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The Washington times., 1935-12-06

'at the next session, has adopted
the following legislative objec.
tives:
First, To prevent the Regular
Army from obtaining the in.
creased enlisted strength voted at
the last session by refusing to
appropriate the money necessary
to train and equip an Army Of
$4,000 men.
Second, To bring about the
abolition of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps by refusing to
authorize the two thousand addi-
tional officers necessary to train
the R. o. T. C.
Third, To prevent the carrying
out of the recommendations of the
Baker Committee by refusing to
appropriate the money necessary
to equip the Army Air Corps with
the additional modern planes
which are absolutely essential.
Fo2rth, To prevent the motoriz-
ing and mechanizing Of the Army
in its various branches by refusing
to appropriate for these purposes.
TEST OF COURAGE
Money is now being raised by
these Sappers to reelect Senators
and Representatives in Congress
who will vote to cripple the Army
by opposing appropriations for its
maintenance and to defeat those
Senators and Representatives in
Congress who vote to build up the
Army to the strength which the
National Defense Act fixes as the
minimum strength required by ma
tional security.
Under the leadership of Presi.
dent Roosevelt, the last Congress
made a good beginning toward
building up the Army.
If Mr.. Roosevelt will hold fast
to what has been gained and will
refuse to surrender to the Sappers
who are opposing the upbuilding
Of the Army, public sentiment
will support him.
1t will be a supreme test of the
courage and sincerity of the Presi-
dents leadership in the field of
national defense.
If he wavers at this point he
will lose far more among loyal
Americans than his Administra-
tion can ever gain by currying
favor with the political Reds,
Pinks and Fellows that are wag-
ing guerrilla warfare against our
Defenders in the Colors on land
| and sea and in the air.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
U. S. COAST GUARD

Bitter gales come Shrieking
down from the North. Ships tina
go down to sea are hard hit by
the fury of that Old Debbil, the
North Atlantic. Snow, sleet, ice,
fog and waves rolling masthead
high.
Scarcely a day passes that
marine news fails to record the
simple heroism of some storm
threshed crew snatched from the
jaws of death, rescued from their
laundering ship, and owing their
lives to one of the most gallant
self-sacrificing services in all the
world, the United States Coast
Guard.
Along $4,000 miles of coast, 365
days in the year, they answer the
summons of the radio, these Good
Samaritans of the sea, to snatch
men from the peril Of death.
Bitter gales may drive from the
seas every vessel that moves, eX-
cept those great ladies, the liners
every vessel, indeed, except the
staunch, stout little cutters of the
Coast Guard.
Out into the swapping jaws Of
the blizzard they drive on their
errands of mercy. Their courage
is so much a part of their days
work that they have no vanity OF
virtue-nothing so glittering as
the title of heroes"
The tale of the Coast Guards
service is almost endless. It saves
every year more than 5000 lives,
and, in property alone, 1t pre-
serves many times its own cost.
VARIETY OF DUTIES
From death it snatches men,
women and children; clothes
feeds and warns them and re
turns them to their families and
friends. BY land and sea, ii
patrols the dangerous coasts, to
come upon wrecks and to remove
them from the path of a living
vessel.
It searches out, in the bosom Of
the sea, those dead but unburieo
vessels which lurk, hardly visible
like wild beasts in a jungle bush
to waylay an unsuspecting spee6
ing liner.
It goes into the Far North tc
carry to Uncle Sans little brown
wards, the Eskimos, protectio.
against famine and disease. The
charted trails of the Arctic Sea
are as familiar to their stout little
ships as the sunlit waters d
Florida.
Every year it saves hundreds
from death - stranded vessels
crews and cargoes. It protects
wrecked property, after landing
from the ravages of the elements
and the rapine of plunderers.
It guards the great inland seas
as well as the salty oceans. i
shepherds into safe paths ships
which wander unwarily from theil
true courses. 1t fights flood, famine
and fire. There is no organization
indeed, to compare with its great
service, except, perhaps. the Roya
Canadian Mounted Police.
| Like the "Mounties," its re
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

And should our faces be red be-
fore we've read a dozen pages!
For here is not only the truth
of Old JuleS-but of a courage
and tenacity of red hot living
that is almost too much for our
enfeebled imagining. How fierce
ly they paid for this empire
which we pampered weaklingS
so easily inherit! The very
thought of the hardShipS which
they accepted as a matter OF
course would send most OF us
into the screaming meamies.
IN THE DAYS WORK
There was that time his two
companions on a well-boring job
jerked the hosting bucket, with
young Jules in it, once too
often. The frayed rope broke
Jules plunged IS feet, landed or
rock with his foot doubled un'
der him. When they lifted him
his ankle bones were a pulp.
They were 100 miles from
hospital. He couldn't manage
it. Besides-certain papers had
to be filed Immediately, if the
land on which they were work
ing was to be saved. The land
came first. Believing his rage
he sent the terrified youngsters
away to file the papers, said he
would care for himself. They
might-they Said-be back in q
week, by pounding their horses
They weren't. For two weeks
Jules lay there alone, his mangled
flesh rotting, his fevered mind
raving. Once he shot a rabbit
once a chicken hawk-from which
crawling, he made CHASTITY broth
When passing soldiers found him
at last he was seemingly dead
his leg the size Of water bucket
black and green with infection
dripping puS. Yet, when the doc
TOR prepared to amputate, he
arose, shouting:
You cut my foot off, doctor
and I shoot you so dead you stink
before you hit the ground!"
And that he accepted for wha
it actually was-just part of thC
days work. And days work in {
pioneer land!
A brutal, furious, filthy man
But he had what it takes to make
an American! I wonder how man!
Of us have today?
Copyright, 1885. by King Featured
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

He was coarse and brutal-bad-
tempered-unfair. His home was
more like the filthy den Of wild
animal than a civilized animal
though once he had been a dandy.
And his trail was marked with
the grisly remains of the wives
who had died or gone insane in
his service.
Beneath those Nebraska bar
rens. where he drove his home
Steading stakes in the SOS, lay
the bones of prehistoric mon.
sters-nightmareS of fanged flesh.
But, for ruthless brutality, none
of them ever touched the record
of this slender young man who
came racing, hell bent, out of the
sunset fire-a greasy cap pulled
low over brooding. gray eyes-a
rifle between his knees.
Before the barrenS were fin
ished with him, he was gnarled
and twisted as a blackened root
but his brand lay on every rod
Of earth, on every human spirit
within a thousand miles.
GOLD JULES"
Jules Sandoz-"Old Jules
Maker of American History. To
day the story of his life heads all
lists of best7Selling non-fiction ir
America, and should be required
buying on all Christmas gift
memos, if the shopper has 8
smitch of sense. It's called simply
"Old Jules"-written by his
daughter, Marie Sandoz-pub
lished by Little, Brown & Co.
A WOW of a book! But what g
wallop it would hand some Of oul
ancestor worshippers!
Often-thinking of that snooty
breed-I grin to myself, wonder
ing how they'd act if they shoulc
meet up with one of said grand
dads in the flesh. Much, I sus
pect as many Of our leading
Christians would act if they hap
pened upon Jesus Christ living
and looking exactly as he liveC
and looked when on earth.
For, barring the comic strips
there's nothing funnier than ou
popular conception of a Pionee
Hero. A cross between a tailor
dummy and a crooner, done up il
mail-order chaps and sunta
ad lib.
But here. at last, comes tn
husky. hairy, hell-raisin' truth
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
A Critical Session
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

At the coming session Of Con-
gress the Common Defense will be
the target for one Of the most in
Sidious attacks ever made under
any Administration.
This attack is now being organ
lied by political Reds, Pinks and
Yellows through whom alien Com
murists and their domestic tools
and dupes are striking in an at
tempt Ito undermine what can.
not be directly overthrown" in the
American system.
Unfortunately, the House Com
mittee on Appropriations has as
its chairman a Representative in
Congress - Mr.. Buchanan, of
TeXas-who has been all too ready
in the past to play politics with
the Common Defense.
Unfortunately, the House Com.
mittee on Military Affairs is af.
flicted with a chairman whom the
President of the United States
was forced to rebuke publicly for
giving worldwide publicity to some
Of the most vital secrets involving
the Common Defense.
This chairman, Mr.. McSwain,
has done his best since he became
chairman of this committee to
diScredit the military establish
ment, destroy public confidence in
the United States Military Acad
emy and incite public suspicion
of the commissioned strength OF
the regular Army.
PARTISAN POLITICS
Unfortunately, there are toe
many members of the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs who are
ignorant Of sound principles oi
defense, indifferent to sound rec
concentrations and ready to play
partisan politics with defense
problems if, by so doing, they car
get votes for themselves in theil
own districts or publicity for them
selves there or elsewhere.
But the session of Congress
which convenes next January will
be a most critical time for this
country because the Sapping ex
pedition against the Common De
fense is we'll organized, well sub
sidized, and the sappers will at
tempt to divert public attention
from their diabolical purpose By
shouting economy"
This sapping expedition agains
the Common Defense, which will
attempt to stampede the Congress!
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

Sponsibilities and duties are OF
infinite variety. In calm defiance
Of storm and cold it saves life,
drives pirates from the sea, helps
commerce to its appointed courses,
spreads order and cleanliness,
doctors the sick and buries the
dead, breaches the Gospel and
reads the marriage ceremony in
regions where even valiant mis-
sionarieS seldom venture.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
The Greatest Show On Earth
BY John Snure, T.

because of the demands through
out the country.
Sales taxes in various States
are believed to have caused one
demand for small change. Thou
sands of Government checks dis
tributed to emergency workers
have caused an equally great
number of small coins to be
minted.
The Federal Government does
not overlook the fact that the in.
creasing popularity of nickel vend-
ing machines has caused the
popularity of that coin to increase
enormously,
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

ITO the time OF thelr moSI eaA4aLAU
service.
It is when the weather is at
it's worst that calls for assistance
pour in the Coast Guard head
quarters. Discipline and morale
are so splendid that there is never
lost time nor lost motion when the
thrilling the SOS comes singing
through the air. 1t is then that
those tiny vessels go thruSting
out to sea in the face Of a snarl-
ing, frightful storms, that big
liners do not care to tackle II 1t
can be avoided.
But there is more to Coast
Guard cutter than stout OAK,
stout steel and stout engines.
Stout hearts is the answer-stout
hearts and amazing esprit de
corps and flawleSS Seamanshlp.
The other day, this writer hap
pened to glance through an an
nual report of the United States
Coast Guard.
Annual reports of Government
services are not extremely thrill.
ing documents. But the report OF
the Coast Guard is material Tor
dozen tales Of high adventure
The Alaskan service alone Is a
saga of heroiSm in itself. II is
full of adventure and fine oeVo'
ton to humanity. Without tne
cutters of the Coast Guard, life
in the Behring Sea, in the Arctic
Circle, would hardly be possible
for the little brown people, tor
whom Uncle Sam stands response
BILE.
SWIFTLY, EAGERLY
The Coast Guard cutters carry
the mail, food and supplies to $50
lated settlements, and constantly
succor the sick and the famine
stricken. They provide medicine
and surgical treatments. TneS
administer the law. ,
y They protect an otherwise help
less people from savage nature
and circumstances which wouo
otherwise destroy them. Under
the most trying circumstances
they meet every problem imagi
nable.
The fate of a whole village may
be at stake. Or the problem may
be to save the life Of one obscure
little ESkimo-a mite of humanity
of value to no one except, per
hapS, his wife and baby. 1t is al
the same to the Coast Guard.
The full resources Of thell
equipment and courage would &C
to the rescue of one imper1ec
little individual as swiftly and a
eagerly as they would go to the
salvation of an imperiled com
munity.
Their reports, their records, are
full of such true tales. Civ
them a thought some days as yol
sit comfortably before your fire
seeking a weather report, or per
haps reading the news story OF
wreck of some ship at sea, and o
how the Coast Guard arrived II
the nick of time, hove through tn
giant waves, and managed some
how, by some miracle known II
themselves, to save all hands aaH
bring them safely to land.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate,'1ne.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

Officers and men are sailors,
policemen, firemen, doctors, magi-
Strates, ministers, all in one, as
duty demands in widely different
regions of our vast American
domain.
In these early December days,
as the weatherman filings out his
urgent warnings and the wicked
old North Atlantic shows his fangS,
the men of the Coast Guard come
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
OLD FAVORITES
Mabel, in NeW Hampshire
By JAMES THOMAS FIELDS

By JAMES IdOMAS EAGhOS
Fairest of the fairest rival of the rose,
That is Mabel of the Hills, as everybody knows.
Do you ask what stream this sweet toweret grows
That's an ignorant question, sir, everybody knows
Ask you what her age is reckoned the time goes7
Just the age of beauty everybody knows.
Is she tall Rosalind, standing on her toes?
She is just the perfect height, everybody knows
What's the color of her eyes, when they ope close?
Just the color they should be, everybody knows
Is she lovelier dancing or resting in repose?
Both are radiant pictures, everybody knows.
Has she scores of lovers heaps of bleeding beaux?
That questions quite superfluous everybody knows.
I could tell you something, if only chose!-
But what's the of telling what everybody knows2
(RedderS are vited send to the editor their sugges
ons of old tavorites among the poems for reprtng
this space.) .--.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
BUDGET CUT

Also on the budget of the
United States is an item eSti-
mated at $55 for the present year
"a reduction from $91 in the
last fiscal year.
The expenditure constitutes the
contribution of this Government
to the Convention Relating to
Liquor Traffic in Africa.
The United States has no terri
tory in Africa in which live
natives who might be interested
in the use of alcoholic beverages.
However, in 1929, the Senate
ratified a treaty intended to pre-
vent the use of distilled liquors
by native races in Africa but not
prohibition of wines to natives:
Reduction in the cost to the
United States of having a hand
in this affair has no connection
with the fact that the Roosevelt
regime outlawed prohibition in
this country or that the Anti
Saloon League had lost a portion
of it's popularity in most of the
48 states.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

t his trouble
som e period,
certain Off
Gals S e e m e d
amazed t h a t
there was any
question about
t h e Govern
ment seeking
such a trivial"
sum.
Tucked away
in q quiet cor
ner of one of
t he N a t ional
Capitals most
in ere S t i ng
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

THE NEWSPAPER is the constant and depend
able defender, the attOrney-atlarge of the people
What other institution continuously esPouSes and
champions the interests of the community! VINO
ferrets graft and corruption and steadily strtOe'
to stamp it out?
THE DAILY NEWSPAPER is more than a busi-
ness house selling news and advertising. 1t is the
protector of the citizens freedom and liberty
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
RTGGER DEMAND

Reports of the Bureau of the
Mint indicate that there has
been a material increase in de-
mands for coinage.
Pennies and nickelS are being
minted in ever-increasing volume
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
PROMOTION

AS the Home Owners Loan
Corporation attempts to carry on
the business Of the largest corpo-
ration of its type in the world,
officials agree that there is one
man in the organization who has
been of material assistance in
aiding the program.
He is Charles A. Jones. general
manager of the Hole.
With a record of newspaper
work and association with the
Washington Real Estate Board in
his possession, Jones was first
affiliated with the Hole as dis
trict manager in the National
Capital.
He was then moved to head
quarters as an assistant general
manager and later became one
of the deputy general managers.
He has been elevated to the
post of general manager of this
three-billion-dollar corporation
thus achieving one of the out
standing records for progress in
the present regime.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
"MITEY" SUM

When the Administration re-
Gently issued a call for $9oO,000,-
900 as a mite" to tide it over
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
THE SAME

One item on the budget of the
United States which has not in
creased despite the activity Of the
present Administration is the one
dealing with expenses incurred by
the Central Bureau Of the Inter
national Map Of the World.
The bureau has for its purpose
Standardization of a world map
on the millionth scale.
Located in Southampton, Eng
land, it has cost the United States
the sum of $50 annually for the
last four years.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

a document bearing the sigma
ture of Alexander Hamilton, re-
puted to be the greatest Secre-
tary of all time.
It is addressed to William
Short, then ambassador to
France, and authorizes him, with
great solemnity, to negotiate
from that government loan OF
from $12,000,o00 to $14,0oo,00O.
1t was this loan, one of the
first negotiated by this Govern
ment, that motivated the original
States to such a degree that they
became a unified world power.
In that day Of Alexander
Hamilton it was a loan of not
more than $14,OOo,Ooo that was
required to project a young
nation into a key position in the
world.
In this day of Secretary OF
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
jr., a loan of $soo,0Oo,0oO is 6
trivial mite to tide this Nation
over a brief period Of adversely
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

HE HAD WHAT IT TOOK TO MAKE AN AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

the coming session Of con.Nat the next session, /
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-06-28
Anti-Injunction Laws
Pass in Three States

New York City (ILNS)-Haile by
the national committee on labor in
functions as one Of the most important
legislative achievements of the year,
bills limiting the use Of injunctions
in industrial disputes were passed IA
New York, North Dakota, and Mary
land, bringing the total number of
states with laws modelled on the Nor
ris-LaGuardia act of 1882 to thirteen.
The bills wipe out determinations
that existing practices have imposed
on labor" by forbidding the issuance
Of court orders against peaceful union
labor activities and by guaranteeing
a jury trial for elleged violations of
injunctions.
Anti-injunction bills have passed
the assembly in New Jersey, and the
house in Pennsylvania where the law
now on the books relates only to jury
trials for contempts. Favorably re-
ported in Massachusetts, the model
bill is still in committee in Alabama,
Connecticut, Illinois and Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-06-28
SHOE WORKERS
Unions Fight Flight of Firms
From Boston

Boston (ILNS)-Executives of
shoe workers unions, at Lynn, Salem,
Beverly, Boston, Maiden, Everett,
Cambridge, and other cities in eastern
Massachusetts, all being within metro
politan Boston, have been endeavoring
to focus public opinion against the
migration of shoe manufacturing
firms from the Boston territory, to
smaller centers in New England, in
Guiding New Hampshire and Maine. 1t
is pointed out that the basic reason
for the removals Of the shoe compan-
les has been to escape from the wages
paid IN and around Boston, to the
much lower rates prevailing in New
Hampshire and Maine.
Several Maine communities, through
their city and town councils, have
been active in soliciting the execu-
tives of shoe firms in metropolitan
Boston to transfer to their centers,
promising cheaper taxes, light and
power, and water as we'll as wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-06-28
TELLING FACTS ABOUT
CORPORATIONS

BY the end of the summer, the
securities and exchange commission
will have pretty definite knowledge Of
who owns the United States. That is
to say, the lists of officers, directors
and principal stockholders of 1900
corporations will be in the hands Of
the commission by August 10. and will
be made public as soon thereafter as
possible. A good many Of these lists
already have been received and pub
hshed by the SEC; but the work will
be finishde by fall.
Probably few people realize the I'M
portance Of this step. 1t literally
means a statement Of who owns these
United States.
The SEC will make public the facts
about 1900 corporations. But three
years ago book was published by
Gardner G. Means and A. A. Berle,
showing that less than 200 corpora
tions owned a major share of the in.
dustrial wealth Of the United States,
outside of financial institutions. In
other words, handful of corporations
control the industrial life Of nation
Of l25 100000.
The concentration goes even farther.
Means and Berle showed and no one
has contradicted them that these 200
or less giant corporations had fewer
than 1000 different directors. In
other words, 1000 men constitute a
majority of the boards Of directors
which control the business of the
United States. And here the SEC
is preparing to make public an official
statement covering the ownership and
management of, not 200 corporations,
but of more than six times that many.
Doubtless the list will be incomplete
at frst-the skill in evasion at the
command Of Wall street runs to infor-
nation as well as taxes. But it is a
long, long step toward public under
standing of the corporation problem;
and understanding in the end means
control.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-06-28
Labor Charges Lobbying

ST. Louis, Mo. (ILNs) Widespread
lobbying in the Missouri 58th general
assembly was revealed in the report
Of the Missouri joint labor legislative
committee. The report said lobbyists
worked on the floor Of the house
during the session apparently with
the consent Of the speaker" and would
go to the speakers dais and confer
with him.
1t charged that ''the persuasive cold
bottle was given TO members who
We're susceptible to being influenced
in room less than 60 feet from the
floor of the house
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-06-28
Pay Boost for Metal Miners
Given to Allay Discomfort

Salt Lake City, Utah (AFLNS)-
As a result Of well defined discomfort
oeeasioned by low wages coupled with
the increased cost Of living among
metal miners. officials of Utah smell
ters and silver lead mines granted an
increase Of % cents a day to all men
who ere paid day wages. In order not
to add to the discomfort, officials an
nounced that the hours would remain
the same as they were under the fair
practice code of the mining industry
which was destroyed by the decision
Of the United States Supreme Court
holding the national recovery act un-
constitutional.