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thing. One syllable. He gave
lectures, and there was some
talk of his being President at
the time. . We'll, that's the way
it goes!
Whatever became of all those
pamphlets and charts that were
printed about democracy? AS
I remmeber, there were more
pamphlets and charts than you
could shake a stick at. I per-
sonally shook a stick at at
least 5000, and still had a big
boxful left.
Somebody must have all those
pamphlets and charts. Or are
they being used over again to
show the evils and benefits OF
initiation? They could have
been used to show almost any
thing, including the lingering
of the either part to 'The Blue
Danube"
OF course, for all I know, we
may be living under tech
nocracy today. only under an
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AN ANNIVERSARY

Now, everybody put on his Cor
herr thinking-cap, and try very
hard to remember just what was
the big topic of conversation
about a year ago this time.
Well, yes, of course, head-colds
.. but what else?
People wrote letters to the
papers about it, and the papers
wrote letters back to people.
Lecturers fell off platforms
right and left discussing it, and
a great many commuters stayed
in town overnight rather than
face its disrupting influence at
home. It was claimed by some
to be the worlds only salvation,
and by others to be the last step
into Chaos. And it hasn't been
heard of since. Give up?...
Technocracy!
Don't tell me that you're too
young to remember technoc.
racy! The system that was go
ing to put all those men to
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work-or, rather, put all those
men out of work. All those
men, anyway.
Everyone was going to over
produce like mad and there
weren't going to be any more
machines. Either that, or there
were going to be machines
everywhere, and nobody was 60
ing to produce anything. That
was it-machines were going to
do everybody's work for. him,
and a man could leave his house
at II in. the morning and meet
himself coming home from the
job at 11:15. This was going
to leave him the rest of the day
to go crazy in. /
I suppose the fact that never
was quite clear about technoc-
racy when it was at its white
heat accounts for my haziness
over it in retrospect. I remem-
ber there was one man in par
ticular who was its high priest.
HIS name was Cook, or some.
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resentative McLeods bill Yet they have failed to SUBJ
scribe heartily to the efforts which Mr. Mcleod and
those who are backing him have made to force vote
The Weideman petition is their last chance.
THIS PETITION DOES NOT SEEK TO TAKE
AWAY FROM THE HOUSE ANY OF ITS RIGHTS.
ITS PURPOSE is JUST THE OPPOsITE-TO
INSURE TO THE MEMBERSHIP ITS RIGHT TO
VOTE ON MEASURES WHICH THE PEOPLE OF
THE COUNTRY DEMAND BE CONSIDERED.
The filling up of the petition would preserve the
right to amend the bill and would preserve the right
of the membership to debate.
In fact, the bill which would be brought up under
the petition is not the Mcleod bill at ALL although it
bears Mr. McLeods name and the number of the bill.
BECAUSE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SNARI.
WHICH HAS BEEN CAUSED BY THE SO-CALLED
LEADERS, THE BILL WHICH WOULD BE
BROUGHT UP UNDER THE PETITION Is ONE
OF THE BILLS REPORTED BY THE BANKING
AND CURRENCY COMMITTEE IN ONE OF ITS
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AIRY = = By Robert Benchley

other name. I can't differen'
tiate between these economic
theories unless they stick to
their original labels.
If anyone wants me to be a
Sound Money man, he has got
to keep on calling it Sound
Money and not the Malthu.
sian Theory or MugwumpiSn.
otherwise I can't be respon-
sible for how I vote. I was a
Liberal for IS years before I
discovered that I was voting
to return the 13 original col
onies t. England.
So, if technocracy is still
flourishing and I don't know
it, I apologize to Mr.. Cook, or
whatever his name was. Any
way, things still seem just
about the same.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Robert Bertchley
appear each Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
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Petition Is Last Chance TO Force Vote On Mcleod Bill

HYsTERICAL EFFORTS TO PREVENT A VOTE
ON ANY BANK DEPosIToRs' RELIEF LEGIsLA-
TION
THE SUPPORTERS OF THE MCLEOD BILL ARE
FAvoRING BRINGING UP THIS MEASURE BE-
CAUSE THEY REALIZE THAT UNLESS THIS
STEP IS SUCCESSFUL THERE WILL BE NO
CHANCE FOR A VOTE ON THE PRINCIPLES IN
VOLvED AT THIS SESSION.
They know that after the bill is on the floor there will
have to be fight to amend it in order to make it even
reasonable bill But confident in the ultimate wis
dom of the House they are willing to have any bill
brought in so long the right of amendment is pre-
served for the House.
UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES NO MEM
Der OF THE HOUSE WHO BELIEVES IN PRE-
SERVING THE FAITH OF OUR CITIZENS IN THE
JUSTICE AND DECENCY OF THEIR GOVERN
MENT CAN FAIL TO SIGN THE PETITION AT
ONCE. ~; -*4! &*#*e@
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The petition now on the desk of the Speaker of the
House to force vote the Mcleod bank payoff bill
is the final test of the sincerity of those who have de-
clared that they favor doing justice to the ten million
men and women who were caught in the bank collapse.
EITHER THEY SIGN THIS PETITION IMMEDI-
ATELY OR THEY ARE FOREVER BRANDED AS
THOSE WHO WERE CONTENT WITH WORDS
WHEN WHAT WAS NEEDED WAS ACTION.
CONGRESS MUST NOT ADJOURN BEFORE IT'S
MEMBERS HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
VOTE ON THE MCLEOD BILL.
All efforts which have been made heretofore to obtain
a vote on the measure have been frustrated by the
Vaccinations of a small coterie in the House.
The only way in which the membership can overcome
the efforts of this small group for 15 to sign the petit
tion which has been presented by Representative Carl
Weideman of Michigan
Scores of members of the House have declared that
they favor the essential recovery step embodied in Rep
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
The Human Side of the News
Hudson's Bav Company Weathers Countless Storms
Bu Edwin C.. Hill

labored since the first of No
vember. over a line of several
hundred traps extending, per-
haps. $50 miles, covering his
his lonely beat on snowshoeS
about 20 miles a day, sleeping
and finding shelter in log cabins
and leantos in his territory.
In it's early days, the COM
pany did not trade with silver
and gold. The skin Of the
beaver was the currency Of the
Northland and the price of a
gun was about ten skins. To-
day price quotations go out by
radio and telegraph to the com.
pany's agents, broadcast in code
from Canadian cities. Rich in
romance and in profits is the
history of the company Of ad-
ventllrers. The Kings charter
was not enough to keep a rival
out of the field, and the COM
petition of the Northwest Fur
Company, in the Eighteenth
century, led to a decentralization
of the Indians by whisky and
constant trouble.
Panorama of Drama
The climax came in 1916,
when, in the Battle of Seven
Oaks, Governor Semple, of the
Hudson's Bay Company, and 20
of his attendants were killed.
Five years later, Hudson's Bay
absorbed the rival and continued
as sovereign of a domain, 5000
miles long and 1000 miles wide
That lasted until 1869, when the
Dominion government came into
being. Civilization was press
ing westward and the company
had to turn north for its furs.
It took $1,500,000 and the
rights to 100000 acres of ara
BILE lands as the price of its
sovereignty over an empire.
The oldest commercial cor"
poration in the World-thls-
1.-The Governor and Company
of Adventures of gland d
Trading into Hudson's Bay
has gone on through two and
one half centuries pretty much
in its original form, with one
of its ships today carrying the
original oak and brass bound
box of the Nonsuch.
Pretty much like old England
itself, the Hudson's Bay Com
pany has weathered the storms
of politics, wars and panics un"
til now, with justifiable pride.
her governor announces a profit
for the past IL months-the
first shown in four years.
1.-THE Governor and Company
of Adventures of England Trad
ing into Hudson's Bay"-What
a panorama of romance and
drama that quaint old title
summons up-the stirring, color
full history Of that most admira-
BILE nation, Canada, itSelf-the
Jesuits and the Red Indians;
the voyageurs of the lonely for
estS-the very fabric and tex
ture of the magnificent tapestry
of high adventure.
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
ONCE OVERS

with a gift, naturally, his fu-
ture favors to her will be few.
If the fact that he is trying
to be kind and thoughtful
gives his wife the impression
that he is trying to square his
conscience, he will desiSt from
extending such faVors.
He will feel that if his wife
thinks thus of his kindness to
give her something is to &C
cuse himself of an act OF which
he should be ashamed.
The majority Of husbands
are prompted by right incen-
tives when they present gifts
of sentiment.
OF course, there are some
husbands who have use for
"peace offerings" but they are
in the minority.
(CopyriSht, 1894. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc'I
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who made allegations of fraud
and collusion" which have yet
to be proven either in or out Of
Congress.
Now the instigators Of this
blunder are asking Congress to
base legislation, not upon facts
developed by the kind of con-
gressional investigation which
Woodrow Wilson commended,
but upon unproven allegations
made in the midst of an inquiry
ordered by the Senate, which
has yet to be completed and will
probably soon be abandoned.
No legislation will command
the confidence of the public
which is based upon unproven
allegations of "collusion and
fraud" Neither House of Con.
gress can justify the expendi'
ture of public money to finance
a committee inquiry that
flinches from finding all the
facts available and following
where the facts lead.
For this reason, Senators and
Representatives of both parties
find themselves confused rather
than enlightened by the un-
proven allegations made by a
few members that all domestic
airmail contracts were obtained
by "collusion and fraud"
And because of this confu-
sion, because a special commit
tee of the Senate appointed to
investigate and make findings
in the light of the facts, has
failed to discharge this duty,
Congress may adjourn and
leave to the executive branch
the fair and fearless investiga-
ton of commercial aeronautics
on which thousands Of dollars
have already been squandered
by the Senate to no useful pur-
pose.
Challenge to Congress
The next time Congress starts
'to look diligently" into com.
mercial aeronautics, alien in
trigue. and seditious conspira-
cies, the evils of the lobby or
any one of a dozen other pub.
lie questions upon which the
light of an honest and effective
congressional inquiry ought to
be turned, this responsibility
should be entrusted to a joint
committee of the two Houses,
carefully selected by the Vice
President and the Speaker of
the House.
The present Congress faces a
challenge that can best be met
by a joint investigative commit
tee of the two Houses. This is
the challenge of alien intriguers
and their domestic dupes who
are engaged in sapping expedi.
tions to undermine the govern.
ment of the Constitution. All
summer might profitably be
spent by such a committee ex-
ploring the trail of this conspir.
acy.
Copyright. 1884, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
Don't Look for an UlteriOr
Motive

Don't Look for an UlteriOr
Motive
If you want love and COM
panionship in your home there
must be mutual confidence
among it's members.
To do a kind and thoughtful
thing and have it taken as
atonement for some wrong
done is diScouraging.
Women have been heard to
remark: "I knew my husband
had been up to something,
when he brought flowers
home" or "he was planning
to do something when he in
sisted on taking me out to
dinner"
When a wife asks: ''What
have you been doing now?"
when her husband presents her
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Vast Dominion

Thereupon. King Charles put
his seal to the charter of THE
Governor and Company of Ad-
venturerS of England Trading
into Hudson's Bay" and by so
doing, gave to Prince Rupert
and II others, dominion over
three-quarters of the North
American continent. &.
Two hundred and sixty-three
years have passed, and gallon
or two Of water has flowed into
HudSon's Bay since the Nom
such sailed back. Yet not a year
has elapsed since 1925, but that
the company of adventures
has sent a vessel across the
ocean to bring back a cargo of
furS.
Across the Dominion, from
the Mackenzie River to Baffin
Land, Indians, half breeds and
whites are now finishing up
their five months of solitary
labor in the icy wastes, and
piling their furs on pack horses,
dog sledges or into canoes.
Mink, muskrat, silver, white and
blue fox, otter, weasel, skunk,
raccoon and bear skins-they
are taking to the $50 posts scat
tered from the Arctic to the
borders of the United States.
At each post, a collection of
wooden buildings with a large
store, the company's manager,
usually a native of the north
Of Scotland, will appraise the
pelts, and the trapper who has
a good catch will receive from
$4,000 to $4,000. For this he has
The Washington times., 1934-04-26
Congressional Investigations
Should Be Fact Finding
By James T. Williams, T.

The Informing function of
Congress should be preferred
even to its legislative junction.
Woodrow Wilson.
! When Woodrow Wilson was
O young man, just out of col
1 1ege, he wrote book on Con
gressional Government" mod
estly describing it as "a study
in American politics" 1t is all
that and more. It is stimula-
ting discussion of the American
= system of government.
Although this volume first
appeared in 1885. many of it's
pages might well have been
written about the present Con.
gress, so little has the legisla-
tive branch of the Federal Gov
ernment changed its sins of
omission and commission in the
last so years.
It was Mr.. Wilson's theory
that Congress might, with ad.
vantage to the country, devote
more time to investigative and
less to legislative work. Of
course, by investigation he did
not mean the abuse Of its in
vestigating power by either
House to publicize the chair
man or members of an inveSti-
eating committee.
Wilson's Theory
Mr.. Wilson looked upon Con-
gress as a truly representative
body, meant to be the eyes and
the voice and to embody the
wisdom and will of its constitu-
ents. Half a century ago he
wrote:
"UnleSs Congress have and
use every means of acquainting
itself with the acts and disposi.
ti0nS of the administrative
agents of the government, the
country must be helpless to
learn how it is being served;
and unless Congress both Scruti-
niZe these things and sift them
by every form of discussion, the
country must remain in embar.
RAISING, crippling ignorance of
the very affairs which it is
most important that it should
understand and direct"
The country has remained
too long "in embarrassing, Grip
pling ignorance" of many vital
public problems because recent
Congresses have refused to pre-
fer the informing function to
their legislative function.
A fragrant example of the
evils that follow in the wake of
acting first and investigating
afterwards is to be found in
the wrecking of the Federal air
mail by the cancellation, with
out a hearing, of all domestic
air mail contracts last Febru.
ary. This fatuous and inde-
9enSible blunder was instigated
by a so-called Senate investiga-
tion which never rose to the
dignity of an impartial and
thorough committee inquiry.
The cancellation of these con-
tracts appear to have been in
stigated by several Senators
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Next to Nell Gwynne, Charles

Next to Nell Gwynne, Charles
II loved the sea. And so the
tale of the young Frenchman
thrilled him, as it had thrilled
Prince Rupert, the cavalry
leader of England's Civil War.
For Pierre Esprit Radisson had
been to the New World and
had returned with a new story
of wonders. The adopted son
of an Indian chief. he had
travelled far into the North
land, into the waters where
Capt. Henrik Hudson had been
left to die by his crew in mis-
search for the Northwest pas
sage.
Going back to France. Rad
isson told of a paradise Of
fur-bearing animals and of the
riches to be gained in trade
with the Indian hunters. But
the Parisians Knocked him for
q QTedIucT, JuSG DIS GLle OcA4o-
ese had laughed at Columbus.
But in London town King
Charles was on the throne,
with his ear ever sympathetic
to one who would talk of nav.
igation or colonial expansion.
A little ship of so tons-the
NonSuch-was fitted out, and
in 1889 it sailed from Graves
end to return in due course
into the Thames with a cargo
of beaver pelts to be put on
sale in Garraways Coffee
House, and to establish Lon
don as the center of the
worlds fur trade,
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WORDS OF WISE MEN

See how your words come
from you in a croWd!-BroWn-
ing.
The hand Of little employ
ment hath the daintier sense.
Shakespeare.
When fails our dearest friend,
there may be refuge with our
direSt foe.
He mouths a sentence as ours
mouth a bone.-Churchill.
Purchase the next world with
this; you will win both,
The Washington times., 1934-04-26

Every man carries the bundle
OF his sins upon his own back.
John Fletcher.
How patiently you hear him
groan, how glad the case is not
your own.
What the eye views not the
heart Graves not as well as rues
not.
The ocean has her ebbings-
so has grief.
Grief best is pleased with
grief'S society-Shakespeare
The Washington times., 1934-04-26


II Invest ing
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-01
Bankers Journal Notes Slow
But Definite Upward Turn

General agreement that no
ground exists for extreme pesSi.
mism is expressed by the Ameri'
can Bankers Association journal
in the current issue being pub
liShed today. This sentiment pre-
walls although fall trade is slow
in getting into movement. How
ever, volume promises to be ct
least equal to the level Of recent
months. Reviewing current con
ditions it further states:
with idle funds in the banks
at the volume they now are, it
may be taken rs o matter OF
course that the chief occupation
Of banks and bankers in these
autumn days is . hunt for profit
able inveStment-almOSt any
safe investment, in fact. The
anticipated fall upturn In busl-
ness, with an increased demand
for funds for industrial and
commercial purposes, has been
delayed, but some definite Inn
provement, at least, seems In
sight.
"A steady two months in
crease, week by week, in all
other loans Of reporting men,
Der banks rather elOQuently. a.
though candOr compels one 20
point out that the increase mp
to the time this IL written fails
to carry the total to the level Of
the same date last year. The
important point is that the tide
has turned
Gear Of initiation continues
to have . part in the banking
picture, although It seems 20 be
less pronounced. There seems to
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be q general feeling that since
the dollar devaluatiOn policy has
failed to achieve its object moth
ing more in that line Is to be
feared for the time being. Dis
turb&nce caused. by silver nation
alization and the injection Of more
silver money or certificates into
the circulation has died away rs
Il is realized that the ultimate
chief effect Of tn policy will be
to substitute one form Of paper
currency for another and that
whatever infIatiocary effects the
policy may have will be gradual
II any,"
The publication believes the
prospect of continued heavy ex
penditures for relief and in pur
suance of other governmental
policies involving an unbalanced
budget and great deficits now Ger
tain to extend over into the fiscal
year 1885 impreSses many bank
ers with the idea that the credit oil
the Government will not bear the
strain indefinitely and that some
form Of initiation in addition tc
the present setup for credit infla
ton will inevitably result.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-01
LOCAL AND OTHER PRODUCE Markets

L. G. L. Express Arrivals at Washington,
October 1, 1894
Florida-124 crates avocados; Sc crates
lines: IS buShel baskets okra; IS crates
New York state-s6 crates celery.
California-145 boxes Go pounds each
North Carolina--S 32-quart crates
huckleberries: IS bushel baskets okra;
81 bushel baskets peppers; 20 bushel
baskets snap beans.
Georgia-22 crates persimmonS:
Mixed Vegetables-44 crates.
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Oct. / U.NS).-Butter-
Receipts, 1888 tubs: market easy. Old
cars, IA; new, 16. Extras, 24kc; stand
ards, 2Ihc: extra firsts, 23h @24c;
firsts, 2sQ2shc; seconds. 22622hc;
specials, IAN @26hc.
Eggs-Receipts 6,7O7 cases; market
steady. Old cars, 6; new. 8. Current
IS 21c; fresh extra firsts, less than
than cars 21hc, cars 2shc; dirtisS
Cheese-Twins, 12H 912hc; Single
Daisies, 12% 91sc; Longhorns, 12A0
Live Poultry-Turkeys, 1sc; toms,
1O@14c; hens. 1916; broilers, Ito
1Shc; ROSTERS, lie; ducks, 11@14c;
geese, 7011c.
conSin, Cobblers, &@1.O5; Idaho Rus
sets, $1.5O@ISO; commercial trade,
S1.3O@1.32h; No. 2, $3.50; Washington,
Russets, combination, $3.50: Colorado
McClures, $1.6O@1.67h; North Dakota
early Ohios, $1.16.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-01
French Coupon
Payments Fixed

Holders Of the Government Of
the French Republic 2o.year 61a
per cent coupon gold bonds, pay
able April /, 1887, are being
notified that the october cou,
pons, payable at the offices Of
]. P. Morgan g. Co., are payable
also at the Caisse Centrale du
Tresor Public, in Paris, at the
rate of 25.5171122 francs to the
dollar.
Until further notice the cou-
pons may be paid at the option
of the holder upon presentation
and surrender at the Morgan
offices In United States Of Amer.
lea currency at the dollar equiva.
lent Of French francs, 25,5171122
per dollar, of face value Of cou-
pom upon the basis Of their buy.
ing rate for exchange on Paris
at the time of presentation.