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FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENT.
Americans seem to have recovered completely from their
hallucination that it would be a fine thing to develop the United
States into a great colonial power.
Congress has started the Philippines on the road to inde
pendence. It has abandoned Uncle Sam’s policy of interfering
in Cuban affairs. American marines are out of all such little
republics as Nicaragua and Haiti. Now Senator Millard E. Tyd
ings is agitating, with considerable prospects of success, for leg
islation granting independence to Puerto Rico.
None of the American experiments with foreign dependen
cies has resulted in anything except heavy expense, tribulation
and some danger to Uncle Samuel.
The dependents have not liked their status either. Ever since
the Spanish-American War the Filipinos have fought, physically
or otherwise, for freedom. Cuba has resented America’s big
brotherly attitude. Nicaragua and Haiti naturally have not en
joyed foreign domination of their respective governments. For
that matter, the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian situations,
President Theodpre Roosevelt’s grab of Panama from Colombia
and President Wilson’s invasion of Mexico have rankled per
sistently in the minds of Latin Americans. Puerto Rican
independence seekers recently expressed their discontent by as
sassinating the Yankee chief of police of their island. The
Virgin islands have been a white elephant —of which there is
little hope of ridding ourselves.
In short, both sides have been bitterly dissatisfied.
Uncle Sam’s interests and activities have been a constant
headache to him. Nor have his dependent peoples fancied his
methods of running their various governments.
OPPOSITION FADES.
Business men are asking why the opposition to the admin
istration ’s tax bill faded so suddenly in Congress.
Even the Republicans have not put up much of a fight. The
reason is the election. “Share the Wealth” ideas which are much
more radical than the Roosevelt administration’s tax bill are
rampant throughout the country. Many contenders for present
congressional seats have committed themselves to such ideas.
Senators who have a fairly good knowledge of taxing methods
oppose the administration bill (secretly) not because it taxes
undivided profits but because it seems to be a bungled and con
fused bill. Yet, the pressure of the electorate on one side and the
administration on the other causes them to remain quiet.
No doubt reduced income tax exemptions catching the
large middle class—will follow the election.
“RED” CONVENTION.
An overly hard-boiled capitalism tends to breed radicalism
in the masses.
How it works has been strikingly brought out recently by
an unmistakably pretty Red gathering in Washington coincident
ly with disclosures before senatorial investigators concerning
certain big business plans to combat future labor trouble.
Senator Nye’s munition committee revealed, at least in part,
the extent to which various large corporations have been laying
m supplies of arms, ammunition and poison gases for their plants ’
defense in the event of strikes. Maybe they are entitled to de
fend their plants, but they cannot expect their workers to view
such preparations with complacency.
Senator La Follette’s civil liberties committee uncovered
something of the systems of espionage which these same con
cerns have created to spy upon union activities of labor with
in their respective staffs.
So much for hard-boiled capitalism.
The radical gathering included delegates, said to represent
150,000 of the proletariat, in 35 states; of the Workers Alliance
of America, in close touch with the left-wing Socialists; the Na
tional Unemployment Council, affiliated with the Communists;
the Natonal Unemployment League, sponsored by the Trotsky
facton of communism and several of the independent groups, all
of an I. W. W.-ish complexion.
Surely it is fair to say this was a ‘Red” convention.
HIS SPEECH LIKED
Some writers and radio commentators have remarked that
President Roosevelt’s speeches in Baltimore and New York were
not well received.
On the contrary, reports from the country at large indicate
that the mass of people received with satisfaction his remarks
favorng shorter hours with the same pay and accrual of the bene
fits of mechanization to workers as well as employers.
Whether one agrees with Mr. Roosevelt or not, he does strike
a popular reaction with his spoken word. The majority of people
are satisfied with his general appeal.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
FICTION STORY (With Truth In It)
I KNOW a man who became home
flick for the past.
The more he thougrt about it, the
more e convinced himself that the
little section of te past that sur
rounded Ills childhood was the most
beautiful in »U time ... He remem
bered how the family of which he
was a part used to gater around the
ceal-01l lamp, around the table that
had the red cloth on it—and read
and talk ... In the mellow light of
the lamp the family read and talked
and all of them* father and mother
and children, were close together . . .
It was pleasant to remmeber that
family trougd the coal oil lamp and
tre flame burlng brightly on the wick
that wa» trimmed each morning, in
the clear-glass chimney htat was
washed and polished every day.
He became a bit craay on te sub*
s
ject o fcoal-oil lamps They began,
for him, to symbolize that lamp of
Aladdin. If he had coal-oil lamps in
his house instead of bnght electricity,
and rubbed them every day they’d
bring bacK the gentle past into his
life and hold his family close to
gether, forever ... So he dug coal
oi amps out of various attics and
installed them in his home and oom
mande dthe family to sit around them
and enjoy the past.
They tried rard. But it didn’t work.
The light wasn’t very good. He strain
ed his eyes trying to read by it. One
of the boys had to get glasses. Some
times the flame smoked and tre
smell was bad. Cnee he got coal-oil
in the sugar bowl and the taste was
terrible . . . And finally one night
the lamp fell off the table and broke
i and the oil spread and caught fire
and the house burned up and then
down.
NOT—In the News (
*•• * * •
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association
Here is one of those true stories
of sorrow and tragedy that might
have been averted but for an almost
fanatical obsession of. religious and
moral principles In placing the
blame for the sorrow, we have no in
tention of berating the devout, and
we wonder if you, too, won’t share
our opinion as to the cause for the
regrettable fate of the principals in
volved
It will be necessary, for obvious
reasons, to keep hidden the real
names of the parties involved. So we
wil name the girl in the case Doro
thy, since Dorothy is among the
more common appellations.
Dorothy, a sweet-natured, pretty
Tirl of 16 or 17. was a student at a
boarding school when she met an
handsome but irresponsible artist al
most twice her age. A chance meet
ing brought on a romance which led
to love and, finally a secret marriage.
The daughter of a strict religious
father, Dorothy was afraid to reveal
her marriage to her parents. She
knew her father would be opposed to
an artist for a son-in-law, especially
since he often had remarked about
the loose lives led by artists, so she
decided to wait until a tme more ap
propriate. But she waited too long,
for three or four months after their
wedding, George left her.
Her adolescent heart torn with
grief, Dorothy returned to her par
ents’ home. Somehow, she was able
to mask the bitterness and sorrow in
her heart, and her stubborn pride
would not permit her to reveal her
secret.
• * *
Sometime later the baby came.
Her pious father was both aston
ished and horrified when he learned
the truth. But despite the legiti
macy of the marriage, he feared dis
grace and rebelled at the thought of
a stain on the family escutcheon.
Many a father might have decided
to make the best of the unwelcome
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
TRAINED MEN SCARCE
Even Though Millions Are Jobless;
DEPRESSION PENALTY
By LESLIE EICHEI.
Central Press Staff Writer
THERE IS a shortage of trained
men. Yet there are millions of men
jobless.
It was certain to occur. Organiza
tions did not train men during the
depression. Youth had to get along
as best it could. The CCC camps help
ed some —but were merely a begin
ning.
At both ends of life—youth and
age—the United States is handicap
ped. It cannot use vital, zestful youth
became youth is untrained. It cannot
lay aside older, womout men because
there is no provision to take care
of them.
Any comprehensive plan is downed
with the cry of “Socialism”, yet it
is industry that is suffering the most
because of this stalemate.
* * *
FARM PLANK
The most important plank to be
written into the Republican platform
will be the farm plank. That be
comes doubly true following the Illi
nois primary. Farm districts ran up
huge totals for President Roosevelt,
although he was unopposed.
• • •
DIFFICULT POSITION
Any farm plan adopted by the
Republicans is likely to be as costly
as the much denounced AAA. Other
wise, farmers would not accept it.
Thus, from now till election, criti
cism of the cost of the AAA will be
light. The chief criticism wil be that
it was unconstitutional.
There, again, is a quandary: Would
any plan adopted by the Republicans
be able to pass the supreme court?
• • •
QJUEER RULINGS
The New York stock exchange is
angering even its supporters. It re
cently requested that corporations sub
mit reports of 12 months’ earnings
quarterly, instead of a simple state
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situation, but not he. Many a father
might have given his daughter
money and alowed her to rear the
baby herself, but not Dorothy’s fa
ther. He decided on another course,
one that was severe and unnatural.
Despite the protests of the young
mother .he took the baby girl from
her, adopted her and made her a
member of his own family. All this
he did with the provision that the
baby never was to be informed as to
her true parentage. He was to be
known as her father, and his wife as
her mother.
* * *
Under bhs deception the girl, Mary,
grew to womanhood, graduated from
college, and began a career as a
teacher. It was not until after she
had passed the thirtieth milestone in
her life that she found out. One day,
by chance, she overheard two of her
own pupils talking about it, one of
them having been told the real story
bv her mother.
You can well imagine the shock
bhat it gave her. And when the man
who had posed as her father admitted
tht it was true, she became furious
because she had not been informed
of it earlier in life. She left his home
and never returned.
The Tevelation left Mary so bitter
that she retired to a solitary life, al
most that of a recluse. She had no
desire for the company of men, nor
for marriage. Her friends are few
and her happiness small.
* * *
It is almost ironic to note what
happened to Dorothy. Mary’s real
mother. At the insistence of her
father ,she divorced George shortly
after the baby was born. Then, a
few years later, she broke the shack
les of her father’s domination and re
married him!
But they didn’t live happily to
gether ever after, as the romancers
would have it. Their love turned to
hate and their happiness to strife,
and eventually Dorothy divorced
George a second time.
ment of earnings for the quarter, com
pared with the previous quarter and
with the same quarter last year.
The corporation* gladly acceded.
As a result, investors are up in the
air.
Even the Wall Street Journal re
marks:
“ . . the new style report either
simply makes it harder for the stock
holder and might-be-stockholder to
find out the latest trend of profits,
or it makes it impossible for him to
do so.”
The last report of the American
Telephne & Telegraph company was
unintelligible to the vast majority of
its many thousand stockholders.
* • •
NO RIGHTS
Stockholders of large corporations
are learning they have few, if any,
rights.
Some invaded recent annual meet
ings. They were treated much as if
they were anarchists.
A stockholder may complain at
home of management, of large sal
aries, of reckless spending—but he
has no standing in a company meet
ing.
* • •
CIVILIZATION?
Harlan county, Kentucky, remains
In the dark ages.
But the mine owners charged with
that condition live far from Harlan
county.
Thomas C. Townsend, counsel for
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, told the La Follette sub-commit
tee of the senate committee on edu
cation and labor of almost unbeliev
able denial of free speech, free assemb
lage and free political rights.
How? Through “privately paid sher
iffs”—paid by coal operators.
These deputies, following the in
structions of their overlords, threw
22 men into two six by six cells, in
tended for four prisoners.
, WRY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRE-E
I WISH—
I WISH I didn’t have to wear
glasses.
I wish I had a deep bass voioe.
I wish I’d been born a hundred
years ago. I wish I could be bom
again a hundred years from now
(just out of curiosity).
I wish I had detachable wings and
could fly.
I wish I liked spinach (but I don’t
know why I wish that).
I wish I had a phlegmaeic tempera
ment.
I wish my ears were smaller and
my feet bigger.
I wish I didn’t forget things.
I wish I were six feet tall and had
red hair (but not curly).
I wish I didn’t have to shave.
I wish the kids wouldn’t laugh
when I try to do a graceful dive.
I wish I could play the piano like
Horowitz or Paderewski.
I wish two hours of sleep a night
were enough for me.
I wish I could remember my dreams.
I wish dogs wouldn’t bark at night.
I wish I were a mind reader (and
could turn the power on and off at
will).
My New York
By
1 James Aswell
♦♦o ♦ 0
NEW YORK, May 6—There’s Lou
fia. She s’a “reader” for one of the
large circulation magazines. All the
anxious authors in remote towns of
the land, addressing their brain chil
dren “To the Editor” are in reality
addressing Louella. For she see
everything first.
She’s tall and has hazel eyes. She’s
very thin and you can hear her com
ing down the hall because of the
clank, clank, clank of the costume
jewelry, bracelets and earrings and
heavy-duty chokers. She’s married.
Her husband is salesman in a book
store.
Louela Is a bright girl and she
has worked her way up from recep
tionist in an outer office. Os course
she can’t buy anything for the maga
zine. All she can do is send a story
up to one of the real editors, with a
little aiip attached reading something
like this: “Nice feeling here. This
is the old triangle situation, but well
told,” or "Violates the jealousy ta
boo but so well done I thought you’d
like to see it.”
But she can reject. She’d be the
last to admit it—she insists her
greatest pleasure on earth is the ac
ceptance of a story—but she also gets
a kick out of stopping them. Once
she sent out stories to all the maga
zines herself. ''She never sold any
thing. Now her hazel eyes sparkle
greenly and her firm lip compress
when she finds a story which has
great promise in the writing but
whch treats of one of the subjects
magazines don’t tolerate. She sends
it right back—with a rejection slip.
She particularly likes to reject the
stories of women. It is her secret
conviction that women can’t write
If course, some of them, by luck and,
perhaps, politics, have wangled them
selves niches as regular contributors.
She never sees the work of these
women. It goes straight to the big
shots.
Once or twice she has made “dis
coveries.” Picked out things from the
huge morning load of manuscripts
that were accepted for publication.
The first work of budding authors. It
is the policy of the magazine to let
readers who have made discoveries
pass on the next few stories by that
author. Louella usually sours on a
writer as soon as she has helped that
writer make a sale. The next story
meets a cold and hypercritical eye.
It is rejected, nine times out of ten.
Otherwise the author is likely to get
conceited and think anything he
writes will sell.
Louela is not malicious. But the
scar of those years when she tried to ,
become an author herself remains.
Being able to sit there in her cubicle •
office and say, “Thumbs down on
this one! Back she goes!” gives her
a vague, pleasant sensation of Diety.
She can blast a hope now just as
neatly and firmly as her hopes were
blasted long ago.
Os course she knows too much
about magazine publishing now to
feel tht she really can hold back i
anyone with talent. She used to
think there was some “pull,” seme
“inside track” to selling the maga
zines. Now she knows better. But in
her small way she has a great deal
of power.
Louela is a “liberal." She has not
gratified her own dreams, so she
reads “The Nation” and “The New
Masses,”—publications which reas
sure with the suggestion that fall- :
ure on anyone’s part may be the re
sult of some sinister plot by “the
interests” or “the capitalist.” It is
her particular delight to reject stories
in which long-haired socialists are
derided, even though thye may be
entertaining and well-done. She
knows quite a few other bright young
readers on the big magazines who
Pastimes
For Child
Suggested
AN ACTIVE YOUNGSTER
FINDS GAMES, RIDDLES
VERY INTERESTING
By GARRY C. MYERS, PH. D.
Head Department Parent Educa
tion Cleveland College. Western
Reserve University.
IN CASE YOU, mother, find
time moving slowly with you and
your active child from three to five
years of age, some of the follow
ing types of amusement may prove
alluring and worthwhile to him.
For each type you can easily make
up many more samples, from time
to time. Ask him:
1. Which is the heavier, salt or
flour? (Maybe he will want to find
out for himself). 2. Which is the
bigger, ship or cow? 3. Which costs
more, top or tricycle? 4. Finish
this: “Little Bopeep—”, 5. How
many bears in the story of Goldi
locks? 6. Say ice ,rice, spice. 7.
Which an run the fastest, boy,
turtle, horse? 8. In what way are
a newspaper and book alike?
The make up riddles like this: I
am thinking of something. It eats
bugs and flies and worms. I can
find it in the garden. It hops. What
is it?
Here is a captivating exercise
for the child from three to five.
Get several small cardboard boxes.
On the side of each fasten an ob
ject as nail, screw, match stick,
pebble, piece of crayon. Then have
a lot of all these objets mixed up
in another larger box. The game
will be to assort these articles into
the respective boxes. The mental
process involved is of a high order
and the activity very fascinating.
This game can be varied in all
sorts of ways. You could set the
games without boxes at all. The
articles could be placed in piles
on the table. Nevertheless, boxes
make the game more interesting.
Big brother or dad might want to
make a specia set of wooden bins
joined together for this purpose.
For Older Child
Jokes and onundrums are always
interesting to the child of school
age. Fortunate the child whose par
ents encourage him in efforts at
observing and expressing humor.
What is more delightful than to
hear a child of ten or fifteen freeyl
and naturally expressing himself
in the family conversation? Those
who do have parents who under
stand children and treat these
children with deserved respect.
For your encouraging letters to
me and to the editor of this paper
about my column, I am always
grateful. Never do I consider it a
hardship to answer personally all
your letters, although I spend on
the average a day a week doing
so.
have chalked up a god score in this
division.
She reads these publications at
home with her husband, who is also
a “liberal.” But when she goes on
vacation alone, to Atlantic City, once
a year, to rest and sleep and read she
takes along a great load of pulp pa
per magazines of the love and ro
mance type. The magazine that
gives her the biggest kick of all is
“True Confessions.” She tears ’ off
the cover at the newsstand.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •(:
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
Wednesday, May 6; 306 day, 160
year of U. S. Independence. 47th
day of Spring. St. George's Day (o.
s. calendar) in Bulgaria and Yug
oslavia. Full moon.
SCANNING THE SKIES: Smoke
is of some benefit to a city. Smoke
hanging over keeps citieß warmer
in winter by as much as 10 de
grees, it has been found.
♦ * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Sigmund Freud, b. 1856, Vien
nese founder of modern psycho
analysis . . . Frederick William
Hohenzollern, b. 1882, formei
crown prince of Germany . . .
Amadeo Giannini, b. 1870, Califor
nia banker . . . Mrs. Elzire Legros
Dionne, b. 1909, mother of the quin
tuplets.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 6, 1604—Sixteen years be
fore the Pilgrim Fathers landed at
Plymouth, a company of Jesuits,
soldiers, artisans, farmers and con
vites led by Pierre du Guast, Sieur
De Monts, came to Neutral Island,
in the St. Croix River and estab
lished the first settlement in what
was to become known as New Eng
land. So you’re wrong if you be
lieve the Pilgrims were the first
settlers in New England.
In fact, John Smith had already
mapped the coast of Main and call
id it New England, before the
Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth
* * •
May 6, 1758—The No. 1 French
revolutionist, Maximilian Robes
pierre, was born in Arras, of Irish
ancestry. He was a tender-heart
ed poet, who resigned an appoint
ment as a provincial judge rather
than sentence a guilty criminal to
the gallows, yet as master of the
Red terror In the revoution, he
sant 1,200 persons to the gallows
in two weeks!
* * *
May 6, 1840 —The first Adhesive
postage stamp was issued in Brit
ain. It was of one penny denomina
tion. Previously, letters had to be
imprinted with a hand stamp.
The U. S. mail service didn't
adopt them until after they had
been widely used in the country
by aprivately owned postal ser
vice.
For further information on Amer
ican gummed stamps, Ralph W.
Anderson, an inquirer, is referred
to Louis Melius’ “American Postal
Service.”
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The first
wireless telephone conversation be
tween a land station and a ship at
sea was conducted between the
Navy Department, Washington,
and U. S. S. New Hampshire, in
a demonstration of one of the de
vices developed in the prepared
ness program of the Navy. An or
dinary circuit was used in the land
connections.
Private concerns always take fche-v
--credit for putting the United *
States in the lead in the develop- •
ment of wireless telephony and l
broadcasting. Actually, the Navy
was the leader. Wireless experi- ■
ments upon which it had been
working for years, without notice, f
were suddenly brought into the ;
limelight by the preparations for
the war which the Army and Navy
knevr the U. S. was going to get
into long before the public realiz
ed it.
(to be continued) >
* * *
IT’S TRUE
The Crown Prince of Hesse, who
hired out his soldiers at S3O a head
to Britain to fight Americans in
the Revolution, paid 3,000,000 thal
ers for a wedding gown for his
daughter, Princess Louise. It was
so heavily laden with gems that
it took 10 pages to carry the train.
Less than one third of the Amer
icans who engaged in the World
War were volunteers.
All John Milton ever received
from his classic “Paradise Lost”
was the equivilent of about SSO.
The Oerro silver mines in Boli
via used to be open to the public
week-ends, and any visitor could
keep all the silver he mined.
The rarest of American coins is
the 1804 silver dollar, because all
oxcept a dozen or two of the mint’s
output that year were shipped to
China for Savy payrolls and the
ship went down in a storm.
An old law still in effect in Ham
sin, Germany, provides that “not
a pipe may play, nor a drum may
beat,” in the street down which
the legendary Pied Piper led the
children.
POEMS THAT LIVE
“He’d Nothing But Hie Viofin’*
He’d nothing but his violin,
I'd nothing but my song.
But we were wed when skies were bhie
And summer days were long;
And when we rested by the hedge. I
The robins came and told
How they had dared to wo and win, .
When early Spring was cold.
We sometimes supped on dew-berries.
Or slept among the hay,
But oft the farmers’ wives at eve
Came out to hear us play;
The rare old songs, the dear old
tunes— » 1
We could not starve for long
While ms man hath his violin,
And I my sweet love-song.
The world has aye gone well with
us
Old man since we were one—
Our homeless wandering down the
lanes
It long ago was done.
But those who wait for gold or gear,
For houses or for klne,
rill youth's sweet spring grows brown
and sere,
love an d beauty tine,
the -i°y of hearte :
That met without a fear
h . en _ J' ou ha d but your vioMn |i
And I a song, my dear. V
—Mary Kyle Dalle* ,