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The Washington times., 1936-08-03

~ U q A1A41C4G EuWIn 4. hMA
over constitutional metes and
bounds, but New England is look
ing to her own acres and salvag-
ing her share Of the American
dream.
It started here; a days glimpse
of old Vermont reclaiming its
birthright has been to this city
bound onlooker both an eye-opener
and heartening experience.
find here deeper sense Of hopeful
reality than in even the most en-
lightened contention of the ma
tional political forum. New Eng.
lands soil isn't impoverished; its
men and women aren't running
low on vitality, courage or ideas;
nor is there any depletion of their
pioneer heritage of character and
intelligence.
We send high-calibre Journalists
to Sweden to study that country'S
remarkable success in her mid.
die way" economy. Here it is
going on right under our noses,
New England is up to a dozen
novel devices and activities, all
definitely within her traditional
framework and all quite as Signifi
cant as anything going on in
Sweden. These developments rate
q fat book. Here are just a few
roadside gleanings in swift run
through the Green Mountains OF
Southern Vermont.
PRACTICAL PLANS
The New England Regional Plan
ming Commission, covering four
States, is making a great success
of State cooperation in ending
river pollution, safeguarding pure
water supplies, making hydrologi'
cal surveys, fighting erosion, ad'
vancing recreational development
and bringing about joint State
action where there is an interstate
community of interest.
Significantly, it is a step forward
along the line of the New York,
New Jersey Port of Authority
which resolved the tangle of over.
tapping economic and political
units by a new legal entity. In
other words, States are coopera'
ting and building, rather than run
ming to Washington to mooch
money.
Diversified farming is advanc.
ing at an unheard of rate. The
one crop system is becoming alb
horrent to the New England
farmer. There Is on the farms a
generation Of Scientifically-trained
young men who know how to save
and nourish the soil, and they
The Washington times., 1936-08-03
The Human Side of the News = By Ed
By Nelson Harding
By Edwin C. Hill

} ing, Small-scale manufacturing
and farming rather than to the
white collar trades.
There is the beginning of rural
urban cooperation. The town Of
Barton has an annual run alurban
festival, with thousands Of small
town businessmen and farmers
participating, and carryin g
through a Systematized program
looking to Self-Sustaining COM
munity development.
In countless villages where
there have been q half dozen un-
dernouriShed church denomina-
tionS, they are combining in q
single community church, which
is the focus of community aSpira-
ton and a stimulus to cooperative
effort, intellectual and spiritual.
Throughout New England, the
Red Cross is organizing roadside
firSt-aid stations, educating thou
sands of citizens in firSt-aid tech
niques and supplying them with
medical and surgical supplies.
Like the mediaevial roadside
hospiceS, they minister to the trav-
eler in distress this instance,
the victim of an automobile acci-
dent.
The Vermont State Federation
of Women'S Clubs, an unusually
vital and intelligent organization,
is reviving interest in music, and
again the people are singing the
old catches, rounds and carols.
There is a musical revival in the
State
SELF-RELTANCE
AS I have said, all these devel-
opmentS, and a hundred more,
are SO obvious that one can CLEAN
them by the roadside. Here, in
a timothy meadow pitching hay, is
a lean old farmer. He is Grant
Woods American Gothic" plus
humor and an easy courtesy,
which, I have observed, is partic-
ularly characteristic of Vermont.
He leans on his pitchfork:
when they opened up the
land in the Mississippi, folks
were too greedy. They wanted
to gObble up everything all at
once. Our soil was al right
then, and it's all right now. 1t
isn't blowing away and it never
will.
1--WE have plenty of troubles,
but 1 reckon we can take care
of ourselves without bOthering
the Government. Marketing con.
ditiOnS are bad, but we're CO.
operating on trucking and such,
and each year we get o little
better net return.
1--WE used to think there was
nothing to do but make maple
syrup. Now we're growing more
corn and feeding it to cattle and
hogs. We store up a lot Of gar
den sass. We dOMt go in too
much for machinery. II we can
pay for . tractor and see a re-
turn on it, we might buy one,
but in small farming like this
a team of horses Is better"
His fields were green and his
cattle were fat. There was no
mortgage on his farm-Vermont-
ers don't like mortgages. Some
where around so. he was as trim
and fit as a pole-vaulter.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. IAc.l
The Washington times., 1936-08-03
Gambling Laws

Law enforcement officers of the District are holding
another series of conferences ways and of
breaking up gambling particularly on the numbers"
It is very likely that out of these conferences will
come another bill for introduction in Congress which
would be designed to enable the police and courts to
deal more effectively with gambling racketeers.
Such bills have been introduced for several years and
have generally failed of enactment.
The failure of these earlier bills carries warning to
the officials who contemplate drawing up another
one
The EARLIER MEASURES WENT DOWN TO DE-
FEAT NOT BECAUSE CONGRESS WAS OPPOSED
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, BUT BECAUSE THE
BILLS AS DRAWN AND PRESENTED WENT FAR
BEYOND THEIR OSTENSIBLE PURPOSE.
Under the guise of hitting at the numbers racket they
would have made drastic revision Of the search and
seizure law and would have left abiding and respect
able citizens open to moestation and persecution
Under one of these bills at least the possession
of deck of cards would have been enough to convict
you Of crime
1t uUas this going beyond their legitimate purpose
of stamping out gambling that Killed the bills
AND If NEW BILL IS DRAWN UP WITH THE
SAME EVIL PoTENTIALIT1Es AS LURKED IN THE
FORMER BILLS, TT WILL MEET THE SAME FATE
AND DEsERvEDLY SO.
# the law enforcement and legal officers of the local
government can draw up bill which will simply and
forcefuy go to the roots Of the evil they trying to
reach every respectable citizen of the District will back
them in demanding Congressional action
This unanimous support cannot be obtained for bill
that wanders all around Robin Hoods barn before it
reaches its objective.
A CoMMENDABLE DESIRE TO STAMP OUT AN
EVIL MUST NOT BE PERVERTED INTO MEANS
OF HARASSING DECENT CITIZENS.
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dO's.' We not Rep. Robert L. Bacon
only have too much government,
but we have too many govern
mental agencies occupied with
matters directly affecting the
lives Of the people Of this cOun-
try.
even when it comes to study
ing overlapping and duplicating
Government agencies the pres
ent Administration has INDUCED
In the abIiShment Of three
different duplicating instru.
mentalities.
"At the current session Of
Congress Senator Byrd intro
duced a resolution in the SEN
ate providing for a special Sem
ate committee to report on the
elimination of duplicating agen-
cies and the economies that
would result therefrOm. This
resolution was passed on Feb
ruary "a, 1886, and the COM
mittee has been appointed.
"On MarRh %, 1885, Presi-
dent Roosevelt set up another
investigating committee to re-
port to him on the same prob
lem. Also on the same day the
President sent q letter to the
Speaker of the House of Rep
reSentativeS requesting the
House appoint q committee to
cooperate with the Presidents
Committee on Overlapping
Agencies, and that committee
has been appointed.
Nov there are three official
Independent overlapping COM
mittees studying the problem
Of overlapping Government
agencies"
Representative John e. Rankin
on farmers and New Yorkers:
Eyes, and let me say to the
gentleman from New York that
we have poured more money
into their hands than we ever
gave the farmers of this cOun-
try. The gentleman from New
York, and others who train with
him, are perfectly willing to
take money out Of the Treasury
and give it to aliens in their
own district, but are unwilling
to vote this aid to farmers for
faaRs ~ wxySIY posSn %N@o rn~ioo~ ~
things the farmers have to sell,
although it win not cost the tax
payers Of the country a nickle."
Representative Louis Ludlow
of Indiana on the ladies:
"T challenge anyone who
thinks to the contrary to give
one legitimate reason why
women should not be raised to
The Washington times., 1936-08-03

gaining. Many a sagging old mill
Is humping and rumbling again,
busy as a solvent little woodturn-
ing factory, with the old dam and
the stout timbers as sound as
they were a hundred years ago.
Small power plants, free of the
crushing capital structure of
large-scale developments, are be-
ing built. There is q brisk re-
vival of old handicrafts. and an in
creasing proportion of young per
sons being apprenticed to build
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S a v d. o u r
dresses were let
down, turned,
d y e d, patched
our shoes re-
soled until the
last scrap OF
leather frayed.
Always tn e
shadow Of pow
erty lay over
my fathers
life, and the
darker shadow
of disease. His
days as well as
his dollars were
numbered. Six
The Washington times., 1936-08-03

of us leaning on him-and so little
strength or time to meet that
burden.
Yet, even when the breath was
failing in his brave throat, he
cried out to us once again that
battling creed by which he had
shaped his life
go INTO DEBT!
"Go into debit" "a strange
creed for a poor man! A partlcu'
larly strange creed for an honest,
proud man, who dreaded any de-
fault and despised dependency. But
though he was poor he loved the
truly fine things Of life and felt
that they were worth anything
they cost in hardships or sacrifice.
More than this-he felt that
every human being owed it to him
self and those he loved to acquire
as much as possible of beauty and
truth.
BUY GREATER LIFE
"Go into debit" he said. "Not
irresponsible debt. Nor debt for
trivial things - mere luXurieS or
pleasures which, in the end. add
nothing to life. But go into debt
to buy a greater life.
Undertake debt as you would
undertake a fine form Of disci-
pline. An athlete undertakes exer-
cises which are beyond the ca
pacity of his muscles at first. He
goes into debt to buy strength
then forces himself to make good
on the obligation.
"A student does likewiSe-mort-
gaging his freedom and pleasure
that he may buy wisdom The
man who makes something Of his
life always goes into debt, buys
The Washington times., 1936-08-03
Greatest Show on Earth
By Frank Miller Smith

this position Of equality with
men. L defy anyone to cite a
single objection that will stand
the test of reason and con-
science. 1 know that we still
have among us bOurbOnS and
tories who would like to keep
women altogether out Of poll
tics and public affairs and con-
sign them to the perennial role
of cradle-rOcker and kitchen
mechanic, but, thank God, mod
ern public sentiment regards
women as something higher in
the human equation than
slaves and chatteIs, and even
the bOurbOnS and tories who SO
long Obstructed the Nineteenth
Amendment must see the hand
writing on the wall.
"The best evidence Of this Ii
found In the fact that no group
Of hard-boiled reactiOnary poll.
ticianS anywhere In America to-
day is demanding the repeal Of
the Nineteenth Amendment"
Senator Henry F. AShurSt Of
Arizona on "dogieS" and humans:
"Mr. President, 40 or more
years ago, when the American
cOwbOyS-thOSe excellent and
racy spirits of SO much native
freshness, frankneSs and verve-
drove the laundering herds they
sang their folklore songs. Many
of the words have periShed, but
the cadence and the Iilt Of their
songs still hnger. Among their
songs was one entitled Get
Along Little Dogies.'
'The 'dOgieS' were the feeble
undernOuriShed orphan calves,
the slow, the weak and the sick.
The concern and the SOlicitude
of the cowboy as he drove the
herd was not for the lOnghOrnS,
the stout or the swift; he knew
that the lOnghOrns, the stout
and the swift, could reach water
and grass; but, inaSmuch as the
herd could travel no faster or
farther than the 'dOgieS'-that
is to say, the weakeSt-cOuld CO.
his care was for the infirm, the
weak and the slow, which he
sometimes called the dragS, as
the dragS impeded the progress
of the herd and the herd could
so no faster than the SlOwest.
Likewise it is with the human
race: with all its grand achieve
mentS and triumphs it may pro-
ceed in its upward and onward
march only as rapidly as its
SlOweSt and weakest members
can travel.
"ThiS slow progress may be
irkSOme and irritating to those
persons who are gifted or fOrtu-
nate and who, therefore, lauda-
bly, desire more rapidly to achieve
beneficient results in government
and ameliOrating distress, but
this slow advance Of society is
an immutable law of natural
philosophy and physics that ad-
mits Of no amendment or re-
peal"
Senator Dennis Chavez Of New
Mexico on Indians:
The trouble with the Indian
in this country today, the handi-
cap under which he suffers, is
that there is too much Wash
ingtOn instead of letting him
solve his own problems. What
good does it do Congress to ap-
prOpriate thousands Of dollars to
send the Indian to school in
Phoenix, in Albuquerque, in
South Dakota, or Wisconsin, and
train him in your way and my
way of living, and then bring
him to Washington and put
feathers on hiIn?"
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or, rather, a
voy g e ! n
which one finds
ma I'll We Ameri-
cans rediScover-
ing America.
The Midwest
may dry up and
blow away; the
South may sink
in the morass
Of one-crop ag-
riculture a n d
soil depletion;
S t a teS m a y
Wrangle " t h
the ed e a |
~ ~~n~&
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too m u C h
& o vernment.
We are so
m u C h G o "
e r n e d that
never before
In history,
and 1 hope
never again
b q We tn e
people been
subjected to
SO many pro-
hibitiOnS, in
hi b it on s,
shall n OF s.
o n d IS ali
The Washington times., 1936-08-03
RAZZBERRIES
WITH CREAM

IWheTet7l ne present. the lOdy 70
put your netghbor in his place
done in true Congressional tornJ
Representative Robert L. Bacon
of New York on overlapping "over-
lapping":
"The fact remains indisputabIe
that we in this country have
The Washington times., 1936-08-03

new nitrateS, but they can grow
clover, and that does almost as
we'll. They take tWo-hour run
with a truck down to the lime
quarries at Adams, Mass. and get
plenty of cheap lime. There has
been little ruinous erosion and
there are vast mountain slopes as
alluring and productive as they
were to the Pilgrims.
Small, diversified industry is
The Washington times., 1936-08-03

Just a day or two's whirl
through New England, reading as
YOU run, is a voyage of rediScovery
The Washington times., 1936-08-03
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson
GO INTO DEBT!

We were poor people, we Rob-
inSonS. Dad worked for Scanty
wages. Mother Scrimped and
The Washington times., 1936-08-03

Representative Louis Ludlow
of Indiana on the ladies:
T challenge anyone who
thinks to the contrary to give
one legitimate reason why
women should not be raised to
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
'RACKETEERING'
SH|PUNIONISTS
DENOUNCED

NEW YORK, Dec. II Q.N.S0.
After charging that the inter-
national Seamen's Union is led by
"racketeering union officials who
have no business at the head of
labor unions" and that the same
thing sis also the trouble with the
international LongShoremen'S AS
ISOLATION" Harry Bridges, leader
of Pacific Coast maritime strikers,
planned to leave New York today
to return to San Francisco.
Speaking before $4,000 persons
at Madison Square Garden at a
meeting in support of the sea-
mems strike, Bridges declared
that the Pacific Coast strike
would not be ended until there is
q settlement of the strike at
Atlantic and gulf ports.
Pledged Support
In his attack upon the union
leaders, he charged that they, and
not the inSurgent striking seamen,
were the outlaws" and said they
would "have to go" after the strike
is settled.
Bridges stated he has received
kilograms from his followers on
the West Coast, pledging support
for his stand, and he added that
the West Coast strikers would eX-
tend help to the strikers here.
Must Take Orders
Concerning his dismissal by Jo-
seph P. Ryan, head of the Long
Shoremen's Union, as an organ
izer, Bridges said:
eff you take orders from Ryan,
you are on the pay rOll-at SIS
a week. If you don't, you are
fired"
He pointed to inscriptions on
huge streamers throughout the
auditorium, urging help for strik-
ing seamen and proposing a ma
tional maritime federation, declar-
ing that these proposals embodied
instructions from West Coast mari
time workers. He said:
eff that means Communism,
then / am a Communist"
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

in fIeecy white, g
sizes | to 3. At ~
tractive presents! ''"
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

in white with pink @
or blue; or solid ~
coIors.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Three Dance
Groups for
Series Here
Trudi Schoop Comes
With New, Striking
Comic Features.

DURING the next three months,
William A. Albaugh, Baltimore
manager, brings to Washington three
dance groups in . series Of programs.
OF outstanding interesting is the fact
that two Of the three especially fea-
ture the comic and gayer side Of life's
problems.
Trudi School, young haxen Swiss
dancer, who made her debut in WASH
ington last season with her group of
mining dancers, returns for Q pro-
gram this season Sunday evening,
January 10, at the National Theater
at $50 pm. Announcement has
been made that her second program
will have new and different features
from the first, although there will be
repeated some Of the dances given
last year. Trudi herself has been
persistently called "the Charlie Chap
lin of the Dance" She has a rare
instructive gift for mimicry and COM
bining pathos and comedy in q man
ner not unlike the famous screen
comedians interpretations, but her
gestures and approach to each theme
are distinctly her own.
The other amusing ballet program
will be Jacques Carriers ballet-nar-
rative Of THE Life Of Louis XIV"
March s. Uday Shan-Kar, Hindu
dancer, brings his East Indian ballet
in colorful dances February Q.
Reservations can be made now at
kits music store. 1880 G NV.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Vocal Scholarship.

THE directors of the Academy OF
Vocal Arts will award q free
scholarship to celebrate their entrance
into their new building in Philadel-
phia. This scholarship will be open
to any young woman or man possess
ing q voice and other characteristics
necessary for an artistic career and
who is unable to pay for his or her
education. Desiring at the same time
to honor American operatic music,
the Board Of Directors, headed by
their president, Mrs. Clarence A.
Warden, will name this scholarship
"the Peter Ibbetson scholarship"
Deems Taylor. the composer Of the
opera after which the scholarship Is
named, will head the committee to
select the winner in the final exami-
nations. These will take place some
time in November. In the meantime
preliminary hearings will be given to
all applicants by the dean of the
academy, Edgar Milton Cooke. who
is also head of the vocal department.
The winner OF the scholarship will
receive the complete course In vocal
development, general musical train
ing and stage technique under Edgar
Milton Cooke, teacher of singing; H.
Maurice Jacquet, composer. conduc-
tor and operatic coach, and Victor
Andoga. stage director.
All information concerning the nec-
essary requirements and appoint
ments for additions may be obtained
from the secretary. Academy of Vocal
Arts. 1880. 1892 Locust street, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Federation Contest

THE Twelfth Biennial Contests for
Young Artists, sponsored by the
National Federation of Music Clubs,
will take place in the early Spring. The
State contests will be held about
March /. The winners will then COM
pete in the District contests. the date
and place to be announced. The win
ners In the District contests then en-
ter the national contests.
Three cash prizes OF $1,000 each
will be presented by the federation to
the winners of first place in piano,
violin and voice Two cash prizes Of
$500 each will be awarded to the two
opera voice contestants who are con-
sidered by the judges to be worthy Of
competing for the Schubert memorial
award OF a major role In the Metro
politan Opera.
II not ready to enter the Young
Artists Contests, pupils may enter the
Students Contests The bulletins Civ
ing full information for each con-
test may be had from the State con-
test chairman, Charlotte G. Lippitt,
Las Eleventh street northeast.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
CAPITAL TO HEAR
PIANO TOURNEY

THE National Guild Of Piano
Teachers. Irl Allison. president.
has announced It's plans for the
fourth annual national piano play
ing tournament to be held in 1887.
The tournament will open in Los
Angeles In February, and will be held
in at least so cities. including Wash
ington, D. c.
All piano students are eligible for
the tournament, which offers them an
opportunity to play programs before
prominent judge and receive rating
OF their musical ability. Each tourna-
ment player receives a certificate Of
rating and is eligible to place on the
national. State or district honor rolls.
The tournament also furnishes the
piano teacher with a yardstick by
which to measure his success with his
pupils. Four thousand students
participated in the tournament last
year in 40 cities
The guild will also issue at the be-
ginning OF the new year the first
National Directory Of Piano Teachers
Of the United States. which will list
the names and addresses of piano
teachers compiled in State sections.
The directory will also catalogue the
leading makers of pianos. piano deal
ers, publishers Of piano teaching
material. composers Of piano music,
the houses that handle books and sheet
music for the piano and the national
honor roll Of piano students in the
1886 tournament. 1t will be dis
tributed to piano teachers. music
stores. book stores, publishers. Libraries,
music schools. colleges and uni
yersitiee, conservatoriea, chambers Of
Evening star., 1936-12-26
LATIN-AMERICAN
EVENTS IN MUSIC

IN KEEPING with the great interest
in Latin-American affairs which
has followed President Roosevelts
visit to the Inter-American Peace
Conference in Buenos Aires, the
Beren-Brook Artists Bureau has
scheduled the appearance in Wash
ington Of two outstanding artistic at.
fractions from Mexico and Cuba.
On January %. the colorful Mexi-
can Tipica Orchestra. directed by An
gell Mercado, will include Washing
ton in its first American tour which
Is proving triumph in every sense
of the word. It's concert in Chicago
at Orchestra Hall, recently, was such
a success that a return engagement
was Immediately arranged for jan
uary.
On February IS, Brook will
present Jose Echaniz, the brilliant
Cuban pianist, who distinguished
himself last season during several
soloist appearances with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra in Philadelphia
and New York City.
Both concerts will take place in the
Willard Hotel bail room. Tickets and
programs may be obtained at Kits,
1880 g street NV.