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The Washington times., 1934-04-03
The Schools Suffer
Federal Government Defaults

Federal Government Defaults
Unless the District subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee to the rescue Washngon schools
be about to be pushed further down the toboggan.
THE SITUATION WHICH HAS DEVELOPED AROUND
THE DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE COMING
FISCAL YEAR, NOW BEING PREPARED BY THE SUB
COMMITTEE PLAINLY INDICATES THAT UNLESS THE
FEDERAL SHARE OF THE EXPENSES OF THE CITY IS IN.
CREASED OVER THAT IN THE CURRENT BILL THE
SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL BE THE PRINCIPAL SUFFERER
IT IS VITAL THAT ADDITIONAL SCHOOL CoNsTRUC-
TI0N BE PROVIDED IN THE BILL TO ELIMINATE THE
PRESENT OVER CR0WD1NG AND THE PRESENT USE OF
UNFIT SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Such construction cannot be undertaken if the subcommittee
persists in holding the Federal share the present unjust and
inadequate sum of $5 100000.
There of course other developments that will be ham,
perd and other SERVES which will curaed unless the Fed
era share increased but the greatest danger facing the city
just now the virtual collapse the school building program
School construction items in the few appropriation bills
have been virtually nil In the estimates submitted to Congress
for the 1885 fiscal year there almost nothing school
gtructon.
The Commissioners have submitted small supplemental est
mates to give school construction in the coming year.
THOSE SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES REPRESENT THE
LEAST THAT SHOULD BE APPROPRIATED UNLESS WE
ARE TO BE BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH A SCHOOL
CATAsTRoPHE.
The city finances while in excellent shape are not in such
condition that this community continue build schools
while carrying the Federal Governments share of the
Of maintaining operating and developing National Capital
The Federal Government has distinct obligation in the cir
Cumstances.
THAT OBLIGATION CANNOT BE MET WITH AN ApPRo
PRIATIoN OF $57OO0Oo.
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A Depressing Force
Mcleod Bill Would Lift It

The Mcleod bank payoH bill under consideration by
House committee would be tremendous force for abiz-
ing business conditions throughout the country.
Just those conditions disturbed and fearful be-
of the possibility Of dumping upon the countys
kets than thousand millions Of dollars worth Of
assets tied up in closed banks
This hoard of assets instead of working for the bust
recovery Of the nation working toward just the
posite effect.
The hoard worse than of which is kept
inert It is potential if actual deterrent through
the fears which it arouses
THERE Is SCARCELY COMMUNITY IN THE couN-
TRY IN WHICH THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IS NOT
THREATENED WITH COLLAPSE THROUGH THE TOO
RAPID SALE OF THE REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS OF
The BANKS OR THE TOO RAPID UNLOADING OF THE
REAL ESTATE MORTGAGES HELD BY THESE CLOSED
INSTITUTIONS.
THREATENED WITH SERIOUS CURTAILMENT OF ITS
CREDIT BY HAVING THROWN ONTO THE MARKET
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF ITS SECURITIES
NOW HELD BY THE CLOSED BANKS.
The millions Of deposors in the institutions clamorng
for payment of at least dividend upon their
Those dividends be paid if the dpoors unload upon
the market this great depressing force of massed assets
THERE Is ANOTHER WAY THAT THE DIVIDENDS
CAN BE PAID, PAID IN AN ORDERLY AND PROMPT
MANNER WITHOUT DEPRESSING MARKETS.
THAT OTHER WAY Is THE WAY PROPOSED BY
REPRESENTATIVE CLARENCE J. MCLEOD IN HIS PAY
OFF BILL.
Under the the Government would buy the assets
Of the closed banks pay the depors the they
deposit in the closed institutions hold the for
period Of ten years and iquidate them leisurey and
proper
To do this would not only be accomplishing justice for the
depostor but it would this horrible weight from
the markets of the country
It would enable business to know definitely that their
enterprises not going to be swamped by of hasy
and low priced liquidation.
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done to you, and to this world
you're inheriting. You're con-
temptuous and bitter-and I
don't blame you. We certainly
have made a mess Of things.
And there isn't much excuse
for us. We had plenty Of warn
ings. The depression didn't
happen over night. It had
been coming for fifty years. In
deed, I suppose it has always
been coming-and is the inevi-
table results of our general
stupidity and selfishness. All
of this the Wise Boys have
been telling us for hundreds OF
years; so we could have "done
something about it" long ago,
if we'd wished. But we didn't.
And now you're paying the
price. And, as you point out
with considerable heat, It's a
damnable price. For you haven't
even the comfort Of dreaming,
which we had in our youth.
You're pushed up against the
ugly, seemingly hopeless reality
of our present life almost before
you're out Of baby buggies. You
know, before you start, that the
cards are stacked against you.
Worse yet, you know there isn't
any organized deck on which to
bet-nor any regular rules for
dealing.
Most older people won't admit
all this. They prefer to be
oStricheS- hide their heads in
sentimental sands and kick the
wind out of youth if it dares to
tweak their pompouS tail feath-
erS.
But what does that buy us?
You know-and we can't kid
you-what a mess things are in.
So why hot admit it and try
to get together? That's what
I am trying to Sell you, Bill and
Eleanor. And that's why I'm
prefacing my tip to you with
this humiliating frankneSS.
We oldsters DO deserve all
you've said of us. This world IS
"the helluva place." and you
HAVEN'T "the breaks one
oughtta give a pup" And yet
things aren't as black as you
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pendence Il would like to see
that in just plain 12-point Ro-
man type for once) to Aaron
Burr's challenge to Hamilton.
It makes up into quite a mass
of handwriting.
For example, "Stonewall' Jack
sons last message to General
Lee before the battle of Chancel-
lorsville bears a striking resem'
blance to a check made out by a
friend of mine at the Ha-Ha
Club one night and returned by
the bank as being too silly for
com mercial consideration.
Granted that General Jackson
wrote it during his celebrated
"flank march," and even grant
ing the possibility that he wrote
it on horseback, or even while
riding two horses at once, there
still remains quite a lot to be
explained.
There is also one from An
drew Jackson to his Secretary
of War directing him to prepare
for war against the nullifiers OF
South Carolina. President Jack
son seemed to have a little bet
ter control than General Jack
son, but from his chirography
the Secretary of War would
have been just as justified in
cancelling the rubber boot con-
tracts as in proceeding against
South Carolina. It was lucky
that the War Department was
hard by the White House, so
that questions could be asked
and explanations made, other
wise we might have been at war
with France in 1882.
In the facsimile of Thomas
Jefferson's first draft of the
Declaration Of independence
with interpretations by Benja-
min Franklin and John Adams)
there is an interesting correc-
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

think they are. Nor are you as
useless.
YOUR LIFE HAS A MEAN
ING, EVEN IF 1T HASN'T A
JOB.
THERE ARE THINGS IN
WHICH YOU CAN BELIEVE,
EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T,
AS YET, FOUND ALL THE
ANSWERS.
AND LIFE IS STILL WORTH
LIVING IN 1894!
Your life has a meaning be-
cause you are, literally. the
"hope of the world" That's
an old phrase, but it never was
as true as it is today. The
hope of this world lies in youth.
You haven't any experience,
and not as much wisdom, per-
haps, as you think you have.
We oldsters, however, can still
contribute sufficient of these.
But you have something much
more valuable than wisdom
and experience. You have
Faith and Fury!
FAITH AND FURY-THESE
ARE THE THINGS WHICH
HAVE ALWAYS SAVED THE
WORLD AND WHICH WILL
SAVE IT TODAY. THESE
ARE THE THINGS WHICH
GIVE MEANING TO YOUR
LIVES. THESE ARE THE
THINGS IN WHICH YOU
MAY BELIEVE: FOR WHICH
YOU CAN STILL BATTLE.
I know you've been cheated
of your rightful dreams and
chances-and it makes me
furious and ashamed. I know
you're discouraged, often des-
perate, and my heart aches
over that. But still I'm telling
YOU
BELIEVE!
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
BELIEVE IN YOUR OWN
FAITH!
BELIEVE IN YOUR OWN
FURY!
Believe in them against all
arguments, all pessimism, all
discouraging evidence all
threats and warnings and cow
ardly cautions.
Believe in them for what they
really are-not human hallu-
cination, or human discomfort,
but the fire of Life itself, drag
ging men out of the mud, burn
ing away their droSs-as your
grandfatherS in Europe, as your
fathers in America burned
when they, too, fought for free
dom and equality and decent
deal for all.
They, too, were in rags. :.
without jobs. without seeming
chance against hopeless odds.
BUT BY THEIR VERY BURN
ING. by THE DIVINE MAD
NESS OF THEIR RECKLESS
FAITH. THEY MADE THEIR
OWN ODDS AND ACHIEVED
THE IMPOSSIBLE!
You, too, can do it-if you
think you can!
YOUR FRIEND.
Copyright, 1884. King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
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would be required to apply to
the new commission for a GER
tificate of public convenience.
After a public hearing, the
commission would then decide
whether the public interest re-
quired the granting of such a
certificate.
So, too, with all consolida-
ton Of routes, additional sched-
ules or diScontinuance of serv-
ice-all these important deci-
sions would be made not by a
Postmaster General function
ing simultaneously as the
chairman of a national and a
State political committee but
by the Federal Aviation Com
mission functioning as an in
dependent and impartial Fed
eral agency.
To the neW commission wouId
be entrusted other important
duties. IL would be charged
with fixing the rates, tariffs,
regulations and practices of
the carriers of the air mail.
Such a cOn1n1ission Uould pro-
tect the rights to fair treat.
ment of the air transport pilots.
1t WOuld protect the stock.
holders of the companies con-
trdctinR to carry the mails.
1t Would protect the communi.
ties entitled to an air mail serU-
ice. 1t wOuld protect future
administration from such
scandal as that into Which the
recent Wrecking of the Fed
crol air mail by politicians, for
politicians and their fdvorites,
seems now to be developing.
In the event Of war or the
threat of war. under the terms
of the McCarran bill, all air
transport would, upon order Of
the President and the Comman-
der-in- Chief, be taken over by
him for the transportation Of
troops and materials of war.
Paramount Issue
In it's fundamental purpose
and in its apparent effect, the
McCarran bill is the antithesis
of the McKellar-B Black bill. The
one seeks to build up and the
other to cripple, if not destroy.
air transport as a transportation
agency and as an auxiliary of
the National Defense.
For that reason the sooner the
appropriate committees of Con-
gress begin a serious considera-
ton Of the McCarran bill, the
sooner will the Congress get
about it's business Of bringing
order out of chaos in the air.
The fact that Mr.. McCarran
served as Chief Justice of his
State before his election to the
Senate may account for the con-
trast between the provisions of
his aviation measure and the
aviation proposals Of Senator
McKellar, Senator Black, POST
master General Farley and At
torney General Cummings.
No one of these disastrous ad-
visors of the Administration in
regard to the Federal air mail
has ever served his State as
Chief Justice.
And the paramount issue
raised by the wrecking Of the
Federal air mail is the issue Of
Justice versus Tyranny.
copyright. 1884, The Washington
Timesl
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FACING FACSIMILES
BY Robert Benchley

students OF handwriting
(among whom I can hardly
be numbered, being unable
to read my own on a clear
day. will find a folder full of
field work in the collection Of
facsimiles of famous American
documents and letters, edited
by Edward C. Boykin and
purchasable, I should think, at
any fac-simile shop which has
a bar no longer than 20 feet.
Here in one shallow box,
each suitable for framing or
for sending out through the
mails, are Is life-size papers
in their original handwriting,
ranging from the much fac
SMILED Declaration of Inde-
The Washington times., 1934-04-03
The Human Side of the News
Nations Use Lotteries as Painless Tax
Bu Edwivo C.. Hill

various public works in italy,
Hitler in recent months con"
Quoted a national lottery to
raise funds for unemployment
relief. SWeden's national lot
terry is extremely popular, and
the governments slice from it
goes for the support OF lltera'
ture, art, drama and music.
With most of the rest Of the
world enjoying the dreams and
revenues incident to lotteries.
these are prohibited in Japan,
England and the United States.
The serious-minded japanese
are notoriously poor gamblers.
Once, our forefathers, Of both
church and State, esteemed lot
teries as a valuable institution
of our national life. George
washington, in 1776, bought one
of the first tickets in the Con-
tinental Congress $5,000,000 lot
terry, when Congress needed
money to fight the Redcoats.
In those days public lotteries
constituted the most popular
and effective method Of raising
money for the worthiest causes.
Kings College, now Columbia
University, was founded directly
on the proceeds Of a widely ad.
vertised lottery. Harvard, Yale,
Brown and Dartmouth repeat
edly invited the public to take
a chance for the benefit Of
higher education. John Han
cock and Benjamin Franklin
were among the chief patrons
of various CANDLES for public
progress and improvements.
Governor Ritchie found rev.
enues for unemployment re-
lief in Maryland inadequate.
With his customary fortnight
ness he now tells the legisla-
ture he wants to change the
Maryland constitution so that
sweepstakes can be operated by
the State. A vote by the peo-
pie of Maryland next November
on whether to permit a State
sweepstakes lottery, is now
pending. The Maryland ex-
pertinent will be worth watch
ing. However, the probability
is that our lottery laws will
not be changed unless those
who believe the gambling in
stinct should be legally curbed,
find their future tax burdens
too much to bear.
Copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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d e SIX every
week. And so
ou W n t
mind if I give
you a sort of
mass answer,
will you?
Your lie t.
ter certainly
does put our
Older Gener-
alton on the
S p o t. Y ou
don't bother
to pull your
punches when
you tell us
W h a t we've
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seemed too fine a piece of
writing to let get out Of her
hands, had never got around to
parting with it. And so "the
Lincoln letter" was kept in the
family archives, practically un-
der glass, the envy of all out
siders and the most reVered
among the lares and penates Of
that particular household.
I will try and get a fac
simile of "the Lincoln letter"
for Mr.. Boykin's second edition.
(Articles BY Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday,
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
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A Letter to Young People
Dear Bill and Eleanor:
You must have known, when
you wrote me, that hundreds
Of Just such letters from other
Young people pile across this
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heGUenS should tGl.-Motto Of
Emperor Ferdinand I.
If order is to be brought out
Of the chaos into which Ameri-
can air transport has been
plunged by the wrecking of the
Federal air mail, and by the
punishment without a hearing
of citizens entitled to a pre-
sumption Of innocence until
proven guilty, it is becoming
daily more apparent that the
fetching will have to be done
by the Congress.
A step in this direction has
been taken by Senator McCar-
ran of Nevada. AS a member
of the so-called "Black Commit
tee" which has pretended for
months to be conducting an in
vestigation into ocean and air
mail contracts, Senator McCar-
ran is thoroughly familiar with
what has been done and left
undone by that committee to
develop the facts.
AS the committee has yet to
make a report, it is impossible
to speak for any member con-
cerning the ultimate findings
of the committee. But at least
Mr.. McCarran seems to appre-
ciate the necessity for legiSla-
ton that will save commercial
aviation in this country from
utter destruction. as the result
of recent blunders.
McCarran Bill
Mr.. McCarran manifests this
appreciation in the bill which
he has introduced for the
future goverance of the Federal
air mail. Obviously, the pur-
pose of this measure is to build
up commercial aviation both as
means of transportation and
as an auxiliary of the National
Defense. To this end, Mr.. NC
Carran has drafted and intro
duced a bill that would restore
the Federal air mail to private
operation and at the same time
protect both the public interest
and the rights of individuals.
This being the obvious pur-
pose of the McCarran measure.
it would seem to be entitled to
careful consideration on its
merits by both houses of Con-
gress.
The McCarran bill provides:
First, for the issuance Of a
certificate of public cOnUeni-
ence and necessity to all air
transport companies which sOeTs
in operation on a fixed daily
schedule on the first Of the
present year.
Second, for the creation Of
a Federal Air Communion to
regulate in the public interest
commercial Aviation in much
the same vay that the railroads
are SO regulated by the Inter-
state Commerce COn1n1issiOn.
Under such a system, the
Objectionable features OF COM
petitive bidding would be eliml-
mated. Air transport companies
having contracts with the Gov
ernment to carry the mail
would operate under a certifi-
cate of public convenience at
reasonable rates to be fixed
by the commission.
New air transport companies
seeking to obtain mail contracts
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No, the job is not completed,
For the snake, though smashed and battered,
Is most tenacious reptile
And it's life is not yet finished.
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A Kidnaper Gets His
In New York

The Snatch racket kidnapping for profits not what
used to be- thanks to the Federal Governments ruthless war
against the depicabe criminals who practice it, and thanks
to long sentences meted out by the all over the nation
New York State should be proud to offer of its
latest contributions to this the Jail sentence of fifty
years for Nanny strew convicted in the oConne case
This might be precedent in hdnap Either whole
century in JAIL or half century. Not merely Of
years.
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An interesting tendency Of
the times is reflected in the
special visit paid by Mayor
Laguardia of New York to
Governor Lehman of the State.
For the Mayor went to urge
the Governor to support legal
lottery which would raise from
ten to fifteen million dollars
for the benefit of the unem'
ployed. They don't call the
scheme a lottery, but that IS
what it is. Lotteries were once
labeled by Henry Fielding as "a
taxation on all the fools IN
creation" Yet, about 30
governments in the world today
are conducting lotteries and
taking their cuts as the most
painless form of taxation pos
sible in these times.
And, surprisingly enough, no
where is the lottery as over
whelmingly successful as it IS
among the thrifty, gold-loving,
conservative French. What
with the unbalanced budget,
gold headaches, and so on,
the French government has
been desperate in its search for
new revenues. A lottery was
suggested. The tickets were
gobbled up by the thrifty French
with such feverish speed that
even the pro-lottery people were
amazed.
New Revenue
The Republic of Panama par
ticipated very profitably in a
sweepstakes on the Christmas
Handicap run at Panama City
on December "a. last. Tickets
were peddled throughout the
United States, thus painlessly
taxing plenty of citizens of the
United States for the upkeep
of Panama public hospitals.
Down in Mexico, a successful
$40, 900, ,O00-a-year lottery is
operated by the government.
Around $3,50O,OOO is taken an
nually from total subscriptions
for the support Of public hospi-
tails. Spain has enjoyed its
$25, 5,O00,0 900 Christmas lottery.
Cuba has it's lottery, and it
flourishes even when govern
ments are changing and people
are being butchered in Havana
streets. MuSSolini is conduct
ing more and more lotteries for
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ton made in the sentence be-
ginning, 1--WE hold these truths
to be self evident. that all men
are created equal" AS Mr.. JET
ferson originally wrote it, the
line read, "All men are created
equal and independent" On
second thought, the word "inde.
pendent" was crossed out, posi-
bly, because Mr.. Jefferson felt
that it might put ideas into the
heads of his Negro slaves at
Monticello. Even in drawing up
great liberal documents there
is always the need for keeping
ones head.
There is one letter which I
would like to see included in a
collection of this sort, although
it never achieved national i'm
portance.
Two young ladies of my ac-
quaintance, sisters, were recall
ing a treasure-chest of their
grandmother's, which was
brought out on all occasions
during their childhood to regale
the neighborhod children with
evidences of their family's con-
facts with national and local af-
fairs. Among the relics was
what was always known as "the
Lincoln letter." a document
which was handed about and
studied with considerable awe.
It was not until they dis
cussed it a short time ago that
the young ladies realized that
"the Lincoln letter" was not
written from Lincoln to their
grandmother, but from their
grandmother to Lincoln, and
had never even been sent to
the Great Emancipator.
The grandmother, approving
of his humanitarian proclama.
ton, had been moved to sit
down and write him to that ef-
feet, but, possibly because it
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sheetNo Washington
j.. editor.
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It's Up to Congress to Save
Commercial Aviation
Bv James r. Williams, Jr.

Let justice be done, though the
heGUenS should tGll.-Motto Of
Emperor Ferdinand I.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-21
1000 Little Collins

Every IA seconds q baby Is born In
America. From the hope and pain
and agonized suffering comes q tiny
thing in which Is bound up the hope
of the parents and the future Of the
world. It is the elimination, on each
occasion, Of LIES greatest miracle.
A tiny, helpless thing is baby, yet
powerful In way denied to things
Of the flesh. BY its very presence It
can mend broken hearts, bind lives
together, instill new hope. Scientist,
artist. doctor. merchant prince or In
dustrial chief, who knows what any
cradle holds? It depends upon the
fiber Of the individual and the
alchemy of time.
All Of this, however, is predicated
upon the theory that the baby grows
to adulthocd, which many of them do
not. The diseases Of infancy are be-
ing overcome but the menace Of pre-
ventable accident is taking q steadily
greater toll. Of the infants born in
America last year, 1000 will die from
this one cause before they reach
their fifth birthday.
There Is warning in that fact for
every parent. To such little ones the
final hazard Of life proves to be In
the home.
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the decrease and have been for some
time. This is taken to mean that In
juries from such diseases as rheu-
matte fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria
and similar infectious ailments have
been reduced.
In addition, the so-called social
diseases, which often affect the heart,
are being discovered earlier and more
effectively treated.
Millions Of our population have
been pushed up into the higher age
brackets through reduction in the
number OF deaths at younger ages,
made possible by prevention Of tu-
berculosis, infant mortality efforts
and the elimination of typhoid fever,
diphtheria and smallpox from many
areas.
On this basis, the increasing death
rate from heart disease is not really
a menace but merely the reward Of
accomplishment in preventing deaths
at younger ages.