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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-10-29

ceeds of your Yankee incomep Father.
traitori My own father!"
Father was puzzled. He said: why.
Beth. what crazy talk is thati You
sound Ike the Southerners during the
Reconstruction period. Yankee money
is Southern money 1t put the roof on
this house this year. 1t planted those
new rosebushes in the garden 1t paid
Tor the car And by the gods, but for
the mill money Yankee money. as you
say-I'm not at all sure there'd be any
hing on this dinner table todayl"
@Father!"
Now you listen to me. Beth The
,outh is awake. working. living again
there had been more Cabot Longs
own here we'd have come to sooner!
He paused Yankee moneys What on
arth is wrong with Yankee money!"
Beth rose from the table. She stood
here in dark. outraged dignity What
is wrong with the South?" answered she
With question of her own. Am / the
only Southerner left in the Soulful"
DETH listened no more to this defense
- of the North She swept out of the
roon out Of the house Rod Rod would
help her get through this miserable dayi
Rod would hold her in his lean, young
arms. he would kiss her lips with the
gay, careless love-words that only
Southern gentleman can say conyinc-
ingly She would forget all about the
episode of the river-and the pro-North-
ern attitude OF her own family.
But Rod wasn't home. His mother
was and her blue eyes were dancing
oh, Beth, isn't 1t wonderful Mrs. True
sang out Rod started to work today
In the legal department over to
Beth held her breath. Her hands
clenched at her sides 1t couldn't be-
But 1t was.
THE Long Rayon Mills" finished Mrs
True. Aren't you proud, dear? knew
that Rod wasn't really lazy for all the
talk that's been going about town. He
Just needed an opportunity, chance.
It's hard to be lazy in Cartersville now.
Why. things are just bristling, aren't
they!"
Beth didn't know about things But
She knew about herself. She was bris-
tling Rod--working for Cabot Long!
Somehow or other Beth got through
the rest of September and half of Octo-
Der. With disgusted eyes she watched
Patsy Keith and all Of her friends trying
to dazzle Cabot Long at the club dances.
at her friends dinner parties. on the
links. the lacrosse field and fox hunting
The town was certainly different. It
was a beehive of activity. The corner
of Forty y-second and Broadway would
look like COW pasture compared to us,
Patsy laughed, and Beth turned up her
nose.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-10-29

fooll Cabot Long fSnJ W0rIh The
slightest misunderstanding with Patsy!
But In the next moment her resent
ment and anger famed back through her
veins, Patsy of all people, falling foi
the Yankee Patsy her friend Because
Patsy had fallen for him. Amy Ounce
could tell that by the way her eyes
frightened at the mention of his name
at the way she defended him and. with
him. the whole abominahle Northl
DETH rode on, threading her roadster
~ through the small. shadowy town and
heading for the river. where she was
going to peel of her clothes dive In and
try to cool her burning anger. She
thought a little of Rod sas she drove
She was in love with Rod. she sup
posed. Rod really wasn't lazy. Just
spoiled He was the only son OF wealthy
parents. He had too much money, too
much leisure
But she knew that when Rod was once
married, when he had an incer tive-and
possibly children-he'd find his path in
life. He'd probably be brilliant states
man. like his father and his grandfather
and his great-grandfather befor. him.
You could always bank on blood and an
tecedents.
A. the river Beth parked her car be-
meath weeping willow and hopped out.
little red bathing suit hanging from
one arm. At the sight of the water and
the cool green banks on either side some
Of her anger disappeared. She forgot
Patsy and the abominable Northerner,
and even her unrecognizable concern
for Rods lack of ambition. Sh loved to
swim, and this was certainly day for
1t. She began to Wl1istle-"I Wish Was
in the Land of Cotton" And promptly
an echo came back. Only it was Yam
kee Doodle Went to Town"
Beth wfirled on her hlue sandal, her
whole small body going tigid beneath
the blue polka-dot linen of her dress
Where, she said, ieily, and Who-are
you?"
I'm here said young man coming
out from under the weeping willow. sand
I'm Cabot Long
And then he stood there before her
Beth took long look at him. She had
to look way up to do it. His shoulders
and chest were n fine proportion, taper-
ing to narrow hips. A smile hickered
at his mouth and there was sort OF
green light In his eyes two details
which made him something more than q
n-burned Yankee nobody. He had
The times-news., 1937-04-14
THE JUDAS TREE

Dwellers in this mountain country where the
Judas tree grows in such luxuriant profusion VIII
take more than a passing interest in the contro-
versy now raging in Oklahoma as to whether or
no tthe redbud should be adopted as that state
official tree bill to this effect had been passed
by the legislature but not signed by the governor
when prominent Tulsa clubwoman objected on
the ground that the action would offend many cti-
zens' religious feelings. Judas lscarlot, she assert
ed. hanged himself from the branches OF a redbud'
This of course was oil to the flames A power
full coalition of matrons well up on botany came
forward with the proof that our American redbuo
or Judas tree is not scientifically the same as the
specimen known by the same name IN Europe ana
Asia. We just adopted the name for purely
American tree in the same manner that the early
settlers endowed an American species of fiers with
the name of robin because it reminded them OF the
English robins, which are an entirely different sort
of bird.
United States forestry experts were called IN
from Washington to settle the dispute and asserted
that the two trees (the American and European
redbuds) are of different species and should not
be confused "The Bibe,' stated one federal au-
thority. "says that Zaccheus climbed sycamore
tree to see Christ ride by. We know that the Bloe
sycamore is not our sycamore tree. And | don't
believe the tree from which Judas hanged himself
was our redbud tree. That ] think Is myth.
When last heard from the governor OF Oklahoma
MAS still undecided whether or not to sign the DILL
and was holding out for further light in spite OF
the definite stand of his Washington advisers
Asheville Citizen.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
NOBLE ART OF UNEMPLOYMENT GUESSING

The latest bit of unemployment guessing in
Washington comes from the department OF agrl-
culture where survey made for Secretary wal
lace places the nations idle, either unemployed or
on relief jobs, at 9,773,OO0 as compared with the
- ,SSs, 900 persons idle in 1888.
Sooner or later, it seems, everybody about the
capital will attend to unemployment estimates. Al
ready the WPA various labor agencies under Sec
rotary Perkins, several of Secretary Ropers expert
guessers in the department of commerce and est-
majors who take their orders from Secretary lckes
over in the department of the interior have at odd
lines submitted their conjectura totals. How many
private estimates including those which emanate
from labor circles of sem-ofcial sort, have been
provided somebody else who has kept tugging away
at the adding machine will have to certify
About the only convincing revelation Of these
innumerable tabulations is their agreement that
there has been steady Improvement. However slow
the reabsorpton of idle workers by private indus
try may have been and still is, the gradual de-
crease, with its effect upon totals, is there for
those who desire to behold and cogitate The cogi-
tation is inspired when it is noted that, despite
the employment gain relief costs are just as high
as. or higher than, they were when unemployment
was at its peak in the dark days of yesteryear.
This inconsistency protrudes in present consid-
Grafton of another relief appropriation AS COR
olary thought which threatens to assume top place
in public if not congressional, thinking is the fur
ther realization that we now entering the nth
year of relief, during which interval practically
every variety of made-work which a Washington
ingenuity could devise has been utilized for the
reliefers without any authentic or official count
ing or classification of the nations idle; and here
congress the point of being asked for another
billion or two dollars on no sounder basis than
guess-work and Observation-Disclosures Greensboro
News.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
COMMANDMENT BROKEN

Joseph Stain, declaring that the trade unions oil
Russia are controlled by nacketeers, criminals and
bureaucrats has called for nationwide cleanup;
It will be wide, all right, deep and of length suf-
fcient to take care of the bureaucrats, anyhow As
TO whether Stain can lay his hands on the Grim
inals and racketeers is something else.
But we had thought that if there was one place
in the world in which such things unions fitted
in. il was Russia The Soviet was designed for the
1yorkingman: and we have been told for the past
Is wears or so that he was in control What is the
matter?
Nothing except that there has been violation
of the first commandment of all dictatorship
which is worded identically was the first OF the
commandments which came down from Sinai
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me.".EThe
Greensboro News. @-as - 3f},
The times-news., 1937-04-14
GREENSB0RO-HiGH
POINT AIRPORT TO
BE DEDICATED SOON

GREENSBORO, april Ii. (UP)
Numerous famous fiicrs and avia-
ton authorities will attend the
dedication of the Greensboro
High FoiRr airport here May 2S-
%. yI.a. - 4. Il"
Dick Merrill and Gene Brown.
famous air Hnc pilots. have been
invited and have accepted. .aS have
Charles +. Homer, president Of
the National N"rOnautic associa-
ton: Fred H.. Smith, executive
secretary of the same group; Col.
J. Monroe Johnson, assistant see
lctary Of commerce: Major Ed
ward ". Haighl, Atlanta, Ga, re-
giuaal supervisor oi airport con-
struction, and several others.
Olviu Wright of Dayton. Ohio,
who with his brother the late
Wilbur Wright, made the first Sus-
taincd airpIaUe .!ianJ ~ America
at Kitty Hawk. y. c.. has been
invited, as nave Captain Frank
Hawks, Al Williams and Ruth
Nichols. woman fIior. They have
not yet accepted, however.
\ banquet and aviation bail
will be included in the two-day
dcdicalion program. Gov. Clyde
K. Hocy. l.. s. Senator RUbur,
Z. Reynolds and Josiah ". Bailey,
and Congressman William L. Um-
-tpaG have been invited.
The times-news., 1937-04-14

thousand dollars provided nc com
plies with the law in getting the
thousand dollars. 1t is all right
for man to go to q chicken
house at three o'clock IN the
morning and take q chicken pro
vided it is his chicken house and
his chicken. And a man has a
right to build a fire anywhere he
pleases in his own house provided
he pleases to build the fire under
such conditions as not to start q
conflagration. A man has right
to own dog but he has no right
to let the animal be nuisance
to others. A man has right to
walk but he has no right to walk
where it is unlawful for him to
go. A man has a right to drive a
car provided he stays within the
traffic laws.
Even though a man were living
in a world all by himself ne would
have no right to break spiritual
laws which would imperil or damn
his soul.
But when mans life touches
others and what he does affects
others, there are many laws TO
The times-news., 1937-04-14
THE NEW = E Al
IN WASEIN Z T O II
by RonNEY puTcHEa.

support irom nVC uozen scnalorS
NAV not be prepoSterouS rests on
the possibility that Roosevelt may
gather in a few extra votes by ac-
cepting a compromise or corhpro-
miSeS.
AS a matter of fact, some COM
"a promise in the court measure
is Inevitable. But it will be the
kind of a compromise" according
to present indications, which VIII
save certain faces and still give
Roosevelt everything he wants.
And what the President wants IS
an opportunity to appoint several
new justices at a very carry oa'e'
Various phases of the issue on
which a compromise" might be
based include the age limit size OIL
the court, accompanying passage
of a constitutional amendment,
tenure of justices and a sliding
scale arrangement which would
provide that the size OF the court
dwindle back to nine members
Administration senator's nave
been claiming sufficient strength
ON the Senate Judiciary Commit
lee both TO cut short the hearings
on the bill, and to report the Pres
ident's bill to the floor practically
in the form as submitted. Youcan
best Judge the justification for the
claim by observing the speed OF
delay with which the hearings are
terminated and by watching what
the committee actually does. =, j..
Probably there will be test OF
strength when Roosavelt's forces !rc
attempt to persuade the committee
to finish its secret deliberations on
the bill within a week. The ad-
ministration also hopes the opposi-
tion's anticipated filibuster tactles
will be worn down within TWO
weeks or three at the most. ,,,.
Ccmyright. 1887. NEA Services incl
The times-news., 1937-04-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WHY NOT IMPEAcH HIM?

"You have accomplished your purpose Farmer
Labor Governor Elmer Benson of Minnesota tells
the peoples lobby as it files out of the state sem
ate chamber and ends 15-hour sit-down strike IN
support of request that the legislature approprl-
ate SIT 100000 for relief.
The lobby consisted of farmers, laborerS ana un-
employed and was addressed by The governor who
told them cts all right to be little rough once
in while" and "thiS isn't just pink tea party.
1t would have been strange indeed, II somebody
had not said things to the governor. Senator Chas
n Orr, conservative majority leader of the upper
house of the legislature, charges Benson with IN
citing to riot and declares that such action IN the
past would have brought a general demand Tor
his Impeachment, and do not see how the people
of Minnesota now can cOndone it,"
No more do we. Nor do we see why some lcgis-
lator does not immediately bring in bill Of I'M
peachment. Governors of late years in these Uni
ted States-as witness Johnston Of South Carolina
and his handling of the highway cOmmiSsion-have
become terribly braah 1t is time legislatures called
i halt.
On no issue could stand be more easily taken
than that offered at ST. Paul. governor har-
angues and apparently is pleased with the conduct
of mob which demands millions of dollars in the
twinkling Of an eye. We know nothing Of Mime
sota's relief situation, but suspect this: 1t needs
first of all to be eeved of governor who has
seemingly no respC ct for the government OF when
he is par-Greeniboro News.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
PRESS ON

The pupil sometimes eXcels his
teacher, but usually he does not.
In fact it is only the occasional
pupil who becomes as proficient
as his teacher. And sometimes an
unusually qualified teacher never
does have a pupil who can equal
him.
Persons who are striving to
initiate the greatest of all spirit
ual teachers need not feel dis
heartened if they have trouble
making the grade or if they new
er do make the grade in this
world. 1t takes q very long time
and very hard work to reach per-
fection. 1t is said by persons who
claim to know that no mortal man
has ever reached perfection.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent

WTASHINGTON-The admins
w ration now expects to get its
Supreme Court bill through the
Senate by substantial majority
some time between the middle and
The end Of May.
If this assurance arises from
overconfidence and underestima-
lion of the strength of opposition,
Il is a weakness not shared among
leaders of the Presidents oppo-
nents. In the latter camp one
finds more hope than certitude.
Senator Joe Robinson of Ar
kansas, majority leader in the
Senate, paid an unpublicized visit
to the White House the other
night. He told Roosevelt that
there were enough votes in the
bag to pass the bill. 1t was the
first time he had said anything
exactly like that. If Joe has
miscalculated on this important
occasion, II Will be the nrSt llrne'
The administration machine
now concentrates on rolling up
the largest possible majority in
favor of the plan. 1t hopes thus to
lessen the anger of the opposition
when it is beaten, and TO make the
victory impressive. -
Insiders on the Roosevelt board
of strategy now predict they will
get up to 60 of the Sc senatorial
votes. Opposition leaders, whose
confidential polls tell them they
have 80 senators already sewed up
against the plan, Scoff at such a
suggestion - even when they're
talking frankly and not for pub
lication. They hope TO round UP
another half dozen from the group
listed as undecided. And they be-
lieve IS senator's could block the
bill.
:One reason for suppoSing that
administration 'hopes Of voting
The times-news., 1937-04-14
WONDERFUL.

Recently the police Of a certain
city made impressive show of
cracking down on the butter and
egg men, the baseball pools and
other forms of lottery ana gam
bling. Much was made of it that
one operator had been fined ONE
HUNDRED dollars; yet it is esti-
mated he cleans up from a thouS-
and to five thousand dollars a
week from his illegal enterprises.
What does a fine Of a hundred
dollars mean to him? II is just a
joke to him and to the politicians
who slap him on the wrist public
give him all tn" protection
he wants secretly.
1t will take heavy fines and
long prison sentences (cnfOrccd
not suspended for the operators
of vice rings, and their political
pals, too, before there can be an
end to cOmmercialized vice and
It's partnership with politicians.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
AIR-MINDED YOUTH MUST BE TOLD
PLANE FACTS E@ wGLt
(By BRUCE CATION

We seem to be raising an air-minded
bunch of children these days. Mingle with
any group of high school or junior high
school lads and you are apt to find that
something like half of them are putting in
their spare time making model airplanes.
With balsa wood, glue, Japanese paper,
and rubber bands, these lads can turn out
scale models of bombers, scout planes
commercial transports, or seaplanes-and
amazingly good most of them 'are, too
When these youngsters grow up, we ought
TO have nation that understands and likes
airplaneS as thoroughly as the present gen.
Grafton likes and understands automobiles.
This is all to the good. We live in
technical era, and the airplane represents
the era's high water mark. The more we
know about how such things are made and
how they work. the better off we all shall
be. So .. .aa.
But one thing seems to be left out OF this
campaign of education, and it is Distress
ing lack. 1t is pointed up by tale told IN
New York recently by a traveller who had
come back from Spain. S.. .a+
This traveller told how big party was
held in war-torn Madrid at Christmas-time
for the children of that luckless city. For
eign sympathizers - Americans, English
men, Frenchmen, and so on-had sent IN
vast collection of toys, the toys We're
stacked on the floor of big public hall,
and the children were ushered in and told
TO help themselves. % .s
Naturally, the children had fine time,
and they descended on that big pile OF toys
like locusts descending on a green alfalfa
field. But when they got all through
when every child had taken to his bosom
all the toys he could lay hands on-there
remained, ia the center of the room, one
pile of toys that no child had touched.
They were toy airplanes. Not one child
had taken one; not one could be persuad-
ed to want one. .. ...,..
You see, Madrid had been under aerial
bombardment for many weeks. These chill
dren knew what airplanes could do; knew
how they could drop death and destruc-,
tion. out of the skies, making school rooms
and streets and Fairgrounds and homes
horribly unsafe. They had seen their play
mates killed by bombs dropped from the
air; they had seen schools and homes
wrecked; many of them had seen their
own parents killed. ,.t -.. .r.
Is it any wonder that those children
didn't look on airplanes as suitable toys!
This is the one thing that is being omit
ted from the aeronautical education OF our
own youngsters. Our children know that
airplanes are things of great beauty and
grace; they know how they are made !;
they have a smattering of aeronautical
theory. The one thing they don't under
stand is the way these triumphs of human
daring and ingenuity can, by human stu
pidity and cruelty, be used to turn the fair
earth into hell
And they won't be fully equipped to live
in the ,airplane age until they do under
stand that q.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
TONNAGE RECORD

WILMINGTON, April Ia 1uD
The port of Wilmington set an
ail-timc high record m 1886 Tor
TONNAGE of shinments handled, ac-
lcortiine to.sfigures lTeased by
Major Ralph MiEis, aEtict army
engineer. Tpnnage ifefeased ola,,
Sl8 tons over 1925, and vaiue OF
cargoes was $2,324,6ll greater
than the previous year.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
WRITING OF EEkGNS 60
STUDIED AS INDEX
TO LIKELY REFORM

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April H.
(UP).-The Ohio Board of Parole
has enlisted the aid of a Grapholo-
gist to help determine what priS-
oners may be safely released from
the states penal institutions.
The handwriting interpreter
Mrs. Catherine II. Dobbs Of Bar
berton, Ohio, tries to judge from
the slants, strokes and cT'licuts
of prisoners handwriting whcth-
cr reformation has taken place.
Mrs. DobDs said her knowledge
of drug and psychology IN add'-
ton to 4 two-ycar correspondence
course in graphology enabled her
to decide whether certain typcs
Of cOny!cta would be apt subjects
for rehabilitation.
The parole board has given her
the title Of Sociological! advisor
and haa stationed her at the
Maryavi'lc Reformatory for Wo-
men. There she is engaged in 4
90-day experiment TO prove the
Interpretation Of handwriting has
definite place in the study Cf
paroles for prisoners.
Mrs. Dobbs said she not only
tried to determine whether con
vict is fit for rehabilitation but
aims to aid them by suggestion in
leading q better life after they
cease being wards Of the state.
She prefers to be known as a
"sociaI advisor" and referred 20
her work AZ the rcformatoIy as q
character clinic" and "charaE,rr
rehabilitation
Mrs. Dobbs explained she came
to the conclusion the study Of
Handwriting had u definite place
in the states rcha5i.iJating ma
Chincry for prisoners when she
The times-news., 1937-04-14
PAWN CLASS RINGS

ASHEVILLE, April IA. (UP).
Sentiment yields to. cash among
Asheville high school graduates
if pawnshop contents can te ia,
ken as gauge. In one local
pawnshop lare rings from each
senior class at the high ischooi
since 1922, pawned for small
sums and newer redeemed.
The times-news., 1937-04-14

q law unto HIM
self provided he
is a law within
the law. it is
perfectly correct
for q man to
choose the wo-
man with whom
to mate provided
h G Il 0 Q $ n 0 t
choose to choose
someone wit h
whom he has no
right to mate. 1t
is all right for q
man to go to =
bank and get 4
The times-news., 1937-04-14
EVERY MAN LAW

Every man should be q law
unto himself" argued a person
when rebuked for certain doubt
full conduct.
1t is all right for man to be
The times-news., 1937-04-14

-t.urned that abppt' ~all that ~
known Of ancient races is what
has been dcduced from the hand
wrought articles they left behind.
The times-news., 1937-04-14
BIBLE THOUGHT
A MIGHTY SLOGAN
lie, us go on to perfection" (Heb. GID

An Indian who had learned a little English one
day proudly brought to u missionary poem the
redskin had written. 1t consisted Of many, many
lines, in which only these words were seen, Go
on; 90 on; go onr' Not much as to poetry OF
course but it is mighty for life slogan, w.
Stah in EvangeliCal-NIessenger. ..- O..
The times-news., 1937-04-14
LOOKING AT LIFE
-By WICKES WAMBOLDT

which his own law may have to
be subordinatcd, else he becomes
q nuisance or 4 curse.
The times-news., 1937-04-14

The administration thinks good Demo-
crat is one who changes his views as last
as the president does. s1,
The times-news., 1937-04-14

The trouble with the new deal is that 1T
is spending too much money the taxpayers
of this country have not yet earned.
The times-news., 1937-04-14

The tickling of each other by the presl-
dent and organized labor is not making an
the country laugh. - = 49, = 4 &, Z