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EDITORIAL
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THE FORT’ WORTH PRESS
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SEWARD R. SHELDON.
JAMES F. POLLOCK........
.............Editor
..Business Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postottice at
Fort Worth. Texas. Oct. 3. 1931. under act of March 3. 1879
to death. He had served only 10 months.
- The judge who sentenced him — who
called his crime "about as vicious a thing
as ever came to this court’s attention”—
opposed the parole; so did the prosecutor
who tried his case.
The woman he beat up is still suffer-
ing from her injuries, a year after the
crime was committed.
How come the parole, then? Well, a
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state senator who is also a lawyer wrote
a brief, one-paragraph letter to the parole
board, urging that the parole be granted.
The senator says he knows little about
the case, except that he has a vague notion
that an injustice was done. He does not
know the convict personally, , ,
Where did he get his information on
the case? Oh, he got it from a police
prosecutor in the city where the crime
was committed an underling in the ad-
ministration of justice who gained some
notoriety when the assault look place by
refusing to Issue a felony warrant for the
Bureau of Circulation.
TUESDAY, APRIL 16 1935.
| assaulter’s arrest.
You needn’t read the outline of this
case more than once to see that there is
- something exceedingly peculiar about it;
a’nd it is worth thinking about, because
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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Wav"
A Thought for Today
GET a watch, o Lord, before my mouth:
S keep the door of my lips. Psalms. .
141:3. - . ..
"lander is a vice that strikes a double
; blow, wounding both 'him that commits .
and him against whom it is committed.
—Saurin '
It is typical of the way in, which subter- ■
ranean political-influences can be brought,
to bear in favor of criminals.
Here we have a man sent up for a
peculiarly vicious kind of crime; a man
who very obviously deserves to be kept
behind the bars for a long, long time.
He gets out after serving a scant 10
months, because somehow, somewhere,
somebody behind the scenes pulled a few
wires for him.
A police court prosecutor talks to a
state senator, the senator writes to the
By RODNEY DUTCHER
TJASHINGTON.— If you steal any of the
VV four-billion dollar work-relief fund,
it won’t be a felony.
That’s true, at least, if you can Judge
by the act itself, which says it’s merely
a "misdemeanor."
• Section II says: Any person who makes
false statements as to a project or relief
aid with intent to defraud the Govern-
ment or who diverts or tries to divert
money improperly, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine
of not more than $2000, not more than a
year's imprisonment, or both.
The section has added to the worries
of certain officials who already feared in-
roads by gratters and unscrupulous poli-
ticians. They figure a misdemeanor is a
police court affair and have visions of
somebody stealing ten million dollars and
then expiating with 110 days in jail.
*.. *
parole board and in a mysterious way
the gates swing open.
This sort of thing is as common as |
Teeth May Be Added
• T AST year, to protect PWA funds, Sec-
L retary Ickes got through Congress an
amendment to the penal code which placed
fraudulent written instruments In the
felony class, with top penalties of 1,0 years
and $10,000, plus loss of citizenship rights.
. This was aimed at collusive bidding,
false statements of financial condition
false affidavits as to land values, and sim-
WHERE
SHALL
START
E. D. AND THE BANKS.
THEY are trying to wreck the Roosevelt
I bank reform-bill. On one side are the
Coughlins cure-allers. They have the e
tremeand loosely drawn Nye-Sweeney bill,
which cannot pass Congress this, session
but which can help to block the Adminis-
tration bill. On the other side are re-
actionary bankers and Senator Glass de-
termined to prevent reform.
And lurking in the - background are
Democratic congressional leaders, with,
knives up their sleeves, ready to finish-
the work of the more open enemies of the
New Deal. They hope at the last minute
to slash the heart out of the Roosevelt-
grass, in almost every state in the Union.
If represents the one big reason why our
crime problem is so acute.
liar tricks..
Although similar provisions weren't
THE ROERICH PACT
put in the work-relief bill, don't start lay-
ing your plana too soon. As on many oth-
er phases of the act, New Peak lawyers
don't agree yet whether grafters can be
threatened with additional prosecution.
And if they finally conclude Section 9 10
the work-relief act itheir only protection
you can expect an attempt in the Senate
for .an ame admen t to insert more t eet h.
Johnson Says:
By HUGH s. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, D. C. — There
W is a lot of muddy thinking
on the difference between the
. McSwain plan for snatching all
profits from -----■ -
war and the Com
Nye plan to L PSA
abolish practi-, A
cally all prof- E
its in war. I.. ,
Newspaper I.-) —
comment and . -
even some 0
men in Con- AUa
gress clearly T
h ave not d
grasped this A “wthga.
difference. I
Both plansCOX
claim to pre-BamATE
vent war prof-HA1974
Its and check -
war inflation. HUGH JOHNSON 3
The Nye plan lets war prices rise 1
as they will but takes all profits
4 in excess of 6 per cent on capital ' 1
and half of all below 6 per cent.
It is true that it makes a ges-
ture toward price fixing-but only .
to condemn it. The McSwain,
plan prevents all rise in’ price, d
taxes 100 per cent of all war i
profits in excess of peace profits,
and boosts all income taxes to 1
the point of diminishing returns. :
The Nye Man is based on some
perfectly plain errors of fact and
thinking •
It wrongly says that high taxes 2
prevent inflation. Now, tax is
an element of cost Cost is an ,
element of price. High taxes 1
make high prices High prices
are Inflation. Q E. D. a
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Civic, Bui
nal Circ
Tribute
DHIRTY-ONE years ago. Prof. Nicholas
. Roerich had an idea. Yesterday at j
the White House, the plenipotentiaries of
19 American nations, including the United |
States, celebrated Pan-American day by Debate NRA Decision
translating his idea into, an international TF all lawyers agreed with one another.
covenant. •
.Under the Roerich pact, the signatory
nations agree to protect cultural institu-
tions and monuments within their borders
at all times and to respect the inviolability
of those treasures of human genius- In'
times of war. It is an open compact of
civilization to end vandalism of libraries,
cathedrals, museums and the like. *Al of
1 they probably would have to go out of
business, which doubtless would be pretty
THE Nye plan is based on a *
I statement that borrowing bv 1
our government without high 1
taxes gave us a far greater in-, .
flation than the allies because
they taxed to the bone. That 1
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basic statement is 100 per cent
wrong. Our war inflation was so
.217 per cent, 80 per-cent of It
occurred before we did any war
| borrowing. Only 20 per cent of
I it occurred after we began the
biggest borrowing in our history.
The allies inflation was 369 per
cent or 70 per cent greater than
terrible.
Backstage argument as to whether the
Belcher NRA test case should have been
dropped is still bitter and violent. And
the best way to start fur flying when three
or four government attorneys get together |
is to bring up the Sehechter poultry code
case, which NRA and the Justice Depart ,
ment are now speeding toward the first
and then pass It with much the nations of the world are -Invited to
waver what they have done. * add their signature to the document ap-
proved so enthusiastically * the republics bis NRA decision by the highest bench
of the two American continents. -
Thus does progress inch forward. And |
Eccles bill I----.
palaver to cover what they have done
Of the dire need for reform of the
Federal Reserve System there can be, no
doubt. Whether it is called a central bank
or something else, the people, through
their government, must capture control of
the nation’s money power. Business can
not breathe without credit. As long as
the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks
are run by governors responsible only to
private bankers, the latter will rule, 1 n-
der the Roosevelt-Eccles bill the Govern-
: ment would have to approve the selection
of the regional governors, and would con
trol the committee which supervises; the)
all important, open market operation;
7/When the President took office he
promised to “drive the money changers
from the temple." To that end he forced
through Congress the stock exchange and
banking law- But ,the reforms are far
from complete. The pending bill is the
next step. It Is the answer to those who
would change the whole system overnight.
What the opponents of the Roosevelt- ■
.....: Eccles bill- the American Bankers’ AS 0-
ciation, the Liberty League, and the con-
servative Senators- fail to understand is
that reform is inevitable. If they succeed
ip wrecking this bill, they will get by
until next Winter. But then they prob-
ably, will get the Coughlin bill oi some-
thing worse.
—--Thisis typical of the gen era I si t uat ion
in. Wa thington today. The conservatives
are cutting under the New Deal, with the
foolish idea, that if they can only get rid
thus do persevering idealists like Porfessor
Roerich and his small band of followers
mold a better civilization.
PITY THE POOR CONGRESSMAN
WASHINGTON dispatches say that a
VV move is on foot among certain Con
gressmen to cut short the work of the
present session. One • congressman ts..
quoted a.....aying that Congress should ad-
journ after passing the NHCA and social
security bills and voting Hie regular ap-
propriation measures.
."If Mr. Roosevelt insists upon Con-
gress enacting all Hie legislation he has
*
Mr. Jackson Started Something
w A AT OUR READERS SAY--------
Editor, The Press:
The New York Circuit Court of Ap-. . -
peals, second most important federal court, see where a . li Jacks
sustained convictions of a poultry corpora- going to report relter clients to
tion on 17 counts alleging code violation.
but decided against the Government on’
the Iwo wages and hours counts, insisting
that handling of poultry after it entered
New York State was a matter of intrastate
commerce and hence not subject to regu-
lation under NIRA. ,
See Another Defeat
MANY lawyers here who regard wages
IVE and hours as the vital factor in NRA.
. believe Hie. Supreme Court can hardix fall
lo follow the reasoning of Judge Learned
Hand, who wrote the lower court adverse
proposed at this session," complained this
congressman, we will be in session until
August.
This may be a potent argument with
congressmen, butitwil hardly—impress
—the rest of the country so heavily. Aller 1
all, there are some pretty- important meas-
ures on the calendar the banking bill, for
instance, the drug bill, the utilities bill,
the Wagner labor bill, and Home others,
win or lose, these measures need final
action at an early date
opinion. They point out-that Hand is a
liberal jurist who has great prestige here.
' But Donald Richberg, Justice and NRA
lawyers, are enchanted by the clean bill
of health the lower court gave NIRA and
its codes-in all other respects - •
They half-expect to lose the case on
-wages and hours before the Supreme Court
but believe a supporting decision there
If Congressmen have to stick, around in
- -At ashinmo until A . ... n
that’s what they were elected for, isn t it?
of .the Roosevelt program the.country will
placidly go back to being ruled by the
interests. Many Democratic politicians
are under the samedelusion.
That Is the way of disaster." We are
not out of the depression yet. The Presi-
dents legislative program for recovery and
reform must he enacted within the next
few weeks, before, Congress adjourns.
This will not happen automatically. It
will not happen unless the great mass of
voters supporting the New Deal make
. themselves heard on capitol hill above the
clamor of the vested lobbies and the
partisan politicians. It will not; happen
unless the President drives through the
obstructionists with all of his power 8 of
leadership.
MURDEROUS CROSSINGS
would strengthen NRA in that—respect as
well as in all others by a clear definition
of the extent to which wage-hour regula-
i tion can go. Admitting a psychological
danger to NRA. they would quickly rush
up another test case designed to delimit
more definitely the valid area of wage-
hour regulation......
(Copyright, 1935. by NEA Service, Inc.)
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to any answer
A T Rockville, Md., just outside of Wash-
A ington, a passenger train plowed Into
a school bus, killing 14 high schoolestu-
d en ts and injuring—othors This t ragedy ...
at the doorstep of the capital, typical of —crick ML. Kerby. Question Editor: Fort Worth
able question of fact by writing to Fred
WHY DO THEY OPPOSE?
COL NCILMEN MONNIG and Harrell are
U quoted in published statements as be-
Ing opposed to Councilman Hammond’s
proposal to set up a city utilities depart-
ment.
We cannot understand their anxiety
over a measure that would re-establish a
former city department and give it added
powers. Both councilmen are worried
over the expense the new department
would add to the city government. They
have, obviously, overlooked the impotency
of the city in rate regulation matters
since Council, upon the recommendation
so many grade crossing fatalities through
out the country, underscores the demand 1
that the bulk of the $800,000,000 ear
marked for highways in the work-relief′
program he spent for the abatement of
such death traps.
The Maryland crossing is only one of
some 250,000 potential agencies of mas-
sacre in the United States. Last year
these caused an estimated 2000 deaths and
5000 injuries.
A-lethal grade crossing can be exter-
minated for as little as $25,000. Gov.
La Follette of Wisconsin reduced the
death rate from this cause by 50 per cent
1 ,lti one year with an abatement program
financed by the state and railroads. No
form of public works offersquicker re
turns in jobs and salvaged lives than this.
. Now that the means are at hand to
give work and prevent death it would be
indefensible to spend this money on con-
1 struction of highways’not vitally needed.
Auto drivers, especially those entrust-
ed with the lives of passengers, must
■ learn to stop, look and listen. The Goy- '
ernment’s job is to send out its work
of City Manager Fairtrace, abolished the
■ utilities •department and are willing for
the city to go along in a haphazard man-
ner seeking only the small crumbs the
utilities see fit to drops from their table.
City Manager Fairtrace's Indifference |
crews at once to start dirth IM in a
nation-wide project of death -proofing the
highways.
in European Crisis, I S Continues
| to Hold Aloof Headline. Well anyway
it isn’t a bag,
.=.
toward the-Millily question alone should------ -
be sufficient justification for a unanimous | Those Dutch professors seeking abso-
vote of Council for the new ordinance. We lute zero might try trumping their wives'
hope that Councilmen Harrell and Monnig aces.
do__not vnicetheopinion—ofthe whole——-
Council and that they will see fit to re.
consider their opposition to the' new meas-
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ONE PARAGRAPH NOTE
FREES A CRIMINAL
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St.p N. IV.. Washington, D. C. inclosing J
cents in stamps for regly. Medical and
legal advice cannot be given
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Never say, "Do you ever expect to go
again?; say "expect ever to go again."
1 ike $1 a day, paobably a 12-
hour day at that. I do not be-
Neve in welfare workers turning
down a job, but 1 admire their
| spunk in refusing to work for Mr.
Jackson." C. T. MILLER.
915 Camp Bowie Blvd.
* * *
Judge Dunklin
Explains Statement
Editor, The Press:..:
With reference to the quotation
attributed to me in Austin accord-
_ ax to your issue Of April 11th, 1
Cotton all day for 75 cents, but-I Editor, he-less. :. wish to
didn’t have to walk 10 miles to ” an etiele m vour pa per, dated. The statement I made was in. a
do it. I’ll bet Mr. Jackson wouldrsoctal conversation" with several,
li April ul gave me a pain that l and grew out of my desire that such
not clean anyone’s bricks for .1 can't locateIt seems a certain of the furniture as could be given
walking —an called Jackson is complaining a legitimate use. such as chairs.
, offici here and in A .-tin be ." ’ll tape stries etc., be saved and
life welfare men just will not placed in the service of legitimate
ork for him I am glad that undertakings, just as the 1 nited
a few men left who will States Government sells to respec-
not sell their labor for nothing, "tors of the law the automobiles
marine a n an payin ' d from bootleggers rather
Or walking afl The way out on the ’ than destroy the same
Cleburne Road just to work on a I did not think my language
would be construed as favoring
any relaxation of the war on vice.
Washington because they do not !
want to clean his brick for 75.
cents or Pi a day. Mr. Jackson
must remember that the poor pio.
ple haven’t exon carfare 2.....its
a day, going and coming.
1 guess Mr. Jackson expects
them to walk the 10 miles to ele in
his brick for him. I have chopped
cents an hour, Tet atone
10 miles to do it,
Why can’t Mr Jackson
scale of wages that the
;... In 1905
ommercia
I-1-Hort Wort
% Fort
in writing to the editor,
be as brief as possible. Let-
ters should not exceed‛250
words. As evidence of good
faith, sign your full name
and address. if you do not
wish to have your name used
say so
•.
Agrees With
Relief Workers
pay the c
Govern-w
ment specifies—30 cents per hour? there
• Then poor people could ride in
their jobs, and Mr Jackson would
get all the help he needs
W. O. WHATLEY
3222 Elis Ave.
>11
ere a “‘good’
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jut on the
work on :
orker car
Fair Enough . . By Westbrook Pegler
” ours. We repressed Inflation by ■
price control which the Nye plan
says is no good but which ac-Dlr
tually .reduced inflation here
wherever it was used.
Here are fallal faults In the
Nye plan. It lets prices go as
they will, hoping to recoup in-
creased cost to the government
by tax. But our people will have
to pay constantly soaring prices.
They will recoup nothing. The
income of all classes is to ho
- taxed to the bone Thatwill-de- .
strov real wages and punish The
I civilian population as” it has
• never been punished in any v ar.
Civilian morale in war is as Im-
portant as a military morale
TT was admitted by the pro
1 ponent of the N'ye plan that
its limitation of personal income
to $10,000 a year heavily taxed
will destroy employment in do-
Certainly I recognize the law 441-
• mestie and personal service His
comment of this was, in effect.
That’s just too bad ‘‘ There
were 3,379,000 breadwinners en-
1930.
He serve
an here.
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animation
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NEW YORK - The Florida mendous tracts opened up for
I State Hotel Commission, estr- homesteading or purchase on easy
mates that the sun-clasers who terms in tracts of ten acres or
visited the Peninsula this winter more by overall farmers from
spent $625,000,000. The commis-various parts of the country who
sion exaggerates but business un-can’t make a crop on their old
doubtedly was much improved land any more. This kind of
and, moreover, the people who pioneering will take a very, game
have a stake in the state have type of settler who is willing to
definitely, ceased to regard Flor- do his farming in person, get his
da as a fly-by-night carnival and hands dirty and hold still in the cloud
their customers as suckers. In presence of snakes, alligators and way;
•'Miami the-- ------------- he .u.....ih n— I......
thorizing condemnation o' articles I, gaged in that work in
used in furtherance of trime and ′-- -
commend all officers in doing
their duty in putting an end tol
criminal enterprises.
* --IRRY DUNKLIN-
They are lergely people who
. now no other w ay of earn
living..**
Worst of all. Industry can’t be
mobilized on some fraction or
This Is Life
By JAC K M VX w ELL
ITIELLO, and howdy-do!
11 For instance "It’s today that
I win living, not, a month ago
Havin’, Iosin', takin’, givin’. as
LIFE wills it so. Yesterday a
of sorrow fell across the
. has been a sin-
cere attempt to
break the polit-
ical power of
a sort of minor
F
′* Q .What isthe difference between
stratosphere and the troposphere? A. tion a
, The stratosphere is the upper portion of
the atmosphere above 11 kilometers more
j or less, depending on altitude, season and
weather, in which temperature changes
but little with altitude, and clouds of
water never form, and in which there is
practically no convection. The troposphere,
is all that portion of the earth’s atmos-
phere below the stratosphere. -
.-* *.* •
Q. Give the meaning and origin of
the proverb, "A Roland for your .Oliver."
A. Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne,
is the hero of the "Chanson de Roland."
which also records the exploits of his
friend Oliver. The hair-breadth escapes
and escapades of the two are about equally
improbable and startling in this piece of
old French literature, "A Roland r for
• your Oliver" means "tit for tat," or "one
tale as good a D a not her."
Q What is the home address of
' Lowell Thomas? A. Cloverbrook, Pawl-
Ing, N. Y.
_____Q.____Was Lancaster, Pa., ever the capl
Cal of the United States? A. It “was the
capital for one day when the Continental
: : *
—TheDaily-Nosegay----1. — Congress driven bytes chglsh from
222-.xerxureniconeniigee : *ewdr..olok, we hen.or
/
league Tam-
many orgariiza-
ter a 1
ment
blers
thieves
d scat-
ettle-
of gam-
a n d
from
the underworld
of the northern
cities who have
been making
their mi n 1 e r
quarters there
for several years.
Pegler
Nr. Elmer Pope.
Mr. Joe Caldwell,
■ State Representatives,
Capitol, Austin.
1777.
TN his illuminating book, "Ten Thousand
1 Public Enemies," Courtney Ryley Cooper
reveals that a. group of business men from Dear Elmer
a certain ec’ty wvidttedw a Department of «
Justice official not long ago and told him
that they had raised a large fund to
finance a vigilance committee in their
town to drive out the crooks. They want-
ed the official to advise them how to go
about it.
His advice was short and to the point.
"Go back and chase out your crooked
lawyers and politicians," he said, "and
your crime problem won't bother you any
more.” .
It has been said so often that. modern
crime is tied up with political and legal
corruption that it hardly seems necessary
to repeat it. But once in a while the day's
news provides an admirable illustration.
The Ohio parole board recently author-
ized a parole for a young man who was
serving a one-to-ten-year term for criminal
assault on a widow, whom he beat almost
Dear Joe:
I see that, springing to the mike,
You two denounce as Sock listie.
Red, radical and Corr ‘e.
One, the bill to sell, or share,
, Our gas that’s wasting in the air.
The other, the measure, if you please, .
To regulate utilities.
4
" Which proves again, to. my poor eye,
That the Communistic ery
Is usually a peeved bellow.
A sort of poisonous baloney
Used in their witless acrimony,
By those who, barren and devoid
of argument, but much annoyed,
Seek to cry down the other fellow
On some proposal they don’t like.
Yours, etc..
LESTER (Just call me Les)
at.
3 it.may rain again tomorrow,
mosquitoes by the million. How-it may rain . but, say, ain’t it
lever, the returns should be bigFINE TODAY? Yowzer! - Hit
' because in the land around Lake sho am • • but hits done start'd
, .to "RAIN, and I gotta walk
Okeechobee the present population HONE And, that’s what I get
of farmers sometimes have to put for copying in order to fill TO.
weights on their beans and other | DAY’S space
garden truck to keep the stuff
all of 3 per cent earnings on cap
ital. No-trustee of stockholders’
money could run any business at
that rate, much less take on,the
added rise of making new, vast. •
arid unusual war production It
would certainly paralyze our de
fense at the very moment of at-
tack.
There is here an abuse of slo-
gans The McSwain slogan is
"Take the profits out of war.'
Masquerading under that, slogan,
the Nye plan attempts to destroy
the profit system in war.
walking In the min.
- .... .(Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syn-
8 Copy-car dleate Inc. All rights reserves Repro-
1 duct ion in whole or in part forbidden )
from hopping out of the ground,
| roots and all. The Okeechobee
farmers take terrible risks, too,
and more than 2000 bodies were
buried in one sandy trench in
West Palm Beach after the hurri-
cane which blew the lake out of
jits shallow saucer a Cew years
ago. Notwithstanding this, most of
the survivors went back, children
and all, as soon as the water fell,
because there was no such land
or climate anywhere else in the
The North ‘Surrenders’ to Lee
Uy C. L. DOUGLAS
But Florida is still pretty much United States,
of a rich man's country and the * * .
governor, Dave Scholtz, who is COME say the whole of the Ever-
out of Brooklyn, N. Y., went so D glades will be brought to heel
far last fall as to announce that
persons without visible means of
support would be turned back. He
was referring to people without
money. With millions of acres of
land which could be used for
farming, they still regard a man
with a roll of vacation money in
and the" farming business will hut-
rank the sun-tan industry of the
pleasure coasts, east- and west.
But before that can be .accomplish-
ed, Florida will have to elect a
governor with another definition
of visible means of support.
But Florida is really growing
the pocket of his white pants or
a racketeer from the North as
more desirable than a pioneer
whose western farm has blown ,( story about alligators or snakes,
away on the wind. There were plenty of alligators
up now. There was a time a few
years back when you couldn't buy
space in a Florida paper to print
iD end %
Q How does Secretary .of the In--
terior. Harold L. Ickes, pronounce his
name? A. Ik-ess, with accent on first
syllable. .
Q. Name the capital of Missouri. A.
Jefferson City.
Q__Who were the first and second
American Vaces” of the World War? A.
Edward V. Rickenbacker was officially
credited with the destruction of 95 en-
•my planes. Frank Luke was second with
18 official victories.
***
Q. Does Soviet, Russia have the
i same calendar as the United States? A.
| Yes.
Q. Who is the Lieutenant Governor
of Temressee?" A. There is no such of-
re in that state.
C, o * * * *
Q. Does President Roosevelt receive
retirement pay from New York State2 A.
No. He did not serve the state 15 years,
which is one of the requirements for re-
tirement pay.
THE moving etua-t ammo
for =tec=n=-uring-the win-
ter poking around on the edges
of the jungles in a pretense of
inspecting sites to which the
movie industry might be trans-
planted in the event that the Cali-
fornia Legislature didn’t behave.
Of course, there was no intention
to move the Industry to Florida
but the Idea was pretty anyway.
Imagination drew a beautiful pic-
ture of lovely gents’ anil ladies
disporting their lithe, lean biscuit-
brown bodies in swimming pools
inlaid with emeralds the size of
paving blocks and of Johnny
Weismuller and Miss Lupe Velez
lovingly punching each other‛8
ears off in the night clubs. This
I was supposed to tegrify the Cali-
fornia' "Legislature. I haven't
heard whether it did; but anyway,
the moving picture industry is
not moving to Florida.
There is some talk in Florida
now of Inducing Hie Federal Gov-
ernment to Install a system, hy
which the water level In the Ever-
glades can be controlled and tre-
There were, plenty of alligators
and snakes but the Chamber of
eseset3
off. One night a woman in West
Palm Beach phoned the police to
come -and kill an eight-foot alli-
gator which was eating her
chickens in the yard. The police
shelled it to death with a rifle and
THE Civil War—or. If you
1 prefer It, the War Between
the States kppears to tre-irits
last stages; except, perhaps, in
Home corners of Texas and oth-
er Southern states.
The North, after all these
- years of post-bellum conflict
around the fireside, has at last
“surrendered" — and it now
seems logical that the South, in
receiving the sword, should give
one in return.
In all the country above the
Mason-Dixon line it is doubtful
whether any family has better
right to wear the title "Yankee"
than that of Fish one of the
oldest among the families of
New York.
And so it appears especially
significant that one of the clan,
Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., should
rise in the House of Represen-
tatives at Washington the other
tween the people of the North
and the South.
%, * *
“MR. SPEAKER, said
1V1 Congressman from
the
New
a young reporter from uprNorth
wrote a nice little piece for the
local paper. He almost lost his
job over that. Still, to be fair,
the alligators and snakes do not
run a very high score against
people.
‘In Miami, when they, had their
hurricane, a press association re-
porter was locked up in the jail
overnight so he couldn’t tell the
story. The local Interests were
trying to hold the hurricane down
to, a light southerly breeze. When
the reinforcements arrived and
heard what had happened to their
boy friend they sent out descrip-
tions of one of the worst hurri-
canes the world has ever known.
That taught the locals something
about the handling of explosives.
(Copyright. 1935, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.),
York, “the time has come to
pul at rest any lingering enmi-
ity, animosity, or resentment
arising out of the Civil War.
We are a united nation with a
common Interest in the destiny
of our republic, no matter what
section of the country we come
' from. The past differences be-
tween the North and South
must be forever buried, and all
sections of the country must
present a solid and united front
in defense .of the ideals and
principles of government which
they cherish and to uphold them
against our enemies from with-
it! who seek to tear them down
and destroy our free institu-
tions and republican' form of
government.
"With this purpose in view,
and in a spirit of good will,
and to further cement the feel-
Ing of unity between the North
and South, engendered by both
the-Spanishand the World
Wars, I introduced today a
resolution authorizing funds to
erect an equestrian statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, to be located at
Arlington, Va., his home prior'
to the Civil War. and where both
. northern and Confederate sol-
diers have found their last rest-
ing place.”
TTAMILTON FISH, in asking
1 for this $50,000 memorial to
"the South's greatest soldier,
pointed o ut r
that , the naIMes
cit y already 12"
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not unmindful
that General
Lee was a
West Point
graduate, that
he served as
superintendent - Douglas
of the academy, and that he dis-
tiguished himself in '46 durin;)
the War with Mexico. -
“One of the most remarkable
men in American history," said
the Yankee from New York, "a I
man of lofty and pure character, |
an able, brilliant and daring gen-
eral.".
Mr. Fish asked for a public |
hearing on the resolution so that
ample opportunity will be af-
forded citizens to express their
sentiments.— He told the House ■
that:
"There are few survivors Sr
the Grand Army of the 'Repub-
lic, but I am confident that they
would be among, the first to pay
tribute to the memory of their
gallant foj." " 1
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