davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-02-09

north after traversing the great gold
region Of Angara, and thence, paralleling
the Trans-Siberian at distances varying
from one to three hundred miles to the
north, sweeps straight east across the
important iron country west Of Kom-
somolSk. Thus the new road serves a
vital industrial purpose, but its main
value to the U. S. S. r. lies ii the fact
that the Trans-Siberian, now the only
link between European Russia and the
Far East, lies along the Manchukuan
border and would be seriously exposed
to attack in the event of war.
The Soviet no longer has all its Far
Eastern railway eggs in one basket. 1t
would enter into conflict with Japan
vastly better off with respect to trans
port than was old Russia, which had to
fight thirty-two years ago thousands Of
miles from her bases and depend on a
none too well equipped single-tracked
railway as sole line of communication
for troops. munitions and supplies. The
resultant handicap on the effectiveness
of the imperial army was an almost
decisively favorable factor for Japan
The new Russian railway across Siberia
substantially neutralizes Japan's advan-
tage of proximity to Eastern Siberia.
1t is a development that may make for
peace. The enormously greater mobility
of which the Soviet's gigantic army OF
100000 is now assured is something for
the Toxic war lords to ponder over.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
The Blessings of Repeal.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board, in bringing all its figures up to
date for the year 1885, continues to take
considerable satisfaction in what 1t
regards as improved social conditions
under the blessings of repeal. The board
Is becomingly modest in its approach to
this many-sided subject resting on the
presentation of statistics showing fewer
arrests for intoxication.
These have shown a decrease which,
If considered as meaning less excessive
drinking, is gratifying. Unfortunately,
the number of arrests for intoxication is
not sound index of the amount Of
drinking. An intoxicated persons arrest
depends upon his behavior and, to some
extent, upon the good nature of the
policeman. While arrests for this
offence have decreased, automobile acci-
dents attributed to drunken driving con-
tinue to increase along with arrests for
drunken driving.
AS for the amount of drinking, the
apt comparison between what it is now
and what it used to be should include
the period-not of complete prohibition
but before prohibition. In this con-
nection it is interesting to note that the
number of licenses in Washington today
exceeds by several hundred the greatest
number ever existing in Washington in
number today is 1874. The number in
18S6-the highest before prohibition
was 1884. Beginning about 1893 the
number of licenses was reduced almost
every year until there were only 267 when
wartime prohibition became effective in
November of 1917.
While the Liquor Board has stated as
O policy that no new licenses are to be
granted except under special circum-
stances, it is yet to undertake the pro-
gram of gradual reduction of licenses
which marked the period of liquor con-
troll before prohibition. The city today
is plastered from one end to the other
with liquor licenses. Yet under pre-
prohibition liquor control about two
thirds of the city's area had become dry
In 1917 through the extension of areas
In which no licenses were permitted.
Instead of reducing the number of
licenses, liquor control in Washington has
been marked by brand-new sociological
theory, which is that when person has
dependent children to support that per-
son is entitled to liquor license. That
was the theory on which the Commis-
sioners restored a liquor license to a
woman licensee, represented, it is true,
by eminent counsel, who had violated
the law. 1t has great possibilities, con-
sidered in connection with the number
of unemployed and the relief problem.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
An Actress
Necklace.

difficult position to combat moves in Con-
spending and currency.
He has accepted large scale spending
as a depression cure, and he has ap-
proved tinkering with the currency and
with credit as means Of helping farmers
and businessmen.
Congressman argue that all they are
trying to do is to give wider effect to
the Presidents policies. To meet their
arguments, the President apparently
either must admit that those policies
were q mistake or else assert that they
have accomplished their purpose. He
scarcely wants to do the first in an elec-
ton year and can hardly do the second
in view Of the size Of unemployment rolls.
After election the situation can take on
q different cast. Then MFR. Roosevelt
can admit his mistakes and battle against
the forces of imitation that he has set in
motion.
That battle Is sure to involve new and
larger taxes that will hit the persons
with moderate incomes, and 1t Is sure,
too, to involve a sharp check to Federal
spending.
The combination of the two, II accom-.
panied by improving business, could
quickly turn huge Federal deficits into
much more modest deficits, II not small
surpluses. L
Signs point to q showdown in 1887:
not in 1896, regardless Of who wins if1
November. r..
tccpyrisht. 1850 >
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Trans-Siberia.

One of the reasons why Russia lost
the war with Japan in 1904-05 was be-
cause the Czarist government was un-
able to transport troops and supplies on
the needed scale to the theater of hos
tilities in the Far East. The single
track facilities Of the Trans-Siberian
railway were utterly inadequate for the
purpose. From Toxic, where the gen.
eral staff has every reason to keep fully
posted on so vital a subject, comes appar-
emily authentic news of new railway
which the Soviet has built across Siberia
for obvious strategic purposes.
Moscow having long since completed
the double tracking of the old Trans
Siberian line, this is now supplemented
by a 2.000-mile system stretching from
the Lake Baikal area in the west to
three points adjacent to the Pacific in
the east. The principal terminus is
Komsomolsk, whence three links branch
out-one direct to the coast opposite
Sakhalin, one to Khabarovsk, on the
Amur River, close to the border of
Manchukuo, and one to Nikolaievsk, in
the north.
According to the Japanese war ofice,
the Soviet is finishing the new line at
such feverish speed that it is nearing
completion two years ahead of scheduled
time. One hundred thousand workmen
are said to be engaged on construction
operations. The Baikal-Amur-Masister,
or "Bam." as the Russians call the prof.
ect, runs eastward from the Trans
Siberian junction. point of Taishet. It
passes Lake Raikal nifty miles to the
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Another Gamble.

Congress is again about to gamble on
the conStitutionality of proposed law at
the instance of the Roosevelt admins
tration. To many members of the House
and Senate there appears little doubt
that the new Jones-Smith farm relief
bill, offered as a substitute for the de-
funct A. A. A. is invalid. But despite
these misgivings, uttered by Roosevelt
supporters as well as by Republicans in
Congress, the measure is to be passed
promptly in the Senate and rushed
through the House.
The bill has two parts, temporary
plan for the farmers and more perma-
nent plan. Under the temporary plan,
1t is designed to make it possible
to continue to pay benefits to the farm
ers during the present year and next
year. The constitutionality of this tem-
porary plan is challenged promptly. 1t
seems to be merely an attempt to say
in different language what the A. A. A.
said. That it will stand the test OF the
courts, in the light of the Supreme
Courts decision throwing out the A. A. A.,
is scarcely believeable. 1t authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to pay benefits
to the farmers for the proper use of their
lands. 1t is the widest kind of grant
of power.
In carrying out the provisions of this
temporary plan the bill specifically states
that "the Secretary shall not have power
to enter into any contract binding upon
any producer" Clearly here is an effort
to meet the ruling of the Supreme Court
in the A. A. A. case. when it held that
crop production in the States could not
be curtailed by the Federal Government
through contracts with the farmers. But
in the very next paragraph OF the bill
1t is provided that "any payment or
grant of aid made shall be conditioned
upon the utilization of the land, with
respect to which such payment Is made
in conformity with farming practices
which the Secretary finds tend to ef-
fectuate the purposes specified" These
purposes are ID the preservation and
improvement of soil fertility; t2) pro-
motion Of the economic use and con-
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Cold.

There's hail in the steam pipe;
There's frost on the coal;
There's ice in the furnace
Beyond all control.
No blaze is sent forth
AS in days that are gone.
A blizzard turns loose
When the draft is turned on.
Where once was combustion
The flames we discerned
Are motionless standing,
To icicles turned.
The water pipes burst,
It's a tale sad to tell.
And the Fountain of Truth
That is frozen as well.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Edison, who has abstained from
astonishing the world for year or two, -
says The Star of Feb
Ielegrapnlng ruary 2, 1886, has now
rror Tr.;rs come to the front again
HA'nA by an invention for
telegraphing from trains in motion. BY
a simple, yet ingenious, application of
the laws Of electricity the operator, seat
ed in the cars, is able to send and re-
ceive messages by induction without any
mechanical connection with the wires
that skirt the track. The invention seems
to be entirely practical, and is likely to
prove of considerable usefulness, as it
will make it easy for railroad men to
keep advised of the position and move
ments of all trains. 1t will also be OF
service to travellers and to the interests
of justice. This invention recalls the
project of telegraphing from point to
point without wires simply by using the
elements. AS nothing is impossible any
longer. every man may yet be his own
telegraph and telephone company and
send his own messages to his friends
in Kamchatka or Patagonia without
trouble or expense"
x
"It will be seen by the advertisement
elsewhere" says The Star of February 4,
,u 1886, that the Cor
AIt ualIeTy u coran Gallery of
or. - N;rh+ Art will be open to
oP'A o' the public this eve
ming and each Thursday evening during
February and March. 1t is understood
that the night attendances have here
- la rannrollu IN
encourage the trustees in the contlnu-
ance of evening openings, but the desire
to afford to those whose time during day.
light is otherwise wholly occupied an
opportunity to visit the gallery and
study it's contents has induced the action
at present announced. 1t may be added
that the admission fee Of ten cents is
not made for the benefit of the gallery,
nor even for defraying the necessary
expenses of the night openings-which
1t would fall far short of meeting-but
for the sole purpose of regulating the
attendance, and the proceeds thus
arising have usually been devoted to
some worthy purpose entirely discon-
nected with the institution itself. Con-
sidering these things, and especially in
view of the value of the gallery as an
educating ana rennlng agency, the nlgnt
exhibitions should be largely attended,
and particularly by that class for whose
benefit they are provided"
The old ruSe of stolen jewels as a
means of promoting publicity for per-
An Actr.ss, formers on the public
an nctfess stage, appears to have
N.ckIeca been in vogue fifty years
ago. from the following in
The Star of February 6, 1895:
so it was only an advertisement after
all-the story of that 10000 necklace
said to have been brought here for a
lady in washington last week. It is
now announced that Mary Anderson,
who was then playing here, was the for
tunate woman. This statement comes
too late to be of any service during her
Washington engagement, but it will be
made to serve its purpose elsewhere until
it becomes necessary to state that the
Jewels have been stolen by a band of
robbers who followed her for three
months with that prize in view."
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Members of the United States Supreme
Court are men of dignity and maturity
forbidden in the very nature of things
to adopt more or less abrupt methods of
settling any argument that might lead
to public assertion of dissenting opinion.
1t is often declared that the athletic
training of student life is of but little
practical value in circumstances of ma
ture responsibility.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Cares Of Candidacy

Cares of Candidacy.
Oh, who would be candidate,
The public mind to thrill?
Every time he must crate
He has a nervous chill.
Every time he writes line
He shudders with dismay,
Because his critics will define
His words a different way.
Every time he holds his tongue
And won't be interviewed
They tell him that his knell is rung.
BY doubt he is pursued.
Though our historic precedents
Show patriotism great,
His is the greatest who consents
To be candidate.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

In a blizzard locomotive may be
better than an airship, motor truck
may be better than locomotive, horse
may be better than a motor truck. a
wheelbarrow and shovel may be better
than horse and a man may put on
topboots and walk to work. When nature
is in a mood of ruthless dominance she
imposes the necessity Of primitive self
reliance.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

One good thing about the old horse
and buggy days was that family when
photographed posed deliberately for
decorous tintype without fear of snap
shooting.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

History can hardly be expected to re-
peat itself to the extent of throwing
away the United States Constitution and
starting all over with some new kind Of a
Boston tea party relating to preponder-
ance of fiscal advantages abroad.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Memories of Mark Twain are being
constantly revived. Radio has developed
so many delicate distinctions in dialect
that a profound and useful essay might
be based on his passing humorous refer
ence to English as she is spoke"
Evening star., 1936-02-09

A mystery Staying" is usually explained
with ease. Crime becomes game which
finds new credulity always ready to be-
lieve that it can be beaten.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
In Training.

"Does your boy Josh know how to run
your automobile?"
"I think so." replied Farmer Corn
tossel. "His work on the farm appears
to have helped him; his personal vocabu-
larry bein' about the same as he uses on
q mule"
Evening star., 1936-02-09

War preparations all look to imposing
on an official antagonist through his
humane sympathy for the innocent
bystander.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Concealment.

Figures won't lie," said the mathe-
matician.
NO." replied Senator Sorghum, "al-
though a pretty good way to conceal the
truth is to bury it under big bunch of
statistics"
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication OF all news dispatehes mes
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
AItruisrn.

From the Grand Island Independent.
: They say this is not an altruistic age,
but farmers wife broke her leg and
her husband carried her to the barn
twice . day so she could do the milking.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
A Generous Disposition.

A Generous Disposition.
"Friend," said Flooding Pete, II want
to ask you favor"
"I haven't time to listen to you," said
the pedestrian.
"I suppose you're expectin' me to ask
you fur money"
"You needn't. I'm broke"
"well, jes' to show dat I'm a good
feller an don't carry no ill-will, jes' wait
here till panhandle up an down de
block couple O. times an I'll lend you
some"
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Caught.

A cold wave dashed along one day,
We said 1t would not last.
Alasl It could not ebb away
For it was frozen fast,
Evening star., 1936-02-09

"Every man." said Uncle Eben, "hab
fool streak In him, an de men we calls
smaht Is dem dat recognizes it an keeps
it under cover"
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Rate BY Mail-Payable in Advance.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

The President accepted the theories OF
currency manipulators and now finds 1t
difficult to argue effectively against
them.
On the first occasion, Mr. Roosevelt
fell in with the gold magic of Prof.
George F. Warren, q farm economist OF
Cornell University. He engaged in the
hocus-pocus of gold buying in the ex-
pectation that prices would rise auto
matically as result and the country
would emerge from the depression.
Today the President is completely un-
sold on this experiment.
Next, he fell in with the theories of
the Briton, John Maynard Keynes, and
the American banker, Mariner Eccles,
that, if only the Government would
stretch its credit and spend enough
money, recovery would follow auto
matically.
Mr.. Eccles takes the position that there
is no need to worry about imitation or
about the Governments credit so long
as there is idle plant capacity in the
country, which could be used to produce
goods and in that way serve as brake
on runaway prices.
Now the President is having serious
doubts about this experiment.
II X r n,
After doing something" for gold, Mr..
Roosevelt was put in position where he
hardly could refuse to "do something"
for silver. The result is that, on orders
of Congress, he has bought vast guam
titles of silver bullion.
The theory was that purchase Of silver
at rising prices would put dollars in the
pockets Of 400, 900, 900 Chinese who then
would buy about everything that Amer
lean workers and farmers could turn
out. In practice, silver buying just about
wrecked Chinese finance and caused pur-
chases Of American goods to fall sharply
In China.
So silver buying has proved 10; be .
dud. T.
But now President Roosevelt u IN =
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Rate by Carrier Within ,he City.
REGULAR Edition.
Night Final Edition

Night Final and Sunday Star---7oc per mont
Might aesion s.nsi sade at the end 81 each month
Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Ma
tional 1000
Evening star., 1936-02-09

Just as now there is. from time to time,
agitation over the French war debt to
the United States, so century ago there
was agitation over o debt OF money
France owed the United States. The
society has reproduced the pamphlet
entitled Letter. to General Lafayette"
which appeared in 1881. The author is
James Fenimore Cooper, who appears
to have come out of the woods for long
enough to engage in this controversy.
One of the rarest books in the English
language is Christopher Goodman's ~How
Superior Powers Oght to be Obeyd," es
issued in 1883 Its very possession was
forbidden in England, but somehow
COPY managed to find its way to America
and now is In the library of the Union
Theological Seminary. Many other items
are being reproduced by the society,
among them Lord Byron's Fugitive
Pieces" Poe's "Al Aaraaf," "Tamerlane"
and minor poems: the Cambridge
Manuscript of John Milton" Bunyans
"Plgrim's Progress" and an 1859 edi-
ton of Fitzgerald's 1858 translation Of
the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"-and
that's the way it's spelled in this original
Of which only $50 copies were issued.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1936-04-24
THE CHAMPION "AGINER"

When dav is done for William Ran
dolph Hearst, he will be remembered
not only as one of the most successful
newspaper publishers in the world, but
as the champion "aginer" of the coun-
try.
The famous publisher has been for
and against the same policies Tor so
many years that it has become habit.
And it would not be surprising to us
to read one of his editorials lambastlng
himself. He has made so many mis-
takes.
Politically, he is man without a
party. He has tied his star to the Re
publican Party, and he has just as often
cast this lot with the Democrats. But
in all cases it has been only until such
time that his particular "love" does
something which does not meet with his
approval. Then, like a chameleon, he
changes color.
The pity of it all, as far as Mr..
Hearst is concerned, is that neither the
Republicans nor Democrats consult him
on important matters. And there is
nothing more embarrassing than having
each of these two major parties, in turn
give him the silent treatment" To
ignore man is to consider him unim
portant.
Mr.. Hearst championed Presidents
Wilson. Harding. Coolidge. Hoover and
Roosevelt. Mr.. Hearst later went "agin"
Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge
Hoover and Roosevelt. He must be
given credit for one thing however-he
is consistent in his consistency.
Mr.. Hearst is now past seventy. We
hope he lives to be a hundred. Amer
leans always pride themselves on having
champions. And as long as Mr.. Hearst
lives we can justly say without fear of
contradiction:
HE is our worlds Champion aginer."
The Omaha guide., 1936-09-26
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Now therefore |, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States by virtue of the power vested in me as Commandment
0hlet oil the Army and Navy, in a time of actual aremd rebel
non against the authority of the Government of the L s.
as a lit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebel
non, DO, IN the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
ana slxty-three, and in accordance with my purpose TODD it.
puDllely proclaim for the full period of one hundred DAYS from
the date OF the first above mentioned order, designate as the
States therein the people whereof, respectfully. are this day in
rebellion against the United States, the following to wit. Ark.
ansas, Texas and Louisiana Except the parishes of ST. Btrnard
Plaquemines, Jefferson, st. John, st. Charles, ST. James Assem-
sion, Assumption, T%errebonne, La Fourehe, st. Mary, ST. Mar.
TIN and Orleans including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina.
and Virginia Except the forty eight counties designated as
West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley. Accomac. Nor
thamton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann. and Norfolk. in
Guiding tn cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth. which excepted
parts are for the present left as if this proclamation were not
issued: and by the virtue of the power and for the purpose
aforesaid, | do order and declare that all persons held as slaves,
within designated States, or parts of these states, are, and hence
forward shall be free, and that the Executive Government of
the United States, including the military and naval authorities
thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of the said
persons; and l hereby enjon upon the people so declared free
to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence;
labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And further declare and
ed into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts.
sorts in said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believe to be an act of Justice.
warrented by the Constitution upon military necessity, | invoke
the c%onsiderate judgment of mankind, and the gracious of Al
mighty God.
The Omaha guide., 1936-09-26
Cars Crash, Burn;
Six Are Injured

At least six persons were re-
ported injured, some seriously,
when three autos piled up and two
were burnd in a collision about
eight miles south of Plattesmouth
about ITO a. m. Sunday.
At st. Joseph's hospital are Mrs.
Cleo McGuffey, 2111 Clark street,
who has a skull fracture and bad
cuts about back, and Elmer Kelly,
2502 Blonde street who has many
cuts and bruises. Both are badly
dazed and neither could give an
account of the accident except
that Kelly was ure he was not
the driver of any car involved.
Also at st. Joseph's hospital
were two others, a man and wo-
man. They were unconscious and
unidentified.
Two others, who identified them
selves as Billy Love, local boxer
and Loves brother, were treated
in Murray by DR., Tyson for cuts
and bruises.