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The Washington times., 1935-08-27
The Pace Gets DiZzier

How far this Administration has progressed the direction
Of Russian Kulaksm evident in the Potato Control Bill
which has passed Congress
The provisions of this bill unbelievable in democratic
republic with Constitution that guarantees the liberties Of
It's citizens.
This bill authorizes the Secretary Of Agriculture to impose
If the farmer raises than the quota he must pay
fine of 45 CENTS BUSHEL4
Potatoes MUST be packed in containers
Any violation Of this law subjects the farmer to fine Of
$1,000 for the first offense and 900 fine AND YEAR IN
JAIL for the second offense
Going farther than the brutal Volstead Law, this
Potato Control Bill makes the BUYER OF BOOTLEG POTA-
TOES EQUALLY SUBJECT TO FINE AND MPRIsoN-
MENT
This BILL with the communist Bankhead Cotton Bill
and the Kerr Tobacco Bill instance of growth
STATE-MADE CRIMES and STATE-MADE CRIMINALS un-
der the system that the Raw Dealers call "a better economic
deal"
While the Department of Justice working night and day
to REDUCE crime in the United States the Administration
is about to ADD to criminals by CREATING POTATO
COTTON and oBACCo-RAIsING CRIMINALS adding
the buyer of these staples who conform the strait
jacket regulations of Commissar Wallace.
TO enforce the provision of the Potato Control Bill because
OF the universal Of that food the Internal Revenue Depart
ent will be compelled to keep vast army Of snooprs be-
badged gunner and informers on its pay rolls.
These men, like the old prohibition squads odoriferou
memory, WILL BE PAID OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE
TAXPAYERS OF whom voted for the coectviza
tlon and naturalization of our food supplies
That this pushb button Congress is evidenced in the
astounding statement of Representative JONES'
man Of the Committee Agriculture and sponsor of the AAA
amendments for the Administration in the House.
Speaking Of the provision in the Potato Bill that makes the
buyers of bootleg potatoes equally guilty with the seller he
said:
II didn't eUen knOW it in the BILL"
Under the braZen oclalstc program Of this Administration
the destruction Of all indvduaistc ideals and
sttutlonal rights goes at dizzy pace
with congressman admitting THEY DO NOT KNOW
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
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of books bearing titles indicat-
ing our old American ideals Of
FOR 1 ONESELF" WORK AND
WIN" FROM THE BOTTOM
UP" STRIVE AND sue
CEED," etc. In the background
there is a long line of men hur-
rying away from the books,
disappearing into the dim dis
tance:
That is ala pile Of ideals, a
line of men. The ideals are
labeled "JUNKED." The rapidly
filling, fleeing line Of men Is
called RELIEF"
Is it true? Is this dreadful
thing happening in America?
Have we junked our old ideals
of proud, honorable independ-
ence and are we joining the
GIMME GUYS? No use arguing.
You know that it is-and we
are.
A BY-PRODUCT
Get me right. I've been plenty
poor myself-most Of my life.
rye nothing but sympathy for
those in real need, and respect
for those who are trying to fill
that need, blundering as some
of their efforts may be. But
granting all that, we're still fac
ing a terrible situation. Each
day increases the number OF
those who are asking relief when
they might do without it-and
each day decreases their en-
barrassment at taking that re-
lief when it comes.
A HIDEOUS SOFTENING
AND SLOUGHING IS HAPPEN
ING TO THE AMERICAN
CHARACTER. People who would
have been furious if you had Of
fered aid ten, or even five years
ago, today turn to it at the first
pinch Of adversely and demand
it as their legal right.
We blame it, of course, on
the depression, but I doubt if
it started there. I suspect it's
another Of those by.products Of
the Machine Age which we don't
as yet know how to handle.
There was plenty of history be-
hind our Yankee independence.
When our Pilgrim fathers
turned their backs on caste-and-
The Washington times., 1935-08-27
The Human Side of the News
By Edwin C.. Hill

old bills, in forms Of silver Ger
tificates, gold certificates,
United States notes and Fed
eral Reserve bills, in the size
seven and a half inches long
and two and a half inches wide.
For 68 years there was no
change. Only six years ago, in
July, 1929, was the present
paper currency issued, these
bills being 6 inches long and 212
inches wide. Yet how rare it is
to come across one Of the old,
large bills today.
Our change to the smaller
bills is an interesting story in
itself. The United States had
taken over administration of the
Philippine Islands early in the
century, and was called upon
to provide paper money for the
islands. Elihu Root. as Secre-
tary Of State, found himself
faced with the problem of pre-
venting confusion in the money
of the new possession and that
of the United States. The diff
Guilty was solved by printing the
Philippines currency one-third
smaller.
AS time went on, the forms
of American money began to
multiply, until, in 1912, we had
some 40 designs. Secretary Of
the Treasury MacVeagh set out
to simplify this, and a commit
tee reported to him in favor of
the adoption of the size Of the
money of the Philippines. The
Intervention Of the wav put back
the reform until Andrew Mel
Ions term.
MONEY FACTORY
In 1929, when the change was
made, the amount Of paper
money in circulation was five
billion dollars, and the gigantic
task for the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing was to substi-
IuGC d 11hC d11AOU1AO Va NuAASAASJ
in the smaller size. This bu-
reau, when organized by act Of
Congress in 1862, consisted Of
one male and four female as.
sistants, and it occupied one
small room in the attic Of the
Treasury Building.
Today it occupies 10 acres OF
floor space and accommodates
5000 employees. Its model fac
tory building, close to the Wash
ington Monument, is one Of the
most closely guarded spots IN
the world.
In this factory, and by the al.
most forgotten method Of steel
engraving, the Government de-
signs and prints its money. The
average number Of notes printed
in a normal year runs close to
a billion, with a value four timee
that amount In terms Of dollars.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. InO.l
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How Long, How Long?

Elimination Of emergency relief before next june as
recommended by the Washington Taxpayers Protective As
socaton to the District Commissioners is an objective de-
youtly to be wished .......
lures approximately million dollars month is
tainly desired by the taxpayers.
Likewise unless there is great deal Of truth in charges
that the relief rolls cuered up with chser those who
are now on relief rolls would like get off them.
The only humane way of course in which the expense
of relief and the receiving Of relief can be eliminated is
to find other income for those getting the dole or who
now shortly will be- placed the work relief basis
We can't just stop direct relief and work relief and
probable that Rufus Lusk of the Association did
contemplate that should when he made his wholesale
Recommendation to the Commissioners
But can take steps toygrd reaching the goal set
Mr. Luk all the talk OF social IvoTkeTS should
not deter US from starting.
The fact is that Washington enjoying real prosperity
Virtually business and industry in the city has
enjoyed in large measure return to normalcy.
Salaries of government employees have been restored to
normal in the last two the number of Government
employees has increased nearly 30 per cent
Bank clearng have greatly increased and to certain
extent the money frozen in banks by the Roosevelt closing
has been released
YET with all these undenable improvements in the
nomc life of the city and there have been many more)
is an astounding fact that there been virtually NO
CURTA1LMENT OF THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS
AND FAMILIES ON RELIEF AND THE COST HAS RE-
MANNED JUST ABOUT AT THE PEAK.
THAT CONDITION SIMPLY ISN'T REASONABLE.
If reasonable this city would have resign itself
to carrying heavy number Of its residents relief rolls
at all times.
puDnc would like TO know When Cn0Se on fenef VINO
able to work going to be reabsorbed in the ordinary
commercial life of the city.
And the public would also like to knOuO Uhat efforts,
If any being made to place these people in the
ordinary activities of life and get them off relief.
About two years ago there demand that such
activity be undertaken.
It undertaken, BUT 1T WAS ALLOWED TO DIE
BEFORE ANY EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN THAT THE
EFFORT WAS BEING MADE SINCERELY.
Such effort should be made NOW and it should be
made VIGOROUSLY and it should not be permitted to die
at the hands Of those who for another want
the present relief condition to continue
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gold value has been cut in half.
The individual may have a
difficult time with his paper
money. but so does the Govern
ment. A dollar bill or a five
dollar note has a short life. The
estimates vary, but few give a
crisp, new banknote or Treas
ury certificate Of the above de-
nominations any more than a
year before they are ready for
the scrap-heap, to be replaced
by fresh money.
A conservative reckoning, 1
imagine, is that 500 million dol
lar bills are manufactured each
year. TIE run something like
one million dollars to the ton
and go out from the Treasury
in package of 1000 bills. And
the thing which kills them most
is the rough deal they get at
gasoline stations.
LASTS LONGER
Paper money forms about
four-fifths of our whole supply
of currency, being preferred be-
fore coin because of its light
ness and convenience. But, as
noted above, it wears out rap
idly and has to be replaced fire.
Quently.
In recent years the Treasury
has devoted a lot of attention
to this mattre, since providing
a total Of one billion new bills
a year runs into a cost Of some
thing like four million dollars.
Within the past 10 years i'm
provement in the making Of the
paper, the introduction Of cot
ton fiber with the linen and
the use Of formaldehyde in the
glue coating have helped appre-
ciably in making the dollar go
farther in circulation.
Federal paper money is only
IS years old, being unknown be-
fore the Civil War. The paper
in circulation, prior to that time,
was issued by the banks under
State charters. Then came the
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than almost any other member
OF Congress.
His agitation for League Court
entry caused him to stand at
direct variance with the senior
Senator from Idaho, William E.
Borah. And as most astute
observers realized that Senator
Borah was a student Of inter-
national affairs Of no mean
ability, they wondered how Mr..
Pope would fare.
Then recently he sounded the
blast while abroad that the
United States would find it i'm
. possible to keep out of European
conflict.
That did not increase his rat
ing with the State Department
or any other Governmental
agency and, from reports, gave
him a few demerits from the
citizenry of these United States.
When he first came to the
Senate, the Scanty-haired Mr..
Pope appeared to be a mild
hammered man who wouldn't in.
duIge in bursts of speech that
might cause his country embar-
rassment. His actions, however,
have belied his looks.
Some of his colleagues are
wondering whether it might be
the influence of his birthplace.
He was born in Louisiana
from whence comes the volu-
BILE "Kingfish," Huey P. Long.
Senator Ellison D. "Cotton
Ed" Smith, talking on cotton
loans the other eve became
somewhat emphatic.
In his oratory he said:
"I understand that once there
was a man who SWOre very
prOfanely and did so in the
presence Of a parSon. Some
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Some Relentless Facts
By James T. Williams. Jr.

"Facts are relentless" as
serted the President in his
broadcast the other evening to
the Young Democratic Clubs Of
American organized by his Cam
paign Chairman and Postmas-
ter General Farley as an aux
iliary for the 1885 presidential
campaign.
Here are some RELENTLESS"
facts not mentioned in this
radio stump speech, "non-politi-
cal," Of course, with which the
thousands who listened in, as
well as the millions who did not,
must ultimately wrestle, how
ever desultory their interest at
the moment may be.
These facts and figures have
recently been assembled by the
only source of national wealth
statistics in the country today
the National Industrial Confer.
ence Board. This is a non
political agency of experts main
tanned by industry for the pur-
pose of gathering statistics Of
this sort.
Every year this authoritative
agency makes an estimate for
the analysis of. the national
wealth. Facts set forth in these
reports will be of especial inter.
est to young Americans-the
men and women who will be the
heads of families and owners Of
or seekers after homes through
many long tomorrow.
FOURTEEN POINTS
In the closing days of the
first session of the present Con-
gress, Senator Borah read into
the Congressional Record these
facts and figures. They will ar
rest the attention of every tax
payer in the country and Of
every future taxpayer who takes
the slightest interest in Gov.
ernment-Federal, State and
local.
In the light Of these star
tling. but none the less "relent-
less" facts, it appears:
First, that at the present rate
at which Government is SQuan-
dering the peoples hard.earned
money, I'VE have but So years
to go when the public debt Of
the United States will equal the
present total national wealth."
second, that our debt is in
c4easing at the rate of $780,
100000 a year and that this
rate has been sustained for over
20 years.
Third, that our national
wealth is now approximately
100000, 100000 and we owe an
official Government debt of $751;
5OO,OOO,OO0.
Fourth, that the national
wealth in 1914 was estimated to
be S192, ZOO, O,OOO,OOO and in that
year the public debt Of the
United States Government was
approximately q thousand mil
lion dollars.
Fifth, that in 1920 the ma
tional wealth figure was 488
billion dollars and in that year
the public debt of the United
States was approximately 26
billion dollars.
Sixth, that in 1880 the esti-
mate Of national wealth was
32S billion dollars and the pub
lie debt had been decreased to
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Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

creed-ridden Europe they under.
took the hazardous adventure Of
self-service in every department.
of their lives. They undertook
to build their material as well as
their spiritual lives. Forthwith
it became almost a spiritual OBJ
legation to provide ones own
fists.
At the beginning Of this CEN
tury the New England bride who
used machine stitching" on her
dishtowels, or bought her bread
at the bakeries or her preserves
in a tin can, would have been
considered the town slattern.
Likewise, the man who couldn't
raise his, carrots in his own back
yard after office hours, or hang
his own screen door, rated
pretty low with his neighbors.
Then came the machines
with the captains of industry
turning the home chores into
big business and dad and
mother playing golf after
hours instead of hemming cur
tains of hoeing carrots.
SOMETHING WENT
Presently there was a genera
tion that was machine-served
from the day of it's birth. And
there came the American
Standard of Living" But that
standard was no longer a pact
between a man, his God and his
own two fists. It was merely a
question Of buy-buy-buy . get
get-get. Never mind who made
the thing, as long as you got it.
DOLLARS AND CENTS IN
STEAD OF SOUL AND
SINEW?
BY the time the war arrived,
we had more machines than
any other nation on earth
but something had gone out Of
the American dream and out
of the American character
A CERTAIN PASSIONATE
PRIDE in tending for itself,
a fierce contempt for BEING
HELPED"
AS long as that pride lasted,
it stood like a mountain be-
tween any self-respecting citi-
zen and the mere notion Of
"relief." But when it began to
go-when it was no longer
shameful to accept help-some-
thing happened.
It isn't, perhaps, such a long
jump between letting a ma
chine relieve you, and AC-
CEPTTNG RELIEF.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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back the hands of the clock
hanging over the head Of
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns so
that the time of the two chron-
ometers corresponded.
Speaker Byrns looked up and
smiled. It was before he real
lied that adjournment was i'm
possible.
SOrtly thereafter, the youth
in the galleries began to set
his clock back again.
Byrns noticed his move and
raped his gavel threateningly.
Soon thereafter. Dhen it be.
came certain that the Congress
could not adjourn until J1nu-
arg, q motion, for the House to
recess 1D1S made.
Instead of announcing the
motion to recess. Speaker Byrns
made it a motion to adjourn
until the next legislative day.
The House agreed and then,
realizing that its vote might
affect the parliamentary situa-
ton, sat around wondering
what the consequences Of the
vote would be.
On that fateful day when
the Congress was seeking so
earnestly to end the session,
members used 223 pages Of the
Congressional Record in debate.
That costs the taxpayers al
most $12,5O0.
Its contents disclosed to the
public a portion of the wrang-
ling in which Congress engaged
on the day it hoped to end the
session.
1t costs approximately $56
per page.
For a ttrSt-termer, Senator
Pinckney Pope (D.) of Idaho
has created more of d Juror
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Repentant Sinners

Possibly suffering from attack Of conscience Congress
made an approximation of $4,000 celebrate the 15h ami
versary Of the Constitution on September IT, 1887
Most Americans while appaudng this action will find food
for thought in the fact that this Congress passed
legislation than any other in history
They suggest that Congressman who wishes honor the
document can best do so by observing it.
Also that he need not wait until 1887 to begin.
The Constitution will be here then, it is true
AS Senator Boah says strong enough survive any
thing-even ex-President Hoovers defense Of it.
But congressman who violate it may not be in Congress
hen despite professions of repentance at the eleventh hour
These professions already year too late to be
vincing. -
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} the approximate figure Of l6
billion dollars.
Seventh, that commencing
with 1880 the national wealth
dropped 80 billion dollars from
the 1929 figure; in 1881 It
dropped 49 billion dollars from
the 1880 figure; that we av.
eraged in each depression year
for the three years Of 1880, 1881,
1882, q loss Of 38 billion dollars
In our national wealth.
Eighth, that the depression
already has cost the United
States in devaluatiOn alone at
least 152 billion dollars.
Ninth, that we started the de.
preston with a public debt Of
is billion dollars in 1880; that
by June of 1881 it rose to 19,4OO
million dollars; by June 80, 1882
to 22,5OO million dollars; by
June 30, 1892, to ~ billion dol.
lars; that it is approximately
30 billion dollars today, and
that by recent enactment the
Congress at this years session
has increased the public debt Of
the Federal Government to As
billion dollars.
Tenth-Th hat, as Senator
BOrah points out in this melan-
chOly memorandum which he
submitted to the Senate, "thiS
Is only part of the picture"
Eleventh-That the debt of
the 4S States, with 3,OOO-odd
counties, the 16,OOO-Odd cities
towns and villages, the $4,000
school districts, the $4,000 town.
ships and the $4,000 other sub
divisiOns-"all with the power
to incur public debt, and in all
amounting to $4,000 political
unitS"-was less than five billion
dollars in 1914.
Twelfth-That the public debt
Of the 48 States is at least IN
billion dollars, and the public
debt Of local governments, which
in 1892, before special studies
were made, was announced as
1712 billion dollars, is now ap.
prOximately FL billion dollars.
CHALLENGE STUDY
Thirteenth-That "befOre we
close the fiscal year we must ex.
pect 81 billion dollars in ma.
tional debt, 215 billion dollars
in State debt and FL billion dol.
lars in local government debt.
Fourteenth, that the national,
State and local governmental
debts Of the United States will
total before the close Of the
fiscal year fifty-five billion five
hundred million dollars which
must be pledged against tho
total national wealth now re-
duced to approximately $780,.
OOO,OOO,OOO from $4SS,OOO,OOO,.
900 in 1920.
These Fourteen Points" will
challenge the interest of Ameri.
can Youth, - "the Forgotten
Man of Tomorrow''-who must
stagger down the years under
this burden.
Facts are relentless" indeed,
especially these stubborn facts
which the President overlooked
in his summons to American
Youth to Unite and Chal-
lenge."
copyright, 1885, The Washington Times
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lars" because
of the Latin
in S C ription,
Novus Ordo
S e clor u m,
which will ap-
pear on them
and W hi h
translated is,
"a New Or
OCI VI gX1C
A G e S." Be
t h a t as it
may, a dollar
bill is inter-
esting as well
as us e f u |,
aynn 1xyhon it's
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he did MT
W a n t t he
members to
believe they
were running
too far over
time.
He reached
down to push
b a ck tn e
hands Of the
clock that is
opposite the
Speakers roS-
trum.
In the press
gallery a jour-
nn1ick M ohnYnd
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q plain blunt man and / call .
spade a spade"
"The preached said, We'll,
judging from the conversation
I heard before you found out
I was a preacher I am sur
prised that you do not call it
q damned old shovel
So said, Cotton Ed:
$50 1 think 1 will from now
on call a spade q spade when
I do not call it a damned old
shovel"
And he did.
Copyright, 1895. The Washington
Times)
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cisco Exam
i n e Pub
lished origin
ally in the
Chicago Daily
News. And it
is, . without
doubt, t h e
most terrible
pict ur e in
print today.
It is called
"THE VAN
I S H I N G.
AMERICAN"
In the fore
ground there
t. ~~oo% lila
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one touched
him a n d
said: To ok
Ou t, friend,
there is a
minister He
turned to the
minister and
said: Excuse
me, parsOn, 1
did not know
you were a
minister or I
would n o t
have sworn
in your pres
e n ce. But
parSOn, / am
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When the House worked so
labOriousIy the other eve to
close up shop, a youthful spec
Eat0r in the gaIIerieS decided
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Words of Wise Men

great great repose and will out from
your grief stronger when you entered it-Dumas
Much knowledge things divine through want Of
faith.-HeraclituS.
An overflled belly will not study willngly-Medieval
There is wisdom. like franknens-DisraeN.
But facts facts and finch not.-Brownine.
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Five Tons of Money Daily

Some wag may beat me to
calling the forthcoming 81 sill
yer certificates "New Deal Dol
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When Did the Breadlin
Begin?

I've been looking at a picture.
It's a newspaper cartoon by
Shoemaker, in the San Fran
The Washington times., 1935-08-27

A rugged individual
That's what he has to be
If Uncle Sam would win against
Raw Deal Bureaucracy.
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The Greatest Show On Earth
By Nelson
Harding
BY John Snure, Jr.

> than almost any other membe
| of TOn0reSS.