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The Washington times., 1931-12-19
THE QUESTION OF 1882.

Here is picture question. Good Americans will not
fail the question in the right way The picture
supplied by the Golden Rule Foundation made up Of public
spirited men.
This is Golden Rule Week"
You tired Of Especial weeks perhaps But the special
week idea does not tire you much hunger and poverty
tire this child.
There is not carving fat turkey or distributing
the contents of pocketbook that would not give to this
child if he could SEE her standing him.
Unfortunately such children cannot into houses
They no part of the picture which is Christmas
happiness.
They stand far off, with anxious mothers and fathers
without work, wondering what can be done.
Not enough will be done (not half enough, onetenth
enough) civilization STILL RICH, since its Govern
ment afford spend than two thousand million
dollars this coming year past and future and since
the country still contains thousands whose incomes are IN
excess of one million dollars year
This picture printed NOT disturb your Of mind
with sadness but to remind you that have at Christmas
time blessed opportunity that is very great
The opportunity give something to child such this
the mother of child help the father to obtain
work is great opportunity
The Divine Spirit whose birth are about to celebrate
with gratitude reverence ad Suffer little children to
come unto me- He could hardly believe that in the world
richest country children would be allowed to die and to go
up to Him. HALF STARVED.
Do your duty, set exampe-DO NOT FOKGET The
WEAK AND MISERABLE POOR. ...,1
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
Unjustified Tax Raises
House Failed To Consider Law

The House has demonstrated that with tremendous
speed and touching unanimity
Without dissenting the Representatives in two days
have passed four bills which would revoutlonize the tax
system of the District and take additional $4OOOOO from
the pockets of Washingtonians.
These additional which the House has oisted upon
the city not necessary under any conception Of laws
which the House has placed the statute books
It is true that at time in the future the House may
take action which would make the additional
sar Actually at the present time the House intends to
obey its own laws, they not be justified.
The budget before Congress based present laws
raise the funds necessary to meet recommended expenses
These provisions call for Federal contribution
and tax rate than $170 per $100
In order to make these taxes logical and ustifiabe
the House would either have had to decrease the real
tax decrease the Federal share.
It has done neither of these things.
Without test Of sentiment Of its members the
principal point Of the Mapes programhe reduction to
$6500O00 of the Federal sharet has hastily passed that
part of the program which entirely dependent upon the
other for its justification.
In passing the bills has done violence its tradition
for orderly procedure,
The bills out of special committee which considered
them behind closed doors No citizen Of the District
given opportunity to be heard upon the measures
When the bills reported of them at least
passed within few hours after it had been printed Passed
so rapidly in fact that member who asked question on
the first section found the in subsequent section
which he had not had time to read
Fortunately for the people of the District the Senate still
has ears to hear the public voice.
It is to those that Washngtonians must appeal for
Justice and reason.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland
Love, as a Fine Ar

Love, as a Fine Art
The man who cannot idealize
his own emotions is a very
poor artist at his love-making.
The old-fashioned girl may
not have known as much about
stringing the stag-line along
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

The tree of knowledge is
grated upon the tree of life;
and that fruit which brought
the fear of death into the world,
budding on an immortal stock,
becomes the fruit of the promise
of Immortality.
Sir H. Davy.
Talent, living in the under
standing, is often inherited;
genius being the action Of rea-
son or imagination, rarely or
never.-Coleridge.
Happy man, and he alone,
Who master of himself ,an
say:
To-day at least, hath been my
own,
For I have clearly lived to-
today. y."-Francis.
We should go into the world
with small expectations and
infinite patience. Good.
Joys are not the property Of
the rich alone.-Horace.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
WORDS FROMLIP OF WISE MEN

Who boasts of his descent
praises things which do not ap-
pertain to himself. Seneca.
The higher man is in grace,
the lower he will be in his own
esteem. -Spurgeon.
There's no slipping uphill
again, and no standing still
when you've begun to slip
down.-Eliot.
You can't alter facts by film
ing them over with dead ro-
mance.-Drinkwater.
There is not less eloquelce
in the tone of the voice in the
eye and in the demeanor than
in the choice Of words.
La Rochefoucauld.
No species of fiction is so de-
lightfuI to us as the old Eng
lish drama. It is the most
lucid mirror that was ever held
up to nature. -Macaulay.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
PieceOf OfOutrageOus
EffrOntery'
Bu Claude G.. BOIUers

THAT was a remarkable
l. scene in the House at
Washington when the erst-
while Republican chairman
Of the Committee on Bank
ing, Mr.. McFadden, Of Penn
sylvania, made a slashing
attack upon the President.
The purport of his attack
was that the President had
betrayed or "sold" his
country in the interest of
the international bankers;
and that the price of the be-
trayal was the support of
these bankers in the cam
paign of 1928.
Of course, the speaker
was right in insisting that
the international bankers,
having made bad loans in
Europe, want the billions in
debts transferred from the
backs of the Europeans to
the backs of the American
taxpayers to make easier
the collection of the private
loans. But the charge that
this was part of bargain
entered into in 1923 implies
the most appalling corrup-
tion and should not have
been made without positive
proof. For, if true, there is
a clear case for impeach-
ment.
The excitement during the
incident must have turned
on this specific charge; for
certainly no member of the
House doubts that the pres
sure of the bankers is re-
sponsible for the thoroughly
organized propaganda in
favor of making the Ameri-
can taxpayers pay the war
debts of the world. That is
common knowledge, and has
been said a million times.
The extreme charge Of
EIcFadden does not alter the
fact that this is precisely
the fight that is being waged
today.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

Who knows but they're wait
ing in the street
Waiting for that old remem-
bered sign?
HANG A WREATH FOR
YOUR LAND!
For the land that your faith.
ers bought with their blood and
their faith in harder times
than this
Many a fat Christmas has
your land given you in the
past
Given you out of her pride
and her wealth and her
strength
Now she's hard hit-down
on her knees-trying to get her
breath after a vicious round.
Hang a wreath for America!
Tell her you're carrying on!
Show her you're as loyal to
her when she's weak as when
she was strong
For your own fighting heart
for loved ones here and
loved ones gone and the land
that gave you birth. hang a
wreath!
And then
HANG A WREATH TO GOD!
Out Of the Depths
To the God who brought us
up out of the swamp and the
jungle. out of brute ignorance
and fear and hate. and who
sent HIS son as a symbol of
that loving kindness which will
some day inhabit the earth
To the God who sees all
and understands all and will
give us courage and peace if
we ask for it
TO OUR FATHER IN
HEAVEN-......
HANG A WREATH! g.
copyright. 1881, King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
.ONCE-OVERS

whole your life has been CON-
paratively easy sailing. hasn't
it?s g.,
The difficulties you've had
might have been largely avoided,
Many came from trying to
take life too easy.
Some were the result Of over,
indulgence one way or another.
Others because of carleSsness
and reluctance on your part to
give thought and attention to
matters which you should have
even r best.
And now you are blaming
others for conditions brought
aboui by yourself in one way or
another.
Others with greater troubles
than you are carrying on" why
not you?
Copyright. 1881, by International
Feature Service, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

world needed ELSIE ROBINSON
wreaths as much as it does
this year.
Sweet sm elling fir and
spruce, juniper, holly, and
pine
Gay, brave festoons against
the icy winter night
But wreaths are more than
that!
They're a sign-they're a
challenge-they're an ACT OF
FAITH.
Watching With Love .
They're a sign that you're
celebrating something, more
than Santa Claus. They're a
sign that you're believing in
kindness and courage, in peace
and goodwill.
THOSE WHO PASS IN THE
STREET ARE NEEDING THAT
SIGN NOW, MY FRIEND.
Tell them that you're keep
ing watch with love
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

as does the modern siren: but
when she "reeled in" she
usually had a manageable
man on the end of her string.
A rank amateur may try to
win one woman by boasting OF
the others: but the true expert
at woman-charming m k S
every woman feel that life, be-
fore he met her, was a total
blank. and his heart a vacuum.
A mans notion of a "swell
party" is the one where he had
the best dinner; a woman's is
the one where she had on the
best clothes.
Charm: The ability to con-
vince a man that you think
he's as wonderful as he has
always suspected he is.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
Senator Reeds

0endIOr 6eeu
Statement
Mr.. McFadden is a tradi-
tional foe of Mr.. Mellon,
but Senator Reed of Penn
sylvania is his traditional
friend, and a warm sup
porter of the Administra-
tion in the past. He is a
corporation lawyer Of dis
tinction and cannot be ac-
cused either Of making loose
statements or of playing t.
"the mob. "
And on the day McFad-
den was making his speech
in the House, Reed was say
ing in the Senate:
There is the other kind
of propaganda coming from
our own citizens who are
interested chiefly. in their
own pocketbooks and in
profits they will get from
cancellation of debts due
our Government. I refer
principally to those bank
ers and bond houses who
since the Armistice and debt
settlement have put out So
called private loans to Eu-
ropean nations, which they
now would like to see paid
by means of cancellation"
Thus far, Senator Reed
takes precisely the same
position that McFadden took.
There is no occasion for ex-
citement or indignation"
about the statement, for
everyone knows it to be
true. And then Senator
Reed continues:
"They (the loans) were
made by American bankers
with eyes wide open to the
situation Of the debtor coun-
tries, with full knowledge
of the prior existence OF
this Governments claim and
the difficulty that the debt
ors would have in meeting
both public and private
debts. Now to ask that
those private claims Of some
American citizens should be
given priority over the inter-
governmental claims, which
are the claims Of all Amer
lean citizens, seems to me to
be a piece Of outrageous ef-
frontery."
Outrageous effrontery. "
That is language almost as
stronp as McFadden used.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
A Way to Forget


When you are in trouble try
to find some persons whose
predicament is worse than your
own and assist him in getting
out Of his difficulty.
In this. way you. may forget
your own problems for, a time
and when they do come to mind
again they won't seem quite so
vital or so unbearable. ..., ,
Most of us magnify adverse
things and belittle the troubles
of others.
Even though your experiences
are serious you can always To-
cate those whose troubles are
greater and make your own look
insignificant.
You may be passing through
real trouble now but on the
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
A Most Glaring
Illustration

And unlike the millions
who are victims of the stu
pidities of economic policies,
for which they are not re-
sponsible, these international
bankers knew precisely what
they were about. AS Sena-
tor Reed we'll says, these
bankers went into these loans
they want made good
through the transfer of the
war debts of the world to the
American taxpayers, with
eyes wide open to the condi-
tiOnS.
They gambled with their
money on the possibilities
of repayment; and the pub
lie generally is wondering
if in their calculation on the
possibilities they counted
confidently on their capacity
to use the Government of
the United States to guar
antee their profits; the very
Government which makes a
virtue of it's refusal to guar
antee bread to hungry
women and children.
For 80 years. and more,
private interests have used
Government in America to
increase profits by law out
of the pockets of the people;
but here is a most glaring
illustration and the effect on
the public or mass mind is
doing no good to the inter
national bankers.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

If there were only one man
and two women in the world,
the man would probably marry
the brunette, and spend the
rest OF his life trying to make
dat; with the blonde.
An attractive girl has to
marry, these days, if only in
order to get somebody to take
her around who won't make
love to her.
Dining in public with your
ex-h u band is considered
smart" this season. Oh, well,
just because you are tired of
pouring a mans coffee every
morning, is no reason why you
shouldn't enjoy letting him pay
for your dinner, occasionally.
A man knows inStinctively
when the "last word" of a love
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

going to hang
any? Times
too h.a rd?
D MT feel
ke Christ
mas?
Yes, I know.
Lots of us
are f e e ii n g
that way, and
there's plenty
reason for it.
B u t never
h as .ther re
been a time
in his tory
when the old
world needed
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

favors the revival Of the war
debts commission, he re-
piled:
II do not. It can have but
one result, and that is a
further reduction Of the
amounts due the United
States. Nobody suggests
that we shall review those
debts with a view to finding
an increased capacity to pay
on the part of any debtor"
Thus he says that the
manifest purpose in reviving
the war debts commission is
to scale down the debts and
transfer the amount "for-
given" to the backs Of the
taxpayers of the United
States.
And who asks the revival?
President Hoover.
Thus by indirection, but
none the less clearly, he says
that the Presidents proposal
about the revival of the com
mission is a "piece of out
rageous effrontery."
Much More
Involved
To old : fashioned Ameri-
cans there is much more in
volved in the manifest plan
of the Administration than
the loss of billions to the
American people to be made
up by the taxation of the
American people by billions
to pay the debts Of other ma
tions. This is wicked enough
in view of our condition,
with our economic collapse,
with our enormous deficit in
the Treasury, with the ap-
palling increases in taxation
to meet this deficit. But
there is a more serious theory
of Government involved. Are
private interests, in a hole,
to be permitted to use the
instrumentalities Of Govern
ment to save their invest
ments without the loss of a
penny to themselves by going
into the pockets of al! the
American people by law? Is
the American Government a
subordinate agency Of High
Finance? Or it's property
Through no fault of their
own, there are almost seven
million breadwinners out OF
work and in need; but the
Government can do nothing
for them. There are many
millions of women and chill
dren without enough to eat
or wear, but the Govern
ment cannot go into the
Treasury for them.
To take money from the
pockets of all the people, by
way of the Treasury, for
these victims of an economic
collapse for which they are
not responsible, is denounced
with deep feeling as a
"vicious dole. "
Many are wondering by
what sophistry it becomes a
beneficent dole to go into
the pockets of the people to
the tune of billions to make
good the investments for
handsome profit of the in
ternational bankers.
The Washington times., 1931-12-19

Hang a Wreath!
Hung your Christmas wreaths
yet? ..
What's that you say? Not
The Washington times., 1931-12-19
And Who Asks
The Revival?

True it is that Senator
Reed does not accuse the
President of outrageous ef-
frontery" in words; but he
does by implication. For
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
FOR GOV. HARTLEY AT LAST.

For once at least we are for Gov. Hartley and for him strong His refusal to extradite Ma" Ken nedy's "What-a-Man' for bigamy appropriate. Why should the State of Washington mix up in one of Cafornias noisome messes? "What-a-Man' and Ma" had become unmarried before the bigamy charge against the former had been filed at Kelso anyhow so about all that could result from a trial would be a lot of notoriety such as has meant coin of the realm to Ma" Aimee and their outfit Neither of the principals is likely to live in the State of Washington, let California care for her own. Gov Hartley right.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
THE WORLD IS PROGRESSING.

Another evidence that the world is progressing is the broader attitude of statesmen and news papers in questions of nationality. The day when ones patriotism questioned if he did not pro- claim loudly and constantly that his country was peared
 Think of the scorching that Premier Macdonald would have received from the press of his country, if conditions had been they were few decades ago, when he declared in a speech at the Fourth of July American Society Dinner in London that the United States lis the greatest Nation that now exists on the face of the earth'
 Instead of being rebuked for "disloyalty" those papers which commented upon the statement at all approved it.
 The very fact that it is true makes it absolutely the duty of the United States to take the lead in world cooperation for the benefit of the peoples of the earth There time when that duty was Englands and right well she performed it most of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
ANOTHER GREAT ACHIEVEMENT.

They are doing great and important things with airplanes these days. That nonstop flight from New York to Istanbul in 49 hours and 20 minutes was a mighty achievement and one that was worth while from a practical standpoint speed exceed ing 100 miles hour sustained for more than two days over ocean and mountains through fog and sunshine days and nights, is breath-taking. It not only means that two more men with intelligence, energy and nerve take their places with the grow ing band of air heroes, but it means very prac- tca demonstration of the supreme efficiency to which the airplane has been developed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
RED|NCTON ON
 WAY HERE FOR
 } DAYS VISIT
Chief of Biological Survey Will Arrive on Aleu-
 tan Next Monday

Paul Redington, Chief of the United States Biological Survey left Seward today for Juneau on the steamer Aleutian and will ar- rive next Monday, according to ad- vices received at local headquar- ters of the Alaska Game Commis- sion. He is expected to remain here about three days.
 MT. Redington has been accom- panying members of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Conser- vation on a survey of conditions in southwestern and interior Alas ka. He left the party after it reached the interior. returning to Seward to take the Aleutian The remainder of the group will return via Valdez where it will re-embark on the Fisheries vessel Penguin and come back here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
Misplaced Adiectives.
(Wrangell Sentinel )

A folder advertising the Seattle University Com mercial Club Alaska excursion said in listing the delights of the trip: Approximately nine days 2350 miles of delightful voyaging placid inland seas Seattle to Skagway, with frequent visits to quaint and interesting cities including Ketchikan Peterburg, Juneau and a 350-mile side-trip to picturesque and romantic Stka."
 The copy writer, or some one, misplaced a few adjectives. Ketchikan, Petersburg and Juneau may be quaint but Wrangell disclaims the description and prefers plain, unadorned interesting" Just why Sitka is accorded all the romance is rather difficult to understand If Sitka has any more romance floating around than Wrangell, she is travelling at a rather speedy gait for a small town
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

the time during the days of Victoria and Edward. The immediate improvement in the situation when President Hoover proposed the moratorium is the evidence that the United States holds the key position
 It ought to be gratifying to the admirers of President Wilson that the American people are giving such unanimous support to President Hoovers helpfulness toward the world. They have not shown such unanimity of sentiment in behalf of mankind since the of the organized effort to de- popularize President Wilson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
Irony.
(New York World Telegram


 After six years of costly litigation Albert B. Fall bows to the inevitable agreeing to extra day in order that he may be committed to the jail at Santa Fe N. M.
 There is irony in the fact that he helped to build this very jail There is also irony in the fact that while he was convicted of having taken a bribe from Edward L. Doheny, the latter was found innocent of having given him one. Just try to explain that to some kid if you want to find out how funny it really is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
No Shadow Before.
(NeW York Times.) )

The veteran French diplomatist, M. Paleologue, has been publishing exeracts from his diary for 1905 In that year Alfonso of Spain made his first visit to Paris after becoming King and en- thusiastically rceved In the prepared for him gathered together many historic relics, among them bronze inkstand which had been used by Napoleon. In this Alfonso particularly in terested. The French Foreign Minister urged him to dip pen in it and write, but the Spanish Minister to France Sotomayor, accompanying the King, said "Yes, your Majesty, dip your pen in it and write much as you please provided you never sign an abdication"
 Whether Napoleon signed his from that particular inkstand is not known; but it certainly cast a shadow upon a coming event, in Madrid this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

One record no one seems to be hankering fo is that first round trip to Europe The trans oceanic aviators all come back by boat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

The horse thieves of the West are having a tough time; they can't find any horses.-(Cincn- natl Enquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

Probably the change in sentiment toward Uncle Sam in Europe is only human, after all As soon as they find they stand him up they stand up for him-(Bosto Herald)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

A new bridge across the Mis- sissippi River at New Orleans will require 60,000 tons of steel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

For plain people, the advice is to save some thing for a rainy day. For Kings it should be: Save something for the day when the reign stops. -(St. Louis Globe -Democrat)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

George Bernard Shaw shays he would be foo to talk about Europe's financial mess. Don't dc 1t G. B. S. Plenty of fools doing it every day
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

South America must have her revolutions Last year there Peru Bolivia, Argentine Brazil and a few others Now comes Chile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

If ever the busy bee feels like shirker it must be while watching how busy idle be. -(Cincnnati Enquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31
OFFICE MOVED TO
 BLOMGREN BUILDING

Drs. Kaser & Freeburger have moved their offices from the Gold stein Building to the second floor of the Blomgren Building. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

Disarmament next. Cheer up, MT. Hoover the worst is yet to come!-(Boston Transcript
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

Kaye Don tabove), British sports man, broke his own worlds speed boat record at Gardone, on the Riviera, by piloting the Miss Eng land II at 110.223 miles an hour. Don set the previous record at lO3.49 miles an hour while in the
 Argentine earlier this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-31

The per capita debt of Mississip- pi in 1930 was $11.86.