
five thousand State banks in receivership.
The receivershps in these banks are probably costing
more than again much as the receivershps in the
national and member banks
The several hundred millions of dollars which are be-
ing paid for receiverhp costs coming out of the
pockets of the and who least afford to
part with that money.
THESE FIGURES, COMBINED WITH THE ORIGI-
NAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FEDERAL GOV
ERNMENT IN LURING DEPOSITS INTO UNsoUND
BANKS AMPLY JUSTIFY THE POSITION TAKEN
AT THE LAST SESSION OF CONGRESS BY REPRE-
SENTATIVE CLARENCE j. MCLEOD OF MICHIGAN,
IN DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT TAKE
OVER THE ASSETS OF THE CLOSED INSTITU-
TIONs AND WIND UP THE RECEIVERSHIPS.
The assembling of the figures by The Washington
Times which aided Representative Mcleod in his par
TALLY successful drive for relief augurs that when Con-
gress another and strenuous effort must be
made to eliminate the receiverships.
UNLESS THIS Is DONE THE VICTIMS OF THE
BANK COLLAPSE WILL BECOME THE VICTIMS
OF SYSTEM WHICH, NO MATTER HOW WELL
ADMINISTERED, EATS UP THEIR REMAINING
DOLLARS.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

your morale no end of good to
be able to bark at a five-year-
old tad and watch him scamper.
Of perhaps Is such experiences
within the past month, I have
been able to browbeat all the
tots except three, who succeeded
in chasing me back into my
house. They were armed with
rocks, which is an unfair ad-
vantage no honorable tot
should take over an elder who
is learning browbeating.
The boy who delivers the
evening paper is about 16 and
looked so mild that I decided
to take him on. One night
when he showed up I knitted
my brows fiercly and said:
why don't you get that
paper here on time"
why don't your Aunt Hat
tie drive a hack?" he retorted,
fllnglng the paper at me ana
scoring a bulls-eye on my
nose.
That experience made me
decide that indiscriminate
browbeating was too risky, so
I now have in my employ a
former taxi driver who for $25
a week allows me to browbeat
him numerically for two
hours a day. 1t has done me
no end of good. but he has
given notice that the work is
too difficult, and that he will
have to quit in two weeks un-
less his salary is doubled
doubling it. It's worth
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

grocer and picked a scrap with
him over some tomatoes he had
sent. The tomatoes were all
him know that. 1 did that
every day for a week, and with
considerable success, eliciting
apologies of all kinds, until
about the seventh time, when
the grocer told me where I
could go, and how I could take
my trade some place else as I
went.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

ployed in five cities which he
visited is arousing considerable
comment among friends of the
working man on Capitol Hill.
Busy Bob Wagner, Senator
from New York, is probably one
of the most interested of the
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

diamond, found this year by
poor prospector in Prestoria, is
of almost the same size as the
Great Mogul which for centuries
held rank as the most marvellous
stone in the world.
This Jonker diamond, named
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

after Jacobus Jonker, 62-year-
old bearded prospector, weighs
726 carats, which is about five
ounces, is pure white and like
an egg in size and shape.
Jonker, the father of seven
children, had been digging for
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

n e w Federal
agencies that
have been set
UP since the
A d m j nistra-
ton entered
power by put
ting them un-
er existing
Civil Service
! a W S. Every
time o n e OF
these is eX-
empted t h e
power of Mr..
Farley is in
creased, and
nv finoo
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

Capitol Hill
crowd.
Alt h o ugh
Labor 6 a v e
him a rather
poor recep-
ton on the
w e S t Coast,
Wagner h a S
fought a long
a n d tedious
fight in the
in t e r e st Of
t he working
classes.
Aside from
his Senate in
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
BEWARE
By Frank Sullivan

Children, if they aren't too
husky, make good broWbeating
subjects. I was amazed and
quite set up over the ease with
which I was able to terrify a
number of the smaller fry living
in our neighborhood. It does
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Save the Ship from Rats
A Good Idea, Even if 1t Does Come from
General Johnson.

: Good Idea, Even II tt Does COme from
General Johnson.
General johnson is right-for once-and this time his
language is not too strong
He calls upon responsible labor organizations to
subversive influences from out their ranks like rats
He quite accurately calls this action duty Of
tion."
had better get rid of the rats before the rats boring
from within impair the craft of labor organization
Primarily task is labors because the subverves work
within ranks of labor trying to perver it into radical
American channels.
The task is labors because, it fails fnches at the
necessity of cleaning its house. WILL the General
predicts fail o retain the respect and support of the
American people and the power of the national Government
which otherwise is its to command.
WASHINGTON week the 1911
II Washington:
j. Fitzpatrick managing editor
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
DIGEST BALLOTS
SHOW SWITCH

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 G.N.S).
Results of the new Literary Digest
poll made public today reveal
that II States show a majority
opposed to President Roosevelt's
New Deal policy.
A nationwide checkup of $4,000
ballots, sent to the same people
polled in the Digest's first survey
last spring, showed 50.97 per cent
of the ballots for and 1903
against the New Deal.
Last spring, the magazine Of
ficialS announced, the same people
voted 69.O3 per cent in favor of
the New Deal. At that time only
one State-Delaware-failed to
give the Administration a ma
jority.
This time Delaware is reported
so per cent favorable, while the
States showing a majority un-
favorable are Arizona, Connect
cut, Illinois. Indiana, Kansas,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Vermont
and Wyoming.
The poll was conducted in
August and September, indepen-
dent of the 100000 ballot poll
which showed a 61.15 per cent ap-
proval of the Presidents policies.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
Youth Gets 80 Days
On Larceny Count

Charged with embezzlement and
larceny, John Crispins, 25, an
employe of the Shell Kerosene
Company, was held without bond
for the Grand Jury on the first
count, and sentenced to serve 80
days in Jail on the second, after
pleading guilty before Judge John
P. Mcmahon in Police Court today.
Michael Goldberg, commission
agent for the Shell Kerosene Com
pany, testified the defendant sold
420 gallons of kerosene and failed
to turn in the money collected.
The defendant was accused also OF
renting a room in the 800 block of
Maryland Ave. N. E., and femov-
ing from another room gladstone
bag and wearing apparel.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
BUTLER BOUND,
THIEVES HELD

A colored butler who had been
tied up early today by two colored
men who ransacked the home of
Comdr. Carl S. Graves, U. S. NJ,
$500 block Idaho Ave. N. W.,
worked loose his bonds and called
police who arrested the intruderS.
Odell Fields, 80, was bound and
gagged by two men who proceeded
to leisurely plumber the home of
the Navy official. Fields man.
aged to break loose and telephone
police.
One of the thieves was arrested
after he jumped through a dining
room window, the other while run
ming from the rear porch of the
house,
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
Midwest Demands
Waterways Work

TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 10
uN.SD.-"If these Eastern
cities want to choke US off,
they've got to die with us"
Mayor D. E. Hoan, of Milwau,
kee. president of the Great Lakes
Harbors Association, so warned
the associations convention yes.
terday. He added:
There can be no recovery
along the Atlantic coast until
the Middlewest RECEIVERS"
One of the features of the con-
vention will be protests against
alleged activities of the War De.
partment.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
j. 8. EMPLOYE
DEAD BY GAS

All the Jets of a stove open, Mil
dred Thomas, information clerk
at the Department of Agriculture,
was found dead in a gas filled
apartment in the 300 block Six,
tenth st. N. w. today.
She was the divorced wife OF
Elmer E. Doolan, also an Agri-
culture employee, police said.
Neighbors smelled gas and
called police, who broke in the
apartment and found the woman
dead. No notes were found.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
Girls Live Longer
Than Boys in D. G,

The life span of n baby boy
born in the Capital is 81 years
and two months, according to a
survey by the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company. But
baby girl is given a longer span,
the survey showed.
The urban type of the Capital
and the fatalities among transi
ents tend to lower the average
span, it was pointed out.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
DIES TO SAVE CAT

LISBON 1.N.S. - tonic
Silva, 9, was scalded to death in
a desperate effort to save a cats
life. Some boys threw a cat into
a cauldron of boiling water. An
tonic rushed to the fire, and at
tempted to rescue the cat.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19

vorce from her writer-husband,
Richard F.. Hyland, former Stan
ford University football star.
"A property settlement is to be
discussed at a meeting of attor-
neys for the couple, today, it was
said. Mr.. Hyland arrived here
yesterday. Miss St. John is now
employed at Paramount Studios.
The Washington times., 1934-10-19
Divorce Planned
By Adele St. John

HOLLYWOOD. Cal. Oct. 10
0.NSD .-Adela Rogers st. John.
authoress, screen writer and critic,
today admitted she plans a di-
The Washington times., 1934-10-19

HERMAN CARL W. Az DUZER
had
Cosmopolitan
William District director
TimesSt
Evening star., 1934-08-19

at once! Mac could give him cards and
spades and lick him. There were no
machine gun telephones in Caesars time,
and no stenographers half as fast rs
Kannee.
Already, too, the visitors have begun
to stream into the room, taking seats
on the big leather eouches and chairs
against the walls, waiting their turns TO
approach the desired goal, the straight-
backed chair sR4
Kannee, hand full of notes, disappears
ference is taken by a member of the
House of Representatives.
"Say, Mac" the Representative begins,
81 wonder if you'd do me little favor?.
I'd like to have" -
The telephone rings.
Pardon me-" Mac cuts in, picking up
the receiver. A Senator is on the wire.
Good morning, Bob-don't mention it.
Glad to hear from you. What project
is that? Now, Bob, you know the boss
has already promised to fix that up for
you. Well, I'm telling you. wouldn't
take up his time with it again. These
things can't be hurried so much. Yes.
I'll do it for you. o. K, Bob"
IN EVERY previous administration it
has been an unwritten law that any
member of the Senate could see the
President whenever he asked the privi-
lege. Not so now. Roosevelt Is so busy
with the innumerable problems con-
stantly coming up in the new deal that
he literally cannot find time for any
but the most important consultants.
And on Mac devolyes the job. loaded
with potential dynamite, of making this
Evening star., 1934-08-19
BY JAMES HAY, Jr.

ton-holing him for favor of some sort
To each he awards three or four strides
of the total distance, walking slowly SO
that he diSposes of the last one as his
hand falls on the knob of his sanctum
door,
On his desk is pile of letters, tele-
grams and telephone messages demand
ing prompt attention. His secretary and
friend, the highly efficient Henry
Kannee, stands by for his dictation of
such replies and memoranda as may be
Immediately necessary.
But already the telephone is buzzing
in imperious repetition. "Mac"-from
long experience in Washington jour-
nalism, he's Mac" to most of the official
and newspaper population of the city
dictates to Kannee and converses on the
phone simultaneously. Talk about Julius
Caesar, who dictated to four secretaries
Evening star., 1934-08-19

everybody deSirous of seeing the Presi-
dent of the United States has got to
know who should get to Mr.. Roosevelt
and who should not, and to do that he
has got to know something or every
thing about every phase of the Presi-
dents business.
If you fail to perceive how very hot
that spot is, let us spend day with this
gentleman whose profile looks like
combination of Henry Clay's and
Andrew Jackson's, whose warm gray eyes
can turn to cold steel with lightning
speed, and whose smile can say mo" to
men and women by the hundred and
make them like it.
At few minutes past o'clock he
enters his office; but to get there, he
has to cross the lobby of the executive
Offices, and in that journey four men
and a woman hit him, each one but
Evening star., 1934-08-19

he is on the hottest "hot spot"
He is the fence, fall guy and
fortifcation between President
Roosevelt and the wide, wide
world.
To the straight backed chair on his
right as he sits at his great double desk
come all manner of men in a steady
stream from early morning until night.
On the corner of that desk to his left
is a telephone whose ringing, though
somewhat muf1ied, explodes in his ear
with the insistent frequency of machine
gun fire.
All day long words are shot at him.
Words! Words! And he takes them in
his stride. Words of inquiry, Supplica-
tion, suggestion and advice. And at any
moment, if he gives the wrong answer
or shows an unwise reaction, he is liable
to blow the lid clean off of things-as
they-should-be in government or politics
or diplomacy
Thus far in this administration you
have known him as Marvin Hunter
Mcintyre, member of the Presidents
three-headed secretariat, the gentleman
sin charge of White House appoint
ments"-which, taking it by and large,
sounds easy enough.
QUT right here is where we strip his
makeup, mask and false whiskers
from Col. McIntyre-a Kentucky colonel
twice over-by birth and by commission
from the Blue Grass Governor. His job,
which sounds so easy, is the National
Capitals hottest spot for the simple
reason that the man who handles
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-07-31
Gold Wanted

The undersigned is willing to pur-
chase old pieces of jewelry, old watches
and any and all articles made OF gold
Persons demonstrating gold may co ne
TO Mikes Grocery, 1t makes no differ.
ance as to the size or the quantity OF
pieces. We pay the highest prices Tor
all articles of gold.
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Reward

rewarlof s1.OOO.OO Dlnish West To-
dianC Currency is open to anyone that can
give information leading to the appre-
hension and conviction of the person or
persons that caused the fire at NO;
"a Strand Street Christiansted on June
8, 1884 ,n,>,
JOSEPH ALEXANDER
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
NINTH DISTRICT FARMERS
CHR

The January meeting of the Ninth
District Farmers Club was held al
the home of Mr. E. D. Kirk, neal
Greenhurst. The President, DR.
Charles F. Miller, in the chair.
The opening songs were "Blest be
the Tie that Binds and Jingle
Bells,' followed by roll call; each
member supposed to answer by Civ.
ing their New Years resolution.
Miss Viola Cook, the new Home
| Demonstration Agent, was present
and gave us word of greeting and
cooperation.
A letter was read from Mrs. Wal.
ter Richman, former Home Demon
stration Agent, thanking the club
members for the gift they had given
her.
Charles H. Morris opened The dis
cussion "Does it Pay to Buy High
price Dairy, Feeds?" All the men
expressed their opinion, the major.
Iity thought best to raise their own
feed.
j. B. Fassitt and John Peynolds
were appointed committee on inspec-
ton and club adjourned for dinner
After a delicious turkey dinner
and social hour, the afternoon meet
ing opened by singing Garry Me
Back to Old Virginia" and Loves
Old Sweet Song" The inspection
committee gave their report.
County Agent j. q. Miller gave a
report and explained "The Produce
Credit Corporation.
A playlet Mock Trial." given by
The leaders, was laughable and well
rendered.
Mr.. Adkins, pastor of the Zion M.
g. Circuit, was introduced. He
gave US very interesting and in
spring talk on Find Thyselt, Know
Thyself, Deny Thyself"
Mrs. J. B. Fassitt talked about
some of the definite things in musis,
emphasizing the three famous
Cradle Songs" written by Brahms,
Mozart and Shubert.
Little Brown Church in the
Vale" was sung by the club.
Mr.: and Mrs. John Astle sang a
parody on 1T was Long, Long,
fine Ago."
Club adjourned to meet with Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Little, February 18th.