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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-18
Honest Primaries

Several members Congress recently have declared that
Washngtons civic pride in need of stimulation They think
the residents of the National Capital should take greater
interest in community activities and should fight per-
SStently for the advancement Of the city
those members what they say when they advocate
this civic activity there is bill that lies dormant in the
House which would accomplish their purpose It is the meas
introduced by Representative Mary T. Norton Of New
jersey providing for LEGAL party primaries in the District
The bill would give Washngtonians opportunity to par
pae honestly in the deliberations of the national political
parties though it would not in way give our citizens
control Of their municipal and national affairs
The plan embodied in the bill would however give resi-
dents chance try voting machinery under modern con-
dtions might be the of establishing whether or not
city should have REAL VOTE and chance to participate
in its government
Heretofore the party primaries in Washington have really
been PRIVATE AFFAIRS privately conducted by few per-
sons rejecting nothing but the feelings Of those persons
About half of each party have selected the repre-
sentatives" of the District at the party convention
Consequently the DELEGATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN REP
RESENTATIVE OF THE CITY picked they have been
under the absolute control those who got the ground
floor"
AS result any aspirations which the city might have for
self have generally received sbacks at the ma
tional party conventions -,
The pending primary bill would at least make the delega
ton representative Of party supporters in the Dlsct anu
would make the party supporters responsible Tor the type OF
delegations which would be sent to the conventions.
The bill has reposed in plgeonhole OF the House DBct
Committee months Washingtonan who are interested
have unable obtain hearing on the measure
Next year presidential conventions will be held by the
parties the District is to have Representatives. at the con-
ventions the primary bill should be taken up Immediately
it isn't Wahngtons delegations will be representative OF any
thing except Washington.
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Hard to Rehabilitate

No less than President Roosevelt is aroused at the
axy of parole systems in the various States most
Gently exempified by the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping.
Teegraphng Attorney Cummings the President
says:
"NeuOspapers report long criminal records in OF
two men definitely suspected of Weyerhaeuser kdnap-
ing including only arrests and convictions but also
paroles Every decent citizen is interested in humane
parole systems Which seek rehabilitation of offenders,
but at the time should seek to preOent abuses
of PAROLE especially in cases of habtuaL criminals
Federal Mott on the same day. read the riot act
the New York State Parole Board for having paroed
degree murderer who eight months later committed
another killing.
Rehabiltating criminals is fine if works But when it
doesn't work is difficult to rehabtate the corpse of their
victims Not many parole boards seems have yet learned
that lesson
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''Sovereign Authority"
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

States and a Congressional
statute.
This distinction was clearly
set forth by Mr.. Justice Suther-
land in a decision of the
Supreme Court in 1923 in these
words:
1.-THE Constitution, by its own
terms, is the supreme law Of
the land, emanating from the
people, the repository Of ul-
innate sovereignty under our
form of Government.
"A Congressional statute, on
the other hand, is the act of an
agency of this sovereign author
ity, and, If it conflicts with the
Constitution, must fall; for
that which is not supreme must
yield to that which is. To hold
it invalid (if it is invalid) is
plain exercise Of the judicial
power-that power vested in
courts to enable them to ad
minister justice according to
law.
From the authority to as
certain and determine the law
in a given case there necessarily
results, in case of conflict, the
duty to declare and enforce the
rule of the supreme law and re-
ject that of an inferior act of
legislation which, transcending
the Constitution is of no effect,
and binding on not one"
NO REDRESS
Congress or one Of its
branches, as Mr.. Charles War
rem, the eminent historian of
the Supreme Court, has pointed
out, has violated the provi
sions of the Bill of Rights at
least 10 times since the year
1867; and at least 10 times has
the Supreme Court saved the
individual against congressional
usurpation of power"
Under the despotic form of
government which Congressman
Sisson, of Whitesboro, N. Y.
would supplant the Govern
ment of the Constitution, the
individual citizen would have
no redress from the injustices
inflicted upon him in peace or
war, either by a Republican, a
Democratic, or a Communistic
majority in Congress.
There must be some upstand
ing, loyal Grover Cleveland
Democrat with a fine war
record in the Thrift third Con-
gressional New York district,
who will not finch from taking
up the challenge when Con-
gresham Sisson again seeks
the congressional nomination
of the Democratic party.
And the whole country will
be keenly interested in the
contest, because the issue will
be the Government of the Con-
stitution versus Tyranny by
congressional crack-pots.
Copyright. 1885. The Washington Tines
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evasions of responsibility, their
contemplate flight from dan
ger, their escape from painful
consequences. tell myself how
much nobler it is to be brave
and resolute-and how glad l
am that I am not a coward.
BUT NEVERTHELESS, I
ENVY THEM!
I detest liars. I note their
duckings and lodgings with dis
gust. i try to tell the truth.
though often it complicates lie
terribly. But I insist that
would rather suffer any pain
than be liar.
AND YETI ENVY THEM!
SAME STORY
Outlaws - they're bad lot.
Bandits, adventures, all such
providers on the borders of So
ciety-as respectable citizen l
take my stand against them.
I talk loudly about methods
of curling their lawlessness. I
croak dire prophecies about the
bad end they'll come to.
AND ALL THE TIME I'M
SIMPLY GREEN WITH ENVY
OF THE GRAND, EXCITING
TINE THEY'RE HAVING.
You can go right down the
line of the vices and my reac-
ton is the same to every one
of them-I'M LINED UP WITH
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When the people of the
Thirty-third New York Con-
greSsional District twice elected
Mr.. Fred j. SisSon to represent
them in Congress. they prob
ably never suspected that he
would attempt to overthrow the
American System of Govern
ment by cutting the heart out
of the Constitution of the
United States.
When Mr.. Sisson twice took
the Congressional oath to sup.
port the Constitution of the
United States against all ene-
mics, foreign and domestic" he
gave no inkling of any intention
to lead a sapping expedition
to undermine the Government
of the Constitution, much less
to destroy the Constitutional
power of its judicial branch.
PROPOSED DESPOTISM
vert e less and notwith-
standing, this appears to be the
objective of the Sapping expedi-
ton provided for in a resolu-
ton recently introduced by Mr..
Sisson in the House under the
misleading title ITO Investigate
the Legislative Power of Con-
gress." An honest title for this
proposal would read-"To De-
stroy the Judicial Power of the
Government"
The resolution begins with
a series of "Whereases," which
distort the record of the forma-
tive days of the American
Government, attack the SUI
preme Court of the United
States for alleged usurpation of
power, and advocate in effect
giving to Congress supreme
power.
In order to incubate interest
in this revolutionary proposal,
Mr.. Sisson, in a national broad
cast on Flag Day, made an at
tack upon the judicial branch
of the Government in general,
and the Supreme Court of the
United States in particular. This
attack must have warmed the
cookies of the heart of every
Communist in the country, as
we'll as of that minority of Rep
resentatives in Congress which
is now seeking to cut the heart
out of the Constitution.
Mr.. Sisson proposes to set
up a system of government
under which any Act Of Con-
gress would become binding
upon the people, regardless of
whether it violated the Consti-
tuition or not.
Under the Sisson system of
despotism, no citizen of the
United States would retain any
rights which Congress could be
compelled to respect.
Apparently Mr.. Sisson is I'M
able to distinguish between the
Constitution of the United
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and every policy of the New
Deal and that he consequently
would be the logical candidate.
Political upheaval in the
Hawkeye State, however, may
cause the white-haired Repub-
lican Senator to look to his
fences in his own area without
going to the country for presl-
Dental votes.
~ Judge Hubert Utterbac X,
De m ocratic member Of the
House, may run against Dickln-
son for the Senate.
Although a newcomer in the
House, Judge UtterbGcE has q
widespread reputation in Io1O1,
and the fact that the once
Republican stronghold is going
more and more Democratic
Mould not hurt him in the
least.
Some of his personal and po-
litical friends have appealed to
him to run against Dickinson
although others think it would
be more strategic if he ran
against the Democratic Gov
ernor, Clyde L. Herring.
If he does decide to run
against Dickinson, he probably
would eliminate one man from
the list of so-called presidential
timber.
Out near Great Falls on a
recent Sunday strolled a very
important gentleman airing his
dog.
AS he clambered over the
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THE SAINTS, BUT Cos
HOW I ENVY THE SINNERS
Is this a confession of m,
individual depravity?
1t is not.
It is the story of all men.
1t is your story as well as
mine.
1T IS THE STORY OF CIV
ILIZATION.
Men have always been in
volved in a struggle between
their respect for virtue and
their longing for vice. That is
what has made them men.
Otherwise they would have
stayed apes.
Every normal creature wants
to be lazy, cowardly, dishon-
est, lawless because that was its
natural condition as a brute.
But in every normal human
creature there is also a small
fierce urge which makes it
reach toward proud, industrious,
orderly, honest, brave life.
Always the two urges are in
conflict and out of that strug,
gle comes civilization.
BRIEF INTERVALS
Do not be Mortified or dis
couraged if you see that strug-
gle going on in yourself, or in
your children. Do not fear that
you, or they, are unusual, abb
normal. Do not fear that you or
they have a secret shameful
Other Self. Of course, you have.
Everyone has. That's human
life.
Human life is - AN APE
REACHING FOR THE STARS.
Sometimes the ape will be so
strong in you that you will feel
it's matted, hairy hide and hear
the crashing of its yellow
fangS.
Laziness, dishonesty, cow
ardise, greediness, lawleSsness,
selfishness, conceit-.ThoSe are
ape qualities. We all possess
them, for we all harbor apes.
You will feel that ape sham
bling in you often.
But sometimes, for a brief,
breathlesS instant the ape will
suddenly stand upright and
there within it's british hands
will CLEAN a star. And for that
little space the brute will be
a Man!
REACH FOR YOUR STAR!
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Can Man Make Rain?


Man cannot make rain, so
says the United States Weather
Bureau, but man persists in
trying by invention and prayer.
And there is no stopping him.
This summer a retired Irish
chemist, wson Greenham,
plans to fly into the clouds
above Nova Scotia and pro-
duce rain by attacking the
clouds. This has already been
tried, but Prof. Greenham has
something new"
His machine, he claims, is
based on the accepted prin-
ciples of chemistry and physics.
With it, he figures that rain
storms can be produced at the
low cost of $50 each as long
as there are clouds in the sky
to be attacked. At the same
time, a French scientist, Bern
ard j. Dubois, is studying
meteorological conditions in the
United States in connection
with a project which calls for
the building of a1be to pro-
duce rain over arid areas.
The Dubois tube would have
the appearance of a spyglass
standing on its large end and
springing almost half a mile
into the sky. It would be made
of steel and concrete and it's
purpose would be to simulate
the waterspouts which in the
tropics draw thousands, of tons
of water vapor from the sea and
spread rainfall over the sur
rounding territory.
EXPERTS SKEPTICAL
Our weather experts in Wash.
ington have this to say:
ct is quite true that in a
laboratory a small amount of
moisture can be precipitated by
using special equipment, but
meteOrOlOgists know of no pracH
tical scheme for producing rain
on a large scale. Widespread
drought is due to a lack of Suf.
ficient moisture in the air. If
there is little moisture to bring
down, obviously no device for
causing rainfall has any value"
OF course, Mr.. Dubois plan is
something different than the
ordinary rain-making ones. He
is not going up in an airplane
with sand, dry ice or electricity.
He has studied the waterSpouts
of the tropics which not only
suck up the water but the fishes
as well. These waterSpoutS &C.
count for the rain of fishes
and frogs" 70 instances of
which have been duly recorded
from A. D. 800 to the present
day.
The ancientS were quite
alarmed at such manifestations
just as they were at the ''rains
of blood" But as we know to-
day that the waterSpoutS
brought the fishes, we know, too,
that the winds from the Sahara
bring the "blood" which Homer,
Virgil and Plutarch reported as
falling from tbs heavens. Such
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-18
Once Overs

Aren't your moody spells in
creasing in frequency?
AS result of your periods
of enjoyment lessened.
A moody habit is easily
formed and difficult to check.
1t is still more difficult to
get entirely rid of moody habits.
If you have been allowing
yourself to cultivate despon-
dency in any of its forms, you
know that each day requires
less and less cause to make
you become detected.
And you morbidly refuse to
overcome this tendency.
This is an indication that
you are losing control of your
emotions.
If you have ever given this
matter any personal conSldera-
ton, you may have been sur
prised to see how little it takes
to change your mood from
happiness to gloom.
True, tears and laughter are
a kin, but the change from one
to the other depends upon the
degree of self-mastery you
possess.
Many persons have different
reasons for disbursement.
Few really hardening thoughts
are inspired by passing events.
But to become moody and
gloomy at the prospect Of flu
ture ills only adds to the dis
comfort and degree Of defect.
ion,
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Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John Snure, Jr.

rocks he came upon a picnic
group eating their sandwiches
and other food usually associ-
ated with such outdoor gather
ings.
The impressive looking man
halted to talk to a tiny tot of
a girl who munched on a sand
witch.
She offered him part OF her
lunch.
The man WaS Sir Ronald
Lindsay, ambassador from
Great Britain.
Senator Huey p. Long, when
he gave to the Senate and the
Nation a list of recipes the
other evening as he conducted
a filibuster, apparently knew
what he was talking about.
The Senator claims to be a
chef, as we'll as other things.
After he gave out some of
his recipes the "Kingfish" was
asked how it happened that he
knew so much about cooking.
Huey explained.
He said that in his younger
days a movement was on to
convince the Southern house.
wife that cottolene was an ex-
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The Human Side of the News = B
By Edwin C.. Hill

Eleven years after that, Louis
Gathmann claimed that he had
formed rain clouds by releasing
liquid carbon dioxide. This
chemical is our modern dry ice.
and, strangely enough, Gath
mann antedated many modern
rainmakers by 40 years, be-
cause his method is being tried
extensively abroad.
PRAYERS FUTILE
In the past and in the pres
ent, prayer has been used by
man to bring the water from
the heavens to his parched
mouth and his burning fields.
The witch doctors of Africa and
the medicine men of our Ameri-
can Indians are still doing bust
ness in this line. A month ago
rain fell on the fields of China
at Chefoo for the first time in
half a year. Immediately the
peasants began collecting 10000
silver dollars to rehabilltate the
temple of the dragon god to
whom they prayed.
The opinion of a majority of
prominent American clergymen
is that prayers for rain are
futile. The Christian Century
Magazine conducted a sympo-
SUM on this matter. DR.. Harry
Emerson Fosdick's opinion, gen.
orally concurred in, was that
mo imaginable connection ex-
lists between mans inward spirit
ual attitude and a rainstorm.
For the minority there was this
opinion: God made the weather
and can change it accordingly"
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate Jpc
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New York, was prompted to
make study of the subject by
a storm he witnessed on the out.
skirts of Providence on May IS,
1900. In a heavy thunderstorm
and gale, perch and bullpouts
fell over an area of a quarter of
an acre. They were of fair size,
too, from two to four and a
quarter inches.
Getting back to the making of
rain, the first patent for such
a device in the United States
was issued in 1880 to Daniel
Ruggles, whose idea was to take
up explosives in balloon and
cause combustion in the clouds.
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a rain fell in Paris in 482 A. D.
and again only 80 years ago.
The same windborn sands of
the desert give the ocean off
the west coast of Africa the red
dish haze which was the dread
of seamen up to the time of
Columbus. It earned the name
Mare Tenebrosum'-Sea of
Darkness - for the waters be-
tween the CanarieS and the
Cape Verde Islands.
Quite a few rains of fishes
have occurred in the United
States. New York city had one
in 1924. Richard H. Tingley, of
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cellent sub
S tt t ute for
lard.
Huey W a S
W o r k i n g
hand finland
with t h o S e
persons inter-
ested in cot
tolene which
is a deriva-
tive of cotton
seed.
1t was his
job to go to
the h o m e S
and when the
women indi-
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their waste
full dawdling
when there's
work to do. I
r e f u S e to
dawdle with
t h e m. I n
every W a y
pos S b e I
show my dis
approval o f
lazy people
B u T I
ENVYTHEM!
I loa t h e
the towards.
I note with
hn,.ror 4 h al Y
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Words of Wise Men

Leny operate greater force in instances than
We each other because ailments the
Every artist was first amateur-Emerson.
And all may what by been done-Young.
Deraction Spefulne eagerly receVed-TacituS.
The ears can endure injury better the eyes-Byru
Humility is the foundation of all virtues-Confucius
Night hath a thousand eyes.-Lyy.
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Dickinson o I
Iowa, might
be the Repub-
III a n C o n
t e n d er in
1886 against
p r e s i dent
F r a nklin ID.
Roosevelt.
It has been
S a i d t h a t
Dickinson j S
the only out
standing Re
publican who
h a S consist
~ o p
nOSeS q a. G. h
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Uncle Sucker

One hundred eighty million dollars that should have
arrived the United States Saturday are still in Europe and
will remain there.
They represent payment due the debtsaready
In arrears by six hundred and thirty million dollars.
And the total those debtdue overdue or to become
due-s ELEVEN THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
That sum would pay for all of the wanton OF
the Brain Trust. -
But unfortunately America the Brain Trust is on this
side Of the Atlantic and the eleven thousand million dollars
are on the other side.
Too bad we can t swap.
There is something do howeveeave Europe ever
lastngy alone when her next and tries to pan
handle American money to pay for it.
Of thirteen nations which financed during or a1ter
the last war, all but one have defaulted
The honorable exception Americans know Finland
smallest the thirteen and in many respects LEAST ABLE
to- pay.
Among the twelve deadheads" which have balanced
their budgets hghroad to prosperity which
port vast and navies which put millions of dollars
into vast luxurious transatlantic liners new fleets OF mer
chant shps-bu which cannot find single copper with which
to make good their pledged word to this country
WE'LL u s. may stand for Uncle shylock as our altrustc
European friends the habit Of pointing out But we can
these friends of tngthose letters will not
mean UNCLE SUCKER again.
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Gated that they preferred lard
or butter, Huey would say:
"AlI right, will bake a cake
with cOttOlene. You bake one
the way you usually do. Then
we will see which is the best
cake"
Invariably? he contends, his
was the best cake.
Copyright, 1AES. The Washington Times
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Considerable comment has
been heard regarding the pos
sibility that Senator Lester J.
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I have a contempt for lazy
people. T look with virtuous dis
proVal upon their shiftless ways,
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Listen, World
Reach For Your Star
BIZ Elsie Robinson

Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-03-03
WANDERING IN A REALM OF LITERATURE AND ART
SHIPS AND OTHER THINGS
Hendrix Wllem Van New Book Sequel His Story
of Dutch Navieators-Edna Ferber's New Novel,
Come and Get It,"

tier period interest, hardly rivals this
story Of Wisconsin lumber kings dur
ing the period from 1850 to the pres
the rule Of Barney Glasgow and the
rule of his son Bernie. As a prelude,
there is the migration of Andy Glas-
gov and his Irish wife Nellie from
New Brunswick to Maine, to Michi-
gan, to Wisconsin, during which they
and their boy three times almost met
death In storms on Lake Erie, Lake
Huron and Lake Michigan. Mem
cries of these storms and Of his moth
er standing on the deck in her Sun
day clothes, with one hand clutching
his hand and the other her three sill
yer spoons, made Barney Glasgow
boast jokingly whenever he INDUCED
in "reminiscences of his boyhood,
which was often, that he would now
never die in the water. II he had
been superstitious he would not have
boosted, or would at least have rap
ped wood.
The best friend Nellie Glasgow and
her boy had In the lumber camp. after
Andy Glasgow went down into the
icy waters during log jam and never
came up. was the big Swede Swan
Bostrom, and to the end Of Barney's
life Swan remained the man he loved
best in the world. But 1t was through
Swan that Barney met his final defeat,
for Swan had beautiful granddaugh-
ter. Lolita, daughter Of his substan-
tial, wholesome, unpretentious daugh-
ter Karie. Swan was content to be
the best lumberjack In the woods Of