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EDITORIAL x AGE
OF THE
' Preserve Nepotism!
But Destroy Workers' Homes
The necessity for economy may wreck the incomes of Gov
ernment employes, it may cripple Government bureaus, it may
cut the compensation of veterans of the wars—but it shall not
touch the privileges of Congressmen.
That is the dictum which the House has established by its
refusal to accept an amendment to the omnibus false economy
bill which has as its object the abolition of nepotism.
In one provision of the bill, against which not a single mem
ber raised objection, the House declares that when it shall be
necessary to discharge Federal workers those workers who have
husbands or wives in the service shall be dismissed first.
After this principle had been adopted as the policy of the
House, Representative Mouser introduced his antinepotism
amendment which provided that no member of Congress should
spend any of the money appropriated to him for the employ
ment of persons related to him unless they were actually em
ployed in his office.
If the married person provision were logical and just, the
Mouser amendment was the apogee of logic and justice.
But it got nowhere.
By a vote of more than two to one it was howled down.
In the face of admissions from Congressmen that they have
aged mothers-in-law on the payroll, that sons and daughters
who were in school have been carried on the roll, that “fence
menders” back home are carried on the office payrolls, the
House flatly refused to remedy the condition.
But the economizer took a shot at the newly married couples
who may jointly be earning $2,500 or $3,000 with which to estab
lish a home. That condition must cease, the House declares.
There are other inconsistencies in the omnibus bill which are
just about as glaring.
They indicate clearly that the measure is not what it purports
to be.
They indicate clearly that the thing to do is to kill this legis
lative monstrosity.
61 Days’ Work
No Wages
“Before the war, theoretically, every man worked
twenty-five days a year for the national, state and
local governments combined.
“In 1924 he worked forty-six days a year.
“Today he works for the support of all forms of
government sixty-one days out of a year.
“Continued progress on this road is the way to
national impoverishment.”
These paragraphs from President Hoover s address in Rich
mond give you food for thought, if you are in the habit of
thinking. . .
They put up to you, in plain language, the criminal cost
of government —or rather of misgovernment.
Just consider these figures for a minute, turn them over
In your mind, see what they mean.
Sixty-one working days a year, more than two months, for
which you are not paid.
One day out of every five on which you must toil gratis.
One hour and thirty-six minutes out of every eight-hour
dav, with no wages.
That brings the cost of government home to you.
And that is not the half of it. Your working time for
Uncle Sam has increased 50 per cent in the last eight years,
and nearly 150 per cent in the last sixteen years.
At this rate, you will soon be working for them all the
time and for yourself not at all.
Who’s to blame?
Politicians, of course.
But who’s to blame for politicians?
Well, you are, when you get down to it. If you 1 /e
a vote, you vote them into office and keep them there. // d
if you are willing to work an hour or so a day for noth j—
largely for their benefit—that’s your funeral.
You can’t expect them to kick about it.
Child Health Day ~
Os Particular Importance Now
The moral, physical and intellectual welfare of cbddren is
always a matter of the highest importance, but in times of
economic stress the subject takes on a particular significance.
It is, accordingly, fitting that tomorrow should be desig
nated National Child Health Day, with Washington and the
entire country devoting especial attention to the needs of the
children.
During the last week groups interested in various phases
of child activity have conducted programs designed to bring
the needs of the youngsters into prominence. The programs
reach their climax tomorrow.
Too great attention cannot be given to the problem pre
sented by the rearing of children in such times as these.
Conditions are hard enough on adults. Children feel them
to even a greater degree. It is the children who in the long
run will endure the permanent mark to be left by deprivation
and want.
Everyone in the community has a duty and responsibility
toward all of the children in that community.
Let all give thought tomorrow as to how that duty is to be
discharged.
Hearst Papers Advocate:
1. "Honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances
with none. —George Washington.
2. Proportional representation in the United States Senate—
no State to have less than two Senators.
3. Abolition of Hie Electoral College—election of the President
and Vice President by plurality vote of the nation.
4. End of Lame Duck sessions. Installation of President and
Congress immediately following election.
5. Army Navy, and Aviation—all united under a Secretary of
National Defense.
6. Vigorous Federal action under a Secretary of Education to
abolish illiteracy in the United States.
7. Federal Sales Tax and Excise taxes to replace the income
tax, which has degenerated into a racket.
8. FIVE BILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL LOAN FOR PUBLIC
WORKS AND TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT.
9. Construction of Nicaragua Canal for commerce and de
fense. advocated by Hearst papers since 1895.
10. Acquisition of French and English West Indies as part pay
ment on debts to United States.
11. Selective immigration to admit only those suited for Ameri
can citizenship and American needs.
12. Deportation of undesirable aliens and extension of prelimi
nary citizenship period to ten years.
13. Modification of Volstead Act to permit light wines and
14. A calendar year of thirteen months of four weeks each, all
holidays to fall on Saturday.
15. A five-day working week or a six-hour working day to pro
vide more jobs and better conditions for workers.
beers under Federal regulation.
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LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson — —
1 ’ aild Happiness *
You .’ e not happy, you say? i
You onder if you ever will !
be happy again. I do not know.
I an only
teH you seme
t’ ng I have
i s c o v e red
.bout happi
ness. Perhaps
that will help.
I have learn
ed to build
my happiness,
collecting it,
bit by bit.
Once I did
not need to
do this. Once
happiness
came without
effort or plan
FT
MV-
iFfr-' ■
i:i .son
—as naturally • che sunrise,
the songs of t v oird, the sweep
of the gl! ue’- .g tide.
I had I had cur.osity
and co ;dt. Best of all, I had
love—-s< meone to work for.
Then suddenly all that was
swept away. Life became a
brooding desolation.
Nothing moved in that deso
lation. Nothing spoke. Noth
ing shone. Everything was over.
My happiness was gone.
And at first I did not care.
Dem? .ds of Life
But life does not let us stay
that way. life demands that we
shall gc n living, go on de- ;
siring.
/.nd so I began to wisn that
happiness would come back to
me. But I wished as a paralyzed
mtn might wish for movement.
The paralyzed man thinks of
motion coming back to him in a
sudden miracle. I thought of
happiness coming back to me in
that way.
I felt that I, myself, could do j
nothing about it. It would just '
have to happen, without my vo-
WISE WORDS |
The man that makes the
best friend will make the worst
enemy.
Envy assails the noblest as
the winds howl around the
highest peak.
Experience is the father of
wisdom, and Memory the
mother.
There is no wealth like unto I
knowledge, for thieves cannot ’
steal it.
A little wind kindleth a great
fire, while a great one bloweth
it out.
He who relies on another’s
table is apt to dine late.
Better to go to bed supper
less than rise in debt.
Go to bed with the lamb and |
rise with the lark.
Ask thy purse what thou
shouldst buy.
He that sips often at last
drinks it up.
Lock your door and you will
make your neighbor honest.
jj
lition, and I waited for it to
happen.
I waited for happiness to come
sweeping back again like a glit
tering tide; like the song of a
bird; like sunrise.
But it did not come. Weeks,
months, years I waited, but
happiness did not happen. And
my life was going stagnant. Xt
was becoming a malignant
thing, because I was not
happy.
Then dimly I began to per
ceive that I was wrong. Happi
ness would not, could not, ever
come back that way; for that
sort of involuntary happiness
was part of something that
had gone forever.
EVEN IF A TRAGEDY HAD
NOT BEFALLEN ME. I WOULD
HAVE LOST THAT SORT OF
HAPPINESS.
For it was part of youth,
part of the exuberance and
ignorance of youth, part of
youth’s irresponsibility; and it
could not possibly continue
when life became older and
wiser and more responsible.
That did not mean, however,
that happiness was over. It
simply meant that one had to
be grown-up about happiness,
as about everything else.
Learns To Live
I was no longer a care-fre?
child in any other department
of my life. I had learned to
earn my living, to make .y
own decisions, to take care of
my busiafess, my property, my
body. Now I would have to
learn to take care of my hap
piness.
Things were not given to
adults freely, without thought.
Neither could happiness come
freely, without thought, to a
really grown-up person. Hapi ’•
ness must be planned for,
fought for, achieved.
And so I learned to build
happiness.
I NO LONGER WAITED
FOR HAPPINESS TO HAP
PEN. I MADE IT HAPPEN.
I realized I had to be happy.
I decided to be happy.
I decided to find happiness,
and I began looking for it.
I began looking for it in
every common incident of my
life.
I took joy wherever I found
it—in trifling experiences, in
fleeting mo od s, in brief
glimpses.
It wasn’t easy at first. It
was dreadfully hard. It was
like going through a compli
cated, tiresome, senseless drill.
My heart was heavy as lead.
My imagination refused to
budge. I longed to retreat into
the easy refuge of grief and
despair—but I persisted.
And gradually something be
gan to stir in me; warm in me;
and I saw that my life held
happiness again!
Not the radiance and ecstasy
I had once known, but a delib
erate delight which could find
food for joy in the most barren
places, and which no grief or
loss could ever again shake.
So 1 came to build happiness.
You can. too. if you will.
(Copyright, 1932, King Feature*
Syndicate, Ine.)
MARRY-GO-ROUND I
By Helen Rowland 1
The Sweet and Lowdown
Conceit is a man’s delusion
that the world thinks as much
| of him as he thinks of him
; self. Vanity is a woman’s de
i lusion that she can make the
world think MORE of her than
she thinks of herself.
Just so long as love is a
necessity to a woman and a
f.'* 0 /
1 JKyl /
a 5 _
mere luxury to a man, men
cen keep women jumping
through hoops and begging for
sugar. A strong mind will
never give woman “power” over
man, as long as she has a weak
heart.
A woman resorts to strategy
when she wants her way; a
man only resorts to strategy
I when he wants her OUT of the
way.
A woman can always tell you
just how to keep a man trotting
along in the straight and nar
row path—until she marries
one and tries ler hand at it.
Women win never cease to
be a mystery to man, so long
as five or six of them can talk
| ONCE-OVERS
Hack-Biters
xt is generally those who
have not succeeded in getting
where they wanted to go who
resort to back biting.
Thwarted ambition in one
way or another sours.
Then these mean souls seek a
way to tear down and stamp
on the very thing they most
wish and the persons who take
the places they want.
If they knew how transpar
ent such tactics are to an ob
server they would not be so
free with criticism.
None is exempt from mis
fortune.
None is always successful in
making a longed-for goal.
If you want your friends to
withhold the favors they might
otherwise turn your way, just
develop this “sour grapes” atti
tude.
Any group is better off with
out a back biter.
There is nothing gained in
keeping in touch with the
catty.
Some folk think it very amus
ing to others to hear these
little mean stabs and that is
because most people laugh at
such sallies.
But that laugh is not indica
tive of respect.
(Copyright, 1932, King Feature#
sn>dto*M, Inc,)
♦ all at once without losing their
j continuity or wrecking each
! other’s train of thought.
When a girl begins to scold
you for taking her to expensive
places and insists on leading
you to a cheap table d’hote- —
that’s love. Dodge quickly or
listen for the wedding bells.
“The most curious thing in
the world,” says the Cynical
Misogynist, “is a woman who
is not curious.” And, perhaps,
the most unusual thing in the
world is a man who doesn’t be
lieve that he’s “unusual.”
The girl who reaches the
altar first is the one who knows
how to appear just dumb and
innocuous enough to make a
I man think that she is “safe”
I to play around with and would
never have the skill to land
him.
A good husband is a man
who carries enough insurance
a
/
to enable his wife to buy a
gigolo after he dies.
(Copyright, 1932, King Featuro*
i Syndicate, Inc.)
# College and the Folks at Home
You youngsters at college,
aren’t you negligent about writ
ing home?
You say you are so busy you
can’t find time.
Oh no, you are not.
You devote many hours to
pleasure or doin' - nothing each
week.
You could write a sizable let
ter in half an hour.
You could find that much
time to write some message to
you" parents.
You don’t writ,e because you
are selfish, to speak plainly.
You prefer some kind of
amusement to denying yourself
a few minutes from pleasure to
make your parents pleased and
happy.
The folks at home are al
ways more or less anxious
about you, and to miss a letter
at a certain time is alarming
to them, and it hurts.
You always find time to write
home for money.
Suppose your father were to
say that he has been just too
busy to send you a check and
let you wait with a dime or so
in your pocket?
That would not be mean—
it would be your just deserts,
and might teach you that you
are not altogether independent,
if you are
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
APRIL 30, 1932
Tariff Jobbery, Power
And Ballyhoo
Claude G. Bowers
TIE appointment of Major *
John S. Cohen to serve |
in the Senate from Georgia
until a successor to the late
Senator Harris is elected in
November is a compliment
to the journalistic profes
sion in a State that has
greatly enriched the news
paper profession from the
earliest days.
Two candidates for the
succession are now in the
field, and the contest will be
spirited. Governor Russell
has announced his candi
dacy, and Charles R. Crisp
has entered the list. The
former is one of the young
est execu* : ves in the country
and, while not nationally
known, is understood to be
a young man of great prom
ise. Mr. Crsip is one of the
foremost statesman in the
country and one of the
leaders in the House today.
For generations, Georgia
has sent extraordinary men
to the Senate; and as a re
sult she has always been in
fluential in legislation. The
nomination of either candi
date will continue the tradi
tion.
One of the Major
Issues of the Campaign
The action of the Finance
Committee of the Senate in
incorporating prohibitive
tariff rates in the tax bill,
intended to balance the
budget, means the continua
tion of the fight begun in the
House. It also means the
American people will have
an opportunity to test the
sincerity of the Democrats
on the tariff question, and, if
Democrats in any number
support the high protec
tionists in the Senate, it may
easily mean the elimination
of the tariff issue from the
campaign.
It would manifestly be
absurd for the Democrats to
assail the Grundy act if they
insist on raising the Chinese
wall against trade higher
still. And all this is aside
from the fact that tariff
rates have no proper place in
this tax bill.
The action of the Demo
crats in opposing the enact
ment of the Grundy act, fol
lowed by the disastrous and
even destructive effect upon
our foreign trade, placed
them in a perfect strategical
position on that issue. It
should be one of the major
issues of the campaign, be
cause the tariff is one of the
major explanations of the
tragic situation in which we
find ourselves.
It is incredible under the
circumstances that Demo
crats should join with the
Smoots in discrediting their
own party at the beginning
of the fight. It is all the
more unthinkable since the
Democratic national conven
tion, unless it goes stark
mad, will have to take a
position on the tariff which
will amount to a party re
pudiation of such Democrats
as join in this high tariff
raid.
Mr. Hoover Applied
The Presidential Lash
The picture is impressive
at present.
The Grundy act was
passed over a general pro
test, in response to the
cracking of the whip of
Grundy, and because of the
reminder to the Adminis
tration that he had raised
a million dollars for Mr.
Hoover’s campaign fund
from among the interests de
manding tariff privilege.
It passed the Senate by a
bare majority of two votes
—after Mr. Hoover had ap
plied the presidential lash.
I| waa followed by retali-
atory tariffs from the other
nations —some of the best
customers we have ever had.
This has lost us the for
eign markets, decreased our
foreign trade by billions and
our customs revenue by
many millions.
Just how Democrats can
justify their support of a
further increase to their
party principles or their
party’s interest is utterly in
comprehensible.
If they are wise they will
follow the line laid down by
Senator Cordell Hull.
If there is to be tariff leg
islation let it be open and
above board through the sub
mission of a real tariff act.
Then if the Democrats want
to go over bag and baggage
to the Republicans, strug
gling with Smoot for the
privilege of bearing the
Grundy banner, they can do
it without endangering the
tax bill which is essential to
the preservation of the na
tion’s credit.
Plain Speech
Will Serve
Quite as interesting is the
plan of some members of
Congress to end the Power
Trust investigation by the
Federal Trade Commission
by depriving it of the neces
sary funds under the pretext
of saving money to the peo
ple. No one is deceived by
such transparent tactics;
everyone will assume that 1
the sole thought behind the
throttling process is to pro
tect the power interests from
the investigation.
In these days plain speech
will serve, and the public is
entitled to it. There is none
too much confidence in the
power commission appointed
by the President; and the
action of Congress in de
priving it of funds to con
tinue the investigation will
be generally, and just prop
erly, interpreted by the mass
of the people as in the in
terest of power.
Probing of the
Stock Market Goes On
Meanwhile, the probing of
the Stock Market goes on,
and Mr. LaGuardia makes
the charge that financial
writers on some newspapers
were bribed to boost stock
in the halcyon days of the
bulls when stock prices were
inflated to the point of in
sanity. It is interesting, at
least, to learn that some one
in Congress is interested in
the saturnalia of artificial
inflation on the market in
the “good old days” when
the country was being pre
pared for the inevitable
panic that, more than any
other one thing, has wrecked
the prosperity of a people.
But we note no movement
or disposition to show the
relation between the heart
less deception of the unpro
fessional speculator x>n the
market and the action of
the Nation’s leaders in the
Administration in issuing of
ficial statements from the
very highest quarters assur
ing these investors that
there was sound value be
hind the prices.
It may be possible that
some financial writers weie
bribed—that remains to be
established by evidence —but
the ballyhoo of these writers
could not possibly have con
tributed so much to lulling
the general public into a
sense of false securtiy as the
constant stream of bally
hooed statements issued by
some of the highest officials
of the Government.
No one believes these men
were bribed.
But everyone is curious to
know why they issued statejj
ments having no relation oil
realities.
Everyone but Congress. 1