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The Washington times., 1931-05-21
LISTEN, WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

Months and years when there's
nothing to do but mark time
watt.
Just Another Chance
Wait. with your heart trap
ped deep in some trench wait
ing for the light. . waiting for
the signal that another chance
has daw d. ANOTHER
CHANCE TO GET OUT AND
FIGHT AGAIN
The waste of it," That's
what you'll cry, when your
time comes.
But take it from one who's
been through it, stranger, 1T
ISN'T A WASTE.
Zero Hour must come-and
all your tears and all your
prayers won't save you from it.
BUT IF YOU HAVE THE
COURAGE TO HOLD YOUR
SELF STEADY THROUGH 1T,
YOU'LL COME OUT RICHER
THAN YOU WENT IN.
For one thing, you'll KNOW
YOURSELF. And no man can
know himself unless he has
gone through that trial. You'll
know yourself, clear through
to your lazy thread of cow
ardice. your last stout fiber Of
courage. And all the gold in
the. world couldn't but you a
more valuable lesson than that
if you have the sense to use it.
You'll Know Life
And, for another thing, you'll
KNOW LIFE. Life has no
more surprises, no more peak
loads, for the man who's gone
through Zero Hour. Life has
done her "ALL" to that man.
And. if he has the courage to
stand the gaff, he's master OF
his fate from that time on.
He has lost the illusion of fear.
He has seen that no fear can
hold a man forever in the
trench.
And, best of all, you'll know
something about GOD. For
Zero Hour is the best OF. all
places for a man to find his
God. His job is Nothing
Else-But! Yet, sooner or
later, He always manages to go
over the top.
(Copyright 1881. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
In Behalf Of
Prohibition
Editor, Times:

Editor, Times:
The fine thing about prohibi-
ton is that it has, to a large
extent, freed the poor man and
given him a chance to discover
that there are other enjoy
ments in life besides drinking
and beating his wife and
family. AS a result the chill
dren are well-clothed, the fami-
lies go to the movies instead
of father to the saloon. And
they even have a car after a
while.
The terrible burden of prohi-
bition falls on the rich man,
who can go abroad if necessary
and get all the wants in the
drinking line. And the rule of
"the greatest good to the great
est number" still holds. Re-
cent reports say that bootleg
gers are not doing as we'll as
they were. 1t has taken a cen
tury and more to try to stop
the drug evil and it has not
been stopped. Do we hear any
one suggesting that for that
reason the attempt be aban-
doned? We have had 10 years
of prohibition and propaganda
to the contrary, great results
have been attained. Why
should we give up trying?
l., L.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21

Ask any man who went
through the war what was the
hardest thing to stand. He
won't tell you of that terrible
rush across the field. Nor of
the horror of clotting blood and
ravelling flesh and voices that
went on screaming screaming
without a throat.
Awful as those memories are,
you'll see a grimmer vision ris-
ing in his eyes-THE MEMORY
OF ZERO HOUR"-those tense
and endless moments in the
trench, before the signal came,
when there was nothing to do
=. nothing to do. nothing to
do BUT WAIT.
Zero Hour-the deepest hell
in war-the cruelest test in life.
You-you know, don't you?
You've been through it, too
sometime. Perhaps not in
France. But on as terrible a
battle line-in as dark a trench.
You. who had always fought
it out in the open, now trapped
at last-trapped by poverty, or
suffering, or grief, or shame
Trapped-hope e SIS WITH
NOTHING TO DO BUT WAIT!
Wait?
My God, how can you stand
it?
Can You Do It?
Mark time like this, with your
nerves fraying to threads and
your heart being squeezed as dry
of blood as a sponge?
If only there were some
thing to do-Some danger to
face-Some pain to be borne
some hardship to endure
some excit m en- t-some
action
BUT. JUST. TO-.
WAIT. :.
Alone. for no matter how
many are around you, you're
alone, at Zero Hour
Helpless. . for though you
have wealth and power and
wisdom unlimited, you're help
less in Zero Hour
To just wait. alone. .
helpless. you can't do it.
Yet, sooner or later. you'll
have to do it for Zero Hour
comes to every life. And for
many it lasts not an hour,
but months-or weary years.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21

This ugly creature sacred in the eyes Of many natives is
crocodile called Temb that lives island about 300 yards
in Lake Victoria, Africa.
The creature you guess of immense age several
hundred years DID, perhaps nearly 1000.
1t has been tanned" if you call crocodile tame for
more years than the oldest native remember.
The monster to its to be fed when
natives call They give fish to the crocodile but of them
too near he might lose leg This crocodile is not
particular
Looked upon now as mildly sacred and under circum
stances be offended allowed hungry this crocodile
days past alleged to have been revered the embod
ment of sacred spirit.
Then instead of merely feeding the animal with fish, human
beings captured from other tribes and children thrown
to ''Tembi" for food.
In this hideou head its small cruel eyes, nature
to have reached the maximum of ugliness And yet dear
friends this crocodile peaceful respectable citizen of the
waters, compared with animals that have walking
around on two legs, calling themselves human
To compare this crocodile acting according its nature
with of Prohibition crop of murderers, that kill
women in cold blood fearing that they may squea would
be to insult the crocodile
To compare "Temb with any of thousand get-rich-
quick chemers that ruin fathers and mothers and their chill
dren by stealing their life savings be insult
to the crocodile
The human produces types of depray that leave the
whole reptile kingdom far behind human specimens cruel
than the crocodile tiger poisonous than the COBRA and
Very ancient the alteration of crocodes among primitive
human beings The cult of the crocodile dates from high
antiquity especially in ancient Egypt Thebes we read
the Royal Natural History "a crocodile reared from
youth in temple where fed with sacred food adorned
with rings and bangles and worshpped with divine honors
while after death its mummfied body carefully preserved
hundreds of embamed crocode still to be found. =.
On the northwestern of Africa pair crocodles
kept in pond by priests dressed in white garments
who fed their charges with white fowls'
Let us hope that this country will get rid of its crocodile
rattesnake population multiplied ten thousand times by Pro-
hibition and bootleg financing.
After ALL we are not far removed from Egyptians that
worship the crocodies Millions citizens worship Prohbi
ton as the great fetish And part of Prohibition they
fasten upon the country the army of criminals the gigantic
industry of booteggng with its income greater than that Of
the United States Government.
Compared with Prohibitions human by-products "Tembi
the crocodile is eminently respectable.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
ONCE-OVERS
Take What Comes!

What a lot of joy you knock
out of life by the fear that for
every piece of good luck you
must suffer something in the
way of regret.
It is easy to get into such a
state of mind that the future
will look full of possible mis-
fortunes.
But isn't it foolish to darken
the present by, imaginary clouds
ahead?
When you have done all that
is humanity possible to forestall
possible i'll fortune you should
not take it for granted that all
efforts will fail.
Worry makes you less able to
stand misfortune and reVerses
If and when it comes.
That terrible time you pic
ture does not make you happy,
certainly.
While it is childish to build
air castles of the great things
in store for you it is equally
absurd to go to the other ex-
treme and anticipate trouble.
The dreamer of comforting
possibilities gets more out of
life than the detected pessi-
mist.
The great thing is to keep
sensible and normal in thought.
Don't picture the future as
too bright or too dark-take
what comes and be thankful.
Others have lived through
worse situations than you have
conjured up and smiled and you
can II you will.
1t is up to you and you alone.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
The Root of Motor
Car Accidents

Editor, Times:
1t is generally agreed that the
number of motor car accidents,
both fatal and otherwise, has
become alarmingly large. How
ever, I think that one will find
a great difference of opinion as
to the cause of these accidents.
Must the discussion remain in
the hands of the officials? Can't
we have opinions from some of
the many capable motorists
whose driving records will sup
port their judgment? After all,
they are the ones who will suf.
fer from unfavorable legislation
The Washington times., 1931-05-21

speed limits could be entirely re-
placed by driving regulations
without reference to any spe-
cific speed. There are too many
licensed drivers on the roads to-
day who are thoroughly in
capable of operating automo-
biles at any speed. That, in my
opinion, is the root of motoring
difficulties.
o. P. METCALF, JR.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
TIMES TEST

Match correctly:
/. Alabama
Granite
2. Minnesota
Palmetto
3. South Carolina
Badger
4. New Hampshire
Gopher
S. Wisconsin
Yallerhammers
Do you know:
6. Who was the english
Prime Minister Who pre-
ceded Ramsay MacDonald2
7, Near which of our States
is Bahama Island contain
ing Nassau?
8. What bounds Belgium on
the north?
10. What is the capital of
Chile?
II. What two seas are bound
aries Of Egypt?
IL, What are four important
rivers of France?
13. Where does the former
German Emperor live?
ANSWERS on Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Absence of occupation is not
rest;
He that will not stoop for a
pin will never be worth a pound.
-Pepys.
Every library should try to be
complete on something, if it
were only the history of pin
neadS' Holmes.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21

governing their conduct when
they are on the roads.
My own opinion is that the
responsibility for serious acci-
dents in a very few instances
only can be laid at the door
of capable operators, regardless
Of the speed at which they may
be driving. If applicants for
operators licenses were exam
ined more rigidly I feel that
The Washington times., 1931-05-21

Books are made up OF no
small part of human happiness.
Frederick the Great.
Books are a guide in youth,
and an entertainment for age.
Collier.
Desires Of greatness is god
like sin. Dryden.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
An Ugly Animal, BUT

There Are Million Worse Walking Around This
Country on Two Legs.
The Washington times., 1931-05-21
} Bearing Another
Burdens

Bearing Another
Burdens
Editor. Times:
In view of present distress
ing conditions and the appar-
ent disinclination of the wealthy
classes to do their duty in the
circumstances, perhaps it would
be apropos for you to print the
Sermon on the Mount" on the
front page as news.
Judging from the results of
collections for the unemployed,
a lot of people who, perhaps,
haven't been to Sunday school
for some time need to have
their memories refreshed on
the subject of bearing one
another's burdens"
They probably have forgotten
some very important things.
Philadelphia.
JOHN j. FLEMING
Crossing the Street
In Safety
Editor, Times:
Cross at a corner and get hit
from behind. Cross in the mid
die of the block when and only
when red light halts traffic and
reach opposite curb smiling.
Three of my family and three
of my friends have been sent
sprawling at corner crossings
(no report to police.
Stop calling us name! If you
must call names. call us red
light middlemen." Police warn
that jaywalkers are the worst
sufferers. All right. That
doesn't hit us. Cit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
SURVIVOR TELLS HOW
HE SUCCORED LINCOLN
One Of Four Soldiers Who Carried
Wounded President From The
alter, in Pittsburgh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, February IA gray
haired little man, past SO, who has
spent the most of his life in the coal
mines of Western Pennsylvania, sat
back in his rocker today and told about
that Good Friday night, April IA, 1865,
when he and three comrades carried
the wounded Abraham Lincoln from
the Ford Theater in Washington.
Jacob A. Soles, then a member of
FhompSon'S Light Artillery, and three
other young soldiers were among the
first to reach the side of the fallen
President after John Wilkes Booth had
fired the fatal shot. Tenderly they
carried the President through the tur-
mol to the Peterson home across the
street.
Soles' three companions of that
night. GrifithS, John Corey and
William Sample-all enlisted from the
Pittsburgh district, since have passed
on.
The four were part of company
sent to Fort Barry to protect Washing
ton in 1864. They had permission to
attend the theater the night Lincoln
was aSsaSsinated.
I'VE four were up in the balcony,
about Is feet from where President
Lincoln was shot," Soils said. IT don't
know just what time happened, but
the play had gone on Mr. some time.
I'VE didn't know at first when we
heard the pistol going of that it was
In the Presidents box, but they cried
for help and we heard a woman crying
and We four broke forward and rushed
to the box. Then we picked up Mr.
Lincoln and carried him to little
building across the street"
Soles lives with a daughter here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
BOOKS ON LINCOLN
VARY FROM TEXTS
Biographical Expert Shows
Trials of Emancipation
Continue in Volumes.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 12.-The trials
and tribulations which beset Abraham
Lincoln in life have their counterpart
in the treatment he has received after
death at the hands of his biOgrapherS
Presented in the school histories as
a kindly gentleman, bowed in grief at
the terrible sacrifices he was forced to
call upon his countrymen to make, he
has been called in biographies a plea
yune politician and worse.
Emanuel Hertz New York authority
on Lincoln, celebrated the Great Eman-
cipator's 1924 birthday today by calling
seems to be pursuing him so far as
biographies are concerned"
Mr.. Hertz owns more than $500 books
and documents on the life of Lincoln
and he has read every one of them,
including the latest, Edgar Lee Mas
ters' iconoclastic work.
Comment on Biographies.
Here's what Mr.. Hertz says about
Lincoln's principal biographers:
William H. Herndon-"Worn out by
the stress of the Civil War, he waited
% years, during which time he was
subject to drink and drugs, before he
wrote his story of Lincoln. Intellectu-
ally, he never reached to Lincoln's knee.
Any conclusions he draws may be
viewed with great deal of skepti-
cism."
Ward H. Lamon-"A good-natured,
rollicking country lawyer and marshal.
Unable to write the biography himself,
he hired Chauncey F. Black, the son
of jeremiah of Buchanans cabinet. to
write it. Black hated Lincoln; hence,
no matter how loyal Lamon was, the
voice was the voice OF Jacob, but the
hands were the hands of Esau."
A. j. Beveridge-"His work Is frag-
ment and written in the decline of his
mental powers. He listened to the
Southern claque. 1t would not have
surprised me If the hero of his four
volume book-if he had lived to finish
it-would have been Douglas instead
of Lincoln"
Nickolay and Hays Work.
j. G.. Nickolay and John Hay, Lin
coins secretarieS-"They produced a
wilderness of facts about the Civil War,
with little of Lincoln thrown in here
and there, with a great many of his
phases neglected. But it is the best
to this day"
Mr.. Hertz credits Ida M. Tarbell with
"a splendid popular book" and Carl
Sandburg with "by all odds the best
book from every standpoint-but he
stops on March 4. 1861"
And this is the Lincoln specialists
opinion of the recently published work
by Mr.. Masters:
ut cannot be explained or excused
from any standpoint and might best
be judged from his indictment of John
Brown as a horse thief and murderer.
One cannot read it without thinking of
his Spoon River anthology. The dead
do not talk back. His is the hugeSt libel
that has yet been uttered against Lin
! coln."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
BY the Associated Press.

SPRINGFIELD. H., February ~
1.-THE Flea" so called by President Abra-
ham Lincoln because of his ability to
move quickly as a spy for the Union
forces during the Civil War, still lives.
He is Jason H. Edgerly, 92-year-old
resident of Blue Island. ILL.,, whose stock
of anecdotes of the Emancipation was
added to the long list recounted with
the approach each year Of the anniver-
sary of Lincolns birth. Tomorrow will
mark the 1920 anniversary.
1t was after he had stolen the VIII
low Greek battle plans from under the
nose of Robert E. Lee" Edgerly said,
that Lincoln gave him the nickname OF
THE Flea" Secretary of State Seward
had doubted the authenticity of Lees
signature on the plan, so Lincoln called
Edgerly in for conference.
Comparison With Flea.
did you ever try to put your finger
on flea," Lincoln is quoted as asking
Seward, Ito find he wasn't there?
That's the way with my man. He got
these plans and Immediately wasn't
there"
When Confederate Gen. Early started
his four-day attack on the city Of
Washington, Edgerly said he escorted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
"A TOWNS BEAR
NAME OF LINCOLN
Only One ChriStened by
Emancipation Himself-Used
WatermeIons at Fete.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Ill, February 12.-Twenty-
four American cities and towns bear
the name of Lincoln, but only one
Lincoln, Ill-received its name during
the livetime of the emancipation and
had the honor of being christened, with
the cutting of a watermelon, by Lincoln
himself
"All right, boys, go ahead, but think
you're making a mistake: nothing
named Lincoln, so far as know, ever
amounted to much"
That was Lincoln's rejoinder to the
proposal of three of his friends to give
the name of Lincoln to this newly laid
out town in Central Illinois. The date
was 1853 and Lincoln was an obscure
rural lawyer.
Alton was laid through Illinois in 1852,
Robert Latham, Virgil Hickox and John
D. Gillette, all Illinois pioneers, pur-
chased a section of land in the center
of Logan County, near the railroad
right of way, as prospective town site
and with view to making it the
county seat.
AT the noon hour" so relates a
Lincoln chronicler, "he purchased two
watermelonS at a vendors booth, aad
with a melon under each arm called
the proprietors of the new town to the
proposed Court House Square and cut
the two melons in twain, giving half
to each proprietor and retaining a half
for himself, with the remark: We will
now proceed to christen the new
town."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
spy LINCOLN CALLED THE FLEA, :"
92-YEAR-OLD ILLINOIS RESIDENT
How Willow Greek Battle Plans Were
Stolen From Under Nose of Lee, and
Presidents Tour of Defenses Recalled.

Lincoln in an examination of defenses
Lincoln was curious. he said. He stood
boldly on the Notifications looking out
toward the Confederate lines. Cannon
shot fell near him.
"'Get down from there, Mr.. Lincoln,
Edgerly said he advised. They have
our range. Get down and let me
watch
Lincoln said something about my
life being as sweet to me as his to h6n.
but right than a mimic ball hit be-
tween his feet.
"'Get down, Mr.. Lincoln Edgerly
said he yelled, and reached up to help
the President.
"All right" Lincoln is quoted as
answering, II will"
New Lincoln Stories.
Discovery of the part that Edgerly
played in Lincoln's career and the
finding of documentary evidence that
Lincoln once served on the Circuit
Court bench in Springfield as an acting
judge were the only new stories of
Lincoln's life that have been brought
TO light during the past year, local
historians say.
Since Lincoln's death, SIS years ago,
some 100000 persons have journeyed
to Springfield, where he is buried, to
pay tribute to his memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
.ROTARIANS PLEDGE
TRAVEL AID WORKER
Club Accepts Obligation on Learn
ing Need at Bus Terminals
and Tourist Camp.

The Rotary Club will finance an adj
dttional Travellers Aid Society worker
during the coming year, it was an
nounced at the annual meeting of the
Travellers Aid at the Burlington Hotel
yesterday. Arthur May, Rotary rep
resentative, said his organization tries
to promote some civic enterprise each
year, and learning that this additional
worker was needed for bus terminals
and the tourist camp, decided to as
sumo this obligation.
Mrs. Charles D. Walcott and c. Mel
vim Sharpe, whose terms expired this
year, were reelected to the board of
directors of the society, and four new
members were chosen as follows: Mrs.
Thomas Brown, Mrs. Charles A. Gold
smith, Mrs Joel T. Boone and Dr.
George Farnham. Mrs. E. j. Brennan
and Theodore P. NoyeS completed their
terms on the board.
The society decided to take up with
the Council Of Social Agencies the ques-
ton of a retirement fund for social
workers. This idea was advanced by
Arthur C.. Moses, president of the so
ciety, in making his annual report. He
also discussed the possibilities Of OPP
Grating transient bureau which would
include central station for homeless
men. The society assisted 25,100 per-
sons in the past year, he reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia = Increasing
cloudineSS tonight, probably followed by
occasional rain tomorrow slightly
warmer tonight, minimum temperature
about 38 degrees; moderate southwest
winds.
Maryland-Cloudy with rain and
slightly warmer in west portion to-
night; tomorrow, occasional rain;
slightly rising temperature in east por-
ton; fresh west WINDS shifting to
southwest tomorrow.
Virginia cloudiness to-
night and slightly warmer, cloudy and
warmer tomorrow, followed by occa-
sional rain in north and west portions
in the afternoon or night; moderate to
fresh west shifting to southwest winds.
West Virginia-Cloudy, probably fol-
lowed by rain tonight and tomorrow;
slightly warmer in south and west por-
tions tonight.
Record for "a Hours.
Thermometers pm, 81; 8 pm, 49,;
IL midnight, 81; 4 am, 81; 8 am, 81;
noon, 43.
Barometer-4 pm, 3O:18: 8 pm,
30:l9; IL midnight, 1920; am,
S0:17; 8 am, 1921; noon, 1921.
Highest temperature, 43, occurred at
noon today; lowest temperature, 80,
occurred at 2 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, so; lowest, %.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today-Low tide, 1927 am. and IL AS
pm; high tide, 1855 am. and 4.28 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1885 am;
high tide, 4:53 am. and 5:25 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 7:04 am; sun sets
Sal pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 1903 am; sun
sets SAP pm.
Moon rises 400 am; sets 1884 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
MISSING GIRL FOUND
SLAIN BY ROADSIDE
Police Seek Clues as Corpse Is Lo-
Gated Two Weeks After Dis
appearance in Kansas.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWTON, Kans., February H.
Harvey County officers sought clues to-
day in the Staying of Miss Lucille Price,
18-year-old high school graduate who
disappeared January "a.
Her body, bruised and covered by cob
webs, was found in a ditch beside an
isolated road southeast of Newton yes
terday by Robert Jordan. farmer who
was hunting strayed horses. Her cloth
ing was torn. A set was missing from
her ring. Rain had erased possible
clues from the earth.
Miss Price disappeared after leaving
Helen Spriggs, a chum, while walking
home from the Public Library. Upon
the expressed belief of her parents, MI.
and Mrs. C. H. Price, that she might
have eloped, Jack Brunker of Wichita,
Kans, was questioned here Sunday. He
was not held.
Miss Spriggs told police that soon
after Miss Price left her and proceeded
homeward, motor car which she be-
lieved contained two men and woman
passed down the street in the direction
the slain girl had taken.