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The times-news., 1936-04-22
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

HarIee is the fact that ne was
35 years in the marine corps. be-
came a high officer, served in
many imperialistic occupations Of
foreign soil, and now has these
things to say in his campaign lit.
erature:
American occupation and over
throw of a Filipino government
after the Spanish-American War
was unjustified and the killing OF
Filipino patriots was shameful.
The 1906 intervention in Cuba,
he procIaims, was brought about
by New York sugar barons and
the "insurrectos were their insur-
rectos," aiming to obtain a gov
ernment suitable for the barons'
purpose.
The 1914 landing at Vera Cruz,
which Harliee saw: 1.-The Mexican
forces had left the city to avoid
having it subjected to a shooting
bee, but bluejackets, not accus-
toned to such conditions and not
trained ir use of arms ashore, are
hard to restrain and Vera Cruz
got plenty of shooting. 1t was an
inglorious affair"
.nURING the war and after,
- Harllee says, marines occu.
pied the Dominican Republic so
agencies of the National City
Bank, cleaning up dividends OF
more than 1000 per cent a year"
on sugar, could control the gov.
ernment. II found the only
bandits were those engaged by
the bank to depredate on all
properties except its own"
No American or foreigner was
ever molested in Haiti, but ma.
rines set up puppet government
and for eight years mo more dras:
tic military government was ever
fastened on people," he con.
eludes.
5. Now we can't demonstrate ef.
fectiyely with Japan in China OF
Mussoiini in africa.
rConvright. lSls. NEA Sarvice. Ine.I
The times-news., 1936-04-22
Workmen Called
To Free Six-Foot
I'Gator In Sewer
Crawls 300 Feet Into Pipe
in Fl. Myers And Won't .
Back out

FT. MYERS, Fla, April 22.-
(UP).-The city called out crews
of workmen yesterday to liberate
a six-foot alligator imprisoned in
Il sewer.
The reptile crawled some 300
feet up the sewer from the Ca
loosahatchee river, and, prevent
ed from turning around by the
narrow tunnel, remained captive
there at least four days.
The gators head was visible
through sewer grating. Crowds
gathered about the grating to
watch the prisoner and toss 1t
scraps of meat.
The workmen would have no
trouble if the alligator would only
move backwards down the sewer
and into the river again, but the
reptile apparently had not consld-
cred the advisability of that
course of action.
The alligator was first seen be-
meath the grating Friday. Yestcr-
day the mayor and other city Of
ficials got busy TO eXtricate 1t
when it gave indications Of stay
ing there indefinitely. Attempts
were made to drop rope around
the gators neck and drag the
reptile out. The aim was poor and
the alligator remained an uncon-
cerned prisoner.
Rescuers were careful to keep
the grating over the sewer, afraid
that the alligator might escape
into the street last night and ter
roriZe residents.
The times-news., 1936-04-22

different: MuSSollnl HilSHI ho'
have dared to break his agree
ment with the League by assault
ing Ethiopia and Hitler might
have been afraid to violate Ger
many's double pledge not to re-
militarize the Rhineland. 4
The time to ace is the time 70
act The League of Nations has
fiddled about and temporized with
situations which called for stern
dealing, until the League has al
but destroyed itself through re-
peated manifestations of selfish
ness and weakness.
An organization founded on
broad, deep, high noble principles
must be broad, deep, high, noble
in it's determinations and actions
or it makes of itself, and that for
which it stands, joke. - :
The times-news., 1936-04-22
1T REACTS ON ITSELF

IL REAS - YIN IL SLLT
The widespread practice Of an
evil tends to destroy that evil.
When we see an evil condition
getting worse and worse, we can
comfort ourselves with the reali-
Zation that it is heading toward
elimination or annihilation.
Throughout the length and
breadth of this country sub
stantial number of Americans
have been thoroughly disguised
with the tricks and schemes en-
ployed to delay and defeat the
execution of a certain condemned
criminal. The spectacle was such
disgrace to our nation that 1t
brought down on us the deserved
contempt of other nations.
But the spectacle, nauseating
as it was, will have its good eff
fects. 1t has driven home to most
Americans a clearer understand
ing Of the vicious practices en-
ployed by hired criminal lawyers
to make a mockery of our courts
and to thwart the application Of
Sjustice.
y The quickest way to get a cess
.aseol cleaned out is to uncover 1t
and let it stink to high heaven.
Andrt the quickest way to eliminate
open sewersxis to fill them so full
of offensive: matter that the citl-
Zenry rebels at their existence.
: The bolder and the more afro
cious the actions Of our gang
stel.s, our racketeers, and our pro-
fessional political pirates, the
sooner the people will revolt
.aeainst such practices and put an
end to, them.
The times-news., 1936-04-22
1T is NOTHING IN BILLIONS

So the president gives notice that the Florida
ship canal and the Passamaquoddy power plant
(the Moonbeam Seheme} will not be completed us-
less congress shall specifically authorize appropria-
tions for thenl-which congress will probably not
do. AS for $1OOOO.OOO or $12 900 900 of ycur
money already sunk IN these schemes, what is that
sum In the waste OF billions? 1t will never be
missed. One would hike to know how much have
been the piekings of lawyers in Florida and Maine.
Charleston News and Courier
The times-news., 1936-04-22

cracked down on
Japan when that
nation in flag
+ a n t viovlation
of its covenant
with the League
carved out the
puppy state of
Manchukuo," the
League W o u ! d
have had the
support of the
United States in
it's demand. And
today the whole
picture in Eu-
rope might be
The times-news., 1936-04-22

A speaker recently reforred to
the puppy state Of Manchukuo. "
Of course he meant the puppet
state Of Manchukuo recently set
up in China by the japanese for
the benefit of the Japanese.
Had the League of Nations
The times-news., 1936-04-22
MISPLACED FEATHERS

DR.. Eaton, former president of Madison Uni
versity, was beloved by the students One day a
student who had spoken in debate asked him what
he thought of the effort.
The doctor looked at him and then said SLOWLY:
'f you would pluckla few feathers from the wings
of your imagination and stick them in the tail of
your Judgment, you would make better speeches .
The times-news., 1936-04-22
TAKE THIS TO HEART

"It is a wonderful system. 1T is
a glorious plan. 1t is a magnifl-
cent doctrine" said man speak
ing of Christianity. "But do You
know, | have never met a Chris
tian." -,
There are genuine Christians,
but they are comparatively so
few that it is possible for a per-
SON to live q lifetime in a Chris
The times-news., 1936-04-22
FREEDOM is A PRIVILEGE

3 Men, have taken advantage OF
q glorious freedom granted by our
constitution to turn liberty into
license and to misuse the rights of
some to work wrongs on others.
{ A Fundamental principle of de-
mocracy is that no person shall
exercise a liberty which works
harm to his fellows.
The times-news., 1936-04-22
UNEXPECTED ANSWERS

We pray for PATIENCE and God sends rloua-
ton for tribulation worketh patience tRom' 9:0''
We pray for SUBMISSION and God sends suffer-
ing for we learn obedience by the things winch we
suffer Heb. 81. We pray for USEFULNESS and
God gives Us opportunities to sacrifice ourselves
by thinking of others tPhil. 2:5) We pray Tor
VICTORY, and the things of the world swoop down
upon US in storm of temptation: for this IS the
victory that ouercometh the world, even our faith.
John 5:4.)
-keswick Calendar -,
The times-news., 1936-04-22
POOR, BUT PROUD

81 have found that the poorest people are often
the proudest'" says an author. 1t is quite tie us
ual thing for them to ask the wolf to 60 around To
the back door.-Punch 80 ''.|->, -lttf
The times-news., 1936-04-22

The way 3"op0c live dou,,
ways indicate how much ,b-r
making. 1t merely show. q
merchants 90 broke.
The times-news., 1936-04-22
Looking Facts In The Face
Rv WICKES WAMBOLDT

tian nation and never meet one
And that is something for pro
Tossing Christians to think about
and do something about.
The times-news., 1936-04-22

pEHIND locked doors OF shacl
- in a suburb Of Stuttgart Ger
many. some so years ago, twr
young men secretly worked OIL {
mechanical contrivance tha
aroused the suspicion of neighbors
They called police, and the door!
were battered in.
Instead of finding a counterfeit
ing plant. the police discovered thu
first attempt at a; successful auto
tomobile engine. 1t was the inven
tion of Gottlieb Daimler. famou
German engineer, who was beini
helped by his friend, Wilhelm May
bach.
Daimler. since boyhood, had dis
played keen interest in mechanical
engineering.
In 1856, at the age of 50. he IL
tached a motor TO a bicycle ant
startled the residents of Stuttgart
with it.. The same year. he eXhib
tied his first horseless wagon;
steam.driyen affair. And in 1893
he brought out his first gasoline
propelled automobile.
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sHs ~ E3 Of Daimler's orig
tHE j3S&EE inal automotiv'
sHEA A0NfaE invention. Ger
SH SH many issued
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The times-news., 1936-04-22
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The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07
Music Is Read by Blind
 by Raised Dots on Paper

The blind read music by means of d series of dots embossed on stiff paper touched with the fingertips. The sys tenn was developed by Louis Braille, in 1929. He was a Frenchman, blind at three years of age who became organ ist of a church in Paris. His system was not adopted until 1850. about the time of his death.
 Notes and rests in the Braile sys ten are indicated by different forma tions of a series of six dots. It some what resembles the earlier system of figured bass in harmony. A key of ex plantation is necessary to understand the reading of music by this system. It was standard zed in European coun tries in 1888, at an International con gress of the blind, in Cologne The first English textbook of the system was published in l90O and revised in 1902.
 The chief difficulty in making 1t available for all is the high cost of embossing the music. The National Institute for the Blind has published more than 5000 musical compositions in Braile. This music has been made available by loan library which sends music all over Great Britain to respon sible persons. ons.-Indianapolis News.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07
Vitality of Plant Life

The vitality of plant life is show D by fig tree standing in jungle grown over a military park near the ancient city of Murshidabed, India. A giant cannon-l7 feet in length, feet in circumference and eight tons in weight is horizontally imbedded in It's trunk several feet from the ground. Appar. ently, writes Grace Hatfield, Santa Barbara, Calif., in Golfers Weekly, the tree met the gun when growth. up and decided to take 1t along.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07

"Jum.Jum's ear. He thinks you're hurting Jum-Jum."
 "How silly! I'm not hurting him, George. Marbeth's going to make him a new coat Stop crying! At once!"
 She shook Jum-Jum violently and that shook Georgie so that he toppled over and sat down hard on the sewing room floor where he screamed louder than ever.
 Claire Pendell's one idea was to have peace from those screams.
 She jerked Georgie up sharply by one arm and spanked him as he stood catching his breath for fresh start.
 "Why, you're terrible, Georgie! l never saw him act so."
 And over Marbeth's protests she snatched the baby up and carried him across to the nursery, closing the door with finality.
 The screams and choking gasps did not diminish in the slightest, nor Georgie's sobbing "No-no-no-no-ma- ma"
 
 It was 3 n. m. and Marbeth by the dressing table lamp was just finishing Jum-Jum's fringed tail.
 Distressed at the futile clash of wills across the hall she had at last pasted Jum-Jums ear back in place and at the risk of Mrs. Pendell's disapproval carried the elephant in to Georgie.
 As she expected, the baby stopped crying at once and received Jum-Jum with open arms.
 But Mrs. Pendell demilrred
 'I hate to let him get the upper hand-so young"
 Still, it was a relief to have him quiet.
 "IIe's just baby" Marbeth said. Its really better to work around them when they're so little."
 After his dinner Georgie had gone to sleep with Jum-Jum still in his arms. 'But Marbeth's going to make him that new coat tomorrow" his mother warned him, 'and you mustn't cry"
 Marbeth had seen Georgies hold on the elephant tighten; but that was all right She knew there would be no more scenes tomorrow.
 For at midnight when the house was quiet and Georgie in a sound sleep, Marbeth stole into the nursery and cautiously drew the elephant out of the baby's relaxed arms.
 Back in her own room hurredly and competently she laid the old pieces for a pattern on the new cloth, cut them out and, since she dared not use the sewing machine, set herself to the long, tedious task of back stitching and felling the seams by hand
 The clock downstairs chimed three.
 But Jum-Jum was done at last and smart, swank beast he was!
 Still benign, still benevolent, but with well tailored elephant-gray hide. firm legs (Nlarbeth had reinforced them with skewers) and gorgeous, ornate, red and orange howdah blanket where ladies might ride.
 She crept down the hall back into the nursery and seated Jum-Jum on his launches atop fold of blanket with the tip of his new trunk touching Georgie's outspread palm.
 
 His pleased cry of surprise wakened Marbeth in the morning out of her heavy first slumber. She heard him with a satisfaction that was followed by sharp twinge of something like jealousy.
 For it was his mother he was call ing-"Nla-ma Jum-Jum! Jum-Jum '"
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07

the first birthday.
 According to the census of 1880, one and one-half per cent of the popu. lation of the state of Illinois is in this a ge up. But eight and one-half per cent of the deaths in the state are in the same age group. This indi- cates that, taken as a whole, infancy is
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07
Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, University of Illinois, College of Medicine.
THE RISK OF BEING BORN

The age group of infancy Is usually considered as being from birth until
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07
HAVING NONE OF HER OWN
 s Bv RUTH H. MYERS
e Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
 WNU Service.

\ EANY woman is a mother IN I though she has no child.
 Marbeth could have man.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07

Prepared by the National Geographic Society
 Washington. D. C.-WNU Service. OWN in the southeastern cor E ner of Georgia lies the great
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15

Published by Special Arransemenk with The
ChIcaso Tribune-New York News Syndicate,
Incorporated
qnaas A.. DrfrrroN
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15

This mistake made the hrusque and
busy clerk more bTusque still. Mrs.
Morgan James felt that everyone tn
disasreeable 70 her. Prom the countess
servants she gathered, vaguely, owing
70 her bad German, that the countess
was absent: but the gabbled reasons
for this absence she could not follow.
Why must Germans talk so fast? Feel
ing helpless and rebuffed, hating the
telephone, mrs. Morgan James set out
for the Haupt Post Bureau. At the
Poste Restante there would surely be
a letter.
Cro Be Continued
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
Corn TO Start Run
at Billings Cannery

with the crop outlook in the Billings
vicinity reported as good, the Midland
Canning Corp, of that city, plans 9
S0-day run on corn.
All produce used by the cannery is
grown and contracted on farms near
Billings After the corn run, the can
ming Of saIer kraut, pumpkins, pickles
and Great Northern beans win follow.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
RAIL Rate HEARING

The Interstate commerce commission has
notified Montana officials that IL will hold
hearing at Helena AUG. 81 on this state
Application for a reduction Of freight rates
on concentrated livestock feeds charaed BY
southern railroads. The northern roads vol
unfairly reduced such rates. The southern
roads declined to do so Petition for q hear
Ing and action In the matter was filed by
tho Montana railroad and public service
commission.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15

Freshman week at Montana State
college is set for Sept. 81 to rs. This
period. Just previous to formal instruc-
ton for the 1857 college year, in
cludes an intensive program TO assist
new students In selecting the work
they win pursue and making the high
school to college transition.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
NvFsTpTRNTs TNrnRAer

MontAna's Investments Ia the fiscal year
ended June % last we're ei.0T8s6TB mcrs than
those during the previous fiscal year, accord
ing 70 figures released BY state Auditor gohn
J. Holmes. On July 1, 1885, the state had
invested from 20 Of its funds 8 total o. eIs.-
06o. e67. as compared 70 sie,0s4.sef at ths
same time q year ago.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15

stirring svents of fhf last frsg years
SDsys HAPPENING, 0sd me scsaes of shs
first tsVo noVsls HaaIsd are laid "
that eosHtyy.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15

Forty percent OF all the gasoline con-
sumed by motor vehicles Is used by
trucks and buses
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
FORECLOSED RANCHES ON EASY
TERMS
FARMS WANTED

FARMS WANTED-with the compile
tinn Of Fort Peck dam hundreds OF farmers
yin be obliged TO move from their Missouri
action lands and win be looking for new
koamfions II you want to sell your farm
mdver1sss It in THE GLASGOW COURIER,
f5laswuw, Montana Covers Fort Peck terri
sorv completely write for rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-09
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Democratic County Central
Committee

One of Mr. Landon's favorite campaign
slogans is that he favors "a restoration of free
enterprise in the United States. majority
of will agree with the Kansas governor that
this is a worthy goal.
Mr. Roosevelt also favors free enterprise"
His definition of the term. however, differs
from the kind of free enterprise" which the
Republican party gave to American citizens
during the so-called prosperous years between
1921 and 1888.
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover were expo
nentS of free enterprise They virtually gave
to industrial and financial America a free hand
to expand and consolidate it pleased. The
lid was off for the big money industrialiSts and
bankers and they made the most of it.
And what were the results of this period OF
free enterprise which the party of Mr.. Lam
don gave to us? Those whose memories are
clear as to the events OF the last few vars
can answer this question
The collapse of the Samuel Insul enterprise
bringing the loss of lifetines savings TO liter
ally tens of thousands Of working Americans
was merely one of the products of the wild orgy
of free enterprise" which experienced during
that period. Another result was 1854 bank
failurs under the Hoover administration. Capital
value of farm property in the United States
Shrank AZ billions OF dollars in the II years
of Republican rule.
Free enterprise" for Wall street, yes, but
what of the children employed in the textile
mills, and the farmers VINO saw their earnings
shrink to the point where it was impossible to
meet taxes and keep up the mortgage pay
mentS? What of the millions who lost their
Jobs when the crash came in 1923? Did these
child workers and farmers and unemployed
have free enterprise?'
Nothing of the kind. About the only free
dom that was left to them was to go on the
sisted that they should be fed, and borrowed the
dole or starve. And because Mr.. Roosevelt in
funds on the credit OF the United States to pro-
vide food and relief jobs for them, the old free
enterprise" crowd who never knew what 1t was
to miss a meal, is camoring for the Presidents
scalp.
Admittedly, there is nothing in Mr.. Landon's
record to indicate that he would again turn the
government over to the big money manipulators
And yet that is the group which is backing his
candidacy
If Mr. Landon does not approve of the kind
of free enterprise" which Mr. Roosevelt Is seek
ing that is freedom for the man in lowly posi-
ton as well as the man at the top, then what
does he mean when he demands "a restoration
of free enterpriSe?"
Tn presidency is not a one-man job. Either
he must draft his co-workerS and his advisors
from that element which is in accord with the
New Dea-or he must seek helpers from the
group opposed to the New Deal-from among
the free enterprise" captains of industry and
finance who are opposing Roosevelt.
1t remains for the voters to decide on Novem-
Der 3 which type of free enterprise" they
want for America.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-09
THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING
THAT SHOULD GO FARTHER

Transplanting of 100 palm trees to
city property east of Fourth street and
north of Ross avenue, on the highway
to Calexico, has done considerable to
beautify that section of the city Such
a program, started almost a year ago,
has long been needed at the southern
entrance to Ell Centre. Now that it has
become fact, the program should not
be allowed to end 1t should be carried
out, however slowly, on much broader
scope. In fact, it would do no harm to
Imperial Valley if the tree planting
idea were adopted in every section of
the valley.
To the stranger in Imperial Valley,
the lack of trees here is one of the val
ley's most marked features. 1t is not
a drawback to tourists, because it is
unique, but it would be much more COM
Portable for residents if there were
more trees. Ell Centro, particularly,
could stand a heavier growth of trees
along its approaching highways, and
even on its residential streets.
The city council, the chamber of COM
merce and others who took a hand are
to be congratulated on planting the
palms along Fourth street. 1t is to be
hoped the planting will not end there.