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The Washington times., 1934-07-13
Strong Governors Needed
In War on BureaucracieS
Bu James T. Williams, J.

OF the millions of votes cast
this year in congressional.
State and local primaries and
elections, far and away the
most important to the public
welfare will be the votes for
the nomination and election of
candidates for governor.
Thirty-five of the 48 States
will elect governors in 1884.
Eleven of these States have
already nominated their can
didates for governor, the latest
being Oklahoma on July 3,
and the next will be Texas,
on July %.
In August, the States of
Tennessee, Kentucky. Kansas,
Arkansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Wyo-
ming, California, and South
Carolina will hold their pri-
maries for governor.
Hardest Fight
The other primaries for gov
ernor will be held during Sep
tember, in the States of Ne
vada, Maryland, Arizona, Colo
RADIO, Michigan, New Hannp-
shire, Vermont, Wisconsin,
, Massachusetts,, New York and
Georgia.
In addition. the States of
Connecticut, New Mexico and
Rhode Island will nominate
their candidates for governor
in State conventions on a day
not fixed by law.
The reason the office Of
governor is the most impor-
tant to be filled this year is
because government in the sew
eral States is the front upon
which the people must wage
their hardest fight to over
throw a tyrannical bureaucracy
of the politicians, by the poll.
ticians and for the politicians,
in order that Abraham Lin
coins type of government may
be restored-government of the
people, by the people and for
the people.
OF all the agencies which,
as Senator Borah recently said,
have ever been permitted Ito
torture the human family, the
most burdensome, the most
expensive, the most demoraliz-
ing, the most devastating to
human happiness and the most
destructive of human values is
a bureaucracy"
This dangerous and scandal
Gus condition of affairs is well
known to every candidate of
the Democratic and Republican
parties for a seat in either
house of Congress. But not one
of the candidates for the Senate
or the House of Representatives,
who has thus far announced,
has had the courage to support
the leadership of President
Roosevelt by specifically de-
nouncing, as he did, the ohSo-
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lete system of county and local
government which has come
down to us from the days of the
oxcart and has become an ex-
penSive nuisance in the days Of
the automobile.
The silence of the senatorial
and the congressional candi-
dates on this vital subject in
State after State is easily ex-
planned. The vast majority Of
these candidates are trying to
curry favor with these political
parasites on the pay roll OF
county and local governments,
and the county and local poll
ticians are using the money Of
the people to build up political
machines that in many States
will largely determine who will
be nominated and elected Sena-
tor and who will be nominated
and elected Representative for
Congress.
In this emergency it is the Of
flee of governor that offers to
the people the most immediate
hope of relief. 1t was governor
of North Carolina, Gov. o. Max
Gardner, who took up the chal-
lenge of oxcart government and
went a long way toward modern
izing the machinery of county
and local government in that
State.
It was a governor of Virginia,
Gov. Harry F. Byrd, who, follow
ing in the footsteps Of Governor
Gardner, began a reorganization
of the government of the Old
Dominion.
Prune and Purge
It was a governor of New
Hampshire, Gov. John G. Wi
nant, who began the fight to
overthrow oxcart government in
the Granite State, which is still
going on.
It was a governor of New
York, Governor Lehman, who
called the legislature of that
State in special session and with
the assistance of progressive Re-
publican leaders IS carrying for
ward the work Of his progress
sive predecessors in the office
of governor the work of break
ing the grip Of the bureaucratic
tyrantS on the pay roll Of county
and local government who are
clutching at the throat of the
peoples governments while they
snatch at the peoples purse and
empty the pockets of the tax
payers.
To reorganize county and
local government by a twofold
process of pruning and purging.
the leadership of a strong gov
ernor is indispensable. In IS
States this year the people face
the opportunity Of raising up
that leadership by nominating
and electing governors qualified
to be President.
Copyright, 1894. by The Washington
TimeO
The Washington times., 1934-07-13
The Human Side of the News
Russian Gay-Payoo Is All-PoWerful, All-Seeng
BY EdUin C.. Hill

Lubianka Street is deserted
at night. It is a place accursed.
It is the site of the most
dreaded prison in the wide
world. It is the one spot which
makes even Devils Island seem
a paradise. Even in the SUM-
light the people of Moscow
give it a wide berth. So there
are none to look on or even
heed when there is stir of
activity in the grim silence of
No. 2 Lubianka Street.
Staccato explosions from
powerful motors. The rhythmi-
cal tread of marching men.
Low-voiced commands in pur-
ring, splitting Russian. From
darkness of the terrible walls
of Lubianka Prison, motor lor-
ries roll into the dimly-lighted
street. Behind the lorries
file of strapping young SOL
diers marching with the ma
chine"like precision of Prussian
infantry.
No Parallel
Lubianka is as quiet as death
itself, and the wall Of the wind
which sweeps the street is the
wall Of the tens of thousands
Of ghosts that haunt the place
where their souls were torn
from their mortal shells. The
hours pass. The workingmen's
clubs and the theaters empty
their audiences into the streets
of the Soviet capital. In Red
Square by the Kremlin, Lenin
sleeps, alone in his monStrouS
mausoleum.
But in the dead of the early
morning LuLianka reSoundS
again to marching feet. The
armed men are returning, and
the cobblestoneS again echo
the hollow rumbling of wheels
and the rhythmical shuttle of
disciplined soldiers. There is
no parallel on earth for this
organization, the Soviet Secret
Police. Officially, it is the
Department of Political Admin.
istration. In the vernacular, it
is the Gay-Payoo, Russian
slang for the initials of the de-
partment, O-Gay-Pay-Oo. Day
and night its minionS sailed
from the prison like evil birds
of prey to hunt down their vic
tins.
Then, as now, a mere Sus.
picion was sufficient to pro-
woke an order of arrest. Then,
as now, the spies of the secret
police were everywhere-in the
shops and factories, in the ho-
tells and restaurants. even in
the homes, for no man and no
woman could know who was
in the pay Of the secret po-
lice, eager for a chance to
twist a jest into a disloyal ut
terance, eager to betray them
to death for. q few miserable
roubleS. Felix lEershinsky and
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She was going down grade
maxim 80 miles an h0ur!"
So sang Schafer (christened
John c., crack engineer on the
Chicago and Northwestern rail.
road about 10 years ago, as he
opened the throttle on his loco
motive and headed her up the
grade.
Shortly thereafter, John, a
former Army man, opened the
political throttle and careened
down the tracks of the Fourth
Wisconsin district to a place in
the House of Representatives.
Once in the Capitol yards,
John began to blow off steam.
And from the first time he cut
loose, he blew off steam in the
Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seven
tieth and Seventy-first Con-
crosses.
He had the voice of a locomo-
tive whistle sounding off on its
first notes. And he used it.
Every time that Republican lead
ers gave John a chance he
sounded off and rocked the
House.
He chewed a huge black cigar
or other tobacco when he wasn't
blowing off steam and the
weed" served as a safety valve.
So loud, however, were his
utterings that many of his col
leagues stuffed their ears when
he began to talk. But John
was a good fellow and was wiser
by far than many of the men
who hesitated to listen to him.
But, as he once sang "She
Was Going Down Grade" so, too,
did he go down the political
grade in 1882 when the voters
of the. Fourth Wisconsin district
refused to return him to Con-
greSS.
In the meantime, he has been
around the Capitol on several
visits whispering in the ears Of
his old-time friends as well as
John can whisper.
Reports are that he is 60
ing to seek reelection in Wis
cOnSin this fall.
And if he should come back
there is one thing certain.
Labor in general, Government
employees and others will count
another friend in the House.
When the working classes
need a spokesman in the Senate
they turn to Senator Homer T.
Bone, one of the Democrats
who arrived in Washington in
1892.
One of the most pleasant men
in the Senate, he talks little but
accomplishes much for his home
State of Washington. He is not
only interested in the affairs of
the State from which he comes
but in the great undeveloped
territory of Alaska as well.
According to Senator Bone, it
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thought that it was funny for
a missionary to be boiled alive.
The idea apparently still has
considerable charm for the Eng
uSh.
Perhaps, if one were to fol-
low the English funny papers
closely enough, one might run
into some more of the lost
characters in American comic
lore. AS a matter Of fact,
we have quite a number Of
them Left in this country who
have merely changed their
clothes and names. Nothing is
every really lost in Nature,
except pencils.
For example, the old-fashioned
funny paper character, 81. Bru-
tuS Hamfat," the actor with
the frost-bitten fur coat and
old silk hat. who found him
self walking the ties to New
York, 800 miles away. He Is
now the movie actor, JUST a
The Washington times., 1934-07-13
A Dangerous Condition
"Dillingers" at Lorton

"Dillngers' at Lorton
ave haUe a dozen men in the jail and at LOrtOn
RefOrmotOry uUhO are every bit bad John Dill
inger."
This statement made by Capt. M M. Barnard superin
tendent District penal institutions amazing and should
cause grave among District residents
Coming in connection with story about the necessity Of
building wall part of the reOrmaory the statement
carries the plain implication that the reformatry unsafe
place in which to house such dangerous criminals.
Captain Barnard correct in his estimate Of the criminal
potenes of Of the under his charge at Lorton
then some District official has been and derect to his
trust
Because Lorton Reformatory not built and is not
equipped to confne criminals of the Dlinger type
1oRToN Is ANOTHER OF THOSE MODEL" EXPERT
MENTs TO WHICH WASHINGTON IS FREQUENTLY
SUBJECTED AND THERE IS NOW SERIOUS DOUBT AS
TO WHETHER 1T IS NOT A FAILURE
THE DERELICTIoN OF THE DISTRICT OFFICIALS IN
THE PRESENT MATTER ARISES FROM THE FACT THAT
SUCH MEN ARE KEPT IN LoRToN
It seems impossible that if these dangerous
Captain Barnard and they likely walk out
any tme arrangements cannot be made to conne them
in Federal institutions which can hold them.
Federal Government the facts presented would
unquesonaby be willing to send these prisoners to pen
tenares which constructed to face the reality Of
criminay rather than insist that they be kept in
institution which is model
This statement may have been made by Captain Barnard
with the idea of propagandng for the loan which the Dis
trict is seeking from the Public Works Administration to
build the Lorton wall
That does detract from its seriousness but in reality
adds to it.
hIo
doubt about haconsidrabe time would eapse before the
wall could built made safe for the John Dill
lnger type
PENDING THAT ACCOMPLISHMENT WE LOOK TO
SEE THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS FIND OUT THE
TRUTH OF CAPTAIN BARNARD's STATEMENT AND IF
IT IS TRUE TO GET THESE DANGEROUS CRIMINALS
OUT OF LoRToN AND PUT THEM WHERE THEY BE-
LONG.
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his successors filled MOSCOW
with agents provocateur, delib-
erately borrowing the most
evil practices of the old-time
secret police of the CzarS, the
famous Okrana.
Then, as now, a savage war
fare was waged by the Gay
Payoo against God and His
Son, against the only thing
really precious that is possessed
by humanity, religious faith.
According to official Commu-
mist statistics, 80 bishops and
1,414 priests were executed in
1919, but more reliable figures
place the number as 5000, 100
persons in the Orthodox Church
alone-prelates, monks, nuns,
clerks and church servants.
It vas Felix Dzershinsky who
explained, gently stroking his
dropping muStache, his pale
blue eyes glowing with fanati-
cism, that the function of the
secret police was neither to
judge nor to pardon. It's sole
duty, as he put it, was "to in.
cinerate our enemies" That
was the cue: "our enemies.
Charles R. Crane, formerly
United States minister to
China, certainly a conservative
person not given to exag-
gerated statements or wild
charges, has Solemnly averred
that 100000 persons were the
victims of the Cheka under
the bloody rule of the mad
man, Dzershinsky.
Bloodthirsty
Strange as it may seem, and
as it may appear from this
crimson record, the Gay-Payoo
is anything but an aggregation
of brutal ignoramuses with
nothing but an unquenchable
thirst for blood. On the con.
trary, it's officers are cold.
blooded intellectuals, chosen for
mental and physical abilities.
Picked men.
Nothing is too good for the
Gay-Payoo. Theirs is the finest
food, the most luxurious club
in Moscow, and the best homes
and schools for their children.
The iron regulations that apply
to the civilians are not for
these autocrats Of life and
death. All powerful and all
seeing, the Gay-Payoo censors
the mails, the telegraphs and
cables and telephones, invades
private homes and violates
even the foreign embassies.
It goes into foreign lands to
lay hands on recreant brethren
and drag them back to their
doom in Lubianka Street.
There is no list Of its agents.
No human being, outside Of the
Gay-P ayoo organization, has
ever been present at q queS-
tioning of its victims.
Copyright. 1894, King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
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The Washington times., 1934-07-13

In a column devoted to short,
trenchant comment on current
topics, an English humorous
paper for June, 1884, includes
the following bit of rare old
pottery:
"An merican missionary
worked for thirty years among
South Sea cannibals. Evidently
a very tough guy"
To many Of, our younger
readers this crack will not even
arouse memories, to say nothing
of risibilities. It has been a
long time now since we have
seen comic drawings of a mis-
sionary being tossed head first
into a cauldron of boiling water,
with two cannibals ("First Can
nibal" and Second Cannibal'D
pulling the gag line between
them. would place it, roughly,
back in the Puck era.
It would be interesting dor
the first couple of minutes) to
60 back and see just who first
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Evening star., 1934-03-06
MICHIGAN PARK BODY
REFLECTS DR.. WRIGHT
Committee Formed to Promote
Membership Drive-"Nip'
Sale Opposed.

DR.. Hurbert Wright was reelected
president Of the Michigan Park Citi-
zens' Association last night at its
meeting at the Bunker Hill School.
Other officers elected were c. E. S.
Rich, vice president; Jerome Murray,
secretary; F. L. Adams, treasurer; H.
Boteler, financial secretary; DR.. w.
M. Deviny, delegate to the federation;
j. Brennan, c. j. Hausler and w. M.
Deving, members of the Executive
Committee.
The retiring officers are c. j.
Hausler, secretary; L. S. Trundle,
delegate to the federation; William E.
Russell and c. E. S. Rich, members
of the Executive Committee.
A special committee was formed,
headed by jerome Murray, to promote
q membership drive in conjunction
with the one sponsored by the Federa-
ton of Citizens Association. A house
toulouse convass was planned, with
circulars to augment the drive by
explaining the purpose Of the asso-
ciation and the benefits that the
citizens will enjoy by joining the
group.
The group went on record as ap-
proving the stand taken by the Al
coholic Beverage Board yesterday in
recommending that the sale Of the
nip" or two-ounce bottle, be pro-
hibited here.
The next regular meeting will be
postponed until the following Monday
heeause~ - xastsgsweek
Evening star., 1934-03-06
MENACE Of FLOOD
0NP9TOMAC GONE
No Chance of Ice Jam Seen
as Fair and Colder Is
Predicted.

There is no immediate chance Of a
serious ice jam or flood on the Po-
tomac River near Washington, the
Rivers and Floods Division Of the
United States Weather Bureau an
nounced this morning.
The possibility of a flood caused by
the recent storms is completely
gone" observers at the bureau said
Some reports Of slight rises in the
river stage above Washington were
received here. but at Harpers Ferry
the gauge reading fell and at Key
Bridge today the marker read 2.6
about 0.4 Of point lower than yes
terday.
Late yesterday the thermometer
here shot to a new high since No.
vember 80, reaching 70 degrees at 4
pm. After that it declined steadily
to low Of AZ degrees, touched at I
am. this morning and predictions
were for fair and colder weather to-
night. Tomorrow also will be fair.
Tiny cakes of ice foated past Chain
Bridge this morning, carried down
from Great Falls, where packs across
the river were reported breaking
Apparently the frozen blocks were
melting rapidly coming downstream.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
.KEECH WITHDRAWS'
FROM PHONE CASE
Former Peoples Counsel Is
Uncertain as to Future
Status.

Richmond B. Keech. former peo-
pies counsel, today withdrew from
the District Supreme Court hearings
on en- appeal by the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co. from q 10
per cent rate reduction ordered by
the Public Utilities Commission.
Keech. whose appointment to the
commission is under consideration at
the White House. has been present in
court since his term as peoples coun-
sci expired two weeks ago.
Announces Withdrawal.
In announcing his withdrawal he
told Justice Jesse C.. Adkins:
"Since my term expired have been
sitting here silently as an observer.
Sufficient time has now elapsed for
me to ask your honor to excuse me
from this case until word is forth
coming as to what my future status
is to be-"
Justice Adkins asked Keech If it
would be proper for him to remain
in the case as friend of the court" !"
Keech, however. indicated the neces-
sity Of undertaking some remunerative
work would prevent him continuing
in such capacity.
Cooperation Praised.
In expressing his regret at Mr..
Keechs withdrawal. Assistant Cor
poration Counsel william A. Roberts
told the court:
For over three and one-haH years
Mr. Keech and have been associated
in public utility matters, many times
with insufficient help. We have worked
long beyond the hours that Govern
ment employees ordinarily put in. No
one has had greater opportunity to
see the unselfish and untiring man.
ner in which MIR. Keech has devoted
himself to the public business: no one
has had a greater opportunity to
know the unfailing cooperation which
Mr. Keech has given in this work.
Il have particularly noticed the
manner in which he has completely
severed himself from outside matters
and anything that could possibly in
f1uence him in his duty as peoples
counsel, and the high standard Of
ethics to which he has adhered. I
regret his leaving the employment Of
the District OF Columbia and I feel
that the people have lost q stanch
and able supporter"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
M'CARRAN URGES
PAY RESTORATION
Nevada Senator Reports Of
Cut Increase to Postal
Workers.

Again urging prompt passage of the
Government pay restoration, Senator
McCarran. Democrat, Of Nevada, de-
clared today that the recent order for
furloughs in the Post ONCE Depart
ment during the next four months
will have the effect of bringing the
pay cut of those postal workers to 81
per cent instead Of Is per cent for
the fiscal year ending June 80.
Senator McCarran also said the
speeches of President Roosevelt and
Gen. Hugh S. johnson yesterday, ad-
vocating shorter hours and wage in
creases, were a recognition of the
need for restoring the purchasing
power Of workers and emphasized the
desirability of going forward with the
plan Of beginning to restore Govern
ment salaries.
While McCarran was expressing
these views of the floor. Senator Nye,
Republican, of North Dakota, was re-
ferring to Government salaries and
veterans allowances in the course of
q speech in the Senate in opposition
to the pending bill to authorize con-
struction Of additional naval vessels.
Nye declared that when Govern
ment employees and war veterans ask
for the restoration of their pay and
compensation 1--WE find Quibbling on
every hand in the name of economy"
The same Congress, he continued,
"does not bat an eye" In acting on a
request to build bigger Navy
Nye said he was for adequate pre-
paredness, but argued against the
necessity for the pending bill.
Meanwhile, a conference of Demo-
cratic House members was being ar
ranged for early next week to find
out the majority sentiment, both in
regard to pay restoration and vet
erans' benefits.
Representative Woodrum Of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the subcommittee
on the independent offices appropria-
ton bill, said this would be the climax
Of . series Of group and sectional con-
ferences. The purpose, he said, is to
give all members an opportunity to
express their views on the changes
which the House Appropriations Com
mittee may recommend before the
revised bill is brought back into the
House. It Is hoped in this way to
avoid having recourse to another gag
rule.
Representative Woodrum reiterated
that Government employees may conf
IDENTIFY expect . 10 per cent restora-
ton under the SIS plan proposed by
Senator Byrnes, Democrat. Of South
Carolina. He also predicted that dif-
ferences regarding veterans benefits
Will ho-WoEksd out satisfactog1y.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
new HOMESTEAD
PROJECT PLANNED
100 Families, Many Stranded, to
Be Established in
Alabama.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A subsistence homestead project of
100 families will be established in
Walker County. Ala, near Jasper,
under plans being formulated by Sec
retary Ickes, public works admins
TRAITOR
A loan of s244,000 will be made by
Federal Subsistence Homestead Cor
poration, a subsidiary of public works,
to a local corporation which has been
organized to supervise the project.
This corporation, the stock of which
will be held by the parent corpora
ton, will be known as Jasper Home
steads, Inc
The project will provide low-cost
homes for the families on small tracts
Of land, with each homestead to cost
about $4,000. The occupants will ac-
quire them under purchase contract
with loans To be amortized over q
period of 20 to rs years.
Occupants will be selected from
among three groups of persons in the
county, where 40 per cent of the pop
ulation recently has been on relief
rolls. These will include stranded coal
miners, stranded workers in the lum-
ber industry and group of white
collar" workers on part-time employ
ment in Jasper.
M. L. Wilson, chief of the division
Of subsistence homesteads, said:
MANY of the men who will be Sc
lected as settlers left farms to enter
mining. Now the mines where once
they worked are closed or operations
have been cut sharply, so that their
income from labor is insufficient to
meet their ordinary needs. These
men, however, have latent skill and
the capacity for producing food, which
they cannot afford to buy, if they are
given the chance to use good land.
This plan will make it possible for
them to stay in the section in which
they have lived and to attain the Sc
curity of home and subsistence"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
PHILIPPINES BILL
IS REPORTED OUT
House Committee Unanimously
Favors Measure to Free
Islands.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Tydings-McDufie bill for
Philippine independence today was
reported favorably by unanimous vota
of the House msular Affairs Commit
tee. Chairman McDufne planned -
call 1t up on the floor Of the House
at once.
"Inasmuch as this bill virtually y
. re-enactment of the Hawes-C Cutting
law, he voted not to have any public
hearings, because there were extensive
hearings on that measure" McDufss
reported.
It was expected Senator TydingA
Democrat. Of Maryland, would sum.
mon the Senate Territories Committee
to consider the same bill later this
week.
The bill, which all influential
Philippine factions have said they
would accept and support, grants the
islands Independence tn from - to
1A-yeaxk