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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
Gle a min g S
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Union abor first dip into the professional theaer
stage entertainers has crossed than 100000 in the
first - months leaving net profit IN excess OF $lOOOOO
Not bad Demm sir it's good
The international Ladies Garment Workers Union was
the live organization which struck oil Broadway, and
found more touring theatrical highways
Pins and Needles" is their saucy muscar revue Since
Il opened on November 81 1887, the Broadway company
has crossed the touring troupe OOO Figures
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18

Ted Lewis, whose one fault
Is an inclination to give too
much of himself, gave the Earle
theater q nice weeks business.
It must have been Ted Lewis,
for the aristOcratic Ambassador,
which had the same picture,
%BOb Burns in arkansas Trav.
eIer," couldn't see the philOso-
pher.humOriSt.
NEW HAPPY ENDING
'"The Sisters" which opened
today on the Earle theater
screen has a happy ending. That
is Bette Davis husband, (Errol
Flynn returns to her loving
arms after a prolonged spree,
and after being among the miss
ing for many months.
That wasn't the way Author
Myron BRING wound up his
novel, the Three Sisters" In
stead he had the character
played by Enrol Flynn return
without warning, secretly OBJ
serve that his wife was doing all
right without him, quietly stink
off and give her a chance to for
get such a worthless piece of
baggage ever lived.
I liked the noveliSt's finish
better, but as Hollywood often
observes, Pictures are made to
make money and since au-
'diences prefer, They Lived Hap
PLY Ever Afterwards" that's
what they'll get"
D. C. MAGICIANS' SHOW
Comdr. Harry H. Baker, of the
Wilson Line, sends word that
the Washington hocuS,pocuS ad.
diets are getting ready to dc
their stuff again. Meaning the
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TAKING OF U, S.
SALARIES EYED
BY TREASURY
Drastic Change in Tax
Structure Planned

GN.SO Drastic overhauling of
the Federal tax structure, with re-
moval of present exemption Of
Federal, State and municipal
securities and salaries, will be the
subject of conferences between
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Of the Treasury Morgenthau when
they return from their summer
vacations.
LEVIES HELD LEGAL
Treasury experts, headed by
UnderSecretary Roswell Magill
and Assistant Secretary John w.
HaneS, have for some time been
going over plans along this line.
This activity was stepped up to-
day by the Justice Department re-
port saying that such levies were
legal, and that the way to test
them before the Supreme Court
was to enact such laws and let
challenges against them go to
court.
LA FOLLETTE'S IDEA
Senator La Toilette (PD of Wis
consin has for years advocated
a broadening Of the tax base, to
lower income tax exemptions to
$500 for a single man and So, 1000
for the head of a family, and
there were indications that the Ad-
ministration is coming around to
agreement with him.
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may furnish q better line on
congressional prospects.
IN POLITICS as in baseball
4 there is a good play known
as the delayed steal.
Nevada's Senator Pat Nc
Carran pulled it during the
Presidential trip in such a way
as to avoid mention. He did
not wait to board the train when
it entered his State. He got
on at Salt Lake City, sat around
gossiping with the newsmen.
When the train pulled into Car.
lin, Nevada, he was still missing
from the limelight.
Not until after the Presi-
dent had begun to speak did
he find time to push his way
into the crowd. edge his way
up to the front. A number of
his friends called out: Hello,
Pat" causing the President to
pause and look around to see
who was getting the competi-
tive hand.
Delayed appearances always
seem to draw the biggest ap-
plauSe.
MR.. ROOSEVELT acquired
XVA much Of his amazing back
ground Of political knowledge
by reading while he was Ill and
flat on his back. His friends
say that during those wears he
read practically everything that
has been written upon the his
tory of American politics. his
favorite being the FederaliSt
Papers. a series of 85 essays on
the Constitution by Hamilton,
Madison and Jay.
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Conditions Favor

THIS is not entirely deduction.
l. Evidences are accumulat-
ing daily that some very i'm
portant people are beginning to
plan it that way.
The private conversations of
the Presidents associates are
indicative. These no longer in
volve any concern over the COM
ing elections. Another RooSe-
welt triumph is confidently
awaited. He has the money, the
power; the market is going up;
business is improved and even
non-New Dealers are finding it
natural to express their consid-
Grafton for "this wise and good
man." Judging solely by the
size and number of hands
clutching at the Presidential
coat tails, the New Dealers are
counting the election as over
and won.
What interests them now is
whether he can make it in 40
when the money has run low
and he faces an entirely differ
ent Situation-a situation involv-
ing solely his control over his
party factions at a time when
they may not personally need
WPA and PWA help as much as
they do new.
Inside Washington is talking
Of little else.
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Interesting MOOe

pUT MOST SIGNIFICANT Of
ID all was a squib in the
papers the other day about for
nation of a "Third-Term- for
Roosevelt" Club at Mclean, Vir-
ginia. The locale was interest
ing. Mclean is bus-stop across
the river from Washington,
about seven miles from the
White House as the political
crow flies. Residents there were
pictured as having the first or
ganizational inspiration in the
nation.
If you will investigate you will
find the leader does not live at
Mclean, is not a resident of Vir-
ginia, but is a District of Column
bia business man, Arthur Clar-
endon Smith. The meeting ap-
pears to have been held in NC
Lean because one of the ladies
interested in the movement had
a vacant parlor in her home
there. This was convenient po-
litically as well as socially, be-
cause it removed the movement
from Washington dateline.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Smith is not
q man to go planning such
things in Mclean without know
ing where he stands.
He notified two competent
Democratic political officials in
Washington. They approved the
action by not stopping it. Their
only off-the-record comment
now is that Mr.. Smith is sin
cere; that no official approval
was given; that he may have
gotten started a little too soon,
but he is certainly moving in
the right direction.
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Where 1t will lead him Is
equally clear in view Of the ex-
isting situation. There is now
no "other man." and not likely
to be any. Some who have in
dicated ambitions along these
lines have received no encour.
agement from the source Of all
Washington power. Further
more, Mr.. Roosevelt knows far
too much about political history
to warrant the assumption that
he would pin his faith to a
stooge. IT. r. and Taft: AL
Smith and F. D. r.
Likewise, the D e m ocratic
Party condition today obviously
suggests that he, himself, per-
Sonally, is the only man who
fits the situation.
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Says Boake Carter

vsory group planned scheme to purge" out
of Congress all those up for reelection who had
opposed the President on the Supreme Court or
the reorganization bill.
Mr.. Roosevelt is now buSily pushing the
purge" in person. Those he wants elected to
Congress in November he calls my very good
friends" and beams with beguing charm upon
the hypnotized audiences at the wayside stations.
Those he wants kicked out of office he makes
known by pointedly ignoring them or denouncing
them.
Suppose he is successful? Suppose the disarm.
ing HE is my very good friend" deception is &C.
cepted purely on its innocent face value and the
voters obligingly do Mr.. Roosevelt's "purgng' for
him at the ballot-box? Then what?
If these legislators, who. simply because they
followed their own conscience In face Of stupen.
dous political pressure, are to be replaced at the
primaries and the conventions by political
Charley McCarthys, it becomes comparatively sim.
pie for Mr.. Roosevelt again to demand packing
of the Supreme Court.
He himself may not run again in 1910 for a
third term, but that will matter lttle-IF he
dictates selection of his successor A Charley
Mccarthy Congress already will have handed SUI
preme power to-the Executive which will in
clude ANY and EVERY Executive AFTER Roose-
velt
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FARM INCOME
DROPS IS PCT.

uN.S) Farm income for the
first six months of this year
totaled $S,S41, 900, 900, 10 per cent
under the $S.s2s, 900, 900 received
by farmers for their products and
in Government benefit payments
during the same period last year,
the Agriculture Department dis
closed today.
During the six-month period
ended June 80, farmers received
5000, 100000 for their produce
IL per cent below the comparable
period in Iceland $257, 000, 900
in Government benefit payments
The benefit-payment figure com.
pares with $33O,0OO,0O0 paid out
by the Government between Janu.
airy and July in 1887.
June farm income totaled
$514,000,0O0, Is per cent below
the June Q93D figure, but con.
siderably ahead of last months
receipts. OF this amount, $45,,
100000 comprised benefit pay
mentS.
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PWA topaz
Premiums
FOrSpeed

(I.N.S.) Order ing "pre-
MUM payments to those cities
which quickly start the "dirt
flying, PWA Administrators
IckeS today announced presi-
Dental approval of 4S more
nOn-Federal construction prof.
ects with ALLEGATIONS tOtalIing
S6,573,637.
The list Of projects, which
includes 80 schools, are for II
States and Puerto Rico. Larg-
est projects included a sewage
system for North Providence,
r. l., to cost $1,349,624 of
which PWA granted S6O7, $3.50;
highway bridges for Passaic
county, N. j., to cost $780,
500 Of which PWA granted
$733,725, and two schools for
Penn Yam, N. Y, to cost 81,
$4,000 of which PWA
granted $6O7 500.
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Farley in Alaska

MOTE - National Chairman
N Farley was not one of the
two approving officials. Further
activity of the club probably
will await his return from
Alaska where he is hiding out
on the primaries, but money is
already coming into club head.
quarters in 81 and So contribu-
tons.
0TRANGE thing about Mr..
~ Roosevelt's successful tour
is that he touched the generally
recognized November b a I'll E.
ground only once-at Marietta,
Ohio. Various polls and politi-
cal charts agree the congress
sional struggle will center in the
Northern grain states, the Mid
die Western states and the East,
north of the Ohio and Potomac
Rivers. The President is plan
ming a trip to Michigan which
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40 CONVENTION
GUIDED BY F. D..
AIM OF new DEAL.
Aides Mum on Sd Term.
Waiting His Word |
By EARL GOODWIN

Here's the way the honest-to-
goodness New Dealers are think
ing about a third term for Roose-
welt.
Until the Head Man makes an
announcement, they plan a nom
mating convention in 1910 which
he will dominate completely.
That's as far as they get. All they
want is another pro-New Deal con-
vention. After that let nature
take her course! If there is any
New Dealer from among those who
now dominate the scene, brain
trust, kitchen cabinet or what not,
whom the President will Ok
we'll and good. If not-well,
there's always Roosevelt.
FARLEY LOYAL
That is a fairly good cross sec
ton of New Deal thought among
the Presidents intimates, cabinet
officers, emergency and alphabet
ical agencies.
Down deep in their hearts they
hope it is to be F.D.R. again, but
they are letting someone else do
the talking.
Also they believe that Jim"
Farley will stick with President
Roosevelt all the way through to
1910. They know he is no New
Dealer, but he is 100 per cent for
F. D. r.; and they look upon him
as so loyal to his boss that he
will go along blindly and use his
undoubted genius at convention
building for a thoroughly pro-New
Deal or pro-Roosevelt convention
in 1910.
OPPOSITION IN RANKS
The; New Dealers do not want
to lose Farley, although they do
not accept him as a Simon pure
member of their kind Of folks.
They know, however, they have
no one who knows how to get
delegates or build a convention.
So therefore they are content to
wish for a pro-Roosevelt conven-
tion-and depend on Farley to
build one.
Apparently the New Dealers be-
lieve they will have such a con-
vention in 1910. They feel,
though, there is more real oppo-
sition in the ranks of the Demo.
cratic party than they experience
from their political opponents in
the G. o. P. This is apparently
the reason they are out to do q
bit Of purging here and there.
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were the reorganization bill
and the effort to pack the
Supreme Court.
The reorganization bill,
when first introduced. pro-
voked little popular DISCUS
sion. It was intricate, techni-
cal, lacked the dramatic spark
to fire popular debate. Though
the President asked haste on
its enactment, even Congress
tarried.
Impatient and vexed, Mr..
Roosevelt then made his
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Not only do we need new jail, my friends,
but just as important is the fact that the SO
employees connected with the prison should be
treated fairly and squarely, and not as they
are at present. These men must work every
day. while all other employees of the different
penal institutions have time off 1t is true these
men get 20 days a year off, but this is abso-
lutely all. No half day on Saturday and not even
Sunday. A constant and nerve-wracking ex-
GStence that is enough to break anybody's nerve.
In 1928 Congress gave sufficient guards to
allow for short hours off once or twice a week.
But as soon as there were enough guards to
give the men a fair break, new positions were
opened and the guards transferred to these, and
then you were back again to an inadequate force
Of guards. Why, would just as soon be a
prisoner in that Jail as a guard! The poor souls
have no lockers. No showers. No promotions.
They must buy their own shirts They tried
desperately to form a union, but were blocked
on every hand
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But"

SGMY very good friend!"
AVA Covered by that simple Presidential phrase
used so disarmingly during the Roosevelt tour
from East to West is the deadliest national issue
which has yet to be raised by the New Deal
At stake again is the whole system of the
American form of government.
The issue, to date subtly disguised, is-the in
dependence Of Congress.
The two great attempts by Mr.. Roosevelt to
make the legislative and judicial branches of gov
eminent SubServient to the Executive branch
The Washington times., 1938-07-22
Mexico Orders Ban
On Arms for Rebels

MEXICO CITY, July % G.N.S0.
Surreptitious deliveries of German
arms and ammunition from Guate.
mala, allegedly for trouble-makerS
in South Mexico, was ordered
halted today in a decree restrict.
ing munitions imports to the gov.
eminent.
President CardenaS also sent a
squadron Of military airplanes to
the Guatemalan border to guard
against shipping of contraband.
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poses: other
wise he will
be forced to
get into the
race himself.
He has al
most said as
much. What
he has left
unsaid is be-
ing Salu IOT
him by those
competent to
speak. His
political asSo-
ciates are &C
cepting this
as his policy.
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Government as Regulator
TAKE the Government out Of business except
= as q regulator
Establish fair labor relations, beginning by
repeating the Wagner Act and substituting a
modern law based upon experience here and
elsewhere, notably in England and Canada.
Then continue by fundamentally revising the
Social Security Act, which as it now stands is
fraud on the public, and an encouragement
to Government waste.
Kick out the wPA and CCC as fast as private
employment picks up.
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Second Great Step
THE second great essential is to provide the
conditions required for the continued salts
factory working of private enterprise The
essential points are as follows:
(a) A scientific, nonpolitical control to pre-
vent the excessive use of credit currency. In
order to maintain the monetary standard, our
large gold supply should be used as the reserve
for our money and credit system. Then it
should be protected from abuse.
CD scientific, nonpoltical control to prevent
unfair competition by establishing fair rules for
the game of economic life. This would include
labor relations.
(c) A scientific, nonpolitcal program of edu
cation, to encourage industry, thrift and self.
reliance among the people. This is most i'm
portant.
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Is necessary to diagnose the
disease and to cure it before
we can regain our health.
Today, however, I want to sug-
gest some remedies. After we
have learned that easy money"
is not good money, that man
aged currency" means man
aged business, and that we
can't prime q broken pump,
then we will want to return
to sound principles. ~
The first great essential of
recovery and prosperity is to
encourage private enterprise.
lowing action:
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Reorganization Bill

Nov what happened subsequently, Two i'm
~ portant things occurred. The President
cannily selected the least "touchy" of the two
issues on which he was defeated and announced
that after January 1889, he would strive again to
force passage of the reorganization bill!
Secondly the White House and its "leftist" ad.
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OF course, none of us have
heard this before. Oh, no, we
have Just lived off of it for
months. The papers have
pounded away at it for many
q long year. But Is anything
done about it2 Every once
in 9 while we are informed we
need one, and that ends 1t.
We feel terribly sorry about
1t and shrug our shoulders
and let it go. What else can
the poor people Of the Dis
trict do when they haven't
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frontal attack on the Supreme Court. The public,
startled. was indignant. Many staunch Roose-
welt supporters refused to become like sophists
and so fought Roosevelt tooth and nail.
The President was defeated.
Suspicious now thoroughly aroused, the reor-
ganization bill was busted off and beaten.
In each case each scheme was defeated by its
obviouSneSS
The Washington times., 1938-07-22
Jimmy Roosevelt
Rests at Isle Home

CAMPOBELLO. N. B., July %
0.N.S). - President RooSevelt's
ailing secretary-son, James, was at
the family island home today re-
cuperating from an ailment for
which he recently received hos
pital treatment. He is expected to
remain several weeks,
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Direct Local Relief

Direct Local Relief
NEEDLESS to say, the foregoing program would
~ be supplemented by system Of direct
local relief for involuntary unemployment and
by direct regulations to prevent abuse of i'm
portant limited natural resources.
All this is just about opposite to the New
Deal and the confused economies Of the Roose
velts
The Washington times., 1938-07-22
The News Behind
The News
BY PAUL MALLON

(Word
o. IN
MIR. Rs 1910 purposes we'll understood by nearly all
4 who put their feet under the big political desks
There is little confusion about them.
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My Say
By EVaIy17 Walsh Mclean

WELL! Well! Well! What thrilling news to
w read in the newspapers THE DISTRICT OF
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of Finance By Lewis Haney

NEW YORK.-Readers of this column have
surely noted the large amount of criticism
Of the uneconomic policies of the New Deal. It
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More Critical

THE issue is thus even more critical than the
Supreme Court affair. For if Congress Is to
be composed of houseful Of rubber stamps for
the Executive department, then the courts them
selves automatically are lost.
The Constitution was established to control
Government itself. The courts are the last re-
sort of protection the citizen has against abuse
of power by the Government.
Copyright, Ledger syndcate)
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been done before is beyond me. Every living
soul who is able to read and write knows what
happens when you throw young person in with
hardened and brutal character.
Again wonderful recommendations little
late it is true, but better late than ever-is that
the criminal courts should remain in session
during the summer months in order to clear up
the cases of those awaiting trial. These poor
souls have to wait in the heat, the terrible
odors and under wretched conditions, while our
criminal judges have a recess and rest their
weary bones from worry and strain. If any
one thinks this is fair don't.
If the District cannot raise money enough for
this new Jail, why don't they borrow it from the
Governments Everybody else is taking money
right and left from the U. s. A., so why doesn't
the forgotten city of washington do the same?
Ray L. Huff, superintendent of the District
penal institution, is very much in favor of all
these improvements, as any rightthinking anu
fair man would be. Why doesn't Mr.. Huff
keep pounding away and fighting for his new
jail until he gets one? Remember the old saying:
Dripping water wears away stone"
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(BoGke Carriers opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those of The Washington TimeSJ
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Young Mix With Hardened

A MOTHER thing that is so appalling in this
"A jail is that young persons are thrown in with
hardened criminals At last our District Com.
fnittee thinks it is time there should be Segrega-
ton Of these young people. Why this hasn't
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Reestablish the gold standard so that invest
ment and longrange business plans can be car
ried on.
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He will insist the Democratic
nominating convention select q
man sympathetic to his pur-
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Blot on Beautiful City

A FTER all, my friends. every single one Of
4 these things has been proven disgrace and
a blot on this beautiful city Of ours time and
again, so why don't the men responsible get to
work, stop talking and ACT?
There is the immediate danger Of closing on
July 26 the two Washington free summer camps
for poor youngsters. Just think, with millions
here and there it only needs 81 900 to keep these
two camps open. Already 48O children have each
spent two weeks at these camps
These camps have been thoroughly passed by
all the splendid organizations in town. The two
main reasons they are closing are that the Com.
munity Chest cut down the allowance for this
project, and the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation withdrew food allotments under a
new policy. wonder why this was?
For goodness sake, stop talking about our New
Deal and give us oneI
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Bill Powell Puffs Rose Leaf
Tipped Cigarettes, at S. Per
Box, in Love Game
By HARRISON CARROLL
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 8.

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
Anything happen movie set. Out at Twentieth
CenuryFox this week, Bill Powell, of Hollywoods
highest paid stars, is play
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The IS Best
Directors
Of1937

/. Leo McCarey for 1.-THE
Awful Truth"
2. Wesley Ruggles for True
Confession"
8. Frank Capra for "Lost
Horizon"
4. Mervyn Leroy for "They
Won't Forget"
S. William Dieterle for "zola."
6. Tay Garnett for Love Is
News" and "Stand-In."
7. William Keighley for "Var-
sity Show"
s. Frank Lloyd for wells
Fargo"
9. Sidney Lanfield for wake
Up and Live"
10. William Wellman for "A
Star Is Born"
II. Sidney Franklyn for 1.-THE
Good Earth"
IL. Roy Del Ruth for ION
the Avenue" and Broadway
Melody"
13. Clarence Brown for Con
quest"
IA. Michael Curtiz for Charge
of the Light Brigade" and "Per-
feet Specimen.
is. Gregory LaCava for "Stage
Door,"
Note-There are many mega
phonists who deserve at least
honorable mention, but the
above, the editor believes. should
receive this signal for outstand-
ing work during 1887.