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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-10-31

$40?
Tamas rabokolt Is mosoly-
gott hozza:
Rola van $40, Illus. Te
most 0lt0zz fel szepen, inert
nemsokara nalunk lesz.
Illus area langot vetett, il
gatott lett, meg t0bbet is sze-
retett volna megtudni, de ek-
korra a verandaba nyitottak
mar:
Keszen van, edesapam?
= En- mindig keszen vagyok, /
- mondta kurtan az Greg es
vegigmutatott magan.
Az Greg a vedlett, pelyvatol
megtiizdelt, sok esztendo sok
munkajat6l szakadozott borka-
batjara mutatott ra, amelyet
meg kanikula vilagban Sc ha-
jitott lie magarol es ere be-
fzecsre ertette, hogy keszen
van.
Tamas kicsit piros lett a
sietsegben (k0zbe az edesanyja
is bej0tt) es a kis bajuszahoz
kapott:
= Hat most j0jjon fel edes-
apam!
= Hova menjek? - kerdezte
az Greg.
- A kastelyba. A Klari kis-
asszony hivatja apat, azonfe-
I'LL pedig en- kil0n is kerem,
hogy azonnal j0jj0n velem!
Osszeneztek ra mind a har-
man. Az edesapja sehogyse er-
tette, NIT akarnak t6le a kas-
telyban:
- Az az uj kisasszony hivat,
XII a multiban j0tt?
i Rosszul mondta, edes-
apam, - igazitotta XII magat
a flu olyan er0ltetett kozony-
nyel, ahogy csak hasonlo ese-
tekben tudott uralkodni ma
gan. - Rosszul mondtam,
edesapam, inert mem ugy KEEL
lett volna kezdenem, hogy a
Klari kisasszony kereti, hanem
hogy a menyasszonyom akar
beszelni apaval.
Olyan csend tort XII ere a
kijelentesre, hogy Tamas tisz-
tan hallotta a zseboraja per-
cegeset, pedig veletlenil a ka-
batja is be volt gombolva. Az
apjat annyira meglepte, hogy
egy ideig mem is birt szohoz
jutni az Greg, (hogy a zavar-
tol vagy a felhaborodastol-e,
ait egyel6re nem sikerult meg
allapitani rajta), a huga SCENE
felcsillant a nagy ujsagra es
jelekkel mutatta a hatterb6l,
hogy isszonyuan gratulal, az
edesanyja pedig csak nezte-
fnezte az 8 kedves fiat es addig-
addig nezte, hogy egyszercsak
k0nnybe borult a ket szeme.
Akkor magahoz intette Is any
nyit kerdezett t6le szeliden:
- Mi6ta?
- Ket honapja, anyam, =
mondta megk0nnyebbilten a
flu es megcsokolta az anyja
kezet.
- Akkor menj erte es hozd
le.
Szoval Sc kerdezte, hogy mi
l
lyen leany, hogy miert mem
mondta ezt meg mar ket ho-
nappal el6bb, hogyha csaku-
Cyan a mennyasszonya, miert
dugta el a kastelyba, ARA Sc
volt kivancsi, szineszn6-e, men,
e es be lehet-e fogadni maid a
hazukba? Az edesanyja mind
0ssze az arcadia nezett Tanas-
max es annyit mondott neki:
- HOzd le.
- K0sz0n0m, anyam. Nyu-
godt lehet, most Sc fog csa-
lodni bennem. Sok mindent el
kell maid mondanom, ha visz-
sza j0v0k. Tudom, szidast er-
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Build Up the Air Force
Is Our First Line of Defense

Whether or not the next in the air. it will BEGIN
in the air. and unucky the side which loses the opening
clash of the air armadas.
It is conceivable that the nation whose ar Defense col
pses will have to surrender abecty face national exnc
tion
Without air force its armies and naves would be blinded
able to fight only under prohibitive handicap
It's cities and great industrial center would at the
OF bombs and gas from the sky.
Inc war; might be ended in few days few hours,
and ended on terms which would spell the virtual annhaton
Of the defeated country.
The first line of defense is the air.
That lost the holding of the second and third lines of
tense might well become impossible
Thus Americas FIRST NECESSITY is an air fleet strong
enough to hold this first line against any nation that might be
tempted to attack it.
Such fleet requires increase in the present number
OF both military and naval fighting planes AND PILOTS
1t also requires the utmost that Govern
ment grant to commercial aviaon-and the complete
REORGANIZATION of the aviation industry in the United
States and its dependencies.
Every receiving Government aid should ha 1oo
per cent American.
Every commercial pilot should be an American citizen
NO foreign company foreign er should be allowed to
operate IN American teroryand least of all the Panama
Canal Zone the Nicaragua Canal area Hawaii Alaska
or other American possessions
Our pilots the best in world our planes are
ce!led but our air defense is woefully inadequate
Naonal Defense Week. which patriotic Americans are
observing should prompt every patriotic citizen to DEMAND
adequate defense-land and aerial.
Ihs country must be kept out of foreign wars and FOREIGN
wars must be kept out of this country.
mat can be DONE but not by paper pacts or sy sent
mentalism. 1' ~
It be done only by an adequate armv and adeouao
and an adequate air force
And OF these the air force not the least important
IL MUST BE BUILT UP to the nations needs for il will
De tne 1rst to tight when the nation needs it.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Overhaul Jury System
To Win Equal Justice
By James T. Williams, J.

All Americans who wish to see
Equal Justice Under Law" dis
pensed in every State in the
Union should strive to overhaul
our jury system. Indeed, it must
be overhauled if the spirit of
justice, which originated it, is to
quicken the administration of
criminal justice in this country.
In most of the States of the
Union today trial by Jury too
frequently degenerates into Or
deal by gueSSWork. Then a trial
often becomes a free-for-all be-
tween opposing counsel in which
all the methods of the circus
trade are given free reign with
the jury ready to decide on
questions of fact and law with
out the aid which every jury is
entitled to receive from an hon.
est, fearless and learned judge.
HANDICAPS
The proper function of the
jury, under the American Sys-
tenn of government, is to rule on
the truth of the facts alleged
during the trial. Neither ques-
tons of law nor the sentence to
be imposed are for the jury to
decide. The jury's job is to de-
eide what happened, and then
to return a verdict on the indict-
ment in accord with their deci-
sion as to the truth of the facts
of the case.
One of the greatest handicaps
under which the case Of justice
in this country suffers today is
the denial in most of the States
to the judge Of the authority to
give the jury the benefit of his
expert knowledge when he de-
lvers his charge. In all except
a few States the Judge is
limited to explaining skeleton
outlines of law in relation to
more or less abstract questions
Of fact. The application of
these principles of the case
under trial not infrequently
goes over the head of the jury.
The lack of legal training of the
average juryman leaves the jury
wallowing in a morass of con-
Trajectory allegations. Too fire.
quently their verdict must be
based on impulse, emotion and
gueSSWork.
The way to end this trav-
esty Of justice lies straight be.
fore the legislatures of the
several States which do not
have the common law as their
legal basis. These legislatures
should unshackle the judges
of their respective States and
free their hands to assist the
jury in coming to clear
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Read and Eat
BIZ Robert BenchLev

One Of the Oldest domestic
jokes, next to the brides bis
cults, is the one about the
husband reading his newspa.
paper at breakfast. We need
to buy our biscuits and heat
them, and I am unable even
now, to read a newspaper
while eating, which gave us
quite a headstart on the
funny papers of the day.
I have always secretly ad.
mired people who could read
a newspaper while eating. It
bespeaks coordination, dex.
terity and automatic digestion,
none of which attributes I
seem to possess.
It also gives one an air of
being a man Of affairs, and I
long ago abandoned the at
tempt to look like a man of
affairs. I even find it diff
cult, some mornings, to look
like a man.
In the first place, I can't
seem to get the newspaper
fixed right, even in one Of
those racks which super-service
hotels sometimes provide for
the purpose. \
One corner gets into the
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

Cney,re TOO lazy and ShiftleSS
to care.
Maybe the owners should
pay them more-but what use
would they make of it if they
did? People like that don't
care anything about beauty or
order in their homes. They'd
rather lie around and com.
plain and curse the Capitalists
Why don't you tell that side Of
the picture?"
OTHER SIDE
Lady, I'm riding through
those mill towns at this very
moment and there's nothing I
want more to do than to tell
that side of the picture" I
could fill this paper just telling
that side, and the editor would
want me to if people like you
would listen.
But you won't listen. You
don't want to hear the truth.
You just want to hear some
thing that will excuse your own
stupid, heartlesS greediness.
"They could be clean. They
could have flowers, even if they
are poor" I've heard those
statements ever since I was a
child-and they're the cruelest
Of lies!
I'm telling you, lady-when
you've been bone poor all your
life; when your fathers been
poor before you and his father
before him; when there's moth
ing in your thin, watery blood
and your weak, crumbly bones
and your starved, bewildered
brain but the gnawing of pow
erty year after year-you
CAN'T be clean or tidy. You
CAN'T have dreams in your
head or pride in your heart or
flowers at your door.
SOMETHING'S MISSING IN
YOU. SOMETHING WHICH
THE SAFE AND WELL-FED
HAVE.
You CAN'T love beauty when
you and your children have
never had enough to eat. You
CAN'T plan for decency and
order when you're numb with
fear of losing the slight hold
you have on life. You can't
even have Self-respect or ambi-
ton.
Beauty and order, self-respect
and ambition you've never
thought of these things as
luxuries, have you? But they
are!
You've got to have a surplus
In life to create these atti-
tudes-a surplus of leisure and
safety and food. You've got to
have a chance to think, and
hope, and wonder, and desire.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

AND THE POOR, WHO
LIVE IN CITY SLUMS AND
COUNTRY MILL VILLAGES,
HAVE NO SUCH SURPLUS.
PROPHESY
A cornered animal and q dy-
ing man are interested in just
one thing. They don't care
whether they're dirty or ragged.
They don't give boot about
their surroundings. They're
thinking of just one thing
thinking of it frantically, furi-
ously-and that one thing is
LIFE. And there's nothing they
won't do to get it.
There's the "other side of the
story you think I haven't told,
lady; that tragic side you and
your kind ignore. But it's my
bet that you won't always ignore
it.
Some day-and it won't be
long something going to
start in those ugly, hopeless
lives that is likely to land ker.
PUNK on your silly, fat neck and
let in a lii light, maybe, through
your thick, complacent skull.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

Der of hours it aOould delib"
crate.
The jury had been out almost
two hours when veteran news
paperman James L. Wright
announced he would submit his
guess.
Said he:
II don't believe that jury will
be out more than an hour"
Representative Maury MAYER
lex, Democrat, of Texas, one of
the newcomers to the House,
is the grandson Of Samuel A.
Maverick.
Maury's grandfather, q ranch
er, refused to brand his herds,
and thus developed the word
maverick" meaning stray cat
tie.
Maury's colleagues wonder If
the youngSter will stray from
the Administration corral.
With the House Committee on
Crime conducting it's investiga-
ton, Representative William T.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

understanding of the peril
nent facts involved.
In those States which follow
the example of the United
States and give to their judges
latitude in charging the Jury
a judge is able to explain fully
the significance of the facts
and advise them in regard to
the facts. Then the jury can
go ahead and reach its own
decision.
1t is States which operate
under rigid civil and criminal
code that restrict the judge
so as to impair his usefulness
and impede justice.
One of the outstanding recon-
mendations of the able COM
mission which investigated
crime and the administration
of criminal justice in 1881 was
that the judges in all the States
be emancipated from legal re-
StrictionS which render them
powerless to aid the jury in ar
irving at just verdict.
This commission, of which
George w. WickerSham, of New
York, was chairman and New.
ton D. Baker, OF Ohio, and
Roscoe Pound, dean of the
Harvard law school, were among
the distinguished members. had
this to say as to judge and jury:
JUST VERDICTS
efficient conduct of trials
requires that the Judge have
authority to give direction to
the task of the jurors instead
Of leaving them to be diverted
from crucial points and confu-
sion as to their duties by the
unchecked zeal of COUNSEL.
Success of a trial means the
attaining of a right result
a verdict in accord with the
evidence and the law. A form
Of jury trial in criminal cases
which excludes the Judge from
aiding the jury in reaching
correct result must fail in this
attainment. =. We recommend
restoration of the common law
powers of trial judges wherever
these powers have been re-
stricted by legislation, and ex-
ercise of these powers wherever
they have fallen into abey-
ance."
When the State legislatures
which have not yet liberated
their judges to aid the jury in
dispensing equal justice under
law" by arriving at just verdicts
adopt this recommendation this
will be a safer and therefore
a happier country for the law
abiding to live in.
Copyright, 1895, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

and several Of the lizards, which
have spikes.
In the early days every crea-
ture was at war with every other
creature. Each regarded the
other with an appraising eye,
wondering if he would be good
eating. Even parent and off
spring were at war. No parent
knew it's young. Reptiles left
their eggs to hatch themselves.
Many a parent, encountering
one of its young, attacked and
devoured it.
AS time went on the NAM
mails evolved. They were not
Matched from eggs, but were
born of a mother. Maternal in
stinct came into being. AS these
mammals multiplied, hundreds
of different species evolved.
Some of these came to feed upon
vegetation, instead of the flesh
of their fellow creatures. Thus
began a tempering of the spirit
of warfare.
SEPARATE WAYS
Late in mammalian develop
ment came the simian, or mon
key family, eaters of vegetation
for the most part. They were
not driven to warfare for their
daily food. This led these crea-
lures to form tribes, or clans,
and the rudimentary social life
led to still further tempering of
the war spirit. However, war
was too firmly implanted to be
banished entirely, and so revo-
lutions within a tribe occurred.
This divided a tribe into sepa-
rate units, each of which went
it's separate way, and in time
became a different species. The
baboon, chimpanzee and gorilla
are samples Of these.
AS a result of some great nat
uraI upheaval, probably the
forming Of the Himalaya Noun
tains in Central Asia, herds of
all kinds of mammals scattered,
some retreating south into the
tropical jungles, and some to the
great treeless plains of the
north. Those who migrated
north became ground jewellers,
by force Of circumstances.
From the simianS among
these came the first pre-
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
By T. E. Powers

butter, another into the mar
malade, and, even if I do
manage to fold it so that GER
tain headlines are visible, they
are either on stories that I
don't want to read, or I have
to unfold the whole thing
again in a minute or two in
order to keep on reading.
In the meantime, what of
breakfast? I like my break
fast, and I like it hot. A cold
egg is like a pretty good curate.
While am balancing my news
paper, and folding it and I'M
folding it, and knocking over
cream pitchers and salt cellars,
and getting everything set to
read two paragraphs of a full
column story, the Grim Reaper
has stalked in among my break
fast dishes, laying his icy hand
on egg and muffin alike. There
is no news story in the wrold
that is worth that.
Let us say, however, that I
have finally found a story that
holds my attention, that
enough of it is exposed to view
to be read consecutively for two
minutes, and that I have taken
a bite of bacon and toast. I
read, and, as I read, I chew,
leaning over at an angle to the
left, so that my lapel rests
neatly in the egg.
It is my particular misfortune
to be unable to do all these
things at the same time. If a
point in the story fascinates
me, I stop chewing. If I don't
The Washington times., 1935-02-18


statements before the commit
tee he admitted that the TO-
100000 old folk could not ben
eft by his plan for years after
enactment.
He said:
ut would be quite impossible
to start penSiOning all of the
old folks who have attained the
age Of 60 at a particular time"
When he developed this
theory, Doughton announced:
"YOu must know that the
people who are writing these
letters, inundating Congress
with letters by the carload,
must have been sold on the
theory that just as soon as
this law was enacted they
would Immediately go on the
pay roll.
"If they knew they were not
going to be registered for sew
eral years and would not get
on the pay roll Immediately,
the propaganda would cease at
once"
When the HGuptmann jury
retired the other day, neUs-
hGUEs In the Senate press gal
lery started O pool on the num-
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

actually stop chewing, I go
ahead automatically, with no
relish for the food, and might
as well be saving money and
chewing on rubber washer.
It is a dull, stolid mockery of
eating, blessing neither him that
gives nor him that takes.
If the story continues inter-
esting, I keep my eyes glued on
the paper and grope tenta-
lively for my coffee cup. I
know that it should be near
my right hand, but, beyond
that, I am willing to try out
any old location.
I dip my fingers, first, lightly
on the edge of the toast-diSh,
next, like a butterfly alighting,
on the rim of my water glass,
then, as if by intuition, directly
into the coffee itself. This
brings me to my senses, and I
take my eyes from the news
papers and go about my bust
ness, which, after all, is eating
my breakfast.
Others, more dexterous than
T, may be able to swing both
reading and eating at the same
time. I am more the gourmet
type, and like my food.
OF course, there are morn
ingS when I don't want any
breakfast. Then I can catch
up on my reading.
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
Copyright 1895. by King Features
Syndicate Ine.)
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

human, or dawn men. There
came to be several species of
these, each waging unremitting
war against the others for food,
weapons and preferred shelters.
After hundreds Of thousands of
years, one of the species of
dawn men rose to superiority
and eXterminated competing
dawn men species. You and I
are lineal descendants of those
conquerors. Is it any wonder
that we are warlike?
When civilization dawned, an
historical era began. AS the
ages unrolled and recorded his
tory became available, there
arose men capable of profiting
by the experience of the past.
War had revealed the value of
cooperation. It was but a step
to realize that cooperation in
peace would be of like value.
Gradually there came the great
teachers and a few men listened
to the Golden Rule.
However, warfare still re-
manned the most honored pro-
fession. Conquering Romans
looted their weaker neighbors,
and in gorgeous parades dis
played captured treasure and
enslaved prisoners of war.
Various forms of warfare
were the favored entertainment
on these man holidays.
Lions and men were pitted
against each other in an arena.
Roman civilization regarded hu.
man life as cheap, and human
torture an interesting public en-
tertainment.
WILL TAKE TIME
AS civilization progressed,
men came to recoil from brut-
ish cruelty, and were attracted
to mercy and nobility of charac-
ter. With the coming of mod
ern times, the most curious of
all developments occurs. While
the spirit of war holds fast, it
is now companioned by the
spirit of mercy and nobility of
conduct.
In the World War, in enemy
air squadrons, men fought each
other to the death as savagely
as men ever fought in past
centuries. But, when a brave
and skillful air warrior on one
side was shot down in the
skies, and fell to horrible fam
ing death, the other side occa-
sionally dropped messages of
sympathy and respect.
Here we have mans blood
stained war record. If we con-
tinue to advance in the future
as we have advanced in the
past, we shall depend less upon
warfare and more upon SYM
pathetic cooperation. But
change so contrary to our in
heritance of countless centuries
will take time.
Copyright 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "Earth's Flex-
IDLE Crust"
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

Did you
e v e r G o
through the
b i g m i ! l
towns a n d
look at the
filthy way the
workers live?
They could be
be clean, even
if they are
poor. They
could h a v e
little gardens
and a pot
of WhiteWash
doesn't cost
much. But
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

been at war.
The earliest
creatures, not
having intel
! i G e n C e
enough to de-
wise means Of
defe n S e, de-
v e l op e d a
thick arrnor
d IL u 4OA AA4u
a b l e spikes.
Descendant t S
of t h e S e
e a rly crea-
lures are the
turtles, which
ora QrrN0rnN
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

That is the
opin on of
r e p resenta-
tive Robert L.
Dou g h t on,
D e m o cratic
chairman of
the H Is e
w VS. a n d
Means Com
mittee.
When DR..
F r a n k G.
To W n S e nd,
author Of the
plan, m a d e
one of his
cOnCl uding
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

Schultz of In
diana, active
in the inquiry,
might be in
teres ted in
the story that
is floa t ing
around.
AS told on
Capitol Hill, a
y o u n G man
r e C e / v e d
a pa in 6
ticket.
He sent it
to headquar-
tiers to be
eGfiXnd -
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

11ACN. ~~0E'' '00""""00
Apparently, someone forgot to
elk" it.
A policeman called at the
young mans apartment, learned
he was out, and left q note on
his door advising him to post
collateral.
The pOliceman's note, 50 they
say, was written ON the back Of
. numbers" ticket!
Copyright. 1884. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

you're always defending poor
people," she says. why don't
you tell the truth about them?
You know as well as I do that
thousands of them wouldn't
work if you gave them a job.
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
In the World of Science
Man Has Blood Stained War RECORD
By Hiram PERCY Maxim

If there be one thing which
man comes by honestly, it is his
warning instinct. For 300 mil
lion wears his ancestors have
The Washington times., 1935-02-18

Thousands Of persons have
been deceived concerning the
Townsend plan for old-age
mavSSnvoS
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
OLD FAVORITES

Rocked In the Cradle of the DeeD-WHZnrd
Rocked in the cradle of the deep
| lay me down in peace to sleep:
Secure rest upon the wave
For Thou, o Lord hast power to save
know Thou wilt not slight my CALL
For Thou dost mark the sparrows fall:
And calm and peaceful shall Sleep
Rocked in the cradle of the Deep
And such the trust that still were mine
Though stormy winds swept DER the brine
Or though the tempest's fiery breath
Reused me from sleep to wreck and DEATH
In ocean cave, still safe with Thee
The germ of Immortality
And calm and peaceful shall I Sleep
Rocked in the cradle of the Deep
IReGders invted to send to the editor their snq
gestioms of old fovOrites among the poems for reprting
in this space)
The Washington times., 1935-02-18
Professor "Alfalfa Bill"
Turn About, Fair PLAY

Alfalfa Bill Murray oklahomas king-pn politician
is slated to be professor in the University Of Texas
Turn about fair play If the professors dispossess the
politicians in Washington and elsewhere the nocans oro
quite justified in invading the colleges