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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-06-11
The
Safety Valve

The Spokesman has been asked
by L. w. Beldin, secretary OF the
Priest Rapids Valley Townsend club,
to reprint the following Associated
Press dispatch from Washington,
DC, which appeared in the Spo-
kane Spokesman Review Of May %:
The house old-age pension inves-
tigating committee was deadlocked
tonight over whether DR.. F. e..
| Townsend should be tried for con-
tempt before the bar of the house
or in federal court.
House leaders, it was understood,
agreed the elderly California physi-
clan should be cited for contempt
for walking out on the committee,
but opposed trying him in the house
because it might interfere with ad-
journment plans.
The committee was split on the
question and postponed final de-
cision until it meets again next
Tuesday.
Chairman Bell of the Investigate
ing committee indicated today the
committee was not through with it's
work. He said 1--WE will be ready to
step on the gas" at the Tuesday
meeting.
It was understood that the oppo-
sition of Speaker Byrns and other
house leaders to trying Townsend
in the house influenced the COM
mittee, which at first favored such
a course.
When an initial vote was taken,
only Representative Hoffman Rep.,
Mich), Tolan Dem., CALI, and
Collins CRep., CALI favored a house
trial while Representatives Bell
(Dem., Mo-, Lucas (Dem., Ill),
Gavagan Dem., N.Y. and Hollis
ter (Rep, Ohio) voted to transfer
the case to the courts
II am going to get this thing
before the house." Hoffman said
later. IF the committee does not
decide to bring DR.. Townsend before
the bar of the house, I am going
to get up on point of personal
privilege and demand it,
Representative McGroarty Dem.,
CALI, once recognized as a leader
of the Townsend movement in con-
gress, said the committee would
make a martyr" out of Townsend
if they sent him to jail.
McGroarty said another political
angle in the question is how much
President Roosevelt and Mr. Farley
are concerned about the Townsend
vote.'
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-06-11

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WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
Of what good is day to day living unless one can
aid his fellow man and work to make his commun-
1ty better as we'll more pleasant abode for the
present and future generations?
Much is being done in the Priest Rapids valley
to make this better place to live and raise fam
ilv but more yet remains to be done.
Better houses prettier surroundings, more SAM
5ary living conditions and improved facilities OF
all kinds are needed. But the crying need which
is heard above all others is the need for ply
sician.
It is necessity which has been appallingly evil
dent for years, but apathy and negativism have
prevented the problems solution.
There is hardly a family here which has not ex
perenced a situation in which the immediate at
tention of physician was imperative. There is
hardly family that does not know the agony OF
having child suddenly stricken by serious ILLNESS
injured while at play. physician near at hand
would have al1ayed the terrors Of suspense and in
action and, in many cases, would possibly have
prevented untimey deaths or crippling after
effects.
And yet, with all these heart breaking examples
behind u.s. still have the temerity to talk OF
the COST Of obtaining a doctor for the valley.
It is true that for some it would be financial
strain to support a physician by small monthly
payments (the only method by which we seem
likely to get one). No physician afford to
maintain an office in a community of this size
without the inducement Of a guarantee that will
promise him living.
Throughout the nation there is growing ten
dency toward the state-supported physician idea.
Many people consider this deplorable idea, one
which will lower the standards of the profession
and which would not work for the best good Of
the patient Others argue that it is the only way
to insure every one of proper care as soon as it
is needed.
Whatever your ideas on this subject may be it
cannot be denied that some of the programs which
have supported tangent of this idea in the form
If community physcians'' have worked amaz-
7ngly we'll in under-populated farming areas such
ours.
Every club every organized activity group Of
my kind every thinking individual must realize
tne situation in which placed. But they
must also realize that both individual and group
action will be necessary before physician can be
secured and the problem solved
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-06-11

Etulice Campbell of Kennewick
visited at the Ponsat home from
Friday until Monday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-14

SANTO DOMINGO, oldest Settle
ment of white men in the
western hemisphere, has taken on
| new appearance, and a new
lame. 1t is now Ciudad Trujillo
,Truiillo City,, in honor of the
Dominican Republics president
md dictator, Gen. Rafael Leonidas
rrujillo Molino.
Founded in 1896 by Bartholo-
new Columbus, brother Of Chris
opher, the city became one of the
most historic in this part of the
world. From here sailed Colum-
2us, CorteZ, Pizarro, Ponce de
Leon, and others on their explora-
ions. Near here the first gold was
'ornd by white men in America.
And now the ancient city, newly
named, is being rebuilt.
= An example is the great George
Washington avenue, a wide, tree
ined boulevard stretching along
he coast and presenting a mag
lificent view of the harbor. The
stamp below is one of four issued
recently on completion of this
,horoughfare. 1t pictures the new
boulevard and President Trujillo.
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VISITS OF THE VILLAINS

The group of New Deal propagandsts, who like
to refer to themselves political observers, have
had some tough jobs the last three years trying to
reconcile New Deal policies with reason. At the
moment a particularly severe strain is being I'M
posed upon them to which, however, one way or
another, they will prove equal. There need be no
fear that score ...,...- ....
For example it has been settled belief, early
inculcated among them by Mr.. Roosevelt and all
administration spokesman, that with the exception
of Vincent AstOr, Joseph p. Kennedy and one or
two others whose eyes have seen the light" prac-
tically everybody who paid surtax on income was
"a Creature of intrenched greed"--men who be-
feved in balancing the budget and keeping their
promises-therefore, of course, an anti-New Deal
er villain. ...
Upon this key most of the political observers"
have sung consistently, almost daily pointing out
that "big business" is solidly against the New
Deal and the selfish interests" are trying to en-
compass its defeat. Now, it is suddenly disclosed
that whole string of these villains including some
OF the richest and most ridiculous stuffed shirts in
the business and financial world have been coming
to the White House--at MraRoosevelt's invitation
privately comforting, talking things over with
him.
The truth about these business leaders" whom
Mr. Roosevelt has been sending for is that some
OF them are boobs who be fattered into falling
IN hne and others are gentlemen who, for personal
reasons think it better not to antagonize presi-
dent IN power Some of them viii contribute to
the Roosevelt campaign fund; some will make state
ments Others will merely avoid being openly hos
tile AT heart they dsbelieve in every Roosevelt
policy and are convinced his reelection will be a
national disaster combination of fear, and fat
terry takes them into camp. The comedy of these
men being lined np by a candidate whose real DO,
fitcal blood brothers are the LaFollettes, the Nor
rises and the Nyes--all gentlemen who thirst for
their blood-is pretty apparent,-Frank Kent.
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he gave up lucrative pray wy
to become city health officer.
From that time on until the day
of his death he lived in constant
uneasineSS. Every time there was
a change of administration his
Job was in jeopardy from some
political pet who coveted it. He
had to put in as much time keep
ing his political fences up as IN
discharging his official duties. He
used to tell friends confidentially
that he would give almost any
thing to be able to return to his
private practice-but his private
practice had long since vanished.
The worry and strain Of it all un-
doubtedly fastened his death.
As long as we voters permit
politicians to play ducks and
brakes with the public salaries
and fees which we voters pay, we
shall deserve the waSteful, met
ficient, costly grab bag kind of
government we now have.
Another point: The widespread
evils in our government head up
in our municipalities-which have
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
BRING RATES DOWN

On. of the most welcome developments during
the wears has been the gradual lowering of prices
on telephone and electric services.
Such rates lowering is welcome, in fact, that
nenple are always glad for more of it and usually
Il j. taken for granted that they pleased by
officials who "go after the companies for lower
rates. 60, ,,., T. fH : " ~
:. Now however one cost factor in these rates has
Increased so much and bids fair to keep increas-
inesso much more unless the people start showing
their interest that folks do well to begin consider
ing how much this cost will affect future rates.
On the average telephone in North Carolina
Ss.0s tax was paid by the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
The rates on phones vary great deal, as be-
tween business and city residential and rural
nhones so it is to be assumed that the proportion
of the total tax collected from each subscriber is IN
nronortion to his phone bill. rural subscriber
has less than $9.OS in taxes included in his phone
hill and business phone carries considerably more
than 50 OS in its bills.
That average of rs cents month tax in the
average phone bill is a good example Of taxes md
den from the consumer-payer in the price OF
service.
A different example of hidden taxes might be
taken in the prices of articles made OF IRON or
steel. Every person in every family uses such ar
ticles When such things bought, the only tax
most of us are likely to think of is a sales tax
Yet taxes paid by the American steel industry
last wear were almost 70 million dollars, or enough
monev to nav 500 a month through the year to
more than 60. 900 people. And those taxes were
hidden in the prices of the things made OF steel OF
iron bought by the American people.-Goldsboro
News Argus.
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NEW DIVISION MAY BE FORCED IN THE
PARTY

1t is resrettable that Representative Mitchell has
interiected the race issue i'll the present campaign
and even more deplorabe that the Democratic Ma
tiOnal committee is connivng with him to use III
the negro districts in the North in the next few
months such arguments as the negro congressman
has been employing, including curious attack on
the record of Abraham Lincoln to the effect that
there is absolutely truth in the statement that
he (Lncoln) was elected to free the negro slaves
Representative Mitchell, of Illinois, has probably
discovered the right strategy from his viewpoint III
forcing negro voters into the Democratic party III
the North so as to compel southern asquiescence
in his fight for ''racia Justice
Undoubtedly the Mitchell speech will be
thanked" in the usual way and distributed in ne
gro districts in northern states by the Democratic
political committees.
IL ever there was time for an independent
Democratic movement to enter the lists as the lOgl'
cal opponent of the regular Democratic party IN
the South it is today. Such party would, OF
course find" itself in the minority at the outset
because it will be opposed by the political bosses
and by the organization parasites on every side;
indeed it will 10 condemned by those groups which
have received subsidies directly indirectly from
the federal treasury
But an independent movement should not neces-
sarily be discouraged by such tactics. There must
be in the South still the cabre of men Who care
more for a great principle of government than
they do for financial gain more for the fundamen'
tails of American constitutionalism than for cen
ttsalized bureaucracy.-United States News.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

Kennedy himself. ct is also be-
ing remarked in Washington that
the Democratic National Commit
tee owes Kennedy money, which
gives him access to Jim Farley
and the White House.) Chairman
James M. Lands was KennedyS
choice as his successor.
Possibly because of his SEC
prestige--certainly not in spite OF
it-baniers chose Kennedy to pre-
pare the, new recapitalization
scheme of Radio Corporation of
America.
Critics suggest that he did little
more than front" for the bank
ers'plan, but Kennedy, remarking
at stockholders meeting that 81
guess some Of you will get q
shock. announced his fee as
$l50,0OO. '' .'.
Now he has taken over respon-
sibility for reorganization of tho
Paramount movie concern and his
SEC pals anticipate further fai
eplumS will fall into his lap.
THE Italian embassy, where so.
l. cial activity has been at
minimum, during the Ethiopian
war, is expected soon to blossom
out with a series of partieSIN y
. Italy following her military
triumph. will need capital for de-
/, velopment OF Ethiopia. 50 And she
is expected as is customary ir
such cases, to seek it in the U. S
Thanks to j. P. Morgan & Co.
American citizens hold abou,
S10O,000,000 in Italian govern.
ment bonds, now selling at arounc
70. This loan was foated after 81
per cent of the Italian war deb
to this country had been Cancelled
Experts say the Italian bulge
hasn't actually been balanced fol-
Is years and that Mussolini.
financial troubles are likely to in.
crease. But the ballyhoo for
new private loan is likely to bt
along any day now.
CC9tbs light, - g. NEA Service. Inc.
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DRAW A CIRCLE
Ry WICKEy WAMBOLD7

international nOtoricty for being
worst governed municipalities in
civilization.
1t is the faint from corrupt,
waStcful, incompetent, cXtraya-
giant municipal governments which
flows into our state governments
and makes them also corrupt,
WaSteful, incompetent and cNLraV-
agant.
The state legislatures which
make the laws for the states and
shape the governmental princi-
pies for the states, are made up
of men chosen in the various To-
calitieS. The kind Of men who are
chosen and the way they are ch0-
sen, determines the characters OF
state governments.
The evil influences Of evil To-
cal political rings, reach into the
ttate legislatures; and through
evil state laws and measures,
come back to the localities to pes
ter and exploit them further and
make them still more the prey OF
the evil local political rings.
A public speaker once said, "lr
you would like to see the world
cleaned up, draw a circle around
yourself and begin cleaning up
inside the circle" BY like token,
if the people Of locality desire
their state politics cleaned up. let
them draw circle around their
community and begin cleaning up
the politics within that circle.
State politics cannot be rotten I'M
less local politics within the state
is rotten.
| once heard n speaker plead
ing for Il square deal for munlcl-
palities at a statewide confer
ence of mayors. His remarks were
received in fiShy-eyed silence. The
last thing those mayors wanted
was a square deal for the munich
palities.
And the last thing most of our
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KYLES CREEK

kYLES CREEK, May ll.-The
farmers Of this section nave been
busy planting and working their
crops for the past week.
Mrs. Everett Morris and chill
dren, of HendersonviIle, spent Il
few days last week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Rhodes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah EdmondS
were business visitors in Hender-
sonvillr Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Pittillo. Of
Fruitland, visited their son, Plato
Pittillo, Sunday.
Mrs. ID. j. Rhodes and son,
Graham. are spending a few days
with relatives in Hendersonviile.
Mr.. Arden Pruitt, of Hender-
sonville, was a weekend guest OF
d. j. Rhodes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van YOungbIood,
of Fruitland, were guests Sunday
at the home Of Mr.. Plato PittllIo.
Rain has been badly needed in
this section.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Paris
were in this section recently.
Mr.. George Mckinney, Of Mt.
Zion. was through this section re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. s. Hyder, Of
Fruitland, called at the home Of
Mrs. Hyder'S mother, Mrs. Emma
l.. Rogers. Sunday.
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"FAITH FOR DESPERATE DAYS"

There is no more heroic example of desperate
faith than that Of the three Hebrew children. Inc
sitnarion was desperate but they answered braVeiH
Cd whom we serve is able to deliver US from
-. hnr,;nv fiery furnace; and He win deliver us
Gus of thy hand, King But H Noi' Oe -
known unto thee, o King. that we Will no. serve
,hy gods ror worship the golden image when 'hou
hast set up" Dan. 1929.
like that, ''BUT IF NOTw
Rev. s. Chadwick in Streams III the Desert
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
SEA Service stan Correspondent

WIASHINGTON.-One Of tn e
" yarns you don't hear any
rore in the gossip trading posts
IF the capital is the one about Joe
Kennedy, ex-chairman of SEC,
being made secretary Of the
reaSury.
Tubs of butter have been spread
on Mr.. Kennedy by writer's who
1welt on the allegations that Ken
aedy made a personal sacrifice by
accepting the SEC job. They said
hat it was a fine thing to have
such an able, sound, two-fsted
millionaire in the government and
hat it would be good for the
country if Roosevelt could recruit
more such highminded and sane
conservatives, filled with zeal for
he public service.
Of course this didn't quite
square with the conception of Ger
lain cynical insiders. & = 4
Kennedy, Wall Street man who
had participated in one of the
stock market pools exposed by
Ferdinand Pecora, was one of the
four men who had originally
tossed in $4,000 apiece for Roose-
selt's pre-convention expenses.
Hence these cynics held, he could
demand any job he. wanted, even
in the face, Of general opposition.
and they felt that he came TO
make the SEC safe for Wall
Street.
RE that as it may, if, Kennedy
made a personal sacrifice, he
certainly has been making up for
lost time.
HE has gone into the corporate
reorganization business on a large
scale. Prospectus for new securi-
ties in such reorganizations must
be approved by the SEC, which is
loaded with Kennedy's friends
many of them brought here by
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old line politicians want is Il
square deal for the public. They
consider the public. They consid-
or the public their meat, and they
mean to eat it.
If the public wants Il square
deal for itself it will have to de-
mand that square deal and work
for it determinedly.
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BAD POLITICIANS faint REPuTA-
TON OF GOOD
(By BRUCE CATION

(By bhUSE lb@j
politicians are all scum in my estlma-
ton. They are mostly lot of rats. That
was not true of Lincoln and men. OF those
DAYS and of his caliber. But politicians
have degenerated in the last ten years I'M
III the name has become term OF oppro-
brium.' ..,.
So saws j. Edgar Hoover, redoubtable
chief of the Omen, following the capture
Of William Mahan, last of the big-tlme Kid
napers sought by Uncle Sam. -. ..-
Mr.. Hoovers wrath is understandable,
for he saws that he'would have rounded up
Alvin Karpis and his gang in 1884 II eef-
tain Cleveland politicians had not tipped
off the gangSters. He hopes, eventually, to
land these politicians in jail-a pious hope
in which all good citizens will. join. Mean
while, he dslikes politicians-and damns
the lot of them. =. ...
His low opinion of politicians is shared
by great many of his fellow citizens, re-
gardless of the fact that it obviously is
grossly unjust.
Every man who holds elective office in
this country, OF has held it, is politician;
Roosevelt, Landon, Borah, Norris, Lehman,
Honer, and all the rest. And no one needs
to be told that these men are not scum, y
or that they do not spend their spare time
protecting underworld allies from the
wrath of the law.
There are, in short, two kinds of poll
ticians: the unselish kind, to which the
much-abused term, public servant" can
properly be applied; and the selfish, con-
niving, graSping kind, which is in the game
for the leaves and fishes. And it is impOr-
tant to make the distinction between the
two.
But the problem isn't a simple one OF
good men on one side and bad men on the
other. The good men--the high-minded
Scrupulously honest politicians, who have
the loftiest conceptions of their obligation
to the public-must, after all, bear part Of
the responsibility, For they do put up with
the bad ones as stablemates.
Every city has seen examples. There viii
be one distinguished citizen Who is domi
nant in the local councils of his party; {
man above suspicion and above reproach
whose personal integrity and devotion tt
duty are simply unquestionable., ...-
Teamed with him. in the local party ma
chinery, there will be scattering of thu
other kind of pelitician-schemers,b eliev
ers in honest graft, gimme boys who viii
stoOp to anything on earth if they thinl
they can get away with it.
Now the good" politician, in 80 cases
out of 100, plays ball with these vultures
That's politics. ....
He may not know just what they're vi
to--indeed, he may take the best of care
not to know; but he tolerates them anc
helps to keep them alive. He, does this be
cause, when all is said and done, it is b!
their help that he stays In office.
So we get the state of affairs of whiei
Mr. Hoover complains; not because mos
politicians are crooked, but because fth,
ones who aren't don't stand up in meeting
and force: the departure of the ones h,
are. y p
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up private polit-
zeal mac h i IN G $
W / h pu b ii {
jobs.
That literally
is what Spoils-
men mean when
they quote, "To
the victors be-
long the spoils."
A physician |
used to know be-
came so inter-
eSted in t n e.
h E a ! t h Of hiS.
community that
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TIME TO GET. INTERESTED

1t is time for young people to become interested
ip government. If they really understood what has
happened. they might not be following their elders.
but ehastising them. The young person of TODAY
has lifetime of struggle ahead of him. He has
been tequeathed perplexing problems and great
debts and tsxes.-Grand Rapids (Minn.) Herald
Review 49, a..= es5,.,-.
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A Tiffin, Ohio, thief looted home Of
many antiques Alocaf wife wenders.if he
would be interested sin aasproposition CON.
corning her husbands old crush hal. -. :.
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"To the victors," the advocates
of the spoils system say in effect,
belong the right to pay off pri-
Yate electric debts and TO bnild
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so MOTHERS DAY CAKES:

Mr.. McFarlan, in accepting con-
gratulations on birthday cake in
the McFarlan Food Shop, Incl
dentally remarked that his shop
filled more than so special orders
for Mothers day cakes. "Thc adv.
helped" he added. wonder if
any other merchant sold more
than 80 items Of one kind for
Mothers day. Speak up, if you
did.
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When you pay $1.10 for one-dollar
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