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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
Then Her Husband
Divorced Her

Now the boy was breathing
clear for the first time in his life.
It was plain that he needed to
stay In the desert until he was
grown: obvious that it was my hus.
bands duty to come to US. Equally
obvious that he could not do 1t.
He was frustrated, embittered;
too timid to take the larger life he
needed; envying and resenting
the courage Of those who did. And
so he punished me because my
courage punished him.
Shortly after went to Horni.
tos, my husband divorced me in
Vermont for desertion and adul-
terry.
It wasn't so. He has regretted
1t since and tried, in vain, to have
the charge removed from the rec.
ord. For such an act was no more
the truth about him than 1t was
about me. But we do things like
that when we are cornered.
You don't know how I can take
1t that way, do you? Well, at the
time I wasn't so philosophical.
But it's all done with long ago:
the rage, the shock, the grief and
shame. I turn the evidence over
in my hands - evidence which
would have saved my name. But
I never used that evidence. And
the reason didn't Is another one
of those queer circumstances
which tie my experience In so
deeply with all woman.life in
America.
I was in California. He was in
Vermont. Under our States
rights" laws, had I entered the
Jurisdiction of the court Of Yer.
mont to defend myself-either in
person or through an attorney
I would have had to accept the
ruling of that court. But in those
days, in Vermont, a child was
nearly always conceded to be the
property of the father. If I had
defended myself, my boy would
have gone back to-strangulation.
SO my husbands charge was
not contested, and lost my
name. But I kept my boy. I'm
glad. I would do 1t all over
again! For a gallant little lad
and a grim, golden land were
worth it all.
Hornitos-over the years my
heart turns back to you! And
again I hear the killdees calling
from the dry creek bottom, and
smell the acrid fragrance Of your
baked white earth, tarweed and
olives, and see my boy come run
ming down the hill against the
bright light.
Little Ovens"-that was what
Hornitos meant, after those small
'dobe ovens in which old Pedro
once baked the only bread for 30
miles around in 1s45. Little ovens?
Two hundred square miles Of hell!
And yeti wouldn't exchange the
memory of your gaunt, wild
beauty for a million air-cooled
heavens.
But the Land
We Unchon1ed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
But the Land
Was Unchanged

When I came to HornitoS, in
1915, old pans and picks rusted
In gorges where, half a century
before, their owners had thrown
them down. But the land was un-
changed. From horizon to horizon,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

the time of my life-and so would
almost any other woman under
the same circumstances.
I did not, however, go to Horni'
tos with the intention Of becoming
q miner. It was to be "juSt for a
little while"-u my sons
health improved. was still mar.
ried. My husband and I still
talked in our letters Of having a
home together some day" And
I'm sure he thought he wanted
that frontier home. But the
things we think we want and the
things we actually do want are
apt to be as far apart as heaven
and hell. really wanted-out.
He really wanted-in. I got out.
He stayed In.
He had visited us in San Fran.
cisco; had seen the boys condi-
ton and agreed that he needed a
warmer climate. He approved Of
the move to HornitoS; made a
second trip there to inspect the
mine in which he had invested.
Then Her Husband
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

keeping. No clothes, except
miners boots, faded khaki, rag
ged flannel. No modern con-
veniences" Of any sort. A kero-
sene can with a string was our
only shower for years. No sheets.
No chairs. For, though I worked
for wages, we seldom got them.
She Seldom
Got Her Wages
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
II WANTED OUT" :: ELSIE ROBINSONS OWN LIFE STORY
Elsie Breaks Away From
Old Ties and Starts
Life Anew
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

In the foregoing chapters Of her 0'vId nGToOe Elsie
where life hard and rugged. When girl reached II
she married.
Elsie aUanted more than that She aUanted to knoO and
feel everything life had to ofer she Wanted ont! So at
nineteen she wemt to Vermont to marry young New Eng
lander.
They really became Life drudge. Elsie
felt stitled, chained to her household tasks.
In the outside eVord becoming people! She
declares that New ENGLAND Puitdnsm and Intolerance
covered By cloak nvhich they called their Religion
"Everything you did oVns a sim."
In 1885 aUhen you nn~icj 0aG 49, 1t usually
joyous honeymoon but not 1908 If gov married NeW
Enolo"5 PnritaH.
r. 1rGa2 the @lon0tony Elsie started Wrng 1t proved
~ oua'D for her emotions.
7ao1 her ba5v born phy8ical 2ak boy, but she
h., Asbatd not drccH any Closer together By
The etert
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

the previous two hundred. The
greater part Of that change was
to come with the World War, and
the forced rush Of women into in.
dustry. But on that fall day,
women had hardly more place In
industry than they had had in
1908.
There Is Room Only
For the Trained
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
NOW READ ON

Bad The circle had closed in The end very
But it in to be destroyed without fight still
marriage my father my older brother had died. the home
gone the family had scattered their at lowest
ebb had job 60 any training for job there
had been one Yet definitely knew what going
ID
Evening star., 1935-08-29
PROCEDURE DRAWN
BY LABOR BOARD
Funds Lacking, 1t Studies
Act and Prepares to De-
eide Pending Disputes.

Temporarily stymied by the same
financial complication that has FORE
stalled initial operation Of the Social
Security Board and other agencies de-
pendent on the third deficiency bill,
the new National Labor Relations
Board Is preparing to apply itself to
settlement Of pending or expected
labor disputes as soon as emergency
funds definitely are assured.
Z Meanwhile. the legal staff Of the
board is making an analysis Of the
act under which it is to function and
full instructions on procedure and
policy will be forwarded to the regional
Offices In the near future.
2 Starting out under a new act which
involves some difference in purpose
and in functioning from that of the
previous board, the new agency
already is in receipt Of 16 pleas pre-
sented by organized labor. No cases
hre being held over from the docket
of the old board, however, since opera
ton under a new law would create
legal differences in the pertinent facts
of each case.
. Auto Workers File Plea.
First of the cases to come before
the new tribunal was that Of the
United Automobile Workers Union OF
South Bend, an affiliate of the A. F.
of L., in a plea for recognition as
exclusive bargaining unit for workers
of the Bendix Products Corp. at South
Bend, Ind. Following closely were l5
others presented by the United Textile
Workers Of America and received by
the board today. These, filed by
Francis j. German. vice president OF
the United Textile Workers, charge
discrimination against the U. T. w.
as bargaining unit for employees.
With II regional boards already
established or in process Of formation,
each of these cases will be referred to
the unit in its particular territory.
~@ Recognition Is Issue.
The Bendix case, although its actual
relation to matter Of interstate COM
merce is open to question, is an issue
centering entirely around recognition
OF an organized labor unit as the ex-
elusive bargaining group.
For about two years the United
Automobile Workers Union has been
attempting to gain recognition from
the company as the exclusive repre-
sentative of workers Of the plant. Its
Evening star., 1935-08-29

case was brought before the old Labor
Board and an election was ordered in
January, but the demise of the N. r.
A. and the same fate for the Labor
Board when the Supreme Court ad-
vanced its decision on the Schechter
case voided the order. An election
was held later, but its results were
held inconclusive and the controversy
between the company and the union
continued until the latter made Its
plea to the new Labor Relations Board.
This case will be referred to the
offices of the tenth district under the
board set-up, one of the headquarters
of this district being in Indianapolis
where hearings on the case probably
will be held.
Evening star., 1935-08-29
TILT0N HOME ROBBED

Police are seeking thieves who ram
sacked the home Of DR.. J. A. Tilton,
1920 Twentieth street, during the
physicians absence from the city.
His brother, D. Henry Tilton, 3712
S street. who told police of the rob-
berry, said he would have to await the
return Of DR.. Tilton to determine what
has been stolen.
Evening star., 1935-08-29
LINDBERGHS ON TRIP

ROCHESTER, N. Y, August 20
R.-Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh made q brief stop at Municipal
Airport here yesterday afternoon
three hours after taking of from New
York en- route for an unrevealed desti-
nation which the colonel described as
"some point in the West" After
having their red and black cabin
monoplane refueled the couple took
OF.
Evening star., 1935-08-29

ANY camera is a better camera
IA when it's loaded with Kodak
Verichrome Film. Good snapshots
come twice as easy-you get them in
the shade and on cloudy days, as well
asin the sun. Don't take chances with
the snapshots which may be SO pre-
cious later on. Always use Veri.
chrome. .EastmanK Kodak Company,
Rochester, N. Y.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04

EEDERAL expenditures are soaring
L faster than ever before In peace
time history. The end of the first nine
months of the fiscal year disclosed ex-
p%endltures OF more than $1,000. 0O0. ON
Revenue meanwhile has amounted to
only S2,S27. 100000. or a little more than
half Of what was spent. New Deal
spending. statistical experts say. has
been at an average of $4,000 for every
minute. day or night, In the nine
months since the fiscal year began, and
total expenditures are expected to
reach nearly S7,500,0O0,000 by the end
of the year. Unemployment relief has
required the SS20,00O.0OO appropriated
for this purpose and an additional
SfSS,0O0.0O0 from the RFC, making a
total thus far of l.30S. 0O0.0O0. pWA
is next In line with having poured out
SSl9.UW.oN0 In nine months. Despite
these terrific totals government credit
has not been impaired. The treasury
has been able to refund all bonds with
approaching maturities. and when the
fourth liberty loan is called for re-
demption, a move which Is expected To
be made o. April Is, no federal bond
will be outstanding with a call date
earlier than 1910.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04

Walker, Philadelphia. Il work with the
United Gas and improvement Co. a
group which you and | would be glad
to own as a family
A gentleman named J E Mann, N. Y.
Shoemaker stick 10 your last. You are
supposed to be a comedian. Stay one"
Henry Booming. investment bonds.
Philadelphia. Suppose your money is
in tax exempt securities" No it's In a
few acres OF Cal land which is worth
about one tenth Of what ! paid for 1t
Here is one headed "Roosevelts Dem.
ocratic Clown. How do you know how
a thief passes money to an accomplice
unless you have been one or the other?"
No name. He was afraid | would sue
him. | wouldent. He may be right.
J R Lowe, Duluth. MINI. Were you
serious Bill. or just kiddingy Its serious
business with a lot of u.s."
Olin Tomlinsou, 525 Lexington Ave
N Y says | was too hard on EN-. and
maby Olin was right. r r Morgan. La
Jolla Cal there is pretty near a neigh
bor) he says there is a great many wo-
men who have stock in them and that
1t would destroy that. Now | don't think
Roosevelt wanted to destroy anybody's
stock. Anyhow | hope he don't. That
wouldent be right. Everybody ! mag.
inc is in sympathy with the stock
holders.
And the last one is from Mr. Noting
ham from Duluth Mimi. who wants me
to give 1t more study. And they are fair.
Nobody wants to shoot me. Its toe com.
plicated for me to learn about. | will
stay with the Senate. | know those guys
backwards, cause that's the way they
are generally going. So take up your
holding company squabbles with Roose.
welt. and lay of me. and thanks for
your friendly criticism.
G 1885. AeNssshi sysdnsS. fse.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04
French Women Weld
Power Without Votes

munlcate with headquarters for lack
Of telegraph wire she got hold Of the
proper machinery and turned to max.
Ing telegraph wire.
Napoleon left a lasting imprint on
the laws and customs of France. But
II would have taken n greater force
than the Little Corporal to stay the
course of the French
The French woman knows how
vain men are. So she never makes
n show of power. While she pre-
tends to defer to her husband, she
will let fall n suggestion which he
will adopt as his own. And If she
deceives him she Is usually more
subtle In her technic than was the
wlllful Josephine. With all her le-
gal disabilities she is happier than
the American woman. For she Is
important In her husbands scheme
of things "a hours Of the day.
In the final analysis the French
woman makes a business Of under
standing men. Man Is her meter.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04
LIP READING ON
AMONG
HARD OF HEARING

OF the more than $4,000, 900 people
In this country, more than 10000 900,
or about n out Of every ten, have
measurable hearing defects. Or, to
state it differently. there are ap-
proximately $4,000 persons who are
totally deaf. About one person out
Of each thousand is blind. For each
person who is totally deaf or blind,
there are 60 who are hard Of hear.
ing. Impressive statistics on "The
Deaf and the Deafened" are given
by DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur in his
article on that subject in Hygeia
Magazine.
The adult person who becomes
hard of hearing must readjust his
whole life. One Of the greatest fac
tors in this process of rehabilitation
Is lip reading. Lip reading now com
prises a specia! department of the
National Education association. II
Is being taught in nine of the great
universities of this country. There
are 561 teachers Of lip reading
among deafened adults; 90 cities of
fer children instruction in lip read
ing as the greatest aid in helping the
isolated to conquer their fears and
ears. One might convers for an
hour with an expert lip reader with
out being conscious of his deafness
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04
BY CLARK

This is another rug design that
readers will recognize as taken
from the Cubes and Stars quilt
design that is possibly a hundred
years old. This rug measures thirty
inches and requires about two
pounds of material TO crochet. 1t Is
made up of II diamonds and slip
stitched together to form q star or
blocks. depending on the way the
color scheme Is worked out. 1t Is
always an interesting rug to study
(count the cubes) and well adapted
for a childs room.
This Is one Of the twenty beautl-
tiful crocheted rugs shown in colors
with directions In rug book No. "a.
If this rug interests you send 15c to
our Rug Department and get the In
structiOns for making this rug and
nineteen others.
Address HOME CRAFT CO, Dept.
c., Nineteenth & st. Louis Avenue,
st. Louis. Mo.
When writing for any information
inclose a stamped addressed envelope
for reply.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04

Hitler made a bold play for Anglo Ger
man understanding. declaring both ma
tons should unite TO defend western
civilization against Communism and
the colored races. Briefly. his demands
were:
Flrst-Gerniany must have an army
with a minimum of sc divisions-500.
coo men-as decreed.
Second-Germany wants parity in the
air with Britain. Hitler admitted that
Germany now possesses equality with
Britain. Hitler stressed the danger to
which Germany is exposed in the mir
He declared that Russia is using
Czechoslovakia as a European air base
He demanded return of certain Czecho-
slovak territory and repatriation of
3,5tN,0N0 German residents there.
Third-Hitler wants a navy equal to
one-third of the British fleet, which is
tantamount TO 100000 tons. The Brit
ish admiralty Is opposed to such a ra-
ito and Germany has been invited Ia
bilateral naval discussions in London.
Fourth-Germany wants return of
her former colonies. Little encourage
ment was given Hitler on this score.
Fifth-IIitler refused to have any
thing to do with an eastern pact.
though he is willing to enter nonag
erosion pacts with Germany's neigh
borS. as he did with Poland
Sixth-IIitler is prepared TO sign a
pact of noninterference in the affairs
of Austria, but only i it means non
interference by all powers.
In Berlin demonstrators howled their
resentment at death sentences imposed
by Lithuania on four Nazis, and only
stout police resistance kept the mob
from the Lithuanian delegation itself.
The four were convicted when a Lith-
uanian military court trying l26 Nazis
for IN asserted plot to start an armed
uprising in Mcneil, former German ter
ritory, found them guilty. Eighty-sev-
en- others We're sent to prison.
AS Capt. Anthony Eden, British arms
expert, begins his conferences with
Soviet officials. observers believe the
Russians will marshal every resource
to convince Eden that the only safe
course for the rest of the world is to
bring sufficient pressure on Germany to
Induce her to accept the eastern secur-
ity pact. The official press continues
to stress that the rearmament of Ger
many threatens Russia, and that the
conflict growing out Of any German
attack would spread all over Europe
and Asia. This is but a confirmation
of Litvinof's contention that "peace is
indivislble." League of Nations cir
Giles predict that France, Russia and
Czechoslovakia will conclude an east
err pact as an nsw to Hitler's new
conscript army. Whether any effort
will be made to bring Great Britain in
to this, Is not known.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04
DOROTHY DUNBAR BROMLEY. In Il
New York World Telegram.

New York World ieleSram-
French women are still lighting for
the vote today because Napoleon be-
lieved our sex should be treated as
minors. You can read that set mind
of his between the lines of his gal.
liant letters to Empress Marie Louise.
lie talks To her MS If she were even
younger than her years.
She Is to be generous In her gifts
to the people he d%esignates, she is
not Ia give gold SNUFF boxes, she Is
to he pleasant to her family and she
is never to allow anything amblgu.
Gus TO be said in her presence about
France and politics."
Obviously Napoleon gave his
'bonne Louise" very little credit for
judgment of her W or for any COM
mon sense.
Napoleon had one willful wife, and
that vas enough for him. Josephine
had carried on her intrigues under
his nose. But when he paid her In the
same coin she had raised the roof.
So 1t came about that Napoleon
wrote into his famous Code Civil,
1.-THE wife must learn that she owes
obedience to her husband" And.
"the wife shall follow her husband
wherever she goes" This was a dig
at Josephine.
The Code Napoleon has been slight
ly modified in the course of the years.
But even now q French wife can't
leave the country without her hus-
bands permission. She can't open n
bank account without his 0. k. I'M
less she has a business or profession
of her own. She can't visit friends
or places of which he disapproyes.
And he has absolute authority over
their children and property, unless
the marriage contract calls for a sep
aration of their estates.
American women In some OF our
states are no better off than French
women. except for the fact they have
the vote. AS for that, the French
woman would have had the ballot
some time ago If the senators Of the
radical party had not feared that the
female vote might strengthen the
clerical party.
Since the married French woman
Is a chattel and since no French
woman can go to the polls. American
wome have been in the habit of con
descending to her. But we needn't
waste our pity. Ask a Frenchman to
make an important business decision
and he is as likely as not to put Off
until tomorrow. lie wouldn't admit
it, but he will wait to find out what
his wife thinks about it.
During the war any number of
French women ran their husbands
businesses and factories without a
hitch. A Partisan woman of my &C
q%uaintance managed her husbands
tin factory. When she heard that
his outfit at the front could not com
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-04-04

here is a man that must know what he
is talking about. He is not given to just
having it in for a legitimate enterprise.
So as Congress had been pretty good
that day and done nothing, why that
left me nothing to zap about. so seeing
| said. a holding company is like a fel.
low handing the other fellow the swag
while they search you.
Well | dident figure that little half
witted remark would upset the whole
holding company business. But | forgot
that a remark generally hurts in pro-
portion to its truth. IL its so untrue as
to be ridiculous why nobody pays any
attention to it. And on the other hand
| don't want to get any remark that
will be so true that 1t hurts. | mean
really hurts. SO | was in wrong both
ways. Now | don't know what 1t is. hut
right or wrong. there must be some
little teeny weeny bit OF underground
connivance connected with the idea of
holding companies, or is there?
Now be honest. In a straight forward
legitimate business. a farm, a store. a
little manufacturing concern. or any
business. what makes the holding com.
pany nessasary? Don't it have something
to do with shifting the responsibility
over to another company that are liable
only for so much? Now maby 1t don't. |
don't know. Anyhow | got some fine SEN
sible and fair letters from real people
that had confidence in the companies.
working for one. or had stock in EN-,
but anyhow 1t showed a spirit Of fair
play. They felt that | was wrong, and
| am sure that | dident know enough
about EN- to know IL | was or not.
Now you will say we'll what did you
pop off when you dident know what
you were talking about. Well ii you are
going to stop that, why America would
be speeches.. There is not any OF us
real sure Of what we are yapping about.
You see here is something that any of
US that write have found out, II we
write or say something that agrees
with you. why then we become quite
a smart guy in your estimation. But II
we should write or say something that
don't agree with your idea OF the same
subject, then we become a Menace"
and should be eliminated from the pub
lie prints. So we are only good as long
as we agree with you. But a lot of
these were mighty fair.
Here they are: This is a fan letter,
and also a matter Of life and death. You
have hurt me and many more but !