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The Washington times., 1936-05-01
Human Side of News
By Edvin C. Hill
Sun-Kissed States Worry Over Threat of
UnWelcome Settlers
Blu EdUin C.. Hill

to repel migrants, insisting that
any such ban was as clearly I'M
constitutional as tariff walls at
a State border.
State Senator Thomas Scollan
denounced the barriers against
migratory labor as a "damnabls
outrage" oregon legislators,
too, are concerned about the
constitutional issue.
"Tn our Federal Government
we have evidence enough Of the
dangerous tendency to over
ride the Constitution" another
legislator said:
This ought to make us even
more jealous in safeguarding
it, regardless Of the menacing
problem Of increasing indi.
gence."
Sadly, the1e are many large
families following the trail Of
the forty-ninerS, to encounter, not
Indians, but a sheriff's gun. In
Gathering old automobiles, they
seek the promised land. About
IL per cent of the wanderers are
under 81. Back in 1888 there
were thousands aged from 10
to IS.
FEWER YOUNGSTERS
There are fewer of the young
sters now, many of them having
been rounded up by the energetic
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tune-and its name is
Dinner for One, Please, James"
If there were any further proof
needed that we, as a nation, have
gone completely sissy and cry
baby, it is furnished by our unanl'
nous enthusiasm over this tune.
Particularly the male enthusiasm
Sit down and consider it, sans
violinS or saxaphoneS.
Here comes a man, or something
bearing the name, whose wife sud.
denly and with complete lack OF
proof accuses him of infidelity and
announces that she will leave
him
A man, mind you, Of SpotleSs
character, who has given said wife
years Of unSelfiSh devotion.
SOFTIE
And what does this Brave
Hombre do when The Missls pulls
q tantrum and lets her nasty
imagination run amuck?
Does he, with dignity and firm
ness, override her squealing tan
trum and state his side Of the
case? Or, better still, does he hand
her that wallop on the jaw which
she so well and richly deserves
and, being female, is secretly
yearning to receive?
No, stranger, he does NOT.
He takes it like a wOrm-and
then comes down and blubbers
to the butler. Goes 100 per cent
martyr! WhimperS over the
wine-snivels over her "favOrite
flOwerS"-inStead Of grabbing
the whole outfit and tanning
them down her nagging little
throat! The big sOftie!
Nor is this particular tune
unique in this attitude. Nine Out
Of ten Of our popular melodies
are equally SpineleSS. Al JolSon
who, despite it is a grand guy
began it by going Nanny. There
after we all started pleading tc
''be taken back to" some place
any place-where we could once
more wear rompers and suck lolli
pops.
At the present moment the 70
deling cowboy holds the spotlight
with his bleat to be buried on the
wild prairiee-ee. BY most conser
yative estimate, we are buryinG
cowboys at the rate Of three pei
square foot hourly.
AS O matter of fact, the last
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efforts of social agencies and the
government.
Back in the golden years before
the crash, seasonal and migratory
labor was a pressing social prob
lem. Coming from the Midwest
ern wheat field, the annual flux
Of harvest hands in and out Of
Chicago filled the winter FLOP"
houses, made the voting armies of
Bath House" John Coughlin and
'Hinky Dink" McKenna, and gave
a fast running start to the political
corruption that all but over
whelmed the city.
In the timber region of the
Northwest, in the Pacific Coast
States and in the rich interior
fruit valleys of California, these
shifting, homeless legions fused
in the I. w. W., challenging and
disturbing social force with its
spread Of Syndicalist doctrine.
Oddly enough. the tin-can fliv-
yer, which now aggravates the
problem of migratory population,
did lot to put the I. w. W. out
of business in the boom years. It
helped break up the hobo jungles,
and it provided many Of the
"WobblieS" with mobility suffi-
Gent to enable them to earn more
money and make them think they
had little stake in the American
Set-up, SureSt panacea for unrest,
pedal or intellectual. But now
the automobile is the chief trans
portation of those who have no
stake.
There were foot-loose young
hoboes among the I. w. w., but
from California it is reported that
the migrants of today include a
vast number of artisans, farmers,
small businessmen and laborers
who have refused to 60 on relief
and who are desperately, eagerly,
imploringly seeking work-cling-
ing to an early American idea.
Copyright. 1885, King Features
Syndicate. 1nc)
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means Of lock- Edwin Q. Hill
ing her doors against those VINO
lack bankrolls.
The sun-kissed States are all IN
a stew over the threat OF surplus
population, along with all other
States where there is warmth
work or food. In pre-depreSslon
wears. one out of every four
Americans lived somewhere other
than in his birthplace. The pro
portion is rapidly increasing, with
the unhappy flux of homeless,
jobless people forever seeking
those greener pastures which are
far away.
Governor Merriam, Of Calitor-
mia, angrily accused other COVER
nors Of furtively supplying gaso-
line to move the wayfarers along
to California. The States, Sensi-
tive about States right but less so
about States responsibilities, are
pickering and quarreling, trying
to relay the unhappy bunion armies
| to the next front yaro.
GROWING ARMY
In 1893, it was estimated that
there were about 800, 900 of Amer
ica's army Of the disposSessed shift
ing dispiritedly across the CONT
nent, or from city to country and
back again, hitch-hiking, hoboing,
riding the rods or moving in rattle
trap flivver fleets. No later fig
ures are available, but authorities
agree that Americas migratory
population is increasing.
Chief of Police James E. Davis
of Los Angeles, a hard-boiled and
seH-starting law enforcer, started
throwing up his own barriers
against the incoming tides of for
lorn and penniless migrants. His
border guards turned them back
How much money have you got?'
That was about the only question
asked. If the answer was not sat
isfactory, there was no chance t.
crash the California gate.
Arizona kicked Justify, but
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TRAVEL HINTS

Passport officials all over the
country report q decided increase
in the number Of first passport
applications. Which means that
many people are contemplating
their first trip abroad.
The person to talk to and to
trust is the man at the tourist
office. He will not only get your
steamship accommodations for
you but he will answer all your
questions and give you advice that
is tried and true.
Be satisfied that your accommo.
dationS are the best for the
money. and they will be If you
book as far in advance as possible.
The balance of the fare need not
be paid until some three or four
weeks before sailing, and there is
always a refund in the event that
circumstances cause you to can
eel. Usually there Is a waiting list
for cancelled accommodations so
there's every advantage in booking
as early as possible.
If you know just where you
want to visit in Europe, then don't
let those .Self-same, well-meaning
friends sway you from your timer.
airy. If you haven't any idea OF
just what you want to do, better
refrain from planning to sail
until you do know. For there Is
the question Of visaS and it saves
no end of time and red tape to
get these before sailing.
# you want to take q quick
trip through several countries
just to get q general idea Of
things, it Is often wiseSt to select
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Making trouble for Uncle Sam wherever possible agta
tors have picked the American merchant marine likely field
for their activities
Sabotage Strikes mutnes have been reported from both
coasts and from American vessels on the high seas.
Raw Deal politics in the Labor Department and the Com
Department at Washington have not helped to check
these steady and systematic attempts to ruin American shipping
The British shipping industry is rarely bothered with Com
mun inspired strikes The British Government takes its
chant marine seriously dOesnt play politics with it. believes
in helping British interests not Communist interests.
Which to be difference between OUR Gov
eminent and Britain's.
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FAST ENOUGH

There will be no back,Seat driv.
ing in the family of Representa-.
tive Marion A. Zioncheck (R0 OF
washington, the House playboy
who has caused confusion to his
colleagues and the police.
His new wife doesn't approve OF
the 70-mile-per-hour clip that
caused Marion to fall afoul the
District law enforcement agencies
recently.
When he was asked to pose fol
newsreel cameras the other day
Zioncheck was asked about his
speeding. Mrs. Zioncheck firmly
indicated her dislike for the rate
favored by her husband. He
asked her:
"Are you . good driver!"
She replied that she knew enough
about driving to know that 70 miles
an hour was too fast, even for her
husband.
Zioncheck wanted to know what
she thought was q reasonable rate,
Said she:
About IS miles an hour is fast
enOugh!"
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Three-Minute Journeys

"a tour from the very many eX-
cellent itineraries planned by the
travel agency people. Hotel &C
eommodations, guides, fees, trans
portation and baggage are all
taken care Of and there Is no
worry.
Mentioning baggage brings US
to an important don't" Don't
carry too much baggage, but
limit it to your needs. That ex-
cess baggage charge in Europe IS
cruel and arrangements for check
ing and transportation are not
half as efficient as they are here.
The ladies should give up the
idea Of taking over their whole
wardrobe with which to dazzle
Europe. They may feel sad that
they didn't bring that pink satin
or blue chiffon but they will
really enjoy themselves q lot more
if they limit their wardrobe, plan.
ming clothes so that coats and
suits ensembles and dresses are
interchangeable, and selecting &C
ceSsorieS that harmonic with
everything. Many women stick to
one color or color scheme and so
are always well dressed without
dragging all their clothes abroad,
Take q supply Of your favorite
household remedies as well as a
small but well-Stocked first-aid
kit. Take a utility box for those
extras that don't mean so much
when you have them, such as
buttons, a sewing kit, sufficient
pins and safety pins and such
Women should take q plentiful
supply Of silk stockings or else
they will pay q fortune for in
ferior merchandise. The same
goes for shoes.
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Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

thing any real cowboy ever
wanted and well know the
breed-waS to be buried anywhere,
any time, by anybody. He was
willing to provide funerals for any
number Of spectators, but never
for himself. But cowboy songs.
like all other national lyrics, are
infected by this blight which has
fallen upon us within recent years.
"DEFEATISM"
The psychologists have a name
for this blight. They call it de
featism." And it infects any in
dividual or any nation which has
become just too soft to stand up
and tackle life AS Is.
There is more to defeatiSm than
plain cowardice. There is also q
vicious form of exhibitionism. The
heckled husband in Dinner Fol
One, Please, James" was not
merely yellow. He was also q
showoff. He made an act Of his
heartbreak-turned martyr be-
cause he didn't have the spunk to
be q man.
And nightly, millions Of Ameri.
cans tune in on him and have
themselves a swell time bawling
big, wet tears of self-pity because
they too, would rather be martyrs
than men.
And brave humans died to make
the world safe for such cry-babieS!
copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc,1
The Washington times., 1936-05-01
Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen ROWLAND

Having registered three cheers
for modern husbands, we want to
say a few kind words for modern
wives. They so seldom get a kind
word! Yet, the up-to-date wife
has her Good Points, too.
She may not be so soothing as
the sweet old-fashioned wife-but
she is a lot more stimulating and
exhilarating. And, whatever her
husband may die of, he seldom
dies of boredom.
She may not jump up at 6 a. m.
and stir up hot waffleS for break
fast-but she does get up in time
to run her husband to the station
in the flivver.
She may not sit by the lamp all
evening, sewing on his buttons and
putting invisible darns in his
socks. But she can help him solve
a business problem or discuss an
intelligent question with him in a
way that would have sent the old
fashioned wife to bed with head
ache.
She may not run to fetch his
slippers when he comes home eve
ningS-but she is usually too busy
running her own job to keep tabs
on him. And she does not consider
that when he signed the marriage
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HEARTY WELCOME


Seldom does a member Of Con
, greSS receive the ovation accord
ed Representative Andrew j. Mon
tague CD of Virginia, when he
returned to the House the other
day.
Former Governor Montague had
been absent from the House for
some time, and a younger oppo
nent was alleging that the vet.
eran member of the House was
in poor health. BY this method
he was hoping to defeat Mon
tague in the forthcoming pri-
marieS.
Montague, who has been in
more than 10 Congresses, is not
the type, however, to be prevent
ed from returning to his con.
gressional duties by a brief ill,
ness or the rumorS Of his op
ponents.
After what his friends termed
remarkable recovery, he went
to the House to vote on an i'm
portant bill.
AS he walked in, Democrats
and Republicans alike rose to
cheer him in wild acclaim.
Speaker Joseph w. ByrnS, who
considers Montague one Of his
old friends, called him to the
roStrum and turned over the
gavel so that the former governor
Of Virginia presided over the
House in one Of the most i'm
portant roll calls of the session
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II. Smell (N.I 1'0pV'
of New York, minority leader,
was dissatisfied with the viva voce
vote and wanted roll call. But
it takes the demand of one-fifth
of the members present to force a
call.
Smell looked at the overWhelm-
ing majority on the Democratic
side who were in favor Of the reso-
luton and at the small group on
the Republican side.
He ordered:
"Get my men in here!"
His colleagues searched the
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The Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John SnMre, T.

} lobbieS and cloakroomS but Tor a
few minutes failed to find many
Republicans.
Smell demanded:
"Where in the hell are they?
Find them
His aides made more thorough
search, recruited a few members
of the G. o. P, and rushed them
into the House.
The Republicans ulster d
enough members to demand roll
call. But they were defeated on
this partisan vote by the majority
of 243 to 90.
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Chief Davis deputies kept on
tagging the flivverS, the mixers
and the brake-beam riders. The
right of an American citizen to
move freely from State to State,
engaged on lawful business, has
not in any of these instances
been adjudicated in a high court.
Up in Modoc county, on the
northeastern border of Califor-
mia, Sheriff John C. Sharp an,
grily refused to deputize guards
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j.. cochran W.
Of M / S S o u r i,
chairman Of the
Committee on
Expenditures in
G yer n ment
Departments, to
table o resolu-
ton calling for
the submission
Of a report by
General Hugh
S. johnson as
WPA Admins
traitor Of New
York.
r e p r eSenta-
tive Bertrand
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spares him the monotony Of those
long, deadly Silences which drove
the old-faShioned husband to his
club or the pool room.
She may not spend six hours a
day over a hot cook stove, putting
up preserves or making pastry.
But she can rustic up tasty and
filling meal with the aid of a can
opener and an electric grill, which
won't send him rushing for the
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VAC BONOA AS4 .
martial law to
repel alien or
INDECENT work
ers. California
cities US h
armed men to
the border for
t h e s q m e
reason. Flor
ida, for years,
has struggled
q g q ms t the
winter invasion
o I indigentS,
oregon, W Dr.
ried, is trying
to find a legal
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certificate he signed away his
right to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of a golf ball.
She may not look like a dream
when she comes in after a hot
afternoon on the golf links. But
she does not come to breakfast
looking like a nightmare. in a
sloppy kimono and curl-papers.
She may disagree with his poll
tics and scrap with him over q
bridge game; but. at least, she
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m 1ll1 o n S OF
o t h er Ameri-
cans. I'm wish
ing all luck to
its creators -
nd probably
would have got
ten a Big Bang
out Of compos-
ing it myself, if
I'd been smart
enough.
Yet, speaking
as a two-fisted
human instead
of an orchestra
addict, I'm out
IA cnck that
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BUT THEY LOST

When the House had concluded
It's vote on the tax bill, a motion
was made by Representative John
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Colorado National Guardsmen
patrol q 300-mile strip, under
the governors proclamation of
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I'm out to sock a tune.
Mind you. I know it's lovely. I
.njoy listening to it as much as
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FRIDAY. NAY |. 1896


in D.
Publisher j. Fitzpatrick, Managing Editor
Warfied Assistant Publisher William Shelton Business Manager
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thing any real cowboy eve
Evening star., 1936-02-06
BABY CONTEST AT SHOW
Daily Cooking School to Be Held
at Food Stores Exposition.

and the appearance of Bozo, trained
dog, will feature the fifth annual
United Food Stores Exposition in the
Calvert Exhibit Hall, 2700 Calvert
street. which opens February is for
q weeks showing.
An entertainment program has
been arranged and the hall has been
redecorated for the exposition, Morris
Kraft, president of the cooperative
grocery store organization, announced
today. Children UP to 4 years of age
will be eligible for the baby contest.
The cooking school will be for adults.
! Tickets viii be available at the United
Food Store branches.
Evening star., 1936-02-06

nursed Harley through the dame fever
we three could have swell party.
I had it all cooked up. And ! grinned
when I thought of how Bub would
have the laugh on Harley when that
ambitious poet got an eyeful of the
Llinc punk.
Bub wasn't home when got in. I
called the Office, but he wasn't around
there, either. 1 didn't ask anybody
on the city desk because I didn't want
to get in dutch. So I just waited
around.
A BOUT II he drifted in.
where's Harley?" wanted
to know. And you might spill how
the trick worked. What did fate's gift
to ladies say when he saw your little
persimmon?"
"one thing at a time" Bub said.
"I got hold of Ann, all right"
SURE" I couldn't see why he
was taking so long to cut me in on it.
You said you would. You knew her
in college"
well, I told her I wanted to see
her and she was swell. She said sure.
come right on out to Alexandria, and
I did. I tried to let her have 1t easy,
but straight. You know. told her
how the ornamental pretties had been
making a chump out of Harley and
how we thought we'd pull him out of
it. She didn't mind a bit about my
using her name, but she was kind Of
slow about saying she'd meet the boy
friend. I kept talking. and after a
while she wanted to know just what
those letters had said. When I got
through telling her she cooked her
head on one side and told me: That's
funny. Bub. I've read everything Har-
| ley Jessup ever published and I
couldn't have told him what thought
any palmer if I'd written them my
self"
WHAT did you do" asked.
w Bub gave me look. Nearly
swallowed my tongue"
well, what was wrong? Looks like
she could play up like nobody's busi-
ness if she thought it anyway. And
all he needed was to see the homely
little punk"
Sure" Bub said. "All he needed
was to see her"
20. K" 1 was already getting into
my coat Round up our wandering
minstrel then and well put on a
party. Just the three musketeers to.
gether, again"
Bub didn't blink. 7 reckon not, "
he said. After he saw her he listened
to her. I told you that kid had
sense"
Yeah, the key to reality" I said.
But that wouldn't make him forget
her face"
Looks like he didn't want to for
get it," Bub sat down and put his feet
on the table, the same table en- which
he'd written those big letters in green
ink. "You see, tonight he married
| her"
Copyright. 193e)
Evening star., 1936-02-06

have thought he was Don Juan or
somebody.
It was all the women that did 1t,
and Bub and felt pretty sick. After
all, the three of US had got along fine
before and you can't shake up two
bum reporters with poet who takes
himself seriously and get anything
compatible.
Bub had the idea. But / worked
out the details.
II \ X \
"A BOUT the middle of the first week
in December Harley got note
written on stiff white paper. A great
big envelope addressed Harley Jessup,
Esq" in jade-green ink.
He didn't bring it around, but we
knew he'd got it and we knew what
1t had said:
Dear Mr.. Jessup: Some OF the
poems in Song of SiXpence' irritated
me- You do seem to have the sense
of rhythm and the feeling for words
that a truly great poet must have, but
they've become rather lost III your
Rffectations. And I'm sorry for That.
ANN LLINC."
No return address. No giving him
the last word. After that there was
one about like it every two or three
days and it began to get under Har-
ley's skin. He didn't see so much OF
the poetic-eyed ladies and he worked
harder.
Just out of curiosity one night I
said, watching him write new one,
"Where'd you get the name, anyway,
Bub? It's a kind of funny ,e."
He grinned. TITS real, fellow. Girl
I knew at George Washington.
Walking on eggs, aren't you?" I
wanted to know. Suppose he ran
into her"
If he did the whole show would be
of. She's a homely little pill. This
Is Just about her dish. That's why
these letters are so good. I cock my
head on one side and think how she'd
say it. I'm smart"
WED just got the letter of when
wv in comes Harley with face as
long as a Boston great-aunt's. Lis
ten," he yelps. 1--WE got to talk to
somebody" And he pitched all those
big, square envelopes with their green
ink on my bed. Read 'em," he said.
"Ju-t read EN-"
1--WE been trying not to kLow he's
right" Harley said with t It same
long face. But she is. Words.
Words. Poses. Affectation. Playing
o part. Forgetting what's real"
"Oh, let's go down and get beer"
Bub said. Harley had always wept
on our shoulders when things went
wrong 1tor him. This looked like the
turn Of the worm or something. Just
three musketeers again. But Harley
shook his head.
"Ive got to find that girl! I've
got to find Ann Lime
I loked at Bub and he looked at me.
Evening star., 1936-02-06
ADKINS CONSIDERS
DOHERTY PROTEST
Takes Under Amusement Motion
to Quash Service of Process
! at Gridiron Dinner.

Justice Jesse c. Adkins Of District
Supreme Court had under advisement
today a motion by attorneys for Henry
L. Doherty to quash service OF court
process on the oil magnate, accom-
plished while he was a guest at the
exclusive Gridiron Club dinner last
December IA.
The lawyers, Woodson P. Houghton
and Wade H Ellis, argued yesterday
the service was illegal because Ger
aid w. Sickler, George washington
University student, who handed the
papers to Doherty, was improperly
appointed as a special court officer.
Sickler has the distinction of being
the only person ever to crash the
gate" at a Gridiron dinner. Dressed
in white tie and tails, he walked past
the doorman unchallenged and ten
dered to Doherty notice he was being
sued by IA purchasers of stock in the
Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co.,
which he allegedly controlled.
The court was told Sickler was
either deputy United States marshal
or an "elisor," which is a special
officer authorized under common law
to serve court papers when the sheriff
and coroner are disqualified. If he
were a marshal, they argued, his
designation was illegal, since the court
was without power to appoint mar
shals, and If he were an elisor, the
appointment still was illegal, since such
officers may be designated only upon
q showing that the sheriff, or cor
responding officer, and the coroner
are disqualified. There was no such
showing in this case, they contended
Attorneys Alvin L. Newmyer and
David Bress. representing the II
plaintiffs, contended Doherty evadec
service for months and regular court
officers had not the time needed to
find him.