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The Washington times., 1930-11-03

Someone wrote a corking edi.
torial the other day about
Bugs" Baer and his lively
brethren of "the knockout hui
NOR and dropkick wit.
There is," said the writer,
something lean and athletic
about the minds Of these men.
They do not insist on cut
ting the bunk or ham-string.
ing the hooey. They just DO
it, with scarcely a twitch of
the eyelash or a flick of the
cigarette.
"They like good losers, but
they don't get throaty about
them For example, after most
Americans had worked them
selves up into a warm tea bath
Of perspiring praise for Sir
Thomas Lipton's sportsman
ship, the incorrigible Bugs"
informed the readers Of the Elk.
aminer-'Sure he's a good loser,
but look how much practice he
has had"
"And then that marvellous
parody Of the French Mar.
shalls words at the Marne: NV
right wing is shattered. MY left
wing is gone. I'll have to eat
the neck
THAT'S THE WAY TT Is
WITH BUGS, HE JUST HAS
TO EAT TIE NECK, TO BTTE
DOWN, WITH THAT SABER.
TOOTH WIT OF HIS, TO THE
BITTER BONE OF THINGS
UNDER ALL THE FLUBDUB,"
They don't get throaty"-
isn't that a great line? So easy
: to get throaty about life. so
easy to sob and slobber and
simper and sigh instead Of Fac
ing Facts AS Is.
Why do we do 1t? Because It
takes more courage and intelli.
gence, and self-control to Face
Facts than most Of us possess.
Family affairs, for example.
How we gush and gurgle over
our Dear Relations. Yet the sim.
pie truth is that they're FIRE.
quently a pain in the neck.
Couldn't we remedy this condi.
ton II we tried? Couldn't we
make our domestic arrange.
ments harmonious and dipni.
fled? We could. But it would
mean o lot of calm thought and
direct action and would proba-
bly, result In considerable rln
popularity. So we get Throaty
instead. Pretend that all is
sweetness and delight. And Of
course, get q big hand from our
mawkish friends, who are equal.
" afraid to tackle the Status
Quo.
Friends. There's more F'iub-
dub. Darling Maybelle. Dear
Old Bill. Listen to us get
throaty when the sacred bonds
Of friendship are mentioned.
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Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

ters on, some father.ln.laws,
mother-in-laws, all sorts Of In.
laws. Others pretend to have
people in their own district, who
in reality get the check and in
turn put the money in the bank
in the Congressman's name.
Anyhow, this is one way, If it
could be arranged, to give some
poor devils some work out Of a
members $1,000 clerk hire, and
while members Of Congress are
blowing all over the country re-
garding the unemployment, etc.,
If they would promise to take
their dead-heads off the pay
roll, or rather dummies, and
give the money to the fund for
unemployment 1t might result
in some of them returning to
Congress, otherwise they may
not.
If a committee would inveSti,
gate the amount Of graft going
on in our Government, and take
that alone, it would help more
than one could imagine. Start
on the Hill and finish up at the
Government Tourist Camp.
I hope you have nerve enough
to start something. / haven't
and can't. This is my living,
what I get Of it, and it means
everything to me.
JOHN DUN.
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Science and Crime
BIZ Archibald Henderson

scandals cropping out among
legally constituted guardians
of public safety. There are
periodical house-c -cleanings, espe-
cially of the police force. From
time to time, as just now In
one of our great cities, judges
themselves are discovered to be
corrupt and in league with
criminals and leaders Of the
underworld. Citizens charged
with crime find themselves the
innocent victims of what is
known as a frame up; false
evidence faxed by unscrupulous
lawyers or corrupt policemen.
The English courts are less
subject to criticism than those
of other countries. The laws
are so framed as not to permit
long delays. There is some
thing closely akin to a dispas-
sionate pursuit of truth in the
courtroom! There is q strong
bias in favor Of the accused,
where doubt warrants. The
philosophy in this procedure
is to give every accused person
better than an even chance to
escape conviction. Better that
four guilty persons should go
free than that one innocent
person should be unjustly con-
demned.
The great vogue Of the detec-
tive story nowadays is ex-
planned on the ground that the
public is not so much interest
ed in the brutal and abhorrent
facts Of crime as in the Scien-
tific methods employed in It's
detection. DR.. Locard, Of the
criminal laboratory of Lyons,
France, has developed two new
sciences graphometry, or ac-
curate methods Of detecting
forgery. and poroscopy. which
is the application of the finger.
print system to the pores of the
land, which are believed to be
unique in every individual. Me-
chanical devices have long been
in use for measuring involun-
tary acceleration of the pulse,
for criminals under police ex-
animation. The use Of the
drug scopolarnin has frequently
been tried in this country as a
means Of eliminating false teS-
timony and confession. George
Goodwin, in his little book,
Cain" says: '"The develop
nent Of these and similar de-
vices will eventually eliminate
most possibilities of error, in
the opinion of those who are
advocating their more exten-
sive use"
Copyright, 1880. international Feature
Service Ine.l
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
MARRY-GO-
ROUND
BY Helen Rowland
The Sweet and LOw-Down

Every head OF permanently
waved hair is a burnt offering
on the altar of a woman's love
of admiration.
Sometimes it looks as though
the only women who can re-
member what romantic love
was like. are those who can
remember what buttonhooks
and hatpinS were for.
Before m apriage q mans
chief boast is his pet theory
on how to manage a woman;
after marriage his chief prob
lem Is how to manage to get
his own way, once In a while.
A man, unlike q woman, never
bothers about whether his wed.
ding or his funeral will be
beautiful or not; probably be-
cause he knows that, at both
Of them, he'll be totally un-
conscious.
Funny how just a tiny grain
Of Sex-appeal between q man
and q woman will sometimes
wreck . wonderful lifetime
friendship.
Nobody seems to think he is
having q good tine," now
adayS, unles he is jumping into
something on wheels, and rush
ing from here to there.
The chief trouble with the
world is that every man now
thinks that he is q bit Of a
financial genius, and could
make q million If he had the
breaks: and every woman fan.
cies that she is, q bit Of a
siren, and could marry a mil
lion, If she had the luck.
A mans principal objection
to spinach or marriage Is that
they are good for him.: il
you want to arouse his interest
in q diet or q woman, tell him
that they are bad for him.
(copyright. 1850. by King Features
Syndicate. Tn%l
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
ONCE-OVERS

You may hold a menial posi-
ton and you'd like to be
big, important man.
You have no thought Of per
fecting yourself in this very
ordinary place.
You think it is not worth the
effort required.
When you expand yourself to
full capacity you want to have
an objective Of big results.
But how, can you expect to
be successful in a more impor.
tant position than you have
now If you won't develop your
present position to the limit?
Saving yourself for a larger
opening makes you less able
to meet requirements OF the
larger opportunity when it pre-
sents itself.
There must be stiff and ex-
acting training to fill Q posi-
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Policemen in Pistol Practice

Policemen the Seventh precinct believe they have the cham
pon pistol in the District and desire to arrange matches
with other teams.
police department should encourage pistol matches among
precincts that policemen Of this city become proficient in
the use Of firearms
Straight quick shooting policemen assets to any police
force While pistol practice is taught in the department. there
is not the activity in that line there should be-
Policemen should their pistols promcuousy in affairs
with criminals but when they do have shoot they should
know how do it in proficient Criminals too have
wholesome respect for policemen with accurate aim and courage
That Washington policemen may not be handicapped in the
use of their pistols emergency this newspaper again urges
that they be equipped with Sam Browne belts with pistol
holsters Without these belts they at decided dsad
vantage if required to their pistols.
The Washington times., 1930-11-03

In criminology, the trend Is
distinctly in the direction away
from the old-fashioned applica,
tion of the Mosais law in the
treatment of criminals. The
great problem in the handling
OF the criminal is not what
punishment should be admins
tered, hut how can we reform
him and make him q useful
member Of society. In his IA
nous romance, the inhabitants
of Erewhon, according to Sam
uel Butler, regarded crime as a
disease. Edward Carpenter
wrote a book entitled "Civiliza-
tioa; It's Cause and Cure"
Surely our criminologists will
be fully justified In writing Of
crime: it's cause and cure.
Certainly not all criminals
can be cured. Civilization, alas,
connotes certain forms Of de-
generation; it is the price we
pay for higher organization.
Nervous diseases, reflexes, per
verted sex impulses, criminal
tendencies these and like mala-
dies are accomplishments Of
the nerve strain of a highly
tense. complex organization
which we call civilized society.
Every community, in a sense,
has its own code. Towns, vii
lages, notoriously differ in this
respect. Some are intensely
marrow. puritanical, restricted
IN their moral outlook. Others
are liberal and cosmopolitan in
their code, following the doc
trine Of laissez faire and
iaissez aller. In like manner,
countries have their particular
moral codes and individual
court procedure, dictated by
long-eSta abliShed custom and ma
tional psychology.
In France, for example, an
atmosphere Of the most in
tense emotion, rather than an
air of quietude and reflection,
! is permitted to invade the court
room. Crimes are freely
tried BY the press. without con-
demnation or rebuke from the
constituted guardians Of the
I law. Passional crimes give rise
to great trials which are az
once thrilling spectacles and
profoundly moving events. The
French dramatize the legal
profession, this being a trait
Of the national psychology.
In this country. especially
ia some Of our larger cities,
the judges and police are both
suspect. There are constant
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
Says Trained, Mature Man
Is Best Type Of Worker
Editor. WASHINGTON Times:

EUGEOT, WOStt7kgLOE 4tptcS'
I want to reply to A. T. P.'s
letter in yesterdays paper, relat-
ing to the old mans inability to
obtain work on account Of the
preference being given the man
Of fewer years. I echo A. 7. P.'s
query, "What must an old man
do?" They must live somehow.
and somebody must give them
q chance to make good, q chance
to prove that in spite Of their
forty, fifty or sixty years they
are still capable of giving a fun
day Of honest, faithful and eff
cient service.
In many cases age is rather
an asset to the man who learned
his trade under capable in
structors, who took pride in
their craft and gave to it the
best that was in them.
Many Of the younger men OF
today live from payday to pay,
day, watching the clock and
taking no interest in their work
except for the fact that their
salary enables them to indulge
their love of golf, night clubs
and joyriding, while a man Of
mature years is usually a Stald
home lover, with fewer things TO
distract his mind from his work,
and, therefore, ! feel that In
fairness to all that the older
man should at least be given IN
equal chance with the younger
man and let the law Of the sur
vival of the fittest decide who
shall be kept on the payroll and
who shall tramp the streets and
occupy a lonely park bench.
MRS. o. v. FARMER.
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tion with requirements beyond
a previous experience.
The mind must be drilled
and exercised to a point where
concentration on new projects
may be commanded.
Saving it from such de-
mands weakens it and it does
not store up the additional
energy which may be called
for In quick action.
It becomes easier to concen-
trate if your mind has had
years Of such training and you
cannot afford to pass up this
seemingly insignificant chance
to improve.
Prepare yourself for the big
chance in order that you may
fulfill its demands when ycI
get it.
copyright, 1880. international
Feature Ssrvtc@ Incl
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
Automatic Bridge Players
A Boon When We Get Them.

Latest of the laborsavng devices for which America
the automatic card shuffler will shuttle and
deal four bridge hands twenty seconds less consists
Of spring and pair of rollers also small crank You put
the deck between the spring and rollers turn the crank and
the cards whsked into four separate compartments Then
all you need to do is to bid and play.
Il sounds useful convenient and interesting Also, it
should have the distinct advantage Of cutting down the dura
tion Of postmorems That alone will make popular with
husbands who listen after each hand connubal ex
position of their errors.
If the inventor perfect. to the point where will
also bid play and furnish the losers with a afterward
then it will be the greatest thing bridge since the Wander
blt convention And what time saver You could read
smoke drink ginger ale all evening and perhaps leave the
table richer than when you sat down.
Possibly these improvements will in time. They
needed.
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
Clerk Hire at Capitol
Would Relieve Unemployed

Editor, Times:
While you are talking about
unemployment and how TO raise
funds, and while members Oh
Congress are blowing all over
the country about the situation
as to what they will do to re-
lieve it ''IF ELECTED" has It
ever occurred to you-but per-
haps you do not know-or to
the members of the House and
senate that If they win take
the amount they appropriate
forl their wives and families,
dummies, ETC., from the So 900
allowed them for clerk hire
that it will practically take
care Of the unemployment
situation in washington.
If you will investigate you
will find that out of the 435
members of the House there
are not even ten who do not
take from 500 a month to-
$500 and some Of them take 1t
all for their own families. II
you will only allow that 435
members take 500 q month Of
the clerk hire for their wives
and daughters to "spend fool
ishIy" you will find that 1t
amounts to $43,S00 q month.
Would not that help some to
feed some poor children and
joblesS men and women. You
will hear a lot Of conversation
about what Congress is going
to do with. the taxpayers
money to relieve the unemploy-
ment UP UNTIL THE ELEC-
TTON, but if you would make
the suggestion In your paper
that they appropriate the
amount they do pot use which
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KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Match correctly:
/. secure forlorn
2. expensive safe
8. abject virtuous
4. cheat costly
s.. good defraud
Do you know:
6. What did wordsworth write
chiefly about?
Z. How are SCOTS novels clas-
sified?
8. What was the purpose Of
the majority Of Dickens novels?
8. What author created the
character of Becky Sharp?
1C. Who was TennySon'S pred
ecessor in writing King Arthur
stories?
Fill each blank:
IL. Buffalo Bill's real name
was
IL. The Harding tomb is in
NJ.
Is. A Babylonian lawgiver
who published a code of laws
Vas
Il. Paper was made by the
Egyptians by
Is. The Nile River Is in north
east --.
CAnswers qn Magazine Page.I
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wise, I have taken it upon
myself to make this suggestion,
realizing, Of course, that 1t may
fall on deaf ears, but I have al
ways admired your paper for ex
posing Just graft, and if this
isn't graft I don't know what to
call it. These members Of the
Congress have many ways Of
evading things, and in some in
stances they have their wife on
the payroll In her maiden name.
Some have their married daugh-
The Washington times., 1930-11-03

is allotted to them for clerk
hire, it would help the situa-
ton greatly, and the taxpayers
would be relieved of that extra
tax which they contribute to
the members of the House and
Senate's families to travel in
Europe. etc.
Your paper is the only one
that has ever had the nerve to
tell the conditions at the Capt..
tol, and, being a victim Of this
condition myself, and everyone
know who works here Is like
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
Champion Dog Jumper
Not a Good Neighbor.

The power in animals directed by the intelligence men,
accomplishes wonders.
The trained elephant pulls heavy cannon.
No horse, in free state, as fast trained
horse the track-perhaps not half as fast
The Washington times., 1930-11-03

We repeat
the comment in
a previous edi-
torial on police
dogs. They are
creatures Of ex-
traord / nary
power, intelli-
nee an d
ferocity. In the
hands Of de-
tectives a n d
trainers super
vising and con-
trolling til g m
they may play
q useful part
in the pursuit
Of criminals.
B ut they
have no place
in ordinary life.
No man has
The Washington times., 1930-11-03
mCKEvE, CHAMPION JUMPING POLICE DOG

any business keeping within reach of the children
Of other people.
They close to the WOLF their tempers grow a.
they grow older, and, at best they are DANGEROUS.
The Washington times., 1930-11-03

No dog or
wolf, in a wild
state, would
] u mp the
heights that
this police, or
"Alsatian dog
is jumping here.
The jump is
8 feet 8 inches
high. The dog
jumping can
clear a ditch "a
feet wide. It
belongs to Mr..
Michael Snap
per, an En-.
glishnan.
The Washington times., 1930-07-12
!. Hotels and Resorts i.

ATLANTIC CITY. N, ).
PRINCESS - Special summer rates. 81
daily. Am. pl Attractive wlxly rates.
The Washington times., 1930-07-12
Qhe Supreme Book

The Bible, supremely great as
literature. continues as the worlds
best seller.
Tint has not dirnmed the lus'
ter of the poetry of the Hebrew
prophets. It. has not affected
the majestic quality of the law
of Moses, or the supreme teach
ings o. Jesus of Nazareth.
'The inspiration of the Scrip.
lures" is a favorite theme OF
theologianG. Often the definition
of inspiration differs in the
hands of different scholars. But
cf the inspiration of the Scrip
lures in the literary sense, as op
posed for the moment to the
moral, ethical and religious sense.
no one can argue.
The Bible is supremely great
according to any literary stand.
ard. It is true, Of course, that
there are passages that reflect
the crudities of the age in which
they were written.
There are chronicles that are
dry, unadorned history that, is,
in the nature of the case, with
out particular literary merit.
Revelation is progressive, and
the Bible is of uneven literary
quality, of course. But take it
for all in all, it is the supreme
book, judged by this standard of
literary merit. That is the de-
cree of the massed opinions of
The Washington times., 1930-07-12

those competent to Judge, the
cumulative verdict, Of the worlds
scholars.
The first chapter of the Book
of { eneSis has been the subject
of countless discussions. Inter
pref ations have varied greatly
There are champions Of the book
as symbolism and allegory, cham.
pions of the book as a legend,
champions of the book as literal
truth.
There are few who would deny
the value Of the first chapter of
the Book of Genesis as literature
I'm the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth" The
statement is the beginning Of a
remarkable record.
The great prophets wrote and
taugh' with a superb command
of the language. The psalmist
sang in deathless poetry. The
writer's OF the four Gospels t-ld
the story of One who went about
doing good, and told it with in
effable beauty.
The years have not robbed the
Bible of its title as the supreme
book.
The Washington times., 1930-07-12
TABERNACLE IS
HOLDING FETE

Anniversary services will be held
tomorrow at the Full Gospel Tab
ernacle, North Capitol and K
Streets.
The congregation moved into
the present church at North Capi.
tol and K Streets three years ago.
The pastor, the Rev. Harry L. Col
lier. has been in charge of the
work for nearly Is years.
The church in the last three
years has established several
branches in Maryland and Vir-
ginia. Several missionaries have
been sent and maintained in for
eign fields.
The pastor will speak tomorrow
morning on "Amiable. Taber.
nacles." In the evening he will
speak on THE Glory of the New
Order"
The Washington times., 1930-07-12
Commissioners Notices

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
THE DISTRICT OF CoLUMBIA.-Notice
is hereby. given that in accordance with
changes in the permanent system of high.
ways contained in D. G. Appropriation
Act Act for the fiscal year ended June 80
gress), approved March 4th, 1918; as
a9ds6 aSa SE an ASt So ,n ApP SOY
lumbia will give public hearing in the
Board Room Of said Commissioners on
July 18th, 1880, at 10 O'Clock 4. Nj 70
within the territory affected by proposed
changes in the plan of said permanent
system Of highways, described as fOllows
tiOn located within the territory bounded
by Calvert Street on the north. Connect
cut Avenue on the east, Waterside Drive
west, 2. Property In the northwest sec;
tion located within the territory bounded
By geological Park on the north Adams
the south and Rock Creek on the west.
;. Property in the southeast section
along the line OF Sixth St. between
4. Property in the northwest section To-
Gated within the territory bounded by
Gallatin street on the north, North
Capitol Street on the east: Rock Creek
shire Avenue on the west s. Property
in the southeast section along the line
Of Alabama Avenue between Twenty.
third Street and Irving Street: ..
Gated. within the territory bounded by
Upshur Street on the north: Twelfth
Street on the east Bunker Hill Road
the south. and BroOkiaHd Avenue on
the west. Z. (a) Property in the south
east section located within the terri
the north. Fifteenth Street on the east.
Southern Avenue on the southeast.
Xenia and Ninth Streets ON the south
and Second Street on the west OBJ
Gated within the territory bounded by
Atlantic Street on the north. Southern
Avenue on the southeast, and Livingston
Road on the, west. tc) Property in the
ritOry bounded by Atlantic Street on
the north. Fourth Street. on the east.
sSShsGn G.soTs arsnuf ROAD On the tsS
3. Property EO in the neorthsast section along
PropertY. in the southeast section located
qn the north NsylOr Rosd and TEsnfs: fS:
on the south and Eighteenth Street en-
thot,HU the wset ~ RE9peFty N IN the Seutheas,
s. y Street on the north, EisStsensh
street on the east. ,'Frankford Street ON the
Hnh %sr IS PInds Rsd s GR the and
southeast sections located within the terri
tory bounded by Blaine Street on the
north EOrty-fifth Street and Texas Ave
nue. on the east. Barker Street on the south
aud minnesota Avenue on the northwest
n Property in the northwest section in
the vicinity Of the intersection of Wisc0n.
sin Avenue. Western Avenue. and Military
the highway plan of streets within the
lerrltOry described above are GU display
trict of Columbia. room 4O5. District Build.
inE.. and may be examined by interested
parties during business hours prior 20 the
played at the hearing and the Commits
aioners will consider any suggestions or 1ro.
tests concerning the proposed changes as
shown on above mentioned plans. / b.
REICHELnERFER W B.. LADL1E. H r..
CROSBY Commissioners Of the District Of
Columbia
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ReU. DR.. J. r. SizOO
AUnU on Vacation

The Rev. George G. Culbertson,
assistant minister of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
will preach tomorrow morning on
''Untraveled Ways"
An evening service will be held
In the lecture room of the church
at Z o'clock. The mid.week ser
vice will be held Thursday eve
ming.
The pastor, the Rev. DR.. Joseph
r. Sizoo, is on his vacation.
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g RETICI0U ANlNO OrNC NCENENTSH
'LOWRIE SPEAKS
I At CATHEDRAL

The Rev. DR.. Walter Lowrie.
former rector of the American
Church at Rome, will be the
preacher at the washington Ca.
thedral tomorrow.
He will speak at IL q. m. In
the Bethlehem Chapel. At 4
o'clock he will preach at the
open-air service about the Peace
Cross on the Cathedral Close.
The service will be broadcast by
WMAL.
Holy communion will be cele-
brated at 1880 a. m. Morning
prayer and litany will be read
at 10 q. m.