davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11

>~P% vi VOhs
"The plaintiff in this case. your
honor, is John Doe Jr., a minor,
whom | represent under the prov
isions of New Vigor. laws OF 1945,
chapter 1O4. II 1t please your hon.
or, | shall prove by expert medical
testimony, that the plaintiff has lost
his sight through the disease called
Syphilis iritis, and that his brain
has also been attacked by the virus
of syphilis so that he Is in danger
of losing his reason. | shall prove
that this disease was transmitted
to the plaintiff from the d~efendent
Mary Doe, his mother, while she
was with child; and further that
she herself acquired the disease from
her husband Joe Doe Senior who
by his own confession suffered from
the symptoms of syphilis before the
time of his marriage. l shall prove
that this disease was transmitted
through negligence which, though
this is not a criminal court, | shall
venture to apostrophise as criminal
negligence; since, had blood tests
of the defendants been made be-
fore marriage, the marriage would
have been postponed and, had a
test made of Mary Does blood at
the beginning Of her pregnancy,
treatment would have been institut
ed which would have saved the baby
from infection. | shall ask actual.
damages of $1,000 and exemplary
damages of $4,000 to be assessed
against each of the defendants sep
arately."
Nothing but imaginary rhetoric?
Yes, but it might come true. And
remember every year In America 60
900 babies are born already infected
with this disease.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11
DO YOU REMEMBER
News Items Taksn iron Tna
The P~1entywood Herald
20 YEARS q

Jack Dillage spent last Sunday at Westby.
Cha lies Council of Mondak was here on busi-
ness Tuesday.
The new fire hall is already well under way and
in a short time will be ready for occupancy.
Attorney A. T. vollum transacted business In
Froid the fore part of the week.
The president of Hobart college, Just back from
coast cities before winter is over.
Fred Hudson, A. G.. Amundsen, M. D. Sicily, Bob
Medyed and Dee Bowman of Antelope left last Mon
day for a deer hunt in the Rockies.
A. f. Ziebarth has purchased an Avery tractor
through the HOLMAN brothers and will farm an a
lager scale than ever next year.
L. G. Lasater, Henry Ator, l. L. Shippee, For
rest Goodman and Jonathan Lasater shipped cattle
from Raymond to Chicago last week.
Henry Erickson. the popular clerk at the Gray
son Bros. store at Antelope, was here Monday eve
ming to attend the "Skovgaard" entertainment.
Attorney A. C. Erickson returned from Deer
Lodge yesterday where he had committed to the
penitentiary one Sill Pereau, who had pleaded gull
ty to grand larceny, cattle rustling.
Last night the pool hall and bowling alley of
w. S. Mcdonnell at Westby was completely DESTROYED
by fire. 1t is a very heavy loss even though covered
by insurance.
Mr.. A. Riba of Plentywood was advised yester-
day that out of the National Surety Company's 10
600 agents he is one of the zoo leaders in relative
production of business.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11
G-Men AS Heroes

One of the most encouraging signs of the times
is the interest developing among boys everywhere
in the exploits of the "G-Men'. There has been a
good deal of ~captious criticism levelled at the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation and its chief, J. Edgar
Hoover, by politicians and others who think Mr..
Hoover is getting too much publicity. But the net
effect of all the publicity has been to substitute the
law-enforcers for the law-breakers in the hero-wor-
shipping minds of imaginative youngsters. And that
is a distinct gain from every point of view.
Youth admires courage and seeks adventure.
1t is natural that it should tend to emulate those
whose exploits seem to combine the adventurous
spirit with physical courage. When the only ones
of that type of whom youngsters heard were GRIM
inals and g%angsters, what could be expected but
that they would initiate them?
Now the front pages and the movies no longer
play up the deeds of the Dillingers but make the
courageous adventure of their pursuers, the G-Men,
fascinating to youthful imaginations. The boys don't
all want to be policemen, but they do want excite
ment, action. They are discovering that there is
plenty of it in the lives of law enforcers, and in adj
dition a degree Of honor which the criminal lacks.
1t is all to the good, this widespread interest in the
G-Men and their exploits.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11
How About Lewis

Defeat severe enough to halt its onward march
will not be admitted by CLIO even though it failed
to gain even one part of its detectives in the election
battle fer control of the Detroit city government
Tuesday. Such an admission really wouldn't be ex-
pected even though the ballot licking was worse in
Detroit than it actually was, so no one will be sur
prised if John L. Lewis does not hang his head and
turn tail.
Troubles are brewing for the militant leader
ship of the mass production industry unionizer. how
ever. and they are not the result of defeat at the
polls. They are more the result OF conditions in the
business world and of the demands which will be
made on his organization by the unstable mob over
which he has set himself to rule.
Lewis gained little for labor in his victories over
steer manufacturers and automobile makers last
year. In the automobile industry all he was conceded
was the right to represent the workmen in bargain
ing conference.-the did not get for the men any in
crease in wages or shortening of working hours. In
the steel industry, true, he made a big showing but
who knows how many of their concessions to labor
the corporations would not have made to any deter
mined union group?
Now, however. comes the time for renewal of
contracts and Mr.. Lewis is going TO he hard nmt n
find anything to crow about. 1t is doubtful if in
dustry either can or will grant any further conces-
slons TO labor, and If there is no yielding by industry
there can be no victory for the union. And If Lewis
ana ms unions do not show the mass production
iaoorers that they areshelping them these thousands
OF workers are going to be slow about paving their
uuss' III iact, reports come that collections of dues
:" Cio uniohs Is much too slow as 1t is, and no union
leadership can exist unless It gets money from some
source.
All this. to some observers. points to tbe rea.
sons underlying the readiness Of tn American Rod
Grafton OF Labor to defy the Committee for Indus-
trial organization. The All. is a we'll oro,r;,od
group that has w%eathered good times and had for
many years now, a financially strong federation
whose leaders can feel certain of their dues-paviny
membership. Its leaders don't have to finht - hora
make such big showings, be so loudly conv,re,ro :.
does Mr.. Lewis in order to exist in securiy
And that, it is observed, may PROMPT the Arr
to simply wait out the CIO in the present contro
versy, confident that events will so shape tbemse,uo.
that Lewis sun will be clouded over by natu .,
causes, leaving ALL once more supreme In the conr-
ellis OF labor.
Wen just have to wait for the answer.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11

The question which political
lookers-on are asking, on the V of
the extra session of Congress, is
whether any really important leg
islation will be enacted or whether
the session will resolve itself into a
general talk-fest, with the anti
lynching bill and matters of foreign
policy holding the floor to the ex-
clusion of the things for which the
President called the Congress to-
gether. Opinion among experienced
observers is about equally divided,
which is another way of saying that
considerable doubt exists as to the
present influence of the President
with Congress. 1t is certain that
he can no longer obtain the passage
of new laws by having them written
by his advisers and handing them
to Congress with orders for their
enactment. The temper Of both
houses now is to scrutinize every
proposal coming from the Admin
istration with an eye to its practical
bility and necessity, as well as to its
political advantages. 1t no longer
is true that political wisdom on the
part of Congressman consists in
going along with the President.
Story OF the A.A.A.
AS an illustration of the differ
ence between now and in 1898, COM
pare the trouble which the House
Committee on Agriculture is having
in trying to agree on a Crop Con-
troll bill with the way in which the
first Crop Control law was passed.
The complete program Of the A.A.
A.. was written in the office OF the
Secretary Of Agriculture and was
handed to Congress in May, 1893,
with orders from the White House
for its immediate passage. So sure
was the Administration that its
orders would be observed that even
before the measure had been sent
to Capitol Hill an army of workmen
was engaged to build new offices In
the Agriculture Department build
ing, to provide rooms for the new
officials who would be needed to
administer the A.A.A. And the bill,
precisely as drawn up by the Exec
utiye, was passed without a change.
almost without being read.
Can't Agree on Crop Control
Now the President has asked for
a new Crop Control law as the first
item on the legislative program for
which he has called the special ses-
sion Of Congress. For three weeks
the Committee on Agriculture has
holding meetings and listen
ing to appeals from Administration
leaders, arguments from farm repre-
sehtatlVes and reports from the farm
districts brought in by members re-
turning to Washington after con
ierrlng with their constituents. Yet
nothing like an agreement has been
reached as to what form crop con-
troi should take, even whether il is
necessary or desirable. The major
ity OF the committee is reported as
Delhg definitely opposed to any in
flexible and compulsory plan, such
a peer proposed by Secretary
wallace. The result is that as
congress meets, 1t is nowhere near
ready to begin consideration of It.
No. l on the Presidents pro-
gram.
fricndlier Toward Business
IN the matter of tax revision the
outlook for any definite action nv
tue special session seems almost
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-11

Nearly 1000 employers of Mon
tina are making monthly contribu-
tions to the Montana unemployment
compensation fund to provide un-
employment insurance for the work
ers of the state.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
ENFORCED LAWS DO HELP

If the final figures confirm the present estimate,
New York State would seem to be making some
Roadway in reducing the highway slaughter, where
as in 1885 total of 2,9l1 persons were killed in
automobile accidents in the Empire state, the death
list for 1886 is estimated to have been 2,6oV a
decrease of approximately 800; and more rigorous
laws more vigorously enforced, are credited with
the Improvement.
PROGRESS in the enforcement of, traffic laws has
becn slow in North Carolina and is likely TO con-
tinue to be slow. Signs along the highways tell
the automobiles that the speed limit for passenger
cars is as miles per hour The speed limit for
trucks is, we believe. 30 miles an hour. Drive in a
Messenger car at as miles an hour and watch the
other cars the busses the trucks overtake and pass
you. '-'"
Between Charlotte and Monroe OH Christmas eve
an AUTOMOBILES twho driving all Of do miles an
hour was passed by light car which must have
been going close to 80 miles an hour. 1t was out
of sight in less than two minutes on fairly
straight road. On the same road on New Years
eve buss passed a, passenger car the driver OF
which carefully checked its speed 1t was IN excess
of 60 miles, an hour.
Why fix speed limits if scarcely an effort is made
to have them respected?
On ethng that would help promote safer driving
would be the extension of the white or black me-
dian lines along the entire length of all paved
highways. These lines are essential at curves but
they would help elsewhere as well; especially at
night, and more especially still in rainy weather.
Ashevie Citizen
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service stan Correspondent
VJASHINGTON.-Scnator Royal
" S. Copeland of New York has
said that he would be glad TO bury
the hatchet with the adminiStra-
ton. election results apparently
having suggested TO him that the
New Deal enjoys a certain popu-
iarity.
The administration will be glad
to bury the Ratchet, too. The
burial rites, if possible, will be
performed in the region Of the
senator's neck.
Copeland, somewhat after the
manner OF Holt, took a walk in
the last campaign, though he
didn't walk as far as AL Smith.
After a few hard slams at the adj
ministration before Tammany'S
l50th celebration and refusal to
be a delegate to the Philadelphia
convention, he took himself off
to the Holy Land. Subsequently
he endeared himself to the State
Department by demanding that it
protest the way Great Britain was
handling affairs in Palestine.
Mrs. Copeland made at least one
Republican speech, promising that
several members of her family
would vote Republican-without
mentioning her husband.
THE senator is chairman of the
L Senate Commerce Committee.
which handles merchant marine
legislation, but there's some doubt
whether he will be as vocal in the
shipping field as in the past. A
few newspapers recently pub
iished excerpts from correspond
ence indicating that the senator
had asked for free passes on a
steamship line to Bermuda.
The correspondence showed that
Copeland had obtained, or had
been asked to obtain, certain ia
vors for the Munson line and that
later the; lines representative in
Washington had written c. w.
Munsor to the effect that Cope
land had indicated a desire to take
trip to Bermuda with Mrs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04

1t Is reported that the foyal
court will frown on those persons
who belong to the free and easy
set, no matter what their wealth,
station or fascination. In other
words, what has happened will
cause English society to tighten
rather than relax its moral re-
quirements. And that is not to
condemn divorce and its partici-
pants.
A person should not be con-
demned for having a leg taken
off; but he is permanently out Of
certain kinds of activities and po-
sitions.
Divorce is a major operation.
1t may be necessary to save life
Just as it is necessary to sepa-
rate living Siamese twin from a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHINGT
by RODNEY BUTCHER

Copeland. II appeared that the
representative had assured the
senator of the courtesy Of the
line" feeling "Surc that Mr.. Frank
C. MunSon would do this, in view
of the very valuable assistance we
have recently received from the
senator"
Frank MunSon wrote a few days
later that Senator Copeland
would prefer tickets rather than
passes. and l am glad TO enclose
them in his favor"
When questioned, Copeland said
he didn't recall the correspond
ence.
T Asst year Senator Copeland
- sponsored a merchant marine
bill which was licked after being
attacked as opening the Treasury
to IAN unlimited raid by private
shipbuilders and private shipping
operators"
st. Louis newspapers recently
charged that he had used his posi-
tion--he is also an M. D.-to
propaganda there against the U.
S. standard milk ordinance. drawn
up for municipalities by the U. S.
Public Health Service as provid-
ing safe standards of milk SANTA
ton and opposed in st. Louis by
the big dairy companies.
-
ELSEWHERE the senator has
- been charged with going into
secret huddles with patent medi-
cine manufacturers to revise the
already weakened food and drug
bill which he sponsored. But, in
his favor, some of the most radi-
cal advocates of strong food and
drug law insist that Copeland
worked hard and honestly for
their cause.
All of which is not to suggest
that Senator Copeland is or is not
a much and unjustly abused man.
But in case any of you ever de-
velop ambitions to be a U. S. sen.
ator, you can realize how hard a
life it can get to be-free trips to
Bermuda or not.
Copyright 1886. .NEA SsryieA. ina,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04

effort to put over the Ga
Charity Fund.
To every person and Oh,
ton giving aid We off,rl
group sincere thanks and
vine guidance to u pro.l
New Year.
Through your fine .rfI
sharing with the msar,
more than thirty baskets ~
stuff and many articles az
ing were distributed anon,
ored people on Chris,ma,
ing; and we assure you than.
much needed and highly an
atcd by each individuy, lce
the same.
We feel deeply indebted
management of The State ,
for the gift of the proceed.
the Benefit show sponsor,
the League on Dcccmbyr 1.
To Odcll and GoSSo,, Fun
company we are highly ID
ativc for radio set placed
colored ward ut Patton VI,
hospital.
This surel" will bring
cheerful moments to the p.
in the ward and ut the am
remind us to consider this
when in need of what IL
offer.
The League is also very
full to Prof. W. NJ. Robins
teachers and studcn, bo
large for the bountifUl boy
ceivcd from them; Judging
the names appcarng ua d
ticles more than 30 per GO
the homes reprcScnici il
school responded TO the cag
To those who gave large
the cause ard who's name,
not mentioned by rogue,
heartily thank you.
THE CARTER G.. WOOl
CIVIC LEAGUE.
Eugene G. Jones, prrsidu
bert Bridwcll, dircclor of w,
JAS. Pilgrim; j. NJ. Fccm>lc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
ON THE PLANET EARTH
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

dead one; but Il Should not be re-
sorted to when it can be avoided.
The civilized world should thank
God for sturdy old England and
her balance. She should always
be kept fit and ready to exercise
a balance of power in unbalanced
Europe.
England is the mother Of the
United States, whether anybody
likes it or not. And |, for one,
have a fondness for her, though
my family's immediate connection
with her was broken in 1884.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
WHY THE LAND BANKS?

The federal farm land banks and joint stock
land banks were established in the Wilson admin
istration for the purpose of enabling landess farm
ers to purchase farms. In other words, to solve
the tenant problem" That purpose they failed to
accomplish. Now we have variety of other plans
to solve the problem, Bankhead, Wallace, Tugwel-
liam plans. All of them are dependent upon the
expenditure, of colossal sums of money. ..
/ If the new plans are to be adopted, would it not
be expedient to abandon the old and failed plans
in other words to abolish the federal land banks !?
|, When experiment demonstrates that plan will
mot work. the substitution of another is advisable,
but why retain the failed plan? Why feed a mule
after you have found out that it cannot pull
pillow. or in harness of any kind? If the land banks
do. not solve the farm tenancy problem, what is
their characterization News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04

it get to be good
form to put of
the old and take
on the new when
ever the MOOD
came on one?
But you car
trust old Eng
land to do the
solid thing. She
may b ! II n d c l
around horribly
but she always
gets her footing
again, if indeed
she ever really
loses il.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
Pride No Push Over

Pride goeth before destruction
and pride is one of the hardest
of all human weaknesses to over
come. For when person has
mastered his pride, he is more
than likely to find himself proud
Of that accomplishment. There
are more ways to get tangled up
and tripped up in this world
Truly they challenge the best in
us. Small wonder there are so
many spiritual and moral acct
dents.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
Duck the Envy

If you want to ret your fellow
creatures to romping on you,
show a little unusual ability or
initiative; they will resent it be-
cause it puts them in bad by con-
traSt.
If you want to be happy though
progressing, use your talents to
fullest capacity but keep them
under cover as much as possible.
Let the other fellow have all the
credit, or as much of it as you
can shove onto him. Let him take
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04

Some persons have wondered
what effect the Wallic-Eddie cpl
sode would have on England'S
attitude toward the nonchalant
switching of mates Would the
restrictions be liberalized? Would
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
HAVE BEEN so BUSY IN
BY Noah Hollowell

this department showing how the
business men and employees took
stock and carried things over into
the new year, ! have overlooked
one of two new-year resolutions
for the "Wait a Minute"
One resolution carries into this
column daily brief lesson in
English, usually taken from some
word or sentence used in the
"Wait Minute" for that day.
These English studies will be in,
Dictated by a star before the word
to be studied. Today it is "psy-
chic"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04

him with hand on his shoulder
and earnestly inquired. "What
can do about it for you' MI
Gibbs"
Remember me in your pray
ers" he answered rs he passed on
homeward, seemingly with more,
of the new year spirit of good
cheer and high resolve in his soul
and apparently with the gloom
burdensomc aspects thrown off;
He had "unloadcd" his mental
burden-he had made the "Psl
CHIC unload.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-04
ToDAy,s ENGLISH: PS Y

TODAY'S ENGLlSH;
chic, pronounced si-kik. Meaning,
of or pertaining to the nina. rSyI
chic medicine is that branch OF
medicine which treats OF inc
Wind DIR. l.. b. Morse, when he
nnerated a sanitarium in Hender-
sonville, used the words pnysiaIi
unload" the first time | ever hear a
T. in connection with patient
Tho improved rapidly after she
mnhurdened her heart OF great
trouble.