Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1935, Page 16

A—-16 * ASHURST ASSALS LONG I SEWATE Starts Party “Crack-Down” Provoked by Attacks and Filibuster. (Continued From First Page.) attack, Senator Robinson challenged Senator Long for making untrue asper- sions on Postmaster General James A. Farley in regard to sale of stamps. And Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Democrat, of Washington, one of the “new Democrats,” who collided with Long the night of the recent filibuster, called him abruptly on a point of | order, The trouble started when Senator Ashurst put an article in the Con- gressional Record, praising President Roosevelt for his attitude on paroles. This led Senator Long to reply. | defending the parole system as it had | worked out in Louisiana. “Go to the penitentiary,” said Sena- tor Long, “and I will guarantee it will be found that many postmasters are in the pen who did not steal | over 50 cents’ worth of stamps, or | over $5. but nonetheless we gentle- | men of the Senate have dllowed one | of our illustrious men flagrantly to violate the law to the extent of many thousand dollars and yet extol him as | one of eminent virtue and capacity to be emulated by our sons and daugh- ters.” Robinson Resents View. Senator Robinson. taking this as a fling at Postmaster General Far- ley. retorted: “1 do not think insinuations that a high Government officer has stolen | stamps should be passed unnoticed. | I do not feel that the Senator from | Louisiana has any justification for | that statement. I feel that he is of- | fensive to every one in the Senate ex- | cept himself when he makes that | statement and generally to people who | believe in decency in government.” Senator Long replied that he had not used the words, “stolen stamps,” | but he agreed that the Senator from | Arkansas probably was justified in the interpretation which he put on what | he had said. | “Do I understand it now to be said.” | asked Senator Long, “that it is not | true Mr. Farley printed some special | stamps for his friends?"” “If the Senator understands English language,” replied Senator | Robinson, “he must understand me to say that when he charges that Mr. Farley stole stamps, it is untrue in every sense of the word, and the Benator from Louisiana knows it is | untrue.” the | Denies Fear of Libel. | Senator Long intimated he was not afraid of libel, and said he was “will- ing to go outside of the building now and make the statement.” | Meantime, Senator Ashurst had the floor, but was yielding to Senator Long. Senator Schwellenbach raised the point of order that Senator Ashurst could not yield except for a question, “and the Senator from Louisiana cannot make speeches on extraneous matter in the time of the Senator from Arizona.” | Robert A. Thieme of Downey. Calif.. celebrated his 103d birthday anniversary by looking over marriage certificates and photos of his 15 wives. He owes his longevity to modernization, wives excepted. He is the youngest of 25 children and was born in Savannah, Ga., on June 6, 1832, He has had 16 children, losing seven boys in the World War. outlived all of his 15 wives. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 16, 1935—~PART ONE. He has —Wide Worid Photo, weaken our reliance upon tested, dur-! able things; enough to relax our | grasp upon durable values, but has found nothing to take the place of the fundamental truths that we have ignored.” He described a fabulous curved telescope which, with phones at- tached, would enable one to see and hear himself as others see and hear him “Tt is not for me,” he continued, “to pass judgment upor: the Senator from Louisiana. He has as much right to pass judgment upon me as I have to appraise him. An attitude of censor- iousness is the one attitude the Senate never tolerates and never forgives any of its members, but I will venture the suggestion that if the Senator from | Louisiana should look through this| telescope objectively, as he doubtless | will do some day, for he is of an in- quiring mind, he will distinctly per- ceive A man frequently disrespectful | of the rights and feelings of others, | exalting himself with an unwarranted sense of superiority over others less gifted and less fortunate than him- self; a man too often taking undue advantage of his privileged position | here: a man of reckless abandon in speech ard relentless in his forays upon those who disagree with him. Aeschylus and the Eagles. “Aeschylus, the earliest of the three | great Greek tragic poets, was born about 500 B. C. When the poet left | of $45581,132 a year PENSIONS RESTORED 10 50,000 VETERANS Last Remnant of 1933 Economy% Act Wiped Out in Bill Passed in House. By the Associated Press. Without a dissenting vote, the| House yesterday virtually ended all| traces of the “1933 economy act” by approving the Smith. Democrat, of ‘Washington bill to return 50,000 vet- | erans to the pension rolls at a cost Advocated by President Roosevelt soon after he took office, the act re- moved pensions from many Spanish. American, Boxer rebellion and Philip- | pine insurrection veterans, who could | not prove disability in line of duty | and slashed other gratuities. | The Smith hill re-enacts all pen- sion laws in effect before March 19, | 1933. It would mean an outlay of | $45.581,132 & year, and increase pen- sioners from 202,012 to 250,600, esti mated Veterans' Administrator Frank T. Hines. Rice W. Means of the United Span- ish War Veterans. estimated the cost would be $31,789,132. Previously Congress restored pen-| sions to most of the veterans of other | wars, and the 15 per cent Federal pay | The chair sustained the point of ' Athens he took up residence in Sicily. | cut, applied to the salaries of mem- order. Senator Ashurst, reading from man- uscript, said: “Mr. President: If we walk on the | pauncing down upon large turtles,|in the Senate. sea coast after a storm at sea has| subsided, particularly if the storm was | of such violence as to agitate the ocean | to an unusual depth and send huge | billows upon the shore, we discover | curious denizens of the deep from | the world of cold and dreadful night below the ocean’s surface, that have been cast ashore by the fury of the storm. We find wriggling on the beach crustacea, such as crawfish, shrimps, mud crabs and lobsters. Among the fish we find the grunt, puffer, pike, topknot, toadfish, jelly- fish, starfish, kingfish, sawfish, sting- ray, and indeed too great a variety of types to admit of a complete defi- nition. “Unusual Agitation” Blamed. “When the sea is calm and tran- quil, these creatures scldom appear on the shore. Only some unusual agi- | tation brings them from obscurity to conspicuousness. | “The same physical principle oper- | ates on mankind, when the distress of depression, the fury of financial | panic and storm, and the terror of | economic uncertainty agitate the people. We then are no longer the assured, free-swimming, self-reliant folk we seem to be when the waters of life were smoth and placid. This | law of physics is not peculiar to the American race alone. To all types of men, when confronted with any in- | security, whether it oe economic, en- vironmental, social or philosophical, | there come dangerous thoughts, feel- | ing and fears, and thus some men | usually called odd-fish are forced to | the surface from ‘ne swamps Mi anonymity. | “Many of such men thus projected to conspicuousness are excellent men | who believe that they know how to reach the pot of gold at the rainbow's end; how to obtain a Lving in this | practical, brass-tack, workaday world without giving any equivalent there- for; or hcw to break economic laws and avoid any penalty. “Thus, in these agitaled and dis- tressful days, we must expect to en. counter whimsical, droll, eccentric and. erratic persons who occupy the stage for a time, and they at last divert us, interest us, entertain us, and, I am bound in fairness to add, | they sometimes instruct us. “Success Must Be Difficult.” “Their fatal error . that they re- fuse to face the fact that only iron sacrifice can rescue a nation from a depression; they never rzalize that no easy way to achieve success has ever been, or ever will be, discovered. It was ordained at the beginning of time that success shall be difficult. “In such a whirligig epoch as the present many persons, in normal times sensible, become overwrought end unjustly suspect and defame || such of their fellow citizens as do not subscribe to their particular reforms and gyrations. “Therefore, the suspiciousness of the Senator from Louisiana and his intolerant attitude toward and his denunciations of his colleagues, are quite understandable. “Such strictures, reproaches and intemperate speeches from the Sen- ator of Louisiana are really the wail- ings of an apostle of despair, he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with ellipitical bil- liard balls and a mlnlmc:u;;e He hu‘=h 2 Fren mgm‘?efi':mu: ‘Calumi- nate, caluminate, caluminate; some- thing 1s sure to stick.” Rich Heritage in Jeopardy. “Opulent with irony as are all hu- man affairs, it is a startling that in this particular period of the world’s history, when to this gener- ation has been given the keys that control the kingdom of the material sciences, thi. generation has lost con- trol of itself. * * * “Our American race, in its hurry to achieve bulk, size, speed and quan- tity, has learned Jjusi emough to | bor at Messina, Sicily, last November, It will be recalled that the eagles in| Sicily had a habit at that time of | then, after ascending to a consider- able height, dropping the turtles upon | stones, cracking the shells and obtain- | ing the turtles’ flesh for a meal. | “A legend of doubtful authenticity states that Aeschylus was killed by a | large turtle which an eagle let fall| upon the head of the poet, mistaking | the poet's head for a large stone. | “I express the hope that the Ameri- can eagle will not be required to drop something upon the head of the Sen- ator from Louisiana before he takes the hint and recognizes his true re- lation to the Senate and the country.” Senator Long, who sat listening through the remarks of the Arizona Senator, apparently had not looked for this sort of attack. He made but a brief reply. It is assumed, how- ever, he will be heard from again | Monday, when he will advocate a share-the-wealth amendment to the social security bill. Senator Long said: “The Senator from Arizona over- looked one thing. There is another species that is' washed up on the shore in large numbers, and that is the tadpole. The tadpole is a form | of life which, during these depres- sions, goes out and promises one thing and then comes in and does another. That species is far more numerous than the kingfish, the crawfish, or any other form of marine life. _“The kingfish is even a more vi- cious species of sea life than the barracuda itself, so I am told.” i Senator Long went on to defend ! himself by saying that he had fol- | lowed here the words of President | Roosevelt when he said, “The people of the United States are entitled to| share in a redistribution of wealth.” | (Copyright. N. Y Herald Tribune. 1935.) | _— ~ | Slaying Holds Ship Officer. NEW YORK, June 15 (#).—Martin J. Demott, jr.. former chief engineer of the American Export Liner ExX- change, was released in $5,000 bail to- day when arraigned on a charge of ‘murder on the high seas.” Demott! is charged with the slaying of Fred- erick Roberts of Minonk, Ill, chief mate, while the vessel was in the har- where he was tried and acquitted, GRADUATION Ringlets Ringlets GUARANTEED PERMANENT WAVE INCLUDING Oil Wave ¢ nuir fnim ® Finger Wave BEAUTY BOX (Opp. Garfinckel's—Over Velati's) 609 14th Street N.W. PHONE MEt 7225 Open Every Evening. Not & School Com- plete bers themselves. Representative Smith said yesterday | there is “strong support” for his bill | SLOT MACHINES “TRIED” Illinois Judge ‘Frees” 20 and' Condemns 14 Out of 59. GENEVA, Ill. (#).—Pifty-nine de- fendants seized in raids stood mute before County Judge O. C. Allen. The court, aided by attaches, gave each a test, and then condemned 14 to extermination. ordered 25 held for investigation and turned 20 free. 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Leslie is Convict 58248 in Ohlo Penitentiary and faces a life term for first-degree murder. He was admit- ted from Hardin County in 1928. He is one of the busiest men in the institution, dividing his time between his duties in the chaplain’s office and reading stacks of letters sent him as the result of a Nation-wide plea for examples of ‘superstitions. “Look at this,” the husky Leslie said as he waved a stack of pink and white paper slips in his hand. “I have more than 4,000 of these and expect to get a total of 25,000 or 30,000, Would Trace Origins. “What 1 really want to do is trace origins and derivations. I already can see close similarity between many from the British Isles and various parts of the United States.” Leslie mentioned the old supersti- tion about breaking of a mirror caus- ing seven years' back luck. “You can get a mirror now for a few cents. But several hundred years ago one cost a lot of money and couldn't be replaced immediately if broken. “Punishment of clumsy children and servants who broke mirrors didn't stop the practice. So what did people do but start to tell the children and servants that they would have bad luck if they broke mirrors.” Pity Man on Ladder. He pointe dto the warning against walking under a ladder. That super- stition, he sald, was invented to protect the person who was on the ladder and also to protect the clumsy | person who might oump against it and hurt both. “There’s the one about getting up | on the wrong side of tne bed. You | get into bed on the same side usually, | leaving your shoes on that side. “Get out on the other and you miss your shoes. Maybe .hat starts an argument with your wife. The whole day is upset. So some one realized that and warned against it.” Leslie became interested in the study about three monihs ago while | he was seeking colloquialisms for Miles D. 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