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The Washington times., 1938-03-07

Generally speaking, I'm 100
per cent for Young Americas
notions. But, in this particular
case, I'm going to quit voting
with the youngsters and tell
them some plain facts.
We had it easy? Go skin a
grape! The young people of
1880 and go faced just as many
handicaps as you do today
and plenty that would have
given even the toughest of you
the Screaming Meanies. We &C.
cepted as commonplace proce-
dure hardships and deprivations,
meanneSS and monotony which
would give a lot Of you the six
weeks hiccoughS. baby lambs!
Poor and burdened, angry and
discouraged as you may be, you
still have more shining oppor-
tunities in one day than we had
in a year.
And don't kid yourself that
we didn't want something better.
We did! Moreover, there were
plenty of Gay GoingS On even
then, and it was just as hard
for us to watch the antics OF
the Privileged Few as it Is for
you today.
BUT WE TOOK TT WITH
OUT WHIN1N AS OUR
FATHERS HAD TAKEN TT BE-
FORE US. FOR THAT WAS
THE AMERICAN CODE.
"Dear Elsie Robinson:
you deplore lack of feeling
but did it ever occur to you
that under our brazen surface
we might be just lonely, heart
broken children? We've been
drilled to poker face'-and we
have to, to hide our despera-
tion.
Look at our lives. Such lofty
ideals in childhood days! Then,
inevitably, the crash with the
cruel, greedy commercialism of
the world and an unending pro-
gram of work, work, work.
mo wonder we crave excite
ment to cover the bitterness and
monotony of our lot and satisfy
the youth that Is pulsing in our
veins. What do you know Of
such lives? You older people
had it easy in a friendly world.
What have we to look forward
to, trapped in this machine age?
JERRY SULLIVAN-age 21.
Chicago, Ill"
($1G prize winner)
\
You have exactly as much "to
look forward to- as you're will
ing to sweat for, my lad. And
that's all you deserve, which was
as true in our day as in yours.
There was as much cruelty and
greediness in 1883 as there is in
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

Gated and involved that no one
can understand it-a fact which
was admitted by some Senators
who voted for it. Because OF It's
complications and absurdltles, u
will break down when its en-
forcement is attempted.
1t far outdoes in collectivism
and regimentation anything at
tempted by the Nazi in Ger
many or the Bolsheviks in Rus
sia. Could anyone have believed
before the advent of the New
Deal that such a law was pos
sible in America.
It makes a mockery of the
Constitution. 1t will turn loose
upon the farmers such a horde
of investigators, supervisors,
snoopers, and provocateurs that
the seven plaques OF Egypt
would be a welcome substitute
to the farmers.
If the farmers Of America are
not dead to all love of liberty,
to their own future welfare. and
to the preservation of our inSti-
tutions, this law, when compre-
hended by them, as it will be
when enforcement is attempted,
will produce a. political explo-
sion that will shake the country
from center to circumference,
drive the communists out of
Congress and the executive de.
partments of the government,
and may yet bring about a re-
action that will save our liber'
ties and our institutions from
destruction. A. S. L.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
BRITAIN'S NEW REALISM

since Anthony Eden resigned Foreign Secretary
and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took d-
recon of British foreign policy working through Lord
Halifax
Besides warming up to Italy the British
"COHectIUe Foreign Office not unwilling to
SerurifU" warm up to Hitler, though Hitler
may be plotting to jump on that great
'liberal democracy" Soviet Russia. Brtains leaders
don't appear to be falling for the Russian-inspired
collective security" talk about how England France
and the United States ought to gang up with Soviet
Russia against Italy, Germany and Japan to make the
world safe for democracy again.
Britains new policy looks sensible to us-for one
because only Brtain old policy of playing
balance-of-power politics in Europe, which always
worked before. This re-adopted policy looks in the
present state of Europe toward keeping the expected
war in the east toward confnng if possible to Ger
many and Russia. Eden's policy was pulling England
into position where it would have had to intervene
at once in any European fight that might break out
If England and France manage to let Germany and
Russia two auocraces chew other for year or
so after the fight begins British and French democracy
will be so much the better off, peace preserve democ-
racy is better and cheaper than war to preserve de-
mocracy.
AS for the United States and "collecve security" it
grows palmer day that proper place in any war
that may come to Europe the sdelnes On the side
lines that is, with ample weapons to keep
4WO Oh'PS any of the players from jumping the fence
For One and trying to drag into the battle
GermanI Italian Fascism and Russian
Communism are equally alien to US, Hence we should
fight for neither of them We should fight only for our
selves and only if we attacked
To quarantine ourselves against infection from either
of these anAmerican diseases need the best NAVY in
the world.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

holds no office; but others in
his family have connected with
the public pay roll. His brother
Sam is in the Department of
Justice, and another brother is
on the State pay roll in the
State house at Nashville.
X X X
He has not filed yet, but
political winds may blow Judge
Frederick Chambliss into the
Senate. One reason is that,
while there is not a great deal
for him, there isn't a thing
against him.
He is on the State supreme
court and. they think a lot Of
him in his home town of Chat
tanooga, where he was four
times mayor.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Farm Bill Scored

I thought the high water
mark of legislative insanity had
been reached when the National
Labor Relations Law was
passed, but an examination of
the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1885," commonly referred
to as the Farm Bill" convinces
me that there is no limit to the
incompetency and ineptitude of
the Congress.
This law makes a pamphlet
of So pages, and is so compli-
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Odds Against Wars

The United Press reports that Monte Carlo, Juan les
Pins and Paris gamblers offering some interesting
odds in connection with the prevailing war scares
Principal odds are to against
Wh1tU European war in year, even money
vo pt2 against such a in six months, to
against United States entry into the next
European war l to 2 against ricanEuropean war
with Japan 2 to against a German Russian war
We admire the cagness of these bettors against war;
IF war doesn't come within the time limit of the given bet
tbev collect if war does come they most likely won't be
able to pay.
It's encouraging to that our Government wants to
do something besides merely gamble on the possibility OF
our staying out of the next The
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

and knows
best W h e r e
t h e money
ought to go.
We've been
operating on
t h e p l a n
where t h e
wife handles
the income,
and it's work
ed swell in
our home. A
man doesn't
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

The wife
gets most of
the bills and
therefore she
should handle
the finances.
We've tried it
both ways in
our no m e,
and I know
it works bet
ter when I
manage the
purse strings.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

wife says, and
that is that
she can bet
ter h a n d ! e
the family fl
nanceS from
her point Of
view when I
mana over my
salary check
to her. We've
only done it
one way since
we've b e e n
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

at least hand
over half Of
his salary to
his wife. It's
a fifty-f
p r o position
at the least,
and the wife
S h ould b e
given enough
money from
the total in
come to run
the HI ou S E.
hold adeQuatel
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson
Copyright. 1898, King Features Syndicate lnc.)
YOUNG AMERICA ASKS

WHAT'S THE OUTLOOK FOR YOUTH TODAY?
THERE'S common hallucnation among all
l. Young Americans, any more popular albl for
certain ones than the belief that NON NJ DAD HAD 1T
EASY WHEN THEY WERE KIDS.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

IT h e r e
S h ould b e
equal rights
between hus-
b a n d a n d
wife. Both
should have
free access to
I1lG 1dutlly 4H
come. Z h e
wife should be
given enough
money to run
her hom e
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Women and Jobs

An open letter to the Senate
Unemployment Committee:
You have received some very
fine suggestions from Bernard
Baruch and others, but so far
I have not seen in print the
recommendations which I sub
NIT herewith:
AL women who do not have
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
BIG NAVY BILL

has been reported out by the House Naval Affairs Com
ittee and debate on it will probably begin in the House
this week This the Vnson bill to enlarge present naval
construction plans by about $8OO,OOO,-
Cut Out This 600 WORTH with view to getting our
Pipre of Pork selves a Navy second to none
We hope the bill passes substan-
tally as reported by the committee We hope though
that the SO 900 item for drgbe construction tackled
into the recommendation that be spent for ex-
perments with various weapons thrown overheard
before the bill is finally passed.
The dirgible is no experiment. 1t is demonstrated
flop in war and in peace. This proposal to build yet
another of these costly and dangerous gasbags pork
barrel stuff Playing pork barrel politics with natlonal
defense is crminally than playing pork barrel
politics with river and harbor appropriations The TACT
that it is now specified in the bill that the dlrlglbe
must be American made does not improve matters On
the record German-made drigbles better than
America an-made. The right thing to do is to drop
dirigibe construction entirely until and unless some
of our potential enemies start building them again.
Speaking of the war scares they to have eased
off for the moment. We ascrbe this happy develop
TO
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Editorial Policy

UIE ARE frequently asked why publish editorials
w from the New York Daily News. The answer is
that think these editorials sound and timely.
incidentally, the editor and publisher of this
paper is also one of the owners of the Daily News
And the policies of the editorials which reprint
identical with the policies of this newspaper.
Eleanor Patterson
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

handling our family finances.
A mans tendency is to spend
whatever he has as soon as he
has it"
~
Mrs. W. E. Arnold, Riverdale,
Md, housewife:
II think the wife should
because she's in the home more
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

well, but if the husband is the
better manager and more thrifty
he should be left to handle the
finances alone"
\ 4
Mrs. w. L. Bossart, 1886 D st.
N. E., housewife:
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

married, and have no com.
plants"
X X
Lillian Parker, 912 Rhode Is
land Ave. N. E., waitress:
st think the husband should
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

handle tn e
finances be-
c a u e she's
usually more
capable. A
W o m an is
m uch more
C O n servative
a n d knows
exactly how
the budget is
running. M y
wife saves me
m o n " b y
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
This Town of Ours
By EARL GOODWIN

TENNESsEEANs in Washington seem to think that
Senator George Berry will have tough shedding for
the senatorial nomination down in Tennessee next
August and that the IVA marble deal will hurt him with
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
The Inquiring|
photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Who do you think should con-
troll the family finances, hus-
band or wife?
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /, 1888, Is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

know about what IS needed IN
the home, anyway" d,
w. E. Arnold, Riverdale, Md,
bookbinder:
I'm satisfied with what my
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
THE ANSWERS

Katherine Karns, 725 Eighth
St. N. E., housewife:
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

limited 200 addresses
writers will be omitted request
The Washington times., 1938-03-07
Your |. O.
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

This is a special quiz on litera.
ture. Score 10 for each of first
five questions. Score S for each
correct matching in No. 6.
l. Which of these did Thomas
Hardy write? (a) The Natives
Return or Cb) Return of the
Native.
2. Who wrote "old Wives
Tale? (a) G. H. Wells (b)
Arnold Bennett (c) Rudyard
Kipling.
3. Who were Beaumont and
Fletcher?
4. What is an heroic poem
celebrating in verse the achieve
ments of hero (a) allegory ID
epic Co elegy.
& Are "The Cant er ury
Tales" written in the form Of
ca verse CD prose.
e. MATCH the following writ
ers with the particular prancn
of writing for which he is best
known.
{ } Maxwell Anderson (a)
poetry.
{ } Stephen Leacock (b)
biography.
{ } Katherine Anthony Co
science.
{ } Sven A. Hedin Cd hui
NOR.
{ } Bertrand Russell (e)
psychology.
{ } Edward L. Thorndike
(O fiction.
{ } James Truslow Adams
(g) philosophy.
{ } Villa Gather (h) drama
ID history.
{ Sara Teasdale (jp travel.
{ } Thomas H. Huxley.
Answers on Page 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Chamber Director
Election Friday

Election of II directors for the
Ell Centro chamber of commerce
will be held Friday at the cham
Der headquarters, $50 State street.
Polls will close at pm. Presi-
dent Walter Havekorst urges all
chamber members to vote.
The directors will be chosen from
the following: H. r. Anderson,
Charles E. Blalack, John Drummer,
Neal H. Gavin, Charles L. Childers,
c. L. Collins, Warren Currier. Rev.
H. E. Doty, Howard G.. FarnsWorth,
j. D. Foss, Mrs. Media l.. Frost,
j. w. Glasgow, l.. j. Goree jr., Wal
ter B. Havekorst, Randall Hender-
son, w. l.. Hinderks;
Paul A. Jenkins, j. Duke john
son, M. 0. King, Mrs. Marie Land
Edgar Mason, James H. Marshall,
Louis B. McManus, John B. Nc
Neece, W. H. Ramsey, w. H.
Rhodes, John r. Robertson, P. E
Ryerson, E. w. Schiller, Gordon
R. Scriven, Clarence L. Smith, VIM.
A. Tondro, Jasper E. Travers, and
w. H. Tyler jr.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
SPEAKER TELLS
.ITALO GERMAN
DIFFE R { Noes
No Immediate Danger of
Conflict in
Europe

Fridays Fascist announce
ment from Rome that no
treaty of military alliance
will be negotiated between
Italy and Germany during
Dictator Adolf Hitqer's visit to
Rome was described by DR.. H. a.
Steiner, author, lecturer and pro-
fessor of political science, as a
further indication of wide diver
gence in the political paths of the
two nations
DR.. Steiner commented upon the
announcement after he had spoken
to members of the Ell Centro XII
wants club and their wives at the
Barbara Worth hotel Friday noon
His subject was Can Europe Keep
the Peace?" The speaker was pre-
sented by Chairman Sem Bacon.
Before he knew of the treaty
announcement, DR.. Steiner told
club members there is no natural
basis for friendship between Italy
and Germany, and that a mutual
understanding was broken when
Hitler annexed Austria and brought
his military power to the Italian
Continued on Page 2; Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

lllt Jill W bllC AlOb''N A'CSA NSA
vote May %.
Never before in house history
has a petition to force a vote on
a pigeon -holed bill been complet-
ed with such rapidity. The most
signatures ever signed to a petit
ton before in one day was 100.
The petition to bring up the bill
which had been side-tracked by
the house rules committee was
filed by Chairman Mary T. Norton
of the house labor committee
promptly at noon.
Even before the house convened,
members had clustered in the house
we'll to sign the petition. During
the first hour that the petition
was before the house more than
ITO members signed, or at the rate
of about three a minute.
During the next hour-trom |
pm. to 2 pm. the signatures slow
ly crept up over the 200 mark. Then
with a band-Wagon rush, the re-
naming 13 house members needed
to force the bill to the floor from
vote scurried to the house well
and affixed their names.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Negro Guilty on
Morals Charge

Frank Johnson, Brawley Negro
was guilty of a morals offense
against his l3-year- Step-daugh-
ter and of serving a sentence in
the Missouri penitentiary jury
declared at 1O:30 pm. Thursday.
1t was feared the jury was hope
leSsly deadlocked because three
times its members requested addi-
tional information and asked to
have testimony read to them. The
jury deliberated the case approx
mately u hours. In spite of photo
grahps and records substantial
ing the charge that he served
prison term, Johnson consistently
denied it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

Fascist militia and the semi-miIi-
tarized units OF Fascist youth or
gani2ations, marched in the foot
steps of the Roman Legions OF the
Caesars, who on their return from
their triumphs. paraded along the
Via Triumphalis and under the Arch
of Constantine, dragging in chains
the barbarian kings and chieftams
they had captured in battle
-Four hundred siege and field
guns, 200 trench mortars, 400 light
and heavy tanks, 600 motor trucks,
$50 armored cars were only part of
q three hour parade by the army
and Fascist units which Hitler.
with King Victor Emmanuel at his
right and Mussolini at his left, re-
viewed from a Romdn-type stand
near the triumphal arch which Con-
stantine erected after his victory
over MaXentius at SaXa Rubra in
3l2. where ne declared himself in
favor OF Christianity.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
|, |, r u { X
CONVOY
TO VALLEY
Bread Truck Driver
Threatened by
Radicals

San Diego's difficulties
with unionism reached into
Imrerial county Thursday
night " h en- Undersheriff
Rodney Clarke had to convoy
a bread truck from the San Diego
county line to FL Centre.
The truck driver member of a
union, asked protection of San Die
20 officers after he was threatened
by radicals in the coast city San
Diego officers conveyed the truck
to the county line and then turned
the task over to Clarke. No trou-
bic was encountered on the trip
in either county.
Bread and pastry carried in the
truck was baked by union bakers,
Clarke said, but a quarrel among
the unions caused the trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

ROME. May 6. up Sixty thou
sand men and boys OF the italian
army and the Fascist party marched
alCng the Via TriumphalS today in
honor Of Fuehrer Adelf Hitler OF
Germany. partner in the Roms-
Berlin axis
It was the second on three giganae
displays Of the rcviyi.icd Italian
fighting services. staged to impress
tho colleague and guest OF Premier
Etuito Nussolini- perhaps to remind
him thI these mn and eleht mil
liens more stand on the Italian
side OF the Branner Pass,
The first display was given yes
tardaY. q review of more than 200
Italian Warships The third will
come tomorrow. with a demonstra-
ton by 500 war planes which viii
drop live bombs and fire their
machine guns at dummy targets.
The 10000 men and boys Of to-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Red Squad Chiefs
Son Hunted at LA.

LOS ANGELES, May G. CUPp-
San Francisco police were asked
today to search for Billy HynoS,
l3-year son of William Red
Hynes, head of the Los Angeles
police Red squad.
Capt. Hynes said his son ran
away from home Wednesday night,
after drawing $50 out Of the bank
and telling friends he planned to
become a jockey
Hynes asked San Francisco po-
lice to be on the lookout for the
boy around the Tanforan race
track
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Y IC 7 | NJ
S 7 Alb BED
10 TIMES
Quarrel Over S2.65
Debt Causes
Killing

CALEXICO, May 6.-Per-
cy Alvin Dukes, 80, card
dealer, was stabbed to death
early Friday by Eugene Gill
bert, SO, a bartender, in a
quarrel over $265.
Gilbert walked to police head
quarters after the fight and told
officers he had just killed a man.
Police found Dukes lying on the
sidewalk in front of a downtown
cafe, bleeding from 10 stab wounds.
He died a few moments after he
was taken to a hospital.
The dead mans wife, nurse
on night duty at the hospital, col
lapsed when she learned the iden-
tity of the wounded man just be-
fore he was carried into the hos
pital.
Bud Going, who was in his room
on the second floor of a hotel
across the street from the saloon,
testified at the inquest Friday that
he saw the killing He said he saw
Dukes on his knees on the side
walk while Gilbert held him with
one hand and repeatedly struck
him with something in his other
! hand
A tiny blood stained pocket knife
was shown Gilbert at the inquest.
| He identified it as his. He was
scratched on the face and neck
and one hand was slashed He
SAID ne did not know why he did
it and remembered but vaguely
what had happened.
Dukes and Gilbert, witnesses
said, had quarreled frequently dur
ing the night while in a saloon.
Continued on Page 2; Col. ~
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DictatOrS Shun
Military Pact

ROME, May 6. UPl-Rcliablc
Nazj sources revealed tonight
that italy and Germany had de-
cidcd against concluding a mill
tarv alliance during Fuehrcr
AdClf HitlCr's current visit TO
Rome.
MuSsolini, il was declared, will
preserve Friendly neutrality" to-
wards a settlement Of the Ger
man minority problem in CzechO-
slCyakia, which Hitler is deter
mined to achieve by peaceful
means"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Airplane Pilot
Receives License

IMPERIAL. May 6. - A new air.
plane pilot tried out his wings Fri
day at the airport here and receiv-
ed his students solo license.
L. E. Sinclair jr of Calipatria,
flying his own new Cub monoplane.
passed his solo tests under the eye
OF J. H. Connolly of IngleWood
departmen: OF commerce inspector,
stationed at Los Angeles municipal
airport.
Sinclair will keep his plane at
the Calipatria airport. He received
his instruction from Albert Meyers,
former BraWley pilot.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Fake Grave Story Tips
Off Folsom Break Plan

HANFORD, Cal, May 6. CUP)-
A plot concocted by George Thomp-
son, serving a life term in Folsom
penitentiary as a habitual criminal
to- escape from prison, was de-
tected when authorities tried in
vain to find an unmarked grave
along the Kings river, Sheriff Lu-
ther P Lofts said today
Thompson, who several years ago
escaped from Jail here and in Mon
terey, told Warden Clyde Plummer
of Folsom he wished to go TO Kings
county to show authorities the
grave of a man he said was slam
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Spades Winners
I'm Perfect Hand

FINDLAY, O., MAY 6. up
The account Cf a contract bridge
game in which fcur housewives
participated and all held perfect
hands leaked cut today despite
their efforts to keep il secret
for fear of being accused cf a
tall story.
The PLAYERS were Mrs. Glen
SchCGler, Mrs. Paul Myers, Mrs.
II. c. Mccullough and Mrs. T.. 4.
Wcolsey. Mrs. SchCC!cr held the
Spades and scored 1909 points
for a Grand Slam and 2lO addi-
tiOnal points.
In his book, Contract Bridg"
Complete, Eli Culbcrts0n places
the chances Of cue player get
ting all the cards in only one suit
rs enc in 1853 billion deals.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06
Parents to Choose
Death or Blindness

CHICAGO. May 6. cUP) - The
parents of five weeks old Helaine
Judith Colan today faced the
delimma of choosing between blind
ness or death for their baby
Diagnosis revealed that Helaine.
daughter of DR.. Herman Colan, 30,
a dentist, and his % year old wife.
Fstelle. is suffering from glioma OF
the retina, a malignant growth OF
cancerous nature which attacks the
sight-giving tissues and spreads to
the brain.
Specialists said nothing could save
her sight and that her only hope OF
life was an operation to remove the
ewes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-06

ENTERS NOT
GUILTY PLEA

LOS ANGELES. Nav 6. cUP)-
Charles A. McLachlan, So. confessed
seX-slaysr OF seven-year-o Jennie
Moreno of Downey, today pleaded
not guilty and not guilty by reason
Ct insanity when he appeared before
judge Clarence Kincaid.
He was ordered to stand trial
June 10. McLachlan confessed slay
inc the Moreno girl last April
after mistreating her