davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

Capper was recently discussing
the Republican chances with an
audience partially composed OF
good Democrats. He was asked
what he thought of Republican
chances of winning the election.
Capper replied that he believed
that the only man who would
have a chance to defeat Roosevelt
was Landon.
Although Capper comes from
Landon's State, he has other rea-
sons for making his predictions.
They are based on his constant
communication with large rep
resentative group of farmers OF
the nation.
AS in other situations involving
farmers, Capper has maintained
his touch with the farm belt.
So it may be that his views on
the subject could be construed as
being close to correct.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

scratch, as q sound scientist
should and, with this approach, a
planned economy may be at
tanned.
Certainly, the illusion or the OBJ
jective should not be condemned
because Of the gaudy trappings
with which half-baked planners
have invested them. Here is a
typical cross-section Of Mr.. Sears
easy-going study Of floods and soil
erosion:
'"The work Of water leveling
the hills and carrying them to
the ocean bed has gone on since
the beginning Of geological time
and must continue to the end
of it. 1t is q normal enough
process and certainly inevitable.
The danger Of the present stu
alton is not that any new force
is at work. but rather that the
rate Of its action has been
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

Until the American people re-
possess themselves Of their right
full control Of the Congress, Per
sonal Government will be able
to hide from them the larger
part of its unSavory record.
Personal Government today
dominates both Houses Of the
Congress.
It not only packs the standing
committees with its tools and
dupes but it packs the special
committees that do its will un-
der the pretext Of exercising the
inveStigative power with which
each House is clothed.
Personal Government by means
of gag-rule shuts off debate in
the House whenever debate would
threaten The enactment Of those
measures which Personal Govern
ment drafts and sends to the
House tagged as "must" bills.
Personal Government is as yet
unable, under the rules Of the
Senate, to gag that body and
shut off debate.
IT'S OWN SYSTEM
But by the appointment Of
committees and by liberal rewards
in the form of patronage and
pork barrel projects to members
of the Senate who bend the knee
to Personal Government, it is able
to exercise an influence on the
deliberations of that body far be-
yond any contemplated by the
trainers of the Federal Constitu-
ton.
And for those Senators Of the
Majority Party who show any ten
dency toward recalcitancy, Per-
Sonal Government has its own syS-
tenn of punishment to reinforce
its own system of rewards.
What Personal Government has
done to the Congress it will do to
the Federal Judiciary if it is re-
elected next November.
Vacancies will inevitably occur
during the next four years on the
Supreme Court of the United
States, on the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals and on the
bench of the Federal District
CoutS.
These vacancies will open the
way for Personal Government to
pack the courts with it's own era
ven creatures and with the same
careless disregard Of the American
system of Government that Per-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Wise Words

Corruption is a tree, whose
branches are of an immeasurable
length; they spread everywhere;
and the dew that drops from
thence hath infected some chairs
and stools of authority.-Beau-
mont and Fletcher.
Logical consequences are the
scarecrows of fools and the bea-
cons of wise men.-Thomas Henry
Huxley.
ALI who JOY would win must
share it-happineSS was born a
tWin.-Byron.
Nature fits all her children with
something to do.-Lowel.
Waste not fresh tears over old
griefs.-EuripideS.
Be silent and Subsistence never
betrays you.-John Boyle O'Reilly.
A noble man is led far by
woman's gentle wordS.-Goethe.
Remember that time Is money.
Benjamin Franklin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

|YOU-tIEES OF ENTHUSIASM,
CURIOSITY, FAITH.
You have banked them deeper
and deeper under the cold. gray
ash Of fear.
And now you complain that
you're going nowhere in life, get
ting nothing out of it.
WHY SHOULD YOU GET ANY.
THING OUT OF LIFE UNLESS
YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TC
USE TT?
Why should you tingle and burn
and fling your fury over far hori.
IONS when you refuse to use your
own force. refuse even to admit
that you have force within you
TURN ON THE HEAT"
Turn on the heat Of your own
desire, ambition and curiosity
your own Self-reSpect
your own faith in yourself and
your neighbOr and Life.
TURN ON THE HEAT"
Rouse yourself out Of your
ashes Of cOwardice and self-pity!
Stop grOvelling stop cringing
stop saying, "There'S no chance"
for such as you.
There's all the chance you
need-right within you!
TURN ON THE HEAT"
Be the god you were meant to be
God gave you that heat in thu
beginning. God meant that vol
should use it to lift yourself, likt
a flame, from the Stacking clay
of the flesh to the burning heights
of divinity.
And nothing can stop you if vol
are willing to use it! Poverty can
not stop you. Unemployment can
not stop you. Ignorance, obScurit!
and bad breaks cannot stop you
You alone can bank the fire
within you-kill the spark.
TURN ON THE HEAT"
copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

Saying Peace and there peace Ezekiel said it. 18th
chapter 10th verse; when the world young Europe Africa
and Asia say it today.
little sense sincere desire among nations to end
wholesale slaughter would free the unfortunate bird from this
cruel grip But what hope there for blessed peac
Wholesale murder has been the practice since
haze been In the past whole peoples have been wiped
out slaughtered and children taken into slavery
The thing for this country to keep out of wherever
they may be in Europe Asia Africa and also to keep so
WELL PREPARED that not nation half insane would
think Of attempting with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Man Must Take Heed or Nature Will
HTake Her Course"

speeded up far beyond the Ca
pacity of nature to replace the
erOded soil. Consider the frame
work in which events are taking
place. The interior Of the con-
tinent is far above sea level.
The conditions for heavy erosion
are perfect.
Erosion, like many another
curse of humanity, grows by
what it feeds upon. 1t behaves
like compound interest. Begin
ming first on the exposed sur
face of normal soil, it first re-
moves the spOnge-Iike, water.
holding layer of dark humuS
which normally Is held in place
by the roots Of plants and pro-
tected by their tops. Once this
humuS is washed away, nothing
remains to absorb the water
that remains thereafter.
"Driving along the concrete
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John Snure

visions for Americanization.
The Commerce Department has
repeatedly been shown that vessels
carrying alien crews were endan-
gered by the presence of foreign
Seamen.
Various disasters at sea in re-
cent years have been made more
grave because of the practice of
hiring aliens.
Now Secretary Roper decides
that there should be an investiga-
ton Of reports Of sabotage by
these aliens.
Perhaps some day the officials
Of the Commerce Department and
others interested in shipping will
be convinced that it would be a
great boon to American commerce
to provide for 100 per cent Ameri-
canization Of the crews on our
ships.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
RTJMORS PERSIST

Secretary Of Commerce Daniel
C., Roper has decided to investi-
gate reports of sabotage on Ameri-
can vessels.
Reports are that sabotage may
have been committed on ships fly
ing the American flag but manned
partially with alien crews.
Demands for complete Amerl-
canization of crews Of American
vessels have been numerous.
The Commerce Department has
not given it's full support to such
propositions.
Pending in the Senate are three
subsidy bills which contain pro-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

highway after heavy rain, one
sees pale patches Of ground here
and there which dry off almost
as rapidly as the slab Of road
itself, while the rest Of the fields
remain dark and wet. These
dry, light cOlOred, almost water
proof layers are the sO-called
B-hOriZOn Of the soil, from
which the humuS-bearing, alb
sOrptive layer has been scraped
by erosion.
ut is problem enough to have
the highways, aggregating nearly
/ per cent of the cOuntry'S area,
shedding water like q ducks
back into our drainage system.
But when we add the areas from
which soil has been removed and
which in consequence, are unable
to retain water, we have added
enormously to the destructive
power Of our abnOrmally swollen
streams. Thus does erosion pro-
mote still more erosion"
Mr.. Sears goes away back to the
Sumerian Desert, once paradise
and beyond, in making a cohesive
story Of the wreck Of civilizations
by deforeStation, the looting Of the
top soil, dust storms, floods and
the slow, ruthless encroachment OF
the classical economists point OF
diminishing returns" as we con
tinue to pile up natures debt
against us-taking without repay
ing. He says:
wherever we turn, to Asia,
Europe or Africa, we shall find
the same story repeated with an
almost mechanical regularity.
The net prOductiveneSS Of the
land has been decreased. Fertil-
ity has been consumed and soil
destroyed at rate far in excess
of the capacity Of either man or
nature to replace. The glorious
achievements Of civilization have
been builded on borrowed capital
to . scale undreamed Of by she
most extravagant Of mOnarchS.
AN OBLIGATION
"And unlike the bonds which
statesmen so blithely issue to
and against-their own people,
an obligation has piled up which
cannot be repudiated by the
stroke Of any mans PEN"
But scientists can stay the eviC
ton notice if WI will heed them
Large-Scale flood control, soil-prC
tecting grasses, rotated crop
whose roots strike deep and re
trieve new nitrateS, foreStation
scientific drainage, transverse hill
side ploughing and dyking to pre-
vent soil wash, fertilizing and, II
general, smaller-scale, conserving
intensified agriculture-theSe ar
the only specifics.
A business goes broke, lootinI
its reserves and its productive
capital. So will man, at presen
a obviously going concern, nles
he mends his ways. SO say MI
Sears and hosts Of other compe
tent scientists. For when the sol
is gone, "there isn't any more.
as Ethel Barrymore might plair
lively intone an unhappy endin
for this particular cosmic drama
copyright. 1885. BY King Features
| Syndicate. 1ne.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

chance on this
one. For it car
ries big medi.
cine that's bet
ter for what
ails-you than a
hundred claSSi-
cal quotations.
What's tn e
phrase?
TURN o N
THE HEAT!"
You weren't
made to be as
you are now
cold and limp
GRIN g in g in
Sam I'LL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
End Political Piracy

The conditions which surround the selection of dele
cations from the District to the national political
venons strong deterrent to those who believe that
Washington should have vote.
Just now there is being made an effort to have the
various State legislatures petition Congress to give the
National Capital the voting privilege.
If any State legislator in considering this effort
to look into the in which Washingonans
else the comparatively minor privilege Of selecting their
convention delegations he would Immediately to
the conclusion that citizens too Indifferent to
their present rights to warrant their getting additional
ones
The legislators might uDeu reason that if the city
is WiLLing TO permit tLUO sO-cGLLed political
leaders to name the delegations Without any real
attempt to find out the LUU of the party members
it 0Oud be equally UiLing to accept domination by
political pirates if it had UOte local government
or on representatives in Congress-
Few such legislators would 60 behind the conditions
prevailing to seek out the reason.
They would not inquire into the fact that Washing
tonans have for years been trying to get Congress to
enact bill which would place the selection Of the
venton delegations a legal basis
Despite the previous efforts of large group of our
citizens to have such bill passed. the measure is con-
stantly encountering delays
It is in effort to these delays and have
the bill considered its merits that The Washington
Times is conducting poll of the city on the BILL
We are printing again today ballot on which Wash
ngtonians register their approval disapprov Of
the measure.
RETURN THE BALLOT AND SHOW CONGRESS
THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST ENOUGH INTERESTED
IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO SHOW HOW YOU FEEL
ABOUT THE PENDING MEASURE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

He contends
that there is
only one candi-
date the Repub-
licanS m 6 h t
place in the
fiel W h o
would have a
chance to de-
+ e a t President
Roosev cit in
November.
His conten-
ton is that the
only log lea !
candi d q t e is
Gov. ALI Lam
don of Kansas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
IN THE RECORD

Many and varied are the meth
DDS used by some members Of Con-
gress to get statements into the
Congressional Record.
Representative Thomas L. Blan'
ton, Democrat, Of Texas, objected
to certain actions Of q colleague.
He demanded to make point OF
order, was given permission to
state it, and said:
"Mr. Speaker, the ventilation
is terrible, There is something
offensive in the air that smells
like spoiled cheese from Pots
DAM"
He was advised that he was not
making a point Of order" But
his statement remained in the
record.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

the flood. They
battle hunger,
disease and eco
nonnic disaster,
and the Scien-
fists in tn e ir
wake check q
soil loss of hun
dreds Of mil
lions Of dollars.
Nature takes
ages to make an
inch Of life-suS-
t amin G soil.
Filched by the
warning storm
gods in an on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
GOING AND COMING

Representative Usher L. Bur
dick, Republican of North d.
kota, contends that the ReSettle-
ment Division has presented a
difficult problem to farmers who
wish to get seed loans.
Burdick AYERS that when the
President vetoed the $4,000, 900
seed loan bill on the ground that
it was not necessary and turned
the task of delivering seed to
the Resettlement Division he ap-
parently failed to realize how
the work would be handled.
According to Burdick, the first
thing a farmer must do is to
convince the administrator be-
yond any reasonable doubt that
he is financially "au in" ard
that he cannot get any relief
from anyone, and that he has
absolutely nothing financially.
Then, says Burdick:
cat the end of the applica-
ton he must then convince the
administrator t. h at, nOtwith-
standing his financial cOndi-
ton, he will be able to pay
back the lOan."
Burdick points out:
1--WE find such q case in his
tory, the case Of Scylla and
Charybdis. The ancients ted
us that there was q huge rock
off the coast Of Italy called
ScyIIa, and in close proximity
was a whirlpool called Charyb-
dis. The ancient pilots used to
dread this spot. If they turned
too much to the right they
would strike ScylIa. If they
turned too much to the left
they ran into CharybdiS. In
either case the ship was lost.
"That is the situation Of the
farmers of the Northwest. The
more they try to convince the
administrator that they are
hOpelessly all in financially
the less chance they have to
convince the same adminiStra-
tor that they can pay back the
bill"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

To the Primary Editor, The Washington Times:
favor the pending primary election bill. ......0
oppose the pending primary election bill. ......0
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
FAVORTTE

Senator Arthur Capper, Repub-
lican Of Kansas, has been sound
ing out the sentiment of the voters
in the farm belt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08

The Red Cross, Federal, State .
a d municipal health agencies |
and social agencies mop up after |
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
TURN ON THE HEAT"

There's a slang phrase =
You don't like slang phrases?
Well, Just for once, take a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-08
OLD FAVORITES
The Beggdrs
RO0erS

The BeggGrs Samuel Rogers
Ah then, what honest triumph fushd my breast
This truth known-To bless is to be blest!
We led the bending beggar his way
(Bare his feet, his tresses silvergray),
Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt,
And his tale with mute attention dwelt
As in his scrip we dropt our little store,
And wept to think that little more,
He breathed his prayer Long may goodness live
Twas all he gave twas all he had to give.
Angels when Mercys mandate wing'd their flight,
Had stopt to catch rapture from the sight.
IReGders are nvted send to the editor their sugges-
tons of the fGvores among the for reprnting IN
tkisCspGce)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
BY Ahern

1--WE can" Doc insisted while the cannibals
are busy with their party, Wen get out of the vii
lage and :" Can not go into jungle at night"
the pygmy objected; jungle full of demons; de-
mons kill" "Oh no." grinned Dick; demons run
as soon as they lay eyes on Doc"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
DISCUSS KAGAWA'S
COOPERATIVE IDEAS
III. L. Seeger to Lead Forum of
Presbyterian Mems Glass.

A round table discussion on the
consumers cooperative theories of
Toychiko Kagawa, japanese Chris
tan leader, is to be held at 10 to-
morrow morning at the Second
Presbyterian Church by the mems
class. H. L. Seeger is to lead the
discussion.
Subjects of round table talks FOR
March include DR.. E. Stanley Jones
book. "Christ's Alternative to Com
muniSm."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
ELECTION TALK ON AIR
Commissioners to Explain Laws Over
WFBM Tonight.

David M. Lewis, chairman of
the County Board of Election Com
missioners is to speak tonight at
$3.50 over WFBM.
His topic is to be Indiana Elec-
ton Laws and is to mark the 56th
legal program in the Law for the
Layman" series, under the direction
OF Humphrey c. Harrington, deputy
prosecutor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
Industrialists to Hear DIR. SLUT

DIR. Frank Slutz. Dayton, o., is to
speak to city Industrial leaders on
Tuesday at $50 in the Y. NJ. C. A.
r. N. Phelps. chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements, made the
anlouncement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
------ Today's Short Story ---
WHAT A WOMAN!
The Tale of q Bum

DEN a Franklin maybe
ID Every upf agency him out of failed
little old lot
him changed
funny know Pen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14
TAX OFFICE is OPEN
Federal Revenue Collector to Be on
Job Extra Hours.

Offices of the Federal internal
revenue collector are to be open
until 5 tonight and until midnight
Monday to aid taxpayers, Will H.
Smith, collector, announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-14

HOWEVER. the few days he
4 Il stayed with it were enough to
finance as coy two weeks as
mother and son could wish-conver-
sation, leisure, sitting about in the
sunny spots under their own wild
cucumber vine and jimpson weed
bush, limitless rest.
They were a couple of presidents
emeritus Of that college whose
whole curriculum is designed for
the teaching Of one thing how to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

fur trade, which had given them
all independence. As it turned
out, this was a fatal decision, so
far as Smith was concerned. In
the spring of 1881 he led a cara
van out of independence, Mo-,
headed for Santa Fe. One morn
ing in May his men found them
selves entering a barren stretch
of country between the Arkansas
and the Cimarron rivers. It was
known by the Mexicans as La
tornado" (the Journey, with the
implication that it might become
a journey of death. And that was
just what it was for Jedediah
Smith.
After three days of thirst,
Smith rode ahead to find water.
At last he found it-a muddy hole
in the dry wash of the Cimarron.
As he drank, war party of
Comanche Indians surrounded
him. Young 'Diah Smith made
the peace sign to them. But
their intention was not peace. So
under the stabbing lances of the
Comanches, the career of this
American Ulysses, this real
Pathfinder" came to an end
on May 81, 1881.
q Wesfern New<nzo~- TTr;o-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12
BicameraI Legislatures

All the states have a lower and
upper house in their state legisla-
lures. All the states are bicameral
1.-TWO branches to the assembly or
legislature), although it is curious
tn note that Pennsylvania, Georgia
and Vermont were at first con-
structed on the unicameral, or one
house system of legislature.
All the states designate the up
per house of the Legislators as TIE
senate and in most of the states
the lower branch of the state legis-
lature is known as the house of
representatives, although a few
style it the assembly. In three
it is known as the house of del
egates.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-12

such full-length portrait of him
has been available and the COM
plete story of the real ''Pathfnd-
er" told by an authority on the
subject. He is Maurice S. Sulli-
van, whose "Jedediah Smith,
Trader and Trail Breaker" was
published recently by the Press
of the Pioneers, Inc. of New
York.
This book is based upon a copy
of Smiths diary which Sullivan
unearthed after a search lasting
many years. He found it in the
possession of a remote branch of
Smiths family and with it was
a map of the Pathfnder's travels.
Yankee Pioneers.
Smith was born in the little vii
lage of Jericho, N. Y. on January
6, 1899, of line of tall, vigorous,
stern, God fearing Yankees"
who had reared successive gen.
erations in Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire and Connecticut
and pushed their way westward
and southwestward, conquering
the land as they went" He was
the sixth of IA children, all of
whom had their schooling under
Connecticut schoolmaster bear
ing the impressive name of Ii
tus Gordon Vespasian Simons.
The westward urge struck
young 'Diah Smith early. Ore
factor in it was his reading an
account of the explorations of
Lewis and Clark. At the age of
twenty-one he was hunting and
trapping near the Rock river
rapids in Illinois and in TIE
spring of 1922 he strobe into st.
Louis bearing a rifle and pack.
The contents of that pack are
interesting. 1t consisted of few
provisions, keepsakes and sew
eral books, including Bible, a
collection of Wesleyan hymns,
Evidences of Christianity" an
English translation of Rollins
Ancient History" and the Lewis
and Clark book In the years to
come he would be associated
with some of the toughest char
acters in the history of America
= trappers and fur traders, who
feared neither God nor man. nor
had reverence for either. But
some quality in the psalm-sing-
ing, Bible-carrying young YAM
kee would so impress them that
they would gladly acknowledge
him as their leader and willingly
follow him through untold hard
ships and dangers.
The Odyssey of Jedediah Smith
began in st. Louis, then as for
many years later the fur capital