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The Washington times., 1935-04-29

the same II you naa Oeen aS
hungry?
Hungry! Seemed as if big
Esau was always hungry!
Plenty of antelope in the deep,
wild grasses fat, gray geese
on the glimmering pools. But
deer and geese can outflasn
the swiftest arrow. So, though
he was the mightiest hunter
of his tribe, red Esau often
carried an empty belly under
his hairy hide.
And never was it emptier
than this morning, when the fat
SAVIOR of Jacobs cooking came
drifting down the sharp, cold
air. He stopped, shifted greed
lily. Um-m-m, it was good! Jacob
poor, tame thing Esau
thought him, usually. But he
certainly could cooRE Never was
there a better hand at making
venison stew or pottage or red
lentils. What wouldn't Esau give
for a Skinful of it now!
Well, just what would he
give! It was pale Jacob bargain
ing, a moment later, his shrewd
hand gripped tight upon the
pots lid. Just what would Esau
give in return for the pottage?
Esau's big, good-natured face
gaped with amazemen1. A queer
thing this, holding up hungry
man and that man his own
brother! He lunged Indignantly,
but nimble Jacob outleaped him,
the pot still firm within his
grasp.
Hungry? Then let him pay
for his filling. There was, for
instance, that bit of land Jacob
had long coveted-those flocks
of sheep. There were, to be sure,
the older brothers birthright.
But what did a great hunter
need of earth or cattle? Craftily
he tilted the pots lid, let the
rich ordor guSh out.
Jacobs pale eyes cleaned.
Did he really mean it? Would
he swear? Esau roared con-
temptuous anSwer-grabbed the
pot. The sound of his con-
tented grunting filled the tent.
Lean years ahead-Jacob en-
joying the pride and power
which should have been his
Esau had no thought for all
that. Smacking, guzzling, the
thick fat dripping from his
grinning lips, he saw only the
mess Of pottage.
Stupid, greedy Esau, wasting
his heritage for red lentil stew!
How must discomfort or dan
ger will you and 1 endure, if we
can find a way out? How much
monotony or loneliness? He
Swapped his birthright for q
steaming pot. We give ours to
the shining gadgets of a ma
chine age-thst's the only dit.
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Gullible Americans
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Any simple-minded American
who doubts the activity on
American soil of alien in
triguerS has only to look
around him for proof that will
knock his doubt into a cooked
hat. The same is true Of the
domestic dupes of these alien
intriguers. Nor is this activity
limited to alien intriguerS and
their domestic dupes.
This propaganda Is also
spread and this anti-American
activity is also aided by a sim
lister group of political para
sites, always ready to sell their
birthright as Americans for a
mess of dirty pottage.
One of the most conspicuous
examples of alien activity on
American soil is to be found in
the attempt to stampede the
President of the United States
into abandoning the Pacific
Ocean as a maneuver area for
the United States fleet.
Several thousand letters have
come to the Federal City from
presumably loyal but obviously
gullible Americans protesting
against the holding of any
maneuverS this summer by the
United States fleet in the
Pacific Ocean lest these offend
the government and people of
Japan.
ADVANCE NOTICE
American visitors to Japan last
summer were given to under
stand that this propaganda
would be launched in the
autumn or winter months to
compel the abandonment OF
these maneuverS. These visitors
were told that assurances had
been received from American
groups by their Japanese CORE
SpondentS that enough influ-
ence could be brought to bear
on the White House to stop the
maneuverS in the Pacific and
also to prevent the Congress
from approving the Presidents
program to begin the building
up of the American fleet to
treaty strength.
Opinion was divided in Japan
as to the reliability of these as
surances. japanese leaders who
know we'll their United States
did not believe them. Other
japanese leaders whose knowl-
edge of foreign affairs was
largely limited to things Orient
al, were fatuous enough to be-
lieve that there were enough
sentimentalists in the United
States to stop both the building
up of the Navy and the use OF
the Pacific Ocean for maneuvers.
The Americans who have been
silly enough to write these
letters have been wholly misin-
formed on several major points.
For example, some of these
writers were told that the
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
with Charity for All"

Among host of fool schemes being promoted Wash
ingon two stand unusually foolish these days Of
crackpot government
One bill aimed against the deportation of aliens who
this country illegally.
Such aliens include many dangerous criminals though
whether criminals not of them deserve any condera
ton from nation whose laws they have broken by the
fact of coming here
The Department of Labor in defiance of the immigration
regulations has harbored and protected several hundreds
these whose deportatons had already been ordered
The bill now in Congress- if passed. would confirm the De-
partments unwarranted actions and extend its powers
The other project is bad It makes everybody
in the country IS years old and dependent eligible for old
age pensions, regardless of citizenship.
An alien who had reached that age would draw the
benefits American though he had not taken first
papers and could not speak English
No other nation in the world would think for moment of
thus pensioning off foreigners
Every naon-except the United staeswoud simply laugh
such proposal out of court.
Why the United States should make itself the goat the
rest of the world question that only the great minds
Washington
We have plenty OF unemployed plenty Of
criminals and plenty of taxes as it is.
But the social expermenters and abundant ers and money
squanderers who running affairs decreed
otherwise.
Their theory to be that we should support foreign
paupers and criminals and tax the life of the
American business and wage in pay
bills
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

Hiram Percy Maxim ly developed,
would render the selection of
men and women for positions
of responsibility as nearly infal-
lible as it would be possible to
attain.
Let us suppose that a ma
chine developed from the "Lie
Detector" were to be made
available. We all recall that,
in actual use recently, the Lie
Detector's measurements check
ed with the courts judgment.
and a verdict was rendered
upon the machines findings.
It is reasonable to believe
that a machine could be made
to record the nervous and
blood reactions incident to an
examination of character and
qualifications, as well as the
reactions incident to telling a
lie and telling the truth.
It is easy to imagine a series
of such machines arranged
more or less like voting
machines, and a line of candi-
dates undergoing examinations
in them. Each candidate auto
matically would be measured
for the job under consideration,
and the findings would be re-
corded on a sheet of paper.
QUITE POSSIBLE
If such a machine functioned
as we'll as the Lie Detector
functioned, the best man or
woman for the position would
be apparent. 1t might be
within the realm of reason to
require that every person in
the country be measured, both
for their own information as
to what they were best fitted
for, and for Identification
purpose.
In the past we have seen
many unbelievable inventions
come forward and contribute to
our convenience and prosperity.
The machine am picturing
could surpass everything that
has been done in the past. It
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

1t is not expected that he
will, but there have been
rumors that Mr.. IckeS would
like to be President ROOseveIt's
runner up" in 1886.
Should he have any such
ideas, the motion picture record
is always a good one as Sena-
tor Huey P. Long demonstrated
when he projected pictures
from trucks when making his
travelling campaigns.
AnyhotU, Mr.. IckeS is build
ing up an eTpenSiUe motion
picture laboratory in the court.
yard of the interior Depart.
ment.
ANY lOve-lOrn girls or boys
want advice?
The man to solve your prob
lem is Representative James L.
Quinn of Pennsylvania.
This gray-haired gentleman
from the historic town of
Braddock knows the "ins and
outs" of the business.
He recently receiUed a let
ter, the first, by the Day, in
Which he had no personal con-
Germ, from a young 1Oon1Gn
1Oho needed GdUice.
She told him:
81 am Is years old, but my
family will not permit me to
have a boy friend.
"They think so much Of you
as our Representative that I
thought you might be able to
help me-"
Mr.. Quinn did not know the
young woman, but she was a
constituent.
It so happened that her
father arrived in Washington
about that time.
NotO she can haze her dates.
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A Rugged Individualist

Among those waiting the arrival of the PanAmercan Air
ways Clipper at Alameda Airport R. o. D. Sullivan rr
aged three, of the pilot.
care going to be filler Uhen you grosO up?" he
asked.
replied.
That submit is American ndvidualism in particularly
striking form To the young American there always worlds
to conquer and attempts to regiment him into fixed place in
life can't kill his spirit Of initiative and enterprise
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Listen, World
Bu Elsie Robinson

ference. Machines to perform
almost every natural human
function; machines to carry us
around, protect us, amuse us,
think for us, work for us.
BUT WHAT BECOMES OF
OUR BIRTHRIGHT OF COUR-
AGE AND INITIATIVE WHEN
THE MACHINES TAKE OVER
THE JOB? WHAT HAPPENS
TO THE MUSCLES WHICH
WERE MEANT TO BE LEAN,
SWIFT, TOUGH? WHAT BE-
COMES OF THE MIND WHICH
WAS INTENDED TO BE LIVE
LY AND ALERT?
WHAT PRICE OUR MOD
ERN MESSES OF POTTAGE?
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
The World of Science
Bu Hiram Percy Maxim

might be the greatest Invention
of all, for it would winnoW the
human wheat from the human
chaff, not only in politics, but
in industry, education, and re-
ligion.
It promises, it seems to me, to
do what all our complicated sys-
TENS have failed to accomplish
put the square pegs in the
square holes instead OF IN the
round ones.
It would stand to improve
our social order beyond our pres
ent capacity to estimate.
Our st tateS m n would be
statesmen in fact as well as IN
name, if there were any states
men at all among us. Decisions
of vital Importance. affecting
our nation, and our relations
with other nations, would be
arrived at without prejudice or
sentimental bias.
There would be an end to the
seething unrest resulting from
the pickering and intrigue OF
small minds which had achieved
important positions by influence
or selfish considerations.
POSSIBILITIES
This is not utopian nor i'm
possible. We are already on the
road to the production of such
a machine. It has been demon
strated that when a person
stands up in the solemn atmos-
phere of a court room and takes
his oath to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
truth" he is under a nervous
strain.
Science has demonstrated
that it knows how to measure
this strain, and determine when
the truth and when lie is be-
ing told. The Lie Detector has
alreaoy done LnlS.
The use of such a machine
marks our first attempt to use
the unbiased indications Of a
machine instead of biased hu"
man judgment. This Lie Detect
ing machine is probably leading
us to a new epoch in the con-
duct of human affairs. 1t is
probably the modest beginnings
of something destined to purge
and rebuild our social structure.
The filling of Federal. State,
county, city and town jobs by
persons scientifically determined
to be best suited for them, in.
stead of by persons who have
helped in a recent election,
would unquestionably make for
an improvement in efficiency
unparalleled in human history.
Copyright. 1888. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The subject Of the next
one will be "Wanted-a Nitro.
gen SITTER"
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

Triangle of the Pacific
Lights out, and a PROV turned
toward the south
And a canvas hiding each can
mems mouth
And a ship like a silent ghost
released
Is seeking her sister ships i'm
the East.
When your boys shall ask what
the guns are for,
Then tell them the tale Of the
Spanish war
And the breathlesS million that
looked upon
The matchelSs race of the
Oregon"
Such was the song of '98
relating the 60-day dash of the
battleship oregon down the
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
The Human Side of the News
Bv Edvin C.. Hill

Pacific Coast through the
Straits of Magellan and then
up the Atlantic for the Battle
of Santiago.
Out in the Pacific at San
Pedro, Cal, today is a man
who made that trip on the Ore
gon. He was a young junior
officer at the time. Now he is
the commander of the United
States Fleet and next month
he leads that fleet into the
greatest set of maneuvers ever
undertaken by any fleet.
DEEP SECRET
Up the Pacific they will go,
121 fighting ships and 33 auxil-
iaries, dreadnaughts, world
cruising submarines, aircraft
carriers and 800 airplaneS. And
lanky Joe Reeves, bearded ad-
miral, ex-football star and avi-
ator, will be the "old man" in
charge of the whole shooting
match from the bridge of the
Pennsylvania.
If you take a map and draw
a line from Alaska to Hawaii
and then another line from
Hawaii to the mainland of the
United States, you have a pic
ture of the Pacific triangle.
It is these 100000 square
miles Of ocean which naval men
figure to be the strategic ground
for naval action in the event
of war.
Quite a hubbub has been raised
in this country against holding
the Pacific maneuvers. Only the
other day the Presbytery of New
York, after heated debate, re-
quested that they be called off
on the ground that they would
be disturbing to Japan'S good
will. Previously the Federal
Council of Churches had made a
similar demand, as had also the
Quakers.
Secretary Swanson's reply is
that the war game will not come
within 1000 miles of Japan.
incidentally, an American
warship will pay a courtesy
visit to Japan while the re-
mainder of the fleet is at the
maneuverS. A squadron will
follow later on good will visit.
BEST WAY
Japan is our only potential
foe in the Pacific, and Japan's
annual maneuverS have the
United States in mind, with per-
hapS a gesture to the British
for their. Singapore base.
Japan is having her dream of
empire just as Rome, Persia,
Macedonia, Spain, England, and
even the United States, to some
extent, has had it. The road to
empire is paved with bayonetS.
It has even been thus and it
ever will be.
Japan also wants naval
equality, has denounced the
5-5-3 treaty and has announced
that she will build up to what
strength she thinks she needs
on the seas. And that is going
to be plenty of strength; the
strength that strong military
party will demand.
OF course, America wants no
war, is looking for no war and
has no immediate trouble with
Japan which might provoke
one.
But the best way to avert a
fight, whether it be individuals
or nations, is to show the other
fellow that you are both pre-
pared and unafraid. To show a
weakness at either point Is to
invite aggression.
Copyright, 1898. by King Features
Syndicate pei
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

Page Mr.. Quinn at the House
office Building 10Ilen Gdvtce on
love is needed.
Representative Joe Starnes,
Democrat of Alabama, is now
receiving the heaviest mail ever
to pour into his office.
The farmers all over the
South, knowing Joe's interest in
cotton, are writing him on the
controversial subject now occu-
pying the minds of most South.
ern anu Eastern members OF
Congress.
The appeals ask that Con-
greSS continue the cotton pro-
ceSsing tur. They say 1t SGOed
them.
Naturally the propaganda on
this subject is rolling in from
both sides.
Those in favor of continuing
the tax, however, seem to have
a slight edge.
Representatives and Senators
who head congressional commit
tees seldom like to say that they
"kiIl'' legislation by allowing 1t
to die in some pigeOn-hOle.
Representative Samuel Dick
stein DO of New York, chair
man of the House Committee
on immigration, has no objec-
ton to telling about bills that
his committee refused to con-
slider.
Asked by a colleague about a
bill, he viii reply:
"It is in my death house"
House and Senate leaders are
considering hGUing the Gir-con-
ditioning apparatus REMOVED be"
fore long.
It works we'll as far as keeping
the boys cool. And that is the
trouble.
Usually when the weather
warns up, members are inclined
to quit work and go home for
the summer.
They don't like to talk when
it gets around 80 degrees from
natural causes in the House and
Senate chambers.
But with the air-cOnditiOning,
they can talk for hours in COM
fort.
(CopyriRht. 1898. The XashInKton Times
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

ture film s,
m a d e by
news r e e / s
and others, of
Secretary Of
Interior Har-
old L. IckeS.
T h y are
b Ell ng cata-
logued in a
IL y I d I y W
preserve or
posterity the
picture rec
ord of IckeS'
personal ap-
p e a r a n c eS
and activities.
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

from Havilah
to Shur, slept
in wolf dens,
came shout
ing, through
the dawn, to
b r o t h e r
Jacobs tent.
Yet you grin
today as you
r e a d hi S
Storytelling
him so near
and real, so
like yourself!
M i g h t n t
y o u, t o o,
h a We done
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

offices will be
selected by a
m a c h inc
W h ch will
automatically
measure quail
fications and
c h a r a c t e r
m or accur-
ately tn a n
CO Id h e
ca n d i da te'S
closest aSSo-
ciateS.
S u c h a
means, when
it were high
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
OLD FAVORITES

StQNzds WTTtteN On The Road BetWeeN
Florence and Pisa-ByrOn
Oh, talk not to of a great in story;
The days of youth the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet twoand-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though plenty.
What the garlands and to the brow that
wrinked?
Tis but dead-flower with May-dew besprinkled:
Then away with all such from the head that is hoary!
What for the wreahs that only give glory?
Oh Fame-if eer took delight in thy praises
Twas less for the sake of thy hghsoundng phrases,
Than to the bright eyes of the dear discover,
She thought that was not unworthy to love her.
There chiefly sought thee, there only found thee;
Her glance the best of the rays that surround thee
When it sparked DER aught that bright in my story
l knew it was love, and felt it was glory.
ReGderS nved to send to the editor their sugges
tions of old fGvores among the poems for reprnting in
this ~pace)
The Washington times., 1935-04-29

Michael Straus, Public Works
Administration public relations
man, has been quietly collect
ing a library of motion pic
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Messes of Pottage

Esau-thousands of years it
is since that happy-go-lucky
red-head hunted the plains
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Wise Words

Praise great estates; cultivate
q small one.-Virgil.
Things are always at their
best in their beginningS.-PaS-
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Selecting Our Leaders BY
Machine

It is within reason, it seems
to me, to assume that one day
candidates for Governmental
The Washington times., 1935-04-29
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1885


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The Washington times., 1935-04-29
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr,

Page Mr.. Quinn at the House
office Building tDhen adOice on
loUe is needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-04
L. A. Stocks

LOS ANGELES. April (U.P -
Utilities resumed their rise, making
four new highs for the year. on an
otherwise dull market during the
early session of the Los Angeles
stock exchange today.
Edison common sold 1000 shares
at Is up q for high. The rs sold
500 at 25. unchanged; the 6s sold
1900 at 2214 and the 512s sold 300
at 201s, both up IS Pacific Public
Service preferred set new high of
1Oss, up rs. on 100 share sale.
Other highs were Southern Coun-
ties Gas. up 3 to 90, and San Joa-
quin Light and Power rs preferred
up 51a to 95, both on sales under
100 shares. Southern California
Gas lost i on a sale of 1000 shares
at 24l4. l.. A. Gas and Electric
gained q to 94l2.
In oils, Standard hit 30A anc
Union 171i, both up Is on sales Of
800 shares. Bandini lost Il to 81,
and Lincoln Petroleum was un
changed at .43.
Transamerica dropped Is to A.
on a 20O-share turnover, while Sc
curity- First National Bank was un
/ changed at 33.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-04
Tank Operators
To Confer With
Mediation, Board

SAN FRANCISCO. April uP)-
Pacific coast tanker operators were
summoned here today for a con-
ference with the Perkins mediation
board regarded as crucial in its
efforts to settle a strike of tanker
seamen.
Union workers, held in check by
conservative leaders, awaited the
results OF the conference to de-
termine whether the shipowners
would accept offers to compromise
the dispute over the question OF
preferential employment of union
men.
Albert Rosenshine, chairman OF
the mediation board, was anxious to
have the employers accept the COM
promise formula because he and
others close to waterfront circles
believed the strikers passive con-
duct of the strike would be changed
to aggressive activity Immediately
with the withdrawal of the last
hope Of peace.
The council of marine crafts here
and union groups in Seattle an
;aounced they were withholding "ag-
gressive action" pending the media
ton Developments.
Shipowners announced that II
j tankers, or 30 per cent Of the
normal number, have resumed serV'
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-04
EVANGELIST IS
MENTIONED IN
LOBBY PROBE

SACRAMENTO. April UlP1-The
name of Rheba Crawford Splivalo,
erstwhile Angel of Broadway" and
now assistant pastor at Aimee
Semple McPherson's Angelus
Temple, entered the lobbying in
vestigation conducted by a special
assembly committee today.
When Nathan J. Elliott, manager
of the Independent Truck Owners
association, was being grilled con-
celning reports that he had boasted
control of % assemblymen and
claimed he could pass or defeat any
bill for $4,000, the name of the
evangelist was mentioned by as
semblyman c. G. Cottrell
Were you quoted correctly as
saying Mrs. Splivalo had plenty on
some of the legislators?" Cottrell
asked Elliott.
Il didn't mean to convey lust
that" Elliott replied, Il said she was
thoroughly familiar with the situa-
ton here and would welcome an op-
portunity to disclose her knowledge"
Did she name any aSsemblymen?"
"Yes, she did"
Who were they?"
"Oh, now-do you really want
that?" Elliott registered astonish-
ment. I'm not Offering it-you're
asking for it. Well-she said of
ficials of the Southern Pacific had
approached her and asked her to
support the candidacy of c. Don
Field chairman of the committee
investigating Elliott) for the as
sembly. She said the railroads be-
heved Field was friendly to them
and they were vitally interested in
his election
Field made no comment.
"Wk1t else did she say and who
else did she name?" Cottrell per-
sisted.
"Aw-you'd better ask her. I don't
remember offhand."
Whats the idea Of just singing
out poor old Don?"
We'll" said Elliott, Il don't be-
lieye there was any affection be-
tween Mrs. Splivalo and Mr.. Field
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-04
Editor Jailed On
Charge Of Libel

HANFORD, Calf. April a. W.P)-
Malcolm f. Calkins. editor of the
Corcoran News, was sentenced today
to serve six months in the Kings
county Jail for libeling former
Sheriff w. V. Buckner during the
political campaign last fall.
Sentence was pronounced by Su-
perior Judge Arthur Allyn of Fres-
no, who commented that Calkins
was convicted of 1.-the most delib-
crate. unjustifiable and vicious at
tempt to undermine the reputation
of a public official I have ever
seem
The editor sought and was grant,
ed a five day stay of execution to
perfect an appeal. He is at liberty
under $4,000 bond.
Calkins, in an editorial in his
newspaper, accused Buckner of ac-
cepting graft and of racketeer-
ing.''