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The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Hungry Children In District
Public Schools
Humiating Indictment of This Citys Humantarianism

The beres humiatng indictment yet made against
this city contained in the admission Of
Frank W. Balou the Board of Education that
hungry children public schools fed by their teachers
Dr. Balou admits the seriousness of the situation and
recommends relief measures.
Here is condition that has long prevailed in public
schools all public schools of all large Cities in fact but in
the proper relief have been taken Washing
has done absolutely nothing organized Teachers
may God bless them have done their part best they could
In the schools attended by poorer children upon
the finances of teachers considerable In spite of ALL
however MANY HUNGRY CHILDREN in schools not
fed Many of them the day in their classes without
food of any kind end the day sick and hungry and
their homes to find little sustenance.
Is this to go in the great and wealthy city of
Washington? Is it possible for hungry little
study, to be healthy and normal? Any student of
child research DN instantly portray the dangers
and in the future.
There be organized permanent relief not just tenn
porary alienation of sad, inhuman conditions.
Our Parent Teacher organizations may quickly act but the
duty of regularly caring for these little with Congress-
through District legislation and appropriations
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

RODlnSOn--
"Temperance"-there's a glor-
ious ideal, none greater for any
nation. But what intemperance
we have committed for the sake
of temperanCe-WhatSa Savagery
for the sake of Sobriety!
Your idealS"-you think
lot of them. You expect others
to think lot of them. You
feel that, with such ideals. God
should hand you out special IA
vors and your fellow men should
get busy with rewards. And
when God doesn't notice you
and your fellowman refuses to
take you seriously-how mad
you get!
Whats the use of having
beautiful, noble idealS?" you
cry. whats the use of trying
to make life better and finer
of standing on the right side"
How Do You Stand?
But are you standing on the
right side? Or are you just
standing on the side that best
suits your laziness and vanity
and timidity? Your fanaticism
your intolerance and selfish
ness?
Can you hold your ideals too
high? Not if they're real ideals.
A great ideal is worth any fight
you may have to wage for it.
Men have died on crosses for
their ideals, women have been
burned at stakes, and considered
it a good bargain. 1t was.
But how can you know if
yours are great ideals?
BY their effect on life. Do
they broaden your life-make it
braver, buster, kinder, deeper?
Then they're greater ideals.
But if, instead, they narrow life
if you never get ahead, with
all your fine dreaming-if you
live in smaller, Sourer circles
then they're bad ideals. And
you'd better junk them.
(Copyright. 1891, King Feature Syndi'
cate InC.)
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Diplomatic "WetneSS" Here

Senator Howell has described Washington as decidedly
wet city with poor prohibition enforcement but he might
have added that from statements he made the Senate
this city heads all others in excellent brands of liquors
The Nebraska Senator found that diplomat Washing
ington received $4,000 quarts of foreign whiske in
diplomats and diplomatic attaches the total might
been most formidable.
Thus apparent that American statesmen and Washing
Ton citizens who enjoy close personal and social relations with
here of the foreign greatly favored
and need have no fear of poisonous BOOZE
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Characterization Affair

Maybe Caraway Cramton affair ending without pug
nacous exhibitions activities.
Washington doesn't get excited about the unpara
nenary of statesmen Our people know that there
seldom personal encounters. The Objectionable gas
usually sprayed from safe distances.
Down in Arkansas though many Ozark hill billes and
Mississippi River hot heads have doubtless been expecting
read that Caraway tried to give Cramon threshng Nothing
less will their views what should follow wher
gentleman calls another "a plain and unadulterated
expounder of what is not the truth,
Out in Michigan to call liar would mean little
wouldn't be shifted rule The of adiec
tves in front of the would not give additional incense
On the other hand this redundancy would add fuel to the
insult in Arkansas
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Am I holding my ideals too
high?" she writes, detailing her
many disappointments.
That depends on the ideals.
Are they worth holding at all?
Many ideals aren't.
The fact that we call a GER
tain desire or attitude an
ideal" doesn't guarantee its
value.
Ideals may be based on ever
lasting truth-or they may be
just a. cover-up for our Stiffness
and selfiShness.
It's amazing how the human
animal can rationalize his own
cusSedneSS.
Cowardice-there's a horrid
charge. No one wants to face
it. But call it prudence
then it's quite another story.
Forthwith we're provided with
the perfect alibi for all our
lodging and ducking of risk
ana realty.
Conceit. There's another vice
that no one wants to harbor-
openly. But you can get by
with murder and hog prac-
tically all the spotlight if you'll
call it "sensitiveneSS."
CamOuflage of Love
Love-charity, at her slickest,
never erred one one-hun-
dredth part of the multitude
of sins" that love Camouflages.
What meddling and mean
ness
What spinelessness and slop-
pinesS-
What bullying and complain
ing
And the countless crimes that
are perpetrated as a pretext
for seeking beauty and truth
and serving law and order. The
pettiness, the laZineSS, the
brutality. the stupidity, the Silli-.
ness that maSqueradeS under
those noble names.
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glorious courage and for his Fathrand directs
Germany President of the German Republic place of the
exiled German Kaiser.
AND Won HINDENBURG IS "a YEARS OLD
For the brain there is no ''age limitation"
Goethe the second part of Faust when he To-
The greatest in the big old men, Cemenceau
died far past go He and Lloyd George the defeating
the young Kaiser and his young officers
1t isn't how old you but how old you permit yourself to
FEEL that counts.
These two pictures prove it to you.
The picture of Won Hndenburg taken he reviewed
the German troops celebrating the anniversary of the procama
ton of the German Empire.
That empire you know proclaimed after the War OF
1870 with France the Palace Versailles the palace
which little than so years later the defeat OF Ger
and the restoration of Asace and Lorraine and other
provisions of the treaty of them dangerously un
wise and impossible, proclaimed.
few years make great difference the history Of nations
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
"Coddling" of Worlo
War Veterans

"Coddllng' OF Worlu
War Veterans
Editor, Times:
Replying to the veterans Of
two wars, in regard to the
present "Coddling of the World
War Veterans" in the Wash
ington press or the press of
any city of the United States.
The writer preSumeS that
this veteran is veteran of the
Spanish-American as we'll as
the World War. if that is the
case I wish to inform him that
the World War veterans stand
squarely behind the veterans OF
any war and any honorably
discharged enlisted man of the
United States armed FORCES Of
any date.
That The Veterans Political
Association of America" with
national headquarters in De
troit, Mich, and other World
War veterans organizations of
Michigan supported and en-
dorsed that policy of the
Veterans. and that Mr.. Green
of Michigan, in his successful at
tempt to secure a pension for
the SpaniSh-American War
Veterans recognized this moral
support at that time. Further,
the World War veteran is not
politically or economically mar
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Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times
By Harding

in regard to the deplorable
conditions of the Veterans
Bureau and the veterans hos
pitals that they will bring this
information to my attention,
WALLACE J. HOWELLS,
President,
Veterans Political Association
of America.
Plant of a Requested"
Service Man
Editor, Times:
The next time I am called
by my country to come to
arms in defense of millionaires
I shall refuse, saying:
l. can not go as to leave
my job would cause ruin OF
the financial structure" of my
bank account.
2. My income being diScon-
tinued by virtue of the fact of
my being in the service would
cause depreciation in the
value of my personal bond"
8. consider it "unsound" to
leave a job paying $50 per week
for one paying $50 per month.
4. Last but not least, I look
with "disfavor" upon being
bathed in mud or drilled with
bullets as the cost of food,
shells and guns will reduce the
holdings" of the wealthy.
A REQUESTED VETERAN.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
The Marry-GO-ROund
By Helen Rowland

Mrs. Solomon Says
Consider, my Daughter. the
way of the heart of a woman
and the way of the heart
Of a man.
For 10, each is an organ
but, oh, the difference in the
tunes which love playetth.
thereon!
Behold, when a damSel first
meeteth a man. she saith in
her heart. Il wonder if he will
find me pleasing"
Buth a man saith: L won
der if I shall find her anus,
ing!"
A woman remembereth every
look in a mans eyes and every
word of his lips. But a man
remembereth only the emotions
wherewith a woman's eyes have
inspired him.
A woman plucketh the leaves
from daisy to discover
if she is loved or not. But a
man plucketh the leaves from
a daisy to ditcoI whether or
not he is in love.
A CamSel carryeth a mans
letter next to her heart by day,
placeth it under her pillow by
night, and answereth it with
Joy.
But d man droppeth a Wom-
The Washington times., 1931-02-07

ans letter in his pocket. for
getteth it's existence, until he
hangeth his coat, and an
swereth it with pain and
groaningS.
A woman lieth awake and
dreameth for hours of last
mig hit s kiss-but a man
dreameth only of tomorrow
nights kiss.
A woman saith: Il love thee
perhaps, and she meaneth:
Il adore thee"
But when a man saith: L
adore thee" he meaneth: II
love thee a little-perhaps."
When love endeth. a woman
sigheth: Alas, I am blighted
and sick at heart!" But a man
saith, Thank heaven. I am
CURED"
A woman presseth a dead
love away. as a flower, in the
book of her memory. But a
man burieth his dead loves
deep. and hasteneth to plant
fresh flowers upon their graves.
In a woman's heart there is
somewhere a secret shrine for
every man whom she hath
loved. and cozy-corner for
every man who hath loved her.
SELAH.
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
ONCE-OVERS
You Are Fortunate, Too

You Are Fortunate, Too
You enjoy summer sports in
the north country but cannot
go South to continue your fa-
vorite pastimeS when the
weather is too cold at home.
Instead of feeling happy that
certain friends can get away
even if you can't, you let green
eyed envy visit you and you
feel sore about it.
You listen to thoughts which
say that it is unfair that you
cannot do as some of your
friends are doing and you think
favorS in this world are not
evenly enough distributed.
Your two weeks of vacation
sinks to insignificance when
you think of how many weeks
and even months some of your
friends can take from work for
play.
You give not a thought to
the many late afternoons from
the early spring days until late
in the fall, when you can and
do play golf or drive.
There are plenty of persons
who cannot get off any day.
You can follow your inclina-
tions a little every day, you are
in good health and as a family
you are counted prosperous, if
not one of the idle rich.
You have no Just cause to
complain and ungratefulness
plus envy are the two little
demons that you are allowing
to spoil an otherwise happy
life.
Give consideration to some of
your good fortune, much more
than many persons are able to
enjoy.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07

rank and file of the veterans
of any war to get the true
facts of their position or of
actual conditions in the Ameri-
can press because of its abso-
lutte control by the real dicta-
tors of the nation in Wall
Street.
The veterans of the World
War sincerely trust and hope
that if there is any veteran
of any war has any additional
information that is authentic
The Washington times., 1931-02-07

row in his views and thoughts
for the well-being of the Ameri-
can farmer and the American
working class of citizens, rep
resenting both the salaried
worker and the daily wage
Garner.
The statement that the vet
eran is coddled in the Ameri-
can press is made without the
actual information of the vet
eran. because the facts are that
it is an impoSSibility for the
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
WISE MEN

Multitudes think they like
to do evil; yet no man ever
really enjoyed doing evil since
God made the world.
-RuSkin.
We are nearer loving those
who hate us than those who
love us more than we like.
La Rochefoucauld.
Good humor only teaches
charms to last.
Still makes new ConquestS anc
maintains the past.
Pope.
There is nothing truly valu-
able which can be purchased
without pain and labor.
Addison.
But, on the whole, genius is
ever a secret to itself"
p-Carlyle.
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. Honest friendship Dth all entdn0tn0 alliances
NTH George Washington
2 Proportional representation the United States Senate
to Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional redpporonment the House OF
Representatives
Separate departments Army the NdUy and OF tue
united under Secretary OF National Defense
Federal action to the limit OF powerS abolish
LHerdcy under Secretary OF Education
President the first OF January touoD
ing the November election
to admit only those suited for Aert
citizenship and American needs
Deportation aliens and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 years.
g. Complete publicity for big tar
dodgers from escaping TAXATION
Modification the VoLSte1d act to permit light DtneS and
beers under Federal regulation
The Washington times., 1931-02-07

Plants like men, differ The cabbage is old in few weeks
An oak tree at that age has hardly started.
The average 20 knows about much he will
know and deerorate mentally and physically from that time
until he leaves this world for other.
real either of the that you here for instance
improves with age does the oak tree
These pictures rebuke to many Americans that talk
about being old so CO. At so mans best years should
begin-a go the best Is years should be ahead of him
After carrying the load of the his shoulders from
start to finish first supplying money, then ammunition then
the policy that Lloyd George photographed here his
xtyeghh birthday full of energy optimism and
he
And old Won Hndenburg after fighting in the with
The Washington times., 1931-02-07
Answers Taxpayer Who
Hit Pupils Carefare Cut
Editor, Times

EUILOT, I IWLBS.
The question is what will we
do with a heavy taxpayer who
protests reduced fares for
pupils? Certainly you can't
give him the consideration
that is accorded citizens Of this
country. 1t might be we'll to
have an investigator or a COM
mittee call on this heavy tax
payer he does claim citizen
ship. and inStill a small
amount of Americanism in his
system so that our children may
not Inconvenience him.
B. M. MANLEY.
The daily worker., 1931-03-14
LITTLE FROG AND HIS BROTHER

The short-growing Cantonese, with
the Koumintang star, and the North
erners, with their bony cheeks, under
the five colored insignia, are equally
disliked and hated. Armed with
knives and single-b bullet rifles, they
think that they will be able to defend
the outlying districts aobut their viii
lagos from the fighting war lords,
who have for the past fifteen years
turned these fields into a wailing
cemetery.
There was a time when these fields
were known as the Flower Center"
for their fruitfulness and richness.
Victims Of dissension and ignorance,
the peasants not only are not in a
position to defend their homes, but
they are constantly exploited by the
various rnilitaristS. Now, the local
officers are plundering them and
maintain an unbalanced fight with
the Koumintang forces. Tomorrow
it viii be the Kou1nintang forces who
will use them against the forces of
the local general Awaiting the COM
ing of their mystic deliberator from
the Kuenlen Mountains, the peasants
at the same time are blazing the fire
against all war lords. AS an act of
gratitude, the war lords are slaugh-
tering the workers and peasants by
the thousands before. vacating, and
burn their homes and villages. What
shall the oppressed people do? Who
will teach them to forget the sup
posed deliberator, Kuen-lun, and look
for leadership at the railroad work
ers' club tthe Sian-yan station?
Early in the morning the peasants
from the surrounding villages quickly
gathered about our train. We has
tened to go through with the meeting
in order to utilize the cooling breeze
of the young day. Observing the
faces of the listeners at the time of
the speeches I noticed nothing ex-
cept distrust, fatigue and eagerness.
A penetrating wall separated us.
On one side were we-people from
the city where the nobility lives,
from where the armies and foreign
merchandise comes; on the other
side-they, drops in the great ocean
of peasant poverty and slavery. An
unseen city wall separated us from
the constant inflow of peasant bill
lows. Speeches were feeble means
with which to fight their fanaticism.
And at that moment we all saw a
group of peasants carrying stretcher
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

called him, whom the Bureau of the
Young Pioneers at Hankow had sent
with us for propaganda purposes
among the workers children, said to
me:
THE train will stay here whole
night. I am going to the village and
shall return as soon as it is dawn"
I asked him not to be late. A
meeting had to be held at the sta
ton tomorrow morning and wanted
Ii to speak for the youth.
Yesterday, when our Agit-prop
Train had stood at the Sian-yan
station, the Little Freq" led me to
the club of the railroad workers,
which had its quarters in a dark
bamboo barn in the back Of the sta
ton buildings. The club had one
room and small courtyard. In the
interior there were long benches
which were placed along the walls.
The entire front wall Of the room
was hung with pictures Of workers
who were slain in February, 1923, by
| the Nationalist officers at the time
OF the railroad strike. The faces of
these martyrs, penetrative, passion
ate, looked down from the SCOT
covered pictures.
In this Pa-theon Of the first fight
ers Of the workers revolution in
China Little Frog" pointed out the
picture Of his father-a man of about
Is years Of age, in the clothes of a
machinist, and in a hat with broad
brinls, lowered on his nape. with a
concentrated gaze on his motionless,
hardened face. He was killed at the
moment when he made an attempt
to steam away the locomitive in
which the arrested strike leaders
we're to be carried off. The mur-
derer, an army officer, afterwards
came to the house Of the worker to
make search. He said to Little
Frog:
your father was bandit. The
same fate awaits you If you will go
In his footsteps, then there shall be
no one to care for the souls of your
ancestors"
At that time "Little Frog" was but
II years old, but he had sense enough
70 answer: II will make all efforts
% fulfill the duty of Thou Shall
Honor Thy Father"
'Little Frog" told me that the chill
lren Of the fifty slain workers were
tudying in the propaganda school at
he san-yan railroad station. which
,ad been built BY the contributions
Of the Union Of Railroad Wori
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

/ His older brother, Lii had completed
the course and was now working on
the railroad
1--WE are all Communists. The
Kolmingtan is for merchants anc
officers. The Party of Lenin is fol
us, and he showed me his Young
Workers League emblem, which he
had hidden in the folds of his shirt
The later hours of the day I de-
voted to the preparations of tomor-
rows meeting. 1t was necessary to
| inform the peasants of the nearby
villages, arrange speakers, issue a
leaflet in TIE train printing shop
In the cTcailg two railroad workers
arrived on a cart and told us that
in the Ma-chan region the situation
was an uneasy one-the Red parti-
sans have destroyed the Bureau of
the Opium Trust, and there are ru-
mors that they are preparing to cut
off the railroads.
At night, when we stood on side
way, a train of soldiers passed by
near u.s. The atmosphere was stiff
ling, as if before storm, and could
not fall asleep in the car because
of the glowing iron roof which wgs
heated during the day by the merctA
less rays of the sun.
The tenseness grew. All this time
the telegraph operator in his vacant
room constantly received alarming
dispatches from the line which hi
transmitted to Hankow On the
station, soldiers in ragged uniforms
hastily gathered their belongings and
headed northward along the railroad
tracks. The station was deserted
The resounding steps of the patroling
soldiers echoed in the nightly silence
like the knelling of clock which in
dicates the approaching of the in
evitable.
walked along the grayeled rail
tracks and looked upon the stars
which shone in the cloudless black
sky. Never before did I feel SO much
depressed as I felt today.
What shall the millions Of pool
people do? What shall they do? Ar
unendless row of hundreds of years
of slavery and poverty lies like &
heavy burden on their bent backs
Here, in the north of Hupeh and
Honan, they rest their hopes in the
Red partisar.s. They, the peasants
are against all armies. no matter
where they come from and no mat
ter what's written On their banners
The daily worker., 1931-03-14

comrade, Ii, with a bloody rag on his
head, was lying on the stretcher,
pale and motionless. His sunken
eyes were closed and his jawbones
were convlusively pressed together
Enraged and depressed. the old man,
with a sharp voice shouting short
phrases, called to the masses:
Brothers. we are red partisans of
the Ma chan unit. The young Com
rade Ii came to us last night to tell
us about the workers in the cities.
When we were about to say our pray
er "The great teacher of the Kuen-
lun Mountains" he saw our instruc-
tor, Hu-an, and said: "ThiS man
killed my father four yeasr ago. I
took an oath to fulfil the duty of
Honor Thy Father. Your teacher, I"
he said, brings you teachings not
from the Kuen-lun Mountains, but
from military generals headquarters.
He is an officer and his hands are
soaked in the blood Of our fathers"
Before he had time to finish, Hu-an
drew his pistol and right here in the
place of worship he shot him. Then
l said to myself: IF this boy was
telling the truth, this man deserves
to be shot; and if this bay was not
telling the truth, death cannot have
any power over our teacher, because
he confirms with all the customs and
for him rifles and bullets are not
frightful. The body Of q true red
partisan is protected against death.
And I drew my pistol and fired all
the bullets Of my revolver into his
head and chest. He died like dog
On his chest we found command
from his general staff full Of hatred
and devilish cunningness towards us
Then we decided to bring here the
body of this boy, Ii, and ask you:
Where shall we draw from the pond
Of your teachings the knowledge and
shrewdness which shall lead us te
victory?"
noticed that from the first rows
Of the masses, which stood breath
less and very close like frightened
ring, young worker pressing for
ward and exclaiming:
I'm the club Of the railroad work.
ers, at the Sian-yan stationl"
Tears were choking him. Restrain
Ing himself and trembling, he again
cut through the early morning silence
with a sobbing yell:
cat the rail workers Of Sian-yan,' -
and threw himself on the stretcher
He was Lis older brother.