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repetition that they are now con- gidered as just so much pre-elec- ton bilge. It remained for Sen- ator Dickinson to make a new and more appalling charge to wit:-as 8 result of the economic distress to which the Democratic policies have reduced the nation twenty percent of the canned dog meat is being consumed by I1tI- man beings and the dog meat is not it for dogs to eat. Here in one sentence is Q platform upon which the g.o.p. can stand before the voters next fall. Here is a standard bearer who can rally the Republican boys round the flag. Here is an issue before which all others pale into insignifcance. Dickinson for Dogs
 The foremost seedsman of A. gona, Iowa must have Q secret corps of conomist-statisticians on his staff. He could not possibly have unearthed 50 much ilaforma- ton about the consumption of dog food by his lonesome. He may be an authority on the intricacies of chicken pot pie manufacturing but dog. diet is something else again: Senator Dickinson informed an almost empty senate that prosper ity in the dog food business had risen to 8 new high and without any apparent reason. The birth rate among poodles, dachshunds, rat terriers, and schnauzers had not shown any marked increase. The breeding of settlers, pointers, retrievers, and spaniels of all va rietieS was at 8 practical stand still. The production of nuts and 'mongrels had fallen to pre- war proportions. Yet in spite of all this evidence of obvious steril- fly among the canines and the probable spread of the birth con- trol movement to the kennels of the country, the making of 8 canned dog food had mounted "by leaps and bounds" During pro- hibition days we had bootlegger millIonaires, high-jacker pluto crats, and rum-runner capitalists. Now, thanks to the follies of the Democratic regime we have set up another type of Midas, the Prof. 1teers in Puppy Pap. All this is sorry enough business but Senator Dickinson has an explanation for the magnified affluence of the dog food makers. The dogs didn't eat 7 the food for two reasons:-there were not enough dogs to put 1t. away and if there were the dogs wouldn't eat what came in the cans. Therefore, reasoned the Iowan statesman, human beings must have eaten 1t. The deduc- ton is a typical example of Re- publican reasoning from premise to conclusion. 4
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Question Box
o iOsO. NEA

@. When and where was the um- brella first introduced in the United States?
 A. The first umbrella was shipped in 1772 from India to Baltimore, Md, where 1t was regarded as an item of feminine apparel. It was made of coarse oiled linen stretched over and supported by rattan sticks.
 @. What metal is found most abundantly throughout the world?
 A. Aluminium, which forms over eight per cent of the earth's crust.
 e. Who was the Vice. President of the Confederate States of Amer ica?
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MAY 2

MAY 2
 General Influences Today Are:
 Morning Slightly good.
 Afternoon Neutral.
 Evening-Mixed influences This is an unirnportant day. It may become hard to accomplish much.
 TOday's Birthdate
 You should be a useful member of society and content with fife. You should benefit through prop erty, travel, study or expansion in business during January, 1887.
 Socially favorable from May "a through 17, ie30, Develop new friends buy clothes or ask favora during those days. Readers desiring additional in- formation regarding their horc- scope are Invited t0 cOnamuni- cate with Octevine in care Oi this newspapck. Enclose Scent stamped, selE-nd ddrossed envelopA
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control production - Virginia, Georgia, North and South Caro- lima.
 Thanks to aggressive Con- gressman Thomas G. Burch, Virginia already has passed a bill enabling 1t to fix 9 tobacco quota. The South Carolina legislature is considering one. North Carolina may cali . spe- cial session.
 Anti-New Deal Governor Gene Talmadge will not cooperate, but the growers of Georgia probably will. It looks as if Q new means of crop control would get started via the tobacco road.
 NOTE - Congressman Burch,
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Connecticut Fish and Game Board off cials are going to try to restore to local waters striped bass, once one of our most popular fish with anglers. Striped bass have been few and far between of recent years. They are caught usually in coastal rivers. An intensive study of their habits will be made to determine the possibility of restoring their numbers in Connecti- cut rivers.
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Luncheon is Served

Most of the members of the Senate were eating their lunch con in the capitol restaurant when Senator Dickinson seized the oc- casion to bring before that body something which is of vital im- portance to the nation. It was an act of senatorial courtesy on the part of MT. Dickinson not to begin his anti-administration speech be- fore his associates in the cham Der took their appetites out to be appeased. If he had done so the restaurant would have missed a large number of its usual custom CTS. The national administration has been accused of undermining the Constitution, ruining the ctr- rency, plundering the treasury, at- tacking The Supreme Court, and so many other crimes that there is not space available to print them all. The force of tho accu- sations has been 50 materially diminished by their incessant
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Reaction

Doubtless Senator Dickinson in- tended his horrible disclosures to frighten the voters back into Re- publican ranks and incidentally to give himself a leg up for the Re- publican nomination. They may do the latter. But what about the reaction among the makers of the i've hundred million cans of dog food whose product Is declared by a food expert like the senator from Iowa to be unfit for dog con- sumption? How about the human beings who have been eating the. stuff at which the dogs turned ur their snoots? Is the first going to be pleased with Accommodations cA their goods and the second de< lighted with the assault on theiN gustatorial tastes? I do not thini so.
 A few more speeches like thk one he tlincorked on Tuesday ma qualify Senator Dickinson for tn Republican presidential nomina ton but they will make PresideI Roosevelt,s reelection a cincl The only chance the Iowa chicke pot pie champion has to redeei himself is to invent a can that edible. Then no one, dog or h man, will care what is inside It.
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ana agF1CulbW- al world of Al- gona, I o W Q. United States Senator L. J. D ic kin son. There is a be- lief, not with out some war rant, that cit- izens of Iowa really spen d their lives in Hollywood try- ing to crash the movies, and that they only
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 1. In which country is the city of Lucerne?
 ?. What is 6 jaunting or jaunty car?
 3. Where Is the island of Java? {. Which mistress of the White House first discontinued the cus- tom of returning calls? s. Who is known on the stage as "The Perfect Fool?"
 6. What is @ libretto? '. Who was Paul Gustave Dore? 8. Where was Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, cap- tured?
 9. Name the Secretary of War during the U. s. participation in the World War.
 10. What is Irish Moss?
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Gone to the Dogs

Senator Dickinson made the startling disclosure that five hun- dred million cans of dog food, with retail value of forty mil- lion dollars, were turned loose every year. Tn the good old days before the Democrats seized con- trol of the government and be- gan putting the people on g diet of dog vitamins the can contained something well bred pup could digest and get some good out of the digestive process. Now the stuff that is being put out for dogs (and eaten by human beings), has no nutritiye value at all. That is why you will notice so many per- sons staggering along the streets, lying in the gutters, and perishing in the parks from mal-nutrition. They have been eating dog filler out of a can and 1t will not do the trick. But why has the quality of dog fodder gone of so fearfully? Senator Dickinson has the answer on the tip of his tongue. When the A.A.A. began to curtail pro- duction as an aid to increased prosperity and purchasing power for the farmer 1t destroyed mill lions of hogs and forced millions of people to go hungry" Tn other words the hogs that you and ig- norantly supposed went into pork chops and hams and bacon and pigs feet really went into cans for dog food. Logically when the hogs were destroyed there was nothing to put in the cans but tea grounds, bottle caps. and old razor blades. You and know, at least I do be- cause I have tried 1t, that life cannot be sustained by such culch. I doubt if anyone except g circus strong man could get a can of the denounced Dickinson { dog food opened without the aid of a pinch bar and a chunk of dynamite.
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets 3:12 a. m. daylight time). Sun rises S:5l a. m.; sets 7:48 D. m, (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min. utes after sunset.
 Full moon, May 6, 1O:53 a. n; last quarter, May 14, 2:04 Q. n.; new moon, May 20, 4;27 D. m.; last quarter May 27, 10:38 Q, m Morning Stars Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; vening, Mercury, Mars
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Horoscope
BY OCTAVTNE

For persons who believe that hue man destiny Is guided by the plan- ct, the daily horoscope is outlined by Q noted astroIoger. In addition to information of general interest, 1t outlines information of special in- terest to persons born on the dcsig- mated dates.
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What we need this year is candidate who will come out strongly and fearlessly for better weather.
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Current Comments

I'm not a-makin' any money| here in Washington. It costsi you make. If I wasn't . pr' flair poker player, ] couldn't here. .-P. L. Gallaway. Q. 6. resentative, Oklahoma.
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The names of Pierre, Lammot, Irenee and other members of the duPont empire top all the list of contributors to such New Deal enemies as the Liberty League, the Farmers Independence Coun- Gil, the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, and so on.
 Loudest complaint is that the New Deal is hamstringing busi- ness. But recently the duPont company issued to stockholders itg Quarterly Statement" as of March 31, 1o36. It contained these figures, highly relevatory Of the improvement, of the duPont for tunes in the past year of the New Deal:
 INCOME ACCOUNT
 Income from operations before
 provision for depreciation and
 obsolescence Income from operations ......... Net income, exclusive of income
 from investment in General Mo-
 tors Corporation .............. Income from General Motors .... Total net income ................ Amount earned per share of stock
 SURPLUS ACCOUNT
 Surplus at beginning of year. ... Dividend on debenture stock .... Dividend on common stock ...... Surplus at March 3l ............ NOTE-Close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., (some reports have them engaged) is Ethel duPont, an heiress of these millions.
 BOondoggling?
 At his press conference news man asked Secretary Morgenthau: "HoW do you explain the con- tinued rise in price of government bonds the last few days? Is the Treasury planning a new bond issue?"
 "No, but the explanation Is very simple" said Morgenthau, with . twinkle in his eye. "Af- ter the Presidents speech In Baltimore the young people of the country were SO buOyed up with confidence in the future that they went out and invested in government bonds"
 "Huh," grunted the reporter, "what have they been buying them with, relief mOney?" Hollywood Sedition
 Motion picture actors and auth ors are stirring Up @ lot of back fire against Red-hunting Con- gressnan Charles Kramer and his sedition bill, which would put free speech back to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer.
 Those gunning for him include Groucho Marx, Irving Berlin, Morrie Ryskind and Oscar Ham, merstein IT.
 Out in his district-which in- cludes HoIlywood-Kramer is hav- ing Q lot of difficulties, and 1t looks as if his political days were numbered. Tobacco Road
 Although the Smith-Kerr To- bacco Control Act aroused no great hullabaloo outside the to- bacco states, New Deal experts consider 1t one of the most im- portant farm bills to pass Con- gress.
 They think it may set Q prece-. dent for eventual state control of cotton, even corn and wheat.
 What they are watching now Is whether the tobacco states co- operate. Ali the Smith, Kerr bill did was to give the states per- mission to agree among them- selves to reduce acreage. Now --as specified by the Supreme Court when 1t knocked out the AAA--actua Iacreage reduction is up to the states.
 State control of cotton produc- ton in years past has caused bit- ter wrangling and complete fail- ure. Each state wanted c larger quota. Also there were nine cot- ton states.
 State Cooperation
 However, in the case of flue- Vi aa Al 4 q. H|Lan..
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Daily NNa~.-.x Bound Washington VT z ~--- NEW DEAL NO DEPARTMENT
 TO DUPONT MILLIONS
Daily
 Washington
- By DREW PEARsON ana ROBERT s. ALLE

Washington, May 1-The larger the benefits derived from the New Deal the louder the walls of big business anguish Wtnesse the duPonts, most famous munitions chemical and motor manufacturers in America.
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The Gentleman from Iowa
 Among the dark horses for the Republican presidential noEnina- ton is that distinguished figtMe in the social, business, political
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-01

Let these inc0mpetents in pI once 50 on relief N they hay| other place. Wo Will take ol them, but iiot iu cf1ces- 1lAicclln v. kcl3fide. x,eagts women Voters.
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Chicken Pie

Despite the fact that Senator Brookhart had the party machine against him he was not without resources. He had the advantage of being the incumbent in office; he had a few jobs to spread among the prairie folk; and he was an experienced, vociferouS, two-fisted campaigner. Just exactly what senatorial qualification Mir. Dick insor possessed, then or now, l do not know. But he had something which outweighed his adversary's political, oratorical, and strateg- ical gifts. He was able to make the best chicken pot pie in all Iowa. Once that ability was made known to the 1owans Senator Brookhart's chances of reelection vanished and Mr. Dickinson was washed into office on the nght- ness of his pie crust, the fiuency of his gravy, and the 1iuffiness of his dumplings. His presence in the Senate has been charac- teriZed by unobtrusiveness, a minimum of speech making, and of late, a maximum of watching which way the presidential norn- ination cat was going to jump. From time to time his name has appeared amongst the dark horses and although his horse-iness was so dark as to be almost dismal at times, his shadow was ever dis tinguishable. Senator Vanden- berg's outroarings against the Democratic administration for the last month or 50 have had the eff feet of further obscuring Senator Dickinson's chances, but 1owas chicken pot pie king was only waiting the psychological moment to begin real drive for first place on the Republican ticket. Tuesday last brought the appropriate mos nent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-01

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, 'There was such . fog 50 that we could not see"; leave out "so."
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Test Yo ur Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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state long enough to vote and to wiring the return railroad fare to California out of the old farm. Be that as it may, Iowans have their own standards of political judgment which while they do not conform to those in less er1- frightened sections of the Union are nevertheless of vital import ance-to those observing them. To get any place in Iowa politics you have to have something besides 8 loud voice and iron lungs. Mir. Dickinson has 1t. Back in 1883, unless my memory is at fault, the Hon. Smith Brookhart was one of the states representatives in the Senate. MT. Brookhart,, however, fell into the bad graces of the Re- publican party for talking too much and too often on the wrong side of wrong questions in wrong places and at wrong times. In the search for an opponent who could deliver the Hon. Smith his come uppance Mr. Dickinson was dis covered running, = again unless memory is at fault, a highly prosperous seed business. He Is said to have entered Z the fight against Senator Brookhart with all the reluctance of man who did not want to be separated from his cold frames, but once engaged in the battle MT. Dickinson made the contest rip-snorter.
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First ouarter 1pss First Quarter lese
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State COOperatI0Il

However, iI1 the case Of fIue- cured tobacco (from which ciga- rettes are niade) only four stateS
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INCOME ACCOUNT

Income from operations before provision for depreciation and obsolescence .................. Income from operations ......... Net income, exclusive of income from investment in General Mo-
 tors Corporation ............. Income from General Motors ....
 Total net income ................ Amount earned per share of stock
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Copyright, 1886, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Family of Harvey
Hopes to Finish
Great Pyramid
85.Year.OId Free SiIUer
AduOcate Buried Be-
side His Son.
By the Associated Press.

MONTE NE, Ark, February Is
The unfinished pyramid of William
Hope (Coin) Harvey became legacy
which his family will attempt to COM
plete. The 85-year-old Sage Of
Monte Ne" was buried in a stone crypt
beside his son Halliday.
Attorney w. B. Holyfield of Rogers
read a eulogy to the Liberal party
presidential candidate of 1882 who
died Tuesday night.
Attending the services were his son,
Tom Harvey, of Huntington, w. Va,
and his second wife, Mrs. May Ellston
Leake Harvey. whom he married seven
years ago. His first wife. divorced, and
two daughters reside in New York City
and Huntington.
Tom Harvey said he was unable now
TO start the work of completing the
Great American Pyramid" which his
father started years ago to house the
records of this civilizati
eff, by the turn of the tide. things
should drift my way, I probably would
carry out the wishes of my father"
he said, land should my son Tom de-
eide to finish that work, it will be
done some day"
Harvey was a champion of bimetal-
ism with william Jennings Bryan in
1896 and was author of many books
on economics and monetary policies.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
DECISION ON IVA.
AGAIN AWAITED
Ruling Will Be Delayed at
Least Two Weeks if Court
Does not Act Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A wary Capital looked forward
again last night to another session
Of the Supreme Court tomorrow at
which the long-awaited T. v. A. de-
cision may-and may not-be forth
coming.
Sixty days have elapsed since the
case was argued-giving rise to in
creasingly persistent rumors that the
nine justices had encountered difi-
Guilty in reaching an agreement.
The court room probably will be
packed again tomorrow with the New
Deal officials and their critics, hope
full for an answer to the constitutional
question involved-can the Govern
ment's Tennessee Valley Authority
compete with private utilities in the
sale of electric power?
But there was no assurance last
night that an answer would be given.
If the decision doesn't come tomor-
row, It will be two weeks before there
will be another opportunity for the
court to make its announcement. The
tribunal, after making public opinions
it has ready, will recess for two weeks
to study submitted litigation.
The court held its weekly confer
ence yesterday afternoon to dispose
of pending business. So far as OUT
siders knew there was nothing Of
general interest before 1t.
Speculation over the possibility of
an immediate effort to curtail the
courts power to annul acts of Con-
gress mounted when Senator Robin
son, the Democratic leader, criticized
the decision holding the agricultural
adjustment act unconstitutional in a
speech Friday.
Some believed the Robinson speech
was trial balloon" to obtain the
Nations reaction to court curb pro-
poSals. II T. v. A. should be declared
invalid, the Capital expects renewed
agitation.
Evening star., 1936-02-16

he wrote Shouse's speeches a few
years ago and was now using them
against him. 1t was recalled that he
was sent down to the N R. A. as a
trouble shooter when Hugh johnson
was on the front pages. When john
son subsequently made his famous at
tack against the New Dealers in a
Saturday Evening Post article, Charlie
threw up to him references he had
made when he was head of the N. r.
A., references for which Charlie was
generally believed to have been re-
sponsible. Observers commented that
Charlie had developed the most un-
usual enterprise of writing statements
for a man and then subsequently
using them against him.
"AlI Campaign Myth"
But it is all a campaign myth,
Charlie says. OF the story that he
wrote Shouse's speeches he said:
Here was Mr.. Shouse, perhaps the
readiest public speaker of his time,
so well equipped that he usually
spoke without notes and many of his
speeches were made a nations length
away from Democratic headquarters,
Now, why on earth would he have
required ghost writer to frame his
vehement eloquence?"
1t was Al Smith. himself. who in
timated Charlie had written Joe Rob-
inson's recent radio speech.
Charlie said:
"As Democratic leader in the SEN
ate, Robinson has to be on his toes
all the time-announcing policies, de-
Tending the Democratic position, an
swering assaults from the Republican
side. In short, he has to be able
TO make a speech, and an effective
speech, a hundred times in session
and make it right of the bat, in the
fury of debate"
The reason many thought Robinson
did not deliver this particular radio
speech is because he gave the impress
sion of not being familiar with it.
Incidentally, the question arose as to
who wrote Charles column" this
week, because he is Ill in Miami. 1t
is his, though-sounds like him and
no one else. He probably wrote it
himself.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
Byrnes Is Forum Speaker

Government expenditures win be
discussed in the National Radio Forum
at l0:30 pm. tomorrow by Senator
Byrnes, Democrat, Of South Carolina,
o member of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee. The forum program
is arranged by The Washington Star
and broadcast over Nationwide net
work Of the National Broadcasting
Co.
Senator Byrnes. who takes an ac-
tive part in the deliberations on ap-
preparation bills, expects to approach
the problem from the premise that
the Governments credit Is not in
danger. He also plans to summarize
budget-making methods in other parts
of the world.
Aside from q few major pieces OF
legislation. the drafting Of the an
nual appropriation bills will consti-
tute the main sask of the present ses-
sion Of Congress. In addition to Or
dinary expenditures. appropriations
are expected To- be made at this ses-
sion for payment OF the soldiers
bonus, for carrying out pending farm
legislatioo and Tor relief needs.
Evening star., 1936-02-16
RICHMOND FEARS
NEW ICE PACKS
Battered Water Front Men
aced Again-20-Foo Level
of River Predicted.
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va, February IS
Richmod's battered water front was
threatened with additional damage
tonight by thousands of tons of ice
moving down the James River along
the 200-mile stretch between this city
and Lynchburg.
A 20-foot food level was predicted
for the river that rose suddenly to IL
feet last night, breaking a heavy ice
pack In the harbor here and tossing
steamships about like feathers.
One tug was sunk, q 2,00e-ton
steamship swept aground on a sand
bar and a dozen other vessels jerked
loose from their docks. A tanker car
rying 246, 200 gallons of gasoline was
swept down the river out of control.
Director of Public Works Gamble
Bowers expressed the hope that drop
ping temperatures tonight may tighten
the ice pack again and stall on for q
time q repetition Of last nights food.