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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-21
D. {. AIDE SUES
AFTER FALL

August F.. Wahl. Of 1841 Bay
st. S. E., building inspector for
the District, found a hole in the
floor of the sewage-disposal plant
at Blue Plains on the occasion of
an official visit last June 20, he
revealed today.
Through Attorneys Alfred A.
Stern and Albert Lyman, In
Spector Vail today filed suit for
$4,000 against the Charles Temp
kins Company, contractors, who
built the plant. accusing it of
negligence in failing to provide a
barricade around stair opening,
as a result of which he fell
through the opening to the floor
below and sustained painful in
jurieS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-21
ENGAG WHOM WORLD BZZM
CHALLENGING
OF DECREE
HINTED
Lawyer and Detectives
DeIve Into Virginia
Court Records
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King, any heir of such a mar
rage would inherit the throne.
Remember also that the
King has several brothers who
are in line for the throne in
the event of his death. In addi-
ton, there are the crown grants
Of money to royalty and the
children Of royalty. This should
be considered in this present
action"
Mrs. Simpson-then Mrs. Spen-
cer-waS granted her decree of
divorce on December 10. 1927, by
Judge George Latham. Fletcher
in the Circuit Court of Fauquier
County, Va.
Questioned on Residence
But before the decree was
granted, Mrs. Simpson had been
compelled twice to make affi-
davitS in the case, and was sub
jected to a lengthy questioning
by the judge as to her Virginia
residence.
Records show that she went to
Warrenton on June 10, 1926, and
registered at the Warren Green
Hotel. On July 81, 1927, she filed
the divorce proceedings, just a
little over the year necessary
under Virginia law.
Testimony Quoted
Mrs. Simpsons testimony in
court on December 6, 1927, four
days before the decree was
granted, was as follows:
Q.-(By Judge Fletcher)-
When did you determine to
divorce your husband?
A.-(By Mrs. Simpson,
1925.
Q.-When did you come to
Fauquier county to live?
A.-June, 1926.
Q.-What was your purpose in
coming to Fauquier county?
Alt was to be near my fam
lily. knew some people here in
WarrentOn. All my family are
in Washington. My mother, my
cunt and Mrs. Barnett Ia
cOuSin).
Q.-Where have you lived in
Fauquier county?
AT the Warren Green
Hotel.
~ Q.-Why didn't you live in
Washington?
Al wanted to be near my
relatives but not too near.
AWAY FOR VISITS
Q.-WaS that your only inten-
ton in coming to Fauquier
county, as you have stated?
Al thought 1 had to light
definitely somewhere. If I had
to get q divorce =! thought
could get one here. came here
to live but not for the purpose Of
getting q divorce.
-NOTE AMEPIEAM-
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TWO M0REQUIT
DEMOCRATS
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of the United States" The "a
year-old Jeffersonian Democrat,
who said he had supported the
Democratic party for over half a
century, declared:
what shall be said of a party
characterized as this Roosevelt
movement is by allegiance with
Socialists, with Communists,
with agitatOrs, and hooked up
with Earl Browder, the red
agent Of Moscow? 1t is not
now time to sound the retreat
from Moscow"
DAVIS IN ATTACK
It was John w. Davis, Demo
cratic candidate for President in
1924, who in a nationwide radio
broadcast last night attacked the
Roosevelt Administration for it's
Jealous disregard of party princi-
pies"
He said under the present Ad-
ministration the nation has lived
to see "a whole series of laws
passed in violation of constitu-
tional provisions" the surrender
by Congress at the demand of the
President of its constitutional
power and duty -" the "appro-
priation with carefree hand Of
billions of public money. to be
spent in such fashion and to
such ends as suited the executive
pleasure.
The Cabinet member, Secretary
Harold L. Ickes of the Interior De-
partment, told the radio audience
that he has proof" the Repub-
lican presidential candidate had
favored State-owned telephone and
pipeline systems.
Charges LandOn Shift
He also charged that Governor
Landon sought Government money
to finance natural gas pipeline
as a State enterprise, and added
that when the Kansas governor
became the G. o. P. standard
bearer he changed tactics. Ickes
said:
Suddenly, overnight, he be-
came a rugged individualiSt of
the Hoover school,"
VOTE AMERICAN
College Head Dead
EAST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 81
U.N.SO-The death of DR.. Carl
G. Erickson, president of Upsala
College, East Orange, at Pocono
Pines, Pa, where he was vacation
ing, was announced today. he was
born in Norway in 1877.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
PERSONAL CONTACTS

How many peoples lives do you
touch, and how many lives touch
yours? Some people live in a rut,
just seeing some few people, and
never getting any ideas from any
one else. That is why everybody
needs to join organizations, and as
sociate themselves with public move
ments.
If you attend some church, join
some fraternal society, belsng to a
woman's club, business organization,
or what not, you get these personal
contacts. They help you. You learn
from other people what they think
about life, how they get along in the
world, and how they meet life's prob
lems. We have these good organiza-
tons in Milford, which open their
doors to you with benefits not emu
merated in their printed programs.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
COMPETITION NOT DEAD

1t used to be said that competition
was the life Of trade, but OF late
years many Of our thinkers say the
competitive idea is all wrong. They
claim it crushes the weak, that IL
results in low wages and oppression
of working people.
This years platforms Of the two
leading political parties came out
very strong against mOnopOlies, and
both of them promise to enforce the
criminal and civil laws against such
combinations. The platform carpen-
ters evidently had had their ears to
the ground. They had heard from
the people that the principle Of COM
petition must be preserved.
If the competitors in some indus
try get together, and after dining
and winning, proceed to discuss and
fix prices, does that constitute a
monopoly? If they put their agree
ment in writing, and live up to it,
it may be cOntended that they have
created a monopoly. But il they
merely get together to talk about
prices, it can be argued that they
simply exercise the right of free
speech. Yet after such discussion,
it may appear that everybody makes
about the same chances. It is not
easy to say what constitutes a mon
opoly and what doesn't.
Competition wakes people up and
incites them to do their best, to give
low prices and quality service. The
world will not soon drop this busi-
ness stimulant. It is the best price
regulator ever developed. If the
prices of anything are too high, COM
petition encourages new people to
enter that line, and offer goods or
for less money.
It may be that competition leads
some business concerns to pay low
wages. Yet it does have a wonder
full effect to keep prices at a level |
which the public can afford to pay.
When prices are kept at such a level,
business moves, and people don't lie
idle.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24

tics-and true to the technique of
seekers after supreme power. In
fact, as long ago as the days of Plato
this method was recognized as typi-
cal of men trying to entrench them
selves through popular favor.
But its addOitness~is more than
Offset by the fact that the introduc-
tiOn of class politics in America is
something new and dangerous. One
of the distinctions of American So
cial and economic life has been that
class lines have not existed. In fact,
the Presidents entire picture of So
cial changes in America is complete
ly at variance with reality. He would
have his supporters believe that
since the growth of big business and
big fortunes the people-especiaIly
the workers and the farmers-haVe
been consistently robbed and Op-
pressed.
The fact is, of course, that the
economic condition of the workers
and farmers of the country improved
steadily during the half century pre-
ceding the worldwide economic col
lapse of 1929. The seventy-tWO hour
week in industry had given away to
the sixty hour week and this in turn
to the forty-eight and finally the for
ty hour week. Farm income had
risen steadily, with the result that
hundreds of thousands of farmers
had been able to mOdernize their
houses, buy automobiles, obtain lux
uries and generally live on a higher
scale than ever before. Other hun
dreds of thousands put their children
through college.
Throughout all of this transfOr-
nation the outstanding fact was that
there were no fixed class barriers.
There was not, of course, economic
equality. There cannot be economic
equality when there is inequality of
ability, of energy and of character. |
But countless individuals rose from |
humble origins to positions of eco
nomic or political power. Individ- !
ualism triumphed over class group !
ing.
Mr.. Roosevelt now frankly preach |
es group politics as we'll as group |
economics. His dream of America /
is of a semi-cOllectivist state, in
which classes and groups shall or
ganize as classes or groups. AS
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
DEATH FROM HEAT

When the sun god shoots his fierce
arrows down on our baked earth, it
is a day of trial for the weak and
feeble. Many who seem strong and
vigorous suffer shock. During the
recent hot spell covering most of the
country, around 100 people died as
the result of heat prostration. Count
less others suffered severely.
When the thermometer gets way
up above 100, as it did over much of
the land, the United States can hard
ly consider itself in the temperate
zone. If such weather were to con-
tinue indefinitely, the American peo-
pie would lose their power of ac-
tion and accomplishment, and sink
to a low place in competition. with
countries ware favorably located.
Not many baseball or tennis play
ers or golfers are reported to have
quit their matches and retired to
cooling shades. Many of the young
athletes went bare-headed under that
fierce downpour of flame.
Most of the farmers kept working,
if the fierceness of the drought left
anything to cultivate. People who
maintain physical vigor don't suffer
much from such a sun roasting, if it
does not last too many days.
The old broad brimmed straw hat
used to be called a wonderful pro-
lection in hot weather. The farm
hand could NOW his hay quite COM
fortably under its shooting shade.
The old-timers used to put the broad
leaves of the rhubarb and the bur-
dock in their hats, and the thick
fiber cooled their fiery brows. Folks
on the shady side of so. and those
not used to high power sunlight
should go slow on such days.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
THE MOTOR TRIPPERS

Merrily the motor trippers buzz
along, as they set OFF to see the
world Their minds are so concen-
trated on speed that they don't real
" see very much of the world. Any
way, they can say they have been
there, if they have passed some
noted point of interest at 60 miles
an hour.
The American people are always
stirred by the fever of restlessness,
but automobile jaunts varying from
500 to 5000 miles at least quiet their
wanderlust for a little. After they
have torn through a half dozen
states, had their fill of half cooked
food, slept on some not so fiowery
beds of ease as the old hymn tells
us about, they return with the feel
ing that there isn't any much better
place than good old Milford.
Do the trippers do credit to the
state and city from which they
come? Courteous tourists who obey
all the road rules and hand out kind
words everywhere, with good ones
for their home town, are high class
advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
LOOK AFTER THE HOME TOWN

We have millions of people who
are deeply concerned about condi-
tions in the country, and are all the
time telling what the government
should do. That is all right and
good, only that interest should not
expend itself in mere talk.
Very few of us can go to Washing
ton or the state capital, and tell the
government what to do. 1t would
not probably do much good if we
did. But we can all take hold and
exercise whatever wisdom and ener-
gy and good spirit we have in the
affairs of our home town. If we
see that the home fires are kept
burning, we do our part toward the
grand total. If only all our com
in this grand country per-
formed their home duties well, ma
tionsl problems would settle them
selves.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
SAVE AMERICA NOW
By Rep. Ralph E. Church
Of Illinois

A relatively small group of men
original New Dealers, control the
Democratic Party. With the whip
of patronage and the power to grant
or to withhold wOrk-relief funds, the
Brain Trusters" have forced a su-
pine Congress to yield to every die
/ tate. We have had New Deal Con-
gress masquerading under an old
name.
True Democrats, as distinguished
from these New Dealers, believe with
! the Republicans in the American the
Ory of abundance and the principles
of a free government. While his
tOrically the two great parties have
differed as to means, nevertheless
until the advent of the New Deal,
both parties zealOusly sought to ad-
vance the principles of democracy
and to make America the land of
plenty.
The New Dealers believe in an
economy of scarcity, with a system
of state capitalism whereby all of
us are regulated, regimented and
controlled by the bureaucrats in
in Washington. Because this smacks
Of the Russian theory of controlled
production and consumption, they
will deny that they are giving ad-
herence to a principle so entirely
foreign to America. But "by their
deeds ye shall know them.'
AS a remedy to the farm problem,
the New Deal inaugurated program
of crop destruction and limitation of
production, yet thousands of fami-
lies still are wondering where to OBJ
tain their next loaf of bread. Con-
troll of production has been applied
to industry. No effective efforts have
been made to encourage industry to
increase production and to re-em-
ploy.
The New Deal is wholly un-Amer-
lean. Instead of encouraging thrift, |
it encourages Incidence and waste. |
Instead of encouraging economy, it
encourages spending. When you /
look beneath the camoufiage you find |
that the New Dealers are not only
Turing people away from American
principles of government, but are
leading to bankruptcy and destruc-
lion.
With an orgy Of spending there
has been no appreciable decrease in
The number of unemployed. The A.
F. of L. has estimated that 12,1S4,OOO
people are without jobs. The relief
problem remains with us-nor can
We expect otherwise until industry
'evives. And we certainly cannot
expect this when we force industry
o face the continued threat of ever
taxes or imitation.
The choice which we have to make
s not a choice between Democrats
md Republicans. Il is a choice be-
ween New Deal state capitalism in
N economy of scarcity-and Repub-
ican adherence to a free democracy
n an economy Of abundance. It is ]
choice between debts, taxes, infia-
ion and fear on the one hand-and
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24

THE ROOSEVELT Administration
is giving subsidies to farmers in hun
dreds Of millions Of dollars with one
hand and is beckoning to foreigners
with the other to send us their grain,
meat, butter, and various other prod
ucts. Naturally, the American farm
er must sell less because Of this in
vasion by foreigners. So one finds
the farmer injured in the amount of
$1,5OO, 100000 or so annually even
when he receives subsidies from the
lavish hands of the New Dealers.
If Uncle Sam is so rich that he can
afford subsidies in many hundreds of
millions to his own farmers for not
growing this or that, why not let the
tillers of the soil enjoy
even greater income by keeping out
foreign products in order that our
own people may supply the home
altogether? Why do the
authorities in Washington feel that
we owe anything to anybody any
where except our own people in our
own country?
The government pays enormous
to American farmers in the
iorm of subsidies but permits alien
goods to compete with home prod
lets, thus increasing our own sur
Dlus, which has been at the bottom
# the farm problem since it first
vas created.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24

usual, he fails to think his plan
! through to its logical conclusions.
The creation Of groups implies gov
ernment by lobbies. Each group
tries to obtain for itself special privi-
leges and concessions from the gov
ernment. Those groups which are
most INSCRIPTIONS and can best ter
rOrize politicians are surest of sue
cess and soon dominate the govern
ment.
Mr.. RoOseVelt's appeal is to those
whom he terms the "under-priVi-
legged" That there are many such
in this country is obvious, though
nowhere near as many as in other
countries. But Mr.. ROOseVelt's ap-
peal is so cOuched as to rouse hate
rather than hope in their breasts.
His offers to help them are utterly
vague. This is not surprising as he
is less interested in helping them
than in having them help him. He
wants their vOtes-and by setting
himself up as their leader in war"
against those whose farms are un-
mOTtgaged, whose businesses have
survived, or who are still with jobs,
he is thinking only in terms of po-
tential ballots.
Never has America more needed
the healing medicine of social uni
ficatiOn. The great task is to make
clear to all Americans the inter-
dependence of all the people of the
United States. Industrial prosperity
depends on agricultural prosperity.
Neither is fOstered by turning the
workers against the farmers or the
farmers against the cities. Yet this
is precisely what Mr.. ROoseVelt's at
tacks on economic rOyalists" is ex-
pected to do.
Whether this idea must be attribut- !
ed to Tugwell or Farley or whether
it originated in Mr.. RooseVelt's own
fertile mind is of comparatively little |
The significant thing is |
that the tactics of class warfare are |
now being used by the President. |
He holds out vague promises that !
Uncle Sam will help all those who !
help him-that he will look after the !
farmers and the industrial workers
and the unemployed and the union !
lied and the ununionized and all
those in different occupations or in
need. In contrast all those who op-
pose him are branded as enemies Of
the cOuntry-and the "have-nOts"
are urged to unite to take from the
'haves" such little as they still pos
3ess.
This is the same cry that the
French Revolutionists of 1888 used. II
But to imply that condition in
America today even remotely re-
Iembie those in France of the revO-
utiOn-Or in America of 1776-is to
distort history. This may II
Ie good pOlitics-but it hardly shows
rood faith.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24

DISCRETION OF President Roose-
welt by The Omaha World-Herald is
one of the most significant develop
ments of the campaign.
The Omaha World-Herald is one
of the most influential Democratic
newspapers of the West. 1t was
ance owned by William Jennings
Bryan, and for many years was pub
lished by the late Senator Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock, a close personal friend
of President Wilson and a national
figure in the Democratic party.
This staunch Democratic organ
parted company with the President
in an editorial based on Mr.. ROose-
velt's recent acceptance speech. In
the Presidents remarks on this Oc-
casion, The WOrld-Herald read a
declaration of "uncompromising war
between the government he heads
and private enterprise"
Mr.. Roosevelt's march toward col
lectivism has reached the point
where party considerations are of
secondary Importance. 1t is becom-
ing increasingly clear that if we are
to preserve the economic system up
or which this country achieved
greatness, if we are to retain the
principles of government upon which
our nation was founded, Mr.. Roose-
velt and his associates must be re-
tired to private life.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24

SINCE HIS NOMINATION Lam
don has made no pretentions and
has done no posturing for dramatic
effect. The strength of the man is
in his simple naturalness which
shows him to be rich in saving COM
mon sense" He has the dignity of
self-respect without the patronizing
superiority of vanity or the super
cilious condescension of egotism. He
gives himself no airs and INDUCES
in no artful mannerisms. He ap-
pears just what he is, quiet, COM
petent American citizen who takes
the responsibilities of his position
seriously without being overwhelm-
ed by it's eminence or swept off his
feet by the glamour of it.
His sturdy self-reliance, his de-
pendence on truth and reason and
his belief in the understanding and
capacities of his fellow citizens will
renew the confidence of Americans
in their own manhood and revive
faith in the validity of their institu-
tions. He will re-establish respect
for sanity and simple virtues of hon
or, trust and candOr.
Landon will grow upon us because
he has started without affectation
and as we come to appreciate the
sincerity and honesty
that are his basic characteristics, we
will be convinced that these are vir-
tues far more worthy of our trust
than the Shower arts of oratory.
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
Milford, Friday, July "a, 1885

THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Gov
ernor Buck has designated that the
annual encampment of the Delaware
troops shall be known as Camp
Theodore Townsend in honor Of Col.
Theodore Townsend, founder Of the
Milford Chronicle, is pleasing to the
publishers and employees Of this
newspaper. Militia affairs were
among his chief interest during early
life, on through middle life and up
to the time when age made his re-
tirement necessary. Long after
physical handicaps made this work
impossible, his keen mental interest
was manifest in military affairs.
Speaking editorially on Wednesday
morning the Wilmington Morning
News said:
A Fitting Tribute
Governor Buck has done fitting
honor to the memory of Col. Theo-
dore Townsend, deceased, in direct
ing that the National Guard encamp-
ment at Bethany Beach, Sussex
County, this year shall be named
for him.
"In addition to having been editor
and owner of the Milford Chronicle
for many years, Colonel Townsend
was one of the best-knOwn National
Guardsmen in Delaware.
Advancing step by step in our
military establishment he finally was
made Colonel of the First Delaware
Regiment and served in that capacity
from 1912 to 1916. He also served
with the regiment as major during
the Spanish-American War.
when the old regiment was re-
organized in 1879 he was put in
command of it.
mo man in Delaware was inter-
ested more intensely in the National
Guard of our State than was Colonel
Townsend. No man worked more
diligently to promote its best inter
ests and also the interests of edu-
catfoh.." '-'' Tee '''"'''''s s''''' '''''" E.
1T is especially fitting that the
largest peace-time camp in the his
tory of the Delaware National Guard
should bear his name"
Milford chronicle., 1936-07-24
THE MOST PATHETIC FIGURE

Perhaps the worlds most pathetic
figure at this moment is former EN-
peror Halle Selassie of Ethiopia.
Driven out Of the rugged land over
which he recently ruled in a SEEM
ingly serene power, he is now kind
Of man without a country. He ap-
pears before the League Of Nations
and complains bitterly that his en-
pire has been snatched from his
grasp, and its people are crushed
under the heel of military power.
The Italians who once possessed
our country, could have put up
similar claim against the old pio-
neers who ruthlessly trampled on the
red man and drove him out Of his
fair fields. The world is full Of in
Justice, and no nation can maintain
that it has committed no such
wrongs. Also there are usually two
sides in all such disputes.