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The Washington times., 1931-08-11
TIMES TEST

Do you know:
/. What fables were in circu-
lation in Athens in the fifth
century, B. c.?
2. The closed van in which
prisoners are conveyed to ana
from Jail is known by what COM
mon name?
8. Where are the Luray Cav
ernS?
4. AS the publisher Of what
certain type Of books is Karl
Baedeker famous?
s.. Who wrote many stories
which have immortalized Cape
Cod folks?
Match correctly:
6. Mohave Desert
is in Chile
Z. Sahara Desert
is in southern Africa
8. Pampas
Is in southeastern California
8. Atacama Desert
is in northern Africa
g. 10. Kahalari Desert
is in central Argentina.
Fiji each blank:
II. was a city in India
besieged by mutineers for 149
days.
IL. The God Of Fire or Black
smith Of the Gods is called
13. -- is the study of man
as an animal.
IA. The most eastern part of
the United States is -.
IS. Language not yet in good
usage is called -.
tAnswsrs on Msfazine Psgel.
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Life is impure. I sometimes
wallow, and yet I worship
purity.
Life's filled with cowardice.
How often have I been traitor
and deserter. Yet, strangely
am brave.
Iife's black with doubt. I'm
poisoned by that doubt. But,
deep within my darkness, faith
burns like a candle through the
blackest night.
Lies jumbled and I am part
Of that tumble. Yet clear ana
straight and true, within me-
runs a dream of order.
Beauty, Kindness, Honor, Pur-
ity. Courage, Faith. Order-al
these tall and shining things
abide in me. And abide in you.
do not know who you are or
what you have done. You may
be sitting on a throne or fum-
bling at barS-it does not mat
ter. These great things are a
part of you, are part Of me, are
part of everyone. I cannot un-
derstand that. I cannot see
how we, the higher ape, should
house such CLEANS of fire IN
the midst of our common clay.
But we do! And because we
do
It's all worth while!
Cleans Of Light
Those CLEANS, within our
selves, make it worth while.
God may be beyond our un'
derstanding-
Life may seem a hopeless
jumble-
Men may fail us
Pain may cripple us and
death may crush us
And this little earthly chance
may be all we have
And yet, there is enough
beauty and nobility within our
selves to make the game worth
the price
Whatever happens, or fails to
happen you, yourself. are
worth all that living costs.
Copyright 1881. King Features ~
syHdicats. Gnc.l -
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FRANK BRUZZA

So much has been said about the undesirable alien who
swe the ranks of gangand that Americans in danger of
forgetting the good qualities of their many fellow citizens Of
foreign birth parentage.
The ancestors of the gentleman shown above did not come
the Mayower neither they members Of the first
families of Virginia Maryland
However American take pride in the honesty Of
this New York taxver who found bag Of jewels worth
100000 his cab turned promptly the police
He is only 81 years old His father died when he was
three He supports his mother and two sisters and $2OOO
any part Of that sum- would have come in handy.
He has the respect of all good citizens
That will not buy much it true but it is that it
worth considerably more than 100000 these days.
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Taft-ROOSevelt \ Fight
in 1912 Convention

1t is easier for a Republican
than for a Democratic Presi-
dent to force a denomination
because of the character of the
Southern delegations in Repub-
lican conventions.
A goodly portion of the
Southern Republicans of any
consequence are in Office
agents Of the President. The
negro delegates have been
trained since the days of recon
struction to the belief that it is
naCural to sell their votes.
A Republican President can
almost positively count on a
solid Southern vote regardless
of the issues or of the candi-
dates. ..-..
When the Taft-Roosevelt fight
occurred in the convention of
1912 George Perkins sought to
break through the Southern ira
dition, and money was used by
both sides in the South. But
Perkins was to find that buying
these men did not mean they
would stay bought.
Aside from this advantage
to the man in office is The
tradition Of a generation or two
that a President is actually en-
titled ta q second nomination,
regardless Of the success or
failure of his administration.
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Is life worth living?

Is life worth living?
You've asked that often,
haven't you? And, as the years
go on, and disillusion and dis
couragement press more heavily
upon you, you ask it with in
creaSing bitterness. More than
once you've been tempted to
lay down an existence which
seems so futile, so full of pain.
If only you knew that it
were all worth while.
If you could see some reason
for the injustice and cruelty,
some purpose in the toll and
heart-break.
But no answer comes. Man
cannot tell you, and God
is there a God? Or is He just
another tragic dream? A make
believe father we've conjured
up to hold to in our awful
loneliness?
A Big Change
Yes, I know those questions.
I've asked them, too. And
rallied against the dunab skies
that would not answer me. But
lately I have not rallied so
much. Lately I have begun to
suspect that I have had the
answer all the wilhelm myself.
Is life worth living? I do
not know about life. 1 do not
even pretend to understand it's
muddled mystery. But this I
do KNOW know that I, my
self, am worth living. What
ever life may lack, I know that
there are things in myself
which make the struggle worth
while.
Is life ugly? Well, I'm ugly,
too. In several ways, I'm the
ugliest thing I know. And yet
there's beauty in me!
Is life cruel? I'm also cruel.
And yet, how is it that I'm also
kind?
Honor Is Present
Life lies to me. I lie to life.
But there is honor in me as
surely as there are bones and
flesh.
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Ostrich Feathers Again

Ostrich feathers to back womens hats
and that that ostrich feathers may 60 sky high
in prices The fashion to be put arszed feathers
on the right side of those tricky little hats.
Once the start ornamentng these little hats they
may get back to the fashions Of years ago when imitation
grapes and fruits used bird feathers made adorn
Bird lovers helped put stop to the of bird feathers
cruel.
Imitation bunches of grapes Strawberries, etc.
caused an uproar safe bet is that grape fruit and pine
apples viii not go with small hats.
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Hoover Is Certain of
a denomination

Hoover Is Certain of
a denomination
Then came Lincoln, who
deserved a second term, and
Grant, who got one without
deserving it; and then years
went by before we had another
two-term President.
Hayes die not ask one, and
could not have gotten it; Gar
field died and Arthur was not
even considered for another
term; and then came Cleve-
land, a strong executive, who
deserved reelection but failed
and was later given a second
term. From Grant to McKin-
ley there was no president who
remained for eight consecutive
years in office.
Then the two-term idea, as
a matter Of right, asserted it.
self. Mckinley got two terms
and Roosevelt two; but Taft,
though getting a denomination,
was defeated. Wilson had two
terms, and Coolidge-and now
Hoover is certain Of a re-
nomination.
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''Right'' to Second Term - By Claude G. Bowers

Despite his uniform failure
in dealing with major domestic
problems, it is conceded that
nothing can prevent the re-
nomination of Mr.. Hoover.
This. is Hue to the tradition
which has grown up in recent
years that every President is
all but entitled to a renomina-
tion for a second term. We
have almost come to persuade
ourselves that there is some
thing of a disrepute in the
record of a President who does
not have a second term.
And yet Washington ex-
pressed a desire to retire at
the end of his first term, and
men like jefferson and Hamil-
ton, representing the two
schools Of political thought.
dissuaded him. John Adams
was unfortunate in his admins
tration and had no chance for
a second term.
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Three Popular

Three Popular
Presidents
The next three Presidents
were very popular-Jefferson.
Madison and Monroe-and had
second terms. They were
among the great Presidents"
John Quincy AdariS, like his
father, was pursued by misfor-
tunes, and he -; refused
more than one term.
Then came Andrew jackson,
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Folks brilliant Record.
of Successes
And then there were no
more second terms for any one
until Abraham Lincoln.
Van Buren, earned a second
term; but because conditions
in the country were bad,
though not nearly so bad as
now, he was defeated. Har-
rison and Taylor died during
their first terms.
And neither Tyler, Polk,
Fillmore, Pierce or Buchanan
seriously sought another term,
though Tyler and Fillmore
would have liked another. The
three men who did not even
seek a second term were not
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He would reform the cur
rency.
He would acquire California
and that vast territory.
And he succeeded. Yet he
did not even want a second
term.
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A Herculean
Task Set
At the beginning Of his
administration he set himself
task which seemed herculean
and impossible of achievement.
He would settle the North
eastern boundary dispute, long
hanging fire.
He would settle the Oregon
question, on which others had
failed.
He would revise the tariff
downward,
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the small men partisan history
has made them.
Polk was a remarkably sue
cessful President. making
brilliant record of successes in
four short years and killing
himself in the process.
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HOUR
NEW SERVICE

Hourly service by graduate
nurses instead of the present
visiting service was announced to-
day by the Official Registry of
Graduate Nurses Association,
This plan. which is supported
by the American Nurses Asso-
citation, the National League Of
Nursing Education and the Ma
tional Organization for Public
Health Nursing, is purported to
serve the public economically"
and to increase the earning
capacity of the nurses.
The new service is aimed to
meet the nursing needs of the
patient i'll at his home who does
not need the continuous service
of a nurse but who would be
benefited by one or more hours
of nursing daily or weekly.
Hospitals would also be ben
Gifted by this plan in an emer-
gency or during peakload periods
when relief is needed for special
duty nurses. The doctors, who
frequently needs nurses to aid
him in minor operations, and
private schools making daily in
spection of their pupils would
also be aided.
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SLAYER
May Be SaUed
From GallOwS

ATLANTA, Oct. 29.-Benja-
min Davis, of Savannah, who
twice has been sentenced to the
gallows for murder, will be
saved from the moose the Sec
ond time if Gov. Richard B.
Russell, jr., agrees to the recon-
mendation of the Georgia
prison commission that he be
given a life term in the peni-
tentiary instead.
Davis was first sentenced to
hang 10 years ago, but went
insane after the sentence and
has been in an asylum for a
decade. Recently a commits
sion found him sane, and the
hanging sentence was repeated.
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Clerks Aid Voters
To Declare Intention

Deputy clerks Of the Montgom'
cry County Circuit Court will
make their second visit to Be
the - Silver Spring and Chevy
Chase to help persons declare
their intention to vote when they
60 to the Bethesda and Silver
Spring county buildings and the
Chevy Chase Library tonight
from $50 to 10 p. m.
Declarations Of intention can
also be made any time during
courthouse hours at the office Of
the clerk Of the court in Rock.
vile up through November Z.
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RED CROSS FETE
TONIGHT

The annual banquet Of the
Montgomery County Chapter Of
the Red Cross will be held to-
night at the Hungerford Tavern
in Rockville, with Roger White
ford, Washington and Mont
gomery county attorney. acting
as toastmaster.
Among the speakers will be
Mrs. Harrison Hickman, assistant
manager of the Eastern area of
the National Red Cross, and Miss
Clyde Shuman, director Of
nutrition.
Miss Margaret Ansdell, Red
Cross nutritionist for Montgomery
county, will explain the nutri-
tional program for the county.
Edwin W. Broome, superintend-
ent of schools will tell how the
schools are affected by nutrition
work.
Mrs. Roger Whiteford, Mrs.
James F. Defandorf, Mrs. Robert
D. Hagner and Mrs. F. Elliot
Middleton, make up the commit
tee in charge.
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NAVAL ACADEMY
MAY GET OLD
|RONS|DES
Sen. Tydings Urges JahnCke
To Act in Behalf Of Sending
Historic Ship to Annapolis

The historic q. s. s. Frigate
Constitution, "Old Ironsides," will
be berthed permanently at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, II
the Navy Department ACTS in &C
cordance with a request made to
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy, by Sena.
tor TydingS. of Maryland.
The Constitution, recommis-
stoned last July after having been
reconditioned through donations
Of school children, is now at
Baltimore.
In few days that it hes been
there more than $4,000 persons
have visited the 134-year old ship,
Senator TydingS said that
scores Of patriotic societies, civic
organizations and other Maryland
groups have Endorsed the proposal
that the Constitution be kept at
the Naval Academy where it
would be an inspiration to future
officers of the Navy.
In his letter he credits Mr..
Jahncke with making the original
suggestion that the Constitution
be permanently berthed at An
napolis. He said:
81 understand that the Con-
stitutiOn, now at Baltimore, will
proceed to Washington and
soon will be decOmmiSSiOned.
am not sufficiently familiar
with Navy practice to know
whether the vessel could be
moved from Washington to An
napolis after being decOmmiS-
stoned, but presume not. There
fore, on behalf Of q great mum.
ber of people who think the
Naval Academy the logical
home of the historic ship, I
earnestly entreat that she be
sent to Annapolis to be put out
Of commission"
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ADVERTISEMENT
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The Washington times., 1931-10-29
WicOn1icO LGIUyer
To Defend SIaYer

SALISBURY, Md, Oct. Of.
Leonard Wales. Of the Wicomico
county bar, will represent Yuel
Lee, alias Orphan Jones, colored,
accused Of the murder Of the
four members Of the Green Davis
family in Worcester county Octo.
ber II.
Mr.. WALES was appointed to
represent the accused man by Cir
cult Court Judges Robert F. Duer
and Joseph L. Bailey, after Frank
lin Upshur. Of Berlin, who had
been appointed, was permitted to
withdraw from the case.
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DiphtheriG Campaign
ReaiElS in ArLinntOn

Treatments Tor prevention Of
diphtheria will be given In all
public schools in Arlington county
beginning November 2, and DR..
p. M. Chichester, county health
officer, yesterday urged all chill
dren who have not yet taken the
treatments to do so.
He further urged parents of
children not yet in school, from
six months on, to notify the prin.
cipal of the school nearest their
home and make arrangements for
these to receive treatment also
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VA. GIRL WINS.
LIFE FIGHT

While her mother, Mrs. Harrison
Nesbit, keeps a 24-hour vigil at her
bedside, Elizabeth Nesbit, 18, up-
conscious since the automobile &C
cident near Muirkirk, Md, last
Wednesday, which cost the life Of
her father, is slowly battling her
way to life and health at Casualty
Hospital.
Her physicians expect Miss Mes
bit to emerge today from the deep
coma in which she has lain since
the smash-up. Yesterday, she in
dicated, although she did not
speak, that she was aware Of those
around her and obeyed her nurses
few simple instructions about eat
ing.
No Internal Injuries
She suffered no internal injuries
and the compound fracture, first
indicated by her condition, is only
a conclusion.
Her almost miraculous recovery
is credited by her mother and at
tending physicians to her superb
health.
A graduate of the Warrenton
County School, she has always
been deeply interested in the out
of-doors.
She has bred and trained her
string of u thoroughbreds, and
was on her way to the Laurel
track to see the debut of one of
her colts at the time Of the acci-
dent.
Race for Others
Her horses race under contract
with another stable.
Among those visiting the hos
pital daily to inquire regarding
her condition has been j. M.
Hibbard of Melrose Farm, War
renton, Va, the estate adjoining
the Harrison place in that Sec
ton.
Young Hibbard has been a life
long chum of the injured girl
and the morning of the accident
was one Of the enthusiastic gal
lery watching her put four of
the latest recruits to her colors
through their PAGES. Stories that
the youthful couple were be.
trothed are denied by Mrs. Mes.
bit, who said yesterday:
"Of course, Elizabeth is not
engaged. She is too young.
The two are just good friends"
Mr.. Nesbit was killed instantly
in the accident in which his
daughter also so narrowly escaped
death.
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ASSA|LS
E|NSTE|N, SHAW

A Navy big enough to click
any navy in the world" was
asked last night by Mai. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, retired, who added
that If America had a dozen
too many ships no harm would
be done and thousands Of persons
would be kept out Of the bread
line.
The generals remarks were
made at a reception to Spanish
American War veterans sponsored
by the National Patriotic Coun-
Gil. He said he honored the
French for refusing to consider
any limitation of ornaments.
He listed Albert Einstein,
George Bernard Shaw and Ber.
nard Russell as types of persons
menacing America. He said:
"Einstein is using the courtesy
OF this Government that enter.
talned him on . recent Occa-
sion to try and teach our boys
and girls to say they will not
take part in any future war.
SHAW, Einstein and Rus
sell-that's the kind of a Euro
pean invasion we have had com.
ing over here. We have plenty
Of that kind Of folks ourselves:
we really don't need any more.
If We diSarm we will do what
China dOeS-take it lin the
neck"
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BLUE Law FIGHT
IN ALEXANDRIA

The Alexandria BARRIERS Union
has entered the fight for observ.
ance of the Sunday blue laws.
Last week several merchants
signed a petition asking that all
grocery and meat stores be closed
on Sunday. This petition will
be presented to the council today.
Blue law advocates will find
little sympathy among the city
officials as some have expressed
the fear that if an attempt is
made to strictly enforce the clos
ing laws all business will have to
be suspended on Sunday.
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rrt[ WIN PLACES IN PARLIAMENT IN BRITISH ELECTION
SITE FOR HOUSE
AUDITORIUM,
LIBRARY
Major E. Brooke Lee Accepts
80 Cents a Square Foot for
Vast Improvement Project

With the object Of providing
for the needs Of the eastern sub
urban section Of Montgomery
county for the next quarter CEN
tury, the board of county COM
missioners Is today authorizing
purchase Of approximately six
acres Of land, east of the armory
at Silver Spring, upon which it is
to establish a civic center. The
land will cost about $4,000, and
was offered at 80 cents per
square foot by its owner. Major
E. Brooke Lee.
Upon it will be erected a sub
urban county building more than
double the size of the present
structure on Georgia Avenue; an
auditorium with a seating capac-
ity of about 1,50O, and a public
library with q capacity of 100000
books.
There will be parking space for
more than 100 autos, and a plaza
between the buildings of more
than 5000 square feet that will
be provided with benches and
used for usual park recreations
until such time in future it shall
be required for further expansion
of the county's activities.
The board of commissioners to-
day inspected the site and were
unanimous in their approval of
the entire project.
AS quickly as the necessary
legal formalities are completed in
the transfer of the land to the
county, it is understood plans
will be Immediately advanced for
the construction of the first unit,
which will be the county building.
The present suburban county
building is for sale, time Of occu-
pancy being governed by the time
required to construct the new
structure.
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Wife's Suit Charges
Husband Sleeps
With Ak

MARTINSBURG, W. Va, Oct.
29.-Charging violence an d
cruelty, Mrs. Anna Bowers has
filed suit in circuit court here
asking separation from her
husband. r. F. K. Bowers, Of
Berkeley Station, this county.
The plaintiff stated in her
complaint that she became the
victim Of i'll treatment dating
from the first week Of their
marriage in 1921 and that in
late years her husband, who is
"a, has acquired the habit Of
sleeping with q well-sharpened
ak beneath his pillow.
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ID. C.. German Pastor
To LenDe Local Post

The Rev. DR.. Richard Schmidt,
of Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church, has been elected pastor
of st. Johns German Lutheran
Church in Philadelphia. He ex-
poets to leave Washington before
the end Of 1881.
Coming to America at the age
Of IA years from Germany, DR..
Schmidt was ordained five years
later, serving German congrega-
tions in Hagerstown, Nd, Boards
town. Ill, Baltimore, Nd, and
Syracuse, N. Y. He came to
Washington in 1912.
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Virginia Society
Elects Officers

The Virginia State Society
elected officers at the annual
meeting in the Willard Hotel last
night. The officers elected are:
President. Representative Henry
st. George Tucker: first vice
president. Fielding M. Lewis: Sec
ond vice president, DR.. Henry
Taylor Miller; third vice president,
Representative Patrick Henry
Drewry; treasurer Fred P. Myers:
secretary, Miss Frances Carter
Linfoot; financial secretary, Mrs.
Hilda Neister Wiggin; executive
council. ]. W. Somerville, Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith, r. Page r.
wing, Col. William C. Harvey, jr..
and Mrs. Richard A. Allen.
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Taxi Hits Police Car,
DriUer Held Reckless

The Prince Georges county
police car assigned to Chief j. j.
Crowley and driven by Herbert
Harrison of HyattSville, collided
yesterday afternoon on the De-
fense Highway at Decatur
Heights with taxicab driven by
Arthur H. Hampton, colored,
1888 Montello Ave. N. E.
, The taxi was turned over, but
Hampton ano two colored women
with him escaped unhurt. Hamp-
ton was charged with reckless
driving and operating without q
registration card.
According to Harrison, driver Of
Crowley's car, the taxi had passed
another car and rounded a curve
on the left hand side Of the road.
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KISS BANDITS
SEEM IN LINE
FOR PAROLE
Judge Who Sentenced BaIti-
more Pair Admits He May
Have Been a Bit Too Severe

BALTIMORE, Oct. 29.-Ten-
year sentences imposed in 1926
upon Kelso Tolson and Robert
c. Crambilt, ''kiss bandits" prob
ably will be reduced to six-and-a-
half-year terms at the suggestion
Of Judge Eugene O'Dunne, before
whom they were tried.
Judge O'Dunne informed Parole
Commissioner A. y. Kennedy that
he was new on the criminal
bench when he sentenced the
men and that he probably would
not be so severe now.
The men were convicted Of
holding up q young woman and
her husband, taking 30 cents from
the man and . kiss from the
woman.
At a public hearing in his
office Mr.. Kennedy recommended
paroles for IL other prisoners, de-
clining applications Of 81 and
held for further consideration.