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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02
Millions For a Few
Or Justice for Many


Conferees of the Senate and the bank deposit in
BILL which carries the permssive bank payoff amend
have been put notice that the House in mood to
stand for trifling with those amendments
THOSE AMENDMENTS DO NOT GO AS FAR AS MANY
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE WANT TO GO TOWARD
STRENGTHENING THE BANKING SITUATION BY ELIMI
MATING THE BLIGHT OF THE CLOSED BANKS
This fact is clearly indicated by the daily accretion of
strength by the forces of Representative Clarence Mcleod
and his mandatory bank pay off bill.
The pemssve amendments to the deposit insurance bill have
the of the House and the mandatory bill Of
Representative Mcleod has the of overwhelming
majority of the membership the signing of the discharge
petition and the personal expressions of the members are
criterion.
IN VIEW OF THESE FACTS COUPLED WITH THE
PLEDGE OF REPRESENTATIVE sTEAGALL THAT HE
AND THE OTHER HOUSE CoNFEREES WOULD STAND
BY THE HOUSE AMENDMENTS, THERE IS NO EXCUSE
FOR ANY REPORT FROM THE CONFERENCE COMMIT
TEE WHICH DOES NOT UPHOLD THE CLOSED BANK
PROVISIONS
The permissive amendments have been hailed throughout
country step the right direction They by themselves
would represent great victory for Representative Mcleod
BUT THOSE AMENDMENTS EVEN WHEN THEY BE
COME LAW WOULD NOT ELIMINATE THE SITUATION
WHICH HAS DRAWN THE FIRE OF REPRESENTATIVE
MCLEOD AND MANY OF HIS COLLEAGUES.
THEY ARE AIMING THEIR FIRE NOW AT THE BANK
RECEIVERsHIP RACKET.
The feature of this that stands make
few multimonares at the expense of millions of poor
and who cannot afford to create these expensive
Injuries.
These monaires will be created by the compulsion which
exists upon bank receivers dispose the the
closed banks at sacrfcal prices.
In their effort to give to the depoors small part of
their money the receivers being forced dispose ecur
ties and other assets at depression prices.
Eventually those securities and other will be worth
many times much the receivers get for them
That accron of value will the few who able to make
purchases
1T IS THAT SITUATION WHICH THE MCLEOD PEOPLE
ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE THEY SEEK TO HAVE
THE GOVERNMENT BUY THOSE ASSETS NOW AND
HOLD THEM FOR THE RISE.
IN THAT WAY AND THAT WAY ONLY CAN THE ADD
TIONAL VALUE GO WHERE IT BELoNGs-To THE
DUPED DEPOsIToRs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02

President Roosevelt's review
of the United States Fleet will
rank high in history if it helps
to bring home to the American
people the indefensible neglect
their Navy has suffered at the
hands of Congress during the
last three Republican admins
trations.
Had Congress kept faith and
lived up to its responsibility
under the Constitution, our
Navy today would be equal to
the strongest in every class OF
combatant ship.
Instead of such a Navy, we
have one today which ranks
third in strength among the
navies of the world, because
Congress refused from 1922 to
1888 to appropriate funds even
to replace average ships, much
less to build up the Navy to
treaty strength.
BY treaty strength is meant
the Navy which the United
States, under the Washington
Treaty of 1922 and the London
Treaty of 1890, agreed to build
and maintain.
The washington Treaty be-
tween the five principal naval
powers eliminated the factor Of
competition in the construction
of battleships, battle cruisers.
and aircraft carriers, and limited
naval armament in those classes.
Ratio 5-5-3
It limited the maximum ton
mage of ships of this type for
the Signatory powers. For ex-
ample. the limits set for the
British Empire. the United
States and Japan were respec-
lively at the ratio of 5-5-3.
AS a result of the Washing
ton Treaty, the United States
scrapped the largest number of
battleships and battle cruisers,
and Great Britain and Japan
made lesser sacrifices of their
tonnage.
BY the treaty of London in
1880, the number and total ton
mage of capital ships was
further reduced for the three
nations which ratified that
agreement-Great Britain, the
United States and Japan.
This treaty also extended the
maximum limitation to apply
to cruisers, destroyerS and sub
marines, as well as to capital
ships.
In order to get Japan to sign
this treaty. the United States
acceded to an increased ratio
in cruiser tonnage for both
Japan and the British Empire,
and to an increased ratio in
destroyers and full parity with
the United States and the
British Empire in submarine
tonnage for Japan. The further
sacrifice made by the United
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02

Another good way would be to
look at the stores books.
This clocking of traffic is
likely to be deceptive. There
may be more pickpocketS out
than there were year ago. Or.
with all those checkers hanging
around the shopping district,
they might get clicked them
selves by other checkers. Merely
because there are more people
milling about. doesn't mean that
business is any better.
If I go to a store to buy three
things, let us say a shoe, a
snake-whip and an Inverness
cloak. am so fed up with shop
ping by the time 1 have got the
shoe that l start out of the store
for home, thinking that I will
get the other things the next
time I happen to be passing by
(Which will be october, when
the weather gets cooler.
Then, when I get to the
corner of the street, I realize
that 1 was to have the snake
whip for a cotillion on the fol
lowing Saturday, and that I
can't 90 without it; so I retrace
my steps to the store and ask
for the Snake Whip Depart
ment. That makes an extra
click on the clocker's clock.
Sometimes 1 get almost home
before I remember the Inver-
ness cloak. This really was i'm
portant, as it was for a friend,
and he had bet me five dollars
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02
The Human Side of the News
Stanley Opens Africa to White Race
By EdWin C.. Hill

Of all the habitations of man.
kind, Africa. 1 think, has had
the strangest lure. 1t goes so
far back into time. It is the
graveyard of so many empires.
Its diamonds, it's gold, it's ivory
and its slaves have invited ad-
ventures for 5000 years.
The Dark Continent called
to Alexander. to Caesar and to
Napoleon. 1t defeated them
one by one. Their monuments
and their cities are erased and
forgotten. Until very recent
times, it's jungles were as i'm
penetrable to the white man as
the secrets of its Sorcerers and
witch-doctors. Within those
jungles lie buried cities that
were old before Solomon built
his Temple in Jerusalem-be-
fore the Phoenicians caught
upon their purple sails the
glow of the western sun.
Stirs Imagination
It is nothing new for adven-
turous ladies to plunge, alone,
except for their porters, into
Africa's mysterious heart. And
I wonder, when I read of these
modern explorers and thrill
hunters, if a single one of them
ever gives a thought to the
great man who made easy ad-
ventures possible; who, single
handed. conquered the terrors
of the Dark Continent, opened
it to the white race and
dreamed of an empire to be
founded on right and justice.
The great man who got Africa
into his blood, who could never
get it out, and who came to his
end in London stricken by the
ingratitude of kings and the
broken faith of parliaments-
Henry Morton Stanley. Sir
Henry M. Stanley. Bula Ma
tart. the Rock Breaker, as the
black men called him.
Not ten men in the last cen
fury dared as much as Henry
M. Stanley, or dreamed a dream
so magnificent. He was a
newspaper reporter, as a young
man, coming from England to
work here. for Bennett, of the
New York Herald.
And one day he got from
James Gordon Bennett, the
younger, the most extraordi-
nary. the most thrilling assign
ment that was ever handed a
reporter AS We are told in a
recent biography of Stanley,
"Bula Matari," Bennett in Paris,
sent for young Stanley. The
reporter found the great man
in bed.
Who are you?" asked Ben
nett, as Stanley entered the
room.
MY name is Stanley"
"Ah. yes. Sit down. I have
important business on hand for
you. Where do you think Liv.
ingstone iS?"
II really do not know, sir"
IT want you to go. to Central
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Blu John SNure, Jr.

} they term the interests of pub
lie welfare"
Some time ago the Philippine
people extended an invitation.
They were willing to bear the
burden of the expense if the legis-
latorS of the United States
would go to the islands to
see what progress was being
made.
For once the taxpayers of
the United States were in a
favorable position. Their legis,
latoIs could make the trip and
the people of this country
would not have to pay the bill.
The proverbial fly is in the
ointment.
Most of the members of Con
gress who would have gone on
the trip have elections or pri-
maries to worry them. They
don't believe their constituents
would be pleased if they went
to the Philippines to listen to
alleged grievances when their
own people have so many to
make this year.
So, the boys are in a guam
Diary.
They probably cannot take a
free trip to the Philippines until
next autumn, if they find time
to go at all.
The eloquence of Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, the pink
whiskered solon from Illinois. is
traditional. And j. Ham i'm
proved the tradition by his re-
cent speech in defense OF the
New Deal. in which he referred
to Senator Arthur Vandenberg
as the master mentor of Michl-
gan" to Senator Lester Dickl1-
son of Iowa as the "silver-crested
corsair," and to Senator Daniel
o. Hastings as the doughty
daredevil of Delaware"
The last reference provoked
Hastings to rise and begin a dis
cussion of Lewis personal APP
pearance. Lewis is known for
his whiskers, his hair and his
sartorial perfection. Hastings is
diminutive and his face is clean
shaven.
Lewis said:
II will say to the Senator
from Delaware that he does not
need to fear comparison OF
looks, because the community
will behold by appearance how
much smoother a man he is
than the Senator from Illinois"
Hastings shouted:
81 do not know whether the
Senator has reference to the
fact that shave every day
and he does not"
Lewis continued:
II have long since known
that the eminent Senator had
weapons of a rather smooth
and cutting character dealing
with all things, and if he finds
them agreeable to apply to
himself, that is a matter of his
choice, yet 1 trust he does not
cut farther from his face than
his neck, because otherwise
there might be serious cOnse-
quences in that it might cause
a great loss to this body"
That is how serious legisla-
tors spend. a portion of their
time.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
Times.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02

When the Mcleod bank pay
off bill first aroused nationwide
attention, Representative AM
brose J. Kennedy, Cd, of Balti-
more, announced publicly that
he favored the legislation which
would free frozen deposits.
Kennedy, however, steadfaStly
refused to sign the Weideman
petition which would have dis
charged the House Rules Com
mittee and forced a vote on the
bill.
Lobby gossip has it that Ken
nedy refused to sign because of
a joint resolution which he has
in the Rules Committee. The
bill, which he is hoping to have
reported to the House, had its
actual origin more than 80 years
ago.
In 1863 Major General r. C.
Schenck, United States Army,
appealed for construction of
works of national defense. The
city of Baltimore withdrew
$96,152 from it's general funds
in the city treasury for the con-
struction of the defense works
requested by General Schenck,
in the Civil War.
The money was reimbursed to
the general funds by a bond
issue. Accumulated interest
increased the amount paid by
the city to $171,034.3l. In his
resolution, Kennedy asks that
the Federal government refund
the money to Baltimore.
Lobby gossip also has it that
Kennedy has little or no chance
to secure action on his resolu-
ton.
Because of his almost futile
hope that the Rules Committee
would be kind to him, however,
Kennedy heSitated to incur the
diSpleaSure of that group.
Therefore, they say, he re-
fused to help to secure a vote
on the Mcleod bill which he
once so earnestly advocated.
AS the weather warns and
the fish begin biting in the Po-
tomac River, fisherman perhaps
will miss one of their members
who has gone to Houston, Tex.
Mrs. Daniel E. Garrett, sister
Of Jesse HI. Jones, chairman of
the board of directors of the Re-
construction Finance Corpora
ton, is one of the most ardent
disciples of Isaac Walton.
A woman of means, she could
drive her car almost anywhere
that she wished in search of the
finny tribe.
Mrs. Garrett aren't y
doesn't believe in going long dis
tances to- fish.
She takes her fishing tackle
and heads for the Potomac
River.
There. on the bank, she fishes
to her hearts content.
In the lull between sessions OF
Congress, members of the House
and Senate usually take a rest
full trip to the Philippines.
Their expenses are paid by
the taxpayers.
1t is so important, however,
that members have first-hand
information regarding the Philip
pines that they go on this
junket, year after year in what
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02

Africa and find him. Act &C
cording to your own plans, but
find Livingstone. Draw 1000
pounds. and when you have got
through that, draw another
1000, and go do. But find
Livingstone!"
David Livingstone, doctor,
missionary and dreamer, was
lost somewhere in the heart Of
the Dark Continent. For years
not a word had been heard from
him. The public demanded
news.
Only %, and already stirred
by the magic and mystery OF
Africa, Stanley set out.
There was only a ghost OF a
chance that he could find the
elderly, DR., Livingstone in the
vast stretches of the African
Continent. I doubt if there
ever has been an adventure
quite like it in history. Month
after month, his forces divided
into five caravans, Henry M.
Stanley literally fought his way
into Central Africa-through a
region as large as Europe;
utterly unmapped and unknown
to white men.
Frightful Journey
Rivers, swollen by rains into
swamps, barred his way. He
waded them and forged ahead.
Uncomfortable thickets blocked
his path. He cut through and
went on. The lowland jungle
exhaled. a perpetual miasma.
Tropical fever struck him
down. and never in his life
was he to be rid of it. But
he staggered on.
And then, after eight months
of the frightful journey came
the electric news that a white
man was to be found in the
village of Ujiji. Stanley pressed
on, and came to the fringe of
the village. Not within the
memory of man had it seen so
large a. caravan. The column
marched into the village es-
corted by noisly rejoicing
mob, beating drums and sound
ing horns. And, in the market
place, STANDBY found the white
man, old and i'll.
And then came a dialogue
which could only have taken
place between two Englishmen,
the greeting between the old
man who had been lost to the
world for years, and the young
man who had overcome 10000
devils to find him:
Or. Livingstone, preSume?"
Yes. They shook hands.
Il thank God, doctor, that I
have been permitted to see
you". Il feel most thankful
that I am here to welcome
you" AS casually as if they
had drifted together in the
traffic Of the Strand or Plea
dilly.
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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that they are interested. They
may just be looking around"
However. as the checkers are
taken from the work-relief rolls,
some good is being done. If
they could be told to clock, with
a time-clock, the fastest pedes-
trian from one corner to an
other, or the ones who dawdled
longest in front of windows
without going inside the store,
then the thing might have a
double value.
I still think that the best
guage on business is the amount
of business done.
Copyright. 1894. King Features a
Syndicate, lnc.J
Articles by Robert BenChley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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."CLOCKING' AGAIN
BY Robert Benchley

that. would. forget to buy it for
him. 1t is worth five dollars to
60 back for it,. So back I go.
and I am clicked off as another
shopper. They are all out of
Inverness cloaks, owing to the
sudden popularity of 1890 melo-
dramas, but my friend doesn't
believe me and I lose the five
dollars anyway.
Then there is the woman who
exchanges and returns things. On
Monday the checkers may catch
her going into the store, and on
Tuesday catch her again. That
doesn't mean a thing, except
that the sales lady is crSser on
Tuesday than she was on Mon
day.
Just because a woman, or
three thousand women, are
walking up and down in the
shopping district does not mean
that any money is changing
hands. 1t doesn't even mean
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They have started "clocking"
again. This time they are clock
ing pedestrian traffic in the
shopping districts to see how
much more business is being
done than there was a year ago.
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the 1917
II D. c.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Watering Mouths.
Perfect as your plans may be,
Some things you cannot foresee.
Old Mother Nature.

@HROUGH the still, cold night
Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy
hunted. Over the packed and
i crusted snow they moved. at
times swiftly. and at other
times slowly, carefully, making no
sound They had separated when
they first started out, for thus could
they cover double the territory, and so
double the chances Of at least one Of
them getting something to eat. Each
used eyes, ears and nose as only a
Fox can. Nothing was overlooked.
Every bush, clump Of grass, stump and
old log within the area they were
hunting was Investigated. Every
time a wandering Little Night Breeze
came along it was carefully tested for
any scent of Mouse or Grouse or Rab-
bit or anything else that could be
eaten that it might carry.
Mrs. Reddy caught two Mice. She
caught them early in the evening, and
they gave her new courage. Reddy
was not so lucky. When finally, just
before daybreak, he reached Farmer
Browns barn, where he was to meet
Mrs Reddy, he had caught nothing.
But there his luck turned. A careless
young Rat came out from under the
barn. He didn't see Reddy standing
motionless in the backest of the
Black Shadows. He never knew who
it was that caught him.
So when Mrs. Reddy finally ap-
peared Reddy was in good spirits.
There was an opening under the barn,
Evening star., 1934-02-14
WHO ARE YOU?
The Romance Of Your Name
By RUBY HAsKINs ELLIS.

most Of them made their homes IN
Pennsylvania. They were Scotch
Irish, coming from the Ulster counties
Of Ireland and Galloway, Scotland.
The founder Of the Adair family in
America was Thomas, son Of Alex
ander, and grandson Of the Rev. Pat
rick Adair. of County Antrim, Ire
land. He came with his wife and
three sons, James, Joseph and VIII
liam, who were all born in County
Antrim, Ireland. They settled first in
Chester County, Pa, about 1870,
where they lived for about 20 years.
Between 1850 and 1855 they removed
to South Carolina, where the Oldest
son, James, had by commercial infiu-
ence and patronage, obtained a large
tract Of land on Duncans Greek, now
Laurens County. Here they formed
the Adair Colony, but later became a
part Of the famous WaxhaW Colony
of South Carolina, composed of other
Scotch-Irish settlers from Pennsyl-
vania. The Waxhaw Colony produced
many prominent men whose names
are we'll known. Some of them were
j. G. Calhoun, Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton, Gen. Andrew Jackson and Gov.
John Adair Of Kentucky.
The Adairs were fired with an in
tense patriotism for their adopted
country and when the break came
with England, formed a small army
in themselves.
James, the oldest son OF Thomas.
made trip to England and appealed
to the British cabinet to conciliate
With the American Colonies. He bull
up an enormous trade with the In
dlans and was influential in trah1in.
them in peaceful pursuits. Most c.
the descendants OF James are no.
found in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Joseph, the second son, was a soldier
in the Revolution at the age of 10.
His descendants are the Adairs OF
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee.
William Adair, "the pioneer" and
youngest son of Thomas, is perhsps
the best known Of the three brothers.
probably due to the fact that he was
the father of Gen. John Adair. the
eminent soldier and statesman, who
distinguished himself at the Battle
of New Orleans, and later became
Governor Of the State of Kentucky.
where are found today vast number
Of his descendants and where the
name Adair is synonymous with deeds
OF valor and lives Of usefulness.
(copyriEht, 1e34)
Evening star., 1934-02-14
UNCLE RAYS
CORNER
Valentines Day.


1--WE HUNDRED years ago, a
l. poet wrote a Valentines verse
in honor Of the Queen Of Eng
Il land. Many Of the words he
used were spelled differently
than we would spell them; and when
turned into modern form they do not
sound Just the same. The thought
in the poem will be fairly plain, how
ever. from the following prose:
There is a st. Valentines custom
in this region whereby. year by year,
men search through Cupids calendar
and make their choice of great affec-
ton by taking her by lot; but I love
one who is better than any other"
If John Lydgate, who wrote the
verse, could see it in that form, he
might feel panied; for the rhyming
is taken away. Let me show you
why I made the changes-here are
the first four lines of his verse as
he wrote them:
"Seynte Valentine of custome yeere
by yeere
Men have an issuance, in this
regioun,
ITO loke and serche Cupides Kalen-
dere
"And chose their choyce by CRETE
affeccioun."
Those words seem almost like
Greek until we study them with
care. The poet may have been well
educated, but he used old English
words. Language grows and changes
as the years pass.
Geoffrey Chaucer also mentioned
the Valentine custom. If we can be-
leve Chaucer, the custom arose from
the belief that birds chose their mates
on February IA.
The fact is that no special date
can be named as the one on which
birds choose their mates. The choos-
ing goes on during a long period,
chiefly in the Spring.
An effort has been made to trace
Valentines day back to an old Ro-
man festival called the "Lupercalia"
meaning feast of the VOLTS cave. 3"
That feast took place on February Is,
which is close enough to the Valen-
tine date; but the actual customs
have little in common. In the feast
of the VOLTS cave, Roman men
gather at the cave where they be-
heved that Romulus and Remus had
been nursed by a wolf. After dress
ing themselves in goat skins, they
went into the city of Rome and used
strips of goat skin to strike women.
1t was supposed that this brought
good fortune to the women!
The modern festival bears the name
of st. Valentine, who died about the
year 270; but there is no proof that
the saint had anything to do with
starting the customs Of Valentines
day.
Even though we have no certain
knowledge as to how it started, we