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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14

Before 1t laid its hands to
any other problem-and there
were many of them-it set up
the CCC camp to put an imme-
date end to that hopeless con-
dition. 1t cost money to do
that, just as it cost our pioneer
fathers and mothers money to
build the schools in which we
have all been trained.
We have done much in the
way Of beginning to improve
the things in America which
have made for waste in human
beings. On the farms and in the
cities-throughout the nation
we are starting to remove those
glazing inequalities, those deep
rooted Embellishments which
did so much to bring about dis
aster.
The American people joined
with us in 1888 to start this job.
A vast majority Of the American
people in 1895 are with us to see
it through. We have made the
start in these days, confident
that you-the youth Of the coun-
try-will carry on to finish the
job.
Reason for Program
That Is why we have q Ma
tional Youth program. That Is
why through our CCC camps and
the National Youth AdminiStra-
ton we are trying to keep young
people at useful work or in use
full education. In high schools
and in colleges the Federal Gov
eminent has lent a helping hand
in keeping youth at the Job Of
learning. Out in the woods, out
in the open, the Federal Govern
ment has kept the self-respect
and the health Of hundreds Of
thousands Of young people.
The Federal Government for
many years has spent a good
many millions Of dollars-wen-
spent dollars, toto conserve
our forests, our crops and our
livestock. We believe In that
kind of conservation.
But now we have begun to
spend money on much more i'm
portant conservation-to save
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14
.LAND0N CALLED
'0NLY HOPE

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Former
Governor Ely, of Massachusetts,,
declared last night that Governor
Landon must be elected President
if this country is to escape the
New Deal revolution in Govern
ment."
Speaking over WEAF to a
nationwide radio audience, under
auspices of the National Jeffer'
sonian Democrats, Ely charged
that the Roosevelt administration
has betrayed the American peo-
pie and debauched the American
Government" He declared:
Extravaganza and waste, the
creation of new powers and
bureaus, 100000 added Govern
ment employees, debaUchery of
the Civil Service, a law to give
the Executive complete control
over industry, law to give the
Executive complete control over
agriculture, seven billion dollars
to be spent without any check
and when he pleased.
'AS the record develops the
issue clarifies. The betrayal Of
the Minnesota democracy brings
it into better focus. If you like
this revolution in Government
vote New Deal. If you do not
like it, vote for LandOn and
Knox"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14

the energy, the ability and the
spirit of youth. No money was
ever better spent.
We have lost something of
that feeling that ours is an
"every-man-for-himself" kind Of
society, in which the law of the
jungle is law enough.
MANY Things Saved"
But many we have saved. We
have saved our morale. We have
preserved our belief in Ameri.
can institutions. In this world
Of ours where some nations have
taken perilous detours, we have
faced our problems and have met
them with a democracy. Within
that democracy we are deter
mined to solve them.
We have saved above all our
faith in the future-a faith
under which America has only
begun to march.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14

You will discover that in push
ing forward this great program
of social betterment and social
security you will be met by the
same opposition, the same re-
lentless resistance, which faced
the frontiermen of the early
West.
You will find that your fight
against selfishness and injustice,
against oppression, and above
all, against war, will take you
into a man-sized struggle.
I am telling you this not to
discourage you but to stimulate
you. Our fight-yours and mine
is to keep our democracy safe
by keeping it moving forward.
In such a fight it is an unhappy
place to be on the side lines.
To the young people Of America
I say: Join with us, ours is the
real struggle to continue and pre-
serve democracy in America.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14

for youth shall be made even
broader and firmer.
OBLIGATION Remembered"
We Americans have never lost
our sense of this obligation. To
a greater degree than any other
peoples we have sought to give
each rising generation a little
better chance in life than the
one that preceded it.
The little red SchoolhouSe for
the education of the young, and
the church for the training Of
his spiritual qualities, have al.
ways been the first structures
to rise in every new settlement,
as our ancestors pushed new
frontiers through the wilder.
ness. The school is the last ex-
penditure upon which America
should be willing to economic.
Those Of us who helped build
UP the fantastic jazz era of the
nineteen twenties, which crashed
down over our heads, must feel
q peculiarly deep sense Of re-
SponSibility to our boys and girls
who were sunk with us In the
ruins.
I need not remind the young
people Of this country Of the
black future which lay ahead Of
them in those days. That was
the era Of the wanderers-boys
and girls who had grown tired
Of living on the vanishing say.
ings Of their parents, and who
had set out on the highways in
all directions to look for work
which they could not find.
Those in school and those
out Of school could not look
forward to a place in the COM
munity. The door of oppor-
tunity had been slammed in
their faces.
Government Acted"
Cities couldn't help, counties
couldn't help, States couldn't
help. Even big business couldn't
help. The youth of America
had apparently come to the end
Of the road.
That was the condition that
confronted your Federal Gov
eminent on March 4, 1888.
Your Federal Government acted:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14
Three Named 10 Serve
On Bar Committee

The general term of United
States District Court today an
nounced the appointment of three
members of the committee on ad
missions and grievances who re-
Gently completed a one-year term.
The new appointments are to
three-termS.
Those renamed are Edward Stat
ford, Edmund L. Jones and An
drew B, DuVall
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14
LIBERTY DOOMED UNDER RULE
OF ROOSEVELT, LANDON SAYS

Nnation was founded we have
worked and saved and sacrificed
for our greatness.
run Daily Lives"
Now any administration that
attempts to run the daily lives Of
it's people, to make their business
decisions, to supervise their farms,
is working on the theory that it
is far wiser than it's people. But
the present Administration goes
beyond this. 1t apparently be-
lieved that with the concentra-
ton of power in Washington
came a concentration of intelli-
gence.
But when I look around and
see the automobiles on our roads,
sometimes suspect that right
here in Detroit there are a few
brains tucked away that somehow
have escaped notice in Washing
ton.
What built the automobile in
dustry which has done so much
for the country and its people?
The very qualities that this Ad-
ministration holds up to Scorn-
American initiative, American
energy and American frugality.
Yet today we are told that initia-
tive must be controlled, that
energy and hard work must be re-
stricted, that saving has become
q crime against society.
The automobile industry, In
stead of talking about recovery,
has worked for recovery. This in
dustry has led the way back from
depression. And I do not think it
is without significance that this
industry resisted at every turn the
compulsory regulations imposed
by the NRA. Indeed, one Of its
most distinguished leaders never
signed the code Of the Blue Eagle.
e
Protection Of Rights
There could be no better ex-
ample to show that the need OF
this country is not for a govern
ment that attempts to direct and
manage our lives. The need is Tor
a government that will protect our
rights, and foster American 1nltla-
tive, energy and frugality.
If the President thinks agricul-
tural and industrial anarchy can
be prevented only by the re-
enactment of the principles Of
NRA and AAA, let him say so.
Let him tell us - and tell us
before election day just What
amendments to the Constitution
he has in mind. By his silence
on this he is attempting to dodge
the fundamental issue of this cam
paign-the issue of whether he
intends to change the form Of
our Observation-Disclosures labor,
agriculture and business are to be
directed and managed by Govern
ment-directed and managed by
politics. -"
This charter-our Constitution
has served us well. It served our
fathers we'll.
We have only to look abroad
to see that in many countries the
charter of freedom is no more.
In those countries freedom Of
thought is gone. Freedom of
speech is gone. Freedom of the
press is gone. Freedom of wor
ship is gone.
We in America cannot ignore
these warnings. We must not, out
of regard for any man or men,
blind ourselves to the forces that
are loose in the world. 1t is not
a question of any man or men.
1t is a question Of human free
dom.
UnTE
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-14

-NoIE AMERICAN
Evening star., 1936-10-25

EMAIL Tito Schipa, Italian
tenor, who likes to go TO the
r movies and to dabble in
~ modernistic art, Is one OF
those present day rarities--a man who
positively refuses to discuss politics.
"As a politician I'm good
singer" he told newspaper men who
sought to question him yesterday on
the affairs of troubled Europe.
Few men have seeE es much of the
world as has Schipa, or known so we'll
the great personages of the times. yet,
if he is interested in Nations and
events, he keeps that interest strictly
to himself.
He arrived in Washington yester-
day afternoon for an appearance to-
day in Constitution Hall as soloist
with the National Symphony Orthes-
ira, whose director. DR.. Hans Kinder.
he greatly admires.
Shortly after he reached the Shore
ham Hotel, where he is stopping, he
descended from the eighth to the
third floor to inspect some OF the
more recent paintings Of his friend
Juan Tomadelli, electrical engineer
and artist.
MY home in Italy is finished just
like this" he exclaimed as he entered
Tomadelli's ultra -modernistic apart
ment. Il like this"
Quite recently Schipa has taken to
sketching, but there he tones down
considerably his modern tasees.
1T is nothing at all-iCsr scme-
thing I do to amuse myself" said the
singer Of his hobby, denying that he
Evening star., 1936-10-25
SOAP PISTOL WAIVER
UNDER OBSERVATION
Man May Be Charged With At.
tempted Assault for Antics
in Home.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 24.-Accused
of threatening members of house
hold with a pistol" fashioned from
soap in a bizarre hoax, John S. Hag-
gard, 81, of Ferndale, Mich, was
committed to the Kings Park State
Hospital for observation today.
Haggard was arrested in Ferndale
yesterday on Nassau County. N. Y.
indictment charging him with at
tempted assault. He was brought
here by plane by two detectives and
examined by county physicians.
Chief Thomas Eibler Of the Rock
vile Center police, said Haggard ap-
peared two weeks ago at the home
of Nicholas Popp, wealthy retired
baker. He said Haggard's collar and
vest we're worn backward to simulate
the garb of clergyman.
Eibler said Haggard told members
of the Popp family they were heirs
to a 100000 estate of which he
was executor and handed each an
envelope supposed to contain a copy
of the will.
Instead. Eibler said, the envelopes
contained a threat Haggard was
about to commit crime punishable
by DEATH"
The chief of police said Haggard
then hourished the soap pistol" and
fed.
He was traced, Eibler said, through
an unsigned radio sketch rejected by
a Detroit station and left behind
in the Popp home.
Evening star., 1936-10-25

was anywhere near good enough to
exhibit his works.
Schipa's passion for the movies is
we'll known, and 1t has not been
diminished by q two-year absence from
America. He landed in New York only
Thursday after a year on the operate
stages of Italy, but before he left yes
terday morning for Washington he
saw four motion pictures.
While in his native land he starred
In one full-length picture, completing
1t just the day before he sailed. Next
April he hopes to 60 to Hollywood
and make his first major American
film.
Between now and then, however,
his time Is all booked. There will be
a concert in the Brooklyn Academy
OF Music early this week, and then
he will commence tour which will
take him through th> principal cities
of the East and Middle West. ending
IN Cleveland December Is. Two days
later he will sail for Italy for ap-
pearances there, but will be back to
America and probably to Hollywood
by April. Then will come a tour of
Australia. to be followed by series
of concerts in Japan.
After that his plans are little
vague. Perhaps he will go back to
the Metropolitan Opera Co., Of which
he formerly was a member.
While in California he will visit his
home there, which he rented to Joe
Penner, the comedian of radio and
screen. In leasing it to Penner he
specifically banned the duck. he
pointed out yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
ORIENTE'S CREW VOTES
TO RETURN TO WORK
Delay Sailing by "Sit Down
Strike, but Reconsider Pend
ing Union Negotiations.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 24-Members
of the crew of the New York and Cuba
Mail liner Oriente delayed the ships
scheduled sailing at noon today by a
sit down" strike, but voted tonight
to return to work pending union ne
gotiations with the line.
The decision was reached after a
police emergency squad had been
called to the ships East River pier and
line officials had promised to consider
their demands next week.
The strikers, who said the demon
stration involved $50 sailors, firemen,
cooks and stewards, declared they
were forced to work several hours
overtime every day and wanted extra
pay. They objected also that three
non-union wireless operators were
employed on the Oriente.
Asserting that the strike involved
only 20 deckhands, Vincent K. Hull.
president of the line, said, Our
agreement with the International
Sailors Union, signed last March, has
until December 81, 1887, to run. The
line expects the crew to live up to the
articles they have signed!"
Evening star., 1936-10-25
$4,000 BAIL ALLOWED
IN ExT0RTION CHARGE
Agents Secretive About Suspect in
Case Involving Barbara
Hutton's Aunt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., october a.
Arrested on a charge of using the
mails in an attempt to extort 5000
from Mrs. Thomas Middleton of
Pleasantville, an aunt of Countess
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-R
Melvin Strickland, ~, q mechanic
of Atlantic City, tonight was under
$4,000 bail awaiting action of the
Federal grand jury.
After his arrest in Philadelphia
last week by Trenton Federal Bu-
reau Of Investigation operatives and
State police detectives. Strickland was
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Marvin A. Spaulding and
committed to the county jail in de-
fault Of bail
Authorities tonight refused to dis
cuss the case, other than to say that
they obtained information which led
them to suspect that Strickland was
the author of notes which warned Mrs.
Middleton that her house would be
bombed unless she made a payment
of $1,000 to the writer.
Federal agents kept secret until
tonight the fact that Strickland had
been arrested last week" and given
q hearing sometime this week." They
let it become known only when he
was put in jail in default Of bail.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
NEXT WAR is SEEN
ONE BRIEF BATTLE
British Expert Says Democratic
Nations Defense Must Be
Totalitarian.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSS.
A prediction that the next war may
possibly consist Of one battle lasting
but a "few hours" is made by Maj.
Gen. j. F. C. Fuller, noted British SOL
dier, in an article to be published
Monday by Army Ordnance, journal
of the Army Ordnance Association.
Increased use of scientific weapons
of war, especially the airplane, will
make it necessary, Gen. Fuller says,
for all democratic countries, especially
in Europe, to adopt totalitarian meth
DDS of defense rather than rely on
collective security pacts.
There will be little or no place, he
says. for the cumbersome machinery
of the League of Nations, with its
slow-moving sanctions and its collec-
tive security, unless adherents sub
scribe fully to totalitarian warfare and
keep great air forces ready for instant
action.
Under modern warfare, the British
authority says, Army discipline must
be extended to the Nation as q whole,
that is. in its totality."
Evening star., 1936-10-25
JUDGE DENIES WRIT
IN POISONING CASE
Korean Houseboy Held on As.
sault Charge in Deaths of
Employers Guests.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. October "a.
Supreme Court Justice Frederick P.
Close today denied an application for
writ Of habeas corpus for Chang 500
Lee, 36-year -old Korean houseboy.
held in the Westchester County Jail
on a charge of first-degree assault
with intent to kill.
Lee is accused Of having poisoned
George Reeves. so, retired Indianap-
oils haberdasher, and his wife, who
were living at the home of Mrs.
Reeves widowed aunt. Mrs. Ida l..
Churchill.
His case will be presented to the
grand jury Monday.
Charles D. Lewis, defense counsel,
argued Lee was being held illegally On
insufficient evidence.
Assistant District Attorney Elbert
T. Gallagher told Justice Close the
State has documentary evidence Zee
tried to kill Reeves and his wife and
is confident the grand jury will in
dict him.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
RADICAL SOCIALIST
PARTYBACKSBLUM
Conference Qualities Vote of
Confidence, Insisting That
Strikes End.
BY the Associated Press.

BIARRITZ. France, October "a
The powerful Radical-Socialist party
ended its annual conference tonight
with an unanimous vote renewing its
support of the peoples front govern
ment of Premier Leon Blum.
Coupled in a resolution pledging this
support, however, was party warm
ing intimating its backing of Blum
would be withdrawn unless the gov
ernment took strong measures to end
occupation strikes in factories and to
prevent street fighting by extremists.
The resolution, sponsored by the
partys elder statesmen, Edouard Her
Lriot, president of the Chamber Of
Deputies: Edouard Daladier, vice pre-
mier and minister of national defense,
and Camille Chautemps, minister of
state, brought an end to a bitter fight
waged by younger members to effect
a break with the Communists in the
popular front.
The younger members Of the party
cast aside their violent resolutions
WQeU tIlcy WClC ldSSu Will VIC du-
nouncement of Caesar Campincki, the
party's leader in the Chamber of Dep
uties, that a break with the Com
munists would be followed by Blum s
resignation tomorrow.
Emile Roche, chief Of the party's
northern federation and leader Of
the younger element, had introduced
a resolution demanding that the Com
munists publicly subscribe to four
point promise to cease the campaign
of violence"
Think deeply about the conse-
ouences of such action" Chautemps
told the Congress, warning that civil
war might follow the breakup of the
popular front and the fall of Blum.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
EMBASSY OPENED
T0U.S. NATIONALS
Americans in Madrid to
Have Place Of Refuge,
Wendelin Reports.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Foreseeing a possibility Of dis
turbances" in Madrid as a result Of
the Fascist army's approach, the
American Embassy notified the State
Department today it was reopening its
building as q place of refuge for
Americans in the beleaguered Spanish
capital.
1t was estimated that more than
100 nationals, now cut of by the en-
circling insurgent advance from
virtually all avenues Of escape to the
sea, had remained In Madrid in disre-
gard Of repeated ofiicial American
warnings that they fee while there
still was opportunity.
Without giving details Of conditions
then prevailing in Madrid. Eric C.
Wendelin. young Charge d'Af1aires OF
the embassy, reported that he was re-
opening the thick-walled building to
the remnants of the American colony
"in view of the serious military situa-
ton and the possibility of disturbances
IN Msdrid."
The embassy was closed as a place
of refuge a month ago. At that time
the action was accompanied by q
public statement issued by the State
Department calling attention to re-
peated opportunities made available
for the evacuation Of all those who
wished to leave.
These included the dispatch to
Spanish waters of four American war
vessels, which ferried more than 1000
Americans out Of the danger zone
They now are stationed in NEARBY
waters for possible further emergency
duty.
Those who persisted in staying on
in the threatened capital
Gid so for business or family reasons.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS
ST. AUGUSTINE PROJECT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A committee will meet here TO-
morrow to discuss a proposal to re-
store the original city of st. Angus
tine, Fla, as it looked three centuries
ago.
The project would involve the re-
construction of buildings contained
in the little settlement adjacent to
old Fort Marion, which still stands.
With an admitted interest in the
restoration project, officials of the
National Park Service arranged de-
tails of the conference, which was
called by Walter B. Fraser, Mayor Of
St. Augustine.
Mayor Fraser appointed IL persons
to serve on the committee. including
some members of the National Park
Service Advisory Board.
Evening star., 1936-10-25
PERMANENT.

One of Wdshington's furniture
sdlesmen tells on himself the story
of the ,1onlan pho came into the
store and explained she tDdnted q
chair to put in the living room, but
didn't particularly care Dhether it
matched any OF the furniture there
or not.
81 see: you Ddnt an occasional
chair" he said.
II certainly do not; tUant it all
the time" was the retort.
CONFIDENCE.
WITH the presidential campaign al
its present stage there are prob
ably few people who have not formed
definite conclusions as to the outcome
It is doubtful, at this stage. that
many takers of bets will offer SIC
against your So that your favorite
candidate will not be elected, yet we
know one fellow who got these odds
and "he Just can't lose"
Several weeks ago he placed a bet
of SIS against SO that Candidate A
would be elected. Later he placed
another bet on Candidate A of $40
against SO with another friend.
Telling a third acquaintance later
that he then had chance of winning
a total of $12 against risk of SIS If
Mr.. A is President next year, this
third friend said he was also sure
Mr.. A would be elected, but he would
insure" his friend against losing his
SIS for a premium" Of 50.
Our betting friend accepted the
insurance" proposition and paid his
insurer the 50. The situation now is
that the betting man, having spent So
for insurance" will clear $40 instead
of $l2 If A wins the election. II A
loses, the better will have paid his
insurer" the 50 to stand good for his
debt Of SIS.
. Sounds dizzy, doesn't it?