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no true Americans save the red
men. Many Of our greatest
leaders have sprung from mixed
heritage. And no intelligent
citizen will ever begrude welcome
and help to any well-intentional
immigrant who is willing to take
his place in American life and
share the American spirit.
But when it comes to handing
over our inheritance to millions
Of worthless creatures who batten
upon us without conscience ere
fuse cooperation-Sneer at us and
devaState uS-then I as an Amer
lean citizen and taxpayer rebel.
This is actually what Is happen
ing today. Billions are being
poured out to meet our national
need. Taxpayers are being pressed
to the cracking limit. Even so,
there could be no objection If the
need were that Of our own citizens
or the worthy but stranded
visitors within our gates.
A CONTRACT
But such Is not the case. A
terrific and constantly increasing
proportion Of this dole Is being
given to a mass Of worthless aliens
who were a public nuisance in
their mother countries before they
ever emigrated to be an even
greater menace in ours. These
people are without standards or
character. They are, for the most
part, deliberate drifters who had
become a public problem long
years before depression ever hit
us, and whose burden to real
Americans increases with every
unearned dollar they receive.
Imagine the plight Of millions
of idle Americans stranded today
in Europe, Asia or South
America. How long do you think
they would be fed? How well
would they be supported? Yet in
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Two persons their lives to the bravery of
whose shining courage soens in degree the tragedy Of
another airplane crash.
And all America its homage to Nellie Granger for
what she did when passenger plane nosed into mountain
side Uniontown Pa.
The stewardess of the plane, she forgot her in
juries, her OWn horror her danger to pull a
and a passenger free from the burning UUreck
age.
And then, instead of colIdpsing many might
haze DONE she struggled for three miles through mud
Hers true courage, the undauned spirit that alone
holds through the last quarters hour and will let
60. She even went back to the wrecked plane.
Whatever tangible reward she may receive will be moth
ing compared with the realization that brighter
story Of womans courage will be written the history OF
aviation.
No could have done more than she did
Few men, perhaps would have done AS MUCH
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following example of the sort of
declaration of principles which, as
he believes, would make a strong
appeal to the intelligence of the
thirteen million moderates whose
cause he champions:
Il. Thorough and unhurried
study and discussion by Con,
gress Of legislative proposals,
and their enactment within con.
stitutiOnaI limitations.
"2. Sound financial planning
for permanent improvements
and current expenses with bal
anced budget.
SO. A sold standard, no more
silver purchases and no more
rubber dollars.
IL. Reasonable tariff revision,
encouragement Of foreign trade,
and strict neutrality.
IS. Conservation Of natural re-
sources, including the soil of our
farms; purchase of submarginal
land, subsidy Of crops that i'm
prove fertility, and grantS-in-aid
for control Of erosion.
"6. A return to the Republic
an policy of enforcement Of
the Sherman and Clayton acts,
more adequate control of food
and drugs, and reasonable regu-
IatiOn of interstate utilities.
80. Sound banking laws, ade-
quate home and farm credit
and continuance of securities
and stock exchange regulation.
"8. A realistic labor policy
calling for democracy in indus
try and Cancellation in indus
trial conflict.
80. Revision of the Social Sc
curity Act to require minimum
State standards, to eliminate
the impossible reserve funds, to
remove the unfair burden on
young men entering the Old-age
insurance schemes, and to pro-
vide changes needed immedi-
ately in the unemployment in
Surance scheme.
A CHALLENGE
40. A realistic relief policy
calling upon the States and
local governments to assume
charge Of relief administration
and financial responsibilities for
$1,5OO,OOO, and upon the Federal
Government by grants-in-aid un.
der the supervision Of the Social
Security Board to provide funds
for the balance on the relief
rolls, with equal sharing and
equal reduction as soon as pos
sible; entire Federal response
bility for work relief; plans for
rehabilitation"
And then last. but by no mean.
least, Mr.. Taft filings this chal
lenge into the face of all pork
barrel politicians of both parties
and the Farleyism for which they
stand:
"A thOrOughgOing merit sys.
tenn on the lines of the best
public and private standards as
the only possible means Of car.
rying out these principles with a
balanced budget"
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Principles Not Parties
BIZ James T. Williams, T.

Among the estimators there ap-
pears to be agreement that the
balance of power at the PreSiden-
tial election next November will
be held by about thirteen million
voters who in politics pride them
selves upon being independents or
moderateS. The same eStimatorS
agree that about thirteen million
regulars will support the kepuo-
lican nominee OF the Cleveland
Convention and that thirteen MIL
lion regulars will support the nom
inee OF the Philadelphia Conven-
ton.
Of course these regular Repub-
licans do not yet know whom their
delegates will nominate at Cleve-
land, but that doubt does not i'm
pair their regularity.
The regular Democrats, however,
know that Mr.. Roosevelt will be
renominated at Philadelphia and
will dictate the platform upon
which he will run for reelection.
Whether they are for him or not
these last ditcherS will vote for
him on election day.
MEN AND ISSUES
It is among the thirteen million
moderates thai the largest interest
exists regarding the men and is
sues to be brought forward at the
Cleveland and Philadelphia Con-
VentionS. OF special interest to
this group is little book which
has just appeared under the ar
resting title: You and land
Roosevelt" Its author Charles
P. Taft Of Ohio-is the younger
son of the only American yet to
serve the nation both as President
and Chief Justice of the United
States.
His success in the practice of
law has not prevented this young
man from taking the interest in
politics which every young Ameri-
can ought to take. He belongs to
that distinguished body of young
Americans who, from the day they
cast their first vote make up their
minds they are going to be among
the governing and not among the
governed. BY this they do not mean
necessarily that they expect to
hold office. What they mean is
that as voters they expect to make
their own choices regarding can.
didateS and issues and to make
them in the light Of all informa.
ton obtainable about both.
All those who share the polit.
ical independence of the author of
this interesting book will find his
dlSpaSSionate discussion of the
1886 campaign both interesting
and stimulating.
He believes that there at least
thirteen million voters in this
country today who are independ.
ent enough to insist that the party
which hopes to get their support
must put forth platform that is
a clear, simple, STRAIGHTFORWARD
statement Of conviction"
To the end that his readers may
know he is not hiding behind an
empty generality he offers the
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parasites who are destructive to
family life as rats and termiteS
are to the house wherein 1t tunC-
tionS.
Yes, making a home is a big job.
And anyone who has toiled to
make a fine home is not only
fool but the baSest sort Of traitor
if, having made that home, he
then throws open its doors to the
forces of disorder, or SquanderS
the treasure of that home upon
those who will neither appreciate
nor cooperate.
There is nothing new in these
things which have said. Every
good housekeeper, every business
man knows that they are old and
self evident truths.
THEN, IN THE NAME OF ALL
COMMON SENSE, WHY DO WE
NOT APPLY THESE TRUTHS
TO THIS LARGER AND inf
NTTELY MORE PREC1OUS
HOME-OUR AMERICA.
Every true man has sweated for
his private home. Every true
woman has wept for hers. But
America was built at an even
greater cost, MEN DRAINED
THE BLOOD FROM THEIR
VEINS AND WOMEN TORE THE
JOY FROM TIL EIR HEARTS
THAT AMERICA MIGHT Be
COME A HOME FOR FREE,
PROUD SPIRITS.
SHINING VISION
In all the world no country was
ever founded on such q shining
vision or bought by such glorious
sacrifice. Mistakes we have made
and worse than mistakes. Yet
at the core of the American spirit
burns flame akin to that which
Almighty God breathed into that
first clod of clay. Blunder as we
may, still we are humanity'S tall
est reach toward the stars. And
never has man builded himself a
nobler edifice than America.
Yet, today ne, the careless, the
trGttorouS inheritors of this
editice, throO tOide the doors of
our home to the forces of disorder
to human r0tS and ternItteS tD1Io
tDiu Without conscience consume
our hGrd-won treasure and under.
mine our God-give1t foundation.
What do I mean? This. I
MEAN THAT TODAY AMER
ICA'S INDISCRIMINATE, PROD
IGAL AND UTTERLY ASININE
GENEROSITY TO UNDESIR-
ABLE AND VICIOUS ALIENS
OUTRAGES COMMON SENSE
AND BETRAYS THE FAITH OF
OUR FATHERS.
This is no wholesale indictment
Of foreign blood. America was
founded by immig there are
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like making a
nation. It costs
tremendously in
tt m e, money,
e n er gy a n d
spiritual forti-
t u de. You
must not only
build constant
ly but you must
a ! SO G u a r d
a g a / ms t the
things W h ich
destroy homes
m q terial
pests and spirit
ual blights and
/ h oSe human
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Wise Words

The worst Of having q romance
is that it leaves you so unro
mantic.-Wilde.
Riches either serve or govern
the SSor.-Horace.
Praise was originally a pen
sion, paid by the world.-Swift.
Sorrows remembered Sweeten
present joy.-Pollok.
Suspicion is the poison Of true
notwithstanding.
A brothers Sufferings claim o
brothers pity-AddiSon.
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By T. E. Powers

in the schools of every great city,
there is an increasing number
Of defective children who cannot
possibly be fitted into our social
scheme-low-grade morors, twisted
minds and malnourished bodies,
already potential gangsters and
Migrants.
Where are these children born?
Where do they receiUe their stand
ards? Not in the homes OF the
old line Americans, but in the
runUGyS and ShGckS and drifting
camps of the Gnti-SociGI aliens I0ho
lDere a plague to their mother
country and are q pest in ours.
More figures from DR.. Arm
strong: Seventy per cent of the
approximately 5000 .delinquents
under 16 arraigned yearly in
New York city courts have for
eign.born parents. OF 1000 de-
linquents studied in Chicago, 10
per cent are foreign-born.
Again, I repeat, these state
mentS contain no sheer at the
well-born foreigner. But no such
foreigner would dream Of denying
the incontrovertible fact that con-
ditions exist in foreign countries
which would never be permitted
in our American program. Out Of
such misery, such disease-laden
darkness, there has come to our
shores a flood Of creatures who
would be a menace to any coun-
try, even darkest Africa.
NOT POLITICAL
In late years we have restricted
the quantity of this flood but its
quality still goes largely unchal-
lenged. And once settled on our
shores, we make at best only a
feeble effort to force these people
to conform to the standards Of
our life. Meekly we accept them,
bending each year lower and
lower beneath the crushing bur
den of their weight. seeing each
year the old American standards
become more cheapened and con-
taminated by contact with. their
ShoddineSs.
I am not writing politics. I
have little interest in politics. Nor
am I attacking any group Of poll
ticians. AS a newspaper worker I
have seen the depression at its
worst. AS a woman and q mother
my heart bled for the suffering
it entailed. And, regardless of
political parties, I honor every
honest attempt to alleviate that
misery.
But when we wantonly persist
in maintaining and encouraging
conditions which are bound to
undermine our homes, waste our
resources and wreck our ideals
then, as an old-fashioned Ameri-
can, I protest to high heaven!
SUCH GENEROSITY. IS
NEITHER SANE NOR SENS
IBLE, RIGHTEOUS NOR REA-
SONABIaE. TT IS AT BEST
MAUDLIN SENTIMENTALTTY-
AT MOST, BASE TREACEIERY
AND DISLOYALTY TO THE
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.
AND, IN THE LANGUAGE OF
THE WESTERN RANGE WHERE
WAS BORN, YOU CAN TAKE
1T FROM ME, FELLOW CITT-
ZENS, WE ARE BREEDING A
SCAB ON OUR NOSE THAT
WILL REQUIRE SOME PICK
ING. PROVIDED THERE Is
ANY NOSE LEFT.
Copyright, 1895, King !Fs@tu4OA
Syndicate, 1n&4
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DISCARDED TITLES

OASOhnDEU TITLES
In a recent speech, Representa-
tive w. Creal (D.) Of Kentucky
said:
"Like fighting cocks they sal.
lied forth in the morning, but
with the death knell Of titles
worthy, they exhibit now only .
bloody comb, lost spurs, q broken
bill and dropping feathers"
It sounds as though Mr.. Creal
might have been talking about the
now extinct Blue Eagle" but in
reality he was discussing the
ruling Of the attorney general of
Kentucky which held that the
thousands of titles of Kentucky
colonies were invalid.
He said:
Last week they went forth
with marshal SpIendOr, glitter.
ing with hOnOrS bright like
plumed knights, salIying forth
in all their vanity for deeds Of
valOr well done. Today they are
crestfallen and COwed with q
hunted, weird, sickly look and q
''pOssum grim, conscious Of
their sudden humiliation and de-
motion"
He continued:
Even our beloved Speaker
and Sergeant-at-ArmS look sad
and detected for some unknown
reason"
The unknown reason" was
that both Speaker Joseph w.
ByrnS and Sergeant-atrArms Ken
meth Romney were Kentucky
colonels."
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miles per hour
the judge fined
him $50 a n d
said tn at he
was sorry that
he coul n t
make the pen
atty more.
When BLACK
Jack" Pershing
is fined $50 for
speeding, it re-
calls m e Of
the instances
W h ere a few
persons h a v e
clai m e d i'm
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Listen, World

am an old.fashioned, Ameri-
can homemaker.
It is a hard job to make a
home. It. is in miniature much
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-13
OLD FAVORITES
-COIIey Cibber
The Blind Boz

say what is that thing called Light
Which must meier enjoy;
What are the blessings Of the sight,
tell your poor blind boy!
You talk Of wondrous things you see
You say the shines bright;
feel him warm, but how can he,
Or make it day night?
My day or night myself make
Whene'er I sleep or play;
And could I ever keep awake,
With me 'twere always day.
With heavy signs often hear
You mourn my hapess woej
But with patience can bear
loss neer know
Then let not what cannot have
My cheer Of mind destroy:
Whilst thus sing, am king,
Although poor blind boy.
ReCders iUed to send to the editor their sugges-
tons Of the OUorss among the poems for reprting IN
this spCOa) ...s
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The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

'since June 80, 1884, there has
been paid to the International
Mercantile Marine the sum of
$4,000, 900 in loans.
The I. M. M, they say, is in
default on certain of its pay
ments. Yet, they point out, that
it is proposed to give that or
ganization 100000 more, al
though little or no new tonnage
has been produced.
These experts also point to the
fact that the once great Ieviathan
is rottlng away-out of commits
sion.
They say that when P. L. Chap
man directed the activities of
the great ship, she made 40 voy-
ages and averaged a profit of
$40, per voyage on the run
from New York to Cherbourg
and Southampton.
Under other direction, they
recall that the 'yLeviathan was
put into service between New
York, Havre and Hamburg. On
this run she competed with the
fast German ships, the Bremen
and Europa, and could not show
a profit. So she was sent to the
graveyard of ships.
Instances such as the retirement
Of the Leviathan convince many
advocates Of a substantial mer-
chant marine that it is sabotage
like that which should be investi-
gated and not trivial occurrences
pertaining to the activities of some
crews.
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A CONTRAST

When Gen. John ]. Pershing
was halted in California because
his chauffeur was driving 48
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munity from General PerOhing
traffic charges and were allowed
to go free.
A foreign diplomat was recalled
because of what he considered I'M
just treatment at the hands Of a
traffic enforcement officer.
Members of Congress repeatedly
plead immunity and are allowed
their freedom despite many glar-
ing instances of law violation.
When the outstanding soldier
of the United States, a man who
directed his country's forces in
time of war from the war zone,
is arrested. however, he must pay
his fines.
Yet he was fighting when many
Of those who plead immunity
were cooling their heels in some
safe spot in this country.
A STARTING POINT?
When Secretary Of Commerce
Daniel c. Roper investigates So
called sabotage in connection
with the United States merchant
marine. he might begin his in
quiry right in his own depart
ment.
Experts on shipping who are
interested in development Of our
merchant marine contend that
the sabotage begins in the Com
merce Department itself and that
officials are the ones who actu-
ally scuttle our fleet.
They point to the fact that
Evening star., 1936-08-13
prince Nike Lalsds
Tolerant attitude
OF Rural Virginia

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG Va. August 13.
"A man credited with being Prince
Michael Romanoff," whose escapades
made him well known to police in New
York and elsewhere, has left the Vir-
ginia estate where he was superintend-
ent to revisit the bright lights of the
city.
In departing prince Mike" who
scme say was born Harry Gerguson o.
Illinois had words of praise for the
courtesy he said he was shown in Vir-
ginia.
II was astonished at the amount of
Evening star., 1936-08-13
SCHOOL TERM SET
IN MONTGOMERY
Classes Open September ID
for 187-Day Session-13
Holidays Listed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August 13.-The
public schools of Montgomery County,
both white and colored, will open on
Monday, September IA, and continue
through June 18, Edwin w. Broome,
county superintendent of schools, has
announced.
Heretofore the colored schools have
closed several weeks in advance of
the white schools. The calendar,
which has been approved by the
County Board of Education, calls for
the schools to be in session 1877 days
and provides for 13 holidays as fol-
lows: General election day. two days
at Thanksgiving, seven at Christmas,
two at Easter and one because Of the
annual meeting of the State Teachers
Association.
Supt. Broome also has announced
that the teachers of the white schools
will hold a conference here September
9 and will work in their respective
class rooms September 10 and IL
getting things in readiness for OPEN
| ing of the schools the following Mon
day. The pre-school conference CT
| the colored teachers will be held here
September IL.
The Education Board has author
lied donation of a portion of the
abandoned Blair school property to
permit extension of Montgomery ave-
nue. and has directed that the Burnt
Mills colored school. which was sched-
uled for consolidation, he continued
another year.
The landscape treatment Of the
school grounds and opening of the
two streets in accordance with an
order of court for the Chevy Chase
| Elementary School has been author
lied by the board. the work to begin
at once.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

Of Powhatan, 500-acre estate Of John
Walters. New York broker, for is
months. He said he was leaving be-
cause his task of reconstructing the
house and sprucing up the estate was
finished and he would have dinner with
Walters In New York next week.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

tolerance observation-disclosures and hos
pitality I found there Gin the county,
and In Fredericksburg. he said.
metropolitan New York could take
lessons in metropolitanism from this
section and profit by it.
Prince Mike" was superintendent
Evening star., 1936-08-13
WASHINGTON AND ALL AMERICA WILL WANT
ToKNoW the INSIDE STORY OF A EUROPEAN
SITUATION AS PERIL0Us AS THAT OF 1914
CONSTANT BROWN

noted member of The Star staff, famed for
his predictions regarding international affairs,
and an intimate of statesmen in Washington
and abroad, will visit the centers of great de.
velopments, Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, in
a tour of Europe to give you an accurate, de.
tailed picture of what is happening overseas
behind the scenes and in the open.
Based on interviews with national leaders
and high officials, the man on the throne and
the man in the street, and upon his own per-
spondent will bring you 6rsthand account Of
the turbulent economic and political condi-
tons in Europe.
Evening star., 1936-09-11

world conflict was before Maine voters
today as the Republican standard
bearer. All II. Landon, headed for this
State
Harry H. woodring. acting War
Secretary, and John ]. Cudahy, Am
bassador to Poland, made the asser-
tions to Democrats rallying for Mon
days State election.
Picturing tho next four Yeas IS
"the most fateful in modern world
history" Woodring at Waterville
thanked God that va have in the
White House today O man who in
the midst Of world turmoil Is de-
termined that this Nation shall have
peace"
Cudahy, predicting at Bangor IAN
other great conflict within the next
three years." said that only by elect
ing President who would keep peace
shall We survive"
Woodring, former Kansas Governor,
said that even Liberty League MEM
bers had no desire ito return to the
Hoover days"
Rockefeliers and Morgans," he de-
clared, who were but recently beg
ging President Roosevelt to save them
and their wealth from destruction by
. Hoover depression"
Democratic Gov. Louis ]. Brann,
seeking election to the United States
Senate, said ut Bangor:
1T begins to appear that the real
Evening star., 1936-09-11
c. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER H. 1886

and q restoration Of good government
at Washington"
After boarding his special train for
Portland. Me-. where Saturday he viii
deliver his NTH major speech Of the
campaign, Landon walked into the
press car ahead Of his private coach
and chatted with newsmen.
Government and Business"
His address at Portland will be on
Government and Business" q topic
he discussed briefly In his acceptance
address at Topeka, July %, in which
he said:
"The time has come to unshackle
initiative and free the spirit Of Ameri-
can enterprise We must be
freed from excessive governmental in
timidation and hostility"
Clifford Pinchot, former Governor
Of Pennsylvania, who conferred with
Landon over the luncheon table yes
terday, told reporters the Portland
speech "has the punch"
After an overnight trip from To-
peka into Illinois. Landon planned .
four-hour visit in Chicago, including
luncheon ut the home Of George r.
Harding, national committeeman. and
conference with Republican leaders
before resuming his eastward drive.
The Governors party included Lacy
Haynes, close friend and political ad-
wiser Of Landon, and william r. Cas-
tie, former Undersecretary Of State,