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GOVERNMENT REPORTS 49,, 7o4 RETAIL
LIQUOR SHOPS

When national prohibition came there were Ill.,
600 saloons in the United States. When the drive
for repeal was launched shortly after the adoption
of the prohibition amendment, it was stated in
numberless articles and speeches by the repealsrs
that the saloon should not come back They often
vehemently asserted that they themselves would
lead fight against any repeal measure which
would permit the return of that unspeakable and
Ubiquitous curse. Repeal has come. With it the
saloon. Instead of 1T 600 the treasury report for
the year ending June so, shows federal tax receipts
(censes) issued to 437, 7O4 retail liquor establish
ments, 2O7, 1882 of which are to retailers OF hard
liquor, and 23O,322 to dealers in beer. Not all OF
these are saloons, but most of them are. Tens OF
thousands of them are more vicious than the old
type ever was The old saloon was a mans resort.
was illegal for minors to enter it, and it had no
lure for women or girls. But the modern saloon,
in the form of liquor cafes beer gardens and dance
halls, crowded with men, women and youths, and
even school children are often gilded traps where
youthful innocence and chastity are doped with
drink and Observation-Disclosures Facts Service.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
TOTALLY DISCREDITED

| TaxtiIa manufacturers are not guilty of tortur-
inc, workers in their mills by the institution of the
stretch-out system.
Francis 7 German. head of the United Textile
Workers said they were, and called strike that
partially paralyzed this great industry NofCh ai''
South some months ago under that sham OF pre-
tention
The Cotton Textile Work Assignment Board, al
ter an exhaustive investigations finds that MI. uoi-
man WAS totally ncorrect-that the stretch-out syS-
tenn over which the Textile Union leader asslduous
ly sought to create a national stencil imposes no
inhuman burden upon the workers and gives tne
textile owners and management completely Clean
bill of health in this respect. 49,,
Thus the agitating chieftain of the union work
ers stands totally discredted, hoisted by his own
petard repudiated by jury of fair-minded, I'M
partial and truthseekng investigators for the Unit
ed States government and left empty-handed IN his
groundless charges of unjust and merciess eXplol-
tation of textile labor at the hands of mill owners
And thus stripped, and his former tamboyant
and in1aming claims branded by federal ooara
of inquiry as baseless, German turns to ms Gus
tomarv trick of pouring abuse and denuncatlon
upon the very agency that created for the puf-
pose either of verifying denying the truthtulneSs
of his charges.
This is an exhibition of the unsound and unsafe
leadership which textile union workers nave I'M
posed in this agitator of the wildness not only OF
the propaganda upon which he would feed his fol
lowers and the public, but the viciousness of his
temper once he is caught fat-footed in net CT
his Observation-Disclosures Observer.
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BY
NOAH HOLLOWELL
District Administrator

The emergency relief offices
are frequently approached by
people who desire workers either
in the home or in the field. We
have some splendid workers, both
men and women, on relief who
give satisfaction when given an
opportunity to work. The relief
office encourages its clients to
accept work when such is offered
to them because the relief appro-
priation is not large enough to
take care of the living problems
of the families on relief. When
the clients are within reach OF
any work project they are re-
uuired to work at zoe an hour
for unskilled labor, for which
they are given a check for one,
two, or three days a week &C
cording to their needs as deter
mined by the visitors, or case
workers. When a client refuses
to accept work on these projects
that means discontinuance of re-
lief. When a client does not
work and advises us of temper
airy employment, this does not
mean that future relief is discon-
tinued. Clients are supposed to
accept all the work they can get,
and when this becomes sufficient
to take care Of their require
ments the relief is suspended.
When employers do not get
reasonable cooperation from any
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strong committee and draft the
right kind of candidates. Then
the citizens should get together
in the various precincts, boost for
their candidates, get the voters
out in the primary, and nominate
them; then get the voters out in
the general election and elect
them.
The citizens in the control of a
political machine are no more
helpless if they but knew it, than
is a tcn-foot-high elephant in
charge of a wizened little mahout.
The elephant could knock the
life out of the mahout any time
he desired to do so. The people
can knock the life out of a gang
of political racketeers anytime
they desire to do so.
An important distinction is
that should tn elephant destroy
his mahout, he himself might be
destroyed by a greater power. But
when the people destroy a politi-
cal gang, they are always reward
ed by better, finer condition
In a democracy, there is no pow
er greater than the people, if
they will choose to use their pow
Cr
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THE BUFFERS
Bv WICKES WAMBOLDT

could deliver those four thousand
votes TO any person or group of
persons it chose to. Through an
order from the boss of the ring,
any man on ticket could be
made to run high or low.
Glow in the world" you ask,
can a political gang with only
four thousand votes, rule a city
having fifteen thousand registered
voterS?"
Simple enough. The first thing
is the bluff-the feeling among
the people that they can't do any,
thing about it. That makes them
apathetic. As a result, less than
eight thousand Of the fifteen
thousand voters commonly go to
the polls. The rings solid bloc Of
four thousand votes can Of course
always control in an election
where less than eight thousand
votes are cast.
So the ring dominates its can
didateS with its four thousand
votes. The people see that; grow
further Respondent; and say,
whats the use?" and fail to
turn out in sufficient numbers on
election day, thus allowing the
ring with its four thousand votes
to elect its handpicked nominees,
who always do just what the ring
tells them to do after being elect
ed. That is the picture. And that
is all there is to it-yet not quite
all:
Some intelligence and some eff
fort are needed to give a city
honest Officials-just as some eff
fort and intelligence are neces-
sary to get any worthwhile thing
done.
The citizenry should organize a
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honest government and they Wall
not lend themselves to a diShop-
est order.
Every local political ring has
but a small percentage of the
public in it's membership; but that
which it has, is organized. And it
bluffs around in such a way with
such an appearance of force as
to make the rest Of the citizens
think, "What's the use? We can't
do anything. We're helpless -
For instance: The other day |
was analysing the political situa-
ton in a city of fifty thousand in
habitants. For years this city has
been hideOusly harmed by a ruth
less, pernicious, political ring.
Yet this city has fifteen thOus-
and registered voters. And the po-
litical ring which rules it, can not
control more than four thousand
of those fifteen thousand votes.
These four thousand voters the
ring can absolutely control. 1t
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service STAFF Corresponding
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as 1t
w NAV or may not seem. the bis
business gentry now 80 bitterly at
lacking the New Dcai are man
fully concealing one OF their chief
sources of grief.
The tale may remind you of that
brave young Spartan boy who let
the FOX beneath his coat bite him
to Geath rather than admit that he
had been stealing.
But the cynical insiders chuckle
rudely as they agree that what's
really biting the big corporation
executives hardest is the spotlight
the New Deal has turned on their
frequently enormous salaries.
Between questionnaires of the
Securities and Exchange Commits.
sion and the Federal Trade Com.
mission. it's got so a corporation
president can't even conceal his
salary from the company's own
stockholders.
THE most deplorable phase of il
l. all is that some of the stocl4
holders are beginning to suuawk.
They can usually be beaten down
by proxies, hut it is annoying for
such tycooDs as Charlie Schwab
and Eugene Grace of Bethlehem,
Steel at annual meetings to have
20 defend their respective salaries
II S250'OCO land S1SO.OO0 against
;tockfolder complaints that such
payments are too high in view Of
The fact that Bethlehem's 1894
profit was only S550QOO.,
Some of the Bethlehem stock
holders became deplorably nasty
loout 1t. too. This sort of thing
threatens to spread and big bust.
less men figure it wifi be all Roose.'
felt's fault.
The records show that many
executives received huge pay
boosts in 1884 - INCLUDING
quite Few of $4,000 t. $50. .,
OOO-and presumably they'd be
friendlier - the New Deal if
1t weren't for the publicity.
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BEHIND T HE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
sY RODNEY BUTCHER

Jonn T. Flynn mas polnteu 10 the
case of Chairman Francis 3. Davis
of L. S. Rubber, who was boosted
from S96.12G in 1893 to S125. 700 in
1884 while the company was esti.
mating its 1884 deficit would about
equal its 1893 deficit of 100000.
GENERALS and admirals come To
~ secret sessions of the congress.
siOnal military and naval affairs
committees. stride grimly I'D and
down the room before maps and
charts. and let the pop-eyed con.
gressmen in on secrets of the next
war"
Some of their tales of menace
and hidden preparations are weird
but fascinating. The price of such
a show is likely TO be a few more
million dollars for the taxpayers.
Lately the gold-braid bows
have been whispering to Ger.
tain congressman that this,
country is i'm imminent danger
OF Communist uprising-and
that bigger appropriations arc
necessary to enable troops to
shoot down the mObS.
a
THE kind of thing that goes Oh
before the committees wnen the
doors are locked was shown in tls,
testimony of Brigadier-Generals
Andrews and Kilbourne. which
was printed in a public. document
through an error which brought
down Roosevelt's wrath on Chair.
man il. ]. McSwain of the House
Military Affairs Committee. - ~
The jolly old generals lad
been discussing camouflagcd air
bases near the Canadian border
and seizure of Canadian and
French territory for air bases in
, event of "cmcrgcncy." RcOsc-
Welt rcpudiatcd the testimony.
, but all the rcbulcs went to Nc
! Swain.
. McSwain is a chivalrous, hot
headed. slightly slipshod southern
gentleman. and other committee
members feel Roosevelt was unnec.
eSsarily harsh and brutal to him.
t'Copyright 1895. NEA Service. Inc
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FARMING MUST DEPEND ON
NATIONAL WELFARE
(RY BRUCE CANTON

With Engineer MOTIFS IL. OOOhe VI llli1'-
delphia announcing that we have only
about 100 years of "virfie national exist
ence" left to us unless we do something
drastic to stop soil erosion, it begins to look
as if there really was fire behind all the
smoke of those dust storms.
Mr.. Cooke, who is chairman of the adj
ministration's Mississippi Valley commit
tee, says that in another so years we shall
have only 15O,OOO,OOO acres of really fer-
tile soil, if present wastage goes on un-
checked.
1t is his idea that soil preservation is as
urgent national problem as economic and
financial recovery.
The whole situation with respect to soil
erosion is direct Outgrowth of our time
honored policy in respect to our agricuI-
tural land. Of all the natural resources
with which this country was blessed, its
soil has been probably the richest; and our
use of it illustrates both the best and the
worst aspects of rugged individualism.
In its best aspect, the individualism OF
our agriculture has built up social class
unique in agricultural history. We have
no peaSantry;; instead we have class CT
men of sturdy and independent self-reli-
ance, following a way of life that has pro-
duced much happiness and that has made
our great democratic experiment workable
On the other hand, we have permitted
this greatest of our natural assets to be
used wastefully, without regard for the fu-
ture or for the welfare of the country as a
whole
We have let our soil be used in such way
that wind and water have permanently
ruined enormous areas and threaten the
ruin of even larger areas; so that today
we find ourselves obliged to spend mucn
money and effort to repair the damage
which this individualism has inflicted.
What we need to do, of course, is find
some sort of middle course which will con-
serve the good side of our rural individual
ism and put curb on the bad side.
We don't want collective farming, a Ia
Stain. We don't want a system of regi-
mentatiOn under which the farmer must
ask permission of Washington before he
puts his pillow into the ground. We do want
to save that rural independence which has
been so richly productive of human values
On the other hand, we must insist that
farm land be used with the national wei
fare in mind. We need intelligent conser.
walton measures which will enable us Il
hand down to our grandchildren a farm
land just as broad and rich as it Away;
has been.
We must stop the wastage which, if un
checked, would lead to a progressive ma
tional decline.
1t ought not to be impossible to find ;
program which would embrace all thes,
aims at once.
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of our clients after tiey ar. q.
fcrCd the standard wage a.. /,
the community. the relief M.
would appreciate having ,,,,.
edge Of the Circumstance, !,
work Offered, when. h, ~
rate Of pay, excuse gyg :
the client, and his name \,
relief office cannot make 4 n,
work, but il can control i, :
lief, and when he is not a.
GENTLY interested to work irT
living if employment !, d!
to him, relief has a. thgyr
about served its rurpG :,
such people, because thsr
asking relief on the pgetenx,
they cannot find employment,
The full cooperation of a
public in respect 70 employment
and information given to the y
lief office Will serve { gOOi =
pose in helDing to solve mani |
the relief problems.
Some clients seen 70 ngg.
stand the relief program, riw
reported to decline ,empcE7 y
part time work with the eSrf
ton that if such work is &c.
ed, even though in a yey s.,s
way, it excludes them t'rk
lief. This conception Of tie II
IS cntircly erroneous. Nssi
our clients in finding wC'tu'
ever possible, and insist tha-'
accept such work when o4s'
them. We are quite o'.F i.
if there is a stipulatei I.
which must he paid to y
clients. The emergency u
takes no pay: in fixing con
cial rates Of pay. This IsiE
ton to be agreed upon t.
worker and the employee
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BIBLE THOUGHT
THREE STEPS

There are three simple steps by which anyone
NAV enter the Christian life:
I ACCEPT CHRIST-"As many as received Hin
n them gave He power to become the Sons OF
God" John 1:12)
o CONFESS CHRISTIE thou wilt confess with
thy mouth Jesus as Lord thou Sn"i' "
saved" (Rom. 1O:9)
3. OBEY CHRIST-"He that hath My command
ments and keepeth them VIII manifest
Myself to him." John 142D
The first two steps you can take IN momen''
the third will require all your life
Will you take the first step now!
Howard A. Pope.
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SWIMS IN MIGHTY"

WORCESTER, Mass, May II.
-(UP). = Attractive 26-year-old
Mrs. Elsie Brooks ran from her
apartment in her nightgown early
yesterday, plunged into Lake
Qu;nsigamond and swan an esti,
mated 80 minutes before search,
ers located her. Pajama-clad Rog,
ers Brooks went swimming in
search of his bride but finally
called police.
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ENJOY COCK FIGHT

BOSTON. May II. 49, lIY
Motorists in summer 'rsHf
mel were treated to an mDH'
cock fight yesterday wa
bantam roostcrs escaped 10
poultry truck. Traffic va,
standstilI until a couFaee'E
ondant nabbcd both birds
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knew their pow
en- and knew how
to use it, they
would invariably
and speedily free
themselves from
tie clutches Of
their eXploiters.
The evil pOlit-
zeal machine is
always composed
Of = small mi
nority of t h e
citizenry. NJ 0 1t
n q = = q n : want
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Post office efforts to halt chain letters
suggest what business would be like under
government domination. Customers would
have to sneak in through the transom.
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Usually the citizens of a graft
ridden, ring-ruled municipality
are kept bluffcd into thinking
they are helpless. II the citizens
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It's not hard to understand why con-
gressmen are impatient for a. vacation.
You'd be, too, if you had to work with your
relatives.
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RELIEF
NOTES

Regulation, Interpretation and
Administration of Emergency
Relief - Day-by-Day Activities
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A COUNTRY could find no bet
\ ter means to advertise its
products than its own postage.
which spreads its propaganda on
every piece of mail addressed TO
all parts of the world. Yet few
nations have taken advantage Of
this possibility. although the idea
is spreading fast. ~, F..
One Of the best examples of ma
tional advertising by stamps is
That of Colombia. In 1882, this
country issued series of five
regular postage stamps, and one
ol six air mail stamps. each
stamp Illustrating product
Snish Columbia, exports. These
t sre kro~n as the N"Wealth of
!S,talombia5', issues apd. advertise
.ne REPUBLICS coffee, cattle. oil,
""u S''aaa,as.nns gdld A,platinum,
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Young Actress

Answer 10 Previous i'uIhIr u ''',"'
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a n d e m eral d
mines.
OF course, the
country is rich
in several . other
minerals, and in
mahogany, cedar,
and dyewood, all
of which are ex-
ported.
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country Is repre-.
on breaking it's
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The Washington times., 1935-01-07
PARLEY USEFUL,
SAYS DAVIS

NEW YORK, Jan. Norman
H. Davis has returned from the
London naval conference. The e
conference, following which Japan
denounced former treaties, he
termed neither a success nor a
failure"
Arriving on the United States
liner Washington, Mr.. Davis said
that his work in London was in
tereSting but strenuous. He added:
"The conversations were very
useful. I feel that we have pre-
pared the ground whereby we
can meet again in the future.
We at least understand each
others points of view."
Asked if it were true that dur.
ing the conference a particularly
friendly feeling had been engen.
dered between Britain and Amer.
lea, he smiled and answered:
"There was y friendly feeling
among all of u.s."
Mr.. Davis, who was accom-
panied by his wife, said he would
go to Washington today and
expected to confer with the Presi-
dent. Other members of the
United States delegation, includ-
ing Admiral William H. Stand
ley, also returned aboard the
Washington,
The Washington times., 1935-01-07
D. G.. LEGION AID
HEAD To Be
HONORED
BY MARY PADGETT

Miss Edna Mcintosh, presi.
dent Of the District Of Columbia
Department of the American
Legion Auxiliary, will be guest
Of honor at dinner given by
the Henry c. Spengler Unit No.
IL, tomorrow at 6 p. m. in the
Women's City Club, 736 Jack
son Pl. N. w.
Mrs. Madelyn Pence, presi-
dent of the unit will preside at
the dinner.
In addition to Miss Mcintosh,
the other officers Of the depart
ment have been invited, as well
as the past department preSi-
dents, and the presidents OF
seven other local units.
Among those expected to at
tend are Mrs. Walthea Chap
man, president of Victory Unit;
Mrs. Charles Kohen, president
Of Kenneth H. Nash Unit No. S:
Mrs. E. Louise Warren, presi-
dent Of the George E. Killeen
Unit; Miss Irene Sheehan,
president of Vincent B. Costello
Unit, No. IS; Mrs. Florence
Campbell, president Of Lincoln
Unit No. II; Miss Mary Glenn
Newell, president of Stephen r.
McGroarty Unit, No. q.
Other department officers
who will attend are Miss Clara
@. Humphries, Mrs. Thelma
Stewart and Mrs. Nicie Perrell,
vice presidents; Mrs. Margaret
Carroll, sergeant-at-armS; Mrs.
Louise Goodacre and Mrs. Cath
crime August, color bearers; Mrs.
Marie Castle. chaplain; Mrs.
Edythe O'Connor, national exec
utive committeewoman, and
Mrs. Marie E. Dyer, past ma
tional executive committee
woman.
Also attending will be Mrs.
May D. Lightfoot, past preSi-
dent Of the Henry C. Spengler
Unit, who is also past president
Of the department; DR.. Laura
Brennan, Mrs. T. v. walker and
Mrs. Leon Arnold, past presi-
dents of the department. and
Mrs. Maude Miller, an active
member of the auxiliary for
many years,
The Washington times., 1935-01-07
Student Is Given
Free Trip to
Saar Vote

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Jan. 7
0.N.SJ.-When the Saar pie
biscite is held January 13, j.
H. Poss, 20-year-old Drury Col
lege student, will be on hand
to cast his vote. He was a resi-
dent of the Saar in 1918 when
it changed nationality.
His expenses for the 1000
mile trip will be paid by a
German society" which urged
him to return to his homeland
for the poll.
He is one of hundreds of
American residents who re-
ceived invitations.
The Washington times., 1935-01-07
INQUIRY SOUGHT
On ROAD FUND

Prince Georges County Com
missioners tomorrow will ask the
Maryland State Roads Commis-
sion for an accounting of it's
1885 road allotment and clari.
fication Of the disappearance"
Of 10000 which members Of the
Municipal Association say was
missing from their 1888 allot-
ment when road maintenance
was taken over by the State com.
mission.
A formal petition will be pre-.
sented the commissioners at
Upper Marlboro by Winship
Wheatley, jr., and Bird H. Dolby,
representing the Municipal AS
Gociation, composed of town off
cials throughout the county.
The Washington times., 1935-01-07
HEAD
HOME AGAIN

Dr.. Coleman Nevils, S. j., presi-
dent Of Georgetown University,
was home today after a three
month tour which took him
throughout the Orient and Eu-
rope. He returned last night from
Europe, which he visited after at
tending the Red Cross conference
in Tokyo in October and touring
China. While in Rome, he had an
audience with Pope Plus XI.
He timed his return here for the
celebration Of the 200th anniver-
Sary of the birth of Georgetown's
founder, Archbishop John Carroll,
which will be observed at the col
lege tomorrow. A pontifical mass
will be held in Dahlgren chapel,
at 10 9, m. at which the apostolic
delegate, the Most Rev. Anleto
Giovanni Cioognani, will preside.
The Washington times., 1935-01-07
D. c. Group Plans
For First Meeting

President Clyde Garrett, Wash.
ington attorney, will head the
Washington delegation of the
Delta Chi Fraternity to the
eighty-eighth annual convention
in Boston, June 22-25.
Charles e. Pledger, jr., also an
attorney, who will preside, said
he expected 500 delegates. Others
who plan to attend include:
Capt. Edwin Gore, Carroll M
Meigs, Representative Frank H.
Buck, of California; Stanton C.
Peele, Charles H. Tompkins, Rob-
ert Ash, Enoch Chase and Henry
Ravenel.