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Pnbliihcr k'EVVS Ert.bll.htd 1871 VISITOR 188J BUN v. Established 1896 DEMOCRAT Established 1901 Entered as second elan matter at tha poit office at Paducab, Kentnekr By PRE8TON GROVES Bjr CharleB, Driscoll telephone 2900 ATI Department WASHINGTON In the course of a life time this country can get mad at more people than you can name in a circuit of the clock in spite of the fact that most of them are oceans from us. Perhaps it is just as well that so many people don't live on our borders else we would be at war with them most of the time. Just now we are peevish about the Japanese, Germans and Ital-ians. Always there is a reason, as there is now.

In the case of the Germans, pur ire is up because NEW YORK, May 3 Frank Case," hotel-man, admits a great fondness for the stage, and the other day I saw him strolling around his lobby with his overcoat thrown cape-wise over his shoulders. That's always the sign of a thwarted stage ambition. The cape is becoming to most men, and one of the privileges of the actor is appearing in all kinds of swishing capes. Would we ever have known that John Barrjmore was a heart-smasher if he hadn't had his picture taken in a cape so often? So we ordinary folk, compelled to do our labors in sack suits and somber topcoats, express our secret longing In moments of bravado by strutting about with an overcoat jauntily tossed over the shoulders. That way, we can imagine we're being noticed by some unidentified Elaine, hiding behind the arras.

I "SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Carrier Paducah City Zoaei Per month 7Je ix months to adrance, ona year la adraaea, 18.21 By carrier or by mail la carrier soaes axcm-Rive of Paducab, per month. 65c. By mafl where THB BUN-DEMOCRAT DOES NOT MAINTAIN DELIVERY SERVICE to McCracken. Ballard. Carlisle, rVilton.

MstshsTl, Lyon, Trig. UrinKatoa. Caldwell, Crittenden and Calloway conn- h'es, Kentocky; Weakley, Henry and Obioa eoon-lies, Tennessee; Maine. John ion and Pope counties, tlHaols, 65e per month. $1.50 per three months, $2.50 per ais months and H50 per year.

Outside the counties above mentioned. 75e per month, RiS par six months, $8.25 per year. ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE tha Associated Press Is exclnsiyely entitled to tha se or republication of all news dispatches credited to- or not otherwise credited fa this paper. -r i i IlllMllfflMj "arold'. now can Ki'' "iT li in I I II filCf Y0U WATCH YOUR AEY 'fTjtK 'AMWS SteHRlvi ft J.

MiCha Nwipt Friends' Service Society, a Quaker organization with a splendid record for intelligent, humanitarian work, will, be in charge of the immigration. The plan is heartily indorsed by such usually disagreeing figures as President Roosevelt and Mr. Hoover, Bill Green and John Lewis, Gov. Landon and Senator Wagner. Those who oppose the measure do so on the grounds that destitute American children should be given first consideration, Uaat there Is a danger of alien doctrines being Imported if too many foreign-born children are admitted, and that the refugee orphans will compete with Americans for jobs when they grow up.

These objections, it seems to us, are not convincing. There is no reason to believe that additional American children will be adopted the refugees are barred. Adoption of children is not governed by fixed rules of mathematics. As far as alien doctrines are concerned, Americanism is not so weak that small children can upset it, even- if there were any loglo in supposing they would care to do so. Nor is there anything to fear from the standpoint of job competition.

For many years to come the children be supported by families able and willing to do so, and when they grow up they will be as likely to create new jobs as to. take existing ones. The belief that the number of jobs to fixed quantity is economic lunacy. The country's, declining birth rate is more a matter of concern than rejoicing for far-sighted economists. But the best reason of all for affording a haven for the refugee orphans is moral There is a Biblical injunction which tells us to give if we wish to receive.

Suppose our own children were orphans and no one would take them in or afford them any sort of comfort I Nations can practice the Golden Rule as well as individuals, and this is why the immigration act should be amended to admit the refugee children. among other things, the Germans have been mistreating the Central' European peoples. Yet it was only i a few years ago that we amended our immigration laws in such a way as to shut out the flow of Southern and Central European people. The damage claims filed against, this country Indicate never did have a very deep-seated love for Italians. Just why probably will go down as one of the mysteries of national prejudice.

In the State Department is a publication which lists damage claims we have had to meet because our citizens came enraged at citizens of other nations and blotted them out in a riot or other ultra-legal manner. Edwin Milton, Royle, dramatist and actor, Is 77 and more or less settled down as a quiet person who minds his own business and takes an interest in life. But I warn you, don't voice the slightest criticism of President Roosevelt in his presence! He cant stand it, wont have it, will fight you to a standstill, and you'll be sorry. Mr. Royle's devotion to the President is touching whether you agree with him or not.

Remember that the elderly gentleman lives in the midst of people who frequently are none too gentle in their condemnation of the chief executive. And, while I believe that every American has a right to criticize every public official as freely as he chooses, nevertheless I cant help applauding old-fashioned loyalty, no matter where found. I've seen the author of "The Squaw Man," arise from a table of friends at The Lambs and, making his displeasure known in scathing terms, walk away from rather mild criticism of the President. "I think he's the greatest leader we have ever had, and I'll not tolerate a word against him!" says the usually mild-mannered with shaking voice. 1 Damages Inconsistent If we kill a Mexican or Italian, because he is a Mexican or' Italian it takes the case into international affairs right away and Indemnity is demanded.

By some legerdemain tm never have quite solved it has always been fairly inexpensive to kill Italians, Mexicans or Chinese in this country, for one of our nationals to be killed in one of When a man says he is "misunderstood," what he really means is that he is' I'1 Congressman Congressman Congestion those countries is likely to cost big money. During the eighties and on up to Free Kentucky's Toll Bridges How Much Time Does Congress Need? Add to tha list of subjects about which something ought to be done the ponderous system of consideration of legislation In yogue at the nation's capital. Attention is directed to this faulty situa- Hon by announcement by Senator Burke that proponents of amendments of the Wagner Labor Act have given up hope of changing the law at this session of Congress because bf lack of time. They are more interested now in building Bp the record to show the "inherent weaknesses" in the law than in obtaining lmme-jdiate action, confides the Senator, a leading (advocate of amendment. After all the arguments which have been tottered, and with, all the evidence there Is at band, we are forced to wonder how much time Congress heeds to decide whether the law oughjUto be amended.

It is "all very well for the Congressmen and Senators to sit up at Washington and talk About the issue, and even to postpone action Sot a year or more, but unfortunately the rest it the people can't sit around and talk about While Congress is "building up the record," jths nation is having to live under the law. It has been agreed by most unbiased persons that the act ought to be amended, and Just because Congress thinks It must have more time to consider the matter does not mean that it will be suspended in mid-air until the decision is reached. While Congress wastes time playing politics land getting practically nothing done, the country has to put up with the mess it has nade of attempting to set up legislation governing relations between employers and employes. Business and industry do not stand still or Jnove ahead as Congress directs. Time waits for no man not even a Senator and covers ft lot of territory while members" of Con-yress are talking.

More action and less talk out of Congresi flpould help matters materially. the turn of the century it was not Down in Arkansas a state Sena-ator has sworn that doctors art "gouging" lawyers. Now that the pot and the kettle arf) getting involved in an argument maybe the cllent-patlent who gets "cleaned" will get a little low-down on what happens to him. Such unquestioning devotion to a political leader I haven't seen since I was a boy. The teacher of our country school came running to stop what appeared to be a massacre on the schoolground.

Shouting orders to cease and desist, the elderly schoolmaster began pulling excited boys off their victim. At the bottom of the pile, bloody and torn, was a new boy, who didn't seem to understand the customs of country. "What are you killing the new boy for?" asked the astonished teacher. "'Sail right, he needs ktlllnV spoke up the leader of the mob, still brandishing his cottonwood club. "He said Bryan is crazy." i A southern on licjuor conditions has come to the amazing conclusion that liquor control must depend on the "human element." If the Investigator had been around much he would know that If you could eliminate the human element there wouldn't be any liquor.

1 Just Another Example The world has seen many examples in recent years that demonstrate the necessity of perfecting democratic governments if they are to withstand the onslaught of competition from the dictator nations. To the United States it should be significant that every time one of the European countries has felt that it was In danger the government has asked for a grant of dictatorial powers to meet the emergency. The case of Poland is Just another example. Hitler has demanded Danzig and a rail and road route across the Polish Corridor to the sea. To prepare itself against these demands, the Warsaw government asks the Polish parliament to grant dictatorial powers to President Mosclcki.

It appears the world believes that a democratic form of government cannot function properly during a period of emergency or war. We do not believe that this is true, but that the fault lies In the men at the head of the governments, rather than in the form. To safeguard ourselves against the possibility that we may have to face an emergency, it is essential that we perfecf-our democracy by placing at the helm the men who can perform their duties without resort to dictatorial tactics. The: House ways and means committee has decided to "freeze" the pay-roll levy. That's, a fine idea; now how td thaw the pay-roll freeze-might be in order.

Contrary to belief held by some individuals, I have undertaken the Job of being a reasonably accurate and sincere newspaperman during my experience, Now I'm beginning to wonder whether I didn't get off on the wrong foot. Creating this doubt In my mind Is the fact that Thomas L. Stokes, a writer for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, has been awarded a $1,000 Pulitzer prize for "a distinguished example of a reporter's -U The "reporter's work" to which reference is made was a series of articles about the Kentucky Democratic primary last year between Senator Barkley and Governor Chandler. I read all. of the articles that Stokes for they created quite a furore in Eastern and Northern Kentucky, where newspapers in which they appeared circulate, and outside the state, where they received more space and attention than they did in Kentucky.

That; is why I say that maybe there is something wrong with the theory that accurate reporting ought to be the goal of every writer, because Stokes was so biased in his articles that only those outside Kentucky who practically nothing of the local situation gave credence to them. It was quite obvious that Stokes came to Kentucky with the idea of Barkley by digging up "evidence" that the WPA was being used in his behalf. And he did a good Job of 'smearing," although his evidence wasn't very reliable. But the anti-New Deal papers ate it up, as it was just what they were looking for. Presumably, then, because they gave so much space to the articles, Stokes gets a $1,000 award and a citation for "distinguished work." My recent remark that New York artists seldom know how to draw a horse has brought proof that horses are still in the running, in the art world.

Miss Elsie Brown sends from Kansas tCa oil painting of her own of a noble horse. The pose and anatomy are just about perfect. I suspect you'll be hearing of a Kansas Bonheur one of these days. Philadelphia poison ring, is said to have sold death as cheap as $300. That isn't beyond the bounds of reason; the first' of- the month, any customer would think it's cheap at any price.

And the most recent campaign to get a new factory for Paducah is not even directed toward a tire plant. This city, incidentally, is strongly In the running for this factory. Details of the efforts being made have not been made public for two good reasons: first, it's not a' good idea to let the whole world know that there is a prospect of getting a new industry; and second, the company doesn't want to be bothered by every town that wants a factory. While oh the subject, it might be a good idea to correct some false impressions that many people have toward newspaper publicity as It affects the location of prospective new industries. A lot of people have an idea it is bad advertising for a town for a newspaper, to print details of a flood, controversies' in city govern-1 ment, a tax raise, et cetera.

In-a general sort of way may.be something to that. But it has absolutely no bearing on the question of whether a new industry will locate in Paducah, or any other town under consideration. Any firm which contemplates es tablishing its business in Paducah is not going to depend on information it obtains from newspaper stories in compiling the facts and statistics it wants before reaching a decision. Such a firm makes its 'own inquiries, secures official records showing the stages of the river at all periods for the past many years, checks the amount of rainfall for each season, looks carefully into the question of temperature, climate, and other details of the weather. It secures from official sources figures on taxes, methods of property assessments, a statement of the financial condition of the city, county, state, and probes into prospects fpr future taxation and other gov-ernmental costs.

A newspaper could say that the tax rate in Paducah Is the lowest in the nation, but a company contemplating locating a plant here would not take its word for it. We might declare that the Ohio river had never been above a stage of nine feet, but a business man would not accept that as official evidence. Any company which would not make its own investigation before locating in a community most likely would be so poorly operated that it would end in bankruptcy and be a liability to the city. He who' is without obligations is unworthy bt responsibility. The way Washington is getting worked up about it, Spy" is in line to return as one of the' popular national parlor games." y': lau 5 a By George Matthew Adams uncommon in the United States for an, Italian or two to be lynched or murdered In some similarly dlsor-orderly fashkav And the price paid to surviving relatives in Italy ranged around $2,000.

The same' rate; or less applied to Chinese killed here. Yet if an American happened to be knocked off by an excited Japanese sentry or Chinese bandit the price likely as not would he $15,000 and tip. Twenty-eight Chinese were slaughtered In a riot in a Wyoming mining camnV in 1885, -and damage awards cov4 ered only the property loss. i California and the Rocky Mountain we3t have been the seat of much of this foreign prejudice, con itrary to' the llve-and-let-live tradi tion of the wide open spaces. Dur ing the gold rush days floods of, Chinese came into the Pacific Coast country, moved eastward with rall-v oad building and soon were busy In the Colorado, Idaho and Wyom ing mines.

In no time at all westerners were Chinese just as a few years earlier they had been "agin" Indians. Once Friendly To Japanese In those days Americans liked the Japanese tremendously. We shook them out of their feudal lethargy in 1853, befriended them before and after the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, but went sour on them on the Pacific Coast, where they began edging out "the Chinese, who were coming' back Into a kind of public acceptance. At present there is a rather widespread sympathy for Chinese, partly because they are underdogs in the present fighting, and no doubt in part because they are fighting they Japanese. But things once were different.

In an early day mining 'camp in -Idaho, where gold was dug and liquor drunk in about equal quantities, a miner came swinging out of a saloon door, six-gun barking. Off to-one side his bleary eyes spotted a figure huddled near the wheel of a wagon. He blazed away at it and soon was condemned for killing an Indian. It was to be Idaho's first legal hanging. His only defense, which he re- peated from the hour of the trial until he stood on the gallows, was- "But hell, sheriff, I thought itf was a Chinaman," Wau Wit en The return of Thomas Hart Benton to New York for an exhibition of his paintings recently brought the western painter much notoriety in the public prints.

Mr. Benton, now 50 years old, won honors and distinction in New York a score of years ago. He did notable murals for the New School of Social Research, a center of radical thinking. Many of his closest associates were a bit to the left. Benton could stand a good deal of radicalism, but the constant talk about it gave him a violent mental pain.

When he had absorbed more red intellectualism than his nerves could assimilate, he declared he was disgusted, packed up his things, and went back to his native Missouri, There he's been working during the last few years, free from the pink noise of Greenwich Village. Judging by the acclaim his pictures are getting in the city, the Missouri atmosphere is kindly to artistic genius. FROM OUR FILES May 3, 1914 Miss, Adah Brazelton returned from Louisville, where she attended Kentucky Educational Flood Of Franking Frankly speaking, the move In Congress to put a stop to so much franked mall sent out by federal agencies Is something we thought ehould have been taken a' long time ago. Every newspaper office is swamped by reports, letters, pamphlets, and all sorts of literature from hundreds of different governmental departments. Most of it goes right into the waste basket, with little more than fa glance.

-Although a news dispatch from Washington Indicated the Congressional intent is to Jlamp down on the WPA, our experience has been that the WPA is, comparatively speaking, one of the minor offenders. Many other agencies far exceed the output of the WPA. Not only does the mere cost of distributing all that franked mail run into the millions of dollars annually, but the cost of printing' it and of the paper mounts to an exorbitant figure- And when most of that is going to Waste, it is high time that something be done about it. proper solution probabjy would be the creation of a publicity department to handle information about all governmental departments, with a good newspaperman at the bead who would use some sense about the material shipped out to newspapers and the public. May 8, 1929 IrVin S.

Cobb addressed students of Tilghman high school at chapel exercises. Increases in wages affecting six railroad crafts which amounted to $10,000 a month at the Paducah shops alone were announced by the Illinois Central system. Dr. W. D.

Valleay and W. W. Ma-gill, Lexington, addressed a meeting of 24 fruit growers at the county court house. Announcement that a factory will be located at Clarks-ville, by the Goodrich Rubber Company created excitement in Paducah, where there floated many rumors that this community had been trying to secure the same plant. Paducah Is out after any factory It can get, of course, but it happens it never thought it was in the running for the factory which went to Clarksville.

The latest' discussion of a tire plant that might be brought here Involved the Goodyear company. Proprietors of some of the more notorious night clubs recognize the publicity value of fistrfights in their dens. A certain element that can be" depended upon to spend plenty of money is attracted by the possibility of seeing some well-known person get socked. When things are a bit dull, some of the more enterprising proprietors simply sock notable customers themselves. It's sure to get Into the papers, and trade, will Increase next night.

In nearly all of the most prosperous of these resorts of the world-weary, there is a well-recognlzed slugging code. Its first article is, slug the customer before he gets around to slugging you. In any dispute, the management is always right, and can prove it with a right to the Very nice, I suppose, for those who Kke it. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Incorporated.) We are controlled, both by our dominating thoughts that are forever streaming through our brains, and by those that come from others that dominate the streams of their thoughts. We are influenced in all our opinions more than we think, because of these thoughts that dominate our thinking.

If we are forever looking for the good in people, we inherit a happy frame of mind toward others, and that in turn is reflected back to us unconsciously from others. Nothing contributes more to an unhealthy state of mind and finally to an unhealthy state of body than to be continually looking for the bad points and traits in people. Each of us have enough of these without any alien ones. If we look for the good in people, it is surprising how few of the bad characteristics show up! Looking for the beautiful in life, no matter where you go, or may be, always clouds out the ugly and disagreeable. Jf there were more Pippas in the world, as described by the poet Browning in his beautiful poem "Pippa Passes," this would be a much more livable world for.

us all. She had but one day of vacation in all the year from her silk mill Job but she devoted that to the search of beauty. She saw it every-" where even where sordidness existed. There is plenty of mud in this world, but that is no reason why we should wade through it! On the other we know that much' beauty has come from sordid surroundings like the white pond lily that rises out from the mud, blossoming in all its glory under the If we look for the good in people, those same folks are sure to reciprocate and hunt for what good we nurture. Friendship is discovered and consented this And Is it not well woftw while? Prospectors, digging into the earth for gold pay little attention to the dross and other ingredients of small value.

Their eyes and all attention and effort are centered in getting that most precious of metals. No adventure in this world is so profitable as hunting for the golden qualities that are always to be found in every human being, no matter where that human bejng may be located. Protected, 1939, by The George Matthew Adams Service. Off Olie Record- d3urcfe53 Scoti Some people think "speed limit" means "how fast can you They do me wrong who say I come no more -When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight to win Walter Malone. had the leading roles in a number of dramatic productions and was chosen as one of 80 students on the honor roll out of 2,500 at her high school.

of double helpings' of the meal proper, and then ate his and five other desserts. At this the sales-, man, who had eyed Sigler curiously, handed him his dessert, saying, "Old boy, I cant see you leave the table hungry." Line and construction crew men explained that there's something about digging pole holes that puts an edge on the appetite. SPRING IS COME (A Triolet) Now Is your chance; for here is spring, ij The season of sweet violets The time for birds and bards to sing. Here is your chance; for now 'til spring. If you can think of anything To put into trite triolets, Tliis is your chance! For it spring, The-season of sweet violets.

t-ELSE GOLD ISAACS. Candidate for the of Padu-cah's Paul Bunyan is Carroll Slgler, telephone lineman, who at the Southern Bell employe's banquet Tuesday night downed three man-sized steaks without dropping out of the conversation. Holding the title at present, say other phone- company employes, is Randolph "Cutworm" Reld, Installer. They claim that at a Benton restaurant he frequents, noted for its generous helpings, Reld always sits down and orders himself two dinners. But they tell of a Sigler'feat in Cadiz that threatens Reld's record.

It seems that the lineman, dining with five telephone men and a traveling salesman, first took care Admit The Children A major controversy has arisen over the proposal to amend the Immigration Act to al- low the admission of twenty thousand German refugee children Into the United States for adoption by American families anxious to receive them. The argument, it seems to us, ehould be summa'rily settled on the side of elementary charity. The children Involved are orphans under fourteen years of age. They never injured anybody in their life. Their parents are 'dead or in prison.

There is no present future for them in their own land. In the United States they will be given iuve" tuiu kiiiuiiest) ill private homes. Every linfrguard has been taken to prevent any of Ihcm from becoming nubile charges. The Iflewi Ofcj S4nJ ndd There are more than 600 Incorporated towns, in Texas. A wilt disease is threatening persimmon trees of the southwest.

A railway car puller which can be operated by one man, has recently been developed for use in moving freight cars about from loading platforms and sidings without the aid of a switch engine and the yard crew of four to five men usually required. The chief biologist for the Louisiana Conservation Department say that as a delicacy muskrat is the peer of American game. He feels a vast potential source of delicious food tS almost completely wasted, Joe, the pointer owned by Mr. and Mrs. D.

R. Peel of Benton who found himself in the "doghouse" a week or so ago for bringing home a ham he lifted in a neighbor's basement, Is redeemed in our opinion by this story that later came to light. During the flood when the Peels were short of fuel and the house was getting chilly, Joe carried a letter requesting firewood to a friend several miles The friend came promptly with a supply, Miss Martha Hobart Russell, 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lloyd Miller, former Paducahan who now lives in Evanston, recently made the Times-Index of that city with her picture as a result of being selected as vocal soloist on a college night program at the Edgewater hotel in Chicaso, She has THERE'S A REASON I "You certainly must like cantaloupesyou've eaten a dozen of them!" "Yes: but here's a strange thing the last three have tasted Lks pumpkins.".