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Evening star., 1936-09-14
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Gov. Landon's conferences with two
former Undersecretaries OF State, j.
Reuben Clark, jr, and William Il.
Castle-who served, respectively. during
the Coolidge and Hoover administrations
suggest that the Republican presi-
Dental nominee will shortly come forth
with some brass tack statements of
foreign policy. To date, the G. o. p.
standard-bearer has expressed himself
on that score in only general and in
formal terms. Mr.. Clark is former
Ambassador to Mexico and student OF
Latin American questions. Mr.. Castle,
a one-time special Ambassador to Japan,
rates as an expert on the Far East. So
Landon is getting authoritative counsel
on the two outstanding branches OF
the United States external relations
brotherhood with the other American
republics and the tickliSh Pacific prob
lem. AS the Republican leadership IS
aware of President Roosevelt's strong
appeal to the peace vote, there's much
curiosity about the tactics Gov. Landon
will employ to counter the Democratic
bid, His Portland speech, aSSailing New
Deal centralized government as war
menace, indicates one of his approaches
to the problem. Thus far, rugged isola-
ton, including opposition to reciprocal
trade agreements and advocacy OF war
debt collection, are about all there's been
to the Landon international program.
Some of our peace advocates find Mr..
Roosevelts good neighbor ideals incon-
sistent with big naval armaments. His
Republican foe may make point OF
this in appealing for anti-war support.
Some of Chairman Hamiltons National
Press Club audience the other day rather
got the impression from his unexpectedly
restrained remarks that the G. o. P.
broth is in danger of being spoiled by
too many cooks. There were other allu-
sions plainly meant to indicate that the
chairman and Gov. Landon, despite spo-
radio hints to the contrary, are teamlng
up harmoniously and will continue to do
So On one point Hamilton radiates un-
reserved confidence-that Kansas is in
the bag for her favorite son. He ven-
tured that prediction in conspicuously
more positive tone than his claim OF 225
electoral votes east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio. The elephants red
headed, aggressive young leader drew
the biggest crowd in the history OF
Press Club meetings, but it was disap-
pointed not to find him in the dynamic
oratorical form he displayed at Cleve-
land.
II X X
One of Washington's seasoned presi-
Dental year statistical wizards, after
microscopic analysis of straw polls OF
every hue, has reached the conclusion
Evening star., 1936-09-14

the administration, either through Presi-
dent Roosevelt or through some other
Spokesmen, has issued statements de-
claring there would be no increase in
taxes at the next Congress, for none
would be necessary; that the Civil Serv-
ice is to be given a hand up, that there
is to be more economy in Government
and finally that there is to be reorgan-
ization of executive agencies of the Gov
ernment, with many consolidated. These
announcements have brought shouts of
derision from the Republicans. They
point out that the Roosevelt New Dealers
have been in power for four years and
have done nothing along such lines.
What they have done, say the Repub-
licans, is to spend money wastefully and
in tremendous measure, to flood the
Government service with political ap-
pointees and to create more and more
agencies Of Government, and to increase
taxes constantly.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

The desire to say caustic things Is q
game with some people. not meanness
at all, although at times 1t may sound
so, and so impress others.
Those given to such remarks are as
unable to refrain from uttering them as
the rooster from his crow, or the turkey
gobbler from his gobble.
They serve useful purpose in society,
these people. After all, what they say
is not really mean, but Just unusual, in
most cases.
It is the unusual, in this world, which
is resented, even more than the caustic,
the mean, the sharp and singing.
The world has a mode of dealing in
talk, as well as in other things. One of
these lies along the avenue Of formal
politeness.
It is not good form to say something
unexpected, something which seems to
require a remark in kind, although
silence would be better.
Average conversation is built up on
another plan. 1t is just as well that 1t
is, too else the world would be more
filled with pickering than 1t is now.
Humans are such touchy things, so
willing to "get mad" at each other, that
it is an unwritten law with many to
refrain from saying anything which
would stir up another.
The peak of this is the famous Eyes
man." well known to all, who simply
agrees in word or smile, rather than run
the risk of stirring up the animals, as
the saying is.
>f L. s, Ia
chronic disagreer, the fellow who in
variably finds you wrong in your opin-
ions, even at the risk of saying some-
thing he does not agree with himself!
In between come all the millions OF
persons of culture, semi-culture, demi-
culture, however one chooses to put it,
who are willing to talk in the mode, in
order to ease the path of the everyday.
They, too, at times, might wish to hit
the nail on the head" but refrain from
doing it. mostly.
This leaves our friend, the caustic-
tongued man or woman, who not only
wants to say something "snappy." but
often does so.
Sometimes these remarks strike others,
including the victim, as harsh beyond
need.
That is because. one may believe, such
remarks are unusual, outside the mode,
against the code.
If we stop to examine the code, we find
it simply matter of expediency.
Common sense is the basis of all
courtesy. If all persons were given to
such remarks, what a world this would
be!
The point is that such person, now
and then, is wholesome corrective to
the "yes men," and the yes women, and
the millions of good, kind persons who
are really "yessers" themselves although
they might be the last to suspect it.
Let us say again that it is good for the
world that they constitute the greater
portion of it, with the exception of Spain,
evidently, and a few other places.
But the caustic speaker is good anti
dote, and blessings upon him or her.
He wouldn't hurt fly, but he might
hurt another human being, when he is
talking.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Call of the Wind.

A wild West wind, oh, it beckons me
To follow, follow, alone and free,
Leaving kinsfolk and home behind,
Faring away from the daily grind,
Daring the untrodden path Of the wind.
Reckless all day I'd blow along,
Humming, whistling the windy song.
Highway and byway and East and West,
Thru valley and over mountain crest
Till night winds blew me home to rest.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Confident Prophecy.

SOnHucHt fTOpHcCys
The campaign will be ended
In very little while.
Remarks may be extended,
But we don't forget to smile.
Election day is nearing
With its figures that surprise.
We will listen to the cheering
And to explanations wise.
We've got to have Thanksgiving
That enables us to say
We're glad that we are living
And awaiting Christmas day.
If some things can't be mended
We will face them as before.
The smiling has been splendid
And we're going to smile some more
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Hitler's Russian Threat.

If Americans can conceive the un-
Imaginable and think of prime min
lister Of Japan publicly proclaiming:
"Japan would be rich beyond the dreams
of avarice If she only possessed the Pa
cific Coast of the United States, the
silver, copper and gold mines Of Colo
RADIO, Montana and South Dakota, the
oil lands of Oklahoma, Kansas and
Texas and the wheat and corn fields OF
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North
Dakota" If so astounding an afirma-
ton were ever to emanate from re-
sponsible quarter in Toxic, it is not hard
TO visualize the reaction in this country.
It would be one of universal and justi-
liable resentment. 1t might be difficult
for even the most predetermined ad-
rinistration in Washington to restrain
popular demand for stern rebuke OF
Japanese pretensions.
Yet, at a moment of profound peace in
Europe and on the heels of his claim
that Germany is firmly devoted to its
maintenance, Chancellor Hitler has seen
at to utter no less infammatory provo
cation of the Soviet Union. With hun
warlike symphony overhead as he spoke,
the Fuehrer thundered to his great party
congress at Nuremberg on Saturday that
'it had the Urals, if we possessed ST.
IBERIA, If we had the Ukraine, National
Socialist Germany would be swimming in
surplus prosperity" In the same breath
he declared that the Reich would .tri-
umph if the hour comes when the two
nations should meet in battle" He de-
scribed Russia as "our old adversary"
and voiced the defiant assurance that
German youth would be before and be-
hind him If it ever became necessary to
defend the country against the Bolshe-
visit foe truculently advertised at Nurem-
berg as world public enemy No. l."
Hitler did not go the length OF threat
sning war to acquire the several million
square miles Of Russian territory to
which he made covetous allusion. But
the sinister implication in his statement
Is undeniable. Russia and the world in
general will weigh his words in the light
Of the expansionist creed so candidly
avowed in Hitlers book, MY Struggle"
wherein the German push toward the
east" is advocated as a cardinal point OF
Nad policy.
There Is, of course, wide gulf be-
tween the mere disclosure of German
longings for Russian lands, with their
fabulous agricultural and mineral wealth,
and the naturalization of so tall an
order. Meantime the brutal frankness
Of the Fuehrers language and the in
evitably bellicose effect it will produce in
Moscow do grave dis-service to the
cause Of peace, to which Hitler pretends
70 indissolubly to be welded. Even If
his purpose is simply to paint picture
Of the promised land for Impoverished"
Germans, and thus induce them to
roose-step with lighter heart, while
bearing the crushing burden of colossal
ornaments, the Nuremberg illumination
Is q wanton menace to international
tranquility and challenge to world
withing with anxiety to rid itself of war
psychology.
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Lodge and Gov. Curley will prospectively

4 X
From the standpoint of the Democratic
high command, the chief Importance of
the Progressive pro-Roosevelt movement
launched at Chicago last week is the
hope that it will put the brakes on Rep
resentative Lemke's candidacy, especially
u the West. The Unionist party is not
setting the prairies af1re, but New Deal
ers respect the rather persistent indica-
ton in straw polls and otherwise that
Lemke is sapping far more strength from
Roosevelt than from Landon.
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-09-14

A custom Of changing his dialect to
suit his audiences is attributed to Gov
ernor Talmadge of Georgia, who has ex-
perienced an apparent loss Of prestige.
Brain trusts have had their influence
and the Governor may have made the
mistake Of talking Cracker" when he
should have been speaking Harvard"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Mr.. Landon says fatty that Mr.. Roose-
welt would like to be a dictator. This
sounds like an effort to ignore the sus-
picion that General Farley feels equal
to being the kind of autocrat who could
boss even a President.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Labor day was commemorated with
outbursts Of eloquence with which actual
work was not permitted to interfere.
A certain amount of holiday exercise is
beneficial but should not be permitted
TO interfere with the purposes of a man
who likes his job and prefers to hold it
without interference.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

A courageous stand against the ma
tional administration Is taken by the
potent, grave and reverend Baltimore
Sun, in defiance of the subsidiary brain
trust that might presumably be organ
lied in Johns Hopkins University.
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Habit.

Habit.
We can't explain the things we do
In spite of moral lesson. ....:-
A threat of war resounds anew
And keeps the whole world guessin'.
We're told a fight is never right
For people honest hearted.
And yet ere one is out of sight
We have another started.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

The invention of mechanical heart"
might be of greater service to humanity
if it could be accompanied by reliable
design for gas mask to protect the
available supply of oxygen.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

A phase of boondoggling that might
be useful would be a discriminating sys-
tenn Of destruction of most of the paint
ings developed in Summer art camps.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Spain has at last succeeded in max
ing bull fight seem by comparison a
gentle and uplifting form of social en-
tertainment.
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Finaity.

do you expect to have the last word
in this argument?"
Language doesn't matter so much,"
said Senator Sorghum. There are taxes
to be collected. What we're after now
is not the last word, but the last dollar"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Hitler is looking with envious eyes on
Soviet wealth. He may find way to
organize brain trust with dash of
politics in it to promote foreign con-
servation.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Kilkenny Cats.

From the Battle Greek Enqurer-News.
The impossibility of understanding
human nature is shown by the Spanish
conflict. Both sides are fighting over the
distribution Of wealth. while busiiy en-
fased n destroying IL. :. y
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Women who are participants in the
fight in Spain are made aware that
when woman's rights are asserted Ger
tain responsibilities that go with them
are inevitably assumed.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Home, Sweet Home.

do you think woman's place is in
the home?"
Certainly" said Miss Cayenne. There
are always plenty of homes with pleas
ant party in one or two of them"
Evening star., 1936-09-14
The Serious Farmer.

The farmer used to be esteemed
A person rather comic.
At morn he toiled while others dreamed
of problems economic.
But now with confidence complete
The farmer says, Dear brother,
Unless have enough to eat,
You won't be eatin' nuther"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

"A man who don't know his duty
wifout bein' told" said Uncle Eben, "ain't
likely to find anybody to give him nfor-
nation dat he kin understand"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

ut is not always true that we learn
by experience" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown. my neighbor, Hi Hat,
is a disagreeable experience that never
teaches anybody anything"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

tee and also chairman of the New York
State Democratic Committee, got behind
Mckee, another Democratic candidate
for mayor, and the Tammany choice
was showed under. Tammany will
sooner or later have to make up its mind
whether it is going down the line for
Roosevelt this year. While many of
the Tammany people have no love for
either Roosevelt or Farley, if they think
that Roosevelt is likely to be reelected
President they may decide it is better
policy to stick with him, in the hope
that he will let Tammany alone when
a mayor is elected next year. If the
belief was widespread that Roosevelt
might support La Guardia in 1887, how
ever, it might have a different effect.
\ X
The Bureau of Agricultural Economies
of the Department of Agriculture has
Just come forward with statement that
the gross farm income for 1885 from
| farm production and the Government
checks sent to farmers for compliance
with the A. A. A. program was $685.
100000. This is the highest gross income
for the farmers since 1880, and is SO
per cent higher than the gross for 1892.
That is the kind of thing that is ex-
pected to give the Roosevelt administra-
ton big advantage in the farm sections
throughout the country. Probably the
checks that will go to the farmers this
year for compliance in the new A. A. A..
program under the soil conservation act
passed by Congress early this year may
also be counted upon to have a political
effect.
X X
The Roosevelt administration Is ap-
parently seeking to stop up the holes in
| its defenses. With the Republicans yell
ing about heavy governmental expendi-
lures, the prospect Of more and more
taxes, the raids upon the Civil Service.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

One of Washington's seasoned presi-
Dental year statistical wizards, after
microscopic analysis of straw polls OF
every hue, has reached the conclusion
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20
THE PRICE OF NATIONALISM

The largest Army and Navy appro-
priation bills ever passed in year of peace
have been completed by Congress. To-
gether, they call for an expenditure of
5000, 900, 600 for national defense, about
double the amount required some year;
ago.
The cry for adequate defense" raised
by nationaists i'll all countries inevitably
leads to armament races because the prep
aration of each nation is governed by what
other nations are doing.
The Citizen, like millions of other
American citizens regrets the annual eX-
penditures Of the nations for war AT the
same time, we see no alternative but some
organized concert of world powers to eff
fectively maintain peace and guarantee the
rights of all
A policy of nationalism, whether pur-
sued i'll Germany, Italy, Japan, or the
United States, inevitably leads to pre-
p&redness" and the expenditure of huge
sums. Nor is this the only cost because, in
their fever to be self-supporting, nations
adopt measures which impair world trade
with resulting loss to all.
We readily admit that the price of ma
tior alism is cxorbitant but so long as that
sentiment rules the nations of the world,
we see no other course open to the United
States. In concluding, it is only proper to
state that the United States, in its foreign
trade policy, has been a conspicuous exam
pie of nationalism in the past
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20
INJUSTICE TO RENTERS

1t is quite generally known that rent
ers, share troopers and farm laborers
Jared rather badly in the distribution of
benefit payments under the late AA!A pro-
gram, and according to some agricultural
experts this injustice is likely to continue
under the new soil conservation scheme.
A few government economists have
even dared TO speak out on the subject, in
Guiding Prof. J. T. Sanders of the Okla
homa Agricultural College, who has
studied the effects of the old plan and the
probable results under the new.
He asserts that in 1885 the cropper
got only | per cent of all government pay
ments when he should have had so per
cent of them; also that in the cotton pro-
gram troopers received only about one
fifth of their just share of government pay
ments. Speaking of the new program,
Trof Sanders says:
Since land improvement is put forth
so prominently as ar aim, landlords are
likely to claim that since they contribute
the land they consequently should be given
all the benefits paid by the government
for this improvement program. Tenants
are even likely to be called upon to con-
tribute much of the labor and other costs
to grow the soil building crops without
>haring equitably i'll payments from the
government"
The regulations and schedule of pay
ments for various soil conserving and soil
building practices are extremely elaborate
and complicated, and appear to make
much Juggling possible in their admins
tratiOn
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20
ASCENSION DAY

The last of the church years festivals
based upon incidents in the life of Christ is
Ascension Day, which is observed forty
days after Easter, on May Il this year:
At Florence, Italy curious custom
peculiar TO that city is observed on AScen-
sion Day. as the result of legend that
which Christ assembled to heaven a cricket
was carried with him. Before the day ar
rives each person who takes part in the
observance provides himself with cricket,
which can be bought on the street, con
fined in little cage made of cane.
On Ascension Day after Mass the peo-
pie gather with their crickets in parks
along the River Krno, where amidst much
feasting and merrymaking each releases
his or her cricket. Ii it flies away it sig
nifies a year of good luck, but if it re-
mains on the ground it means bad luck 1t
is said that the superstition is so strong
that lovers will often postpone their mar
riage a year if their crickets fail to fly
away.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print i.
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid 70 attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or tn" mouthpece of any person, clique,
faction ass; always do its utmost for the
public welfare never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ
ization tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contamnate the reader; never coDa.
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20

1t seems that the lawmakers chief
effort is to make the income tax incompre-
hensible as human ingenuity can devise.
The following is not jargon but an extract
from the revised income tax law, in Simpli-
fled form. Not even Philadelphia lawyer
can make either heads or tails out of the
verbiage, much less you and |. Here it is !:
If the undistributed net income is a per-
centage of the adjusted net income which
is more than 20 and less than 80 (and such
percentage is not shown in the foregoing
table, the tax shall be percentage of the
adjusted net income equal to the sum of
3.5, plus four-tenths of the amount by
which the percentage which the undistrib-
uted net income is of the adjusted net in
come exceeds 20. Is your head swimming?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-20

T0day's Horoscop"

Today Is particularly FORUM
at day. There is a strong will
and great ability of organization
The special aspects point toward
success in dealing with things
that pertain to land. There is a
considerable portion of general
success, but great care should be
exercised, not to grow tyrannical
or selfish, for it will lead to mis-
fortune.
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You and Your
Nations Affairs
No Grass
BvC-ARENCE W FACKIER
Assistant Professor OF Economics, NesC York Urer.sy

that mouths cannot be Euez ~
empty spoons Mere ID eat zz6 49,
IS not possible ~ making -1-sv
wages arbitrarily hiEAer- L-S~zzz =
production Is 70 be increased INK
costs must be lowered 50 rnz1 u-zz@
can be reduced 70 s1iEulz1e 6e-z-z-
But no matter how 5zEczIz Z = I.
correct commonly accep1e5 EzLz=isx
Il IS certainly II order 20 inquire u10n
what sort OF purchasing power CIR 50
called recovery" Is base5. w5s- =
revives business and keeps 7. -zEzuz
idle And. 4 there Is ID a-ureczz1le
increase IN employment noW Is -
labOrer 70 buy more goods. Z PRS
are to be forced upward As Ezs< a. q
faster. than wage rates.
Furthermore. Is money really -u--
Of circulation" when coruorzGurs
spend their funds for E-n-8re-e--E
rather than for 6lvi6en6s2 Az. fEzw-
what greater burden has r1e usx<
generation escaped by raising fhs
federal debt 70 SIS billion 6ouz-z
increasing the ANIMAL e-peu6zeu-ss
10 IS billion dollars. and leTyinE E1Es
taxes. which no Longer czn - g.
scrib5d as -painleSs"7
Plainly. the trouble Is not EhzE -
various sections Of the country have
put on the -blinderS- They wsrs
snapped on. and adjusted . pz--cz-
lar prejudices long before the Cn--
stltution was adopted TuStsaz- re
difficulty lies with the ~chossn~ lszz-
ers Of today. who refuse = see uuIT
what they want to see. ard whn. FIR
political ends. are stiu content 70
shade their eyes and search for E-sez
grass in city streets
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grass in streets worn smooth by the
tramping feet of men who are still
joblesS.
One may look around. and recog-
nize the faces of the few million idle
and broken men. enjoying their
forced vacations this spring. loung-
ing on park benches. and sleeping in
open doorways and box cars. And. no
man. except one Nth ''blinders.' =
would fail 10 note that the chairs Of
the New Jersey Legislature have
been occupied recently by a mocking
group of destitute men crying for con-
tinued relief.
Since the New York jackson Dav
Dinner. journalists have performed
an outstanding service by explaining
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