The Washington times., 1937-10-02

BOake Carter
Our Own Backyard
Pomp and Pageantry
Taxing Our Progress

Chinese who are out Of our
sphere Of influence" when for.
eign termites are eating into
our own sphere Of influence"
in South America?
Consider these Incidents:
Great Britain and Chile have
just formed an agreement
whereby Chilean naval officers
will be trained in Britain's
royal navy.
When the State Department
offered to loan five United
States destroyers to Brazil, the
Argentine government torpe-
doed the proposition by declar-
ing it was a violation of Roose-
velt's "good.neighbor" policy.
The good neighbor" who was
aggrieved in this instance was
Great Britain, who dominates
Argentina financially. John Bull
doesn't want Uncle Sam to be-
come too strong in the American
hemisphere.
Berlin Nazis have Studiously
fostered naziism in Brazil. Bra
lillian Nazis recently received a
visit from Friedrich ThiesS, Off
cial envoy of Adolf Hitler, who
came with orders to reorganize
Brazilian Nazis.
Let the State Department
take notice Of what's going on
in Americas own backyard be-
fore involving this nation in the
troubles Of the Orient, 1000
miles away.
0ENACTORIEs, shops and Of
l. fices were closed. It seemed
the entire population had turned
out. It was mild weather, clear
and sunny, with a light breeze
that stirred the millions Of flags
and bunting which covered the
city.
spectators had been gathered
in the streets since dawn. Those
in the rear ranks brought lad-
ders, chairs, kitchen tables,
boxes, or anything which would
give them vantage point. Boys
who eluded the police clustered
in trees"
No, that's not an old descrip-
ton of the British coronation,
but just a paragraph from a
Berlin dispatch reciting the ar
rival of Mussolini and Hitler to
confer on European alliances.
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A DID Roosevelt technique:
IA Scene: Boise, Idaho. A
crowd of Idahoans gathered be-
fore Mr.. Roosevelt:
washington, my friends. is
the narrowest place in the world
and I regain strength meeting
the people this way.
II appreciate your coming out
and saying 'howdy' to me like
the plain folks all of us are"
Perhaps this is the first case
on record of an aristocrat born
of wealth and blue blood, ad-
hitting that he is just plain
folk! It's great political tech
nique-kiss the babies, be just
plain folk" or call everybody
by their first names-and it's
sure-fire stuff with the real
plain folk.
7 wonder:
l. Why it is that peanut job
holders always seem to take a
great delight in bounding the
luckless taxpayers? The more
peanut they are the more they
seem to haraSs the citizen.
Consider what happens to the
housewife in Tennessee now-f
she uses an electric washing
machine. Tennessee has a State
laundry tax, ranging from $50
to $3.50 a year. So, the Tennes-
see legal department has ruled
that if any housewife uses an
electric washing machine to do
her own laundry, she automati.
cally becomes a laundry" and
must pay the State laundry tax.
We're an odd people. We
take great pride in telling the
world that our standard of liv-
ing is higher than any other
nation; we take great pride in
our inventive genius and proudly
display all the labor-Saving
devices we make, especially
those devices which save the
drudgery Of housekeeping -
then We tllrn RIGHT around and