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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
HOW WIDE is YOUR THOUGHT?

Afor my ranch but Tor all otneT
earth.
And because of that communion,
my life is ineXpreSSively enriched.
My life stretches out and out, over
and beyond the boundary limita-
lions as the soil stretches. I own
not only the earth and expert
ence which is enclosed within my
blazes, but all that lies without as
well-the wide sunshine, the gypsy
wind, the adventure of the sea-
sons and all, the joy and despair
of those who live by the soil.
When we have "a good year" I
feel as if I had a share in the
success of every ranch in America.
When we have "a bad year" I am
their companion in misfortune
and they are mine. And all this
is possible because I realize that
all acres, whatever the name on
the title deed. are of one clay.
NARROW VIEW
Do you want great Hfe-a
life that is filled with drama and
mystery, power and happiness,
curiosity and enthusiasm and
comfort in time of distress? That's
the way to get it. Think of your
life as you would think of soil.
Do not think of yourself as
something set apart-as certain
special acres with different neces-
stiles, different seasons, with more
important crops and more poig.
nant ploughing.
Realize, rather, that your
drought is one with all other
droughtS-that the forces which
move through you are all Of a
piece with the forces which move
through all other human clays.
And that your agonies and costa
cies, your dreams and despairs
are universal.
Think of yourself? Of course
you must think of yourself. But
consider how you think of your
self. Think Of yourself in one
way and your life will be as small
and tight and arid as that clod
at your feet.
Think of yourself in another
way-including all other selves
with yourself-and your life will
be as wide as the horizon.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
| Syndicate, Inc.)
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lars to doughnuts neither are you.
Saints aside, every one of us
thinks of himself from cradle to
grave. But-some of us think in
one way and some in another
and therein lies the whole secret
of happiness or misery.
I stepped to the door of my
cabin. Below me the mountains
fall away, gully and ridge, emer'
aid, indigo, violet, beaten gold'
down-and-down to the Shimmering
plain. Immediately before my door
lie the few acres which I own.
I love those acres-they are in
tenSely precious and important to
me. The life within their boun
diaries the turnip seeds
sowed yesterday the crop OF
wheat just in the three new
pigs and the chicken house I'm
framing these lie close to
my heart as the throb Of my own
blood. Yet, closely as these acres
touch me, I cannot look upon them
without seeing and feeling the rest
of the mountains.
BROAD VIEW
When my earth suffers from
drought, I feel the painting agony
of that other parched soil. When
rain falls on my grain fields I fee
those other fields breathing their
deep delight. Boundary fences
mark the limit of my legal owner
ship but no fences can divide that
communion which I feel not only
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
Greatest Show on Earth
Blu Frank Miller Smith

ID. Roosevelt" It has an intro
duction by Donald Richberg;
Surplus Prophets" an anony'
nous gathering of forecasts that
have touched the disabilities of an
unknown, published by the Viking
Press;
I'm for Roosevelt" by Joseph
P. Kennedy, published by Reynal
g. Hitchcock carrying on its dust
cover, the flamboyant assertion:
"Here a financier Of national
reputation, the former chairman
of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, looks dispassiOn-
ateIy at the national balance
sheet and gives a forceful an
swer to numerous business
friends who are asking, How
can you possibly support ROOse-
welt? His conclusions, based on
facts and statistics, including
significant tables hitherto un-
published, will be a revelation to
citizens of every political per-
suaSiOn,"
ANOTHER ANGLE
But then, as if in direct answer,
we find next to this a snappy lit
tie number carrying its title.
Roosevelt Riddles" by Russell
Moore. Right away it begins with
the question:
'Do you know that if you
earned a dollar a minute it
would take you $4,000 years to
earn what President Roosevelt
spends in one year?
"That a SIS, 200 dog pound in
Memphis, Tenn, is part of the
WPA building program"
A rather pointed and In its way
cauStic observation on the Admin
iStration's money policies.
And then there is Storm Over
the Constitution" or Democracy
Turns to Federalism" by Irving
Brant, a more serious problem and
a more serious approach. 1t is
supplemented by an introduction
by Henry A. Wallace, Secretary OF
Agriculture, who found to his Sor-
row recently that the Supreme
Court had a very different con
ception of the Constitution than
is fostered by the Administration
in which he serves.
ANSWERS ARE THERE
And perhaps for a contrast a
thorough grasp of the fight over
the preSent-day interpretations OF
the Constitution the shelf will also
include:
Congress or the Supreme Court
Which Shall Rule?" In this
volume, written by E. R. Nichols
and published by Noble & Noble,
are included the authoritative ex-
pressions of President Roosevelt,
Chief Justice Hughes and others
on a vital issue Of the 1885 cam
paign.
And so we come to the latest,
at least at this writing, of the rush
to "be there" in politics, a force
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

Peter Stewart, including one that
he tainted in his classroom when
the news reached the South in
1921 that Bonaparte had died on
St. Helena.
Another story has it that on his
deathbed on November IS, 1916,
he sat up to exclaim: II am Mar
shall Ney."
The body of Peter Stewart was
buried in a country grave near
StateSville, N. C. There is consid-
cradle talk of exhuming the body.
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to take a rest until November.
Any two-foot book shelf at pres
ent packs more political dynamite
to the square inch than you could
find even in a Congressional Rec
ord. And that's going some.
Any way if you look within
arms reach you can see: An
orange paper-backed volume en-
titled Franklin D. RooSevelt-The
Man." It is written by Erich
Brandeis and published by The
American Offset Corporation. The
style is terse-handled in short
paragraphs of one sentences like
this:
"He believes in action and
Is perfectly willing to make
mistakes as long as he eventu-
ally accompIiSheS something"
But you don't need to be one
sided; the same shelf might very
well and does carry just as lauda-
tory if not little thicker volume
entitled:
alfred M. Landon-DeedS Not
Deficits" by Richard B. Fowler,
with foreword by William Allen
White. In this small book you
will find a pretty complete picture
of the accomplishments of the
Republican candidate. One para
graph stands out as a summation
of the whole. It is:
"The fundamental character.
iStics of ALI LandOn may be
sensed almost Immediately, but
it usually takes a visitor several
hours to define it. The char
acteriStic is balance. We have
said earlier that he has prob
ably no single trait or ability
that you have not already
known in other men. LandOn,
like his administration in Kan
sas, is different only because
of a combination of qualities
which we call the genius Of
the average man-balance."
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
And there you have presented a
close mental picture of the two
men who are racing for the pres
idency but just in case that isn't
enough we shall look a little
further in this latest batch of
literature gone political.
Next on the list is Prank Knox
-American"-a short biography
by Norman Beasley published by
D oubleday-Doran. It carries on
the dust cover the legend:
"SOIdier in two wars, council
IOr and friend of presidents,
energetic and successful pub
Usher of a great newspaper: his
career makes stirring chapter
in the history Of a nation which
eagerly awaits his next move"
And thus we move into the vice
presidential race. But then moth
ing is forgotten these days. There
is Waste" by David Cushman
Coyle, published by Bobbs Merrill
dedicated to bringing home the
problem of soil conservation;
Guilty" an anonymous offer
ing by a friend of the Presidents
called the Confession of Franklin
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
TOday's BOOndOggle

Nor should it supposed that the New Dealers have over
looked the task of providing outlook life for the
animals that will nhabt the $24595 ZOO now being con-
structed in the city park in Pueblo.
Another $95 been borrowed by the Federal Treasury
to pay for the andscapng of hill in the animal pens IN
order that the animals may gaze but the most
pleasant scenes in order too perhaps that they may
nibble surrepttousy and then tender shrub
that has just been set out
shelter in the animal pens provide refuge from storm
Innctively these WPA officials to know that the
animals at least would have enough to in out
Of the rain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

Those nnocents who won't believe Communism CAN hap
pen here should watch closely what happening in Europe
She Reds in Spain apng their Moscow brethren are put
ting their vctmzed country through the fiery flame OF
REVOLUTION The estimates that $4,000 have been killed
SO far and $70O000000 worth of property destroyed
rrrohss have heen desecrated thousands of homes de-
spoiled Nuns priests have been driven into the streets
and shot down without mercy Converts and affairs nave
been robbed.
All this in the name of COMMUNISM
If some Americans srug and this is none OF their OuS
ness let them look again at the map OF Europe.
Red France and Russia pouring arms and money
into Spain to aid the Communists there
Germany and Italy, with their Fascist relationships are
supporting the rebels similarly while Great Britain rushes
through the greatest preparedness in her
history. - ,,.
COMMUNISM HAS BREWED A DEVILS BROTH In
EUROPE.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EUROPE CAN AND WILL
HAPPEN HERE UNLESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RE-
MEMBER THAT EVERLASTING WATCHFULNEsS IS
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
Wise Words

Business dispatched is business
well done, but business hurried is
business i'll done.-Bulwer-Lytton.
Generalities always admit Of eX-
ceptionS.-Victor Hugo.
All political power is a trust
Charles James Fox.
The greatest regard is due to
a child.-Juvenal.
Every change makes the favorite
Of fortune anxiouS.-Schiller.
There Is q point at which even
justice does injury.-SophocleS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

|They already have exhumed the
remains of the one their ancestors
buried as Peter Stuart Ney.
They are satisfied that Napo-
Icons soldier par excellence" met
his death as a traitor on orders
of the king.
Whatever one may think about
the death of Ney, the record Of
his life was that Of a remarkable
soldier.
The son of a cooper, he enlisted
in the French army as a youth OF
10. At q, as a result Of the revo-
luton, he was general of brigade.
In the meantime the star of an
other obscure young man was
rising in the army. 1t was that Of
the little CorSican corporal, Ma
poleon Bonaparte.
Ney became one of the few Of
ficerS that Napoleon trusted. And
Napoleon, for his services not only
gave him the title of "braveSt OF
the brave" but made him Duke
of Elchingen and Prince Of Mos
kowa.
REJOINS NAPOLEON
Ney's bravery in the retreat
from Moscow was truly inspiring,
He marched with his men, fought
at their side and was the last to
cross the frontier,
He was in retirement when,
after the restoration of the Bour-
bonS, Napoleon escaped from Elba,
He rushed to King Louis XVIII
and said that Bonaparte should
be arrested and brought to Paris
in an iron cage.
But Ney, setting forth to make
the arrest, joined up instead with
Napoleon and was with him at
Waterloo.
He permitted himself to be
taken, and while the king did not
want to have him killed, the ultra
royalists insisted on the court
martial.
The hold of Ney on the French
people and the reluctance OF
Louis to order his execution would
seem to bolster the story Of hi;
escape. But that will never be
proved. to the satisfaction of al
concerned.
It is like the question Of who
wrote Shakespeare or the question
of the death of Charley Ross.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc,
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that seems to
h We vitalized
every publish
ing house in the
country.
It is "Half
w a y w / t h
Roosevelt" b y
Ernest K. Lind
ley, and was
published by the
Viking Press.
Mr.. Lindley,
political CORE
Spondent for the
New York Her
eld-Tribune, is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
Three Minute Journeys
By Temple Manning

eorful and flamboyant than ever.
oxford Street, the Mall, Marble
Arch Hyde Park, Whitehall, the
Victoria embankment, the good old
Strand and Piccadilly are to be
focal points for Examinations as
well as elaborate decorations. But
it is safe to say that even in the
smallest street of the smallest sub.
urb there will be colored lights,
flags and bunting.
The chain of royal parks, Green,
st. James, Hyde and Kensington
gardens are as beautiful as those
in any great city. Sylvan retreats,
lawns and gardens that have been
tended carefully for centuries, as
well as limpid lakes and ancient
trees, abound in them.
Already provision has been made
to take care of the crowds that
will swarm through the parks.
Thousands will visit London's Lido,
that gay bathing beach by the
Serpentine that is bound to amaze
many home from the colonies after
years OF absence from London.
DECORATIONS
Houses and shop fronts already
are being rebuilt or decorated for
the big event next year and some
pretty elaborate facades will be
on view. Plans for stands along
the way have already been com.
pleted and owners of windows
along the route are figuring how
to spend the huge sums that their
vantage points will yield.
Many choice locations already
have been booked. Members Of
clubs along the route are think.
ing up excuses, for guests will be
limited in number. Famous hotels
report that their best suites have
been booked. The eastern po-
tentates usually account for whole
floors in the de luxe hoStelries.
The costumes Of the east always
add color to any London pageant
and, Of course, on gala occasions,
they can be seen by the hundreds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

Governor LandOn OW covering
the campaign of Governor Landon.
His volume contains an appraisal
Of administrative activities Of the
past three years.
It was finished August IA and
his publishers placed it in the book
stores on August %. Some speed.
But after all this is campaign
year, so why not go literary and
learn all about it?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

But that's non
sense, and you
know it. No
one can forget
himself, or stop
thinking about
himself"
That's true.
There are, I
suppose, saint
ly ere a t u r eS
who can COM
pletely elm j.
nate self from
their thoughts
but I'm certain
" not one of
them; it's dol
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

fishers are TAX
ing their cam
paign so serious
ly these days
that you can get
right with your
political con-
science in your
own arm chair
if you can hold
out long enough
to read all the
v o l u m e S CnaC
are hitting the
market so fast
these days that
it looks like
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
'Mystery of "Peter Stewart" Will Probably
Always Remain Unsolved

ut may have been done before this
item is completed. But if it is, the
mystery will remain as much I'M
solved. Indeed it will be only the
deeper.
For if the skull from the grave
in Third Creek Presbyterian Gene
terry shows a silver trepan there
will be some added basis for the
belief that Peter Stewart was
really Peter Stuart Ney.
But the evidence will not be
enough to satisfy the French.
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Piedn1 o nteSe
officer, who
had been Sc
lected to COM
m a n d tn e
squad, thus
sp ng a
Frenc h m a n
that painful
duty where
he Sh o u Id
stand, he re-
m o We d his
hat and as
s II m e d a
noble, calm
and serious
okkikud0 that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04
AT YOUR SERVICE

Shut off your radio. Don't bother
to go to the next town to hear the
candidates speak. The book pub
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

"He had too often looked
death in the face to fear it now.
After asking Capt, st. Bias IA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-04

You're always saying forget my ranch but Tor all o
YOURSELF he writes, "and telling earm.
tot n tho wav to he hannv of that communion
Evening star., 1936-08-11

tween. Senor Prieto belongs to the
business class and his brains and
energy in amalgamating this ruck Of
opinion, as well as arming and training
it, is believed to explain largely the
vigorous loyalist defense to date.
Opposed by Juan March.
He Is a wealthy tobacco dealer and
importer, having enjoyed valuable
concessions under several govern
ments. Oddly enough, lined up against
him is another even greater tobacco
panjandrum, supposedly one Of the
main inStigators and financial sup
porterS of the revolution. He Is Juan
March, known as the richest man in
Spain. He and Senor Prieto were car
rying on tobacco wars for years be-
fore gun smoke began mixing with to-
bacco smoke.
Senor Prieto has been for many years
leader of the Right Wing Socialists,
and his following constituted the best
disciplined and manageable support Of
the government when the crisis came.
He was a revolutionist for two decades
before the downfall Of Alfonso and
remained radical even after he had
gathered his fortune. He steadily re-
fused portfolios in Monarchist cabi-
nets. gaining much popular esteem
thereby, although he has been minister
Of public works and minister Of finance
under the Republican government.
Led Adventurous Life.
A somewhat imposing man, bald.
double-chinned and rotund, he has
led an adventurous life, at odds with
this presentment of statesmanlike dig
nifty. In 1917 he hid in a big milk
jug, while Alfonsos soldiers brushed
by with cooked rifles, looking for him,
with orders to shoot to kill Again
he was a jump ahead OF the Kings
men as he fed to France, just before
Alfonso's abdication.
He is brilliantly educated, a skilled
orator and organizer, and, all in all.
the type of man one would expect to
find combating governmental intrusion
in business. But just now he's one
OF the mainstays Of Spain's embattled
and oddly constituted Left govern
ment.
tCopyrisht, 1880
Evening star., 1936-08-11

wages turned out to be low, indeed,
except for extraordinary periods. But
hundreds of thousands Of Negroes
lett their homes in these years and
emigrated northward into industrial
sections. Then when the boom COL
lapsed, they were ruthlessly discharged
to become a burden upon Northern
communities. Where jobs were avail
able they were given to whites un-
less the Negro would work for far less
money. 1t is these Negroes, among
whom the rate of unemployment Is
higher than in any other group. who
hold so important a political posi-
ton.
The Negro vote Is notoriously venal
How could it be otherwise? Ignorant
and 1lliterate, the vast mass of Ne
groes are like the lower strata of the
early industrial immigrants, and like
them, are "bossed" and delivered" in
blocs by venal leaders, white and
black. Paul Ward, writing in the
Nation, says: "Only members of the
upper crust are politically free agents.
The rest do not vote They are
voted for whichever machine pays the
higher price"
The parties which so cynically buy
this vote and which so recklessly per-
NIT 1t to possibly determine who
shall govern the country have neither
OF them done anything to elevate the
material or cultural status of the
Negro. Conditions for Negroes are
relatively no better North than South.
They have been Disseminated against
along all lines and by all classes, in
cluding the trades unions who fear
their power to undercut wages. The
North, which liberated" them, freed
them to starve. The whole share
cropping system Of the South, which
has now branched out to include poor
whites. together with blacks, is the
post-bellum answer of defeated ns-
ton to an intolerable and seemingly
insoluble situation created by the War
Between the States and its aftermath.
Only Service Jobs Available.
In New York City the only jobs open
to Negroes are domestic service and
the heaviest and most unpleasant
forms Of menial labor. Nowhere will
you find Negro chambermaids or
walters in good hotels. And jammed
into the restricted area of Harlem
they have the highest rate of unem-
ployment and tuberculosis, and pay
the highest relative rents and prices
for food of any people in the metrop-
oils. And what is true of New York is
true of every city in the country with
a large Negro population.
There has never been a national, re-
gional, State or local program for
dealing with the Negro problem.
There has been no long-range plan
ming. no craftsmanship. In neither
North nor South has the Negro really
become a citizen. He is a social and
economic outcast. What little has
been done for him has been the work
of individual philanthropists, like the
late Julius Rosenwald, of a few not
always realistic humanitarisns, and
Of the remnants Of impoverished ante
bellum land-owning families with
some sense of noblesse oblige. The
left radicals promise him social and
economic equality, and Herewith 1t Is
to be feared, prepare the way for an
eventual pogrom.
(copyrisht. 1895. New York Tribune. 1nc)
Evening star., 1936-08-11

Board OF Trade to take drastic steps to the situation
He, he "odthes subsidies"
orally lodthe them They
business competition freedom world
Failing that there O school
uth
country which
called on to ship its goods British bottoms
Aernative there only the expedent Of entering Fundamentally
into the subsidy in the that
game not worth the candle there will normal competitive
trading Those who this
subsidized
ably that shipping vital prosperity
the country agriculture One thing canthat
another
will combatted.
Evening star., 1936-08-11

old Office before making the
ton. There desk aside from Rtchie but in the
Woodring Office there beside his.
the War Department has OF the teto
really departments Washington Military train
las tal Washington activity War
just understand politics. the personal
the Morgenthau
would explained Capt Rtche by saying he wanted the
Wall
close
(Richie leading fyer), etc, ETC.
guards Chief PowWows visit pointed the need Other
expecting like Capt Ritche 6foot
chauffeur the Army bgwigs He will
around.
- fCopyrsht