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The Washington times., 1936-11-16

right under them while they were
strung up. watched the whole
show. and yelled, all the time,
like a Comanche."
Incredulous stares. J. e! Quiet,
friendly, kind hearted J... who
wouldn't hurt a fly. helping at
a lynching? Incredible!
"Yeah-I know. Doesn't sound
possible. And I'd have vowed
just as you would-that it couldn't
happen to me. Didn't even expect
to be there, but had to cover the
story. Thought I'd stick around
on the outSkirtS-do my job, and
get out of it. But {. well. that's
what happened.
1T got me. I tell you, it gets
everybody. One minute you think
you're a decent, civilized human
being. And the next-there you
are, bowling, foaming, a blood
thirsty savage!"
But suppose" someone asked,
suppose they'd been really inno'
cent?"
mo DIFFERENCE"
wouldn't have made any diff.
ference. I was too far gone to
care. Guilty or innocent, it had
me. And I just wanted to see
somebody hanged. Rotten admis.
sion? Sure. But I'm telling you
it works like that. If you get in
a mess like that-IT GETS YOU!"
"It gets you'll" There's the final,
bedrock truth about violence. If
you hang around, it'll get you.
No matter who you are, or what
you've done in the past. the
jungle gets you, if you go mixing
in.
It gets you BECAUSE 1T IS
ALREADY IN YOU. Beneath our
noble ideals, our refined stand.
ards, there's a grinning, yowling,
blood7Stained savage lurking in
every woman, every man.
And when the tOm-tomS beat,
Beast calls to beast!
How would you act at lynch,
ing? Dollar to doughnuts, exactly
like all the rest of the crazed
killers!
(ThiS column DelcomeS and
requests comments. Letters pre-
Senttng personal problems mag
also be sent. All letters uiH be
handled contidentiaIly and an
S1Oered promptly if stamped,
addressed enDelopeS are in.
cIuded.)
Copyright, 1896, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
The Decline of the West?

Amid the general enthusiasm for old age pensions,
ing note sounded by Dr. Louis Dublin vice president Of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
DR. Dublin points out that the American bhrae is rapidly
declining and that eventually may have old people
entitled to pensions than there young people able them
Although births in America deaths by 100000
year the trend toward fewer children says Dr. Dublin
Birth control Of the chief of this also the
ment of people away from farms to Cities where child
economic liability rather than asset.
BY $780, far astcians judge today SO per cent of
our population will be so years old
The burden of paying pensions will rest largely the
younger groups wage earner who will not only have to
this load but support themselves we'll
However, is universal problem and which perplexes
Europe than America.
Meanwhile Japan increases at the rate of million year.
Perhaps Spenger right when he The Decline of
the West Though most of will have worry about
that likely that children and grandchildren WILL
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

11SCCSSdA 41y w WOA44CAAS DuI w @AAS
habits and his possessions.
Oh, to be cherished as a man
cherishes his OLD sport clothes!
To be treasured through the
years and be regarded with al
lection long after you are moth
eaten and paSsee! What woman
would not give her best finger
nail to be able to inspire such
tender loyalty and devotion IN
any man.
A man may transfer his atfec-
tions from blonde to brunette,
or from wife to wife, but he will
hang on to his old college sweater
as faithfully and tenaciously as a
bulldog hangs on to a coat-tall.
Long after his canvas hunt
ing Jacket has driven his wife
out of his pet private closet by
the sheer force of its clinging
fragrance, he will cherish and
wear it in preference to the nice
clean new one given him two
years ago on his birthday.
You may be able to vamp a
man away from his wife, but
you can't ALLEVIATE him from
a most disreputable array of
stained and smelly fishing clothes
The Washington times., 1936-11-16


day" reporter, a good Hessian
and valuable man on a news
paper.
The other type observes news
in wider context and, with less
professional detachment, win
nows out of his experience a per-
sonal point of view as to the
wider social and political implica
tions of the news.
This distinction holds not only
with men who become gray on a
police beat, but with men who
range the world as foreign CORE
SpondentS, witnessing pot-house
brawls enlarged to the battle,
murder and sudden death" of the
Anglican litany.
M. Blowitz, great Europeon cor
respondent of the seventies and
eighties, is one of the former type;
Webb Miller, whose book, II
Found No Peace, just now hits
the book mart, is one of the latter.
Mr.. Miller has for 10 years
been a European correspond
ent for American papers, and for
a large part of this time was head
of the European bureau of a press
service.
His book is not only an engross-
ing personal chronicle, but an en-
Tightening demonstration of what
sharp, trained journalistic intel
ligence can do when given a ring
side seat at such breath-taking
world drama as those Of the last
20 years.
I have labored through many
Stuffy and impeccable diplomatic
chronicles covering the war and
the postwar period. I have an
idea that any historian of the flu
ture will find much more penetra-
ton and enlightenment in Mr..
Miller's objective, swiftly paced
and not too reverent roundup,
than in any of the above men,
toned chronicles.
DIFFERENT PICTURES
So far as getting the record
straight for the future is con-
cerned, there can be no better pro-
cedure than to turn loose an in
telligent American reporter with
a high regard for his craft and
capable of using both his eyes and
his legs.
The main facade Of history
might have a quite different ap-
pearance if it had been built by
good reporters out on the story
rather than by cloiStered and
bookiSh historians. Which again
brings in M. Blowitz as typical of
an earlier and, I think, another
generation of reporters.
M. Blowitz, representing the
London Times in the Franco-Prus-
sian war, at the ensuing peace
conference and on many other
great stories, was the greatest re-
porter of his time. The story of
how he got the first copy Of the
peace treaty is one of the classics
of the trade.
But, if you'll read his book,
Memoirs of a Journalist" you
will find that M. BlowitZ was a
different sort of reporter. He re-
ported what he saw, and usually
reported it first, but so far as any
one can CLEAN, he had no curiosity
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
The Greatest Show On Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

} College does not meet in Wash
ington.
In fact, it doesn't meet at all
as a body.
Just so that you won't be totally
crushed by this startling announce
ment you can turn to a neatly
printed pamphlet recently COM
piled by the secretary Of the Sen
ate containing the assurance that:
"The electors Of President and
Vice President of each State
shall meet and give their votes
on the first Monday after the
second Wednesday in December
next following their appoint
ment at such place in each State
as the legislature of such State
shall direct.
And that brings us to the matter
of the Vice President who will be
elected, in case you've forgotten,
along with the President, Decem-
Der IA.
When the Electoral College first
met it voted for two men. The
man to get the most votes won the
Presidency and the second man
won the Vice Presidency. Some
time later, however, this was
changed so that the votes for
President and Vice President were
cast separately.
The manner of selecting the
electors is governed purely by the
various State laws on the subject,
some by primaries and others in
convention. However, there were
distinct limitations put on who
could be selected for this high Of
flee in the Constitution.
QUALIFICATIONS
In order to insure that the party
in power couldn't pack the college
it was directed that no Senator
or Representative or other person
holding position of trust in the
Government or one receiving
profits from the Government could
serve as an elector.
There was to be no politics, no
sir.
In the second place, the electors,
in casting their votes, have to vote
for one man not a resident of the
same State as their own. In this
way there is no chance of the
country having a President and a
Vice President from Virginia or
New York at the same time.
One definite change has been
made in the Electoral Colleges ac-
tionS, however, which is purely a
matter of efficiency.
Years ago a messenger had to
be selected from each State and
he would come posthaste to Wash
ington with the electoral vote all
nicely sealed and dripping with
the States insignia. He was re-
ceived with wild acclaim.
Now, the electors will merely get
together in their respective capi'
tails in IS States and say:
"Well, it looks like Roosevelt
and Garner, boys"
EXCEPTIONS
And, after the little business of
casting their ballots is finished
they will send them to the Secre-
tary of State and the Vice Presi-
dent in washington by registered
mail. Such is progress.
Oh, yes, and in two States the
electors will say:
Let's stick by LandOn and
Knox," and their votes will also
be sent by registered mail.
Which reminds us of the not
too flip crack travelling around
the Capitol, to the effect that the
first bit of legislation to be put
through at the next session Of
Congress will be to admit Yer
mont and Maine into the Union
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

w e W er e
talking about
that, the other
day-a bunch
of newspaper
people. About
the stra n G e
tricks life plays
on you some
times, exposing
sides of your
n a t ure you'd
VOW didn't eX-
ist.
And someone
recalled that
ghastly lynch
Il
The Washington times., 1936-11-16


You may steal them and bury
them in the ash can, but like
his pet hunting dog, he will track
them own, dig them out, and
drag them back into the house.
You may get desperate and give
his moth-eaten, flannel fishing
shirt to the houseman-but he
will only make a scene" and
90 around with a hurt look in
his eyes until he can bargain
with the fellow to getit BACK
again!
But particularly does this same
astounding and beautiful fidelity
apply to his old hats and shoes.
No bright, new, spotless fedora or
derby can quite take the place in
his heart of the dilapidated relic
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

of last years model that he drags
out from the back of his closet.
Considering the lig ht thing
changes of his heart and his senti-
mental interests, this touching
fidelity to his old clothes is mans
most astonishing characteristic.
He loves only the garments he has
gotten USED to, and regards all
new ones as enemies to his COM
fort.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
syndicate, IAe.)
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

going to do in
respect to elect
ing the n e x t
Pre- S / d nt of
these U n i t e d
States but from
the number of
queries tn a t
have been float
ing around it
appears t h a t
there are some
D er ms who
have a vague
impression that
this archaic SET
up still fits into
a,,o ~oli& &;ool
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
ne immediate factual

newspaper account.
That is perhaps legitimate linn
itation for the reporter on the
job, but his memoirs certainly
should rate a point of view.
Mr.. Miller's book is in striking
contrast. Exercising a literary
prerogative perhaps out Of bounds
for working reporter, he adds up
his own impressions and the result
is a fresh, first-hand narrative
which lights up a vast NoMan'S
Land between the hack reporter
and the tedious and often gullible
historian.
He covered the World War and
all the bloody epilogues of the
postwar years; the rise of abso'
lutiSt governments in Europe; the
Near East, Arabia and India: deep
Islam and the stirring Of its un.
easy millions; South America, and
virtually every other trouble zone
of a troubled world.
Centuries of change have been
teleScoped in these cataclysmic
years. We want no pedant or word
monger for a guide through this
chaos.
We find in Mr.. Miller a crafts.
man who tells us with Swiftness
and clarity what he saw and gives
us his unpretentious, Straightfor'
ward Interpretation of these world
events on our own destiny.
DETESTS RECOMMENDATION
"As an American brought up
in the democratic tradition"
says Mr.. Miller, 81 deteSt authOri-
tartan or regimentated forms of
governments and do not want to
live under them. / even resent
restrictions upon when or where
1 shall cross the street.
"But 1 reflect that within my
memory, under pressure of crises,
the United States twice submit
ted temporarily to mild, volun.
tary forms of authoritarian gov.
ernment: during the World War
and for a brief period during the
banking crisis.
I'm the modern machine age,
Old-faShiOned pure democracy
seems too unwieldly at critical
juncture. l hope that the
United States, with its heritage
of liberty and great natural ad.
vantages over Old World c0un-
tries, will make the necessary
economic and political readjuSt-
mentS gradually and without
conflict, but / am not convinced
that this will happen.
I'm travelling about the world,
1 have perceived that economic
and political systems are badly
out of kilter and urgently re-
quire fundamental political re-
adjustment. Machines possess
the pOtentiality of easily pro-
viding sufficient foods, shelter
and clothing for every human
being on earth.
"But I have visited country
after country in which the
foremost preOccupatiOn Of tens
of millions is to obtain enough
food each day to sustain life,
in which they live in novels
unfit for domestic animals,
with standards little above
those of the dark ages.
There must be some SyS-
tenn, I think, of bringing the
capacities of production and
the requirements of conSump-
ton together so that the whole
world can enjoy the advan-
tages made available by the
machine. Science and ma
chinery have solved many more
intricate problems"
The book comes to an unhappy
conclusion in which Mr.. Miller
sees the Old World rushing to-
ward destruction and annihila-
ton" It is a story to make
any intelligent American humbly
grateful for a political heritage
which he has sometimes too
lightly regarded. Simon &
Schuster are the publishers.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

porterS. On e
is a keen news
gatherer with
out regard to
any near or
remote signifi-
canoe of his
story o h e r
than its rela-
tive Importance
in the run of
today's n e W S.
To him yester-
day and tomor-
row are just a
couple of other
days. He is a
slam-bang to
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Wise Words

Some friendships are made by
nature, some by contact, some
by interest, and some by souls.
Jeremy Taylor.
Fortune befriendS the bold.
Cicero.
Delay heedS danger.
-CervanteS.
Long ailments wear out pain,
and long hopes joy.-Stanislaus.
My own thoughts are my COM
panions.-Longfellow.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

picture somewhere.
I think it can be safely stated
that even before this Government
went truly Democratic on Novem'
ber 8, adherence to this ritual Of
counting electoral votes had be-
come merely an expression OF gov
ernmental pomp.
A voter can't very well be ex,
pected to pay much attention to
what a group of men will do on
December IA, when he has already
voted right on November 8.
Nevertheless, if you will recall,
this country was set up under q
republican form of government
and not a democratic form.
In the first place it was intended
that the body polite should choose
an aristocracy to serve in the Sen
ate and House of Representatives
to run the country. And in order
to get a good executive who would
carry out the orders of this aris
tocracy the plan of the Electoral
College was devised, we have 1t
on the assertion of several his
torians, in order to keep the Selec'
ton of a President OUT OF POLL
TICS
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That it be the sense of this contention
that committee should be appointed by the Congress
of the United States to make study of and to report
Columbia the right of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
June 26, 1886.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Human Side of theNeWs
Two Types of Good Reporters Vary In Their
Observation of the News
BY EdUin C.. Hill

In long experience in news
paper work, have observed that
there are two kinds of good re-
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Frankly there seems to be little
reason to get perturbed over the
Electoral College and what it is
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

HOW WOULD YOU ACT AT A LYNCHING?
would act at $the of Mobbed the jail
ing? You think know Butt helped drag em out stood
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWIGnd

A TRIBUTE TO THE FAITHFUL SEX
This Hunting battered hats to which ne
when woman discovers that is welded.
man is the faithful SEX Not may them and bury
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
OLD FAVORITES
The Bridge
Frederick Peterson

The Bridge Frederick Peterson
Across the foaming river
The old bridge bends it's bow;
My fathers father built it
In ages long ago.
They never left the farmstead
Past which the waters curled
Why should wander
When here is all the world:
Family friends and garden;
Small fields of rice and tea;
The cattle in the meadow;
The birds in stream and tree;
The pageant of the
AS the slow years go by;
Between the peaks above
An bridge of sky.
The dead they live and nger
In each familiar place
With kindly thoughts to hearten
The children of their
(Readers nvted to send to the editor their sug
0estions of old favores among the poems for reprtng
in this space)
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
HOW 1T WORKS

Granting that the country's
fathers could have suddenly come
to life along about october Of this
year, it can easily be seen that
they would think the whole sys'
TEN had been changed. On the
contrary the same system is still
in force, only it doesn't just work
out that way.
In the first place the Electoral
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-09-25
CROWDS AT ARMORY
FOR DAHLIA SHOW
Eighth Annual Exhibition
Now In Progress; Many
Entries On Display

The eighth annual exhibition of the
Hagerstown Dahlia Society is being
held in the State Armory. 1t began
yesterday and will continue today and
tomorrow.
The show is bigger and better than
ever this year and many unusual blooms
are on display. Over 800 prizes will
be awarded and there are 225 exhibitors
of not onyl dahlias, but also of roses,
zinnias, marigolds, coxcombs, gladiOlus,
etc.
There is no admission charge to the
show, and the public is invited to at
tend. The donor list of premiums is
large and widely distributed, quite a
number being from out of town.
The following are the officers of the
Hagerstown Dahlia Society: President,
FL. G. Kuhn; first vice-president, G. A.
Gibney; second vice1president, e. M.
Huntzberry; secretary, FL. K. Rams
burg; assistant secretary, Mrs. w. Ell.
LGewis, and treasurer, Charles w.
Zahn. Executive committee members
are w. s. Gibney, chairman; D. A.
Gossard, 81. G. Weigel, Roy Paulsgrove,
FL. G. Grove, Lewis e. France and Mrs.
Fl. X. Remsburg.
The judges at the show are: Prof. J.
B. S. Norton, of the University of
Maryland; Henry J. Bent, Steamers
Run, Nd, and Miss Mary Bester and
w. S. Gibney, the show superintendent,
both of Hagerstown.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-09-25
MY RAGGED OLD DOLL
By B. a. Beard


One day when my Homework was fin
ished,
My mind by sweet memories led,
[ stole to the attic and rummaged-
The years, Oh, how fast they've fled.
My eye caught box meath the rafters,
What's in it, down there by the wall?
So l pried off the lid and saw there
My dirty old, ragged old doll.
1t bore not a semblance of beauty,
Its face was a sight, sure's you're
born;
One leg could not discover,
Both arms, they were mangled and
torn.
Its tummy was caved in and empty,
It's eyes, Oh, it had none at all,
1t was my sweet ragged old muffin
My dirty old, ragged old doll.
1t made me think of the long years,
That passed since I fondled, ah me,
That precious old bundle of sawdust,
| loved with mothers fond glee.
Memories? Yes I can tell you
They flew, as could recall
The time when played with that baby
My dirty old, ragged old doll
These mem'ries are sweet to me ever;
| think of the nights and the days
When that bundle of rags, Dainty
Dimples",
cuddled, loved and 1 praised
There's nothing with quite the same
sweetness,
Be it houses or jewels or all
l prize of earths greatest beauty
My dirty old, ragged old doll.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-09-25

Men between the ages of % and So
years are in the ''age of egotism, self
confidence, Over-expansion and frequent
mistakes" according to DR.. w. G. Mac
Carly, professor of pathology at the
Mayo Foundation.
SCOT which comes out of poorly adj
Justed furnaces causes yearly damage
estimated at SIS person in this coun-
try.
Only once in her life has Mrs. Ma
tilda Fasig of Cranmore, Calf, used
telephone and she recently celebrated
her Tooth birthday.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-09-25
"FIVe- Gnd-Ten" CGnGry


By Virginia Grilley
He lifts his little voice on high
Above the stuffy chaos of the store,
Asking no homage of the passers-by
Who hurry through the scarlet-paint-
ed door.
Naught does he know of nests that cling
To gray, paternal arms of friendly
trees,
Or flocks that mark the dear return of
spring..
His small untutored heart shares none
of these.
Busy his fragile feet are, gripping tight
The magic swing and pale enamel
bars;4
They bring to him no mockery of flight
Outward and up to wind-encircled
stars!
Say you saw it in The Globe!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-09-25

Say you saw it in The Globe!
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Washington every Sun. June s-Aug Fri ;Rspt 4
Canadian National Railways. s22lSth St.. hW Wash. &c.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
GHOST IS HUNTED
IN FLOGG|NG CASE
Sheriff Insists Sharecropper
Reported Slain Still
Is Alive.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 1e-An
Eastern Arkansas sheriff hunted a
ghost" today while a Federal agent
investigated reported cotton strike
floggings In the officers county.
Sheriff Howard Curtin of Crittenden
County insisted the ghost" is very
much alive and Is Frank WeemS, 40
year-old Negro Sharecropper reported
fatally beaten when a cotton strike
meeting was broken up.
Sam Whitaker, special assistant to
the Attorney General, headed into
Memphis to question Miss Willie Sue
Blagden, 20, and the Rev. Claude
Williams on their reported f1ogging.
The Memphis woman social worker
and the 4l-year-old Little Rock Pres
byterian minister said they were
beaten by a band of six men near
Earle, Ark, Monday after they had
gone there in an effort to learn if
Weems were dead.
Meantime committee of attorneys
for the Southern Tenant Farmers
Union met here to consider Mr.. Will
liamS' request that the union file
complaints on the f1ogging. The S. T.
F. Ia non-affiliate of the A. F. of
Lis sponsoring the weeks-long cot
ton strike.
The lawyers also were to discuss
with Miss Blagden her offer made
yesterday to return to Earle-as re-
queSted by Sheriff Curlin-to file per-
Sonal complaint. She claimed -
readily could identify her assailants.
Sheriff Curtin explained he was
anxious to locate Weems to uphold his
claim that the S. T. F. U. was guilty
of a propaganda hoax in reporting his
death.
Two other men have reported being
flogged near Earle Monday but neither
has taken any steps to prosecute.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

taken in during the 11-month period
Of last year.
In another report, the Treasury said
stocks of whisky increased 36 per cent
during the six-month period ended last
December 81, rising from 152, ,807 ,235
to 207,113,534 gallons
There was decrease, however, In
the stocks Of whisky over four years
old, which dropped of from 3,474,247
to 2,951 ,974 gallons This is the only
whisky eligible for bottling in bond.