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THE
Washington
Lowdown
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By Rodney Dutcher
o Threats in Letters
Figures Juggled
Talks in Trilliong
WASHINGTON — The Townsend
Jan for old age pensions will be
aughed out of Washington and
jnany old hearts probably will be
yroken in the: process.
On the other ~hand, scores of
Lright voung stenographers on
capitol Hill. will be darned glad
when the old folks stop hoping
for that S2OO a month.
vou find them working into the
Jinner hour, night after night,
monotonously typing off letters ad
vising constituents that the sena
tor or he representative has re
ceived their communication about
the Townsend plan and is giving
intense consideration to old age pen
<ion proposals.
No one guite remembirs when so
many letters and postal cards were
coming in support of a bill. Look
ing over batches of them, you're
chiefly impressed by what secms
10 be the desperate character of a
large proportion.
Pleas of need are interspersed
with solemn assurances that = the
recipients will be‘able to spenq the
monev, as the Townsend plan would
require—and how!
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Threats in Letters
More than every other letter
hears a threat— ‘We voted for you
in the last election and, if you stand
with us now, will do so again.”
Few barrages of organized pleas
are quite as crude about that as
these Townsend letters, so often
written by shaky hands,
8o many threats are bound to
have some effect. 'You will find a
cubstantial—but ineffective and in
many cases insincere—bloe of con
sressmen who will tell you they're
in favor, Few of them ever ex
pect a chance to vote an the mea
sure, though Congressman John S.
McGroarty of California, who intro
dneeg it in the House, already
claims 95 pledged wo vack it
Although the high hopes of many
of the aged will be dashed, the
Townsend JW may do some
good. The administeation and
Congress may consent to a& more
libiral old age pension systen than
they would have consideved if there
had been mo Dr. Townsend, even
though they refuse to stand the
whol= economic system on its head
at the behest of the doctor and his
followers.
Figures Juggled Wildly
No one can be quite sure what
would happen if the Townsend plan
were adopted, but any economist
vou meet will assure you it would
be pretty awful.
When it comes to the sales or
transactions tax designed to fin
ance the plan, Townsendites seem
to leap about from one figure to
another and the figures often seem
unreliable.
When the plan seemed to com
prehend a 10 per cent retail sales
tax, it was quickly pointeq out that
even on 1929 business, that would
amount to but a fourth of an esti
mated $20,000,000,000 a y<ar needed
to pay the pensions.
Somebody else carefully figured
out that the plan would mean a 70
per cent tax on everything you
bought and one simple way of criti-
Cizing the plan is to say it would
take half the present national in
come and give it to 8 or 9 per cent
of the population.
Talks in Trillions
Lately, Dr, Townsend has becen
talking in trillions—proposing a 2
per cent sales tax on a trillion dol
lars and more of sales such as he
Savs we had in 1928 ang 1929. When
it is claimed that all money trans
actions in 1932 totaled only $136,-
000,000,000 and that the tax on that
would bring about a seventh of the
required funds, one is assured the
tax could be increased or that
there’'d be so much business with
the plan in operation that 2 per
cent would suffice.
Attempts to estimate the “vastly
increased business,” higher prices
and other effects predicteq for the
Townsend plan send you off into
dstronomical and fourth-dimension -
al calculations which vou would
better avoid if you ever want to
lind your way out.
Someone suggested recently to
Dr. Townsend that there seemed
10 reason why the age limite &or
Pensions shouldn’t be reduceq from
the present age of 60 to 58 or 50.
Sure, saig Townsend.
“Then, eventually, nobody would
be working 7
“Exactly,” was the reply. “We'll
et the machines do the work.”
i
They'll Take Substitute
Stamps affixed to many com
,], Uhications to congressmen hear
he motto:
- There is no substitute for the
tOWnsend plan.”
But at the risk es making a lot
°f people sore, your correspondent
“Ugzests that the vast amount of
“Nerey and effort put behind the
blan woulg pe more e“m if the
Subborters realized they fi&hfln
;‘_’O;ficem a ‘substitute W
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00, Mz for the best one they could
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Regents Bill Attacked On 2 Fronts
State Attorneys Prepare To Rest Case Against Hauptmann
DEFENDANT SLATED
T 0 HAVE “INNINGS™
DURING THIS WEEK
Ladders, Letters, and
Lucre Become Crux
Of State’s Case
GERMAN HAD MONEY
Prisoner Sits in Cell and
Scans Own Brokerage
Accounts :
BY JOHN FERRIS
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
FLEMINGTON, N. J. — (® —
Ladders, letters and lucre became
Saturday night the crux of the
state’s case against Bruno Richard
Hauptmann. 7
The ladder, thus far excluded as
evidence but promised as an exhibit
before the trial is over, is that on
which the state contends the kid
naper of the Lindbergh baby des
cended with the child. Hauptmann,
the state will attempt to prove,
made it.
The letters are the series of
ransom demands., Experts " Thawvs
testified that Hauptmann wrote
them. . :
Sudden Wealth
The lucre represents the suddew
wealth which, the state says
Hauptmann display<d shortly after
a 350,000 ransom was paid to a
mysterious “John” by Dr. John I,
Condon, acting for Col. Charles a.
Lindbergh. Condon ang Col. Lind
bergh say that “John” is Haupt
mann.
The prisoner sat Saturday night
in his cell, always under the eyes
of guards, and studied photostatic
eopies of his own brokerage accounts
—the accounts by which .the state
hopes -to prove tHat & Hauptmiann
came into possession of his unex
plained evealtin immediately after
the ransom was palid.
Defense attorneys had. planned
to study the accounts Saturday,
but instead of going to Trenton
where the accounts are being held,
Chief Defense Counscl Edward J.
Reilly obtained copies of the ac
counts and sent them to Haupt
mann. &
To Advise Counsel
The prisoner is expected to fami
liarize himself with every phase of
his transactions and thus be pre
pared to advise his counsel when
the state begins presentation of this
testimony,
They will submit to the jury of
eight men and four women that
Hauptmann, a carpenter with few
jobs to keep him occupied in the
depression period, managed to have
an income of $49,960 between the
time of the payment of the ransom.
April 2, 1932, and the date of his
arrest, September 19 last.
As it progresses through the de-
(Continued on Page Four)
Tom Law Will Speak
To Rotary Wednesday
Tom Law, past distvict’ governor,
59th District. Rotary, industrial
chemist of Atlanta, Ga., will fur
nish the program for Wednesday,
January 23rd, Rotary meeting.
Mr. Law has held several im
portant internatidnal chairman
ships in Rotary and will bring to
the club on behalf of Governor Ed
MceCuen a special report of the
recent District Governors Assem
bly held in Atlanta.
All program arrangements prev
jously made for next Wednesday
have been set aside to make way
for this report.
THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL
By Jack Braswell
Shipments consisting of 300,000
seedling willow trees and 100,000 ]
cotton wood trees were rocvivod:
Friday by the soil erosion service 4
here from the Bureau of Plant In-i
dustry, Shreveport, La. i
Students of the Athens Oppor- |
tunity school will be tested Mon-i
day and Tuesday on comptometry |
by Helen McLean, secretary to the |
state director of vocational educa- |
tion. i
The Athens Y. W. C. A. will]
hoid its annual meeting in the |
gyvmnasium Tuesday, February 5.1
Miss Annie Kate Gilbert from the |
Y. W. €. A. national staff in}
New York city will be the guest |
speaker. )
The Georgia Bulldogs last night
over-ran the Tech basketeers; ;
winning by a score of 33 to 23. |
The University of Georgia Insti
tute of Public Affairs opens wui
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HIROSI SAITY” " ™
Japanese Ambassador to the
United States, who will speak
Wednesday morning at the
University of Georgia.
FARM WORKERS T 0
MEET HERE MONDAY
Largest Agricultural Gath
ering in State Extends
Through Saturday
By The Associated Press
The largest gathering of agri
cultural workers in the history of
Ggorgia is expected when a meet
ing of the workers is held here
from Monday through Saturday.
Dean Paul W. Chapman of the
Univerkity of Georgia's agricultur
al college has called all county and
home demonstration agents and
research representatives of the ex
periment stations at Griffin and
Tifton to attend the conference.
Every county is expected to have
representatives here. " 1
The teaching staff of the Abra
ham Baldwin eollege at Tifton also
will take part in the program, and
all vocational teachers in the state
have been asked to assemble for
the last two days of the meeting.
“The purpose of this conference,”
Dean Chapman said. “is to coordi
nate the work of the extension,
research and teaching departments
of the wvarious agricultural agen
cies in the state, and to discuss
plans for each group during the
ensuing year.”
Kach_division will heold group
(Continued on Page Four)
by the Japanese ambassador, .
The Religious Emphasis meet
beging at the University this
morning.
Spring football practiee will
start at the University tomorrow
afternoon.
Representative Lewis of Mary
land proposed to congress today
that the states raise their,share
of the money to finance old age
pensions through income and in
heritance takes.
German Nazis, after being vie
torious in Sunday’s Saar plebis
cite. turned speculative eyes an
other bit of territory which was
lost to Germany in the peace tre=
ties—Memel.
United States Mfl;rgal Draughon
last night was to Atlanta
with two Puerto Ricans convicted
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
Athens, Ga., Sunday, January 20, 1935,
Japanese Envoy Will Open
University Institute Here
10:30 Wednesday Morning
ALABAMA DORMITORY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
TUSCALOOSA, Ala—~—(#)—
Seventy-five men students at
the University of Alabama
dashed from their rooms in
Gorgas Hall Saturday after-
noon and watched most of
their belongings go up in
smoke as flames rapidly de
stroyed the building.
Fanned by a high- wind, the
fire completed its work with
amazing rapidity, and Tuseca
loosa firemen, seeing the
building doomed, devoted most
of their efforts to preventing
a spread of the flames to a
fraternity house nearby.
GNIG CLUBS NOT
T 0 HEAR HARLOW
Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs
Will Not Be Addressed
By Educator
Dr. 8. Ralph Harlow, professor
of religious ethics at Smith col
lege., is in Athens for a few days
during which he is booked to de
liver a number of addresses, g
complete schedule of which ap
pears elsewhere in this issue of
the BannarSlgEa e ,
- .br,. Harlew W
address the Kiwanis c¢lub on
Tuesday and the Rotary club on
Wednesday. These organizations
though, have announced a change
in their plans and will net hear
the eminent educator. Tom Law,
of Atlanta, will be the Rotary
speaker, and Mayor Dudley will
address the Kiwanians.
While no official statement ema
nated from either organization, it
is stated authoritatively that sev
eral members of the Kiwanis elub
protested to the program commit
tee, claiming that Dr. Harlow was
personally objectionable to them
on account of his alleged affilia
tions with certain organizations
whose activities are said to aim at
the substitution of our present
form of government with a set-up
similar to the Russian Soviet
Union,
It is also understood that Dr.
Harlow will not speak at the 8
o'clock service of First Baptist
church tonight, as had been previ
ously announced. The balance of
his original speaking itinerary is
unchanged.
CONGRESS GIVES
“GO AHEAD” SIGN
First Week of Real Rapid
Fire Action Promised in
Washington
BY CLARENCE M. WRIGHT
(Associated Press Staff Wpriter)
WASHINGTON . (#) — Head
ing into their first week of rea]
rapid fire action, congressional
lead®rs Sathurday gave signs of a
willingness to speed up the bonus
and prepared for six days of hard
work on social security legislation,
war profits, a $4,880,000,000 public
works bill and lesser odds and
ends.
The 74th congress had been in
session since January 3 without
putting a single piece of new legis
lation on the statute books, and
signs were that not ¢ven the com
ing week would see final enact
ment of anything of major import
ance.
Advocates of the Patman $2,100,-
000,000 bonus bill meanwhile de
cided at a mesting Saturday to use
every means possible to expedite
that measure in preference to the
American Legion bill. The former
would pay the bill by printing new
money; the latter by whatever
means congress thought best.
Speaker Byrns met the Patman
group demanq with a reply that he
thought it would be “a happy idea”
for the ways and means committee
to use spare time, if any, § report
out “a bonus bill so it could be
voted up or down promptly. -
The gen<=ral congressional week
will start with a bang Monday
when the house ways and means
committee holds first hearings on
the encompassing social security
tions committee calls in Secretdry
(Continued on Page Four)
Ambassador Saito’'s Ad
dress in Chapel to At
tract Large Crowd
NINTH INSTITUTE
Public Health and Eco
nomic Problems Will
Be Discussed Here
Ambassador Hirosi Saito, Ja
pan’s chief spokesman in the
United States, wlil open the Ninth
Annual Session of the University
of Ceorgia institute or Public Af
fairs Wedneseday morning at
10:30 o'clock, it was announced
vesterduy by Dean R. IP. Brooks,
director of the institute. .
Ambassador Saito was orviginai
ly scheduled to speak Wedneseday
evening. He will discuss “Some
Phases of Japanese-American Re
lationships.” President 8. V. San
ford, who is chairman of the in
stitute, will preside at the open
ing session, which will be held in
the chapel. One of the largest
erowds that has attended a Uni
versity of Georgia assembly will
no doubt hear Ambassador Saito,
in view of the importance of Ja
pan in. international affairs, in
addition to the interest attached
to an outstanding personality from
the fascinating East.
The currvent session of the insti
tute will be divided into lectures
on international and domestic
problems, all held at the chapel,
and round-table discussions on
public health in Georgia, which
will be conducted in the audito
rium of the Commerce-Journalism
building.
L Round Table
The first round-table discussion
at 11:456 o'clock, with Dr. Craig
Barrow of Savannah presiding.
The opening address will be given
by ,Dr. Joseph W. Mountin, sur
geon, U, S. Public Health Ser
vice, and medical officer in charge
of the office of studies of public
(Continued on Page Three)
LOCAL WEATHER
Occasional rain Sunday and
Monday, warmer in north and
central portions Sunday, colder
in west portion Monday after
noon; much colder Monday
night.
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Vicky Thatcher, so
ciety beauty, made up
her mind to marry a rich
husband, and set her
snares for Brian West
more. Vicky’s scheming
causes plenty of trouble
in ‘“Silken Spindles,”
new serial beginning
ON PAGE 3-A4
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Awaiting the call to testify in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann at Flem
ington, N. J., Isador Fisch’'s relatives who came from Germany to
clear him of complicity in the Lindbergh ransom deal were carefully
guarded by detectives. They are pictured above as they left their
hotel in Coney Island, N. Y. Left to right are Hannah Fisch, Isador’
sister, and Mr. and Mrs. Pincus Fisch, sister-in-law and broth“
g the deceased Bronx furrier.
Woodruff Hall Will Be
Scene of Roosevelt Ball
PANHANDLER WOULD
HELP OUT GOVERNOR
WASHINGTON, —(£)—Gov
ernor Hoffman of New Jersey
was here Saturday to confer
with Relief Administrator Hop
kins on vrelief problems. :
He was accosted on Penn
sylvania avenue by a panhan
dler who requested a nickel
“for a' cup of coffee."
“Why,” the governor ex
claimed, “I'm here right now
seeking relief.”
“Oke, Captain,” the reply
snapped bhack, “I'll show you
where you can get four bits on
that coat.”
COUNTRY SHIVERS
AS MERCURY DIPS
Sub-Zero Weather Pre
illd .
vails in Many Sections of
United States
(By the Associated Press)
Mericless winter drove a sharp
salient down the frozen Yukon
Saturday, bringing the menace of
frost to California, new blizzards
to the snowbound Cascades, snow
as far south as Texas ang bitter
sub-zero temperatures far across
the states. i
The mercury dove out of sight
to 57 below zero at Endako, B. C.,
and found new low points for the
winter in the region of the Dakotas.
Almost a score persons were dead
or missing in the storm that rag
ed down the coast from Alaska to
California. Countless othérs were
killed or injured in rail and high
way accidents caused by severe
cold, ice and snow.
Seattle shivered in temperatures
around 10 above zero, coldest in 1
years. It was 14 above at Tocoma,
and street traffic was crippled. The
Cascades lay 12 feet dep in snow,
and more was forecast last night
for Oregon, Washington and ldaho,
Trains battled mountain snow
drifts and ran five hours late in
the northwest. One pulled into
Oakland, Calif., from a trans-con
tinental run “streamlined” by snow
that packed every crevice ang cor
ner. A heavy frost was predicted
for Southern California Saturday
night. ;
Temperatures plunged to 50 be
low zero at ißattleford, Sask., “46
at Saskatoon, 48 at Prince Albert.
42 at Edmonton, 31 at Winnipeg. A
train was derailed in Alberta, six
passengers badly hurt and those
ol eok L é
¥ HOMYE|
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Plans Are Rapidly Being
Completed for Big
Event February 1
I Definite announcement that the
Roosevelt Birthday Ball will be
held in Woodruff hall was made
here Saturday. The Ball will
take place February 1 with the
Georgia Bulldog orchestra furnish
'ing the music.
When plans for the affair were
‘originally discussed- and the date
was fixed, it was discovered that
ftwo lyaskdtball games had also
been scheduled for that evening.
Through the cooperation of the
University and athletic authorities
1 this conflict has been ironed out
so that Woodruff hall will be
available.
| It was also announced that Col
onel H. E. Mann, commandant of
the University Cadet corps, has
offered the services of the 50 piece
R. O. T. C. band to present a
band concert immeditaely prior to
the beginning of the dance. This
iot'fer has been sccepted by the ex
!e-cutive committee in charge. Other
lplans for a floor show to be pre
| sented during the. dance are being
‘mude and announcements will be
published later.
| Adopt Slogan |
‘ The Athens High school dancing
‘(-unliilmt-n(-y has been invited to
| take part in the affair, with their“
lslog:m being: “Dance that somel
(Continued on Page Three)
University Library Undertakes
Collection of Newspaper Files
{ The most notable listing of
; newspaper files ever undertaken is
| now in progress here’
| Duncan Burnet, University of
| Georgia librarian, is Georgia chair
‘m;m for a Union List of News
i papers. The list is being edited at
!the Library of Congress in Wash-
Lington under the auspices of tha
ißibliographical Society of Amer
ica.
l The University library is the
| Georgia headquarters.
{ When finished, it is expected
'that the Ilist will be a complete
record of all files of newspapers
ilocated in Ilibraries, newspaper
offices, court houses and in any
other public er private hands. !
üb% ‘editors and county
land city officials are being asked
to send information to the library
ALUMMI SOCIETY TO
GATHER [N ATLANTA
T 0 MAKE PROTEST
Marion Smith, Chairman
Of Regents, Says Act
Is “Disastrous’’
INTEREST IS HICH
University System Would
Become ‘A Football of
Politics,”” He Says
ATLANTA, Ga.— (#) —Opposi
tion to a Talmadge-sponsored bill
in the legislature waich would
nullify a pending PWA allotment
of $2,691,800 to the State Univer
gity System, was developing along
two fronts Saturday.
While Chairman Marion Smith
of the Borad of Regents issued a
statement - here assailing the bill,
officers of the Alumni Society of
the University of Georgia were
requested to meet at 11 o'clock
Monday morning at the Atlanta
Athletic elub to formulate plans
for combatting the proposed leg
islation. 3
The ,call for the meeting was
sent out by Harrison Jones of
Atlanta, president of the =% mni
Society. Those asked to attend
were the three vice-presidents of
the society, Robert Parker, At
lanta; Robert Gunn Athens, and
H. H. Swift, Columbus; and the
miembers of the Board of Mana
gers, 2. Ormand Hunter, Savan-.
nah; George B. Smith, Rome; C,
H. Cox, Atlanta; Wallace Miller;.
Macon; L. P. Goodrich, Griffin;
and Judge Virlyn Moore. Atlanta.
Smith's statement charged that
the “whole plan embodied in the:
Tk Lo nd 1%
N T poiitica &
The bill, urged and being fought
for by Governor Eugene Talmadge,
would: change the status of Uni
versity property, making it subjeet
to the same limitations as to
debt as are in effect against other
property of the state. ki
Smith said that in his opinion
the plan of the hill would be
“disastrous to- the . efforts I:fi
made to build up g great univers
sity System for the benefit of the
boys and girls of this state)” °
Takes Sharp lssue Hl
The regents’ chairman took sharp
issue with the governor’s views
regarding the bill and said = that if
enacted, it weuld result in an at
tempt to. “confiscate” 133 trusts
aggregating more than $1,700,000,
would jsopardize title to nume_r&?g_
grants to the University System.
and would destroy the Publie
Works loan and “the great plan
for developing a great Unh’ersitn’,
(Continued on Page Four)
South Honors Robert
E. Lee on Birthday
RICHMOND, Va,— (&) —Robert.
Edward Lee, the South’s great
leader before and after Appomat--
tox, was honored thmm:i
Dixie Saturday on his birth an--
niversary. e
His caveer as the chieftain -of
the South’s men, of battle n‘*fi
told again but it was Lee, the edu
cator and public kervant, who iwas
praised most roundly by speakers
who extolied his decision to le%
his resources to the upbuilding es
the severed nation. wum
His contribution to education as
president of Washington college.
an institution which after his
death became Washington and
Lee university, was %told from
lecture platforms throughout the
South. R
,’l maiion for Georgia. P
=' Burnet says that “the list will
| make possible the finding of the
| nearest file of mnewspapers of
| whatever loecality or period in the
| United States or Canada.” He bes
| lieves that its “usefulness will be
| incalculable.” ik
! Location of files will be the
t principal thing ascertained, al
{ though Mr. Burnet. is asking loes:‘l,i'
| eooperators to suggest to owners
| of papers, if they desire, to give
2 them to the University library.
| “Here they will be advantgae
{ ously located for students and his
‘ torians of state &nd local history,
|and they will be certain of proper
{care, use and preservation,” he
| declares. i 3 R
| The University libr n is very
| enthusiastic over the project made
| : eL i
~ (Continued on Page Four) =
