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Readjustments Caused by
War Only Intensified at
Versailles.
BT DAVID LAWRENCE.
Hobody won the war—the world «us ;
not made safe for democracy—mili
tarism was not vanquished. What
an epitaph to write on the graves of
the 8,500,000 or more who sleep in
the battlefields of the World War!
And yet today—16 years after the
(runs on the Western front were si
lenced by an armistice—the nations
of Europe are rearming for strife.
They call it defense against aggres
sion. It's the same old confession
that human reason and moral force
seem unable to cope with physical
2 strength and the brutishness of man
; kind.
*. Again America is standing aloof,
J Just as Britain did for several months.
England Re-enters Drama.
But England has re-entered the
European drama. Germany's air
j force can reach London in a few
hours.
So much for the political dévelop
pements. Coincidentally. the economic |
drama is being unfolded. Belgium is ;
; being forced off gold. France and j
Holland and Switzerland—the last j
' of the gold bloc countries—wait anx- !
• iously for the next steps, and par
ticularly do they await America's
• action to determine whether they
) shall be forced off the gold standard.
In world currency contests, America
Is not aloof. The big stabilization
• 'fund of $2,000.000,000 can overnight
·' drive Prance off gold. No such in
' tention. of course, is apparent here.
The American Government insists it
is not using its fund for offensive but
for defensive purposes.
Yet. in recent weeks, the pound has
fluctuated greatly, and now Belgium
has a monetary crisis, which is sure to
be followed by other crises in the cur
rencies of Europe.
U. S. in Currency War.
America is involved in the currency
war. There are differences of opinion
as to what an abandonment of the
gold standard and the devaluation of
·. the franc may do to France. It has
' been contended that internal disorder
or the establishment of a Fascist or
Communist dictatorship might follow.
On the surface, Europe's troubles
ere political. Actually, they are
economic. The European nations have
hot absorbed their World War troubles.
The economic readjustments caused by
the war and intensified by the
territorial rearrangements of the
Versailles treaty have left a residue
which brought Communism to Russia.
Fascism to Italy and Germany, and
a load of almost unbearable debt to
Britain.
The League of Nations was sup
posed to furnish the machinery to end
. wars. But the League has been power
less because the seeds of discontent
brought by the peace treaty have not
been eradicated. President Wilson's
futile plea for a "peace without vic
- tory" seems, in recollection, to have
' been prophetic of what Europe really
needed.
•1 Allies Blind at Versailles.
For Germany today demands equal
ity and .lot the status of a vanquished
nation forever. The allies were blind
to this at Versailles and in the
whole post-war period. Consequently,
ι democracy in Germany perished and
Jiitler today capitalizes on nationalis
' tic and patriotic feeling and tears up
• the treaty of Versailles amid national
. acclaim.
f The influence of the United States
- exerted persuasively in the post-war |
period might have helped. But na- j
tionalistic and narrow viewpoints in
the American Congress were as pow
erful as they were in the French
Parliament. America demanded pay
ment of war debts The allies de
manded payment oi reparations. And
today the 'vhole structure of war debts i
has collapsed, leaving also a iseieton
' Cf pre-war trade and enterprise.
Unemployment runs close te 30.- j
000,000 persons, of w hich Americ j has
one-third. Exports from the United j
States are the lowest in our history {
for farm products, and not much
better than 1913 for all other articles |
combined.
, ' World trade, indeed, has collapsed, ί
end what little improvement the last
' year has brought is now threatened by
; unsettled conditions in Europe.
Germans Want No War.
J Nobody wants the United States to
' enter another war. Nobody in Eng
land wants another war. And, ii the
truth were told, the German people
.."want no more war
f Who. then, wants war? The noliti
jxai groups and dictators of Europe, who
'think they can perpetuate themselves
fetter in military displays because of
the natural tendency of a people to
^consolidate and forget internal differ
ences when war comes.
a Is there nothing that can be done
'tjcept fold our hands and say "We
Λ»νε nothing to say and we shall do
^ifething about it. It's Europe's quar
'ral. not ours?"
j, "Unfortunately, this is what America
«aid at the outbreak of the World
♦WJar, and yet she was drawn in,
«<*nehow.
£ ^Whether or not we become parties
to a European military struggle, we
aie already parties to Europe's eco
jKJmic struggle for existence.
Ζ No Neutral Rights.
» It Is easy enough to say the rights
yf neutrals should be revised. The
Sact is there will be no rights of
Jieutrals in the next war. There were
none in the last war. And that's why
Jhe United States found herself in
volved.
Î American Influence for peace has
mlways meant something in the world,
lut it can mean far more today. Cer
Jainly the United States can avoid
aggravating the situation abroad by
Continued threats against European
currencies and by the beginning of
Informal discussions leading to a
currency truce. This would mean the
tevival of trade.
«► And when trade revives there Is
àn opportunity for the unemployed
both here and abroad to get jobs.
When there are more jobs European
Sctators will be less inclined to talk
war and be much more interested
ft peace. An economic armistice In
the world today would prevent a war
of arms.
(Copyright. 1935.)
BOOK KEPT 72 YEARS
3 JACKSON, Miss., March 20 (IP).—
When a fellow keeps a borrowed book
12 years and then offers to return it.
It must be some sort of a record for
tardiness.
-The Clarion-Ledger yesterday re
ceived a letter from Herbert G. Porter
at Maiden, Mass., which said:
"Gentlemen: Can you give me the
address of some descendant of M.
Antonia Richard, who was a resident
of Jackson before 1863? I would like
t· return a book taken from her
1Λίβί>· at that time."
What's What I
Behind News
In Capital
Revolts by Congress
Due to Be Feeble
for Rest of Session.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE process by which President
Roosevelt regained his grip or.
the Senate has been a guarded
state secret.
The six Senators who
switched their votes to him on the
relief wage issue are doing a little
talking. Some are doing r.one at all.
Others are publicly offering what are
obviously inadequate explanations.
Cloakroom belief at the Senate
is that Mr. Roosevelt passed around
a !eu> hidden slices ol political pie.
This may be partially true, but a
more fundamental reason was of
fered confidentially to the deserted
labor lobbyists by a Senator who
said:
"We must work with him for at
least two more years. We can't
repudiate him now."
That tells the story. It implies that
the President has little to fear from
this Congress anytime soon, if he
watches his step. Congressmen, espe
cially Democrats and Progressives,
realize, when they get right up against
the gun, that breaking with the Presi
dent involves responsibilities they do
not care to assume except in extreme
emergencies.
It is true that some ot the labor
Senators who switched received pri
vate assurances from the White
House that Mr. Roosevelt would use
discretion in the wage matter. They
are saying that they impressed the
President with the Senate strength
of labor and that he will keep this
in mind while administering the act.
For that reason they expect pre
vailing wages to be paid in the 22
States which have prevailing wage
laws. Also on Federal piojects.
This may be expecting too much,
but there can be no question about
Mr. Roosevelt's determination not to
permit his relief administration to
affect private wages adversely.
Deal on Wagner Bill?
There is talk in labor circles that
one part of the deal calls for Mr.
Roosevelt to support the Wagner
labor disputes bill. The White House
has dropped a couple of hints lately
implying that it might. Also, Sena
tor Wagner saw Mr. Roosevelt twice
before he switched.
The best authorities deny there was
a deal, but say Mr. Roosevelt never
theless will champion the Wagner
bill, openly or privately, or both.
They are confident he is leaning that
way because of the failure of section
7A (from a union standpoint) and
the threat of strikes this Summer.
An energetic indorsement from Mr.
Roosevelt is the only thing that will
save the Wagner bill.
Soft Pedal for Hitler.
There has been a gradual change
of attitude toward Hitler in the high
est administration quarters.
A year ago New Dealers veiled
their personal /eelings about him
uith only a thin tissue of diplo
macy which any one could see
through. They called him a mad
man, murderer and worse when
no ladies or reporters were present.
Now they are picking their words
more carefully. They dislike him
as much as ever, but they seem to
have a little higher estimate o) his
ability. They know now that he is
smarter than they thought.
This is one reason why the SU te
Department did everything passible
to put a quietus on any official re
actions to Hitler's army conscription
order. The diplomats kept their
mouths shut and also tried to keep
Senators from commenting, although
that was a difficult job. They did
not even like the mild remarks by
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. They
know anti-German elements will
bring all kinds of pressure to gain
our help in resisting Hitler. They
felt this was one fight we should
stay out of.
What the European experts among
the New Dealers thought offhand
about the move was that Hitler had
his eyes fixed on the east rather than
on the west. Moscow was more
frightened than London or Paris.
The Reds have data to prove that
Hitler is planning a colonization ex
pansion at their expense.
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, head of
the Nazi party's "foreign political
office," long has been an advocate
of Eastward German expansion.
He is a native of the Baltic prov
inces and teas born on soil which
was Russian before the war. He
has repeatedly declared Germany's
need for "space to live."
This is why Moscow has been
trying so ardently to hurry along a
peace arrangement with the Jap
anese.
Louis Howe's Fight.
No one outside of the White House
family has any idea of what Louis
Howe has gone through during the
last two years. He spent most of his
life helping to build up the Roosevelt
entourage for the White House. Six
months after they arrived, the strain
of the work revived his old heart ail
ment. Since then, he has led a pain
fully cautious life.
His office adjoins his bed room, on
the second floor of the White House.
After weeks of careful restraint from
exertion, he has occasionally worked
up strength enough to get out (as
when he accompanied Mr. Roosevelt
on the Boston trip). Always these
excursions have sent him back to
more months of meticulously re
strained living.
No greater example of physical
courage has been noticeable around
this city of flexible spines in a long
time.
(Copyright. 1P35.)
Polo Player's Father Dies. *
LLANO. Tex., March 20 (JF).—I. W.
Williams. 76, pioneer Llano ranchman
and father of the nationally known
polo player, Rube Williams, died yes
terday. Funeral services were to be
held today.
Civic Groups to Appear Be
fore Senate Subcommit
tee Tomorrow.
After hearing public school end;
Water Department officials on the !
need for items eliminated by the j
House, the Senate subcommittee '
handling the 1936 District bill today
completed the testimony of depart
ment heads and will start tomorrow
with spokesmen for various civic or
ganizations.
Bridges and public library needs
are expected to be the first problems
on which civic groups will be heard.
In this connection the Southeast
Business Men's Association has sent
a letter to members of the Senate,
urging restoration to the bill of the
$15,000 item for drawing plans· for
a new bridge across the Anacostia
River at Pennsylvania avenue south
east. The proposal also has the sup
port of citizens' associations in the
eastern part of the city.
Water Meter Allowance.
The subcommittee today was told of
the need for an increase in the allow
ance for Installation of water meters
and more rapid repair of old meters.
The Water Department is in a situa
tion similar to the Highway Division
in that it will have a substantial bal
ance of water rents revenue lying idle
in the Treasury that could not be
spent for any other purpose under the
reduced amounts allowed by the
House. The House cut $238,250 from
the budget estimates for the Water
Department. Even if this is restored
it would not use up all of the esti
mated water revenues. Among the
items the House cut out were a new 1
electric pump at the Bryant Street j
Station and *120,250 for a 36-inch 1
main from Eleventh and Kenyon
streets to Seventeenth and Taylor
streets.
School officials, who began testifying
yesterday, completed their explana
tion of the $252,759 which the House
eliminated from their estimates.
Among these items were $70,000 for
the Woodrow Wilson High School and
a similar amount for improvements
at Armstrong High School. The House
also refuse<J to reappropriate $55,000
of an unexpended balance for addi
tional land at the Phelps Vocational
School.
Amendment Agreed To.
Meanwhile, House conferees on the
first deficiency appropriation bill to
day agreed to a Senate amendment in
that bill allowing $35,000 for two
I local public school items. This in
cludes $20,000 to remodel the Adams
building for a grade school and $15 000
i to equip commercial classes in junior .
i and senior high schools.
Iri urging that plans be prepared '
immediately for the Pennsylvania Ave- '
! nue Bridge the business men of that '
section pointed out the present bridge
was built in 1890 and is tco narrow
I for the present volume of traffic. per
• mitting only one line of vehicles in i
each direction. Fourteen thousand
i vehicles pass over the bridge daiiy,
i they stated.
j "Southeast Washington feels that it
has been neglected," the letter stated, ι
i "that it has paid for the improvement j
of other sections, while conditions in '
that particular section have remained
obsolete." The letter also pointed out !
ihat the Southeast section has had to ;
harbor the garbage disposal plant lor ι
the whole city. The letter stated that j
citizens of the Southeast do not ask !
for a pretentious bridge, but merely i
an adequate, safe structure.
D. C. WOULD SHARE j
IN ROAD FUNDS
j
Senator Hayden Offers Amend
ment to Work-Relief Measure
Providing for $487,000.
The District of Columbia, along
with all the States; would be alio- 1
cated a definite portion of any public i
road funds distributed under the
work-relief bill as the result of an
amendment Senator Hayden, Demo
crat. of Arizona, had added to the ;
bill in the Senate this afternoon.
As the bill came from committee,
it contained a provision indicating
various types of projects for which
the $4,000,000,000 should be used. While I
this list included highways and grade \
crossing eliminations, these were re
ferred to only in a lump sum and
without definite allocation.
Senator Hayden s amendment would
require the highway fund to be ap
portioned on the sane basis that has
been followed in emergency legisla
tion of the past two years, namely,
according to the area, population and
mileage of rural mail routes in each :
jurisdiction.
A sample table prepared for Sena- !
to Hadyen shows that if $100.000.000 :
is distributed for highways out of the .
pending bill, the District would be en- ι
titled to a grant of $487,000.
FIGHT ON BLANTON
PLANNED BY CITIZENS
Every Civic Organization Will Be
Asked to Join in "March
on Capitol."
Plans for a proposed demonstration
March 28 to request the House to
remove Representative Blanton. Dem
ocrat. of Texas front his assignment
on the House Appropriations Commit
tee were discussed at a meeting last
night of the Executive Committee of
the Federation of Business Men's As
sociations
A "march on the Capitol," where
petitions would be presented to Speak
er Byrns demanding Blanton's re
moval from the committee, was pro
posed. Every civic organization in
Washington, it was stated, is to Ije
invited to participate.
Arthur Clarendon Smith, president
of the federation, who initiated the
move for the demonstration, criti
cized Blanton, commended the Crime
Committee for its courage, and point
ed out there could be no effective en
forcement of law until the Police De
partment is divorced from politics.
Smith also called a special meeting
of the Federation in the La Fayette
Hotel at 6:30 o'clock tonight to fur
ther plans for the proposed demon
stration.
De Mille Presents Diplomas.
NEW YORK, March 20 ^.—Wil
liam C. De Mille of Los Angeles, Calif.,
dramatic author and motion picture
producer and director, last night re
turned to his alma mater to present
diplomas to the members of the fifty
first graduating class of the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts. De Mille
was graduated iron the academy in
1801.
Long Crusader
"SHARE-THE-WEALTH" HEAD
IN NEW YORK.
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
REV. GERALD L. K. SMITH,
National organizer of the share
the-wealth movement, photograph
ed in New York as he fur
thered his plans to increase to
15,000.000 persons the movement
sponsored by Senator Huey P.
Long. Rev. Smith said he left his
pastorate in Shreveport, La., to
crusade for Long.
DAMS TO CONTROL
FLOODS SURVEYED
M i s s i s s i ppi Commission
Head Asks $50,000.000 to
Curb Tributaries' Waters.
By th* Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn , March 20—One
of the worst Mississippi Valley tribu
tary floods in years was battled tcday
by an army of engineers, Natioiifcl
Guardsmen, convicts. Red Cross
workers and volunteers.
The swirling yellow waters were
giving less trouble to the north in
Missouri but southward in Arkansas
and Mississippi they offered new
threat to lands and homes.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson, president
of the Mississippi River Commission,
announced plans at Vicksburg, Miss.,
to recommend to Congress the con
struction of a $50,000,000 rcservi.
system to curb further rampaging ot
certain streams.
Inspects Seven Dam Sites.
Gen. Ferguson made his announce
ment after an inspection tour of seven
proposed reservoir sites in the Cold
water and Tallahatchie Basins of
North Mississippi.
The rese-voirs, with basins suffi
ciently large to care for all surplus
water the rivers might be called udoi:
to carry, would lie created through
the erection of dams. Three would be
placed near Greenwood, on the Yalo
busha River, one near BatesviUe. on
the Yacona; two on the Tallachatchie
and one on the Coldwater near Artca
butla.
The Coldwater and Tallahatchie
Rivers were receding today. They
usually are among the first of the
Mississippi River's tributaries to be
come unruly following excessive rains.
Convicts Sandbag Levee.
It was the Yazoo River that was
Riving the most trouble in Mississippi
today. One hundred and fifty State
Prison convicts were sandbagging a
"danger point" in the Yazoo Levee at
Swifton, 30 miles south of Greenwood.
In Arkansas the Cache River began
to misbehave. A break north of Devais
Bluff late yesterday sent water over
10.000 acres of land and forced 203
families from their homes.
Most of the trouble in Southeast
Missouri appeared at an end. Guards
continued to patrol levees, however.
The White and St. Francis, still
rising in North Arkansas, had water
over thousands of acres of farmland,
and about 15.000 lowlanders were out
ο ftheir homes.
SACKETT SEES ACT
PARTLY JUSTIFIABLE
Former Ambassador Says He Saw
No Indications of War While
in Europe.
B.v the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 20 — Frederick
M. Sackett of Louisville, Ky., former
United States Ambassador to Ger
many, said last night upon his arrival
on the Majestic that he thought Ger
many's rearming was a "partially
justifiable act."
Sackett, who was accompanied by
his wife, attended the London con
ference called by the Carnegie En
dowment for International Peace.
Asked if he regarded Germany's re
arming as justifiable. Sackett said:
"I'd say it is. Partially justifiable."
Sackett said he would remain in
New York for several days and then
would go to Washington to visit the
State Department before returning to
his Louisville home.
The former Ambassador praised the
London conference, remarking that
while he was in Europe he saw no
indication of war.
"There is no money for wars; nor
credit in the United States to man
them," he added.
SPANISH COUNT SEEN
ASPIRANT FOR MOVIES
Covadonga, Whose Allowance
Was Cut Off by Alfonso,
Refuses to Comment.
By the Associated Press.
CANNES, Prance. March 20.—Count
Covadonga, whose allowance has been
discontinued by his father, former
King Alphonso of Spain, because he
refused to attend the wedding of his
brother, Don Jaime, may enter the
movies In the United States, It was
reported today.
The count, who is living in a small
villa on the outskirts of Cannes, re
fused to confirm or deny the reports
of possible movie work.
"This is a personal matter," he said,
"and I am not ready to discuss the
future."
The count recently expressed resent
ment that his'father gave permission
for his brother's marriage to a com
moner while he withheld permission
when the count married Edelmira
Sampedro In 1933.
SHARP RISE SHOWN
IN TAXPAYMENTS
29 Per Cent Increase in In
come Levy Collections for
March Indicated.
By the Associated Press.
Speaker Byrns scanned today a
Treasury forecast indicating about η
29 per cent jump in March income
tax collections, as compared to a
year ago, and then said:
"We're out of the depression. As j
soon as business begins to And that i
out our troubles will be over.
"There's nothing that gives a bet
ter indication of the true condition of
business than tax payments. When
they drop, look out; when they rise,
that's a very healthy sign."
Urges Congress Speed End.
He said, however, that to encourage
fcusiness and the whole country, "Con
gress ought to finish up its job and
go home as soon as possible."
Other Democratic leaders expressed
the view that the tax figures indi
cated Congress may escape having to
levy new taxes at this session. One,
Representative Sam Hill, Democrat,
of Washington, went so far as to ven
ture that even the $98,500,000 initial
outlay in the social security program
could be financed without increasing
the taxpayer's load.
Rased on Revenue Receipts.
The statements were based on In
ternal Revenue Bureau statistics fig
uring income tax receipts for the first
15 days of March at $191.358.909, as j
against $147,794,894 in the compa
rable period a year ago. Officials said
(his indicated the month's receipts
would run more than $300,000,000. or
about 29 per cent higher than last
ί year.
Meanwhile, collections were almost
; doubled in the area consisting of the
I District of Columbia and Maryland.
I Income taxes paid in the District dur
I ing the first 15 days of March rose
! from $4.606,000 last year to $7,301,732
! this year, according to Guy T. Helver
' ing. commissioner of internal revenue.
Hopes for Speedy End.
Byrns expressed the hope the ses
' sion would end by June 15. In the
1 center of a circle of newspaper men, ;
just off the House floor, where the ;
S2 000,000,000 bonus bill was being de
bated, Byrns declined to give an opin
I ion as to what might be done about
ί tax rates, saying he would leave that
to the "experts "
Hill, who is ranking Democrat on
,he tax-levying Ways and Means Com- j
mittee, said :
j "We will, of course, have to extend
i the nuisance taxes that expire this
year, but unless present signs are mis
leading we ought to be able to finance
our normal expenditures without ad
ditional taxes."
Hill and Chairman Doughton of the
Ways and Means Committee said,
however, that a final decision on taxes
ί would have to be delayed until near
ι the end of the session.
LANGER FLUSTERED
AS CASE IS ARGUED
Appeal Marked by Admission He
Solicited Relief Worker Funds
by Mistake.
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 20 —Seek
ing solace in cigars. William Langer,
former Governor of North Dakota,
faced another session before a three- j
judge appelate court today as attor
1 nevs argued his appeal from a felony
I conviction.
Convicted in Federal Court on con
spiracy to obstruct Federal relief
! work by soliciting relief workers for
political purposes, the immaculate, ι
: keen-eyed Langer listened intently,
I yesterday to arguments in which he j
! was compared to a burglar by a Gov- I
ernment attorney.
His face flushed as P. W. Lanier, i
I United States district attorney of ι
; Pargo, N. Dak., opened the arguments :
by which the Government hopes to
îustain the conviction, as well as an
18-month prison sentence and a
$10.000 fine.
Francis Murphy, one of Langer's
attorneys, conceded State employes
were solicited to contribute 5 per cent
of their pay to the deposed Governor's
political organ. The Leader, and
told the court that "five or six em
ployes" in the State Relief Bureau
were solicited by mistake.
"It is upon this accidental solicita
tion of a handful of relief employes
that the Government predicates its
case," Murphy said.
He argues that solicitation of relief
employes was no concern of the Gov
ernment since they were paid with
money which the Government had
loaned or given the State.
· —
JUST A FEW REPAIRS
Comedian's Son Has Tonsils, Ade
noids Removed and Arm Broken.
HOLLYWOOD, March 20 <&).—
Joe E. Brown, jr., 18-year-old son of
the screen comedian, experienced a
hard day at the hospital yesterday.
The youth first had his tonsils re
moved. then his adenoids. Then his
right arm, which was fratured in a
base ball game two years ago, was
rebroken and set.
Physicians reported he withstood
the ordeal in fine shape.
Graduate Nurse Dies.
NEW YORK. March 20 <#).—Mrs.
Annie J. Winans, oldest graduate nurse
in Oklahoma until she came East to
live in this city and Stamford, Conn..
10 years ago, died yesterday in the
Roosevelt Hospital of pneumonia.
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Bullitt Tells of Soviet
William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to Russia 'left), and Chairman Mc
Rrynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee shown yesterday as the
former appeared to tell a closed session about economic conditirns in the
Soviet. Today the Ambassador was to be called back to describe the set-up
of the government and how It functions. —A. P. Photo.
Death and a Halo Were Rewards
For Good Little Boys of 1822
But Naughty Youngsters Had to Live
to a Ripe Old Age—And Face
Worse in the Hereafter.
This is the concluding article of
a serifs on children's literature of
the past.
BV THOMAS R. HENRY.
Peace to the pious shade of Rev
Tr.mes Janeway, minister of the gospel.
Back in 1822 there issued from this
leprncd cleric's pen "A Token for
Children." in two volumes, designed
tor the edification and enlightenment
of the young. It is the choice!t item
in the collection of nineteenth century
children's books now being assembled
at the Library of Congress, and well
may claim the distinction of having
been the most terrible publication ever
to come from the press.
For. Rev. Mr. Janeway held. If lit
tle children were unbelievably good,
they would be rewarded exceedingly—
by dying when they were 10 or 12 and
going to heaven. Thus they would
avoid the sorrows and temptations of
this vale of tears. Only for children
who were very, very good was such a
hope held forth. The naughty ones
could live to a ripe old age and be
damned for it.
Always Went to Hraven.
The work consists of "true" biog
raphies of about 20 children, with
most of whom Rev. Mr. Janeway was
acquainted personally. Each con
cludes with a highly edifying death- j
bed scene. Of course, these children !
went straight to heaven, and about the j
worst fate one could wish for the
pious minister is that he was con
demned to the same place and utterly
abandoned in his torture by a relent
less Satan.
Thus ho addresses himself to the
child mind of 1822: ' You may now
hear, my dear little lambs, what other
children have done: how dutiful they
were to their parents: how diligent at
their books. Can you forget what
questions they were wont to ask? How
much they feared a lie? How much
they abhorred naughty company?
How holily they lived? How joy
fully they died?
"But tell me. my little lambs, tell
me truly, do you do as these children
did? Did you ever see your miserable
state by nature? Did you ever get by
yourself and weep for your sins? Do
you ever go to your master or mistress,
father or mother, and beg them to
teach you what you should do?
Whither do you think those children
go when they die who will not do as
they are bid. but play the truant, and
lie. and speak naughty words? Why,
I will tell you. They must go to
their father, the devil, into everlast
ing burnings, and when they beg in
hell fire they will not be forgiven, but
must stay there forever. Oh, this
hell is a terrible place. It is worse
a thousand times than whipping,"
The Case of Tabitha Bates.
But heaven also has some disad
vantages, among them the presence
there ot dear little Tabitha Bates,
who was one of Rev. Mr. Janeway's
choicest specimens. For of Tabitha
he relates that "when she was about
4 years old she had a conscientious
sense of duty toward her parents.
When she came from school she
would with grief and abhorrence say
that other children had sinned by
speaking grievous words, which were
so bad she dared not speak them
again. The poor little thing would be
ready to counsel the other children.
When she saw some of them laughing
whom she judged to be very wicked,
she told them she feared they had
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little reason to be merry, for those
who are wicked have more need to cry
than to laugh."
Tabitha never could get home fast
enough to report any misconduct of
her brothers and sisters, for "she
held it was the duty of parents, mas
ters and mistresses to reprove those
under their charge for sin " When
she was 10 years old she "burst a
blood vessel in her lung.'' but, with
the consciousness of such an ex
emplary career of tale-bearing behind
her. "she said that she desired to die
that she might go to heaven, and she
did with a great deal of cheerfulness
give up her soul."
The leader of Rev. James Janrway's
troop of pious children in Paradise
doubtless is John Harvey.
Of all the good little girls and boys
whose edifying lives the learned cleric
recited, John is entitled to the blue
ribbon. The others appear to have
contented themselves with reproving
other children for wasting precious
hours at play. John, firmly but kindly,
reprimanded his elders for their oc
casional lapses into worldliness.
This paragon makes his appearance
in Rev. Mr. Janeway's pages when he
is 2 years and 8 months old—but long
before that he must have indulged in
some profound reflections on the
deeper meanings of life and deter
mined on the road he would follow.
Revealed as a Prodigy.
At that time his parents, judging
he was a little too young to be sent to
school, let him have his liberty to play
a little about his home. But instea#
of playing he found out a school of
his own accord, hard by, and went to
the mistress and entreated her to
teach him to read. He then had a
very great hatred of whatever he
knew to be wicked, and would be
much displeased if any gross sins
were committed before him.
"When he was at play with other
children he would be oftentimes put
ting in a word to keep them from
naughty talk or wicked actions. Nay,
once, hearing a boy speak very pro
fanely, and that after two or three
admonitions, he was so transported
with zeal that he could not forbear
falling upon him to beat him. for he
could not endure foul words from so
wretched a boy.
"When he perceived either his
brother or sister pleased with new
clothes he would, with a great deal of
dignity, reprove their folly, and when
his reproof signified little he would be
wail their vanity."
Once his mother bought him a new
suit. The child saw that it was deco
rated with bits of ribbon.
"Will these things keep me warm?"
he asked his mother, sternly and re
provingly.
John Dies, of Course.
"Why, no. my child," admitted the
pious woman, conscious now of her
great guilt.
"Then, mother," said John, drawing
himself up to his utmost 8-year-old
dignity and self-righteousness, "why
did you permit them to be put there.
You are deceived if you think such
vanities please me. I doubt not there
are some that are better than we that
may want the money this cost you to
buy their bread."
At other times he would sternly ad
monish his mother "to have a care
of gratifying a proud humor in his
brother and sister, lest it endanger
their immortal souls." But withal "he
was exceedingly dutiful to his parents
and never did in the least dispute
their commands, except when he
thought they might be contrary to the
commands of God." But he would
"put his brother and sister upon their
duties and observed whether they per
formed them or not. When he saw
any neglect he would warn them of
the torments to come."
John was too good for this world,
and when, just past his 10th birthday,
he realized his last hour was near he
scornfully refused some delicacies a
grieving father had brought for him.
"Oh, what a sweet supper I have
making ready for me in Glory," he
exclaimed.
Boy Slayer Held Insane.
VINITA, Okla., March 20 </P).-^Jack
Campbell, 14, who said he killed his
father, Rev. Earl Campbell of Carter,
in fear of a reprimand for possessing
obscene pictures, was placed in the
Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for Insane
here yesterday. A murder charge was
dropped after he was ruled Insane.
State Party Chief Says
F. E. R. A. Head Using
Smoke Screen.
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 20 —
Francis W. Poulson, chairman oi the
Ohio Democratic Executive Committee,
launched .. bitter attack today on
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad
ministrator.
In a statement, PouLson claimed
that Hopkins, in his controversy with
Gov. Martin L. Davey over admin
istration of relief in Ohio, "pulls out
a political chestnut in a futile at
tempt to create a smoke screen."
Says Roosevelt Betrayed.
Asking "what is wrong, when prices
are equal and qualities are the same,
with directing the business of Gov
ernment to persons or firms that have
helped in the campaign?" Poulson de
clared that President Roosevelt h?s
been "betrayed" by Republicans who
aie serving in high office.
The appointment of Republicans to
high office by the President, he said,
had caused Democrats in Ohio and
throughout the Nation to rise "up in
arms."
The Democratic executive chairman
said that "if firms doing business with
the Ohio Relief Commission have been
'shaken down.' as Dr. Hopkins says,
the shake-down was done by employes
appointed by Gen. Henderson, while
serving under Gen. Henderson and
Dr. Hopkins."
Poulson charged that Hopkins "has
in his possession a statement taken by
him or his representatives from one
of the purchasing agents of the Ohio
Relief Administration. This amounts
to a confession of the purchasing
agent having committed a crime. Why
has Dr. Hopkins withheld this state
ment? Why is it not made public
at once?
"Dr. Hopkins' main motive in this
entire affair is to muddy the waters
so as to divert public attention from
Gov, Davey's unanswered charges
against the administration of relief in
Ohio. Fortunately the people of Ohio
have the doctor's number. They arc
standing solidly behind their Gov
ernor."
Shake-up Continues.
Meanwhile the shake-up of the Ohio
Relief Administration continued to
day when C. C. Stillman. assigned to
administer Federal relief in this State,
announced the suspension of three
men. who were named in affidavits on
which Hopkins based a charge of
political "shakedown" in Ohio relief.
Stillman suspended William R.
McNamara. director of the surplus
commodities division, and his as
sistant, Thomas Jones, both of whom
signed affidavits, which will form the
basis of a grand jury investigation
Thursday of Hopkins' charges. Hf
also suspended John E. Lee, who was
named in the affidavits.
Stillman said the three men would
remain suspended pending the out
come of the investigation. Robert
Owens of the relief department en
gineering division assumed McNa
mara s job.
Davey Revolt Grows. *
Meanwhile rebellion brewed in the
ranks of Gov. Martin L. Davey as a
Democratic legislative leader disclosed
a move to place the State's $2.500,000
a month relief contribution in the
hands of Stillman.
Stillman yesterday dismissed six
minor employes and George E. Eppley,
who has been designated by Davey
to become director of public works
in the Governor's cabinet. Eppley was
assistant to William A. Walls. Davey's
appointed State relief director.·
McNamara, in a statement, asserted
he had "nothing to conceal in this
entire investigation."
MARTIN J. INSULL
WILL BE DEPORTED
Action Under Old Order Would
Prevent Former Financier Be
coming Public Charge.
*
Bt the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 20.—Immigration
officers announced today that Martin
J. Insull. who once handled millions,
! will be deported here Pridav because
he might become a public charge.
The 69-year-old brother of Samuel
i Insull will be excluded under a de
portation order issued last March,
when he was brought across the border
from Canada to stand trial in Chicago
on an embezzlement charge.
He is a British subject and carried
on a strenuous legal battle in Canada
against his return to the United
States to face charges in Illinois
growing out of the collapse of the
Insull utility companies. The immi
gration officers said Insull would
, arrive here at 7:50 a.m. Friday. He
J will be escorted across the Detroit
ι River to Windsor, Ontario, by In
j spector James Warner.
MANAGER'S MOTHER DIES
PHILADELPHIA. March 20 </P).—
Mrs. Susan McCarthy, mother of Joe
McCarthy, manager of the New York
ί Yankees. American League base ball
. club, died yesterday in the home of
a niece. She was 75.
A telephone call was made to the
Yankees' training camp in Florida and
! word was received that McCarthy left
the club and took a plane imme
| diately for Philadelphia. He had
ί often referred to his mother as his
I "favorite rooter."
I Congress in Brief |
By the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates work-relief bill.
Finance Committee hears Clarence
Darrow on N. R. A.
House.
Debates bonus.
Interstate Commerce Committee
conducts hearing on holding company
control.
Labor Committee hears William
Green on labor disputes measure.
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Rejected Byrd and Adams amend
ments to work-relief bill.
Labor Committee heard John L.
Lewis assail Donald Richberg.
House.
Passed cotton-control extension bill,
began debating bonus.
Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve
Board governor, told Banking Com
mittee fears of inflation are exagger
ated.
I Merchant Marine Committee started
I hearing on proposed ship subsidies.
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