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and this resolution w1ich does not come
under any Section Of the Colonial Law
be considered illegal?
5th Appointed' Member (P Joseph:
Mr. Chairman. Suppose the Colonial
Council seek Its right and finds that il
acted egal Y when it passed the resolu-
lion by one discussion, what then?
The ChGirmun: The Colonial Council
gave unanimous consent 10 spend It's
own money and thaI amounts to nothing
according to legal opinion given by
some body. According 70 that TIE Colonial
Council does NOT worth anything, |
thought the Colonial Council were mas
tiers IN their own houses. have always
understood that when it comes 20 the
Councils internal ah4irs the Colonial
Council itself is Supreme.
5th Appointed Member (P Joseph:
Mr. Chairman. II seems 10 me as if we
are not wiling to reverse ourselves on
every occasion. so we are due for battles
that have no end. legal battles and phi
tica opinions. Legal opinion has been
sought by the Administration. AS re-
marked a while ago. suppose the Collual
Council go Oh ana sex legal advice
and found tina it was right when it pass
ed the Reso u,ion. would Ike TO know
what won be the next step? he Ad-
mlnistra ION would say it IS within its
right and tn Council won say il is
wlthlnits rlg5t. ami that wolld lead 70
controversy. The Counci mas on many
occasions passed resolutions by one dis
cusson making funds agaiiah for GER
tain purposes aand the Administration
found it had nothing TO dc but sanction
such resolutions wItnoIf any argument
We are up against gal technicality
which | consider unn ce>sary. The Gov
ernor should be ask I'd 10 reconsider the
matter because we cannot see any use
full purpose that would be serv.
ed asking members of this Council to re-
verse themselves, particularly as the AID
minstratlon Will not fad ! self embar.
raised by sanctionlng the resolution
Would the Governor De wiling TO &C.
cept the decision of lotner law yer.
The Chairman: AS 4 mtmOer of this
Council | want TO do / tina is right. out
| do not want TO sit here and make nv
self Iaughing-stocK. If am shown
reason and law all right. bat DO not
think the Council should be guided by
anyoody's Opinion. DO 20. want to some
here and be toved hetween opinions.
Here is one opinion from he Judge of
the District Court. another from the
Government Attorney and an)tner from
somebody else. Whit % earth are W.
coming here wasti0g time for? II | am
not here legally do not want to cone
think the best thing to do is for the
Council TO refuse TO meet We must take
l1fi ..1k 4 Rl,Oo = al
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Charm u Is there any change in the
existing Colonial Law
The Chairman: TO the hest of my knew
ledge none as far as this Muncipa y is
concerned.
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Gen. johnson Says

NEW YORK, Feb. 26-Last year the outstand-
ing Republican presidential possibility was
Gov Hoffman of New Jersey. Now he is political
outcast solely because he stayed the execution of
Bruno Hauptmann
I don't know the merits of that repreve-and
neither do 999 out of every 1000 of his deractors
But he does. Any zany could have told him that
he had nothing to gain and all to lose. He surely
understood that he mounting the political gull
lotine when he did it.
There is something fishy about the whole Haupt-
mann business The highly dramatized mob-scene
trial was discredtable to American jurisprudence
The variety of publicity hungry defense counsel and
the political prosecution not pretty The in
effable "Jafsie" and the spectacular Lndbergh flight
to refuge in England do not brighten the picture
Obviously Hauptmann is guilty of something
sinister enough to warrant severe punishment but
it seems incredible that any one could have con-
Quoted those long drawn negotiations always know
ing that that poor dead body lying under bush
for any passer-by to find at any moment
Maybe Hauptmann was tried for one crime and
convicted of another-as Al Capone-which ia
bad business matter how much both of them
deserve roasting
Be that as it may, it is just medieval witch burn
ing and mob-ignorance to condemn a man under
the awful responsibility of Gov. Hoffman for using
elaboration where justice is in question. He showed
the very highest type of official courage In these
doubtful days of political trimming, he ought to
have a medal OF honor instead of chorus of Bronx
cheers.
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Times Books

IF You happen to be little fed up cold weather
rain, and the world in general it might be a good
idea to obtain copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs
latest thriller, Swords of Mars" and sit down for
little excitement on that far-away canal-creased
planet
Mr.. Burroughs amazing imagination has brought
him fortune who help but admire that 1.-The
brawny lord of the jungle TarZan) and his Swords
of Mars" Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana Cal;
so is exception to the thrill standard he has set
for so long.
1t concerns the adventures of John Carter master
swordsman of two planets John. Prince of Helum,
is after the Marian racketeers and in the course of
pleasant throat-slittng Johns beautiful mate,
Dejah Thoris, is kidnapped and flown to the nearer
moon of Mars.
Swordsman Carter follows in wonder ship bat
ties his way through series of breath taking ex-
plots and reaches the side of Dejah Thoris, only
to find
Go ahead. Read it yourself. Tip: Put the family
bank roll on Hero John. (By N. z. -.
Alexei Tolstoi, descendant of Leo Tostoi and
of the most popular writers in Soviet Russia has
two novels on American publishers lists for this
spring. The first, called Darkness and Dawn" will
be issued March 10 by Longmans Green The other.
THE Death Box" is announced by Alfred A. Knopf
but the date is indefinite
The first and only book written by Carl Taylor,
who murdered recently in New Mexico will be
published in April by Scribners. 1t is called "Odys-
sey of the Islands and describes his experiences in
parts of the Philippines which haven't been visited
by any other white man. One chapter of the book
has been bought by Cosmopolitan. who have not
yet giyenat q title or date.
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Step Up, Cinderella

THERE need be doubt that the shoe fits
Il Mencken is Coolidge-that is Coolidge with
cocktail. His political and economic ideas pre-
csely those of the late Republican President Farm
ers and workers are in distress, according to the
Mencken- Coolidge school of thought, because they
didn't put their salaries in the savings bank every
Saturday. IT people go hungry the thrifty should
not be caleo upon to aid them. Why don't they pay
their bills and go to work?
Instead of safeguarding the hard-earned money
OF the people,, Mencken writes of Roosevelt land
relieving them from their appalling burden of taxa
tion he has thrown away billions to useful end
or purpose and has piled up debt that will take
generations to discharge"
That is typically Coolidge-the insistence that
"the people" means men of substance and of
property, the feeling that the unemployed in
some way MASTERS and sinners. To be sure, "A
camorra of quarreng crackpots" is somewhat I'M
successful attempt to initiate Herbert Hoover in his
new manner, but the same who taught Herbert
might put in little time brushing up the style of
Henry.
BY all means let them run Mencken and I offer
him gratis the slogan Let EN- eat pumpernickel"
Copyright. 1856
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Pan American Peace

THE diminutive country of
IL Paraguay has put the Presi-
dents Pan-American peace pro-
posal in tough spot.
Just after Roosevelt addressed a
personal letter on<the peace con-
ference to President Ayala, the
military staged a revolution,
new president put himself in
power and Ayala was locked up.
Question is; Will the United
States recognize the new govern
ment? This question is compli-
Gated by the fact that the new
cabinet has strong Communistic
leanings.
The minister of justice and
education has been in exile as
Communist since 1881. The min
lister of interior, after killing
man in a duel some years ago,
fled the country and threw in his
lot with Russian Nihilists in Paris.
The minister of war, marine
and foreign affairs is a jingoist
who wanted Paraguay to pursue
her foe, Bolivia, to relentless an
Inhalation in the Chaco war.
Even if the new government
maintains order, the State De-
partment will court trouble in
recognizing it. because other
South American countries are I'M
easy over the success of any gov
eminent with Communist lean
ihgs.
Argentine. Brazil, Uruguay and
Chile all are having Communist
troubles of their own, probably
will blackball Paraguay's insur-
gents, urging Uncle Sam to do
the same.
Meantime. what happens to the
Presidents idea for Pan-American
peace?
Copyright. 1896, by United Feature
SVndicate Incl
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Washington ry-Go-Round


XX7ASHINGTON, Feb. 90
w Some of the best-informed
leaders on Capitol Hill are in
creasingly convinced there will not
be a tax bill this session. They are
not making a flat prediction. But
they are saying it is a good gam
BILE.
Basis for their belief is the re-
luctance evinced by the President
in his inner council meetings to-
ward bringing out a tax measure
this year.
Insiders who have participated
in the White House conferences
say that most of their time was
devoted to canvassing the posi-
bility of avoiding tax legislation,
rather than to discussing the
scope and contents of such a
measure.
The President himself lent
credibility to this no-tax belief at
a press conference last week.
Asked about the status of the bill,
he replied that there were still
three or four chapters" to be
written before decision was
reached.
What chapter would you say
you were on?"
"'On Our Way" the President
replied laughingly, referring to
the title of his own latest book.
rs it possible" asked one cor
respondent, that there n1ay be a
chapter, 1T Can't Happen Here?"
The President laughed in reply.
Legislative Lash
MARRIED, indeed, are the legis-
V lative proposals that make
up q. session Of Congress. Here
are two bills recently introduced:
H R. 11176
"A BILL
Increasing the penalty for max
ing false oaths for the purpose of
bathing at the government free
bath-house at !, Hot Springs, Ar
kansas.
Introduced by Rep. Mcclellan,
Democrat, Arkansas.
H. r. 1139
A BILL
To prohibit bands of the United
States Army, Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard from furnishing
music on occasions beyond the
scope of their service duty.
Introduced by Rep. McSwain,
Democrat, South Carolina.
y
NebraSka's Burke
A MOTHER angry protest, from
"A a new quarter, has been
lodged with the President
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against his secretary, Marvin Nc
Intyre. This one involves the
political future of Nebraska next
November.
Liberal Democratic leaders in
Nebraska are charging Mcintyre
with intervening in behalf of
Senator Edward R. Burke, who is
candidate for National Com
mitteeman from the state.
The irste Nebraskans claim
that despite the Presidents fire.
quently reiterated policy of keep
ing hands off in state politics and
Burke'S consistent anti-New Deal
votes in the Senate, Mcintyre is
secretly spreading the impression
that the White House backs him.
The hot attack on his secretary
was made directly to the Presi-
dent-although by a circuitous
route. Fearing that if they sent
their telegram to the White House
it would never reach Roosevelt,
Nebraska leaders addressed it to
a friendly New Dealer who placed
it in his hands,
Burke has voted against prac-
tically every liberal bill sponsored
by the White House, including the
Presidents pet Holding Company
Act. Only week ago he joined
the Republicans in opposing the
Administrators new farm pro-
gram.
Behind Burke's candidacy, and
McIntyre's undercover manipu-
lations. is Arthur Mullen, lawyer
lobbyist and former National
Committeeman from Nebraska.
Since 1888. Mullen has received
large fees for representing Big
Business in Washington, and was
forced to resign from the Ma
tional Committee because of his
lawyer lobbyist activities.
Burke is allied with the Mullen
conservative faction in Ne
braska and his Senate voting has
followed Mullen's rather than the
Presidents leadership. Mcintyre
is a close personal friend OF
Mullen.
The Schism in Nebraska
Democracy over Mullen has
reached serious proportions. Lib
eral leaders opposing Mullen
warned the President that if
Mullen should succeed in in
stalling Burke as his "stooge," an
open rift would result that might
cost the Democrats the state next
November.
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DUT if it proves impossible to get Chinese to
ID accept the Republican nomination 1 have
other suggestion which trust will not be lightly dis
carded. Why rot run Mencken? 1t may be argued
that Henry does not write with quite the snap and
of Herbert Hoover. His style is more pom
derous and less illuminated by epgram but it should
suffice. The point of view is the thing which mat
tiers, and Henry l.. Mencken provide both the
horse and the buggy, not to mention the carriage
whip.
Why be content to go back merely to 1929? Why
not return all the way to the age of Mencken
when the Mercury was a magazine and little boys
went around behind the barn to smoke cornstalk and
read the dramatic reviews Of George Jean Nathan?
Republican leaders have racked their brains to
find another Calvin Coolidge They have even gone
far away Kansas to find his equivalent. And
all the time much nearer home, Henry Mencken has
beer sitting in the ashes in Baltimore waiting for
Prince Charming to come along with the glass
slipper.
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be the vehicle for destroying instead of strengthen
ing that public opinion.
THOSE who insist that members of the courts
Il automatically go out of politics when they put
on judicial robes summoned by the Wyoming
Eagle of Cheyenne to read the memoirs of former
Rep. Frank Mondell of Wyoming, formerly Repub-
lican floor leader of the House Rep Mondell re-
Vandevanter of the Supreme Court and Justice Van
Orsdel of the Court of Appeals of the District of
Columbia, both former Wyoming Republicans fig
ured after going on the bench.
Rep. Mondell sIys: "On the fifth day of Nav
1918, was invited to Senator Warrens wyoming
Republican, office and there met the Senator and
our mutual friends Justices Vandevanter and Van
orsdel The entire situation discussed at length
and it was agreed that Senator Warren would re-
consider his decnaton to stand for reelection and
that Should issue statement with regard to the
same"
The Eagle observes: "Mr Mcudel sets out
sneren That justices of the United States Supreme
Court and United States Court of Appeals thus in
1ulged in directing Republican politics in Wyoming"
DIG Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC has the adj
~ vantage over other Administration officials who
become involved in congressional debate They
either have TO sit in their offices and tear their hair
or prow around the corridors at the Capitol button
holng friends for help.
AS publisher O. the Houston Chronicle Jones can
sit in the press gallery when his agency is under de-
bate There he is available to answer questions of
reporters concerning statements made on the egisla
tive floor as he was this week when Senator Couzens
raked him for throwing fat jobs through RFC in
hucnce to Walter Cummings, treasurer of the Demo-
cratic National Committee
Shortly before former Gov. Ritchie of MARYLAND
died. the Administration made overtures to win him
back They were unsuccessful Now the new Mary
lano leader, Senator Tydings will appear with Secre-
tary Of State Hull before Maryland young Demo-
Gratis on March when he is expected to declare for
Roosevets reelection. Some weeks ago Senator
Tydings refused TO join other old-line MARYLAND
Democrats IN bolt from the Administrator.
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The Barn: Reconstructed in
1916. Has wooden partitions of
temporary nature. Lavatory for
boys adjoins one classroom. Base
ment used for classrooms. Rooms
are dark and very poorly venti-
lated. Basement rooms have win
dows almost level with floor ande
students sit thanking the windows.
THE building committee, in
IL report on Tech and recon-
mendation for the construction of
an 100000 building to be known
as the Milo H. Stuart Memorial
Hall, after Techs former princi-
pal, believes the building will
eradicate the worst evils at the
high school,
The proposed building and it's 81
classrooms, as well as an audito-
rum seating 5000, would eliminate
the old Barracks building with its
flretrap stairways, eliminate the
% portable classrooms, and aid
materially in reducing other de-
plorable conditions.
Hand in hand with the proposed
100000 expenditure is the pro-
jected construction of an East
Side or Irvington high school to
house 700 students. 1t would be
built at an estimated cost of
$450000.
The proposed school would
house pupils of freshman and
sophomore years and would de-
crease the teaching load at Tech
nical.
Decrease of Techs student body
to 5000, plus the construction of
Milo Stuart Hall, school officials
believe, would care for immediate
needs of the crafts high school,
CROWDED conditions at Wash
" ington and Crispus Attucks
high schools are similar to those
at Tech, but are dissimilar in that
outside of portable structures the
main buildings are in good con-
dition.
Eight clsssrooms are housed in
portables at Washington with
seven frame structures at Crispus
Attucks. The portables have I'M
even temperatures and are not
conducive to good morale among
students, teachers declare.
Under present plans of the
school boards building and
finance committees, an expendi-
ture of $750,000 is to be proposed
for the construction of additions
to the two schools.
The additions will Danish port
ables at the two educational in
situations and care for class over
loads.
Based on the ratio of increase
over five-year period, Paul
Stetson, school superintendent,
and other officials see Indian
apolis with $4,000 high school
pupils in 1941 in place of today's
1900 to $1,000 enrolment, or
enough students to fill two high
schools the size of Shortridge.
Tomorrow: Fire Hazards in the
City's Schools.
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Morgan says the class should not
contain more than 26 or q, with
maximum of 80 to insure good
teaching.
only the ability of our teachers
to handle large classes and to give
students the maximum of teach
ing effort possible under the ham
dicaps has kept the schools edu-
cational ranking at standard" he
declares.
CHOP classes which should have
- Is to IS students to permit
ample individual instruction and
at the same time lessen danger of
an industrial accident are crowded
to a point where some classes
have 40 to SIS enrolled.
Instructors say that only by be-
ing careful and lessening individ-
ual instruction can they protect
the pupils and prevent accidents.
Watchfulness must be maintained
at all times even when the class
as a whole is disregarded for a
moment or two of individual
teaching.
Crippled students at Tech have
special courses arranged for them
to minimize the amount of walk
ing necessary to reach classrooms
on the 76-acre campus.
A difference in the attitude of
pupils with classrooms in modern
buildings and those who attend
classes in portables is noticeable,
says Mr. Morgan.
He believes that portable struc-
lures lessen class morale.
janitorial duties at Tech are no
sinecure with ID buildings to
clean, many of them with old,
Clipped wooden floors, the prin-
cipal asserts.
THE task of making the $4,000
Il classroom assignments for
Tech pupils goes to a thin, jovial
man, G. E. Teeters, assistant prin-
cipal. Each student averages five
courses and Mr.. Teeters carries a
mental map of the campus. He
knows to the minute how long it
takes to go from the shops to the
building known as the Barn"
If he finds by his agile calcula-
tons that a classroom can be
sandwiched in during the trip
across the campus then the
student has his days big walk
broken by another study period.
Grading a few of the antiquated
buildings used for classrooms at
Tech, the school boards building
committee finds as follows:
Artillery building: Used as
school lunchroom. A foundry and
mill are next door, and above the
kitchens are cabinet makers.
Building not well adapted for
school purposes.
Old powerhouse: Used for cleo
trical department. Rooms poorly
lighted and ventilated and not
suitable for shop work.
Barracks: Three-story wooden
structure used for classroom.
Building hazardous in case of fire.
Arsenal Cannon Office: Wind
ing stairways and not adapted for
school purposes.
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portable buildings in which Tech
has % classrooms.
Thirty-siX per cent of the
schools student body is housed in
buildings erected before 1870. His
tory abounds in the older build
ings from the ring in the Barn"
where the Arsenal's commander
hitched his saddle horse to the
Barracks where the militiamen of
the day whiled away off hours in
that cubical game called African
dominoes.
HEWITT MORGAN, techni-
~ cal principal, explains that
students studying music are
forced to practice their sharps
and clefs in rooms used by
mathematics classes.
Roll calls are taken in any
room available and the youth who
thought he was taking English
may find himself reading Evan
geline" in the home economies
class or reciting 1.-The Village
Smithy'' in the blacksmith shop.
When a teacher and her class
move out of a room at Tech an
other teacher moves in.
What do they do with the odd
teachers? Well, when the teach
ers find their hours of instruc-
ton at an end they are confront
ed with no home-room for grad
ing papers or preparing for ex-
aminations or for the next days
lessons.
So to utilize every available bit
of space in Techs buildings they
stick Mr.. Schoolmaster or Miss
Schoolmarm between students
lockers or in alcoves on stairways
near attics. They give Teacher
a desk and say: Now Miss So
and-So will have one drawer in
the desk and you can have the
other"
When Principal Morgan calls
assembly for the entire student
body in the gymnasium all gym"
classes must cease while ianitors
place seats in readiness for the
assembly period. One-half day in
gymnasium classes generally is
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grams from his Shanghai sub
scribers beginning, Nelly Chlist-
mas to you and the Melculy." Now,
wouldn't it be silly to have man
dashing around the country APP
pealing for 'Lepublican votes?
AS a matter of fact, in an
effort to aid Mencken and the
G.. o. P, I made a short tour of
the city yesterday in an effort to
find a Chinese who would help the
conservatives out of their dilemma
by consenting to run. All Wing
Fongh. laundryman. when inter-
viewed replied, "Velly solly, me
no leactionaly. Lepublicans
cotphno M ficEaf M chirfeo -
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Innocent Traitors

TINE crime of treason is one which might be
Il passed against American in Germany be-
cause of the most innocent utterance Accustomed
to the free expression at home he might speak I'M
wisely in Germany and find himself locked up for
month while the authorities investigate his back
ground
This would be strictly according to German law
the American here is exposed to conditions which
do not affect Naz in the United States
believe we have laws by which American Nazis
could be prosecuted for melting disorder If that is
understandable impracticabe, the United States
government could warn all American citizens of
conditions in Germany and advise them to keep out
OF the country This would have considerable force
because the Germans still looking forward to a
big influx of tourists for the Olympic games
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