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The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Merger of Metropolitan and
Park Police Forces

In no other American city is there such thing two
separate city police forces yet Washington has two distinct
organizations giving the renewal of controversy in
Congress the wisdom of combining them under the Dis
trict superintendent of police.
This merger proposition will up in Congress in the
future will often be the subject of differences Of official
and unofficial opinion.
The Metropolitan Police Department has head Major
Pratt park police another the superintendent of public
buildings and public parks Lieut. Col u Grant Sd holds
that position
The taxpayers of Washington pay the salaries and retire
annues of the park policemen but official of the
Washington city has the slightest supervision
control them They solely responsible to Colonel
Grant and his subordnates In of emergencies in the
affairs of the force under Major Pratt the park policemen
cannot be used Whatever cooperation there between the
two forces is through agreements.
Under American principles Of government officials paid by
taxpayers under the representatives Of the taxpayers
Public parks here do not belong to the District which has
paid for most of the lands The United States title
park lands and then they under the control of Colonel
Grants office Being wholly under Federal Jurisdiction
though paid for by District people, the claim logical
they should be poced under the powers There might
be conflict if policed by city policemen.
That anomalous situation would not be understood anywhere
than in Washington Neither would the curious fact that the
Washington Zoo maintained from paid by Washington
taxpayers but is under the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
District officials have do with than they do with
the White House.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
HardbOiled
But Effective.

Customs differ in different countries
T. Mardy Jones' labor member of British Parliament
went from London Wales while help arbrate coal
strike He travelled official railroad pass him
in his parliamentary capacity and nontransferae Then he
found that he needed important document from London
Not wishing the mails he wife bring
to him and houghessy nclosed his pass for her
She used it.
pit boy in the mines honored position He worked his
way through Oxford became authority industrial prob
ems member of the Royal Society of Economists and
has been important figure in Parliament since 1922
But the inexorab British law steps Jones has been
fined forced quit Parliament and the which he has
built up carefully and laboriously is in ruins.
Over here, is unlikely that Mr. Jones would have been
hurt much by his little slip We less squeamish
goodnatured than the Eng gish matters of this kind.
Good nature is fine quality but expensive when allowed to
defeat justice The British not willing pay the price
We, however, usually
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Communism And
Big Business

Editor, Times:
Ed Howe says, "A man able to
think and eat sensibly is a very
great wonder" Few persons ar
rive at the judgments they make
by careful reasoning or by a
study of facts bearing on the
subject. But they seem as posi-
tive as though they had a real
basis for their conclusions.
Our so-called public servants
too often serve selfish personal
or corporation interests. But
they are allowed to hold offices
of public trust because the ma
jority of voters either are in
different as to the character of
their public servants or ig-
norant of the principles under
lying the issues involved. There
are notable and able men who
do think and coordinate their
ideas before giving expression to
them. And long before the
crash" in stocks came, con.
servative business men pointed
out repeatedly the impending
disaster. But the majority
neither read nor think about
serious problems nor seek to
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

suming our own smoke. But
once give us a broken heart
and how our condition alters!
Everyone pities the broken
hearted. Everyone listens to
them. No one criticiSes them
or demands too much of them.
Nine out of ten of us, take ad-
vantage of this fact.
We coddle our broken hearts
as though they were something
unique in human history. We
grow as conceited over them as
We do over our small hands, our
new automobile or our football
record. We Wallow in tears as
drunkardS WalloW in booze. We
use them as an eXcuse\ for our
cowardice and lazineSS. We use
them as an escape from reSpon-
sibility. And who dareS call us
for it? No one.
I know. I've done it. That's
why I get so mad when I talk
about it.
A WaStefuI Habit
"The temptation to sorrow
the slyest and most wasteful of
all human habits.
Sorrow in itself-no one can
evade that. And it's we'll that
we can't. For suffering is
normal accompaniment of
growth and all growing souls
must experience it. Take suf-
fering as a growth-allow it to
lead you on into wider, braver
adVentures-and suffering be-
comes a great experience. But
make a qualification of suffer
ing and it becomes a vice.
We've no more right to wal
low ip grief than we have to
wallow in booze or drugs or
any other form of personal indul-
gence. No pain, however poig-
nant, is an excuse for dodging
life. Broken-hearted people who
drop out of the ranks and bat.
ten, thereafter, on sympathy
and tears, aren't martyrs.
They're moocherS.
'The temptation to sorrow
Look out for it! Dare to live.
Dare to be hurt. But don't let
hurt become a habit.
(Copyright 1891. King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
ONCE-OVERS
The Unpopular Borrower

The Unpopular Borrower
The person who asks too
many favors finds himself in
disfavor.
Perhaps you are this sort and
a borrower of money in small
sums.
You think a loan should not
be refused because you intend to
repay.
But do you pay back what
you owe?
Those who borrow in small
sums soon forget about it.
Then it is embarrassing to
have to ask the return of a
small amount.
Rather than request the bor-
rover to pay debt it seems
easier to lose the money.
In order to save money you
may deposit your wages too
closely.
Then when unusual demands
come your ,pocketbook goes flat
and you borrow enough from a
friend to carry you over till next
pay day.
Generally people dislike to
lend money and some show this
plainly.
The majority budget and live
so close to their allowance that
it leaves very little to play on
each week.
Making loans to another in
terferes with plans and self
denial is imposed that is un-
pleasant.
The frequent borrower is un-
popular in any establishment.
Usually, if he were as careful
with his money as those from
whom he borrows he would not
have to ask such fayorss
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland

a single thrill of hope-or
memory.
There be these three-Fate, a
lover and a paWnbroker-who,
having found the least you will
accept, will offer you just a
little bit less. Moral: Never
put yourself on the bargain
counter.
People wonder why contented
wives waste their money on
fortune tellers. But, dear me,
after a few years of marriage
it is worth almost any price to
have somebody talk to you
about YOURSELF for whole
hour.
In a mans opinion, every
girl should regard marriage as
a matter of blind luck, a hus-
band as a gift from heaven
and spinsterhood as her own
fault.
The lips of a sweetheart may
babble inanities and still be
worth kissing; but the lips of a
wife must be listened to all the
rest of your life.
Copyright, 1881, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

The enemy of knowledge was
thus Technology. To read a
treatise on mathematics, phys.
les, biology, chemistry was like
reading Greek or Sanscrit or
Chinese. It was necessary to
learn the language of science,
the strange new vocabularies,
the weird words which some
times used more letters than
are to be found in the alphabet.
Bridging the Gap
A new type of educator. the
liaiSon officer between scholar
ship and ignorance, made his
appea ran ce. SloSSon and
Kaempffert reached their mil
lions through the columns Of
the daily press and the popular
magazines. Distinguished sci.
entists, Eddington and Jeans,
Soddy and Millikan, Russell
and Shapley. wrote books of
great brilliancy and lucidity,
smoothing the rocky pathway of
science and attempting to lead
the public in the way it should
go.
James Harvey Robinson, Will
Durant, H. G.. Wells, Sir Arthur
Thomson, for example, who felt
deeply the loss of contact be.
tween knowledge and the
masses, sought to bridge over
the gap. Outlines, popular ac-
counts, stories, and histories of
various branches of knowledge,
came into being and were strik-
ingly successful.
These works have served a
highly useful purpose. And
there is no reason to believe
that such books will be dis
continued in the near future. It
must never be forgotten that
there is no royal road to
learning"
To permit other people to
think for you is not the same
thing as thinking for yourself.
No one can do your own re-
search for you; only you can do
that. But outlines convey
much information in brief COM
pass. They spare the reader
the necessity for immensely
wide reading of a desultory
sort. And they stimulate vitally
the desire for the acquisition Of
knowledge,
(CopyriEht 1881. 1ntsrnationaa
Features Service, Ina-1
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
The 'OutIine' Movement
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., DEL, LID.
Famous Scientific Authority

An interesting controversy,
full of high lights and deep
shadows, has recently been
provoked by the contemporary
movement for aiding the aver
age man and woman in the
search for knowledge. The
movement really began some
three-quarters of a century ago,
when Huxley crusaded so vigor-
ouSly and eloquently in behalf
of Darwin's theory of evolution.
During very recent years, the
movement has taken on new
impetus, largely as the result
of the enormous increase in
the technology and Technology
of knowledge.
The bounds of knowledge
have increased almost unbeliev.
ably during the past century.
The specialist has taken the
field in cohorts; and the man
in the street finds himself dizzy
and confused in the effort to
understand what it is all
about. The specialist has been
wittily defined as one who
knows more and more about
less and less"
The Great Chasm
AS the technical vocabulary
of science. for example, be-
comes more and more uninte[
ligible to the average man, a
great gap begins to yawn be-
tween life and knowledge, be-
tween the everyday world and
the world of scholarship.
Many teachers, especially
professors in universities, real
lied the gravity of the situa-
ton. But little was done to
remedy it. knowledge was be-
coming once more, as 1t had
been in the times Of the middle
ages, the recondite possession
of a monkiSh caste. Scholars
were becoming more and more
divorced from life.
Thought vas delegated more
and more to this monkiSh
caste, the scholarly Brahmins
of the universities and the re-
search laboratories. The public
was rapidly degenerating into
a vast class of ignorant low
brows, who, sc far as intensive
thinking was concerned, were
quite willing to "let George do
it."
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

TemptationS-you've known
plenty of them, haven't you?
The first of every year you
swear you'll put them all be-
hind you. And, before the
week is up, they're plucking at
you again.
The temptation to lose your
temper. to loaf, to lie, to gos-
sip, to nag, miserable habits,
how they waste your life. You
know it. But there's another
tempetation-the commonest of
all and the most wasteful-
yet you rarely recognize its
danger. Krishnamurti, the
young Indian mystic, has a
phrase for it.
The temptation to sorrow"
Corrow. a temptation? Sor-
row, a sin?
"It can't be-" you say. "Sor-
rows sacred. Sorrow is a
cross God has given us to
bear"
Is it? Honestly, now-think
it over. How much has God
had to do with most of your
sorrow or my sorrow? Was
it a cross made in heaven
or was it a plaster we manu-
factured through our own Gus
SednesS and hung on our own
necks?
Should We Give In?
And even when sorrow isn't
of our own making-even when
it comes as a blow in the dark,
breaking our hearts-should we
surrender to it? Should we
allow it to tempt us from the
ways of healthy living?
Most of us do allow sorrow to
tempt us. Our sorrow. that at
first was natura' and rea-
sonable pain. 500 becomes
an indulgence, an alibi, an
escape. Of course, we don't
admit. even to ourselves, that
we are using sorrow for such
selfish ends. We honestly
think we can't help grieving.
But all the time. through that
grief. we're ducking life and
gratifying our conceit.
Normally, we'd have to grub
along without much attention
or special consideration, con,
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
WISE MEN

He was never less at leisure,
he was never less alone, than
when alone. Cicero.
A benefit loses its grace in
being too much published.
-Corneille.
Temperance and industry are
the two real physicians of man
kind. Rousseau.
Friendship can smooth the
front of rude despair.
Cambridge.
Political changes should never
be made save after overcoming
great resistance. Spencer.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need.
-Barnfield.
The worst solitude is to have
no true friendship. Bacon.
Pray you use your freedom,
and so far. if you please, allow
me mine. -Massinger.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
He Had a Gambling System
So He Stole $2O7, 900.

Charles F. Pierce clerk in big bank invented simple
plan get rich quick and live happily afterward
First he had system for beating bookmakers at the
tracks He stole 100000 worth bonds from the bank
going to Havana take quarter of million dollars from
the bookmaker back the United States what
he STOLE start night club and speakeasy and live we'll
Instead of all that he going JAIL which probably will be
less dangerous than life in a speakeasy.
There is system in the world that will beat the
track either honestly dishonesty; that will beat any
gambling house. the gambling house honestly rum
which usually it is not Gamblers business for their
health your profit.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
A New Era In Reliei0n
Inaugurated February -.

February H. 1884, will be memorable date in the history
Of the Papacy and indeed of the world marking
first occasion which the living voice of Ponff
ried to the four of the earth.
The genius of Sgnor Marcon the efforts of the
newspapers and their radio services and the desires of ds
gushed churchmen and members of the aiy-a
mental in bringing about this epoch making event And though
the Latin of His Holiness necessarily understood
by only fraction of the millions of listeners the clarity of
his tone and the mpressveness of the circumstances in
disputable.
Pope Plus XI is universally recognized of
vigorous and progressive heads Catholic Church has
had Under his wise leadership the difficult RomanVatican
question has reached satisfactory settlement Today the
Prisoner of the Vatican is monarch in his right
mandng the spiritual allegiance of uncounted muludes in
every land and through the miracle of radio is able
municate viva with his flock.
Truly is not too much that in the ncumbency of
Plus XI a in religion has begun
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
A Gentleman of Leisure
Speaks His Mind

Editor, Times:
AS the great machinery of the
press makes it's daily rounds,
put this in the files so that 1t
may go down in history to let
the great legion of people Of
leisure the unemrloyed know
? of some of the greatest men
that ever lived and what they
have done.
Wells once named the five
greatest men, but I think these
are the most important in the
United States:
Lincoln-Freed the negro.
Ford-Freed the horse.
Hoover - Freed the working
man.
I and many others are greatly
indebted to Mr.. Hoover and we
are doing our part by carrying
his flag-an empty pocket!
GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Most Traffic Deaths Show
Motorists Responsible

Deliberately reckless careless motorists who kill are
just as guilty OF murder if their taking of human lives had
been premedated declares leading official the Pittsburgh
better traffic committee
That will be of ineeest to traffic officials city one of
whom puts pedestrians most of blame for casualties
and injuries.
That drivers prevent accidents if they try shown by
this official who finds that there woefu careesnes grant
ing drivers permits to people who should at
There were 1152 street fatalities Pittsburgh years
ano prepared statistics show that 81 cent of these
involved direct motors responsibilities Indictment
of motorists
Drivers who disregard their responsibilities many them
mentally and physically unfit to handle wheel are hazards to
the public just as much as deliberate criminals
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

Do you know:
/. What is meant by extra
dition?
2. What amendment relates
to the election of SenatorsP
8. What does the word pull
monary refer to?
4. What outlaw of legend
was famed for his skill in
archery?
S. What is quicksilver an
other name for?
Fill each blank:
6. is the. best harbor
in Texas.
Z. was the last royal
governor Of Massachusetts,.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

propaganda in this country.
Yet our financial, industrial and
political leaders have so directed
affairs as to provide the most
fertile soil for socialistic and
communistic ideas. So that
Moscow is being spared the ex-
pense and trouble incident to
cultivating them here. Revolu-
tionary movements are the logi-
cal result of great suffering and
injustice borne by some large
social group. But people justly
governed and wisely directed
will never turn to Communism.
But leadership that results in
such distress as we are now ex-
periencing is judged by its
fruits. ANNE HYSLOP
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The Patent Office received
more than $4,000 applications
for patents in the past 10
months.
The rarest mineral now
known is the newly isolated
radioactive chemical element
called protactinium.
Only one Of the SO gates
that once gave access to the
city Of Paris, France, remains
today: the "Point-du-Jour."
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Hit-Or-Miss Marriages

Hit-Or-MiSS Marriages
In a modern young mans
opinion the sweet old-fash-
ioned clinging vine" was just
poison ivy.
Some men work their way
through college, some just limp
through, but most of them feel
that they have to be carried
through in a high-powered
sport-car, these days.
A mans mind is a perfect
thermos bottle for keeping
flattering impressions of him
self at just the right tempera-
ture; and, once a woman has
let him see that she admireS
him, it is useless for her to tell
him that her admiration has
cooled.
The trouble with most of
these hit-or-miss modern mar
riages is not so much that fools
crush in" but that they al
ways insist on rocking the boat
after they get in.
A man is never really old,
until he can look forward to
the coming of spring, without
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

find out the real causes of our
failures. In this particular in
stance the warning signs were
obvious to any one who would
take the trouble to scan the
horizon. 1t should be apparent
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

to even a rudimentary intelli
gence that inflated values can
not be sustained.
Both Congress and the press
have been greatly exercised by
the spread of communistiC
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

The U. S. Bureau of Stand
ards employs some 800 chem.
lists, physicists, and engineers.
Flexible and durable gar.
ments are now manufactured
from paper from the mulberry
tree.
A rear-view mirror has been
designed in England for pedes-
trians. It is attached to the
hat brim and enables the walker
to see what is going on behind.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. Honest friendship nations entan0ltn0
Nth one."-George Washington
PROPORTIONAL representation the United States Senate
State Legislation to enforce
prompt constitutional reapporonment the House OF
Representatives
g. Separate departments the Army the Many the
united under Secretary OF National Defense.
Federal action to the limit OF Federal poUers
tlliteracu under q Secretary of Education
the President the first OF January tolo
ING the November election
Immigration admit only those suited for Arner
can citizenship and American needs.
T. Deportation OF undesirable aliens and extension OF citizen
ship period to 10 years.
Corupee publicity for income prevent big
dodgers from escaping taxation
g. Modification OF permit light tneS and
beers under Federal regulation
The Washington times., 1931-02-16
Declares Women More
Moral Than Men

Editor, Times:
On your editorial page of
February 9, Mrs. Cecil Chester
ton, noted British author, you
write, attacks her female sis
ters and says women are liars,
thieves, and fundamentally less
honest than the men.
Rather surprising to hear an
attack on her own sex. Being
a man it may be surprising for
me to come to the defense of
the women, and say I doubt
her statement. even though a
woman divorced me in 1924.
For proof I would refer you to
our jails-perhaps many con-
tain half a dozen men to one
woman.
j. lands STEMAN.
The Washington times., 1931-02-16

8. founded the
French empire in Canada.
9. ~, in Boston, is
called the cradle of American
liberty.
10. soldiers once
burned the White House.
Match correctly:
II. adam antine voluble
IL. chastise preSumptuouS
13. arrogant like a dla-
mond in hard
ness
IA. louuacious unctuous
is. suave Chasten
ANSWERS on Magazine Pagel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Census Figures Show
Hawaiian Race Increase

One of the statements often made in
mainland United States as fact, and in
deed often repeated in Hawaii as fact, is
that the Hawaiian race is dying out"
A favorite assertion is that the coming
of the white man has killed of the ma
tive PolyneSianS. But the latest stats
tics, compiled m Washington by the
United States commissioner of labor
statistics, indicate that the Hawaiian
is increasing rapidly. 1t is true that
the pure-blood Hawaiian Is disappear
ing, though the process is slow. But
the part Hawaiian is increasing SO
rapidly that the total number of per-
sons with Hawaiian blood in their veins
is steadily growing. Tendency to inter-
marry with persons of other races has
been strong since the first white men
came TO the islands, and today Ha-
waiian blood Is mixed with Caucasian
and Oriental alike. Some of the finest
results have come from the mingling
Of Hawaiian and Asian blood, which
brings to mind the theory that the Ha-
waiians came originally from Asia. Of
flcially, there is precedent for classify
ing part Hawaiians as Hawaiians, be-
cause the Hawaiian homestead act per-
mits persons Of part Hawaiian blood to
take up lands that are refused to per-
sons with no Hawaiian blood So the
fiction that the Hawaiian is dying out"
Is easily Scotched by examination Of
the facts, though in a few more genera
tons it will be dificult TO find . pure
blood Hawaiian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

said. This depression isn't
different from a hundred
others that have preceded it.
Always people lose hope just
when the turn is about to
come. Always it is argued
that conditions this time are
different" I do not see that
we shall gain anything by ap-
pointing committees or de-
laying action. What we need
is not more facts but more
CUTS. am in favor of going
to work right now to pull this
business through.
Men divide themselves into
different claSsificationS which
are called by various names.
There are the optimiStS who
are consistently hopeful and
the peSSimistS who always
fear the worst.
There are what the pSy-
biologists term the intro
verts," those whose eyes are
turned inward, the breeders,
the hypocondriacS, the
mysticS; and the "extravertS,"
whose vision is outward and
forward.
In good days it is not so
easy to distinguish, but these
past few months have been
a testing time. They have
divided all men into three
great groups:
The DefeatistS-who say
conditions are different; 1t
can't be done.
The DebaterS-who say, let
us appoint a commission and
adjourn until another time.
The DoerS-who say, let us
pick out the toughest problem
and hit 1t first.
Each of us falls into one or
the other of these groups. In
which one are you?
Z. 1872