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The Washington times., 1930-07-18
''MISS HARD BOILED'' = By Jane Dixon

the echo of the mans foot
steps to die away.
Was she, Raquel Rojos, really
here, on the shores of France?
With beauty, money, luxury at
her command? Had she fled
the desert ocean more than
two years ago, riding through
its Starlit stiffness toward
this? Or was it yesterday?
Was the 'dobe hut in the
desert ocean a mirage? Or
would she wake UP suddenly
with Pancho roaring for his
black coffee? Find that this
dazzling blue ocean, Greta. the
children over there with their
nurses, the villas nesting I'M
der the hill, were creatures OF
phantaSy?
She had i sudden notion she
must feel of the blue ocean,
test its reality. She rose with
out waking Greta. Ran forward
eagerly to meet the gently curl
ing surf.
Yes, this was real ocean. A
frenzy of want to know its sub
stance overlook her. She wanted
1t to be rough with her, to toss
her about, to frolic with her.
She fought it back. throwing
out her arms, struggling with it.
Until, in an instant, frenzy
became panic. Something had
gripped her in the back, sjust
between the shoulders. Was
tearing at her bathing suit as
If to wrench it from her. The
salt water was in her eyes,
binding her. In her throat,
choking her.
b Her struggle now was in earn
est. She strove desperately to
throw off the grip at her back.
But it held the tighter.
She tried to cry out. A rush
Of Sea-water swept into her nose
into her very lungs, it seemed.
She was being towed, swiftly
now, by that grip at her back.
Out to sea? She could not tell.
AlphonSe. A black velvet hat
with white paradise feathers in
q window. Hundreds of toy tin
horns outside a great station,
footing, screening. Lucy-mo-
ther-oh, Lucy
80 .
1t might have been cons
afterward that the waxen lids
Of RaQuel Rojos fluttered ever
so slightly, then opened slow.
ly. Her mind had not yet
thrown off the terror of her
struggle with the sea. She
only knew that she was look
ing straight into the troubled
gray eyes of man who leaned
over her. There was a CLINT
in his hair where the sun
struck it.
"She has regained conscious
ness" the man said. She will
be all right in a few minutes"
The man leaned closer. She
felt pressure on her chest.
A steady bearing down that was
painful. She wanted to cry
out. Only a faint moan of
protest escaped her. A little
stream Of salt water trickled
out over her lips.
Lie still, please" the man
ordered crisply, anticipating her
effort to sit up and look
about her in the strange world
to which she had come. ''I'l
raise you when it is time"
She closed her eyes. She
had discovered that, after all,
the effort to rise was not worth
making. An ecstasy came over
her. The man with the gray
eyes-hiS voice was like a bow
drawn across the strings of her
soul. He would push away the
sea.
tTo BE Continued
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TELL IT TO ELSIE!
By Elsie Robinson

Remember Ma Gingler. who
complained bitterly because Elsa
and Gina, her two young lady
daughters, never picked up their
own clothes, and wouldn't even
get up in time to eat more than
half q breakfast before they
rushed off to work?
And remember how MiSSis s.
Watson bawled us out for telling
her to make 'en snap out OF it
=" and told us how she dotted
on picking up after her girls?
Well, here's Floss with some
red hot remarks on the subject
" Whose side Is she on? Time
in on this and see. It's good.
Dear elsie
"Can I put my oar I'm on this
pick up after the kids war? I'D
like to tell both Ma GingIer and
Missis Watson q few Of my idea;
about it.
cam 1 q Ma? I'm one Of the
girls. I'm Just FL now. And
work. And so to dances at nights
too. And has anyone ever picked
up after me? No stree! / always
have picked up after myself,
ever since / can remember.
ibid like it? I'll say / didn't.
1 thought 1t was terrible. But it
didn't do = bit Of good to kick.
OF course mother did things for
me that / wouldn't have time to
do when ] was working. She
mended and washed for me, and
Of course did the cooking most
". But / sometimes helped
about those things too. Because
mother said I had to get into
the habit Of doing them and
knowing how to do them. That
1t would make life easier for me
In the long run. Well, grUm.
bIed and kicked and thought
was picked on.
Met "One" Man
But now you just don't know
how glad ! am that she made me
do them. Because I've met the
one and only man now, and I'm
so proud because when we're
married I'll know how to do
things. Because I've ever
learned to Shirk to leave
things strewed around TO
put things off.
I'm other words. I've learned
good habits. And when see
some Of my friends struggling
to do the things that have Just
got to be part Of my natural re-
actions, I'm sorry for them. It's
heaps harder to learn things
and unlearn them after you're
grown up, and all your habits
are set Don't you think so?
lido.
'In fact, think that these.
mothers. who pick up after their
kids and make things too easy
for them are just storing up q
lot of trouble for them-they
aren't really making life easier
for those kids at all. They're
making it harder. The time to
climb into your harness and find
what it's all about is while
you're still yOUngster and learn
ing how to live.
Believe me, when I have any
kids I'm going TO do just like my
mother did. I'm not going to ex.
pect too much of them-but I'm
going to see that they don't grow
up ignorant.
viii Work as Team
1--WE learned to take care Of
my money and myself and win
Bob and / make q whix and o
game OF working together when
we're married. III say we will.
We've got the habit. And the
thought that I'll be able to be a
really efficient wife makes me
awfGIIy happy. / can see now
where my mother did me the big
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ocean was another ocean. A
desert ocean.
In the midst of the desert
ocean an 'dobe shack huddled
crafty, its crumbling ochre
walls baking in the cruel blaze
Of the sun. At the back of the
shack in the shadow a drab wo-
man with hopeless eyes pounded
meal for endless piles Of leath-
cry slabs. Her mother-Lucy-
preparing tortillaS. A great
bull of a man staggered
through the dust in front of
the shack. Pancho, bound for
his morning cup at Keno Pete's.
Somewhere in the shack a
small boy with wistful, fright
ened eyes covered, waiting for
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
YOUR RULING
STAR
BY William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Whose Birthday Is
Y..R-. N

For Those Whose Birthday Is
July 19.
If today is your birthday dur
ing the coming year you should
be benefited through a steady
application and attention to
your business or profession.
There may be a few annoying
conditions but if you use fore
sight you should be able to
manage successfully. Don't
engage in impractical schemes
or try to make money in some
get-rich-quick idea.
Important dates-Avoid ex-
cesSeS of al kinds, take no risks
and maintain routine from
August Is to %. September 30
to October 2, October Z to 10,
November "a to %. December
% to 81, January 4 to Z, Feb
ruary 81 to "a, March a to 80,
April 8 to z. MayM23 to 26.
Good for general affairs, make
efforts to advance your interests
from October 26 to 80, February
20 to IS, June 90 to 80. Con-
Trajectory dates show two op.
posing influences.
A child born today will be
perSevering to a point of stub
bornneSS. He will succeed
through steady and constant
application. He will get on
well with older people and bene-
fit through them. He should
gain q good position in life.
Tendencies for tomorrow
Gully 20)-The conditions are
fine for affairs connected with
elderly people. Call on your
old friends and acquaintance
or white some long delayed let
B9fSs
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
CHAPTER 56

Greta was back in a few
minutes. Bubbling with antici-
patton for the evening.
Il was right" she said. "One
of my little playmates from
the Long Island set. Not much
money, but plenty of fun. He
wants to drag us over to the
Casino tonight. Did I say Mop"
ST suppose you didn't"
laughed Raquel. But you
must say No for me. I'm
going to get my beauty Sleep"
"Luddy, Miss, don't tell me
you've discovered a crow's-foot
on your pearly cheek?"
IT haven't yet. But I may,
at any moment, if I try to
keep your pace"
II know" Greta'S wise eyes
slanted their accusation. You're
putting on the old high hat.
You don't think it's proper,
1uO1llLlB VA % oOOOCAAAAnC' OAO
I tell you I know that bimbo.
We've been on many riot
together. And he's what you
call the right people"
Some other time, Greta,"
said Raquel, with finality.
When Raquel went to the
window in the morning to
breathe deep of air with a
tang of salt in it, the sunshine
was still thin, pale gold. It
was early, she knew. She had
not heard Greta come in from
the Casino. tt e. door or
Greta's room was ajar. Her
evening bag was tossed on the
living-room table along with a
ruin of tattered orchids.
When Raquel opened the
outer door to a ring, she found
her own pert French maid
chirping volubly, her arms
laden with bandboxes and bun
dies.
"I have ride all night with
the trunks" she said, flutter.
ing about the room in an at
tempt to restore order.
Monsieur send us both by
motor transport. ! have kept
my eye on your trunks. Miss
Greta's also"
A hotel porter brought In
the trunks, and was not overly
quiet in handling them.
my mothers apron strings"
groaned Greta from behind the
partially open door. why
didn't they tell us they were
tearing down the building?"
I'm sorry, DEAR" Raquel
called. ats the trunks. 1
should have closed your door"
Trunks! Then the air mail
must be in"
Don't you want to get up
and come for a dip?"
ouch! My heads splitting.
Those croupiers took me for a
ride"
Then you lost" Sympathe-
tically from RaQuel.
NO, my boy friend did. All
I had to do with it was to pick
the wrong numbers"
From a selection of bathing
finery. much of which would
not Withstand the dampness Of
a spring shower, much less an
ocean surf, Raquel and Greta
chose two practical outfits.
When they reached the de-
serted beach the tide was far
out. Raquel sped across the
sand to meet it. Greta, limp
ing and groaning, followed.
"Gosh," she said when she
dipped toe gingerly in a thin
sheet of pale green water that
riffled toward her. wouldn't
you know I'd forget my wheel.
chair on a morning like this?"
Raquel was already far out,
splaShing and floundering In
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
Timely Topics

The wholesale breeding of musk
rats is forbidden in Germany, due
to the rodents undermining rail-
roads and river entertainments and
impairing the safety of dams, wa
terways and roadways.
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NotO Continue

nue. to his home. He arrived
shortly after ten-thirty AMI
found the detective (Skelly) in
the room and his wife dead!
He broke down at the end.
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
What Do You KnOW?.
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions On Editorial Page).

answers to today's test:
/. Ether. 2. Lake Cayuga.
8. Connecticut, 4. One who en-.
joys inflicting physical pain.
5. AS a famous astronomer. 6.
Portuguese. Z. Telegraph. 8. In.
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connection with the compass to
insure greater accuracy. 8.
Hoofs of animals. 10. A French
infantryman. IL. Conclusion.
IL. Wandering. 13. Surmise.
IA. Chivalrous. is. Flaunt,
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What Shall She Do?
Dear Miss Fairfax:

OCdI MlSS cd1TIaHs
I am n years old and have
four bows. nv husband works
away from home and am
alone. He seems to love me
and the kids in a way. but ne
likes to flirt with other
women. He has caused the
separation of one husband
and wife already. He tells me
we will soon move, so we can all
be together. I hate to break up
my home. lam not at all strong,
and with a man who has given
me SO much trouble. / do not
know what / may be getting the
boys and myself into, If / breaS
up here.
BROKEN.HEARTED MOTHER.
Can't you get someone to ap-
peal to your husband for the
sake OF your four boys? Some
: times a man who treats his wife
the way YOU describe will take a
brace and do better for the sake
OF his children. The most selfish
OF husbands have been known
to turn over a new leaf because
they do not wish their children
to grow up with memories Of a
father that are humiliating and
diSgraceful. Before breaking
up my home I should find cut
something Of the home to which
your husband is taking you.
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
IA Perfect Crime
Howa Quick Thinking Cub
Helps Solve Mystery
The Story Thus Far

particularly atrocOus murder discovered in private
speakeasy There not single clue to the identities Of
victim the criminal except the victims marked
SIS Della had fOundeed days before in mid
Atlantic with every soul on board
ROBIN DALES Of crime brings forward Mrs. Rob
ersOn identifies the victim Harry Gibbs her brother
She admits he steward the s. S. Della and implicated
with diamond smuggling headed by mysterious wallace
to New York from London
the interests large inheritance He receives note
ing that wife and then he will die unless he splits
the estate. The note is signed wv"
DALE CANNOT FASTEN his suspicious on any the four
suspects Robertson the Wallace Druid
RoberSons London affairs and
betrayed Then Dale learns that Mrs Robertson has
been brutaly murdered
The Washington times., 1930-07-18
ADVICE TO
LOVELORN
by Beatrice FalfIaX-'
A HOme-LOving Girl Is
Appreciated

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
A couple of weeks ago
girl wrote a letter to your
column, in which she said she
wasn't pretty but was domestic
in her tastes, liked to cook,
keep house. and would be per-
fectly happy if she had a little
garden which she could tend.
I didn't write to you immediate
", but I've been thinking Of
that girls letter ever since and
I'm coming out frankly and ask
you to give me her address
so that I can write her. I can
give you ample assurance that
I am a respectable person and
capable of supporting a wife.
Please let me know where I
can reach her.
LONESOME BACHELO OR.
You are not alone in think
ing you would like to become
acquainted with the grill who
wrote that letter, my dear Lone
some Bachelor; at least five
other lonesome bachelors are
ahead of you with requests to
know the girls name and ad-
dress. And here's hoping that
all Of you meet someone equally
domestic and-a good cook. But
as giving personal introductions
is strictly taboo in this column,
I can only say how sorry l am
you are lonesome and that the
girls you meet seem silly and
flighty," as Widower writes me
in a similar letter, too long to
print. That five men should
have written, as they have
proves that the waffle iron is
r1ightier than the lipstick, and
the knowledge of how to make
a hving-room livable is more Of
an asset than plucking the eye.
brows, or blowing smoke rings.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16
DETERMINIsM LIMITS THE MIND
BY REV. FATHER !. ELLIOTT ROSS. New York.

IN ONE gets any value out Of lie per-
sonaty One must grasp the fundamental power
IL freedom If one tries escape from human freedom did William
James, the philosopher he will land bog Of pessimm have
never known consistent determinations deermnc
literature which has been intelligence You can't have
determnn and freedom both and dcermnis use
the word freedom frequently.
deemnsm really true would produce world Of people
who determined Actually produces world Of people who are
undetermined This ndeemnsm makes life richer us adds value
TO it. gives things which deermnm could possibly give us We
ought recognize and protect these things for life would be poor
indeed with an outlook OF complete deerminsm.
do arc absolutely free We ara contradict nv
physical and hereditary laws We governed inner
ltance Our conduct governed habits which form Some smoke
cigarettes and Others drink to Our habits all our freedom
There IN addition all these restrictions pathological and normal
limits But all these do human
freedom which expressed in personality Every freedom
OF mind, the poorest people, they avoid
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16
THE PASSING POLITICIAN.

A committee once went to a philan-
thropist to ask him to subscribe SIS
to help bury a poor old politician.
Here's $50 he cried Go out and
bury ten politicians"
What's the matter with the politi-
clan that he's the butt of so many
jokes :? Is it because, unlike the doc
tor who buries his mistakes, but like
the newspaper editor, he makes his
mistakes in public.
That's probably part of the reason,
but the basis of it is deeper. The poll
tician, frequently unjustifiably, but
often with justice, has stood for the
bluff backslapper who did most of
his work by word of mouth. He has
never built up pride of calling, be-
cause his chief concern has been self
interest instead of public interest.
Way back in Civil War days, Arte-
mus Ward wrote, II am not politi-
clan, and my other habits air good"
There is only one way to change
this feeling about politicians and that
is to have no more of them!
As matter of fact, that is just
what is happening. The short ballot,
in states where it is used, has removed
the need for a POLITICAL boss. The
manager plan of government in cites
is killing the spoils system and build
ing up pride of achievement among
public officials.
We shall always need specialists
who make life work of public af-
fairs. But the old-fashioned politician,
whose concern was with keeping him
self in power rather than with turn
ing that power to any good use will
some day be thing Of the past.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16
KEEPING ON THE JOB.

| Cincinnati's experience with the
city manager form of government has
a significance for everv other city
in America, big or little, whether in
terested IN the city manager plan or
not.
It's this: citizens have got to fol-
low up any Improvement in their To-
cal government and fight for its con-
| tlnuancet
You've heard something Of Cincin-
MATHS experience, probably. A few
years ago the city was known general
ly as one of the worst governed cities
In America. Inefficiency and graft
were SO widespread that even a
stranger could tell something was
wrong There were holes in the streets
and practically no public service was
being rendered satisfactorily.
Today Cincinnati proudly flaunts
the slogan, the best governed city in
America"
There is no question that the
change to the city manager form of
government enabled Cincinnati to per-
form this remarkable handspring.
There is also little question, however,
but that the political machine would
have again seized power, if the cit
liens of Cincinnati hadn't followed up
their change of government
You know what usually happens.
wave of feeling sweeps the city.
Maybe the rascals are turned out and
q reform administration gets in. IF
So the politicians lie-.low until the
next election when they readily gain
the victory. Folks have lost their in
terest. As rule, however, the re-
form administration simply is not
elected in the first place
As Frank Kent says, "Politics is not
geared so the sentiment of the people
alone can prevail against a machine
Politics on election day is matter
of precinct organization and money
for floaters and families Of floaters.
The right cannot and does not pre-
vail against that unless equipped with
a financed machine of it's own. 1t is
only the unintiated who think So"
The larger the city the more true is
the above.
Cincinnatians realized that. They
formed permanent citizens organiza-
tion to carry on after the change in
government. Right down to the wards
and precincts was this group organ
ized-to be effective fighting machine
at election-time, to watch that,no I'M
fair propaganda concerning the admin
istration seeped into the press.
Citizens were determined that moth
ing should happen to discredit gov
eminent that was making wonderful
record. Cincinnatians were proud of
their government. They still are be-
cause they kept on the job.
Any city can do the same thing.
Read the Western News, only
$500 a year.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, advo-
Gates selective law observance, but
the Columbia student who tries it on
the college rules will probably get
kicked out in the same old-fashioned
Way
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16

A Missouri man, playing bridge with
his wife as partner, drew perfect
heart hand and bid diamonds by mis-
take. The fact that he is still alive
and uninjured proves that either his
wife is an extreme pacifist or that
she loves him in way that passeth
all human understanding
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16

At the royal wedding In Rome five
foreign sovereigns FIVE rulers who had
recently lost their Jobs. and flfty-four
other royalties looked on. Queens,
princes and princesses crowded the
chapel.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16

A device is now being perfected
which will enable you to open the
garage door by radio without TAX
ing the trouble to get out of the car
We hope the next development will be
radio opener for stubborn bureau
drawers.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-16

The twentieth century is now in it,
thirties and we hope that 1t will
soon begin to learn something.
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are always best.
A Missouri man, playing bridge with
his wife as partner, drew perfect
heart hand and bid diamonds by mis-
take. The fact that he is still alive
and uninjured proves that either his
wife is an extreme pacifist or that
she loves him in a way that passeth
all human understanding
A device is now being perfected
which will enable you to open the
garage door by radio without TAX
ing the trouble to get out of the car.
We hope the next development will be
radio opener for stubborn bureau
drawers.
A woman's tongue is her sword,
says the Chicago News. But in good
many cases it acts more like a ma
chine gun.
After the experts have invented q
postage stamp that will stick they
might try their hand on marriage H.
censes.
A local woman who thought her
husband wasn't attentive enough tried
i the old scheme of arousing his inter-
est again by pretending to interest
herself in another man. But she says
that instead of again lavishing looks
of love upon her the husband began
to cast looks of pity on the other
fellow.
A physical culture expert says there
is nothing in the early morning SET
ting up exercises and that it is much
healthier to stay in bed. Fine. Now
will somebody please debunk the spin
ach and carrots?
A cold in your head is bad enough
but there are lots worse things you
can have in your head at that.
The difference between the repub-
lican and democratic parties is that
the republicans split into factions in
off years and the democrats break
into rival camps during the campaign.
Ii this television works out we can
see the prize fight better in the par !
lor at home than in one of those |
twenty dollar seats in the arena.
A man who escaped from a New t
Jersey prison and went to New York /
City decided he liked the Jail better
and went back Probably he got bet
Tar GaryJpp a Lace r,1ppnu
It is said that ON the average there
is divorce granted in Cook county,
Illinois. each hour during the year
So if you move to Chicago among
other things you might as we'll take
out some alimony insurance, too.
A generation ago the popular slog-
an was -Four years more of the full I
dinner pail" Now it is "a sedan, a
coupe and rumble seat roadster
for every American family"
Professor Osborn, noted scientist,
says that man is fifty million years
old and is no kin of the ape. And we
suspect that the ape will be glad /
to learn that he is not related to some
of us.
The twentieth century is now in it,
thirties and we hope that 1t will Il
soon begin to learn something.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university, advo-
Gates selective law observance, but
the Columbia student who tries it on
the college rules will probably get
kicked out in the same old-fashioned
way.