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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1932.
SHAM BATTLE BY STORE LICENSE
ABMY AND NAVY
Action of Sec’y* Adams Criticized by Staunch Republican Paper. Washington, Jan. 29.—Again |ho conduct of the Navy is under fire and this time fro ma staunch Republican paper, the Brooklyn Eagle. Tn an editorial with the caption, ‘‘A Curious Maneuver,”
the Eagle says:
“Secretary Adams has announced that all ships of the Navy not in reserve or under reconstruction will immediately proceed to the Pacific, where extensive maneuvers will take place between Feh-
NEEDS RECEIPT
Applicants Must Pay Poll Taxes Under the Law, Collector Says.
SWEAT SHOPS UNROOFED IN BEET FIELDS Peonage in Colorado Worse Than Slav-
ery is Charge.
Applicants for store licenses must show receipts or other evi-
dence that they have paid poll tax DenvGr - Jan - 29.-The sugar heet before the license may he issued, of Colorado are “unroofed the chain store tax collector, for sweatshops,” and peonage in the tiiis distret, said yesterday. sugar industry is worse than many The collector is in receipt of a f orn ^ s 0 f e h a ttel slavery, according letter from the Stale Board ol lax a r( ,p n j.t jnade this week by Commissioners, store ileense iliv,- . n , omas R Mahony. Colorado .chair-
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1931—Year of Triumph For Progressive Women Though the Old Year Died Unmourned, It Brought Many Honors to the Banner of Feminism.
sion, calling attention to Chapter
man of the White House Confer-
ercise’ will he a joint Army and Navy sham battle off Hawaii. “Tn view of the critical situation in the Far Plast, this movement of forces to the Pacific is puzzling . . “If the Navy is going to the Pacific to he prepared for emergencies and to impress Japan, the method of advertising the exercises is not very subtle. If the movement is merely a matter of routine, it is postitively naive. With Japan conducting exercises in Manchuria and the American fleet, maneuvering in the Pacif’c,
Europe should de.monstrations
124 ol the Acts ol 1931, \\hi< h is P!iro on fjhild Health and Protec.
ruary 6 and May 13. The first ‘ex- entitled “An act prohibiting the t! ‘ on
issuance of certain licenses to per-, Colorado » says Uie report, sons who do not have receipts or ,. a j] K j a t emen ^ s to-the contrary notother evidence showing they have withstan(ling> children from 6 to 15
paid their poll tax.” The law has been construed to apply to the is-
years of age work long hours under high pressure at hard manual
the Disrmament
February.”
suanee of store licenses, the letter labor in certain Uinds of industrialMust Submit Receipts J ^Thouis of'children aVe in the The law provides that it Miall r beet fields at la))0r which be unlawful for any board, officer s t unts growth, physical and mental, or person to issue^any license, as aml makes real education impos-
hereinafter defined, to any person s j b i e ..
who is a resident of this state, un- : ‘ Can k and some iess the anpheant for such 1,cense truck frnit handUng take toll shall, at the lime when be applies „ . . . „ " I
arrange _ similar for suc i, license, and in addition to af G, ” ld u n C ? l Jr ’ oinnL ^
to coincide with| a u other requirements prescrib'd G ^ 01 ’ IP c 1 ' 1
Conference
Bread, Not Bullets
^ 8ue » r in<,us,ry '««*•
of Ills cfiiinly n which the appll- , a labm ' lnd,,str y-
cant resides, or by some other o'- Mah ™ y v dec, . ares / v , f
ficer authorized by law to collect. . At ^ ^ce the heet grower retaxes, showing that, such apnlicant ccives fni his imp, he must hav
Tn 1917 America was faced with has paid his poll tax in full for the a lQW ' va « e la ^ 0 y he won t grow a crisis hut instead ol deliberately year In which such license is is- j?* weighing the facts, the nation re- suml or to be issued, if the anpli- ^torngto the family Jied on misleading slogans. Had cation for license be made sulis-- SU PP 1 > by restoring to tne ram y we heen less receptive of foreign- quent to the date on which pMl system of contract labor, ffiade propaganda and more con- tav is rcqu ; r^d by law to lie paid, ™ rer ^cm Ntextcan.
cerned with a sane consideration and. if such license lie applied for f ‘ J
of the problem we might have prior to date on which poll tax is of family contract labor adapted t
avoided the maelstrom of hysteria required bv law to lie paid, then. agriculture. , . ,. , .1 . j , , which drew us into the war. fov the year preceding.’ | Alwut 7 ( ° P er ceat the beet' The year to wh.ch we recently bade an unregretfui ad.eu had it. fault., In 1932 we are faced with a The act defines the term license sugar contract workers are Mexi- from a bu..ne.» viewpoint, but it will be remembered affectionately by graver cris s—a crisis hastened te mean and indicate “motor ve- cans. The father signs a contract women a. the year when the world began to thow it. recognition of bef and partly caused hy < he .unsolved hide rogi.t^tion iinenses. cerMH- <o car for so many acres of bGG S " problem of 1917. This crisis cannot c*tes of ■ HHe. showing ownership dunttg the season, depending on the .bowered on womanhood _in 1931, wa. the award of the Nobel Peaco
----- size of his family. —
tions for organization of local credit unions, such as the Indfajia Farm Bureau is advocating., Tt d^ifna'nds action by Congress th stahiliWe the value of the dollar and Tg&kp tfonee again a.^ “hopest dollar.- It gives'^ eonsidera^iplt,ways and means ‘ of redwgi^ %gr.ii?ultire’s transportatiop ^oSt^j.,, iauitchcs a plan for surplus,, s crQP . pontrol. to aid in bringing the nation hack to economic equilibrium and in chides many other projects whiph Tyheh promoted with the energy and-1 he prestige of the. American Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. Winder says, should he of undoubted benefit to all farmers. “As you proceed in your membership drive throughout this county,” Mr. Winder concludes, “let me remind you that the one facts determining the success of this program for helping ourselves is'membbrship. Our ability to curry the program through depends; on the support; farmers give it through their enrollment in the -Farm Burea.u I am hoping to.be told, when the campaign ends, that every progressive farmer in your county has fallen into step behind the Farm Bureau and your ^Delaware county Farm Bureau are conducting, as well as that which our si site Farm Bureaus are exacting tneir national Federation to carry on.” THE STORY OF
Dr.Annie Julep Caumom.
Father, mother.
This crisis cannot cates
be solved by calling names or us- of pr»v motor velv'cle. license an , ing slogans. The economic sjtution thorlzing persons to driv* 1 or onoy- chudien, down to tots ol 5 yeais 01
does not permit of a confusion of otn, ’--io , or vonjeies on 1h« pubi c a se. all woik.
issues. . uior])^Dher bs olinuff°iirs or 1 lie wages are pitiably small. In
Men and women, in the United iioo’mes to nractioo pivv 01ie group of 549 woikeis men,
States, as well as in the other profession, trade o>- occupation for parts of the world where there is tt>e lye-rose of whicii a state licontinuous want, are now hungry cense is required bv law.’ while the governments , of the n
UPWARD TURN IS NOW INDICATED
wj^rld are spending billions of dollars for armaments.* The United Spates govevmiietit alone is standing two million dollars a day in preparation for another war. These are danger signals which cannot he ignored. Never tvas this country as free from the possibility of
attack as it is now.
Reducing the two miilion dol- 1
lars a dav we spend preparing for Roger
war would relieve the people of one economic burden. There is an opportunity to accomplish a drastic reduction of armaments in cooperation with the rest of the' (
world at the coining Disarmament Wellesley Hills, Mass
Conference. The reduction must
Prize te Jane Addam., beloved social worker and founder of Hull House, Chicago; the appointment of Miss Mary Wooley, of Mount Holyoke College, to be a delegate to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva——tfca only woman ever to be entrusted with such an important international role. In literature, the award of'the coveted Pulitzer Prize to Margaret Ayer Barnes for her novel “Years of Grace,” added more laurels to feminine achievement, as did the bestowal of the Henry Draper Medal to Dr. Anne Julep Cannon, for her astronomical invest!* gations at Harvard University. Then among the 35 women appointed by President Hoover to serve on 26 commissions, Ada Louise Comstock
yeais « less.. The usual ,ay's
VlWtMY.. life n §* A so tie a M. W_ _ _. _ £ W T 2a. _ 1 O > .
Avomen and children—the average wage per worker was $108 per
year! ' > .
The report declares thaft 20'per cent of these child workers are 10
avoNc in the field' is nine er ten hours; but sometimes runs to 14 hours. The death rate among these children is very high, though exact figures cannot be given.
I Housing conditions are describied as degrading; three to nine persons living in a single-room shack.
BabsOll Says De- SaniLary conditions are extremely
. . -. T . bad.
pression IS Now in “In my opinion,” wrote one in-
vestigator for the commission, “the bean and heet workers are in a state of industrial slavery, which is worse than the old chattel slav-
Retreat
Jclll *^9 ——
' ' ery, because the owner of a chat-
A definite moA*e toward re- j_ e j s j ave saw i 0 ji that his prop-
t^Seto^lfTlhe^ple to ’whS '*"*** ***' Mrs ~ •
cao. be accomplislml if each in- ^ teleeram dividual feels a personal responsi-| 111 ^ 16
bility and works through organiza-
tions and the press toward cystal- , . „ „
basis for my forecast of the mar-
from his Florida [
winter home to his office here Babson said his chart “which was. the
lizing publis opinion on the issues
before the Conference.
If Ave Avere willing to give—in energy, money and devotion—for peace in 1932 Avhat we gave for war in 1917 we w*ould have peace forever, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, in an editorial specially contributed to the January 18th issue of International Disarmament notes, published by the National Council
for Prevention of War.
EXPERT ADVICE The Young Man; “May I ask you, sir, if you think that your daughter would make a suitable wife?” Lawyer McNab: “No, sir. I don’t think she would. Five dollars, please.”
SOCIETIES ASK DEATH PENALTY
ket break in 1929 is now Avith equal positiveness indicating that Ave have seen the through of the depression of 1930-32 and that the present year will khoAv an irregular movement toward higher
levels.”
“The chart is uoav turning upward for the first time in more than tAvo years, except for the temporary rally of last spring ” Babson said. “For some years to
come I do not expect to see the Washington, • Jan. 29.— (UP)— Babson chart below the depths Secret civic societies in large reached last November. jcities have obtained congressional “Of course this does not mean !su I ) P <)r ^ ^ or a Pl an enlist the any sharp rise back to normal Federal government in a campaign conditions, hut it does indicate against kidnaping racketeers and that the depression is in retreat. 1^° Punish them with deatJi.
Obtain Congressional
Support for Plan Against Kidnapers-
‘The long range outlook is that
fundamentally better times noAV definitely assured.”
(Head Huge Credit Corporation
Senator Patterson, Republican, are Mo., has introduced a bill striking directly at kidnaping gangs which seize victims and burry them a'cross state borders to evade the laAv. Patterson’s bill would punish interstate kidnap racketeers Avith the death penalty or permit any
sentence up to 99 years.
Patterson said he had been informed bv a Chicago newspaper in a long distance telephone conversation that there had been a p'ot to kidnap Charles 0. Da'ves, presiident of the $2,000,000,000 reconstructinn finance corporation. Vigilance on the,part of Chicago antiracketeer organizations were sa ; d to have frustrated the plot. Patterson had no other information concerning it. Col. Isham Randolph, a |member of the “Secret Sir” antiracketeer organization in Chicago, has conferred with Patterson to !expedite action on the kidnap hill.
her «tnc, in p>at she is the only woman member of the United States Seriate, having been appointed to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Senator Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas. So though we mag eensider 1931 “well gone/’ It can be looked back upon by women at n
banner year.
How About the Band?
A Pantomime is like a cigar,” remarked the theater manager on the first night of the new show. “How’s that?” asked his friend.
“Well,” Avas the explanation, “if youngster.
Especially the Cows. “Now,” said the teacher, “which boy can name five things that con-
tain milk?”
“I can,” shouted a freckle-faeed
(Continued From Page One) hi lion. * • Continental Army Volunteer Indeed Paine’s famous broadside beginning ‘‘These- ;are the tim^s that try mens’ souls,” was written, it is said, on the' head of a drum when Paine was a soldier under Washington’s command and when the discouragements of the retreat across the Jerseys had dashed public support of the war to its lowest, depths. , In the fall of 177(5 Paine enlisted as a volunteer in the Continental Army and became aide-fTe-carrrp trr Oeneral Greene. But military duties, far from stopping his pen, ohlv gave him a more intimate insight with wtrch to write, and during this period with the army Paine began that series of t > Ifi pamphlets which’ he assembled under the general title ofmUThe Crisis.” These maintained/ h’s renntatioh' as one of the leading inGuences of th Q Revolution. But writing far from exhausted all of Paine’s abilities.. In 1777 he was made secretary of the newlv formed Committee of Foreign Affairs established bv Congress. He served one year as clerk of the Peonsvivnr , ' n Assembly. . In 1782 Washington got him a grant’of *800 from Congress to continue his Writings. In 1784 New York gave him a tract of ^77 acres of land in New Rochelle; Pennsylvania gave him 500 pounds, and in 1785, Congress' awarded him $3,000 to keeo him from want. Narrowly Escaoes Guillotine
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Butter and cheese, an America, Pnine was next attracted an two cows. —Labor, ij btJ strlige-le for liberty in —o ■■ * T- France, end plaved a prominent The Test of Time. part in the French Revolution, at
At a' very early hour of the i “Not at all! , . _ . morning the convivial gentleman “It’s Avhen people have been iook-
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A small hoy made repeated requests fowmore ptidding, but Avas
“Do you think there is anything o n o ti m c bning thrown into prison
remarkable in love at first sight? m d rinrrowTv g'seaping the guiFoasked a. romantic youth. tine, for arguing in behalf of the
answeTed the cynic. dpriosed King. He continued a . lie have been look- p r j 80ndr until James Monroe, the
mg at each other for four or five w Amenon minister to France, years that it becomes remarkable. AT>la j nPd . h p, r^ease. But 'Labor. during Ms months in prison. Paine
lost, favor with manv bf liis former idolaters bv writing his much-Tr-v-* ! n v»/I +~.jrv/-v .1" . A Of
MIIK I lAhr Irn I misunderstood btmk “The Age of B *”gr ■ * ■ V* ■ Y!■ I Roasoa*. and argument for deism
’. i which many took to he atheistic. fContinued From Page Ono) This Avork long cast a shadow over
ed in cdbperation with" state Farm .. fl P oLherwise , dotiehty patriot and
told that too much pudding would Bureaus, including the Indiana l° ver pf liberty. Now his fame is make him ill.' Looking wistfully at Farm Bureau. It outlines definite emerging from under this shadoAv, the desirable dish'for a moment, lie proposals for strengthening- the an ^ his truly remarkable genius said: a | credit facilities on which farmers an ^ achievements begia to shine “Well, give me another piece depend for the conduct of their f° r what they were: writer, phif and send for the doctor!”—Labor, business, including recommenda- r “ , Pher, soldier and champion of
I - - ; liberty.
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Are Charged with Murder of Native.
Dn the eve of his departure for the Geneva Disarmament Conference, Charles G. Dawes (left) has been relieved of the chairmanship of the American delegation and appointed president of the proposed Fme-g-ency Reconstruction Corporation, the $2,000,000,000 fund designed to expand credit for American business and stimulate economic recovery. At the same time. President Hoover announced that Eugene HJeyer (right). Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, would ha chairman of the board of the new corporation
Winnie Worried About Her Hair Phoenix, Jan. 29.—(UP)—WhMe the court and opposing attorneys worried vesterday about the delay caused by the illness of three jurors, Winnie Ruth Judd, on trial on the charge she murdered a felIoav nurse, Agnes Anne Leroi, worried about her personal appear-
ance.
The, tri-al was recessed through the rny. The possibility existed that it might not he resumed until Monday morning. Meantime from her jail c v ll the 25 y6ar-old : ant sent a hurried call for l|e*4p|falj counsel. S’ a p wanted nothin!?* ndt
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