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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27
ILLITERACY AHEAD
By Seth

Long ago only priests and a
few of the nobility knew how to
read and write. Later, as time
went on, more and more of the
nobility and those who were
well-to-do learned not only to
read and write, but arithmetic,
geography, history-and music.
This progress didn't take place
in a short period; it took time.
But gradually, as the world grew
older and its occupants more
modern, tolerant, and enlighten-
ed, education spread from those
of the privileged class to the
homes of the poor. Nowadays,
the son or daughter of a humble
worker can, and often does, &C
quire an education just as good
as that accorded to the son or
daughter of a multi-millionaire.
By nowadays is meant up til
now; for it seems that education
is doomed to slide back toward
the dark ages unless something is
done to support and keep up the
schools.
In the name of economy school
funds have been cut and cut,
teachers pay reduced to a mini
mum, school hours shortened, and
in many states this year the
school semesters will be shorten
ed by three months. That means
that thousands of youngsters are
going to miss vital summings-up,
tests, and corrections of what
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27

vote for at the June election!
And the fault isn't the fault of
the radicals, l assure you. Those
fellows have been campaigning
for months. They have either
ironed their factional differences
out or smeared them over until
they can't be seen.
The conservatives, on the con-
trary, have twiddled their thumbs
and cried for George to do it.
and that individual hasn't done a
thing except twiddle HIS thumbs
and whine for John to get on the
lob. And there's been nothing
done-by the conservatives. Will
there be? / can answer that
query much better twenty-four
hours after the primary-that is
if l can make my voice heard
above the roar of conservative
sobs and lamentations.
Will my suggestion be adopt
ed? Certainly not. But it
a better one can be proposed, or
one equally as good, I'm for it.
I'm for any man who will
guarantee to give Minneapolis a
reasonably clean administration
(this isn't any Heaven, you know
and we can't expect to have more
than four hundred thousand
saints out of a population of tive
hundred and a few stray thou,
sandy and in addition, pledge
himself to maintain la7V and keel
order. And that provision alone
lets any communist-supported
radical out.
There's just two weeks lett
Do we take Our licking-if we
are to be licked-like men OF
spaniels?
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27
a Desert Cactus Apple?

An official of the Law and Or
der League relayed the informa-
ton to me late last week, that he
and his organization were CRATE
full to me for my opposition to
the Leagues pet bills introduced
and passed by the legislature. He
is said to have declared that my
opposition resulted in several rad
ical members of the legislature
who were half inclined to OPP
pose the crime" bills, rallying
solidly to their support on
the grounds that whatever stand
l took, it was the radical duty to
take the opposite. | wish to con-
graduate the League on the SOL
idity of this support and the un-
expected assistance of a new
ally. / hardly expected to see
that Combination in restraint of
common sense" perfected even in
these hectic and highly torrid
times. However:
Down in the desert country a
certain breed of cactus bears an
apple" The fruit is luscious in
taste as well as attractive in ap-
pearance. The outside is cover.
ed with what appears to be vel.
vety coat of sugar sticky as
though the fruit were smeared
with syrup.
The tenderfoot sees the native
munching the fruit. He decide:
to take on a stomachful. He
takes a few bites before he dis
covers that the sticky, syrupy
outer covering is million tiny
spears that penetrate tongue, lip:
l! and throat. He spends the next
week trying to find water thai
doesn't feel like he was swallow
ing barbed wire. Solid food:
have no appeal. His experience
is about on a par with the houn
dawg that takes a faceful of por'
cupine meat with the quilts on.
The League and other conser
vative organizations who bit OF
the O l S o n-Murphy-Devane,
crime commission cactus frui
will find that only the natives o.
the governors own" can masti
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27
our MAY0RALTY MEnAeERlE

Sixteen Candidates for Mayor Have Filed Up to This Hour
Monday II M About Four Of Them Are Qualified to Run
Lunch Counter But They Apply for the Job OF Manager
of the Largest Business Concern in the State
Radicals Have Edge Numerically Well stragetcayTwo
Candidates Against and Three Months Against Twenty
Minutes of Campaign Start
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE

local Politician Gloats Over Alliance Between Radical Members
of Legislature and Prominent Conservative Organization IN
Passage Of Alleged Crime Bills Says Radical Members
Voted for Bills Because Saturday Press Opposed Them
Did These Conservatives Ever Attempt the Feat Of Eating
Desert Cactus Apple?
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27

cate the stuff and get away Win
the flavor, and the secret of their
immunity is the same formula
that the desert denizen uses on the
cactus apple before he begins ex-
ercising his jaws on the fruit:
He rubs the phony syrup coat
off on his breeches' leg or with
bit of burlap before he bites. The
Law and Order League fell for
the rich appearance of the fruit
and before the season has far adj
vanced, one will be able to locate
a Law and Order Lacquer by the
antics of the gentleman in his at
tempt to massage a few million
"crime bill' slivers out of his
face.
The operation will doubtless be
successful but the patient will be
damsick.
But while on the subject l
would like to call the League Of
fcials (and possibly some of its
members and backers) attention
to a few indisputable facts:
| The League was formed for
the purpose of seeing that pres
ent laws were enforced-this, un-
der all rules of the game, being
paramount to the enactment of
additional laws. The League,
from its highest official to its
most humble member will agree
with me that the number and sew
erity of penalties of laws is inn
material if no laws are enforced!
Hence we are back to the print
tive reason of the Leagues for
nation and its choice of titles
Law and Order.
Laws are useless unless they
are used to create and main
tain order. We have legisla-
lures and legislative 70 ON
in which occasionally small
hotel rooms are used as substi-
tutes) laws are formulated, but
if the process ceases with the
legislative act (or the H. R. con-
ference) society gains little. The
League is presumed to stand
| for law and order as its name in
dictates. So l just want to ask
the League official who wise
cracked of the new alliance be-
tween the League and the radi-
Gals, what he or his organization
expects to gain for Laa0 and Or
der by these new laws s0,sen the
old statutes haze not been en-
forced?
What assurance was given the
League lobbyists that Devaney-
Murphy Olson, ct al, would ser
iously enforce the new laws! If
criminals are not prosecuted
and Olson's record as county at
torney for ten years proves they
were not-then why gloat over
the creation of a few more loop
holes through which criminals
can watch the game between
Law, with its stuffed club and
Order with its receding chin?
Before the League official per-
mits his appetite for gloating to
become chronic and possibly in
durable, I should like to ask him
to name one law that I have ever
fCoutinued OF, page ~
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27

OF tIlcIH are.
Without party designation we
voters are forced to pick and
choose blindly. We have only
the assurance of this candidate or
that, that they, if elected, will
give us a sane government and
make every effort to enforce the
law. And the assurance of any
politician is a poor prop upon
which to lean and l make no ex-
ceptions.
This city has developed into a
communist training ground! 1t
is the pivot upon which the COM
munist movement of the United
States rests and revolves. No
chance or grounds for argument
on that question. 1t is an estab-
lished fact and the communists,
themselves, did the establishing.
To the best of my knowledge
there are two radical candidates
or communist sympathizers, as
against one conservative candi-
date on the list of sixteen. The
strategy of this is apparent to any
man with an elementary educa-
ton in politics:
But tzVo candidates can win at
the primary election and If both
ore radicals, the rna-of election
is as good as aVon! And the con-
servative citizens will find them
selves with two choices on their
hands:
One to take chance on the
Americanism of the radical of
their preference and the other
to rent a mule and have the Mis-
| souri, canary kick them into some
common sense or a nice deep
lake.
But these two picks can be
avoided said "can be- i
| doubt if either of them will be /:
Let the sincere conservative
candidates get together and select
some one of their number to rep
resent the conservative element
and it's in a vast majority-and
| the other conservative candidates
aeitl,drazv and throw their SUPPORT
to the conservative of their
choice.
It's we'll and good to have an
itch for office, but when in
scratching that itch, the itchee
disfgures the economic and in
dustrial facial map of half a mil
lion people, the right to scratch
grows dim indeed.
I Let me suggest to about nine
professed conservative candidates
that they forget their hunger for
the mayoralty and get behind
some one 7vho can be elected.
| I'll be frank about this
wouldn't support my mother il
she was a candidate backed BY
the communists and radicals OF
Minneapolis. And I'll back an.
conservative candidate nominated
but my fear is that when the
votes are counted sometime dur.
ing the night of May Is, we will
find no conservative candidate to
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27

ne more l see OF our primary
election law the less l think of
it and the more firmly l am con-
WINGED that if the operation can't
be performed in a regular ses-
sion, a special session of the leg
islature should be called to re-
move the nuisance from the
nerves and purses of the public.
Take our mayorality menagerie
as an illustration:
AS write these lines on Mon
day evening most of you are
in bed-sixteen Candidates"
have filed for the office and
there isn't more than half of
them that could successfully
manage a dog pound-but they
think they are mentally equipped
to take over the management of
the largest business concern in
the state, the City of Minneapo-
lis.
Under the old caucus system,
with all its faults-and it had
them-the man who aspired to
any office had to have a follow
ing. Under the primary system
all he requires is a ten dollar
bill or one hundred dimes. If
he can panhandle the former he
gets his name on the ballot; if he
can't get the latter in any other
way, he can shine a hundred
pairs of brogans and charge the
cost of his experiment to the tax
payers, who pay all bills.
l grant you that there are sin
cere men, honest men, men who
have the welfare of our city at
heart, on this list of sixteen, but
I refuse to concede the sincerity
of a majority of them. I'm far
from being smart man. but
I'm not altogether dumb, and the
law of averages applies to the
buttinsky candidate as well as
other lines of human activity.
l am not prepared at this tire,
and do not intend any attempt,
to separate the ewes from the
lambs, the chaff from the wheat,
but I'm going to say few words
to every one of these sixteen can.
didates. If my words cut, I'm
sorry, but I offer no apology.
1t is apparent to every man
and woman of intelligence in the
city that we who live in and call
Minneapolis our "home," are
face to face with a crisis. There S
no question about this. We ARE
It isn't a question of casting
our vote for a friend of some
personal friend, but question OF
casting our vote for a candidate
svho sViU maintain lazV and order
There are no party lines drawn
in this fight. There are no repub,
lican candidates, no democratic
candidates and no other party
candidates except the commanis
candidates and their allies, thu
farmer-labor candidates. These
are without party designation, al
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-27

Hello, Grimes of Frisco? Got
writer's cramp?
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
NRA EXTENSION
MESSAGE DUE
MONDAY
Legislation Introduction Due
to Follow Immediately;
Probe Bill Studied
international News Service

President Roosevelt will send
his message asking a two-year
extension of NRA to Congress on
Monday.
Legislation carrying out the
Presidents wishes will be intro
duced Immediately after the mes
sage is read and will be referred
to the Senate Finance Committee
headed by Senator Harrison CD
of Mississippi.
The Finance Committee also is
considering the resolution calling
for an investigation of various
charges that the big recovery unit
has fostered monopoly and oper-
ated to discriminate against the
little man." This was intro
duced by Senators Nye (R0 Of
North kota, and McCarran
CD of Nevada, jointly.
Senators Nye and McCarran
sought to refer their bill to the
Senate Comm cree Committee,
headed by Senator Copeland CD
of New York, but Senator Har-
rison objected, and the bill was
sent to the finance body.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
NOTED DIVORCE
CASE Up ANEW

LONDON. Feb. Is G.N.SD.
England's most sensational divorce
case took a new twist today with
Mrs. Christabel Russell suing
John Hugo Russell for divorce. ac-
cording to The Evening News.
Mr.. Russell, son and heir of
Lord Amptill, attempted to di,
vorce Mrs. Russell in prolonged
litigation that swept through
England's courts and newspapers
from 1922 to 1926. 1t ended
when, for the first time in his.
tory. the house of lords took =
hand in a divorce action and de.
MED Mr.. Russells suit.
Stalking through the four
years suit was Godfrey Denis
Erskine Russell, then four years
old, who Mr.. Russell claimed
was proof of his wifes miscon-
duct, but who, Mrs. Russell de-
clared, was her dream child
legitimately conceived.
In defending herself against
her husbands charge, Mrs. Rus
sell gave date and place of the
sons conception. Her husband
said he was sleeping" at the
time, and could not have been
the father.
So intimate and sensational
were the revelations concerning
the couples married life, and so
avidly did the English press-read-
ing public consume them, that a
law forbidding publication of de-
tails of divorce proceedings was
passed after the trial was over.
The boy is now IA. Reports of
the wifes action for divorce did
not divulge reasons for her &C
ton.
The couple was married in 1918
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
LEV|ATHAN RUNS
MUST CONTINUE
International News Service

Efforts of the International
Mercantile Marine Corporation to
induce the Government to scrap a
contract for operation of the SIS.
Leviathan struck a snag at a
Cabinet meeting yesterday.
Shouldering a loss ranging from
$l25,OOO to $l5O,OOO for every voy-
age of the Leviathan in the last
year, the INN. had appealed to
the Commerce Department Ship
ping Bureau to cancel the contract
under which she must make at
least seven foreign voyages a year.
The contract has four more years
to run.
Under a proposed substitute
agreement. the company would
segregate sum, equivalent to an
nual losses in operation of the
Leviathan. and use the funds for
construction of new vessel.
Though no comment was Of
fered at the White House on sus-
pension of negotiations. the ac-
tion is interpreted as indicating
the President is reluctant to enter
into a new agreement until his
new Merchant Marine policy is
fully determined. Fast nearing
its final form. the new policy is
expected to be sent to Congress
next week.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
LESSONS
IN HOOK RUGS

HYATTSVILLE, Md, Feb. 16.
With the recent widespread revival
of interest in handicrafts, home
demonstration agents in Prince
Georges county have made ar
rangements to give Wome
through the county an opportunity
To learn the art of making hook
rugs.
Miss Florence Mason, district
county home demonstration agent
OF the University of Maryland eX:
tension service has announced
that instruction classes will be
held under her supervision in the
court room of the Metropolitan
Building in Hyattsville at 10:30
M, February %, and at the
same hour on February 81 at
Brandywine School.
Miss Mason says she expects in.
terest in hook rug making to
spread rapidly, as the equipment
necessary to do the work is simple
and inexpensive. The actual tech
nique of hooking can be learned
readily and high grade product
can be produced by small appli-
cation of time and study of color
designs, Miss Mason says.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
FAHEY DEFENDS.
HOLC AGAINST
HILL CRITICS..
100000 Home Owners to Get
Help; New Bond Authority
Certain to Be Passed
International News Service


Rescue of 500, 900 home owners
from threatened loss of homes was
promised today by Chairman John
H. Fahey of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation as the House
Banking Committee virtually
agreed upon one billion five hun
dred thousand dollars bond
authority.
The estimate was based upon an
ticipated rejection of 100000 OF
the 100000 applications for emer-
gency loans now on hand.
Defends Operation
Despite bitter attacks on the
HOLC by members of Congress de.
manding an investigation, Chair,
man Fahey vigorously defended its
operations before the Banking
Committee. He said:
''If there is a more liberal
bank policy adopted throughout
the country and private industry
makes loans, our total may be
less"
Mr.. Fahey promised the banking
committee that mercy and COM
mon sense" would rule the HOLC
in dealing with delinquent bor-
roWers.
While 80 per cent of the loans
are delinquent on due date, he
said that only 1872 per cent are
in default more than 80 days.
what we will do in case Of
default depends on circum-
stances. We ought to go just
as far as we can to save homes.
On the other hand it is our plain
duty to see that a government
institution is not imposed upon"
SENATE o. X. SEEN
With 100000 loans in arrears
over 80 days, only so foreclosure
suits have been instituted and but
one home has been taken over,
he said. He added:
"If 1t appears that the case
of the borrower is hopeless, we
VIII Degln foreclosure proceed
ingS."
He declared that propaganda"
has been spread throughout the
country that borrowers need not
repay a Government institution.
Indirectly answering charges of
inefficiency, favoritsm and graft
made by members of Congress,
Mr.. Fahey declared the Holes
record is better than the average
private institution. Loans are
made cheaper and there are fewer
delinquencies, he asserted.
The 1900 million dollar added
bond authority bill is slated to
pass the House next week. Fabor.
able Senate action is assured.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
of FILA
To Dance Tonight

Featuring four-act floor show.
enticing door prizes, and an
estimated attendance of more
than 400. Federal Housing Ad.
ministrations Valentine Dance
for the benefit of the units ath.
letic association will get under
way this evening at the Raleigh
Hotel, starting at 9 p. m.
Preceding the dance there will
be a dinner for patrons and
patronesses of the affair given
by the association officers, at
which Administrator and Mrs.
James A. Moffett will head
list of distinguished guests. The
dinner will start at 7 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
100000 Miles by Plane.
Record Of Woman

The thrill has gone out OF
airplane riding for Mrs. James
Leisk. wife of a Transvaal
banker, whose record of more
than 100000 miles gives her the
distinction probably of having
travelled more by air than any
other woman. That may include
men, too, if Will Rogers is ex-
cepted.
Now she wants to try a blimp
Arriving at Washington Airport
yesterday in an Eastern air lines
en- route to Miami, she eagerly
asked about blimps and said she
will ride in one when she gets to
Florida.
At home, she frequently flies
from her home in Pretoria, South
Africa, to Cairo. She likes travel
there better, saying:
"You see more. Not just
cities, but wild life, herds of
elephants, buffalo, lions"
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
FRANCE EXPELS
PRINCE LOUIS

NICE, Feb. Is G.N.SD Prince
Louis Ferdinand D'Orleans Bour-
bon. cousin of former King Al
fonso of Spain and ex,fiance of
Mrs. Mabel Gilman Corey, former
wife of Pittsburgh steel king,
was arrested here today and or,
dered expelled from France.
The prince was given three
days to leave the country. 1t was
the second time he had been de-
ported from this country. The
Paris Prefecture expelled him in
1924 for reasons given as too
delicate to explain"
The Washington times., 1935-02-16

She took her first air ride
seven years ago, across Australia,
and in all her flying since has
never been in an accident. She
disdains trains and said the
ocean trip she must make next
month, when she leaves New
York for London will be Just
necessity" She hopes she will
be able to fly across the ocean
soon. She said:
Il don't see why flying is
restricted so much to land. It's
about time they have trans
oceanic service by airplane.
Her vacation trip to this coun-
try has interrupted her course of
training in flying a ship herself.
She already has six hours at
the controls upstairs" to her
credit.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
Two More Local
Unions Organized

Two new local unions were an
nounced today by Gertrude M.
McNally, secretary-treasurer of the
National Federation of Federal
Employees. Local 518, composed
of Indian Service employees, has
been formed at Sells. Ariz., and
No. SIG, at Portsmouth, Va, mum,
bers group of lighthouse workers.
Today Miss McNally. together
with all members of the National
Legislative Council of Federal
Employees Organizations, was to
attend dinner and play given by
Philadelphia employees at p. M,
in the Quaker City. The play, a
musical comedy called What
Next?" is promoted by the
"Fedacs," employe dramatic or
ganizatiOn
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
Headley Denies
Aiding Drunk
Congressman

Emphatic denial that he had
supervised" the freeing of a
drunken Congressman" from
the First precinct late yester-
day was made today by Police
Inspector Albert j. Headley.
The inspector, according to
published reports, appeared at
the precinct soon after an un-
identified Representative from
the West Coast" had been
booked on a charge of drunken
ness and disorderly conduct and
ordered the lawmakers name
erased from the arrest book.
The name Smith" was reported
to have been substituted.
Policemen at the precinct said
today they were not aware OF
the incident.
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
AMERICAN TIES
HARD To SEVER

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-After
eight years as rector of the St.
James American Church in Flor
ence, Italy, and four years as
director of the United States
Students and Artists Club of
Paris, the Rev DR.. Canon Kill
liam A. Stimpson-a boyish-
appearing man in his late thirties
returns to this country with
several revealing conclusions on
the expatriate life.
DR.. Simpson has gone to Mil
waukee, with his wife and two
daughters, where he will assume
the rectorship of st. Marks
Episcopal Church.
While here he said:
Il found that during the
last few years in Italy l was
more American than l ever
had been in this country. L
found myself defending Amer
ican traditions, customs, habits
and idiOsyncriSies with unaccus-
toned vigOr against the attacks
of other Americans who ap-
peared to feel that having left
their native land they must
compare it unfavOrably with
almost every section Of the
civilized world"
The Washington times., 1935-02-16
.oman's S Diet
Includes Pins,
Nails, Glass

ORANGEBURG. N. Y, Feb.
Is. G.N.SO doctors operating
on Mrs. Paul Pappas. 40, an in
mate of the State Hospital for
the Insane here, brought to
light 224 articles, including tea
spoons, safety and straight pins,
tie pins, pieces of bed springs,
nails, broken glass and a meat
SkeWer!
The woman told physicians
she had been eating these arti-
cles for three years. She had
suffered no apparent i'll effects
until recently, when she COM
planned of pain" in her side.