davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Contradictory Hopes.

Mr.. Harry Hopkins, the relief director,
said at press conference on Thurs
day, June l3, that Substantial" num-
ber of the $500 900 people on the relief
rolls would be at work by the end of
next month"
Next month has come and gone and
at his press conference Friday the
President said only negligible number
of people had been taken of the relief
rolls so far and put on work relief. The
total so placed may run as high as
30.O00-not many, compared with
$780, 1000.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Hopkins pre-
dicted that by November l all Federal
direct relief grants to the. States would
cease; the States would be given re-
sponsibility for the unemployables, the
employables would be working on work.
relief projects.
On Friday the President said that
some direct relief by the Government
would undoubtedly continue indefinitely,
certainly beyond November l.
The $4,000, 900, 600 work -relief fund has
been failure. in point of getting started
Reasonable explanations are offered for
the delay. 1t is not easy to spend
billion dollars and it is four times as
hard to spend four billion dollars.
But the delay in starting the program
should cause minimum amount of con-
Germ. Delay is better than wasteful haste.
Real concern, however, should be mani
tested in the growing realization that
there is no more magic in spending
$4,000, 100000 on so-called work relief
than in spending other millions under
some other name. Public relief is an
Old Man of the Sea that is riding Uncle
Sam, under any name, and will not be
shaken loose.
The President counts on business re-
vival to tighten the load. That is the
only thing that ever will tighten it.
And while the President relies on busi-
ness revival, the House is busy enacting
a bill that Furnishes, through taxation,
the largest employers of labor because
of the size of their business. Somehow
it fails to make sense.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Making a Show of Justice.

Orders have been issued IN Detroit 70
bar all minors from the court room &C
the trial of a man and three women ior
the murder of Howard G. Dickinson, q
New York lawyer, about six weeks ago.
The reason for this unusual step is that
1t is expected that highly sensational
and also salacious, testimony Will De given
OF a character not suitable for the ears
OF young people. Indeed it is question:
able whether 1t is suitable for the ears
of elders who are not required by their
connection with the case as witnesses
to be present.
Under modern laws all trials must
be open to the public. This is to insure
against the so-called star chamber
mode Of the administration OF justice
That by its secrecy often became an m
niction of injustice upon the innocent
But there is no occasion, In the pursuit
OF this principle Of open court TRIALS
Evening star., 1935-08-04

would serve to clear up much of the
mess in which we find ourselves.
Obviously, the first concern which a
vacation suggests is physical recupera-
ton, the restoration Of those values that
are indispensable to wholesome liv-
ing. Secondly, well-ordered vacatica
means intellectual refreshment, the op-
portunity for readjusting our vision and
getting deeper look into the real values
of life. The old adage, "All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy has it's
application to all of us.
The third requisite to a well-ordered
vacation is the rediscovery to ourselves
of those deeper values that concern the
spiritual life-in fine, the values of the
soul. Here an imitation OF values is
both consistent and necessary.
In one of his letters st. Paul speaks
OF the human body as being the temple
of God" This is in consonapce with the
gepeated aftirmations of thg great Mas
ter, whose appraisal of human values is
incomparably greater than any the world
has ever known. He knew what was in
man" saw what some one has called his
"unfulf1lled possibilities" and gave to
him a proper conception of His divinity.
Abbe Dimnet speaks of the body as q
two-Story house, a house in which more
consideration is given to the first or
lower story than to the second or upper
one. The lower story is near the earth,
hence 1t suggests occupation and the en-
joyment of the things of the world. Too
frequently 1t is cultivated to the hurt of
the second story.
II our Summer vacation period can
give us better understanding of our
physical, mental and spiritual makeup
1t will prove TO be an experience of
infinite value to US. More frequent occu-
patton OF the second story of our life
will afford us a larger opportunity for
reflection upon its deeper values and a
inner and better understanding Of its
purpose and ultimate destiny.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

Imitation Fairies.
There ought to be fairies and giants
and elves,
We mortals should not play the parts
for ourselves.
The clatter of arms and the chatter of
state
Mongst graceful pictorial fancy should
wait.
The boat meath the sea with a mystery
load
Is fine till in time it decides to explode
The airplanes, like dragons, inhabit the
sky,
Distributing gases and flames as they fly.
For mortals are clumsy. A fanciful
thought
When We try to express it with danger
is fraught.
There ought to be fairies amid the
mad scheme
To render it all Midsummer nights
dream.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
The Cleveland Hex Murder.

The tragedy at Cleveland, where one
woman shot another because she was
WITCH" revives memory of the hex"
murder In Pennsylvania few years
ago. In that case man locally believed
to be engaged in mysterious practices
in the realm of the supernatural was
slain by two young men. In the course
Of their trial an astonishing prevalence
OF belief In these practices in a wide
area was disclosed. The Ohio case seems
to have been sporadic. The woman
who was killed had no Ill repute and
was not suspected of any malevolence,
except by the man and woman who are
now in custody for her murder. They
tell fantastic tale Of persecution which
they attributed to the victim. The man
speaks Of "fireballs" which, he says, she
sent to plague and menace him and
which he nailed to the wall" and yet
they kept coming so that he could not
sleep.
If there were but one person involved
IN this crime apart from the victim it
would be easy to account for it on the
score of insanity, q delusion of persecu-
ton which Is q most dangerous form Of
mania. But there were two, husband
and wife. and the only hypothesis pos
sible is that they were both by strange
freak of circumstance afflicted with this
delusion. If both were believers in
witches-and many more people are
such than come to public notice-this
Evening star., 1935-08-04
VACATION VALUES
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES D. D., c. L,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

A friend Of mine, bishop who had
been seriously i'll for several months.
found such mental and spiritual refresh
ment during his illness that he wrote
an admirable little book giving his re-
hections. In the course of it he told of
how his enforced idlness had given him
q new conception and better under
standing OF his home environment. While
he had lived in his house for many
years, he had never fully appreciated
either Its comforts or its luxuries.. While
he was i'll and confined to his room ne
began minute study OF tie room in
which he had slept for many years.
He interpreted anew to his conscious
ness its contents its furniture, etc. When
he was able to walk about the house
he began with a survey OF its entire
contents from the cellar to the garrett
In his recital of his observations he
speaks of the newer appreciation of the
values OF things about him. One of his
conclusions was that through the many
years there had been an undue accum-
ulation OF the things that had become
valueless. They found their repose
largely in the gsrret, and to house.
cleaning he seriously address himself.
This whole episode is suggestive OF
the need from time to time for a fresh
evaluation OF life itself, q time for in
trospection and q study Of those things
that we hold to be valuable In life. While
we give time to balancing our books and
reckoning our assets or liabilities, we
give little thought to those larger values
as well as to those unfortunate liabili-
ties that reside in our own personality,
hence the need of an occasional vaca-
tion period. q period in which we. can
take time to reappraise the real values
OF life and. If possible, to discard the
accommodating rubbish that hinders and
impedes us in our course. 1t would be
safe to say that II the whole world
could experience real vacation, long or
short, and use 1t for practical ends it
Evening star., 1935-08-04

to turn legal inquisition into O spec.
tacle for the diversion OF the prurient
and the morbid minded and the seekers
Of sensation.
The Hauptmann trial In New Jersey
was lamentable affair in this respect.
Here was q man on trial for his life for
the commission of an abominable crime.
Literally thousands Of people in the
aggregate attended, not because Of their
concern for the administration of jus
tice and the development of the truth,
but because Of their unclean curiosity,
even as they will flock into dime mu-
seums and side shows to see strange.
abnormal, pitiable freaks of nature.
IN Detroit it is evidently feared that
the testimony in the trial of those
accused of the murder OF Dickinson will
not be At for young ears. Why is it
fit. then, for adult ears? 1t must be
given, perhaps, although of that there
is doubt. The issue In this case is not
one of morals of the participants in a
conspiracy to rob and murder the VIC
tim. Nor, in fact, Of their particular
behavior in the course of the develop
ment of that plot. The law is concerned
only as to whether the man and the
women combined to rob the victim and
take his life. All else is superfiuous
and should be eschewed and barred
whether young people or their elders
are present. urged to attendance by
their mental sadism.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

If European markets are to be allowed
to disappear for the simple reason that
Europeans cannot obtain dollars to use
in buying American farm products, then
there must be centralized control of
farming within the United States in
order to keep production down near the
domestic market.
But to enable Europeans to obtain
dollars to buy farm products means
that American markets must be opened
to European manufactured goods. That,
in turn, means adjustments in tariffs.
And industry opposes tariff adjustments
to such an extent that year of effort
to bring about those adjustments under
reciprocal trade agreements has brought
few tangible results.
This situation leads Mr.. Wallace to
conclude that Supreme Court decision
killing the A. A. A. would leave the basic
problems of agriculture unsolved and
unsolvable, short of q change in the Con-
stitution. Plans for subsidized exports,
now being talked of by business groups
as substitute for the A. A. A., do not
strike a responsive chord among New
Deal officials.
They see the whole economic problem
of the country revolving around the issue
of reviving foreign trade. If it is not
revived, then their conclusion is that CEN
tralized governmental control of farm
Supreme Court, they say, cannot alter
that central problem.
toopsrirhs. 1881
Evening star., 1935-08-04
coincidence Of mutual mania is ex-

coincidence Of mutual mania is ex-
plainable.
hoodooS remain despite education and
more general enlightenment to cause
aistreSs and even, as in Cleveland,
tragedy. Superstition is rife today. Many
people carry charms against bad luck.
They will not walk under a ladder
They will not start any enterprise on
Friday. They will not step of the curb
with the left foot-or the right foot II
that is the particular quirk of mind.
They will not put q hat on q bed or
shoes on chair. They will not give
or receive an edged tool as q present.
Tney will not lock at the new moon
over their right shoulder. There are
scores of other avoidances that have
their origin in superstitions that go far
back into the past Of the race.
To attribute misfortune to a personal
malevolence may be regarded as a de-
tense mechanism. With people thus
afflicted with a superstitious complex
the fault Of mistake or loss or grievance
does not lie within themselves, but with
an enemy and persistence in this feel
ing becomes obsession, and sometimes,
as in Ohio, and as in. the Pennsylvania
case and another in West Virginia not
so very long ago. leads to tragedy. Edu-
cation apparently does not correct this
psychological tendency, the final out
come Of which is almost invariably q
tragedy, physical or mental.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
I'll. o. L. G.. Foreclosures.

The fact that there are some 909 home
owners in default to the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, against whom the
corporation is instituting foreclosure
proceedings, may not be surprising. The
H. o. L. C. undoubtedly assumed risks
that nobody else would assume. A lot
of them were probably bad to begin
with.
The interesting part Of the business
is that a full third of these defaulters
are classed by the Government agency
as deliberate delinquents, in default be-
cause of an obstinate refusal to pay"
Is that a pretty way for the Govern
ment to talk about its taxpayers? Up
to now one had been led to believe that
foreclosures were the result of skinflint
tactics by the private money lenders;
that: the bankers" and "the interests
were deliberately refusing to lend money.
preferring to foreclose the mortgage and
sell the home. 1t was Uncle Sam, like
the hero in the movies, who rushed up
in the nick of time and bought the
mortgage off just as the hammer was
about to fall.
But now it is Uncle Sam who Is selling
the home owners out. What is going to
happenP That should be easy to answer.
Another corporation will doubtless be
formed Immediately, its employees ap-
pointed without regard to civil service,
and. adequately provided with money
from the r. r. c., will refinance the
home purchases for those being evicted
by the flint hearted H. o. L. G.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Paving Inheritance Taxes.

Secretary Morgenthau called on
Robert H. Jackson, general counsel OF
the Bureau of Internal Revenue 10
answer some of the Senators VINO ques-
toned him about the tax bill. When
Senator Lonergan wanted to know now
the Government would collect inner
itance taxes on a mythical bequest OF
half a billion dollars without breaking
up the business, Mr.. jackson suggesteo'
if the concern we're free of debt, the
floating of a bond issue. In otner
words borrow the money to pay the tax
That is one answer. Another Is 70
liouidate assets represented in plant
and equipment by selling them, which
would mean breaking up the business
or turn over the business to the Gov
ernment to operate or TO sell. Ols-
r,,ntion of the business and consequent
unemployment would be threatened In
any case.
One need not take the extreme exam
ple of a half billion dollar estate, how
ever. to illustrate the effect OF the pro-
posed inheritance tax schedules. Take,
as an example. a million dollar business
left by q man to his son, the million
representing the taxable estate.
Before the inheritance tax is applied
the Federal estate tax must be COL
lected. The estate tax rates run as
high as so per cent over sl0,OOOOo0.
On the million dollar estate in question.
1t would take about slsl 900, exclusive OF
whatever death taxes the State might
inpose. The inheritance then would
amount to $4,000 and, allowing the
son the $4,000 exemption provided in
the House bill. the inheritance tax would
come to about s23s 200, leaving a bal
ance of s57s,8o0 from million dollar
estate.
The Federal Government, in other
words, would claim about AZ per cent
of the million-dolar estate and take 1t
in cash. If the owner chose to borrow,
At would mean putting the business into
debt or placing its control in the hands
of "the bankers" But the owner might
easily find that, prospects being uncer-
tain, the simplest thing to do would
be to sell.
In the collection of estate taxes the
Governments policy has been to make
the terms of payment as lenient as
possible. The collector of internal reve-
nue. is given discretion to make extern
sions in debt payment up to eight years.
Interest Is paid, Of course, on the ex-
tensions. When the estate is repre-
sented in land or in plant and equip
ment and the legatee is short OF cash
he must either borrow, sell or make a
showing of financial hardship" in which
case the Government comes to the rescue
by permitting extensions or partial pay
ments. Forced liquidation is sometimes
necessary, with benefit only to the tax
collecting Government.
A million dollar inheritance suffers
lightly in comparison with the ten
million dollar inheritance, where in
heritance taxes alone take over half. And
as wealth creates not only wealth for
the Governmental the form of taxes
but employment, the destruction of that
wealth by confscatory taxes will have
its evil effect on both. More discus
sion of this subject than the Senate
Finance Committee heard from Mr..
jackson would be helpful.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Primitive Joy.

My ancestor lived in tree
Where coconuts were always free.
He never got in any fights
Save for his individual rights.
Some monosyllables he had
For gossip either good or bad.
But not enough to make him pay
The cost of lese majeste.
Better be innocently mute
Why did ever evolute!
Evening star., 1935-08-04

A college education implies advantage,
social and intellectual, outweighing pri-
vate fortune. An educational processing
tax resulting in an assessment on every
diploma would provide a method of de-
irving a direct revenue from erudition.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Interference.

"Are you still writing profound ar
ticles," asked the lady with roll Of
manuscript.
mo" answered Miss Cayenne. II
found it interfered with my more Sc
rious duties. You can't spill ink and
pour tea simultaneously"
"Pretense of wealth. said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, "is to make yourself
an object of special enmity among rob-
bers whom you have deceived into vast
ing their time"
Evening star., 1935-08-04

Every good wish goes with Govern
ment projects for housing and highways,
although 1t cannot be forgotten that real
estate is = hard game in any age and
cline.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

The yellow Kid" was q fascinating
figure in pictorial journalism. He grew
to maturity years ago. His civic infiu-
ence is one Of the obscure problems related
to the question. What becomes OF our
infant prodigies?"
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Government Majesty.
NV Government, I look to you

NV Government, look to you
With reverence unending.
You're still respected when you do
A bit of money lending.
OF what I earn and what pay
You're the supreme director.
I'd hate to think of you some day
As Just bill collector.
"Big talk" said Uncle Eben, will keep
you sailin' foh awhile like you was in
a balloon, but q small puncture leaves
you terrible nat"
Evening star., 1935-08-04

Collegiate wisdom will not be secure
until students are as warm in admira-
ton for a regular professor as they are
for foot ball coach.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

Symbols are powerful! influences on
the human mind and worthy of profound
study. Yet it will require unusual erudi-
ton to explain the propriety of apologiz-
ing to q swastika
Evening star., 1935-08-04
Alternative.

"Were you ever political boss?"
"Only in self-defense," said Senator
Sorghum. In politics out my way you
can take your choice-either boss or be
bossed."
Evening star., 1935-08-04

Abyssinian women say they will fight.
1t will be wild warfare If they happen
to find themselves opposed by a bat
talon of Italian prima donnas.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
He Can Shave.
nm the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
A visitor at Nice has had to hire q
bodyguard because he looks like Hitler.
On the other hand, he was just using
an absurd excuse to hire bodyguard.
There is no necessity for man to look
like Hitler u he doesn't wish to.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

Freedom of the press is unhindered in
this country. It's only embarrassment
is an occasional undignified scrimmage
at the bargain counter of notoriety.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

An adventurous Snowman says Ameri-
can audiences should be taught to hiss.
The line should be drawn at throwing
tomatoes. Food is expensive.
Evening star., 1935-08-04
p.,. Nv M.il-Psyable in Advance.
, o,h., sac. and Canada.
Member OF the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is eyciH1sysay n.q, dispstehes
eTeditsd to II or not otherwise credlSeo IN rsin s
paper and also the local news puo,iShsis hsispstches
All rights of publication OF speNiaA
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

The death of the late Speaker and
Senator Frederick II. Gillett of MasSa-
chusetts, who was engaged in writing
the biography of the late Senator George
Frisbie Hoar, leaves only one living
former Speaker, Vice President John N.
Garner, who Is still going strong.
Evening star., 1935-08-04

~. n. QcClSlOu. OtIleTS LLldL d
rural revolt would result.
At that point Henry Wallace enters as
the New Deal philosopher. He 'opines
that the end to the A. A. A. would only
lead to demands for a more radical
form Of farm control. Some people
think the present form smacks fas-
cism or socialism or some other Euro
pean" system.
But Mr.. Wallace is not interested in
names. He Is interested in worldwide
economic forces. Those forces, in the
opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture,
are driving the United States to
decision between normal recovery under
old-faShioned capitalism, or q controlled
recovery through some form of CEN
tralized dictatorship or control.
Agriculture is the focal point in shap-
ing that decision.
Farmers of the South and the West
have prospered in the past through
sales of their surplus crops in foreign
markets. Until 1914 they sold them
readily because American wheat and
cotton and pork were taken by Euro
peans in payment of the interest and
principal on debts which we owed them.
During the war the Europeans paid
for American crops in gold and in loans.
After the war Europe owed America
money and continued to buy our farm
products only because we lent her the
money to use in buying those crops.
Then with the depression came an end
to lending. Europe continued to buy.
but paid in gold. Now she is running
out of gold and Is stopping her pur.
chases.
The point Mr.. wallace makes Is that
Evening star., 1935-04-01
MEXICAN REBELS KILLED
20 Slain in Battle as Federals
Seize Ammunition.

ZACATECAS, Mexico. April R.-
Twenty rebels were killed in battle
with Federal troops near Valparaiso,
state of Zacatecas, Gen. Panfilo
Natera, chief of military operations
in the state, announced yesterday.
The rebels, he said, were led by
Trinidad Castanon and Epitacio
Lamas, who fed into the mountains
with their followers. Arms and am
munition were seized.
Another group of rebels headed by
Valentin Lopez, active for months,
was reported defeated by federals in
the state of Aguascalientes.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

of Love-" "Cut of the Dusk to You"
and My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" "
lie Tableau," from Massenet's opera
"Manon," will be the highlight of Lily
Pons' recital over WJSV at 9. She
also will sing April in Paris" Andre
Kostelanetz and his orchestra will con-
tribute a group of popular selections
to this program.
The Princess Pat Players, on W7MAL
at $50, will present a three-act COM
edy, Professor" Francis x. Bush
man of screen fame will have the lead
ing role.
A program of topical songs, includ-
ing those which record history by
commemorating famous people, will
be presented during the America In