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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01

Floor space Of Commerce Hall, Port
Authority Building. New York, COM
pared with prominent tall buildings
"a illustrate floor expanse of big
National Transportation Show.
WHEN the doors swing open on
~ the giant. billion-dollar Ma
honal Motor Truck Show in New
York on November IL. one of the
biggest exhibits ever held on a
single floor in this country will be
disclosed. Never before has such
display of motorized equipment
been gathered under one roof. The
5oor as compared with some of the
prominent skyscrapers of Manhat-
san - length against height = pre-
sents some interesting statistics.
The Empire State Building tow
srs upwards 1850 feet. Chrysler
building 1904 feet. RIGA. Building
$50 feet. Commerce Hall. Port Au-
shority Building Is 800 feet long
With 100000 square feet overall
area. Visitors to the great trans.
9ortation show are coming from all
ever the world to see this display
" modern trucks, trailers. buses
1ad equipment.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01

urges the widespread use of the seals
as an indication of community part
icipation in the battle to control tub
erculosis.
"During the preparation of your
holiday MALL, I" said Mrs. Thornton,
"make sure you use a Christmas Seal
on every letter, postcard and pack
age.
'The annual seal sale is now in
progress, continued Mrs. Thornton,
"and each seal purchased and used
stamps your home as one in which
mutual goodwill, neighborly help
and better health, through the eradi-
cation Of tuberculosis, are esteemed.
Everyone, everywhere, can part
icipate in the Qife1glving campaign
to stamp out tuberculosis conclud'
ed Mrs. Thornton. "through the
widespread use of tuberculosis Christ
mas seals and thereby proclaim a be-
lief in and support of the finer val
ues of community life.'
Seals will be available in every
community until Christmas Eve.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
compensation benefits?

compensation benefits?
A. The nearest office of the Wash
ington State Employment Service.
Q. Are all workers eligible for ben
efitsa
| A. No. The workers must have beer
employed by a covered employer II
order to create the right to benefits
@. How is the unemployment com
pensation fund built up9
A. By contributions from employ
ers.
O. What does the employer con
! tribute to the fund9
A. 1.8 per cent of total wages pay
able with respect to employment in
1887. 2.7 per cent of total wages pay
able with respect to employment in
1888, 1899, 1910 and 1871.
Q. May worker agree to pay any
part of the employers contribution
A. No. Such agreement is illegal
and void.
@. May an employer deduct any
part of his contribution from the
wages of his workers.
A. No.
Q. Who pays the benefits to I'M
employed workers9
A. The State. Contributions, paid
by employers, have been accumulat
ing since January 1, 1887.
Q. Will this money be used for any
other purpose than for paying bene-
fitsf
A. Absolutely not. All administra-
tive costs are paid by the United
States government.
@. When do unemployment benefits
begin7
A. After January 1, 1889.
Q. May worker be paid for I'M
employment which he has sustained
during 1898?
A. No. Only persons unemployed
after January. 1, 1899, may be paid
benefits To be eligible for benefits,
applicants during January, Februe, y
and March, 1889, must have done
work in covered employment during
the first nine months Of 1888.
Q. What about those claiming bene-
fits during April, May and June
193s9
A. In such cases, the work includes
the entire year of 1888. Eventually
the period will include eight calendar
quarters, or two years. This period
Of wage records, which is important
to claimants, is known as the base
period
Q. Who keeps the record of the
covered work done9
A. The State. Every covered en-
ployer is required TO report every
three months the names and earnings
of all persons who worked in cover.
ed employment for him during the
preceding three months.
Q. When are these reports mades
A. In January, April, July, and Oc-
tober of each year.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
USE CHRISTMAS SEALS ON
ALL HOLIDAY MAI

Placing the stamp of approval ur-
on the tuberculosis Christmas Seal
Sale which opened on Thanksgiving
Day, Mrs. Grover Thornton, Kelso,
President of the American Legion
Auxiliary, Department of Washington
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01

SEND BROKEN GLASSES to DR.
Alfred E. Jones, Box 1916, Spokane.
All glasses and repairs manufactured
by recognized dispensers. adv. t.
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Shore Holds Key

If these appeals fail, the Eastern
Shore is lost to Lewis and with 1t
the senatorShip. If they succeed,
the senatorship should come to
him with the Shore counties.
That's the way it stands.
At noon President Roosevelt and
the Presidents personal party
were Goldsborough's guests at
luncheon in Denton.
Denton was chosen for his
speech because it is centrally To-
Gated north-and-South, because it
is Goldsborough's home town and
it is Goldsborough the New Deal
looks to to swing the counties into
line for Lewis after the President
leaves. There are those who be-
lieve he will get a judgeship out
of it, or something just as good.
But whether he does or not, 1t IS
certain that Senator Tydings will
no longer dispense Federal jobs to
the faithful 50 long as President
Roosevelt occupies the White
House. The purge "goes" so far
as the President is concerned,
whether Tydings loses or wins:
That has been made clear BY
those in the Presidents confidence
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NOrth-South HighuO0y

The President is particularly
interested in the development Of a
new North-and-South highway be.
tween the large centerS OF popula-
ton in the North and the States
south Of the Potomac-one which
would bypass Baltimore and Wash
ington, yet be close enough to
serve them and likewise serve New
York and Philadelphia.
Governor Nice visualizes broad,
straight highways over which
traffic or troops could be moved
rapidly and safely.
It is a big and costly program.
The state government feels it can
not carry it out alone. It hopes
the Federal Government will help.
One of the things the President
came here to say is that he is
receptive to the idea.
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of the Good Samaritan-and
hasnot passed by on the other
side.
You in Maryland will shortly
vote in a primary. The choice
in all parties is solely yours
that goes without saying. But
may I express the hope that the
choice will be the choice OF all
who are entitled to vote in the
primaries-not the choice Of a
group, an Organization" group
or an "anti-organization" group,
not the choice Of any part OF
the voters either in city or in
country, but the choice Of all
who have the right to make the
choice.
At a time of grave interna-
tional troubles in many parts Of
the world, the best contribution
that we at home can make to
our own security is to eliminate
quickly all feelings Of injustice
and insecurity throughout our
own country. For our own safety
we cannot afford to follow those
in public life who quote the
Golden Rule and take no steps
to bring 1t closer.
AS President, I have willingly
defended the interests Of each Of
the nations great groups to the
others. even II the others were
critical. have been just as
glad to defend business to labor
and agriculture, and to defend
labor to business and agricul.
ture, as I have been to defend
agriculture to labor and busi-
ness. That b part Of my public
duty.
When I became President I
found country demoralized and
diSorganized, with aech Of these
groups seeking to survive by
taking advantage Of the others.
AS in the time Of George Wash
ington in 1887, when there was
grave danger that the States
would never become a nation
as in the time of Abraham
Lincoln, when a tragic division
threatened to be laSting-our
own time has brought q test Of
our American Union.
A big part Of m yduty as
President has been to do what I
could to bring our people to-
gether again. That has been my
unchanging purpose since March
4, 1888. The great test for US In
our time is whether all the
groups Of our people are willing
to work together for continuing
progress.
Such progfess comes from
the rank and file of our citi-
zenS, and through the repre-
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international News Photo


fault of their own in factories
found it difficult, if not impos-
sible, to get adequate compensa-
tion for their injuries. A very
proper demand arose for work
mems compensation laws.
Thanks to the pioneering Of a
young Maryland legislator, the
first workmen's compensation
act ever to be passed in the
United States was adopted by
Maryland. Ten years later, I,
following his lead, was helping
to pass a workmen's compenSa-
tion law through the legislature
of the State of New York.
But what I want to empha-
size is that workmen's compen-
Sation laws are not for the sole
benefit of workmen injured in
industry. They confer a def
mite benefit on farmers because
the injured industrial worker is
able to get his compensation
and continue to buy food for
himself and his family.
Later on in the halls of Wash
ington a young Congressman
pushed and pleaded until he got
a parcel post law on the statute
books Of the United States.
That parcel post law was of
principal benefit to those who
lived on R. F.. D. routes. But it
was not for their benefit alone,
for it helped their brothers and
sisters who worked in the cities
Of the country.
And that young Congressman
was the same Maryland legisla-
tor Of earlier days.
Many years later 1t became
clear that the problem Of de-
pendent old age was q trying
one, that the States and the
Federal Government, that en-
ployes, should come together to
pass q nationwide old-age
pension and unemployment
insurance act. Once again the
Representative from the Free
State Of Maryland took the lead
and, thanks to his pioneering,
decent security of life is assured
to millions of our people.
1t is the privilege of some Of
us to dream dreams, and Of
some Of us to carry out the
dreams of others. But in Mary
land you are fortunate in hay
ing a man who not only has
seen visions but has lived to
make his dreams come true.
He symbolizes for the farm
and the city alike the inherent
humanity Of the man who rises
from humble circumstances,
and the inherent ability to grow
in vision and effectiveness in
the fertile soil of American op-
portunity and the American
tradition of equality.
It is suggestive that he has
never forgotten that he learned
to read and write at the knee
Of q Christian minister in Sun
day School. And that Is why.
perhaps. he has lived the LIE
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longed to the liberal school Of
thought.
"Mr. B." said, was the COM
posite of liberal. He not only
admitted the needs and the prob
lens like mfr. A." but he put
his shoulder under the load, he
gave active study and active sup
port to working out methods, in
cooperation with Government.
for the solving Of the problems
and the filling of the needs. Mr..
"B" did not claim that the rem
edies were perfect but he knew
that we had to start with some
thing less than perfect in this
imperfect world.
If we have a government run
by "Mr. AS" of this life. it is
obvious that the nation will slip
behind once mroe in the march
of civilization - bump along
from one 1929 crisis to another.
Yours is the choice.
Lord Bryce, in the last edition
of his great work on the Ameri-
can Commonwealth, said: "An
eminent journalist remarked to
me in 1908 that the two great
parties were like two bottles.
Each bore a label denoting the
kind of liquor it contained. but
each was empty. This at any
rate may be said, that the
parties may seem to have erred
by neglecting to discover
an dwork out any principles ca
pable of slowing the problems
which now perplex the country.
In a country so full of change
and movement as America, new
questions are always coming up
and must be answered. New
troubles surround a government
and 8 way must be found to es-
cape from them; new diseases
attack the nation, and have to
be cured. The luty Of a great
party is to face these. to find
answers and remedies, applying
to the facts of the hour the doc
trines it has lived by, so far as
they are still applicable, and
when they have ceasel to be ap-
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plicable, thinking out new doc
trineS comfortable to the main
principles and tendeScieS which
it represents"
That has been my conception
of the obligations and ideals Of
the Democratic party, for the
Democratic party has always
been a party Of ideas rather
than money, and 1t has always
failed when it has only been one
Of two empty bottles.
The Democratic party will live
and continue to receive the sup
port Of the majority Of Amer
leans just so long as 1t remains
a liberal party. If it reverts to
the situation which Lord Bryce
described more than q quarter
Of a century ago, it will fail.
AS the leader Of that party,
I propose to try to keep it
liberal. AS President of the
United States I conceive that
course to be in the best inter-
estS not Of Democrats alone, but
also of those millions of Amer
ican men and women who are
affiliated with other parties or
with no party at all. And
have the right, in sincerity and
honesty, to make that statement
in any state, in any county and
in any community Of the United
States Of America.
Increasingly during these
past six years q common under
standing Of what unity means
has grown throughout the land.
People have continued to ask
their representatives to be lib
eral, to take the initiative, to
be positive forces in improving
social and economic conditions.
That applies to farmers just as
much as to industrial workers.
You who live on the farm
know well how farmers were ex-
plotted by those who controlled
government fro mthe end Of the
world War to 1933-and by the
monopolies they foStered which
still give us trouble. But I
think you realize also that for
many long years industrial labor
was exploited too. Farmers
have come to realize that unless
industrial labor is prosperous it
cannot buy the food and the
materials for clothing which
are produced from the soil. In
dustrial labor has come to un-
derstand that unless the farm
ers of the country are prosper
Gus they cannot buy the product
of the factories.
Economic lesson number one
of the past 20 years Is that men
and women on farms, men and
women in cities, are partners.
America cannot prosper unless
both groups prosper. That is
the keystone in tn earch Of the
economic and social policy OF
your. Administration in Wash
ton.
May I illustrate again by tai
ing some high-spots?
Nearly 80 years ago people
who were injured through nc
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Sentatives Of their free choice
representatives willing to CO
operate, to get things done IN
the true spirit Of "give and
take"-not representatives who
seek every plausible excuse Tor
blocking action.
What I or any one man may
do Is Of small moment compared
with what the people do. In
this effort to preserve our de-
mocracy and our Union, I am
confident that all who labor In
field and factory will carry on
the good work.
This is our high purpose on
this Labor Day of 1898.
The Washington times., 1938-09-05
Democracy Peril
Cited by Butler"

SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y,
Sept. 5.-"Change in the
authority Of the presidential
office which would in effect
give to the President legisla-
tive as well as executive
power" Is a threat to Amer.
lean democracy, DIR. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, warned
in an address here.
Without mentioning Spe-
officially either President
Roosevelt or the AdminiStra-
tiOn, DIR. Butler, in an annual
address at the Parrish Art
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Museum here, took occasion
to criticize the "sOak-the-
rich" campaign, Federal bu-
reaucracy, the proposed Su"
preme Court reorganization
and the much-diScuSsed pos
sibiIity of q third term for
the President.
What America suffers
from today is paralysis Of will
and there can be no worse pO-
HticaI or social disease than
that" he said.
DemOcracy'S hope for sur
vivaI, he said, depends on an
awakened public opinion to
produce men with statesman
ship ability Of high caliber.
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Complete Text of Presidents Address at Denton Md
NeJV Deal Waste
Hit by Il. R.,' L.

ST. CHARLES, ILL.,, Sept. 5.
New Deal theorists have defi-
nitely prevented the return
Of prosperity on . sound
basis; Col. Theodore ROOse-
welt, son Of the former Presi-
dent, charged at q Repubi-
can meeting here. He de-
clared:
Prosperity cannot return
while the public money Is
being sQuandered, while busi-
ness II being prosecuted, while
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$1,000 at Salisbury

At Salisbury, however, the Presi.
dent found an enthusiastic crowd
of $4,000 assembled on the high
school lawn. The town has q
population Of only 10000. The
President delivered a short speech
to the crowd without leaving his
car.
Riding with the President were
Representatives Lewis and T. Alan
Goldsborough
In the car Immediately behind
the Presidents rode Postmaster
General Farley, Senator Fl Ryan
Duffy, of Wisconsin, and DR.. H. c
"Curley" Byrd, president OF the
University Of Maryland.
Byrd, a native of Crisfield
greeted the President when he
stepped from his yacht there.
Streets Of Crisfield were lined
with sun-tanned fishermen and
seafood merchants. The President
smiled and waved gaily to the
crowds and the normally tactiturn
fishermen smiled and shouted
greetings in return.
Town after town succumbed tc
the Roosevelt smile and "fEeside
voice" as the presidential entour
age moved rapidly up the PENN
sula after leaving CriSfield.
At Pocomoke, Snow Hill, Berlin
and Salisbury the story was the
same-a friendly, cordial. at times
enthusiastic welcome for the first
President to set foot on the
Shore while occupying the presi
Dental office. He has been hert
once before, more briefly.
! Andrew jackson visited Denton
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the value Of our currency
Is uncertain, while the powers
Of the Federal Government
are not used to forward the
good Of the many, but to re-
ward its henchmen and per
secute its opponents"
Roosevelt charged that
"every man, woman and child
who is suffering because Of
this depression may justlfi-
ably lay their Sufferings" at
the Presidents door.
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Vote Next Monday

Thus far on the pilgrimage
down to the hour Of the Presi.
dents start on his homeward
journey this afternoon-there has
been no surface indication that
his visit has changed any votes.
Whatever shifts occur, II any do
occur, will have to come this week,
for the voters go to the polls next
Monday to decide whether they
prefer to be represented in the
Senate by an antiNew Deal
conservative or a proNew Neal
liberal.
President Roosevelt realized in
coming into Maryland that he was
fighting against odds. It made no
difference. He had q fight to
make and he is making It. He
had a message, and he is deliver.
ing it.
Part Of 1t is for Maryland. The
rest of it is for the nation at
large. His speech this afternoon
goes to the whole country by radio
and wire.
There are four bridges in the
Roosevelt-Nice picture as the Pres
ident and Governor Nice get to-
gether in the hope Of working out
an agreement that will be help
full to them and to the State.
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president ASKS
FOR LIBERALISM
i'm DENTON PLEA
Fails TO Name Either
Lewis or Tydings
CONTINUED from Page u

work. This is our high purpose
on this Labor Day Of $685."
The President stepped ashore
from his yacht Potomac at Girls
field at 9:10 q. m. and immedi-
ately started on his circuitouS
drive up the "Shore" to Denton.
Although Republican Mayor
William E. Ward, of Crisfield, had
refused to arrange an official re-
ception for the President, approx
mately 1000 fishermen and town
folks waved him as he passed
through the narrow streets. They
were courteous and cheerful in
their greetings, but they seemed
more curious than anything else.
A note Of frigidity was struck as
the presidential party passed
through a falf-dozen little towns
to find only a handful Of people
on the streets. Cheers for Senator
Tydings were heard in the little
towns,
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once. but It was years before he
became President. He came to
fight Q duel, and for the rest Of
his life carried q bullet in his
chest from the pistol Of q shore
man. The other duellist died.
President Roosevelt ,came not
as Jackson did, to settle a grudge.
He came rather to conciliate, to
talk to the shore as o neighbor.
and to tell the people Of this pen
insula as he told those Of South
ern Maryland yesterday, that he
wants to help them get the
bridges they need to tie Mary
land to Virginia and to tie the
shore to the mainland.
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LAUDS LEWIS FOR LEADERSHIP
IN SOCIAL SECURITY reform
Has Live Life of Good Samaritan,
President Tells MarylanderS

DENTON, Nd, Sept 5.-FoLoWing is the text of
President RooseueIfs Address here this afternoon:
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Haze Three Hopes

There are only three hopes
swinging the shore vote away
from Tydings, who Is none too
popular here, to Lewis, who is less
so because Of his labor backing.
One of these-the principal one
lis the Presidential persuasive.
ness, the persuasiveneSS Of the
New Deal, of the Roosevelt smile,
of the Roosevelt eloquence.
One is the bridges, for the East
ern Shore could use bridge or
two in getting to the mainland.
Patronage is the third-with
Jim Farley and Goldsborough here
to deal with this problem as prac-
tical politicians can.
Anything DR.. Byrd can do will
be so much "velvet."
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Bid for Votes

It was an obvious bid for votes
the votes needed to make Lit
tie Davey" Lewis a Senator In
stead of Millard Tydings. The
Eastern Shore can supply them
If it will. The question is whether
it will, for Southern Maryland
will not, and the rest Of the State
appears almost equally divided
between Tydings and Lewis.
All the way up the shore today
from Crisfield to Denton, with
several stops along the way-the
President was accompanied by
Little Davey," New Deal choice
for the Senate, by bulky Post
master General Farley, Of the
genial smile and practical view OF
political patronage; by President
H. C. Curly" Byrd, Of the Uni
versity of Maryland, native Of
Crisfield, and by Representative
T. Alan Goldsborough, Of Denton,
whose rubber heels have left prints
in the sands of every county on
this side of the bay as he can
vases them for Lewis votes.
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Here They Are

They are:
IA bridge across the lower
Potomac at the Colonial Beach
ferry crossing between Morgan.
town, Md, and Dahlgren, Va.
2.-Another over the SuSque-
hanna at Havre De Grace.
3.-A third across Baltimore
harbor.
"A Chesapeake Bay bridge
which probably would cross the
bay somewhere in the neighbor-
hood Of Kent Island, not far from
the present Matapeake ferry cross
ing.
President Roosevelt and Cover
nor Nice both believe the bridge
program would be a valuable con-
tribution to. the national defense,
including the defense of Washing
ton in case of an enemy attack
on the Atlantic Seaboard. They
also see them as a partial Solu-
ton of a difficult highway prob
lem,
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since the twoday invasion"
began.
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For two reasons, which l think
you will approve, have &C
cepted the invitation Of your
Congressman to come to the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland to-
day.
The first reason is to give you
and me a chance to reeStabllsh
q fact which we thought was
long ago thoroughly established
by the Constitution of the
United Staes, even if it is de-
MED by some of your newspapers
and by some of your candidates
for public office. That fact