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A man worth hearing is tne
preacher who can draw a big congre
gation on a hot Sunday.
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Be is ever so humble, there's no
place like home for hearing what
people really think of you.
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Another Dillinger aid ha3 been
captured. Fretty soon Dillinger will
be a gang leader without a gang.
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We appear to be living in an age
when every boy and girl in America
is born with an equal chance to grow
tip and marry, sooner or later, a child
of the President.
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Society is regulated by a fine sys
tem of checks and balances. It's only
when checks come up without any
balances that troubles begin.
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Music may have che.rms to soothe
the savage breast, but they are not
nearly so potent as the charms of a
loud clap of thunder after a week of
scorching hot weather.
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ew that the Texas cotton crop
is menaced by "an insect of the thy
sonaptera family" makes us wonder
whether the invader is a flea, a boll
weevil or a reckless driver.
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A let of married women continue
to live with their husbands on ac
count of their children. Some of
them keep staying on after the chil
dren grow up and leave home just
from force of habit, likely.
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A slightly ambigious statement,
which, however, will be generally
understood, is that attributed to
Glenn Cunningham's fiancee. "1
don't know when the wedding will
be; it depends upon how long Glenn
keeps on running."
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A Baltimore young woman was
gXrVJy flattered ,ecwUly, pn,.beicg
Invited to join a woman's club which
enjoyed a fine reputation in respect
to the intellectuality of its member
ship. She expressed her gratitude
for the invitation, but added that she
was doubtful whether she could meas
ure up to the club's intellectual
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Agriculture is the foundation
cf all business prosperity.
"OLD IRONSIDES" AS A SYMBOL1
! a 1 Tj- i c?sn Tina finollv
Henry Ford come under the NRA,
but the reports of Clarence Darrow
would make even an ordinary eagle
blue.
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Detroit police are holding a man
known as the "red necktie bandit,"
but whether on charges of robbery
or of wearing a red necktie the news
report fails to state.
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Chicago school teachers are report
ed just as far behind as ever in the
collection of their salaries. But they
are still expected to teach the child
ren that faithful work gets its just
reward.
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The most naive theory of the sea
son is that of an Indiana police chief
that the recent theft of a lead of
whisky was motivated bp a desire
on the part of the thief to get drunk.
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mT a xt a put? rnvrrcur
iumwiuiuiiiuii fri"itr finerriere
IN A MODERN STATE t
The other day the editor of the
Indianapolis Times went up to Gary
to arrange for covering that sectar
of the impending steel strike. It was
his business as a newspaper man to
do this, but the United States Steel
corporation did not think so.
Therefore, as he stood that eve
ning making notes in front of the
great mills but en the city side of a
deadlir.o that separates company
property from the rest of the United
States, he was seized bp three com
pany bluecoats and hustled into the
plant's private police station. There
his notes were taken and destroyed
nel preparations mde to lock him up
for the night. Eventually, on orders
of an unknown higherup, he was re
leased with a reprimand and a warn
ing. The incident is of more than' local
significance; FJr' it revee'lS.h fctrangc
anachronism in the midst of modern,
democratic state, a remant of feud
alism. The barons of steel should be
reminded that they are living in
1934 A. D. and that Gary, Ind. in
cluding that grimy, embattled com
munity they have fenced off as their
own is a part of the land of law we
Ay tear her tattered ensign
down! ....
And give her to the god of
storms,
The lightning and the gale!
It was a century ago that Oliver
Wendell Holmes's poem containing
these lines won a reprieve in the
court of public opinion from a sen
tence of destruction pronounced
against the United States frigate
Constitution, familiarly known as
"Old Ironsides." Spared from the
scrapheap then, she has just rounded
out 137 years of service and has been
retired to serve as a show ship at
Boston, where her keel was laid at
Hartt's shipyard in 1794. Last week
with due ceremony she was read out
of commission as a naval vessel, her
pennant hauled down and the flag
of Admiral Henry H. Hough hoisted
over her. From now on she v. ill serve
as a Ksson in patrotism.
It was in 1797, the year in which
John Adams succeeded George Wash
ington as President, that the Con
stitution was launched and placed ii:
commission against the French priva
teers infesting American waters. She
participated in 1804-5 in the war
against Tripoli, which resulted in
peace with the Earbary states and
stopped the tribute the United States
had been paying to African pirates.
But is was in the War of IS 12 that
she "won her enduring place in Amer
ican history. On August 18, 1S12,
when the morale of the country was
lowest, the Constitution, under the
command of Capt. Isaac Hull, won
her famous victory over the British
It was in that fight
bbed "Old Ironsdts"
by American saiiors as they watched
the British shot bounding off her
stout oak sides.
In " 1927 the old ship was dry
docked at the Boston navy yard for
her fourth reconstruction, testifying
to the abiding place she holds in the
affection and admiration of the Am
erican people. The greater part of
the ?G50,0C0 which congress author
ized for her restoration came from
the contributions cf school children.
Once again she was able to sail the
seas, though more frequently in her
patriotic peregrinations in recent
years she was towed from pert to
port for exhibition. Her log shows
visits by adults and children running
into the millions.
Compared with the modern fight
ing ships of the United States navy
now riding at anchor in thtr Hudson
River at New York, Old' Ironsides is
a primitive craft. But her oak timb
ers have become symbolic of the
American
Monitor.
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Think River
Fund Allotment
Will Stand
Twenty Million Dollar Allotment as
Urged by the Army is Be
lieved Possible.
fiber. Christian Science
Although the amount which will
be allotted the upper Missouri river
development project for the coming
fiscal year is not available, there are
strong indications that the army en
gineers' estimate cf 20 million to 22
million dollars will be accepted, ac
cording to a dispatch from Washington.
A similar sum is scheduled to be
made available for continuing the
work at the Fort Peck dam, in Mon
tana, it was stated.
Major-Oeneral F. M. Markham,
chief of army engineers, said that he
has received no notification from
PWA as to its intentions with re
gard to allotments.
Childe in Washington.
C. E. Childe is in Washington, hav
ing hurried there Fourth of July by
plane. Other waterways leaders tele
graphed Secretary Ickes Thursday,
urging speed in making available the
new allotments, fearing that work on
the river may stop entirely if the
money is net forthcoming soon.
No comment was forthcoming on
these petitions, other than the state
ment that Ickes would be guided
largely by estimates of the engineers.
That 22 million dollars could be
expended profitably during the fiscal
year which began last Sunday has
been estimated by General Markham
in his report to Secretary Ickes.
Thinks Work Essential. ,
It was explained that 100 million
dollars has been lopped off the orig
inal half billion dollars thought to
be available for public works this
year and half of that already has
been spent. Hence, all projects may
be shaved down somewhat. "
On the other band, Ickes indicates
that he regards continuation of work
on the Mississippi. Fort Peck, upper
Missouri and Columbus river projects
as essential. He has already stated
he will allot 25 million dollars to the
upper Mississippi. For that reason,
it is expected at Washington that
these main projects will not be cut.
It is expected Secretary Ickes will
not allot anymore funds until next
week.
ONE C0UNTBY WHEBE
THE PBESS IS FREE
50RAH SCENTS THE FRAY AFAR
standard. "Oh. that's all right," her
sponsor assred her. "Ycu see, we al
ready have all the intellectuals we
call the United States. New York j want; now. we're taking in some of
World-Telegram. the other kind."
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Senator Borali is ,cttl r.g ready for
the congressional campaigns. We
last heard of him dictating speeches
about the new 'deal. lie was consult
ing notes and data. They were his
own notes and data. At least, it is
a fair assumption that he did not
get them from the Republican na
tional committer, although Mr Flet
cher doubtless would be glad to pro
vide him with all the ammunition
available at the party headquarters
But Mr. Borah likes to play a lone
hand. He always has played that
way, more or less, and he likes it a
lot better than just "going along."
Ho plays that way in the senate and
on the stump and his sincerity, his
penetration and his force command
respect, even in the enemy's camp.
Although an independent, Senator
Borah gave his unqualified support
to Mr. Hoover in the campaign of
1928, and he was the biggest in
dividual factor in that campaign. His
equally sincere, though differently
inspired, colleague. Senator Norris.
carried his independence to the ex
tent of supporting Alfred E. Smith.
iVhcn Norris dissent3 he is apt to go
all the way. Borah adjusts himself
with more respect to the party that
placed him in the senate and has
kept liir.i there. He does this with
out sacrificing the independence
which he cherishes above almost
anything else.
As a critic of the administration
with respect to some of the policies
now in force, Mr. Borah will be ob
served with especial interest because
he dees not speak as a thick and thin
partisan. H3 will not find the whole
recovery program bad simply because,
nominally at leait, he is a Republi
can, just as Senator Glass does not
find the entire program good, al
though ha is a Democrat without
qualification. If the President desires
intelligent criticism of his adminis
tration, he should especially welcome
the views of both these independent
thinksrs and sneakers. And where
there are eo many new issues and so
much confusion about most of them,
there may be unusual pblic interest
in what the independents generally
may have to say in the coming cam
paign as distinguished from the ut
terances of some for whom we may
have to make politcal allowances.
Kansas City Times.
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Recently a dinner was given in
Moscow for a newspaper correspond
ent who was being sent to Washing
ton to represent a prominent Russian
daily. The speakers, several of them
American correspondents stationed
in the soviet capital, choso censor
ship at the theme of their informal
talks. They assured the guest of honor
that Washington was one place where
he could write freely, without fear of
official censorship.
This was a compliment to Amer
ica, of course, but it was also a sad
commentary on the state to which a
once proud and free press has fallen
in this world. There are relatively
few countries left where foreign cor
respondents may write factually and
objectively and without fea:- of of
ficial interference. Journalists as
signed to Russia and Italy h ave more
or less adapted themselves to the
censorships in existence there. Most
of them seem to havs developed a
knack for reporting facts as they
find them, but doing so in such a way
as not to offend the authorities.
Nevertheless, they are not really
free, for they must labor under the
knowledge that they are being con
stantly watched, and they would be
almost superhuman if their reporting
were not influenced, at least sub
consciously, by this surveillance.
In such countries as Germany and
Austria, where the political situation
is far less stable, the restraints
placed upon foreign correspondents
are inevitably much greater. The
Reichspost of Vienna, which is the
organ of the Rollfuss party, has warn
ed them they must not go outside
official bulletins and reports in their
quest for news. In Germany two or
three correspondents have already
been expelled, while many others
have bean subjected to pressure of
various kinds as a means of warning
them that they must accept the of
ficial interpretation cf events in that
countrq. Pembroke Stephens, repre
sentative of the London Daily Ex
press, is the latest journalist to be
ordered out cf the country. And his
explusion is cf mora than ordinary
interest.
For in one of its consequences it
revealed that newspaper correspond
ents are in danger not only in coun
tries ruled by dictators, but also
in democratic countries such as Eng
land. Foreign Secretary Simon was
asked in the house cf commons what
action he intended to take in the
Stephens case. He replied bluntly
that he would take no action. "It is
the unquestionable right of any
state," he said, "to expel a foreign
journalist." In this case Sir John was
once more viewing a vital question
from a narrowly legalistic standpoint,
nstead of in the light of its broad
political aspects. Wedded to his law
as he is, the implications of his state
ment did not even occur to him.
But it is usually just such minds
as this that make the way easiex
for those who would deliberately
control the press and throw independ
ent foreign newspapermen out of the
country, even out of democratic Eng
land. Baltimcre Sun.
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PERFECT FORMULA FOR
RAISING FAR!I PRICES
AN IMPORTANT "LEADER"
Every penny spent for advertis
ing wui yield a big reiurn.
By now it has been ar.:p;y demon
strated that the perfect formula for
raising farm prices consi.st.-5 of three
parts: (1) An act cf congress cur
tailing planted-acreage by approxi
mately one-third; (2) a joint act of
congress and the executive reducing
the gold content of the dollar by ap
proximately two-fifths: (3) an act
of God in the form of a s:vere drouth
affecting virtually the entire north
ern hemisphere from China to Cali
fornia. The merest glance at this
formula will show that the work of
raising farm prices will not stop
with the adjournment cf congress.
Nothing more will bo done about
acreage of gold, but tho drouth news
from everywhere remains highly encouraging.
Champions of national self-suffici
ency, closed economy, autorchy and
other forms of sliding dewn your own i
cellar door must be rather put out
by this far-flung heat wave. It makes
English judges doff their wigs and
London bobbies take off their coats.
It fallo with equal deiitructiveness on
French vineyards and German potato
fields. It impels Illinois farmers to
turn against the new deal and in
duces Mohammedan priests to appeal
for rain by bringing burnt offerings
of rams and kine. All this suggests
the opertion of an agency that re
fuses to recognize frontiers. j
Crops are burning up nearly every
where north of the equator. On the
Dramatic and terrible is the Ger
man picture, and the eyes of a world
immersed in troubles are fixed, en
tranced, upon it.
We behold 65 millions of enlight
ened and masterful people held tight
In the fell clutch of circumstance;
helpless puppets on invisible strongs
pulled by invisible hands. Enmeshed
in the web or a tragic destiny, the
more violent their struggles the more
pronounced their weakness becomes.
And if, betimes, there be no strug
gling, the tighter the net closes
about them.
With each passing day the future
grows blacker. And still one knows
that over the darkest night the sun
must rise. The same immutable law
of nature that holds the stars in their
courses, that out of chaos brought an
ordered and orderly uiverse, that led
the pygmy, man, from the swamps
and caves to the peaks of an amaz
ing civilization, insures that out of
the confusion and despair that is
Germany now will come order, sys
tem, a renewal of progress, the op
portunity for security and happiness.
With what dreadful travil, no one
knows. How, in what manner, none
can guess. What we think we know
is that the rescue will be due to no
inspired wisdom and goodness anim
ating any cf the notable figures that
now stalk the German stage.
The Garviny eyes of the majestic
and venerable Hindenburg are glaz
ing, lie, too, is become a puppet a
puppet not of the gods alone but of
tinselled human puppets not worthy
arrogant soldier, an incongruous trio
tinselled ones the mystic, ascetic
Hitler .with his blood-drenched
hands, the fanatic radical Goebbels,
the tory Prussian Premier Goering,
rogant soldier, an incongi-ucus trio
the tasks of true sreatness tor
splendid service are fantastically be
yon them. Their puny hands are as
incapable of guiding and rebuilding
the German life as were Robespierre
and Danton and Marat to direct the
forces and outcome of the French
revolution. After these tiny French:
men "great" only in their brief
hour came one who wiis" mighty but
himself impotent in the longer hour,
and after him the French people
themselves, with the God cf nations
inspiring and leading them to sanity
and safety.
So, one cannot but think, it must
be with Germany and the Germans.
It will be the great body of the Ger
man people themselves who, breaking
loose from false leadership, from tor
ture and from error, will achieve
their own salvation. They are might
ier than all their leaders. Their wis
dom, purified in the fires of an awful
experience, becomes in the end the
supreme wisdom of their land as, in
the end, it is the supreme wisdom
of every land. It was Edmund Burke,
that profound political philosspher,
who said: "The individual is fool
ish; the multitude, for the moment,
is foolish, when they act without de
liberation; but the species is wise
anu, wnen time is given to it, as a
species it always acts right."
it is mat wisciom of the species
that will find the answer to Hinden
Durg s message to Hitler: "You have
saved the German people from grave
danger."
And the answer will be pragmatic.
We arc not saved. Our evils submerge
us. Our sufferings becomes more in
tense. For the "rolling heads" afford no
salvation. The disbanding of two or
three millions of Brown Shirts, to
join the vast army of the idle, still
further beating down wages barely
at a subsistence level, affords no help.
The deadly economic pressure con
tinues, tightens. Industry dwindles
for lack of trade, for lack of means
and methods for buying raw mater
ials. The standard cf living, piti
fully low, continues to sink.
Liberty has been surrendered.
There has been yielding to despotism,
to oppression, to terrorism. Old
neighbors and friends no longer dare
talk to each other. Fear haunts the
firesides. Miith and jollity, placid
good nature, confidence in long life
and happiness, these are gone, and
the ugly spirits of gloom, of suspic
ion, of hopelessness, ride without
ceasing a lost and bewildered people.
From what "grave danger," then,
has Der Fuehrer "saved the German
people"? To what degree of content
ment and happiness has he raised
them?
Failing to improve their hard and
harsh conditions, new problems pil
ing pitlessly "upon them and himself
alike, how long can he command their
confidence and loyalty? These lost,
for how long can a military absolu-
General Walkout
of San Francisco
Labor is Urged
Calling of Troops to the Scene of
Waterfront Strike May Involve
All Organized Groups.
Aroused by the presence cf trcops
in the strike area in San Francisco
and the death of several of the strik
ers, a board of "stragety" has been
voted by the 'Central Labor union
at that place with a view of calling
out all of the organized workers of
the city.
The committee plan, supported by
John O'Connell, secretary of the
council, was carried by a vote of 1C5
to 8. In reply to demands for an
immediate recommendation for a
general strike, O'Connell said: "This
strategy committee is the same move
now. It will lead to organized movi -ment
in case of a general strike later
and would mean that brains and not
brawn would direct us."
Strike Movement Spreads.
One of th first problems of the
'strategy committee" labor council
leaders said will be to advice and
co-operate with the various unions
planning votes on the general rtrikf
movement, which has also spread tc
Pcrtlnd.
A resolution presented by Edward
Vandelcur, president of th ceuncil,
and John O'Connell. f-cretary. which
was adopted with a thunder of
"ayes," declared the calling cf Hie
two thousand guardsman "subjected
the striking marine workers and tlii:;
rort end community tc the igni.miny
of being ruled by the military . . ."
It called the action cf Goernor
Frank F. Meniam "unpn "c:!enteU
and ill-considered," and urg d re
newal of mediation efforts.
Militia Guard Waterfront.
The discussion of a general rtriko
came while the militia held U12 wa
terfront under a threat of bullets and
cold steel for the violent.
Representatives cf SO unions In
Portland approved a resolution call
ing upon a committee to meet not
later than Monday to formulate plans
for a general strke in sympathy with
the walkout cf 27 thousand coast
longshoremen and marine workers.
The Portland move for a general
strike concensus, as in San Fran
cisco, followed the hurling cf gas
bombs into 1 picket ranks last niaht
as strikers sought to prevent the
nonunion movement of cars from an
oil company plant. Bullets were fir
ed over the heads of the Portland
strikers.
A NEED FOR HOME EETTERMENT
Eminent Washingtoniar.s recently
placed garlands on tbe almost for
gotten grave of John Howard Payne,
who composed "Home, Sweet Home."
About the same day appeared a re
port from the department of com
merce revealing how wretchedly hum
ble are many of the homes in this
land today.
The commerce report covers a sur
vey of the homes in twenty-five of
the smaller cities. The partial .sur
vey shows that:
About 27 per cent of the homes
have neither bathtubs nor showers,
and nearly 20 per cent have 110 sani
tary toilet facilities.
About 42 per cent are n-.t equipped
with gas or electi icity for cooing,
and 8.5 per cent have neither gas nor
electricity for lightning; in five
cities more than a quarter of the
homes are lighted by lamps.
About f.O per cent have 110 furn
ace's or other central heating, the pro
portion running almost as high in
the cold northern cities as i.i the
Sou tli. J
About 73 per cent have no ri:nnin;
hot water facilites.
The administration's hcu.sing bill
was designed to make heme mort
gages cheaper; easier arid moi'c HCfure
and open the way to a national re
novating and rebuilding movement.
Such action would be a more fit
ting memorial than floral wreatlis to
the author of "Home, Sweet. Heme."
Rocky Mountain News.
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Zaro Agha, the aged Turk who died
the other day, claimed 1774 as the
year of hl3 birth, which would make
him two years older than our own
Uncle Sam. IncJdentrlly, Untie Sam
has been in rather Icwspirlts lately.
It may be he doesn't like his lately
reduced table fare, although It prob
ably is good for fcjm.
other side, in Argentina, they have
the coldest winter on record. Nature ; "sm nom in Diooay cnains as virile
a people as ever inhabited the earth?
The Hitler regime, with the pol
icies of blood and Iron it has invoked,
Iz impotent; as iarpotent as it if
petty, mean, and foolish. There
j would seee; no other answer than that
is apparently swinging through her
own business cycle. New York
Times.
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Journal ads brlnn vcu news of
; timely bargains. Read tnemi
those policies must be abandoned,
German liberties must bo restored
the compelling imponderables of
which Bismarck spoke must be re
spected, or the third reich will fall
before the aroused might cf the wis
dom 'of the species. For that is a
might and a wisdom against 'which
armies shatter themselves in vain
World-Herald.
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