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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-06-08
COUNTY POLITICAL LEAGUE
ENDORSES CONSERVATIVES

In a circular distributed by the
Hennepin County Political League
with a list of its indorsees it includes
the names of three Farmer-Labor-
ties and liberals. It's other indor-
sees being conservatives or known
as those with Republican leanings.
They failed to indorse anyone for
The Library board.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-06-08

Rev. C.. F. Stewards father, Of
Chicago is in the city visiting. While
here he expects to go on a weeks
fishing trip.
DR.. and Mrs. Judy and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Starks will spend the
weekend, June 9th, at Lake Poke
CANA.
Mrs. Alice Golden, BIT Emerson
Avenue North, is somewhat under
the weather.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-06-08
John F. Thomas
Makes Statement
To Voters
LIBERAL VOTERS LEAGUE
ENDORSES TOM LATIMER

On Monday, June 10th, the voters
of the City of Minneapolis visit the
polls to exercise their prerogative of
selecting those men and women who
are to guide the destinies of the
municipal government for the next
few years. It is gratifying to state
that in this election for the first time
a political organization has risen
from the common people to unity
the Negro vote. Last Friday, May
31st, over 400 people applauded and
cheered the work of the Liberal
Voters League. These laudatories
were not the result of good old cleo
ton spirit but were indicative of
the recognition that in this league
the Negro may find his political SOL
ace. It manchester the belief that
these leaders were not on the plat
form to demonstrate their linguistic
abilities, but were there to put the
candidates straight as to the needs
of the colored people in Minneapo-
lis.
We feel that the Negro should
cast heavy vote for Thomas E. Lat
liner for the office of Mayor. This
unequivocable endorsement has been
accepted so strongly because it is
our belief that Mr.. Latimer is the
better qualified to acquit the respon-
sibilities of that office. We are tir-
ed, very tired, of the Uncle Tom,
handkerchief-headed type of Negro
who makes convenient arrange
ments with his candidates after U.s.
ing personal persuasion and prom
Uses to gather the support of the col
ored voters. After his men are put
into office, this type of person
changes colors so easily and as read
lily as the chameleon. We wash our
hands of these so-called leaders who
accept paltry 500 or 5000, fore
go their promises to their loyal
workers, and become living exam
Piles of Browning's immortal words,
"Just for a handful of silver he left
u.s."
This is new deal = the Negro is
swinging in on the ground floor. Get
on the band wagon, folks. We want
men on jobs in our wards, women on
the election boards, girls and boys
with the possibilities of courthouse
positions. These are not idle prom
les cast Unfortunately and pro-
miscously on the eve of election.
Thee are truths that will accrue
from solid Negro labor vote plac-
ed behind Tom Latimer and other
candidates endorsed by the Liberal
Voters league. If we are wrong,
may the Lord pass us by.
John Frederick Thomas, Organizer
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-06-08
Reflected

J. w. Pate, Minneapolis insur-
ance and real estate man, was elect
ed ruler of Ames Lodge Of Elks for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-11

brations. He said a small quake
maker could shake a whole city to
pieces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-11
INVENTOR BARES
CONTINUANCE TO
CAUSE QUAKES
NikoIa Tesla, at 79, Clears
Up Old Mystery of
Earth Shock.

~ United PTcss
NEW YORK. July 11-Scientist
Nikola Tesla's birthday revelation
that he started an earthquake
alarmed a downtown ghetto today.
Most immediate reaction to the
famous inventors announcement Of
three revolutionary discoveries
vas startled curiosity about the To-
cation of his secret laboratory,
which supposedly still houses his
earthquake machine.
Mr.. Tesla refused pointedly to
disclose where he workS-the worlds
weirdest spot in popular mind to-
day. In addition TO the mysterious
quake maker" he puckishly de-
scribed, Mr.. Tesla's workshop was
revealed as containing also a new
kind OF motor driven by "cosmic
particles from the sun, and a
mechanism that sends vibrations
ripping through the earth as a new
form of communication.
The inventor. whose 700 basic
patents include widely used meth
DDS Of large-scaIe distribution of
electricity, assumed on his seventy
ninth birthday the aspect Of a sin
ister wizard, when he confessed
that IN his bony, wedge-shaped
head started the Houston earth
quake Of 81 years ago.
One day violent temblors shook
a neighbOrhood. They centered
mysteriously in one building. Peo-
pie we're thrown into panic. Fire
men and police responded to alarms.
Suddenly the vibrations stopped.
Mr.. Tesla said the quake" ceased
when he snatched up a hammer
and knocked a gadget from the wall
Of his laboratory. His workshop
then was in the most affected build
ing. Where it is now he refused to
reveal.
The CADET, he said, was a vibra-
ton simplifying mechanism set to
harmonic with the buildings vi
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21
WASHINGTON. LINCOLN AND ROOSEVELT

In no way detractng from the universal glory which is George Washingtons and Abraham Lincons there IS
 marked trend of public conception that Franyn D. RooSe- ve now President of the United States is to occupy one ot those of the mighty beside former Presidents Geo. ree Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
 The anniversary of the date of the birth of George Washington the First President of the United States of Am erica decreed to be legal holiday to be observed m all lands, which the American flag held sway That date is February 22nd and the everyday functions of the people of Nome have been laid aside to their respects to the memory of the Father of His Country.
 George Washington born Feb P, 1732 Westmore- land County Virginia He died after of the most event. fu lives lived by pioneer both in fact and in politics His death December H. l799 distinct shock to the young nation He is buried at Mt Vernon, where his estate preserved in it's former glory to this day. Wash ngton elected the First President of the United Sta tes and served two terms, from 1789 to 1797.
 It is from his practice that the presen-day policy of only serving President is taken. At the peton of his second he gave that memorial speech known as Washingtons Farewell Address, in which he stat ed he believed at the end of two terms that he could longer serve President due to ill health and various pcaons of satecra but that he would be ready assist with his advice and moral support
 The people of the country looked to George Washington lead them through the trying days of early nationas Today the hope and trust reposes in Franklin Roose Vet who received the greatest popular acclaim of any President in off year election Important trans pred during Washingons term of office and today events probably just important ransprng under President Roosevelt.
 There no secret that the leaders of business labor theology science and educaOn WhOeheartedy putting their trust in Roosevelt bring about greater measure security and Webeng for the people of the United States the identical purpose which George Washington worked for during his tenure of office The memory of George Wash ngton and Abraham Lncoln who also confronted with
 like condition among the masses being experienced
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21
Soldiers Of The Storm Unravels
 At Cyclonic Clip

Soldiers of the Storm" who swoop down out of the skies to get their man." takes possession of the Dream Theatre screen. Friday night. Feb. ruary 22nd, Washington's Birthday. starring Regis Toomey, Anita Page. Barbara Barondess and Barbara Weeks appear in the cast of this Columbia picture, directed by D. Ross ("Speed") Lederman. from the story by Thomson Burtis. It has to do with the activities of Uncle Sam's Mexican border patrol, the flying counterpart of the famous Texas Rangers. and how they handle smugglers from the clouds with con- vincing machine gun fire,
 Toomey is cast as an under-cover agent of the Patrol who works hand in-hand with the smugglers. collect ing evidence to convict the higher ups in the illicit international rac- ket of transporting drugs and aliens over the line. Burtis, the author was himself a member of the Patrol Along with Jimmie Doolittle and Jimmy Hazlup, he flew his machine gun-equipped plane along 1900 mile front" from Texas to Arizo- na. Soldiers of the Storm" is an actual picturization of his own thrill ing experiences.
 Break-neck air stunts. under-cover plots, fast and furious action and a pleasing, romantic story-that's Sol diers of the Storm. Others in the supporting cast include Wheeler Oakman. Dewey Robinson. George Cooper, Arthur Wanzer and Henry WadsWorth..
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21

Miss Jeanette Hildre and Jack Gould, both of Juneau, were mar ried in Ketchikan recently. The young couple returned to Juneau on the Victoria and have settled down to housekeeping.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21
 RI THD AY
 PR 0 C R A M

1. Dancing in the Rain
 2. Old Style Circle Dance
 3. Two theives from Siberia
 4. Telling Stories to Each Other 5. Walrus Dance
 6. First White Man Trading with Natives
 '. Hunting I Jar Bear
 8. Witch Doctor Dance with Drum g. Knee dance
 10. Old Fashioned Dance with Drum
 II. Tap Dance
 l2. Old Southren Song with Guitar Accompaniment
 l3. Old Time Fire Making
 The above program will be given under the auspices of the Boring Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood organizations, Washington's Birthday Friday February 22nd, at the gym nasium of the native school The public is invited. Admission for adults will be 50 cents and child ren ten cents.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21

Mrs Mabel Shotter, teacher for the Cook Inlet school at Homer, has filed on a tract of land on a school section. She has bought a COW and will engage in ranching when she is not teaching
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21

today will forever bring to mind the of Franklin D. Roosevelt who facing the problems of reorganization and stability with power which has never been known before, have been vested in President of the United States
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-21

Mail the Nome Daily Nugget to your friends, and let them know about the rebuilding of Nome. .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

white earth, white sky still bill.
lowed and scared In the soaring
sun. Have you seen the darkness
Of steel fade and flame into pure
radiance in the blacksmith's fur
mace? So that land faded and
famed into a fiery film in the
furnace Of summer. Color, sub
stance, Shape-sound and shadow
gone, wiped out. Nothing left
but that blazing brilliance, beat.
ing down, plotting out, blurring,
binding.
Heat-God, what heat! Days
that ate like acid. Days when the
flesh Shriveled; when the brain
withered to a dry kernel within
the skull.
I began my career as manual
laborer on a day like that. In the
months before, I had done a little
Of this, a little of that. sewed.
Cooked. Washed clothes. At first,
there had been a few dollars.
Then fewer. Then, with the
granting Of the Vermont divorce,
not a nickel. We had to do some
thing-pronto.
How? Where? What assets had
I? Not any-outside of monu-
mental nerve. No practical train
ing. Health? Precarious. Nerves?
Shot. So what?
So I figured that-there being
no presidents for gals in my fix
I'D make one. I begged an old
flannel shirt from one man, som.
brero and mining boots from an.
other, made myself a skirt out Of
canvas. learned how to twirl
a pan. Then I asked the men to
give me a Job at the business
end of a wheelbarrow.
Laugh? No; they blushed with
embarrassment. A woman-a
lady-mining? 1t was inconceiv'
able. Calamity they offered to
ante up for my keep and let me
loaf around. But I couldn't see
it. I not only needed, but
wanted to be in the show. They
let me have my way. So we
went mining-my boy and I.
How did we live? I've told you
how and where we slept. Our
other arrangements" were in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

night, too tired to eat, too beaten
to thirk. Beauty above? Adven.
ture below? They did not exist.
Only GOODNESS existed - blessed
GOODNESS; blessed darkness.
But after q time grew strong
enough to move around after
littl> rest. To smile at my boy,
teach him his lessons.
Presently, 1 could stretch my
shoulders, lift my head, see the
stars! Then, deep inside, a song
began, q shout. And with that,
the incredible beauty Of the des.
ert broke through to me.
Had night meant merely the
spraying OF q beaten brute? Now
it meant such loneliness as had
nevel known. Deep.Set In sap
phirc silence blazed the stars.
One month; two; six. I had
been pretty pink.and.whlte
blonde with tiny hands and USE
less teet. Little by little-not no.
ticing, not caring-1 lost the pink
ness and prettiness.
My long blonde hair slipped
from under the som brero,
bleached to q grayish-cream. My
eyelid5 crinkled, contracted to
blue Sits under white eyebrows.
MY skin grained to morocco. I
grew a grin; stopped being sorry
for myself-became as impersonal
as the everlasting rock I picked
and Planned.
She Began to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
Got Her Wages

At first 1t was tough! I mucked
which means shoveling mud
and stone into q wheelbarrow,
carting 1t off, clearing the tunnel
or shaft so the men can work on
the face Of the rock. I helped
timber-bracing beams against
the Shiny, slipping menace Of the
hanging wall, feeling the ooze
rise up about my knees, feeling
the weight and horror Of the
bullying darkness settle down
upon my skull.
I gophered through old dig
gings-crawling through 18.inch
assures, under rotting timbers
that cracked beneath their quar-
ter-mile earth crust.
Scared? Stranger, I was 50
scared that my nails would have
curled II there'd been room! But
When your only chance Of living
10 to keep going-why, you just
naturally wiggle right along.
It was a pocket mine. PoSket
mining IS CnanCy maCCer. line
gold doesn't lie in loose nuggets,
as it Goes In placer washing. Nor
Is it distributed regularly through
ore at q fair ton-by.ton average.
Gold Is where you find 1t in a
pocket mine-and it's a ninety
nine.to-onc shot that you won't
find it. Rarely is there a definite
prospect" to follow. On again,
off again, gone again-so goes
the gold, Pickering, flaring, fad.
ing through quartz, shale, clay,
crystals, or what have you. And
so, almost every pound Of broken
rock must be PANIED or picked
over.
CHAPTER XIV
Mucking, panning, timbering-
during the first summer it was
all delirium. OF one thing only
was I constantly and acutely
conscjous-the heat.
At first I could only sprawl
headlong where I dropped at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
Society Always Hopes
For the Worst

But Society never accepts such
vague explanation from one who
defies it. On the contrary, So
ciety always hopes for the worst
and never has any trouble I'm.
covering abundant evidence Of
evil. It had no trouble in my
case. There was a man. He was
not the Villain in the Plot. There
was no Grand Passion.
The simple facts are these: !
was desperate; would have
Snatched at any helping hand; !
Snatched at this mans. He was,
despite evil surmise, my husbands
friend. A middle-aged man Of
fine family and decent spirit-but
sick, and in exile for his own fool
ishness. He was going West, Ito
try to forget"
I had done some simple draw
ings for book which he was
making for his children. He
pitied me and. I suspect, pitied
my distracted husband even more.
He offered to lend me car.fare;
to conduct me and my boy to my
mother in California. To this he
had my husbands willing con-
sent.
What would do after I reached
my mothers? I hadn't the slight
est idea. But here was way out.
It came suddenly but I needed no
preparation. Between one dawn
and evening. I gathered together
our few clothes, some loved books
and went away from there.
My husband accompanied us
for the first five hundred miles,
and for some years thereafter he
was associated II q business ven.
ture with ms friend. Yet he was
eventually 70 brand us both
Why? Well, f01 forty years ne
had denied life-an6 mated him
self for that denial. What bitter.
ness must have filled him as lie
watched nis wife and his boy
striking out--knowing he would
never follow! Yet man must
save his face" And SO...
But the story of what my huS.
band did comes later. Now I was
homeless, penniless, with a sick
child to care for-back again in
the West.
A lone woman with a sick child
facing life In 1912! Where in this
modern world am I to find words
which can possibly convey to
women born since the World War
what that fight meant?
At Twenty-Five, I was a typical
product Of my times, uneducated,
unframed, absolutely ignorant Of
= the world. Moreover, by the stand
ards of that day I was already
old! Twenty-Five. That's young
now. Modern twenty-nine tackles
her world-swims, dances, motors,
flies, works and wise-crackS her
way. Worry because a man fades
out, even though he leaves her
(, with a baby? Not she! And why
should she? She can get a job.
Five wordS-they transformed our
universe!
Only twenty-five years since ]
stepped off that train in 1912, yet
:: life has changed more for women
in those few years than it had in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
She Began to
Learn About Men

And I began to learn about men.
For the first thirty years Of my
life, I had hardly known men. It
Is inconceivable now, in the free.
dom of 1894, to realize how little
Nice Women knew about men in
those years from 1884 to 1914;
what abysses separated their
worlds. Even in the West, where
we went to school together,
tackled the frontier together, we
were parted by invisible walls.
Those walls had always intrigued
me, irritated me, lured me. For
what wonders might not lie on
the other side! Now at last, in
one mad leap, I had crossed the
wall, left the woman's world be-
hind me. Now I was with men,
always with men-only men. I
heard no other voices, knew no
other problems.
Men. Men. Nothing but men.
Men and work and rock and sky
and heat and buzzards and dyna-
mite-it was all one intolerable
blur at first. I had expected to be
excited, perhaps Economically in
trigued, but was nothing Of the
sort. was too punch-drunk with
worry and WEAKNESS. I felt
nothing at all.
Then gradually, as my body
righted itself, I began to discover
what 1t meant to live in world
Of men. But I made few discover
les during the days. During the
days we were only silent, sweating
brutes, drudging side by side. But
with the nights, we became human
beings-and, gradually, comrades.
The boy and I lived on the dirt.
We lived under a tree. We lived
in a cowshed. Then we found
little shack, whitewashed it, put
a picture on the wall, a flower in a
jug. lighted a fire.
You can't keep a regular wo-
man down. Give her all the rights
in the world, set her free to run
wolf with the pack-sooner Or
later, she'll start making a home.
And the day she does-there come
the men! Which fact should
give pause to the Militant Femin.
lists!
How did I get along with men
In the wilderness? That's how
I got along. They had accepted
me grudgingly as a fellow worker;
as grudgingly admitted my Spunk
and efficiency. But as soon as I
started cooking Chicken Spanish,
Pompadour had nothing on me!
over the mesas. up the arroyos,
down the moonlit trails-on bony
pintos, in rattling flivverS, men
came trooping in.
LOneliness of Space
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

Those next three years. I have
to brace myself to relive them. In
time we were to know worse
struggles, but the scars Of that
first terror bit deepest. The ter
ror Of the unframed facing for the
first time a world in which there
Is room only for the trained. The
overwhelming horror Of "a shell.
tered woman'S" first realization
that she doesn't matter.
Three years. How did I get
along? Occasionally, a few reluc-
tant dollars came from the East.
But the dollars were as hard to
get as they were to take. My huS.
band was managing his fathers
estate, for which he received
many perQuisites but little cash.
The dollars dwindled. My boy
sickened. We couldn't go back.
We had to 60 on. But where, and
to do what? Do anything? Try
to sell books; try to draw: try to
write. Fail-fail-fail at every
thing. Then beg, borrow, bluff.
And always that little face at
home" growing thinner, whittier,
but still laughing!
Three years! Somehow they
passed. Then one day, casually
how magnificently casual Fate
usually is!-two men (my brother
Phil and my husbands friend)
went on q careless trek through
the old gold country OF the Sierra
Nevada. They had heard of some
old diggings in Hornitos, Mari
posa county. Hornitos itself was
q mystery; few had seen 1t. 1t
lay at the southern tip of the
Mother Lode where the Sierra
flattens into the bare. blistered
bowl Of a prehistoric inland sea.
A world Of hellish heat-and lur-
ing loneliness! But there was gold
in the diggingS. A chance for
those two whom life had mauled.
And perhaps, they wrote, my
boy-Strangling in ocean fog
might breathe in that dry, hot air.
If could manage to come. I
managed. And with the first
soaring breath from that blazing
wilderness, his gaSping stopped;
he sat up-laughed!
CHAPTER XIV
So we came to Hornitos. No
town, 2lIy q cluster Of deserted
huts aud g. general store. Per
maps atty scattered inhabitants.
No money, no job there, either.
But few mines still running and
few men working in those
miae2. A lean prospect. But we
had to ~tay My boy must go on
breathing. aa must. That was
all there was to that. If there
was no work except mining, then
1 would be a miner. And so for
four years-from the time I was
80 until I was 36-1 worked as a
common laborer in a California
gold mine.
Hornitos was a desert place,
rainless for nine months Of the
year. MY DOy dAAO AA0AS SNH
home where we could. We spread
our blankets wherever chance
offered; in the open; on the bare,
baked soil; in deserted 'dobe huts.
To be a miner requires skill, ex-
perience and plenty Of muscle.
Having neither, became mine
roustabout, taking any job that
came along. I "mucked," helped
timber" cooked camp chow,
washed clay-caked miners over
ais.
All day toiled shoulder to
shoulder with men-Mexicans,
Americans, Indians, Italians, Eng
lishmen, ChileanS. At night,
many a time. slept beside them
in a common huddle-all Of us
lying just where we had dropped
from exhaustion.
Hard on me? I'm tempted to
let you get away with the idea.
But the simple truth is that had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13

We were going away from there
my boy and I.
If my husband would come and
make a home for US where life
would be possible, that was good.
But If he wouldn't I was going
anyway. Going back to California
No money? I would borrow
money-somehow. No home? I
would make a home-somewhere.
Nothing could stop me now. l
was on my way!
Now was taking the greatest
chance Of my life. I was about
to leave the only haven I had and
strike out into the unknown with
my sick boy. I was doing 1t with
out definite plan or even, per-
haps, definite justification-from
the bystander's viewpoint. was
bewi1dered, furious and seemingly.
entirely selfish. Yet I now know
I was driven by a truly spiritual
urge; was as selfless in my seek.
ing for escape as I can ever hope
to be.
Society Always Hopes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-13
LONELINESS of Space
And of Spirit

My invincible charm? Charm
your eye! They didn't care boot
about me-or, at most, very few
boots. But they cared for what !
representations. What is that
invincible ut" before which every
masculine heart bites the dust?
Prepare for a shock, Bedelia. 1t is
not the lure Of the lovely eye, nor
the touch Of the lily-white hand,
It's the overpowering combination
of a jolly gingham apron. light
in the window, and q swell meat
pie!
So, as I was saying, in came
the men. There were hardly 50
men in or around Hornitos itself.
But the desert is an amazing
place. Seemingly as empty as the
moon, 1t has secret veins of life
in every direction. And your