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The Washington times., 1935-03-15
REP,BULW|NKLE
LASHES OUT At
HOLD|NGF|RMS

Branding propaganda directed
at the Administrators public util-
ity bill as a million dollar racket"
Representative Bulwinkle (D0 OF
North Carolina, today announced
he would demand inspection Of
the account books Of the American
Federation of Utility Investors.
Representative Bulwinkle, mem.
ber Of the House Interstate Com
merce Committee, now considering
the bill which abolishes holding
companies by 1910, also said he
would question DR.. Hugh s. Magill,
president OF the federation. Ee
declared:
"This organization is asking
contributions Of D dollar or
more from investors in public
utility stocks. They are still
collecting this money for the
purpose Of fighting the bill.
It is estimated that about
100000 individuals hold util-
tiles stocks in this country"
ASKS TO BE HEARD
DR.. Magill already has request
ed the committee for permission
to appear in opposition to the
measure and is expected to be
heard next week.
Questioning Of Wendell L. Will.
kie, president OF the Common
wealth and Southern Company,
by Representative Bulwinkle.
brought forth a denial by the
latter that DR.. Magill had asked
utility companies for financial
contributions.
Admitting the committee did
not have the power to force pre-"
sentation of financial data re-
garding the federation's activities,
Representative Bulwinkle said he
would take appropriate action"
should DR.. Magill fail to submit
the desired information.
Magill Gives Reply
Representative Bulwinkle's inter-
rogation of Mr.. Willkie was char
acterized as propaganda by in
nuendO' by DR.. Magill, who added:
"The federation has fully in
formed members Of Congress aS
to its purposes and plans and
has at all times operated In
most open fashion. It is sup
ported solely by contributions
from members whose interests
at seeks to protect"
At the same time the Appa.
Iachian Electric Power Company
was scored for its defiant chal-
lenge to Congress and Federal
authority, as the Federal Power
Commission asked Attorney Gen.
eral Cummings to sue the COM
pany to compel it to submit to
regulations.
Disregards Suits
The commission contends the
company must submit to Federal
regulation before building an
100000 power plant on New
River, in Virginia.
Ihe company has already
started building despite the fact
they have lost three suits, Chair.
man Frank r. McNinch declared.
He said the company was "in utter
disregard Of the act and in fla.
grant defiance of the findings
and order of the commission. He
added:
''The company throws down o
defiant challenge to Congress
and Federal authority. The
commission accepts this chaI-
lenge and will seek, through the
Attorney General. to have the
courts determine whether the
company, owned by great hold.
ing company, is above the law;
whether giant power corpora
tiOns can develop public re.
sources for private profit, while
refusing to submit to Federal
The Washington times., 1935-03-15

McC cClintic-Marshall Corporation in
1881 was more of sale than
taxexempt merger as claimed by
Frank j. Hogan, chief Mellon at
torney.
The Washington times., 1935-03-15

Chiffons and service weights
Of better quality-these are
irregulars. First quality Benz
bergs, too. Sizes 81 to 101s.
Observation-Disclosures
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Buy Christmas Seals

ashington of all cities in the country should not need
sales talk to induce to buy the Christmas seals
now being sold by the tuberculosis Association
TT IS THROUGH THE PROCEEDS OF THIS SALE THAT
THE ASSOCIATION FINANCES THE HIGHLY COMMEND
ABLE WORK WHICH 1T IS DOING TO PRESERVE AND
IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY.
Everyone knows by this time that the tuberculosis record Of
the National Capital national disgrace and it is largely be-
cause of efforts of the Association that the
record is not than it is.
The association is doing a highly important job in the
matter of educating the public along health lines in
Uentng spread of the disease caring for its victims
and seeking better for those who haze chance
to recoDer .
Such work deserves and surely has the support Of all Of
people -- 49, ---- --
MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, WHEN YOU BUY YOUR
PACKET OF SEALS YOU ARE NOT ONLY TRYING TO
PROTECT THE HEALTH OF OTHERS BUT YOU ARE
TAKING STEPS FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION.
For tuberculosis respecter of places persons
It goes everywhere and attacks everywhere.
But be stopped give the District Tuberculosis
Association the support which its merits and obecves deserve
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Esprit of Neutrality"
Bu James T. Williams, Jr.

tliance before which he elects to
abase himself.
But Mr.. Ludlow is not represent.
ing the liberty-loving people of his
own or any other congressional
district when he attempts to use
his power as a Member of Congress
to coerce his fellow citizens by
threats of either legislative or ex.
ecutive punishment if they refuse
to swallow whole the quack medi.
cine he prescribes and on which he
has pasted the unctuous label,
the spirit of neutrality"
If Mr.. Ludlow has any in
formation that any American
shipper is guilty of violating the
laws governing the policy of
neutrality declared by the Gov
ernment he ought to submit his
evidence to the Department of
Justice. If he possesses such
evidence and fails to submit it,
the Department of Justice would
be we'll warranted in hauling him
into court in an effort to compel
him to offer such evidence.
Doubtless the reason why Mr..
Ludlow has rushed into print
with his threatening letter about
Americans whom he charges with
violation of the spirit Of
neutrality" is because he knows
full we'll that he has no evidence
of violations of law and that the
group of propagandists who will
now give his letter circulation,
if they did not instigate it's
writing. are unable to produce
any such evidence.
HALLUCINATION
The truth is that high of.
ficials of the Government at
both ends Of Constitution Avenue
have on more than one oc.
casion in recent months issued
statements in regard to neutral
ity which indicated that they are
suffering from the same hallu-
cination that afflicts Mr.. Ludlow.
These statements are being used
by the British government to
make it appear in Europe that
the United States is supporting
Great Britain's "starve- Italy"
campaign.
If the Government of tho
United States is to set an ex-
ample for the people in obeying
the laws governing neutrality it
will stop the issuance of such
misleading statements and it will
make 1t perfectly clear to the
American people that the ira
ditional policy of American neu-
trality does not require Ameri-
can citizens to do more than to
obey the laws and regulations for
the enforcement of such a policy.
They neither mortgage their
freedom of opinion nor speech by
giving obedience to such laws and
regulations.
The Washington times., 1935-12-05

Under the American system oi
government the American people
pledge their allegiance to "a
government of laws and not of
men"
Congressman Ludlow, Of In
diana, apparently labors under
the hallucination that this sys.
tenn Of government-the Govern.
ment of the Constitution-has
been overthrown and that the
American people have transferred
their allegiance to an admins.
tration of political dictators who
seek to govern by the issuance
of edicts after the manner of
European dictators and Asiatic
deSpots.
Mr.. Ludlow makes public a let
ter which he has sent to the De-
partment of State in which
seemingly serious allegations are
made against unnamed American
shippers. Mr.. Ludlow charges
that these shippers are guilty of
violation of the spirit Of neu-
trality."
There is no such thing under
the American system of govern
ment as the spirit of neutrality" :"
There are laws and regulations
governing neutrality.
A MERE PHRASE
Those who violate them can be
punished if found guilty after
fair trial in the courts.
But "the spirit of neutrality" is
a mere phrase made up Of weasel
words which Mr.. Ludlow and other
politicians are attempting to use
as a club with which to compel
American citizens to goose step
before their political dictators.
If Mr.. Ludlow were lawyer and
not a politician he woult' know
that neutrality is policy of gov
ernment and not of individuals.
There is no provision of the Con
stitution and no law passed in &C
cord with the Constitution which
authorizes any official of the Amer
ican Go eminent to order any
American citizen to adopt 1.-The
spirit of neutrality" toward any
question, foreign or domestic.
Such an order would be an in
defensible violation of all the prin
ciples underlying what we like to
believe is American liberty-that
liberty which gives freedom OF
speech, freedom of the press, free
dom of assembly and freedom OF
worship.
Under the American stem OF
government any American Con,
gresham can. if he wishes, make
himself a political fetch and carry
for the British government, the
Japanese government, the League
of Nations or any var-breeding al,
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
We've Got to stop Breeding Cripples

Will VIC lQea GL1dG ne SIlOu4u uSG
tools. And that he was a fool or
a bum if he couldn't or wouldn't.
And he came across accordingly.
But today-where' the average
boy to learn how to use tools?
What's he to use them for? The
machine age has arrived and we
have surrendered to it wholesale
with never thought of the con-
sequences. We use machines for
every purpose under heaven. We're
machine-Served from the moment
we are born. A man who insisted
on living as his father did before
Illuminating and doing every
thing for himself-would be re-
garded as nut. and he'd starve.
INEVITABLE
1t has never occurred to us that
in producing and promoting all
these machines of steel we may
have tragically crippled the ma
chine. But we have!
And We have crippled it men
tally and spiritually as well as
manually. With our ability to
serve ourselves with our own
hands has gone something in
finitely more precious than handi-
craft. We have lost the self
respect. the pride, the honor that
went with the old individualism.
Some will say this is sentimen-
talizing about the unemployed.
1t isn't. 1t isn't sentimentality
to investigate the condition of a
fine-looking work horse, is it? See
if his wind is broken-if he's in
visibly crippled. But man can
be crippled as we'll as any other
animal. and in infinitely more
ways. And thousands of our mod
ern unemployed are "unasSimil-
ables," are actual criminals.
That's why we still have IL ,OOO,'
600 idle men after spending in
credible billions to relieve them
They aren't an accident, those
II millions. They are the inevita'
BILE consequence of taking away
those standards and response
bilities which built character into
human flesh.
And We'll never cure this cataS-
trophe by piling on more and
more taxes-giving more and
more relief. WE'VE GOT TO BE
GIN AT THE OTHER END. .
START WITH THEM BEFORE
THEY BECOME CRIPPLED E.
STOP BREEDING AND REAR
ING CRIPPLES.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Tnc.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-05

4Ou CdU GGll ILlS, SdLu GLlC
disgusted business man, that all
these idle fellows couldn't find
work if they wanted it. Why, take
my case"
He proceeded with the all too ia
miliar tale. His house is old-in
need of general renovation. Clean.
ing out gutters-reneWing clothes
lines-painting garbage cans. The
simple things any normal man
likes and is able to do for himself
if he has time.
But my friend hasn't time, so
he began offering the jobs to the
endless file of "aSpirants." You
know the rest. Nine out of ten of
them faded before they'd been at
it two hours-left things in a
worse mess than when they
started.
The lying loafers" snorted the
indignant householder. There
they were, young, husky, whining
about their hard times-and when
they're offered job, whaddo they
do? I'll tell you-they don't want
work."
SOMETHING WRONG
But this. I protested, doesn't
necessarily follow. Doubtless there
are thousands of deliberate para
sites. But there are other thou.
sands who look and act like para,
sites, who are really laboring under
jinx. And we've hung that jinX
on them!
WE'VE ACTUALLY B. ED
THEM TO BE LOAFERS.
WE HAVE DEPRIVED THEM
OF THOSE CONDITIONS WHICH
KEEP MEN FROM BEING
.LOAFERS.
Outwardly, they seem to be fit
They look, speak and in many
ways act like normal human be
ings. But they aren't. There
something wrong inside - some
thing Observation-Disclosures.
1t isn't fair to judge an idle
young man of 1885 by the stand.
ards of 1905. We were still living
in a handmade world in 1905. A
man was still an individual, not
just carbon machine. His self.
respect and the respect given him
were based on his ability to take
care of himself-do all the basic
human chores.
Naturally, under those condi-
tions boy grew up expecting tc
do things himself. He was IA
miliar with tools. He was familiar
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Public Sentiment

The bill which District Commissioner George Allen
has had drawn providing for referenda among the citi
zens of Washington local problems would afford
uchneeded opportunity of registering the sentiment
of the community.
1t luOuLd not in any lUGy interfere Nth the pre-
negatives of Congress set up in the Constitution
nor lUOuLd it in any particular impair the rights
and duties of the officials appointed to govern the
city.
THE MEASURE WOULD HOWEVER, GIVE CON
GREss AND THE COMMISSIONERS A DEFINITE
MEANS OF AsCERTA1NING THE WILL OF THE
PEOPLE ON ANY QUESTION OF MAJOR IMPORT
ANCE AFFECTING THEIR WELFARE
Such procedure should be benefit both to the public
and to the officials who govern them
The bill provides that not than two occasions
year the Commissioners may call for referendum in
which adult citizens of the District who do not claim the
right to vote elsewhere may vote more local
questions.
There is a possibility that in Of the details the
bill as now drawn should be amended and it is question
able such frequent votes should be taken could be
taken under the measure in its present form.
That, however, could be remedied either by amend
ment or by proper administration since this provision
is discretionary.
AS TO THE VALUE OF THE PURPOSES OF COM
MISSIONER ALIENS PROPOSAL THERE CAN BE
NO QUESTION:
While it true that after the Commissioners had
held referendum and had asceraned the wishes OF the
people they would not be bound to abide by those Wsne
still it seems safe that in ordinary cases they
would be influenced by the properly expressed local
sentiment
The matter of determining the sentiments OF Wash
ingtonians as group is hit-ormiss proposition
The citizens associations form the most reliable index
but in order to them considerable time needed
and even the time available the number Of members
attending the associations meetings may not be truly
representative of the community.
THE REFERENDUM BILL DESERVES EVERY
FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION BY THOSE WHO
BELIEVE THAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A
CHANCE TO REGISTER THEIR SENTIMENTS ON
MATTERS OF GOVERNMENT.
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
OLD FAVORITES
Eugene Field
Jest Fore Christmas

Father calls me William, sister calls WILL
Mother calls Willie, but the feers call Bill!
Mighty glad l amt girl-ruther be boy
Without them sashes curs an things that's by
Fauntleroy
Love to chawnk green apples an go swmmn in the lake
Hate take the castor-e they give for belly-ache!
Most all the time the whole year round there amt
flies me,
But jest fore Christmas IN good as l kin be!
For Christmas with its lots an lots of Candles cakes toys
Was made they say for proper kids an not for naughty
boys;
So wash yer face an bresh yer hair, an mind yer ps
an as,
An don't bust out yer pantaoons, an don't out
yer shoes;
Say 'Yessum to the ladies an "Yessur' the men,
An when theys company don't pass yer plate for pie
again;
But thinking of the things yerd like upon that tree
Jest fore Christmas be good yer kin be!
ReaderS inUited to send to the editor their sugge
tons of old fGVores among the for reprnting in
this space)
The Washington times., 1935-12-05

t urnS to the
probable length
of the session.
1t is general
ly agreed that
t h e minority
may determine
the time for ad-
journment.
In t h e pre-
campaign days
of the next ses-
sion 1t is con-
sidered certain
that the Admin
iStration will be
anxious to close
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
THE CHINA CLIPPER

A silverWinged queen of the air,
greatest of flying ships, takes off
from the California coast, China
bound. Her cargo is two tons of
mail addressed to the Hawaiian
Islands, to Guam, to the Philip
pines and far away China. The
President of the United States
speeds her on her way with the
message that she symbolizes an
American heritage of courage.
daring, initiative and enterprise.
More than 5000 miles of track
less ocean will be spanned by the
new service which the modern
China Clipper has begun. This
service brings Asia within five
days of the United States. Homo
lulu becomes merely an overnight
journey. 1t is, indeed, the first
step in the most fascinating de-
velopment of air-travel.
One may we'll imagine that the
ghosts of the heroic mariners who
sailed the old-time clippers Of
sail and oak out to China cen
tury ago must have thrilled to the
spectacle of the silver airShip re-
capturing for America the blue
pennant of merchant marine lead.
ership, that proud pennant which
they held, unrivaled, in the days
of the swift, Staunch, wooden ships
which carried their rich burdens
of tea and silk between Canton
and San Francisco in the days
when the Stars and Stripes
cleaned on every sea and whipped
the breeze in every port.
No event that this writer can
recall so Symbolizes a century Of
progress as the dramatic depar-
ture from San Francisco of the
China Clipper of the air. For it
was exactly 100 years ago that the
first of the old-time clipper ships
set sail from the United States
for the China Seas.
HISTORIC RACES
The story of mankind contains
nothing more thrilling to the
Imagination than the exploits
of those wonderful old sail
ing ships, the fastest ever de-
signed, in the days before steam
and engines robbed seafaring Of
so much of its romance. In those
days, a century ago, and in the
years up to the time of the Civil
War, the whole world thrilled to
the achievements of those fast
ships which contested with each
other for the speed records from
the Far East to the British Chan
mel and to the coasts of America.
The race course was from
Shanghai to London, and from
San Francisco to Boston or
New York. The racers were the
fastest sailing ships with which
man ever challenged time and
storm. The fleet clippers of a
century ago carried lustrious silk
and fragant tea. Every year the
tea fleet raced home with the
first and best of the seasons
crop. For some 80 years, between
1885 and 1865, the clipper ship
racers stirred up more excitement
than is aroused nowadays by the
record smashing achievements of
the Rex or the Normandie.
Timing their arrival at Shang-
hal or Canton to an exact hour,
the shippers of the old-time clip
per ships-shrewd traders and
business men as well as skillful
seamen-Down East Yankees al
most to a man-took on cargo in
breakneck haste, with a wary eye
on their rivals loading at nearby
piers. and then put to sea. clap
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
By Edwin C. Hill

Icontest every mile of the way to
San Francisco Bay or Boston har
Dor or London River. Progress
of the leading ships was reported
from time to time as their white
wings were sighted from Coast
guard stations and points ashore.
The news of their. passing was
recorded on page one of all the
newspapers. 1t was big news. II
far transcended the Importance
of commercial news. 1t carried
the spirit of national rivalry.
American clippers were in the
great race with Brltish-built fliers.
The names of the crack ships
Guilty Sark, Thermopylae, Spin
drift, Lightning, Donald Mckay.
Ariel and many others were as
familiar to every school girl and
school boy as the names of crack
transatlantic liners are today.
New York. Boston and San Fran
cisco newspapers of three,quarters
of a century ago featured the
stories of these thrilling tea fleet
racers and carried quaint wood
cuts of the most famous ships.
Steam was just coming in. But
sail was very much alive.
They did their work, those mar
velous old clippers, on a watery
stage which swept from Africa to
Australia and from Asia to NADIA
gaScar. 1t was a stage of heroes
and rascalS, Of golden courage and
black villany; a stage of brave
hearts and bloody deeds, of ruth
less pirates and reSolute mariners.
The clipper ship seaman had to
fight not only typhoons-thoSe
Oriental cousins of the cyclone
and the hurricane, vast cones of
wind spinning at incredible speed,
stirring up frightful caldronS of
sea-but they had also to stand
off the pirates who infested the
race course from China to the
Western world.
GLORIOUS PAST
One of the most famous of all
the old-time clippers was the
American-built Lightning, perhaps
the most beautiful square rigger
that every cleaved the seas. Ac-
cording to the record she covered
the greatest number of nautical
miles ever negotiated within "a
hours by a ship under sail, 436:
better than 18 sea miles an hour;
faster, indeed, than most steam
driven ships travel today.
The pride of the British was the
Guilty Sark, also one of the fastest
sailing ships ever built. In one
days run on her voyage from
Shanghai to London River, the
Guilty Sark travelled 1863 nautical
miles.
They are gone to the graveyard
of the sea, those grand, old
clippers, and with them the
romance of the tea trade.
Such as have survived are pre-
served like museum pieces. one
such is the Star of New Zealand.
They brought her out from snug
harbor the other day. when the
China Clipper of the air took off
on her flashing course, and
anchored her by the Golden Gate.
And presently, as the bands
played and the flags waved and
thousands cheered, the Twentieth
century roared over the Nine
teenth.
The China Clipper Of 1885,
cleaning high above in the blue,
signaled a respectful good-by to
the grand old veteran who had
done her work, and could only
stand by and wish her young sue
cessor the best of sun and wind
and the favor Of Providence.
Copyright. 1895. King Features
Syndi0AAA NJ
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROLULGnd
Spring in the Heart

All, Love, it is not by the gray in
thy tresses
Thou shalt know when the roses Of
youth are all dead
But by the lost ardour of sighs
and careSSeS,
That tempt thee no longer loves
measure to tread.
It is not when Times wrinkles
shall touch thy soft cheek,
Dear,
Thou canst say that sweet youth
and it's treasures have fled
But when the heartbeats of thy
spirit grow weak, Dear,
And thou findest the cocktail is
not worth the head"
Copyright, 1888. by XII
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
The Greatest Show On Earth
Rv Tohn Cuuro Tr
BY John SnUre, J.

%ened, and hinted of an immediate
investigation.
But he didn't get the tickets.
The Washington times., 1935-12-05

He laughs at the years-and puts
age to confusion
Who still in loves folly can find
the sweet bliss
The dream in the music, in life
the illusion
The pain in the parting, the thrill
in the kiss.
And the loss of our curls and our
curves is, in truth, Dear,
A trifle when swung in the balance
with this.
For there's nothing to age and
there's nothing to youth, Dear,
But the song in the heart-and
the thrill in the kiss!
: Features Syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
SHORT SESSION

With the 1885 meeting of Con.
greSs less than a month away, the
discussion around the Capitol
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
The Human Side of the News

epng Of sail thaAfrom China almost within the
fleet then desperate