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The Coolidge examiner., 1935-07-12
New Gin For Coolidge

Construction work is well
under way on a new modern
cotton gin east of Coolidge
near the gin of the Western
Gin Co. operated by T. t.
Terrill. The gin is being
this season.
constructed by the Western
Products Co., of Phoenix.
who are the same as the
Western Gin Co.
The new gin is being built
to handle the large crop of
long staple cotton; will be
equipped with twelve stands
all expect to be very busy
and will have the latest
machinery and facilities
throughout. This makes the
fifth gin for Coolidge and
had already got his teeth
but he cannot tell you how
tourquet tastes. They retired
gracefully; made for an
American cafe, seized the
bill of fare and carefully
selected plain English words
in the third grade.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Uncle Sam Defaults

AS the talk of increasing District taxes becomes
stronger and threatening, it is increasingly ap
parent that there would be need of considering
such proposal if Congress would PERMIT THE Ma
TON TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH ITS NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
The committee of District officials which is studying
the local tax situation has found growing deficit of
Capital improvements during the last few years,
That deficit has mounted steadily because Congress
has during years deliberately defaued the obi
cation Which the country OhOle has to aid in the de-
Ueopent and improvement of the city which is the seat
of the Federal Government.
During the years that the Federal appropriation for
its Capital has decreased the obligation has in fact in
creased
For in the last decade the Federal Government has
removed millions and millions of dollars worth of prop
erty from the tax rolls of the city
There has been attempt to compensate the city for
thus reducing the amount of property which must bear
the tax load
ON THE CONTRARY WHILE THE AMOUNT OF
TAXABLE PROPERTY HAS BEEN CUT BY THE
ACTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT
GOVERNMENT HAS WITHDRAWN A LARGE
MEASURE OF ITS FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
The only equitable way of meeting the condition which
has been brought about by this derection the part of
the Federal Government is for the Congress to return
again to proper Federal appropriation for the Federal
city.
TO ATTEMPT TO FoIsT UPON THE COM
PARATIVELY FEW CITIZENS OF THIS SMALL
AREA A BURDEN WHICH SHOULD BE SPREAD
OVER THE NATION CAN RESULT ONLY IN THE
CREATION HERE OF CITY WHICH WILL BE A
NATIONAL SHAME INSTEAD OF NATIONAL.
JOY.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Politics and Relief
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

Many months ago the Admins
tration gave to the American peo-
pie this public pledge regarding
the Governments expenditure Of
their money for the relief of the
sick and needy.
Speaking for the Administra-
ton, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Partisan politics must play
no part in the carrying out Of
this work"
Kansas is one of the States in
which this pledge has been kept
in letter and in spirit. And there
are other States that can proudly
point to the same record of good
faith. But apparently the Key
stone State of Pennsylvania is not
among them.
Clifford Pinchot throughout the
four years that he was Governor
held himself in honor bound to
see to it:
"That families on relief were
not cheated-that money ap-
prOpriated for their relief was
spent for their relief, and not
squandered on building up a
political machine"
PROTEST AND APPEAL
But Governor Pinchot's term of
office has expired. Conditions in
PennSy lvania have recently
changed for the worse. How
much for the worse they have
changed the former Governor
tells the Administration in a pub
lie letter delivered to the White
House by messenger.
In the course of this patriotic
protest and appeal Mr.. Pinchot
addresses this appeal to the
Chief Executive:
I'm compliance with your
public invitation to tell you Of
instances where improper prac-
tees prevail in the admins
tratiOn of relief, bring to your
attention the fact that Federal
work relief in Pennsylvania
has been sold into political
bondage.
Il make this protest publicly
because of your public pledge
that relief would be kept out Of
politics. Moreover, this per
version is not confined to Penn
sylvania, but has infested other
States.
until WPA took it over,
work relief in Pennsylvania
was clean. Men were chosen
for wOrk-relief by nOn-partiSan
relief boards on the basis of
need alone. Today the Situa-
ton is wholly changed. Wash
ingtOn has put in charge of
work relief in Pennsylvania an
utterly incompetent political
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henchman of the notorious
spokesman Guffey.
To-day men are chosen for
work relief on the basis of
political advantage. WPA, in
Pennsylvania, under Guffey's
man Jones has been degraded
into a Democratic pie counter.
Republicans are denied work
unless they will disavOw their
party and register as Demo
Gratis. At a meeting of WPA
foreman and supervisors in
Pittsburgh on December Is, as
reported in the press, one of
Jones' district administrators
made the following statement
in Jones presence:
I'll tell you right now that
any WPA worker who is not in
sympathy with the WPA pro-
gram and the Roosevelt AID.
miniStratiOn will be eliminated
from the WPA payrOIls in this
district as quickly as l can act.
l want you men to report all
such cases to me without
delay"
OF this shocking condition of az.
fairs Mr.. Pinchot says in his
brave and timely communication:
"Such prostitution of relief
to politics is stencil in the nos
trils of all decent people. :"
Playing politics with hu-
man misery may be a thread.
bare expression but that is ex-
actly what Guffey's man Jones
is doing in Pennsylvania. He
has defiIed and degraded a
great and noble enterprise and
thousands of worthy families
are feeling the pinch because
of him.
PINCHOT'S PLEA
81 ask you to remove the Fed.
eral appOintees who have perpe-
trated this wickedneSs, who have
disgraced your Administration
and diScredited your pledge.
II ask you to replace them
with men worthy of respect, to
take work relief in PENNSYLVANIA
out from under Guffey's evil
domination
81 appeal to you, Mr.. PreSi.
dent, because you have given
your word, and you have the
power to make it good"
In this appeal of Governor Pin
chot every American worthy the
name will unite. In the hope that
this appeal will not fall upon deaf
ears every loyal American will join.
If there is one pledge of the
Administration which "the house
hold of the nation" has a right to
demand shall be kept, not only at
Christmas but throughout the
year. it is the pledge of the Ad.
ministration not to play politics
with human misery" in admins
tering relief.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Crimes Kingdom

The decision of Colonel Lndbergh to take his wife and
to England because he longer endure the risks to
which they exposed here is think the most soaring
and the time the most thoroughly justified indct-
ment of Americas laxty with criminals that could be made
Colonel Lindbergh has been and is national idol
His conquest the Atlantic placed him among the heroes
of all time.
His courage his straightforwardness his modesy his
irreproachabe life made him the symbol of everything
which American parents would wish their to be-
The tragedy Which robbed him and his uOfe of their
first-born the direct result of this nations i'm
credibLy stupid sentimental tolerance of the criminal
element
The constant threats and harassnents to Which he
and his family haze been subjected since due
to the same cause.
To crOuUn olL-uUhen the murderer of the child had
been conUctcd after trial Which the Supreme Court
of the United States has held fair to hmthe is
TeOpened from What many observers consider brazen
political motives and nothing else.
Under such circumstances who find it in his heart
blame the Lndberghs for leaving country which does NOT
protect the innocent which RARELY Furnishes the guilty
which permits army of several million native and alien
criminals to roam throughout it in perfect freedom?
If any American find for aught but bitter
humiliation at the state into which law and ORDER has sunk
in this land, he is either criminal himself a fool
nation in which murder kidnapping, robbery are COM
monplace and justice is NEWS honestly presume
call itself civilized however much may plume itself on its
material achievements.
That is situation today.
It is shameful admission make but an admission that
America is compelled to make BY THE RECORD
The Washington times., 1935-12-26

asked to appear before the Sab
ath Committee, which wished TO
inquire into his realty activities
in New York.
After the committee had In
uuired into Mr.. Grimm's attalrs'
it learned that President Roose.
welt was planning to appoint
Grimm as Secretary Henry Nor
genthau's assistant.
The committee objected. Mem
bers sent a telegram to the Pres
ident saying that they were not
inclined to favor the appoint
ment. A conference was called
in Washington.
Mr.. Grimm. Mr.. Morgenthau
and Mr.. SABBATH conferred.
Mr.. Grimm was appointed after
giving satisfactory information.
There came a time when the
funds of the SABBATH Committee
were nearing the point OF ex-
haustion.
employees were anxious to be
paid.
Mr.. Grimm was instrumental in
arranging to have their salaries
paid.
He aided in the arrangement
that now permits employees Of the
SABBATH Committee to be paid by
the Treasury Department.
They are listed as Treasury en-
ployes, borrowed" for the pur-
pose of working for the SABBATH
Committee.
Representative John O'Connor
The Washington times., 1935-12-26

HOW MUCH DO YOU LIVE?
You wonder, anxiouSly-"How
long will uve?"
But length of. life isn't the i'm
portant concern. You can't
achieve happiness merely by pill
ing up a record on the calendar.
It's QUALITY not QUANTITY
of life that counts. that makes
your life success or failure.
Instead of asking how LONG,
ask rather how MUCH you live?
Life isn't measured by days.
It's measured by FEELINGS. You
LIVE as much as you FEEL.
You live as high as your own
HOPE
AS deep as your own CURIOs-
TTY-
AS wide as your own coUR-
AGE
And by no possible method can
you live more than you feel.
Daily you meet magnificent
lives-and mean ones. BY our
usual way of reckoning, money
should provide that magnificence ;
poverty be responsible for that
meanneSs. If enough things hap.
pen TO perSon-if he goes
enough places, sees enough things,
has enough poSseSsion-he should
be colorful, magnetic and delight.
fully happy.
DOESN'T FOLLOW
But it doesn't follow. AS often
as not, the gay and gallant per-
son is in rags, and the starved,
sour spirit wears ermine. But
why?
Because we live not in what we
HAVE, but in what we ARE.
Unless you yourself feel excite.
ment, nothing is exciting.
Unless you yourself are curious,
there are no adventures. Unless
you yourself burn and yearn, moth
ing is inspiring, nothing is lovely.
Life, in the raw, is much like
food. It IS the highest form of
food. Food has little meaning for
you until you eat and assimilate
it. Then it becomes valuable be.
cause it becomes part of your liv.
ing body.
But no food can become part of
your body until you have chewed
it and churned it over within your
body-digested it.
Emotion does for the spirit what
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Santa had a special present
Tied up neatly in his sack;
And he leaves well-filled stocking
For his boys who spend the jack.

of world domination, leaving un-
shaken, through seismic tremorS,
the seats of the mighty? 1t
would almost seem so.
Our own du Pont clan has sub
stituted the orchid for the fleur
de lis of it's eighteenth century
origin. There are seven acres un-
der glass in their greenhouses
near Wilmington, Del. Orchids,
wanton and temper m ntal
blooms, are there subdued, duti-
fully Towering, but never regi-
mented. The du Points never
would stand for that. Perhaps
The Washington times., 1935-12-26

Not straw flowers but orchids
show which way the wind blows.
For the first time since 1929, the
regal blooms of yesteryear were
back in abundance in the parterre
row at the Metropolitan opening.
Gorgeous, heraldic emblems Of
thrones, powers and dominions"
are these blooded relatives of the
lady's,slipper and the Snowdrop.
We commoners may hope to
stabilize America at the level of
a good scent cigar, but the Van
Hoophen-H yphenS, down to a few
paltry millions, see the substance
Of all things hoped for in a good,
dependable, run-of-the-mill five
dollar orchid.
Here they are back in the
Golden Horseshoe; and here is not
only the brave incandescence of
diamond tiaras again, but the
gentler and somehow more i'm
perial and queenly glory of that
harbinger of one more Wall Street
Spring-the orchid.
This isn't women's page stuff.
Many men, countless men have
died. garnering these pedigreed
plant royalties in dark jungles or
on windswept mountain peaks.
Men of destiny, imperious, mex
orable, have sought these flowers
as Arthur's knights sought the
Grail.
Kitchener of Khartoum-
Kitchener, the victor Of Omdurman
turned aside from deeds of high
emprise to plunge into a wilder
ness of long safaris, with hun
dreds Of black boys in his entour-
age, in search of orchids. Many
years ago I saw him enter the
Palace Hotel in San Francisco
blond superman-cold, Steely-
eyed, communicated of a
lordly breed if there ever was one.
SYMBOL OF POWER
An exquisite orchid, in a crystal
vase in a florists display, stopped
him as the Muezzin'S call to
prayer stops Moslem. In sharp,
eager. excited tones, he ques-
toned the girl attendant. The
orchid was a light pink. exquis-
itely veined in chartreuse. Lord
Kitchener took some notes and
moved on.
I ran down it's pedigree. It
was the rare Cypripedium Farea-
mum, the flower that made the
old fighters heart beat faster. E.
de Rothschild, the financier, was
enthralled, obsesSed with orchids,
their culture, their care. He
fondled them as a mother fondleS
her child. Old Joe Chamber
lain, Britain's empire builder,
found in the orchid a symbol of
imperial glory, the ironmonger'S
cachet of rank when he became
a statesman. Okuma. the agita-
tor, had an obsessive fondneSS
for orchids.
Did they merely make broad
the bands of their phylacteries"
like the Biblical Pharisees? Or
has the orchid in some mysteri-
Gus way become the esoteric sym
Dol Of the brotherhood Of power,
The Washington times., 1935-12-26

this is one reason why they like
them.
Startlingly beyond the range of
type or species may be the colors,
the exquisite tracery of line and
pedal forms which any plant sud
denly may fling into the sunlight.
The gonfalon which Samuel Un-
termeyer raises against a chal-
longing world-as through dec
AIDES he routes his foes. conquers
new dominions and CLEANS mil
lions-is an orchid in his button
hole.
All in all, the truth is that
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
CAUSES WORRY

Efforts to change the present
House rule that requires 218 mem
bers to sign petition to dis
charge committees and thus force
a vote on a pigeon-holed bill will
be limited in the next session, &C.
cording to all reports.
The Administration move to
change the rule which required
only 145 and increase it to 218
necessary signatures caused con-
siderable controversy in the last
session when it met with success.
Minorities realized that they
would be deprived of one of their
best methods of overcoming the
pressure applied by majoritieS
which wished to stifle measures
in committee.
The protests were overcome,
however, and under the guidance
of the Administration the rule
was changed so that it required
the signatures of 218 members to
bring a bill out of committee
against the wishes Of the COM
mittee.
Since adjournment of the last
Congress, several members have
been considering an attempt to
revise the rule and reduce the
limit to 145.
Most of them have been called
off for one reason. And the
reason is that it would make it
too easy to force a vote on the
Townsend plan of old-age pen
sionS.
That there will be efforts to
adopt the Townsend plan is not
doubted by anyone.
That it has caused many mem
berS considerable worry is also
an accepted fact.
To ease the methods of caus.
ing a vote would not meet with
the approval of any of the in.
creasing group which does not APP
prove of the Townsend plan but
makes concessions for political
reasons.
So it is that the members who
otherwise would seek a change
in the petition rule because OF
their interest in various bills are
lodging the issue.
They are convinced that 1t
would be inadvisable to make any
move which might cause COM
plications in connection with tho
Townsend plan.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
HOW MUCH DO YOU LIVE? 9th,

THE stomach does for the flesh.
Emotion takes the crude stuff OF
circumstance and transforms it
into part of your living experience.
But lacking that emotion, the cir
cumStance remains meaningless.
Two men, for example, witness
the same street scene. One man
observes all the actions-then
Shrugs his shoulders and passes
on. That street scene has done
nothing to him or for him because
he has done nothing with it. He
has made no attempt to quicken
it with his own excitement, his
own pity, or wonder, or curiosity.
The other man, however, sees
the same Scene-and flames! He
has trained his interest and i'm.
agination to reach out and take
in, and turn whatever he sees
into personal profit. Now, in
this simple scene, he sees drama,
and his whole life becomes richer
and warmer.
CAN'T BE BOUGHT
Life is like that. It quickens
into meaning only when you
yourself quicken.
That Is why most of our great
schemes for uplifting humanity
go amisS; why human life re.
mains on such a drab level, de-
spite our enormous charity.
We should, it is true, give
everyone a decent break mate,
rally.
BUT NO AMOUNT OF
MONEY OR TRAINED SERVICE
CAN BUY HAPPINESS OR Elk
CITEMENT FOR ANY HUMAN
BEING. It's up to the individual
himself to change inert life into
throbbing living.
Stop whining because circum.
stances don't make your world
dramatic and begin to provide
your own drama. Reach out
wonder and risk! Fire the dull
stuff of your experience with your
own FAITH. deepen it with
your CURIOSITY and TENDER
NESS.
Talk to the people. think the
thoughts, do the things you've
hitherto ignored. And little by
little JOUR- LIFE WILL BE
COME ALIVE.
Copyright, 1885. King Features
] Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

orchids have enthrared strong,
ruthless men more than they have
women. To women, they may be
emblematic of social prominence
But to men-they get in their
blood. DR.. Freud might have
something to say about that. Eng
land seems to have started it
imperial England of the days Of
noble buccaneering, when it got
that fast running start in grab
bling the world.
Stars, garterS, even earldoms,
were crowded on illustrious orchid
hunters. In Assam, Borneo, Ma
lacca, the Andes, up the Orinoco,
in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
Guatemala, scouts for rich and
titled EngliShmen hunted orchids
including the ancestor of that
new blood red orchid just issued
in Chicago at $40 copy. Many
of them lost their lives in savage
jungles or perilous mountain as
cents, and the sanguine Chicago
orchid might touch off an apt
citation of old Omar: Il some
times think that never blows so
red the rose as where some buried
Caesar bled."
MEN AND FORTUNES
England once sent a great
military expedition into the
heart of Thibet, to the sacred
city of Lassa, to find a lost
orchid. 1t had been brought
from Tibet. cultivated, and then
the strain had disappeared. Cap
tain Younghusband led the ex-
petition. He spent lives and
treasures. And when he got the
orchid which now blooms IN Eng
land, it was that same Cyriped-
ium Faireanum which had so eX-
cited Lord kitchener in the lobby
of the Palace Hotel.
Did Lord Kitchener knew that?
Did he hear the drumbeats OF
empire as he looked at that deli
cate flower in the crystal vase?
Peter Pan walked in Kew Gard
ems, and there is the imperial
domicile-the windsor Palace
of the transplanted sovereign
blooms of the British empire.
DR., Lindley is their keeper, famed
throughout the world for his
knowledge of this fragile peerage.
And there are built up the stud
books which orchid fans every
where know and cherish-ln
which the thoroughbredS are
traced as carefully through the
generations as they are in a
Hackney book.
Rich Americans, too, have sent
their orchid hunters into many
a far wilderness to bring them
flowers. Tales of EidelweiSS and
its quest would be pale narratives
compared with some Of their ad.
ventures. George Banault, orchid
scout for Mrs. G. w. Wilson, OF
Philadelphia, was a small, wlry
Frenchman, who, ranSacking
fever swamps for orchids, got
into wilder adventures than Rich
ard Harding Davis could have
invented had he lived another
lifetime. Again LA Traviata'
signs and again bloom the in,
sigma of might. The world wags
on.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
syndicate, rnS.)
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

chairman of the House Rules
Committee, was once a member
of the SABBATH Committee.
Some persons say that Mr..
O'Connor was not overly pleased
about the present situation.
O'Connor denies that he OBJ
jects.
He said:
81 see nothing wrong with it.
The SABBATH Committee has
caused considerably money to
be paid into the Treasury on
back taxes. So it is fair that
the Treasury should pay for
these employees"
It was originally intended that
the committee should have not
more than Is employees. Its work
ers are now listed at more than
half a hundred.
And the Treasury, with the ap-
proval of Mr.. Peter Grimm, helps
to pay them their salaries.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
Wise Words

The worst kind of shame is be-
ing ashamed of frugality or pow
erty.-Livy.
For the maintenance of peace,
nations should avoid the pinprickS
which forerun cannon-shots.-
Napoleon.
A little thing comforts us be-
cause a little thing afflicts U.S.
Pascal.
He that strives to touch a star,
oft Stumbles at a straw.-Spenser.
What he feels and not what he
does honors a man.-Schiller.
No age is shut against great
genius.-Seneca.
Gluttony kills more than the
sword.-Herbert.
The Washington times., 1935-12-26

Sabath Z o M
mittee of n e
House investi-
eating bon d.
holders r e r.
ganiza tionS.
This unusual
set-up has been
revealed as pro-
tests against it
increase.
The situation
goes back to
the time when
Peter Grimm,
now Assistant
S &c r e t airy OF
Frno clIrV W q c
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THE TREASURY PAYS

Out of the Treasury Depart
ment salary Golfers comes tn e
money to pay employees of the
The Washington times., 1935-12-26
OLD FAVORITES

a IUTkLSh Legend-IhON1aS BQILey ALdrICh
A certain Pasha, dead five thousand years,
Once from his harem fled in sudden tears
And had this the citys gate
Deeply engraven, "Only God is great
So these four words above the cty's noise
Hung like the accents of angels voice.
And evermore, from the high barbcan,
Saluted each returning
Lost is that cty's glory Every gust
Lifts with dead leaves, the unknown Pasha's dust,
And all is ruin-save wrinkled gate
Whereon is written, "Only God is great"
(ReuderS Vited to send to the editor their sugges
ons of old faVorites among the poems for reprnting in
this spGce)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-15
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Is it news to you that: Gasoline
totaling 58.414.256 gallons was used
by aircraft in the United States dur
ing 1884.
A solid steel propeller of a new
type which holds promise OF in
creased efficiency and lower manu-
featuring costs will be purchased by
the Bureau of Air Commerce in their
development program.
American Airlines' nationwide
short wave radio system handle APP
proximately 100000 words during
1884.
California leads the patton in
aviation with 766 licensed aircraft
and ISL licensed transport pilots.
Two land speed records were set
by French flyers, Raymond Del
Motto and NJ. Arnoux. recently at
Examples, France. Del Motto new
the 1000 kilcmeter course at an aver
age speed of 1853 m.p.h.. and Ar
noux recorded a new mark of 29l.4
m.p.h. in the 100-kilometer race.
Both flew Caudron-Renault speed
planes.